Seated on the CEO's swivel chair, Brienne's indifferent eyes rested on the article showing on her computer screen, a report about her sister who was sighted unharmed in a seaside park within Western Alina.Not a minute passed and the queenly woman stood up from her comfy seat. She made sure to contact the secretaries outside through the intercom to not let anyone come inside, even themselves, within the next hour.After that, she picked up her phone to dial a string of numbers. She looked through the transparent glass walls of her office as she waited for the other side to pick it up. Beyond the sparkling glasses, the majestic sight of tall skyscrapers, billboards, rooftop gardens, and an unending sea of blue and clouds laid bare to her eyes. Yet none of it could take away the coldness from her delicate countenance."... Hello?"Brienne immediately replied to the person who responded from the other line,"It's me. I'm currently not in a good mood,
Ten minutes later...After sacrificing a part of her layered dress sleeves to some splashes of fruit liquor in a staged collision, Brienne finally managed to have Eithan accompany her to a break room. Of course, not without receiving a frosty glare from the other. She honestly admired the guts of the man as he was the very first actor to do so. She must admit, the experience was refreshing. But does he have the rights? She wondered, an amused smile never leaving her crimson petal-like lips."I was not informed that even the elder sister of our Queen of Primetime is an excellent actress..."Coldness seeped out of the man's eyes and for a split-second, Brienne Middleton felt as though she saw a tall behemoth staring down at her. Her lashes batted down a few couples of times. The pressure emitted from the handsome actor's body didn't seem forced or faked.The personal attendant by her side seemed offended but the woman herself unconsciously smiled, the mole
Many people had been left conflicted in that night. Two of them happened to be the famous Middleton half-sisters, Irene and Brienne. The latter, a couple of minutes after the extremely known actor excused himself from the breakroom, received an anonymous phone call which was actually from a lady bridging Brienne with the mercenary group from the C-Empire. That time, all her personal assistants and guards had been asked to go out of the room so nobody knew what went on inside. Everyone could only make countless speculations in their brains, guessing just what kind of bad news did the First Miss received as to become very cranky when they left the place. As for Irene, while escorted by Aura and Sarmiento, she almost didn't manage to restrain herself from throwing a warning to Brienne through one of her assistants. She got badly shaken by the realization that her so capable sister had started to suspect who Eithan really was. Driven by the fear that a person dear to her would be stolen a
"Hey, what's wrong with you?" he asked while holding her up with one hand as to not let her completely collapsed on the moist ground.'... Her temperature is quite high.'The unnatural warmness transmitting to his palm despite the layer of clothing in between their skin made him flinch a bit. 'A fever? So this is why she's not acting like herself?'Then Irene spoke up again, her voice sounding so sultry with it being accompanied by her audible breathing."... I just want you to know... that I am not really about to fall."The man held both her shoulders since her knees seemed to be failing her. Irene was so close to him when she gave him a tearful smile. It was very beautiful, but due to her reddening face and few beads of sweat on her forehead, she appeared so weak yet... alluring?In the next moment, all crazy thoughts that he was having flew over the reddish horizon when she laughingly said, "I'm telling you, my knees are not really failing me. I was planning to kneel down."The ma
He was about to walk outside to fetch himself a glass of cold water when his eyes flickered to the woman who should be sleeping in the bed. He saw that her eyes were wide awake.She was actually not asleep?Eithan' eyebrows almost met in the middle. 'Don't tell me all this time, she's watching me?'"Sleep," he barked.The woman who fell sick due to excessively cooling her head last night under the cold water shivered. Despite this though, she defiantly met his rigid eyes and even flipped to the sides to face him. "I'm not a kid. So don't order me around. Also, my body only needs rest and I'm getting it aplenty as I lie down here."Eithan went out to get a pitcher of water and some glasses. When he got back, the woman teasingly told him it was a good thing that he was acting comfortably in her home."If I may say, rest your eyes too, Miss Middleton. You don't have to be so guarded. Aura is just outside, and she's checking on you every ten minutes."He didn't know if it was the effect o
Irene could not believe her eyes and she watched as the man's lips curled into a dangerous yet sexy grin."... Good thing that you are sick. Just in case, my expectation is not met, we can easily turn this stupid test into a mere nightmare. I won't lose anything, and nothing would change between us..."'What?'A word that failed to escape out of her.Her eyes widened as Eithan glanced down to his left wrist and raised the sharp object a third of a meter away from it. If his other hand descends to that undefended wrist in a very fast manner...She inwardly shook her head, laughing at the ridiculous thought.Why would he even do that? What did he say again? No, she was merely thinking of a very silly possibility, right?Yet, at the next second that came, that silly possibility did happen.Darkness consumed her whole system and the shriek she let out was so ear-piercing and horrifying. Before she knew it, her body had gotten out of the comforter and rushed towards him."NOOOOOOOO!"But b
When Eithan got out of the woman's home, 98, his shady AI spoke to him with a very repentant voice.Eithan merely laughed.'Oh? You know how to say sorry? Great news instead.'He shook his head and smiled. 'I'm fine, thanks. It's me who is being stupid earlier.'The childish resident of his brain went silent for some time before probingly asking,He shook his head one more time, remembering what recently took place at Irene Middleton's house.A test...Eithan was simply moved by the woman's affection for him, therefore, he tried to give her a chance, to show her what kind of being he currently was, and what he could do.It was a decision done out of whim, or some expectation that maybe it would be okay to be close to somebody for once, if she would accept what she would see. The affection was not there yet. But he believed it was something that could be worked out with as long as there were a will and intention. He laughed. Maybe a part of him was just so lonely and wounded that it wi
Misty, the weird brainy goddess of HCA and also a known beauty of her current school Edogawa High, had thought of this first instead of wondering if the shadow that appeared before her was a ghost or not. She worried more if there would be news of crime here reported tomorrow, if that shadow was that of a thief, or a kidnapper, or a rapist.If her conjecture was correct... oh no!Due to her odd sense of righteousness and cautiousness acting up, she seriously started to weigh out whether to check out what she saw or not.After her eyes wandered the place with great vigilance, she made up her mind and picked up an old-fashioned long umbrella from the rack near the trash bin. She mentally vowed to return it on a later time. For now, what mattered was to be prepared in case she would need weapons to ambush and knockout a criminal wannabe. This umbrella just happened to be the best weapon nearby since it was quite sturdy, not to mention, has a good reach.'Let's do this, fighting!'Unfortu
When the troops of the God’s Domain stepped onto the Imperial Capital’s soil, the common folks on both sides of the road sprinkled fragrant petals from within their hands. As for the guardsmen that were standing above the city walls, they set off festive fireworks, and the melodious sound of a trombone resonated throughout the entire horizon.The sky was ravaged with fireworks as they blossomed above in broad daylight. Even if it was still daytime, after undergoing the modification of magicians, the fireworks still blossomed with radiance that was dazzling to the eye.The monarch of the Long Xuan Empire personally brought a troop to welcome the sage, and when everyone prostrated down in worship, the monarch welcomed the sage into the Imperial Palace.The liveliness that was accompanied by the clamor was
When Taka made her move on the Suzaku Clan, due to the theory that ‘one shouldn’t do anything to harm one’s neighbors’, she had only had a little test of her skill and had not been too heartless by exploiting them too much. As for the other three big clans, however, it was an entirely different story. She saw no reason for reservation so she basically went full force on themThe reason for her doing what she’d done was to truly seize an opportunity that had presented itself! Her ferocity had exponentially increased until it was capable of making one’s hair stand up in anger.For example, on a certain young master’s bedside that was from the Azure Dragon Clan, where the 7-star sword was hung, the lavish scabbard of the sword had been entirely cleaned of its dazzling precious stones and its gilded golden ornaments was not
Ryu, on the other hand, figured that he would not be able to afford to have another mishap inside his own household, especially not before they were able to secure the invitation of the sage. Thus, he immediately sent his most trustred people to have the Snow Spiritual Fox delivered to the God’s Domain. Not long afterward, he then received information that the other party had arrived from the God’s Domain.In ten days, the sage of the God’s Domain would personally proceed towards the Long Xuan Empire, to the Suzaku Clan, in order to rouse the Phoenix. This one piece of information had everyone from the Suzaku Clan crying tears of joy. Their hundred years of misery would finally be seen through to an end.Within the next ten days, everyone put out an extreme amount of effort, and it was a rarely seen sight where the elders and the youngst
On the flip side, Taka stood at the entrance of the Qilin Auction House. Upon seeing the rear view of the attendant leaving, Taka’s hand subconsciously reached out to touch that little face of hers that had changed beyond recognition.The result of the low-level face-altering potion was pretty good. Although the effectiveness was shortened by that bit for that given period of time, it was just enough to conform to her requirement for the three hours were enough for her to have those goods delegated. If there was even more effectiveness for a given period of time, she truly would not know how she would carry that kind of face back to the Suzaku clan.The present Taka’s facial appearance was slightly better when compared to her original and she figured it was due to a huge difference in skin care regime. Not only was her skin right now was slightly fa
Since she had already set the Qilin Auction House as the target, Taka then couldn’t help but make the next step of planning. Although there were very less people who had seen the shame of the Suzaku clan, it was hard to say that she would not be recognized by the people of the Qilin clan at other locations sometime later. Therefore, Taka had decided on the spot to go to another auction house in advance and used the money that she had and bought a few bottles of face altering potion.The face-altering potion was a rather common kind of medicine and it can be divided into three grades which were the ‘low’, ‘middle’ and ‘high’. Different subdivisions of the face altering potion, of course, would all have a varying duration depending on its grade. Likewise, the duration of its ability to hold a disguise as well their price would have even more disparity. On that night,
As of now, Taka’s main problem was precisely money!The only sole thing that made Taka rejoice was that she had picked a proper ‘occupation’ for herself at that time, the godly thief, don’t you think so?! With regards to her, this kind of thing called money was like a rock on the floor, that could be seen just about everywhere. If she had not widened her horizons at that time by being a hitman, a spy and so on, it would have been very likely that she could only silently stay at that dim corner and constantly dawdle about there!“Isn’t it just 30000 pieces! You can be at ease for by the means of this young master’s skill, I will definitely make you eat till you feel like throwing up!”With regards to her workmanship, Taka was quite confident in herself. What was more wa
‘Didn’t I say that it would have inhibitions on your strength. Undoing the first layer of seal is only but the beginning. If you want to become stronger, then you have to continue to undo the later seals. In this way, not only you can continue advancing but also, those strength that was previously inhibited would subsequently gush out.’ Linux’s voice was still the same as before where it was tranquil without any ripple and a hint of chilliness was carried together.“Then, what is needed to undo the second layer of seal?” Taka asked.Linux went silent for a moment and then only said one statement, ‘Demonic Beast’Demonic beasts were vicious organisms that were scattered everywhere across the Radiance Continent and resided
“Taka. You have fairly done well!”Agnar distressingly looked at the daughter of his which was still at the bosom. If it was not for the fact that Ryu was here at this moment, it was very likely that he would have already long ago pounced Taka and ripped her apart into fragments.As Abiri had Taka protected behind his back, he looked at Agnar and said,“Second uncle, why do say such a thing? Just what had this matter got to do with Taka?”“How could it be that she is unrelated to this matter? Jesse was injured in her room and it is very clear that it is this vile spawn that has harbour this evil intention wanting to injure Jesse!”No matter how Ryu was to think about it, Agnar had always fr
Just at that moment when Taka was inwardly wiping away her tears, in a rage, Jesse, who had been ignored by Abiri had killed her way into the room.The moment when she entered into the room, she immediately saw that pile of presents on top of the table and that pair of eyes of hers which filled with anger had momentarily became red in jealousy.“You, idiot, on what basis had you made Brother Abiri treat you that well! You are simply just a trash! Idiot! Even the most inferior servant within the mansion is one hundred times stronger than you! You simply do not deserve to have Brother Abiri’s items!”Gripping her fist tightly, Jesse tenaciously glared at Taka who was sitting on top of the bed where within the eyes of hers was the unwillingness that had practically burnt away all of her rational