Riviere and the Land of Prayer, Vol. 1 by Jougi Shiraishi and Azure

Author:Jougi Shiraishi and Azure
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On

“I’m sorry. Could we go over that again?”

Riviere had made the adults who came charging in sit on the sofas, while she perched on the windowsill (not very ladylike) beside me, looking at them curiously. They all wore black uniforms—they were police officers.

Police officers…!

One of them looked through a notebook and said, “All right, let me take it from the top.” He had dark green hair, and after studying his face for a few seconds, I felt a very unpleasant memory burble up in the back of my mind. I could almost feel the clammy chill of cuffs on my wrists.

“The incident occurred at midnight last night. A man abducted the daughter of a wealthy family and is still on the run. The household servants reported the matter to us, and we’ve been on a manhunt since this morning, but we haven’t found them.”

“Grr,” somebody grumbled. The green-haired officer looked up. Oops. Sorry, Officer. Don’t mind me.

“The suspect is a man, twenty-six years old, by the name of Macias. He worked at a flower shop until last month but was let go due to unauthorized absences.”

“Grrrr…”

The officer glanced my way again. Seriously, don’t mind me.

“Eyewitness accounts place Macias at Riviere Antiques earlier today—was he here?”

“Grrrrr…”

“I’m sorry, but has someone been growling throughout this conversation?” The officer looked at me, his brow furrowed. The moment our eyes met, I growled again. Oh! Heavens. Was that noise coming from me?

“I remember her from the other day. Is she your new hire?” the officer asked.

“Yes. That’s MacMillia,” Riviere said, nodding.

The green-haired officer nodded back, a placid look on his face. “Miss MacMillia. Pleasure to meet you. I’m Henri, an officer of the peace. You might recall we met when dealing with that bag recently.”

“Grrrrrrrrrrr…”

Mr. Officer-of-the-Peace, Henri, offered me his hand the way someone in a nature documentary might reach out to a wild animal holed up in its nest and afraid of human society. As well he might, since I was hiding behind Riviere and growling at him.

“She’s normally a very pleasant girl,” Riviere said.

“Why does she seem so wary of me?”

“Perhaps you might wish to ask your conscience.” My shopkeeper patted me on the head and regarded Henri with a cold stare. Did this make her my guardian?

“Ha-ha… Well, anyway, I hope we can be friends from now on,” he said, although he gave up on that venerable sign of friendship, a handshake, and backed off a little. “I’ll take it under advisement,” he said. Considering I was still traumatized by my brush with being pinned with a criminal history, I thought they ought to consider themselves lucky if all I did was ignore some social niceties!

In any case, the police officers had come piling into the shop just moments after Macias had left it. His flight, we learned, was being treated as a kidnapping case—and chasing kidnappers was, of course, a job for the police.

“I have to ask you ladies: Did you give them any sancta? Anything that might serve as

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