-pops head from behind a doorframe-
H-hey everyone ^^'! I'm late I knowww I knowwww~!
I'm sorry! Heat just got me hard and I couldn't concentrate to finish this chapter!
Also yes I was kind of bored to write xD.
BUT NOT ENOUGH BORED TO LEAVE YOU WITHOUT AN UPDATE.
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Hope you like it and have fun!
The sun had risen and a beautiful day began with the birds chirping and the squirrels climbing the trees and…
"Hmph, you boys eat like pigs! Finish your food and go for work you good for nothing lazy heads! When I was in your age…"
"Yeah, yeah we know Volff… You woke up from 4 o'clock to go for work. Can you relax a bit?" Penguin answered, hoping the elder man will leave them eat in peace.
"Hmph, I will just warn you that I'm not going to leave you…"
"Yeah, yeah we know… You are not going to leave us stay here for free so we must earn money to be independent. Volff just let us finish our breakfast!" Shachi barked at the old man annoyed.
"Arg, fine fine… I'm getting off to finish some last details at lassie's place." he said and took off his cooking apron to walk outside the kitchen.
Suddenly, his popped again from behind the doorframe and opened his mouth to say something but Bepo this time, completed his sentence.
"Don't be late at work!" the white bear talked trying to mimic Volff's tone by thickening his voice.
The man irritated walked out of the house and he left the teenagers alone behind.
Law just placed a smirk on his lips, amused by the man's reaction, without taking his eyes off from the newspaper.
Elga was watching a bird playing in the snow from inside the window and couldn't get her eyes off of it as it looked too cute for her.
Then Bepo decided to ask the girl a question that was swirling in his mind the past few days.
"Elga-chan, have you found out something about your abilities, yet?" the bear whispered to her by leaning towards.
"Nope… Should I care? ", Elga answered getting closer to him too, confused why he kept a low voice, but nevertheless continuing his way of talking, teasingly.
"Aren't you curious about the type of your powers?" Penguin questioned her.
"No…" she replied blankly again.
"What if you can control liquids?" Bepo asked taking a sip of his hot milk.
"Then I would get myself a lot of coffee!" the girl responded holding her cup that concluded the bitter liquid and took a relaxed expression feeling its warmth on her fingers.
"What if you can control time?" it was Penguin's turn to talk and stood up to grab his back after checking the clock on the kitchen's wall.
"Then, I would go to work any time I wanted!" she replied and stood on her legs too, stretching them a bit to get her muscles in the right place and smiled at the boy.
"What if you already use them?" Shachi exclaimed.
"What do you mean?"
"What if the devil fruit accounts for you beauty, Elga-chaaan~~"
"Ugh, get serious!" the girl replied rolling her eyes and giving him a slight push.
Law who stood silently behind them, sighed in annoyance from the said boy's obsession flirting the girl all the time.
"Come on we must leave or the schedule will fall behind…" he said and took a hold of Elga's wrist to lead her outside.
"Well, I know where's the exit door, ok?"
"You are giving them too much freedom and they can surpass the limits sometimes." he scolded her.
"And who are you that will lecture me how I'm supposed to talk to my friends?" Elga replied irritated by the boy's sudden burst.
"I'm not trying to lecture you but show you the reality… Puberty hit hard those two and you don't want them to continue this." he said back with a blank face.
"So you can get attention and cookies from a girl but I can't get a compliment?" Elga responded frowning and looking right into his eyes.
"What does cookies have to do with this?" he asked confused as he wasn't expecting her question.
"Hmph, nothing…" the brunette answered and started walking on her own towards the direction of the path that leaded at Pleasure Town.
"Won't you come with the bike?"
"No!" she said angrily.
"Fine…"
Law started riding his bike leaving behind the pissed girl who was walking on the thick snow.
~…~
After about 20 minutes of wandering inside the woods, Elga witnessed something weird.
There was a man some meters away from her that tried to bury an object, she was unable to recognize what it was, into the ground.
The man seemed not to have realized the girl's presence so she hid herself behind a tree and observed his moves.
He was a tall, rather handsome, blond man around his thirties, wearing an expressive costume.
*Why is he dressed like that if he knew he would go into the forest…?*, she thought as curiosity overwhelmed her but she remembered she was already late for work and checked her clock to ensure that.
The time was 8:05 already and she should be at work by 7:30 to prepare herself for the doctors' visit in the wards.
When she lifted again her head to see the man, he was nowhere to be found and she decided to rush and continued walking keeping this scene at the background of her mind so as to analyze it later at her break.
~…~
After, approximately other 10 minutes the girl found herself ready to begin her work.
She was wearing the all new medical apron that Dulcinea prepared for her and stood right near to Law who had a constant smirk placed on his lips, clearly amused by the girl's stubbornness.
They were inside the first ward of the long clinic's corridor in order to check on their patients at the morning doctors' visit.
The black haired nurse walked off at the office to prepare some paperwork for the doctor to sign later.
"Did the morning workout go well?", the boy whispered leaning closer to Elga's ear so as not to be heard by Dr. Hakaru, the owner of the clinic and the chief of the medical staff who was currently discussing with the old lady about her health.
The brunette only gave him a glare for response, all sweaty with a red face and still trying to calm and catch her breath.
Suddenly, a man burst into the clinic and shouted for help.
"We need a doctor, please! A woman fell from the clock tower!" he yelled out of his lungs, frightened.
The three doctors left the place and rushed to see the condition in which the woman was.
Law took gently the hand of the poor unconscious woman to check on her pulse, but unfortunately that was the moment when he diagnosed her death.
There was blood all over her body, painting red the snow underneath her lifeless torso.
He lifted his head to look at the clock tower and saw the hour hand pointing at the number 8, while the minute one approaching the number 5.
"Time of death, 8:24." he talked and closed her open eyes, as a sign of respect over her dead body as a doctor.
"Poor woman. I saw her the day before yesterday on the street, all cheerful and happy but she mustn't had been on her right mind to do something like that… We need to inform her husband that his wife committed suicide." the doctor said.
Elga just stood silent and kept looking at her surroundings for a sign. Her gut was telling her that this wasn't right and Law became aware of her concerned gaze.
He pulled out a suicide letter from the woman's pocket and shew that to her as a proof not to begin a research as he wasn't in the mood to deal with police officers and investigations.
Elga opened it and read it.
'I don't want to live anymore. I'm sorry.
Hannah Palmincton.'
The girl just rolled her eyes in annoyance as the boy underwhelmed her.
"Come on, who wants to die and write a letter about explaining to the others that they killed themselves! Haven't you read crime novels?! I thought you were smarter than that…", she answered and handed him the letter.
Law frowned at her comment and massaged his temple to ease the headache as he could see it coming, the girl going mad with the investigation.
Elga observed her surroundings, hoping the killer would stood somewhere there, lost inside the crowd in order to see their expressions or whether they would believe the suicide story or not.
*I will catch you no matter what…*, she made a silent promise on herself and took a determined look on her eyes, making Law sweatdrop from fear.
*I must watch her out…*, he thought and went back at the clinic so as to find a way to carry the dead body of the woman inside for further medical investigation.
