Chapter 40 – A Collaboration with another detective agency

Third person POV

 And then, a female employee of the agency came into the storage room to get a bag of coffee beans for the coffee vending machine when she saw Akira and Hachi on the floor and against the wall doing something a bit…questionable. She also saw blood on Akira's shoulder as well. She was shocked and became agitated and scared of them. "Um…"

Akira and Hachi heard her and looked at her.

 "Woah, it's okay, ma'am," Akira said to her while standing up and trying to calm her down.

 "Yeah, it's not what it looks like," Hachi added.

Now the employee remembered about who Hachi is from Masashi, so she calmed down and replied, "Oh, right, president Masashi said that one of you is not a human, right?"

Hachi then nodded. "Yes, I am."

 "Okay, sorry for intruding your thing."

 "That's okay," Akira positively replied back while wiping the blood from his shoulder with his green, rectangular hand towel, "we're done."

He and Hachi then finished their task in the storage room and left, leaving the employee to get what she was supposed to get.

 Back at their department, Toshi freaked out a bit upon seeing Akira's blood on his shoulder and clothes. "What happened to you? Some sort of accident with a sharp object?"

 "No, Hachi-kun wanted blood, so I gave him some," Akira replied back.

 "Are you sure about that? Are you alright?"

 "Yes, I am, no ill effects or anything."

Valentino came and heard everything. "What happened here?"

Toshi then looked at him. "Oh, Valentino-san! Akira-kun allowed Hachi to drink some of his blood."

 "Oh, that? That's because Hachi is a hybrid, half-vampire, half-zombie."

Valentino knew that from Akira and Masashi.

Toshi now remembered it and said, "Oh, right, sorry. I was just panicking when I saw Akira with blood on his shoulder and clothes."

Akira and Hachi were dumbfounded by his dumbness.

 "Is he supposed to be smart?"

 "Maybe not in this situation."

 Later, Akira and Hachi went to Toshi's office because Toshi will be introducing them to a detective from another detective agency. The purpose for this is that Akira and Hachi will be having a collaboration, S-classified case with that detective. And that detective is…