Honkai Impact 3rd, Paradise Typewriter isn't for making this kind of game.

"Hua, it's a princess carry!"

"Ahem... Don't carry me on your shoulders, lower me down a bit so I can see your face."

Xia Yuan waved his hand, signaling to Fu Hua.

Honest Hua strictly followed his partner's instructions, and the two faced each other.

"Hua, say something that only lovers say to each other."

As Xia Yuan passed Gray Snake's seat, he reminded his partner.

"Things that only lovers say?" Fu Hua pondered for a moment. "Yuan, after everything is over, come back to my hometown with me."

"it is good......."

After a moment of silence, to avoid embarrassing his partner, Xia Yuan slowly uttered a single word.

The two looked like a couple deeply in love, snuggling close to each other.

Xia Yuan even deliberately covered his facial features with a top hat to prevent Gray Snake from noticing.

Even after passing the gray snake, his partner didn't seem to show the slightest ripple or expression, which made Xia Yuan feel a little curious.

"Hua, when you were holding me just now, didn't you have any physical reactions like your heart rate increased or your body temperature rose?"

Xia Yuan, who had been put down by Fu Hua, immediately asked.

Chapter 223 Suspect: Little Pado

Fu Hua honestly shook her head.

My partner is really something...

It seems I should let Hua read more novels about love when I have time. With Hua's personality, what if she can't find a partner in the future if she keeps solving cases with me like this?

There needs to be someone to lead China.

She should wear a gorgeous and beautiful long dress, just like the other young ladies and noblewomen in the city, and dance gracefully under the lights, dancing with the person she loves.

If others have it, your partner should have it too.

"Wait, according to common sense..."

His partner couldn't possibly be completely unmoved; after all, even he himself had felt a flutter of attraction when he saw the portrait in his personal capacity. Could it be that Hua... likes him?

But Fu Hua quickly answered Xia Yuan's question.

“Yuan, I once told you that I have practiced martial arts since I was a child, but I have never told you what I practiced... I cultivate the Taixu Sword Qi, which has five elements, one of which is the Mind Elements. The Mind is a mind free of distractions.”

"......"

A moment of silence followed.

Xia Yuan subtly shifted the topic away from his detective work.

He would not accept any more commissions related to Shenzhou. He didn't want to encounter an enemy like Hua, who had practiced martial arts since childhood and could kill a bull with a single punch. He didn't want to die young so soon.

Walk through this carriage with Fu Hua.

In a rather secluded corner next to the window in the next open train carriage...

Xia Yuan found the girl he wanted to see.

The other party is also the prime suspect in the jewelry theft case: Padofelis.

Padofelis was furtively observing her surroundings, her hands tightly clutching a strange backpack that looked like a brown kitten as she secretly looked around.

"It's so tightly protected, what could be inside?"

It seems that the contents of the backpack are of great importance to Padofelis.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to her, Padofelis seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

The brown-haired girl, resembling a kitten, gazed curiously at the scenery outside the train window. This was her first time traveling far from home on a steam train, and she was quite nervous.

Glug glug—

Padofelis pulled a bottle of water from her backpack and drank it rather quickly, emptying more than half of it in no time.

It seems they were trying to relieve their tension in this way.

"Oh dear... what time is it? We agreed on midnight!"

"Why hasn't the other party shown up yet? They said we'd meet face-to-face here. Did I come to the wrong carriage, or were I stood up?!"

Padofelis paced back and forth under the table, looking rather restless.

"No... we can't wait any longer. Let's look in the other carriages."

"Little Padma, were you waiting for me?"

Just as Padofelis was sitting in her seat, fidgeting with her brown bangs and trying to get up, a slightly familiar yet unfamiliar voice reached the girl's ears.

Xia Yuan sat down opposite Padofelis as if they were old friends, casually crossed his legs, then leaned forward, crossed his hands under his chin, and studied the brown-haired girl's every move.

"You...you...you...how did you get here?!"

When Xia Yuan appeared in front of her, Padofelis felt as if she had encountered her nemesis.

My body tensed up instinctively...

Padofelis clutched the backpack tightly to her chest, instinctively wanting to get away from the other person. She didn't want to be targeted by this detective who seemed to cause murders wherever he went.

He's practically a plague god...

Padoflis grabbed her backpack, intending to slip away from her seat in the opposite direction from Xia Yuan.

But before anyone knew it, Fu Hua had already arrived at Pathophilis's side, blocking the girl's escape route with her body and placing her hand on Pathophilis's shoulder.

Feeling the faint throbbing in her shoulder, Padofelis obediently sat back down in her original seat.

click-

It sounded like a joint dislocating.

Pado slumped back in her original seat, and a clump of soul matter resembling mochi emerged from the corner of the girl's mouth.

"......"

"Sorry, I used too much force and didn't pay attention to the pressure. Let me put it back on for you."

Fu Hua gave Xia Yuan an apologetic look, but Xia Yuan felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the person his partner was apologizing to. Perhaps in Hua's eyes, Padofelis had already been labeled a repeat offender.

This brown-haired girl has been a regular at the Fate Police Station since she was a child.

I don't know how many times I've been inside.

He's always been arrested for theft...

For example, they might steal unwanted bread or strange items, and despite repeated warnings, they are released quickly because they are minors and the stolen items are not valuable.

But after a few days, they would always be sent back in.

According to her own words, the accommodation and meals were provided, and life at Tianming was much more comfortable than where she lived. She even gained a few pounds.

Theresa had a lot of headaches about this problem child, but as a high-ranking member of Schicksal, she casually passed the task of educating and disciplining the problem child to her friend and subordinate: Himeko.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch... Be gentle, be gentle, it's going to break, it's really going to break!"

Padofelis, her shoulders back on track, woke up with a start.

She desperately hoped that everything that had just happened was just a dream, but the two uninvited guests beside her made Little Pado feel the cruelty of reality.

"Oh dear, Grim Reaper, cough cough... Detective, please, just let me go."

"I have already confessed everything that needs to be confessed."

"Confessions and written records... the Tianming Police Station has interrogated me countless times."

"I really didn't steal those jewels. Why would someone as famous as you bother arguing with a little girl like me who wanders the streets all day without even a small hut?"

Padofelis clasped her hands together, pleading with the other party to let her go.

But she dared not look into Xia Yuan's deep, azure eyes, which were as deep as a hawk's, for fear that she would reveal her true purpose for being on this train and that she might not be able to hide it from this famous detective.

"Ha, Death, is it~~~"

"Looks like I'm unexpectedly popular? Does that mean I have another title?"

Xia Yuan naturally noticed that the girl's eyes were avoiding his, but he still smiled and responded to Padofelis.

Chapter 224 I'm actually very kind~

Xia Yuan knew very well what was going on.

The brown-haired girl in front of him was hiding something from him, something she didn't want him to know.

"Hey, detective, I didn't say anything bad about you. The title 'Grim Reaper' was given to you by others behind your back, so don't blame me for it!"

"Oh?

"What are they saying? Feel free to speak your mind. You see, I'm actually a very kind person."

Xia Yuan did not ask Padofilis about the jewelry theft case. Instead, he talked to the girl in front of him about his identity as a detective.

"Huh? Friendly? I think even nuclear bombs are friendlier than you!"

Padofelis muttered to herself.

Xia Yuan had excellent hearing and naturally heard the other person's whispers clearly. However, he was not angry. Instead, he smiled and looked at Padofelis, waiting for her next answer.

"Cough cough..."

Padofelis organized her thoughts.

"You're the one who told us to say this, so you absolutely can't blame me for what we said."

"I swear on my integrity."

Xia Yuan raised his right hand and assured Padofelis.

"Everyone in the streets and alleys is saying that wherever the infamous Mr. Sherlock Holmes goes, a murder will occur, and wherever he goes, someone will die."

Padofelis seemed to feel a chill and covered her body with her hands.

"Any group of people that you happen to meet, Detective, will inevitably die in a very strange murder soon after any conflict or argument occurs among them, and the murderer will definitely be one of them."

All these signs point to one thing.

"That means there absolutely must be no conflict around you, Detective. You must always stay calm and collected, otherwise you won't even understand how you died when you lose consciousness."

Padofelis lowered her voice, as if she were telling some kind of horror story.

"Hehe, Pado, none of the things you're talking about seem to have any scientific basis."

"It wasn't originally this mysterious. But if it's spread like this, one person tells ten, ten tell a hundred, and if it continues like this, won't I be known as the cursed detective... someone everyone avoids?"

Xia Yuan smiled gently.

"What? There's evidence to back all of this up!"

Padofelis seemed to have taken a liking to it.

She wanted to present her theories and compelling evidence to prove them to the other side.

Fu Hua slowly removed her hand from Padofelis's body. She had just witnessed her partner lower her guard and eliminate her suspicion of the two of them with just a few words.

"As expected of Mr. Sherlock..."

Padofelis placed the kitten-like backpack near the corner of the car window, and out of Xia Yuan and Fu Hua's sight, she rummaged through it and found pieces of newspaper that had been cut and preserved in file paper.

Each small newspaper represents a case that Xia Yuan has solved.

Padofelis arranged them neatly in chronological order, and the girl introduced the victims of each case and the interpersonal relationships between them to Xia Yuan as if she knew them by heart.

Some of the cases were so old that even Xia Yuan himself had almost forgotten about them.

Xia Yuan hadn't expected that the girl in front of him would know more than he did, as he listened to Padofelis list the connections between the victims in the cases.

At this moment, the girl had completely lost her previous wariness and became much more relaxed.

"Oh? I didn't realize you were such a little detective fan, Pado?"

"Hmph, stop being so conceited, Mr. Nuclear Bomb. I'm not your detective fan!"

"Instead, every time I go to the pub, those drunken old men talk about the cases you've investigated all day long. I've heard it since I was a child... They never get tired of it, and my ears are getting calluses from listening to it."

Padofelis symbolically rubbed her ears.