[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

Jason knows what it's like to be so poor that he has no money to pay his utility bills. He was once one of the poor people who couldn't afford the utility bills and had to rely on charity kitchens for three meals.

But he has never seen anyone who would rather be cut off from water and electricity than insist on saving the money to order pizza.

What kind of persistence is this?

"Sir, do you have any idea about the current state of your toilet?" Jason clapped his hands on the owner's desk, and approached Gotham's Underworld Batman with an infinite tone. The difference is that Batman The torture was about the criminal plan, and Jason was tortured about the toilet that didn't know how long ago it was last flushed.

so sad.

The homeowner who was being questioned had his feet up on the desk, the chair was leaning back with only two hind feet, his hands were resting on the back of his head, and his face was covered with an expired pornographic magazine, even if he was asked like this , he just let out two perfunctory hums from his childhood pornography.

"You know, being poor and being sloppy are two different things. I know that sometimes you can't live a glamorous life due to financial problems, but you must at least maintain basic hygiene! Is this too much to ask!" Jason felt himself These words sounded like a menopausal mother, but the toilet scene was so shocking, Jason felt that he had to point it out—do Nero and Ji Liye know that their friend is so poor?

"Hey, do you think I don't want to?" The homeowner finally took off the waste reading materials on his face, and his sober expression confirmed that he had been deliberately ignoring Jason's concerns about hygiene from just now until now, "No entrustment, No money. No money, no water and electricity. Above, the discussion is over."

After speaking, he slapped the little yellow book back on his face and began to pretend to be asleep.

If you want to say why Jason is here to worry about the toilet, you have to go back to the day when he was regarded as a hand-chopping criminal-in the end, a bucket of holy water cleared him of the suspicion of inhumanity, and he is really, really not a demon , let alone some jujube devil.And Jason didn't want to delve into the meaning of the regretful expression of that crazy woman named Nicole after she learned that she was human. (Groot was caught after all, and he also took a bath in holy water. This guy has never experienced the bloody scene before, and he complained to Jason that the water was not good. Lucky Treeman.)

Although the racial issue was clarified, the reason why she was not regarded as the murderer in the end was because of the intervention of the girl next door, Ji Liye. In fact, she is not a girl next door. Here she and the injured Nero run this demon hunter firm— —That’s right, Demon Hunter, the existence of demons is real to people in this world——Most of the income from running the office is used to fund the orphanage, what a kind and good girl.

Jason admired this girl from the bottom of his heart. There are definitely many kind people in the world, but it is not easy to meet people who are kind and strong at the same time. Ji Liye obviously belongs to the latter.On one side is the boyfriend who was seriously injured, and on the other side is the suspect of unknown origin. Others might be at a loss, but this slender girl who looks like she would fall in the wind has arranged everything in an orderly manner, and even Persuaded Nicole to listen to Jason's explanation before deciding what to do.

When Jason finished talking about his wonderful adventure and did not expect anyone to believe him, Ji Liye held his hands, her caramel-colored eyes were full of sincerity: "Don't worry, there will be a way for you and you My tree man friend came home."

Jason couldn't see his expression, but he believed it was absolutely as stiff as Nicole sitting across from him.

"Thank...thank you." He really didn't know what to say beyond that, "I'm sorry about your friend getting hurt. I wish I could help, but when I came to my senses I just It's just the two of us, and Groot. I don't see anyone who might be the killer."

"It's okay. The doctor said that Nero's life is not in danger. This is the most important thing." Ji Liye smiled. Although the smile concealed her worries for her family, the girl still tried to comfort Jason, who was "forced to come to a foreign land." Overwhelmed traveler", "I know Nero has a friend, he is a very powerful demon hunter, maybe he will know how to deal with this situation, I should have written his phone number somewhere, I will find try to find."

Saying that, Ji Liye left Jason and Nicole staring at each other. Groot, who had no sense of crisis at all, was stuffing his head under the faucet of the kitchen counter while drinking water and complaining about the extremely poor water quality in this place. .

"Is she trusting me just like that?" Jason couldn't believe it at all, and a corner of his heart even suspected that Ji Liye would rush in with a large group of people in the next moment, pointing at him and complaining: "Uncle policeman, this is the person!"

On the contrary, Nicole, after the initial shock, was replaced by an expression of "I knew it", as if this was not the first time Ji Liye made a move that shocked her.

"This is Ji Liye." Nicole shrugged and made a pose that the statue of the Virgin Mary in the church often poses, "I can guess what's going on in her mind—if this person really cuts Whoever hurt Nero, he could just kill us all and run away, because you didn't do that, so there must be a reason for you to be there... or something. Totally a living saint!"

Jason had no idea how strong the demons in this world were, but the demons and the tree of evil sounded inextricably linked.If so, then teaming up with a Demon Hunter is a really good idea.

Before Jason had a chance to ask in depth, Ji Liye came back with a small piece of paper with her address and phone number written on it, and explained to Jason with apologetic faces why the other party's phone had been disconnected for some reason, and invited Jason and Groot will stay here temporarily, and after she settles things down, she will take Jason to visit Nero's friend for help.

"Don't, don't! Don't bother!" Jason quickly stopped Ji Liye from going to clean up the guest room, "I know you must be feeling bad about your friend's affairs now, don't worry about my affairs."

Seeing that Ji Liye opened her eyes wide and wanted to refute, Jason did not intend to add more burdens to this kind girl, and did not even give her a chance to speak: "Otherwise, please help me take care of Groot , he is easy to raise - give him plenty of water, don't let him flirt with flowers and plants - I can find this one myself... What did you say his name is?"

"Dante." Ji Liye still seemed hesitant, "Speaking of which, the journey is not very far, but you don't know this place..."

"It's okay, am I afraid of losing it at my age?" Jason didn't worry about it at all, "I just need to trouble you to give me the address and the general direction."

——That's why Jason came to this firm "DevilMayCry" and stayed under the same roof with the legendary "powerful, reliable and almost omnipotent" demon hunter Dante, and after solving the reason why the phone couldn't get through After that, he quickly lost all handsome imagination.

This way of life is completely a sloppy uncle with no pursuit!Count on this guy who can't even pay the water and electricity bills, and insists on squeezing out money to order pizza... The legendary demon hunter.

Is it really okay?

Just when Jason was thinking about whether to find another talent, the door of the office was pushed open, and a middle-aged African-American man in a suit and a black wide round hat walked in familiarly, and saw Jason was obviously taken aback when he said, "I didn't know you had friends visiting, Dante."

"You can't call me a friend." Dante grabbed the magazine off his face and threw it on the table, "It's a fight with Patty."

"Would you like to go upstairs and look at your toilet and feel your conscience and say this sentence again?" Jason pointed at the ceiling expressionlessly.

The black man looked at Dante, then at Jason, and finally looked up at the completely useless electric lights and ceiling fans on the ceiling. His understanding expression told Jason that this was definitely not the first time Dante had been cut off from water and electricity.

Is it so difficult to be a demon hunter?Not everyone says high risk, high reward, but the current situation does not look like that at all.

"So, what's your business, Morrison." Dante finally put his feet off the desk, but still looked lazy.

The middle-aged man called Morrison first chatted with Dante about "Patty"'s birthday for a while, and then he talked about the subject that made Jason's and Dante's eyes light up at the same time: "I give You got a case—the prepaid kind."

"Pay first! I like this kind!" Dante's attitude instantly became positive, "Someone's nagging has troubled me for a long time!"

"It's not your toilet that should bother you, is it? I've only been here for a day!" Even if the opponent is a legendary demon hunter, what Jason wants to do most at the moment is to push the head of the guy in front of him into his own toilet .

"Ha, water bills, electricity bills, and gas bills are all deducted from your salary." After Morrison finished speaking, it seemed that he was in collusion with the power company, and the office suddenly brightened.

The big case of rescuing DevilMayCry's utility bills was entrusted by a strange young man. He kept his head down and read the book in his hand from the moment he entered the door, and he didn't look up when Dante asked his name. Come, but replied in a tone like poetry reciting: "I don't have a name, and I'm only two days old."

Then, as if for dramatic effect, he closed the book in his hand and twitched the corner of his mouth: "Just kidding, you can call me 'V'."

Jason silently retreated into the shadow of the firm's debris pile to observe the client. This V made him feel a little out of place. Because of his poetic way of speaking, not because of his unorthodox totems and wearing leather clothes and sandals, but because of all the body movements of this client from the moment he entered the door... how should I put it, it was quite stiff of.

It wasn't the kind of stiffness that caused the joints of the limbs to be inflexible, nor was it the kind of stiffness that caused the whole body to feel numb due to the freezing weather. It was the degree to which ordinary people would attribute this incoordination to his inability to walk when they saw a cane.

But just as Penguin's umbrella isn't meant to keep out the sun and rain, V's cane is definitely not a harmless walking aid.

The discussion between V and Dante about the entrusted case is still going on, Dante said with a smile that everyone who came to his entrustment would claim how terrible the demons they faced, why is it different when they come to V——Here Jason understood why Dante, who claimed to be a legendary witcher, opened an office in a decent way but could still be so poor. This was totally against the logic.

This buddy Dante is an aspiring demon hunter, so he won't accept any entrustment that is too weak.

"So this demon, does he have a name?" At this moment, Dante had already swayed from his desk to the sofa by the window, and from Jason's angle, he could only see V's back.

Guessing from Dante's expression, the name that V told him must have some special meaning, because after hearing that name, Dante didn't ask any more questions, and V always had that expression on his face. With a half-smile expression, he turned around and was about to leave Dante's office, and took out the book from his pocket and began to chant in a low voice: "It grows day and night until it bears an apple, bright and bright. Bright."

When V walked to the door and was about to push the door with his cane tucked under his arm, another voice made him stop: "The momentary joy disappears like a cloud of smoke, but we think that death is the greatest pain."

He turned his head to look at the source of the voice, a young man he had never seen before. In his memory, Dante had never existed beside Dante, and he had been silent since V stepped into DevilMayCry as if he was about to disappear. of.

"Heh." V nodded to the strange young man, put away his books and left DevilMayCry without looking back.

***

Dante was still sitting on the sofa in a daze, until Jason knocked on the desk to attract his attention: "What's the matter? Now that the water and electricity are here, please stop complaining about the toilet to me, okay?"

"Say it as if you don't have any hygiene problems here other than the toilet." Jason crossed his hands on his chest, tilted his head while asking questions while watching the other person's reaction, "Dante, Virgil and the Divine Comedy, now again A William Blake fan, is this a coincidence or does that mean you're going to hell?"

"Don't be stupid, isn't it just a client who talks about it?" Dante waved his hand to express his indifference, but he obviously didn't think so. The name V mentioned at the end had a great influence on Dante, "Forget it You're lucky, boy, usually I don't take public welfare cases, but for the sake of this job, I'll take you to the Red Tomb City, don't you also want to investigate those evil things? A tree. Hey—don’t blame me for not reminding you in advance, you take care of your own life, I can’t guarantee that you can take care of it if you really fight.”

Jason took a deep breath and tried not to retort. When he raised his footsteps and was about to go upstairs, Dante suddenly stopped him: "You said that Nero's right hand was cut off?"

"Yeah. Why, do you think this has something to do with that demon... Virgil?" Jason raised his eyebrows, remembering how he was treated as a demon by Nicole.

Dante adjusted his posture on the sofa, leaned his head on the armrest and seemed to start to doze off again: "It's okay, I'll just ask casually."

Nodding his head, Jason returned to the empty room on the second floor and began to think about the chain of events.

For some reason, he just had a feeling—the relationship between Dante, this Virgil, and Nero, who had a bad luck, was not pure.

There is also the V that crazily quotes William Blake, the sense of disobedience in his body, the more Jason thinks, the more he feels like a person who is not very familiar with his body.

Hey, quoting poetry is one thing, it can't really be two days old.