I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

"Alright, alright, my tide is the bravest, she won't be afraid of these ghosts," Li Cheng said with a smile, patting the girl's head.

"tide, don't be afraid."

With puffed-out cheeks, the girl leaned her head on Li Cheng's shoulder, no longer looking at him, but muttered softly, half-resentful and half-reassured:

“Chengzai, tide, don’t be afraid.”

With you here, I will not be afraid.

The girl, who had been playing all day, yawned, and a sense of weariness gradually crept in. She leaned against Li Cheng's chest, shifted to a more comfortable position, closed her eyes, and soon began to breathe evenly.

…………

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Section 34, Chapter Twelve: The Banquet and Their Relationships

That evening was dinner time.

There was nothing that could be done about it. Li Cheng had left halfway through, and although he had already completed most of the work, the remaining tasks were not easy. By the time Kiritsugu Emiya finished, it was already seven or eight o'clock. And that was roughly the same time that Li Cheng was carrying Shio out of the haunted house.

Serashiro and the others waited outside the haunted house for Li Cheng and the others to come out, so they didn't eat anything. In the end, they discussed it together, and Li Cheng took everyone to a buffet restaurant that he had taken Xi to before.

Seeing him bring tide over, the boss turned pale. Then, seeing the group of people who had come with him, his face began to turn bluish-purple. Finally, amidst the puzzled gazes of the crowd, the boss was helped away by a waiter.

"How many times have you brought tide here?"

Emiya Kiritsugu, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but ask.

Just once.

Li Cheng, who already felt somewhat guilty about this, said in a low voice.

"It's like this after just one time?"

"Because we've already finished eating."

No exaggeration, the last time I brought tide here, she really did eat everything in the restaurant, forcing the owner to close early. Although he felt guilty and paid several times the usual price, the principled owner insisted on following the rules and only charged for two people.

It must be said that he is a good boss with his own principles of benevolence and righteousness.

However, no matter how benevolent a boss is, he still lives in a real world. Money doesn't just appear out of thin air. Last time, Xi's appearance ruined his entire day's business. This time, seeing Li Cheng with a bunch of people, he probably assumed everyone had Xi's extravagant appetite and thought he was doomed.

There's this strange feeling that I'm not here to eat, but rather to perform a ritual for the owner's soul.

After thinking for a moment, Li Cheng gently woke up Yakumo Shio, who was sleeping soundly in his arms, and said to her, "Shio, don't eat too much tonight. Just eat about the same amount you usually eat at home."

Half asleep and half awake, tide stared blankly at Li Cheng, then turned to look at the shop, and when she turned back, her expression had changed to one of extreme seriousness.

She stretched out her small hand, opened it, then clenched it, and the little girl said firmly to the man:

"I want it all!"

Tsk, I knew this little devil wouldn't be so easy to talk to. I'll just have to keep a close eye on him later.

Kiritsugu Emiya, Shirou Emiya, Illya, Li Cheng, Shio, and Sera, who seemed somewhat apprehensive in Kiritsugu's presence, entered the buffet restaurant. Li Cheng clearly saw the glint of defiance in the eyes of the staff, which intensified his sense of guilt.

All he wanted was for the girl to experience different types of food, but little did he know that he, or rather the little girl in his arms, would become the shop's eternal nightmare.

So after settling into his seat, he pressed tide down, determined not to let her get the food plate herself. This met with fierce resistance from tide, and the two remained locked in a stalemate for a long time. In the end, Li Cheng successfully subdued tide by tickling her.

In return, tide tore Li Cheng's shirt to shreds and completely ignored him during the buffet.

Li Cheng was helpless and desperate. Could he really let this little devil unleash his full power and devour the entire restaurant? The owner would go bankrupt! While Li Cheng was ruthless in his missions, he was a kind-hearted person in his daily life; how could he possibly do something so harmful to others?

On the other side, Sera was taking care of Illya, while Shirou Emiya was tending to the injured and immobile Kiritsugu Emiya. Li Cheng noticed that when Kiritsugu tried to pull out a cigarette from his pocket, Shirou snatched it away and then searched him, taking all the cigarettes he had. This caused Kiritsugu, who was always calm, to reveal an expression that could only be described as despair.

In short, the meal was a harmonious one. Although Xi was angry and puffed up her cheeks the whole time because she was forbidden from taking food plates on her own, at least the boss put down the heart medicine he was holding.

A slight vibration suddenly occurred to Li Cheng. He was slightly taken aback, put down his bowl and chopsticks, picked them up and saw that it was an encrypted communication.

He frowned, but quickly relaxed, revealing a helpless expression. He apologized to everyone and repeatedly told Xi not to leave her seat before leaving the table. He then went to the alley outside the buffet restaurant to answer a phone call.

"Hey."

Naturally, Lee Seung-cheol switched back to Chinese. His pronunciation was slightly rusty due to the passage of time, but after speaking it once, his body immediately recalled his original language.

"..."

There was complete silence on the other end of the communication; there was no sound at all.

"If you don't want to talk, then I'll hang up."

Li Cheng said this very bluntly.

"...Baishui Mountain, I love it."

After a moment of silence, a voice, clearly altered and indistinguishable between male and female, rang out. However, the person didn't state their purpose but instead uttered a strange, nonsensical statement.

This guy is still the same...

A slight headache and a touch of nostalgia washed over Li Cheng. He looked up at the sky; a few twinkling stars dotted the heavens, the bright white moon nowhere to be seen. As if recalling something, Li Cheng closed his eyes, remaining silent for a long time. Then, as if he had finally understood something, he chuckled to himself, picked up the phone, and spoke with utter natural ease:

"There are eight gay men in the Scarlet Devil Mansion."

"Puff puff puff puff—"

A series of laughs immediately came through the call. Hearing the other party's laughter, Li Cheng slightly curled the corners of his mouth and quickly laughed as well.

These two sentences were a code word agreed upon between him and the other party, or rather, a code word that the other party insisted on. Every call had to start with these two sentences before the other party would be willing to speak to Li Cheng. Over the years, although Li Cheng had no idea what the sentences actually meant, he had become familiar with and adapted to the other party's style.

"It's been a long time since we last contacted each other, Captain."

This time, the electronic processing sound disappeared, and you could hear a lively adult male voice on the other end.

"I haven't been the captain for many years..."

Li Cheng just smiled wryly, but his tone immediately became impolite.

"Why are you calling me? Aren't you on missions anymore? Or are you so bored that you don't even want to spend time with your girlfriend anymore, and you want to chat with this old man?"

The other side remained silent once again.

"...You've changed quite a bit, Captain."

The man on the other end of the communication line said quietly.

"...Yeah, I didn't expect that either."

As Li Cheng spoke, he turned to look at the brick wall beside him. Behind that wall, in the room bathed in the warm glow of orange light, the little girl who had entered his life and brought him light once more was probably still eating heartily.

"But I think it's good that things have changed."

With a relaxed smile, Li Cheng spoke into the phone.

"...Tsk!"

The voices on the other end of the communication line became somewhat chaotic.

"You're still as self-centered as ever," the other person said with a laugh. "I thought you wouldn't answer the phone at all, and that you just wanted to prove that you hadn't given up. I didn't expect you to turn out like this without saying a word."

"There's nothing I can do about this."

Li Cheng could only reply with a smile, his tone subtly becoming smug.

"Well, this is really... uh, I didn't expect you to answer my call. To be honest, I haven't thought of anything, I have no idea what to say," the other person's voice became slightly agitated. "Let's hang up now, I'll call back later. By the way, I told Old Wolf and the others about you answering my call, you won't object, will you?"

"..."

After thinking for a moment, a struggle appeared on Li Cheng's face. After thinking for a long time, he said somewhat dejectedly, "Forget it, you know that's enough. I'm not... ready yet."

"……I see."

There was little reaction; the other party seemed to have taken the answer for granted.

"Let's end it here. It's been a good enough day for me."

"But you, surnamed Li, you better remember this: as long as you're our captain, you'll always be our captain. Before, you were just a piece of rotten rock in the toilet, smelly and hard, and I couldn't do anything with you. But now that you've chickened out and dared to answer my calls, be prepared to be relentlessly harassed!"

"See you later, Captain!!"

All that remained on the phone was the dial tone after the call was disconnected.

"That lunatic, still as gay as ever," Li Cheng sighed, rubbing his forehead, his face turning somewhat bitter. "Even though I'm not the captain anymore..."

Am I really capable of facing them now? Am I truly ready?

Turning around, I looked at the dimly lit alleyway I was in. Deep within my memory, something cold was slowly reviving.

As expected, it still doesn't work...

Shaking his head, Li Cheng banished these distracting thoughts from his mind.

These aren't the issues I need to think about now. Now that I've made the change, I should move forward. My mission now is nothing more than protecting her.

As if encouraging himself, Li Cheng repeated these words in his mind, then turned around and walked back towards the entrance of the self-service restaurant.

After he left, Kiritsugu Emiya emerged from the darkness, looking at Li Cheng with a complex expression, his eyes filled with both joy and worry.

Forget it, let it be his own business and let him handle it himself.

With that in mind, Kiritsugu Emiya stopped thinking about the other person's question and instead took out his phone to make a call.