Shadow raised her hand and straightened up above. She spread her fingers and shut one of her eyes while looking at the ceiling lamp in between her spread fingers.
“My Lord…” Cole repented almost instantly.
“I may have obscured the truth a bit, My Lord.” Conan came clean.
Shadow ignored them, playing with the light of the lamp in between her flexed fingers.
The situation turned awkward, leaving not only Cole and Conan uncomfortable, apparently, Samuel was also suffocating with it.
He stood on his feet and smoothed out his wrinkled coat. “Awwww, what should we do with both of you?” He walked past them, detoured around the room just to stand next to Shadow.
His head
“Are you awake?”A foreign voice that weirdly resonated inside her more than she liked hit her eardrums.“You still have a big injury behind your back.”Unlike two days ago, Elijah wasn’t woken up by the throbbing and aching shoulder, that horrible sensation that demanded immediate attention, rather she was woken up by the sound of the rough voice asking her whether she was okay, or not.“Elijah?”“Ryuzaki?” She managed to call him in a rather croaky voice. “Ehem.” She coughed.Unlike before, she was well hydrated. Whoever was nursing her did a good job to serve her while she was unconscious.
Two perfect humans entered the premise with confidence in the air around them. Elijah was casually wearing formal attire and Ryuzaki with his casual attire as if he was at a funfair.Click-clack, click-clack.The two pairs of shoes echoed inside the tight silent chamber. Every eye was directed at them both. Envy. Jealousy. Scared. All sorts of mixed feelings pierced through their bodies.Elijah stopped abruptly and turned her head at the people at the back. Raising her hand, she scorned them and looked down on them. “Look away, won’t you?”The a
After she told him everything, both of them sat in their respectful place while contemplating their next steps. They went mute for a couple of minutes to rearrange their thoughts.“Okay, fine, we should call in our core member.” Amino had decided on his next course of action which also included another two people.“Ryuzaki and…”“Edmund. The son of the previous-”“Previous fire user. I get it.” Elijah rubbed her palms on her thighs. “What shall we do, Your Excellency?”“Counterattack, of course.”“But our old counterattack will not affect her much.” Elijah denied the notion.
Once Elijah was all comfy inside the room provided by the ‘greatest’ lord, she laid on her back, lucid and high with morphine. The drug was quite addictive although her body could only accept half of it and forcibly vomited out of her system against her will.She didn’t care. As long as her injury wasn’t as painful as before, at least it did something to her body. Blankly, she stared at the white ceiling above. The maids around her were busy treating and patching up her wound for the second time.“How are you feeling?” The loyal maid - which actually Amino’s eyes - smiled purely at her.Hazily, Elijah giggled like she was high and swung her hand in dismissal. “Get out. I have a visit
“I don’t want to.”“You have to,” Samuel begged Shadow.“My Lord, we need you.” Hashim was kneeling together with Mina and Naomi who already nodded frantically.“I don’t want it.” Shadow folded her arms and pouted away.“Why? Why are you against this?” Samuel tried to understand Shadow’s thinking. His eyes locked fiercely on Shadow.“It's… it’s tortuous and annoying. Also, I have to wear a dress. I have nothing against any kind of dress but it’s hella annoying to be wearing one.”The noise continued to echo inside the chamber. Keira was laughing her ass off while wavi
“What are you doing?” The rough husky voice questioned the friend that was stagnant in his seat with eyes glued on the book that was opened.That individual didn’t even attempt to acknowledge the voice, their eyes blinked very cautiously, slowly. The air around was icy. The cold gaze was the cherry on top. One of the papers inside the book was badly crumpled due to excessive anger.“Malikul Afdal!” Called that voice.Malikul didn’t bother to look up or look at his friend. “What?” His sharp voice answered his friend, still.“Your eyes are making me uncomfortable.”“Deal with it.”“Hah~, Malikul&hell
Malikul opened the book that was still in the process of writing. His eyes focused on Shadow’s name and also her interaction with all the novel characters.“Does everyone know that they are just in a novel?”“They are, indeed.”“You’re telling me that they are voluntarily entering this novel for the sake of Shadow?”“You wish,” Wan scowled, adjusting his butt on the chair. “I have paid them a big sum on top of years of benefits.”“And some of them are coming from The Unknown?” He asked, eyeing Wan meaningfully.
Malikul clenched his chest, the heart was beating loudly with the speed of a marathon runner. His sweat trickled down his forehead and cheeks while he bent forward. He opened his mouth before gasping loudly.“Malikul?” Wan’s face fell into panic.Malikul just raised his unoccupied hand, while wheezing in and out. “I… will be okay.” He squeezed his eyelids tight.He would become weak like this whenever he recalled that memory. The anguish, the anger, the betrayal, the sadness, the shock, and the guilt were mixing together. He was close to her. He had been warned.Yet, he ignored it. He thought she was playing.But, she wasn’t.