144 – Between the two
At first glance, Juliet’s reaction seems okay.
However, if you observe carefully, there is a part where you feel a sense of incongruity.
When Rachel first saw her and called her Sharon, she denied it without hesitation.
‘You misunderstood the person.’
It is normal for a normal person to panic in a situation like this. Hearing the name of a stranger he didn’t know who it was, he was too quick to conclude without hesitation that he had mistaken it for someone similar to himself.
That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with that. There must be some people who are exceptionally quick at judgment or hide their emotions well.
But then Juliet’s reaction was obviously wrong.
When Rachel followed up and asked if she didn’t know Sharon, her expression wavered a little, albeit briefly.
I wonder if it was shaken from the beginning, but it is inevitable to be more suspicious when it is revealed later after hiding it well.
She did not catch Juliet. Because it’s clear that she won’t catch on now anyway.
She watched as she hurriedly left her seat, lost in her thoughts.
“Wow. Can a person look like that?”
“Why? Do you look like someone you know?”
“Yes. She’s in the same class as Sharon, but aside from her looks, the atmosphere is very similar.”
Is Sharon really Juliet?
Well. It’s still too early for her to be sure, but she honestly doesn’t think it’s high.
Even if nothing else is put aside, there is no reason to live with multiple identities.
Unless you’re a thief like me, why do you live a life hiding your true identity?
Of course, you need to check. It’s good that she hired Juliet as her employee and thought to investigate her background in earnest.
There is no need to go difficult, just confirm the existence of her Juliet in her academy class. If they were the same person, Juliet couldn’t exist at the same time Sharon was taking lessons.
“Ah, come to think of it, Mr. Lupin also saw my friend’s face. She heard before that she came for a scholarship review.”
I nodded out of my thoughts.
“Yes. It was.”
“Aren’t the two really alike?”
“I thought that too when I first saw it.”
“Aren’t you a sister or a member of her family?”
“As far as I know, Miss Juliet has no family.”
“Ah…”
Yes. The direction I focused on was also the side of whether the two are not the same person, but a blood relationship.
Two people whose atmosphere is so similar that it gives goosebumps that it’s just a coincidence.
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Juliet is an orphan, and Sharon has never talked about her own family.
A sister who was separated from her childhood due to a complicated story. It’s a story that’s quite possible.
Above all, the biggest reason I think this way is none other than Juliet’s reaction.
The decisive moment when she shook her composure at first.
When I heard Sharon’s name right away. More precisely, it was as soon as Sharon’s full name, Honcia, came out.
I don’t know why. Unlike Grace, the surname Honshia was an unfamiliar family that did not appear in the original work. So far, I haven’t been particularly interested.
She should have been able to investigate whenever she wanted to, but it is also true that the fact that she was stalking her friend somehow made her feel uncomfortable.
But at this point, I don’t think I can pass it on anymore.
Anyway, I should start the ‘identity reveal’ with Sharon in earnest.
***
The next day came.
Yesterday, I gave Rachel a proper tour of her office and sent it back.
I didn’t go to the phantom thief follower’s meeting. There’s a high probability that he’s on high alert because he almost got caught breaking into the Lappano mansion, so it’s safe to stay away for the time being.
It is certain that this is not going to be easily resolved anyway, so I plan to approach it as carefully as possible. Even if it takes some time, safety comes first.
In that sense, it would be a good way to solve Sharon’s problem together like now.
I don’t know if it’s correct to describe this as a solution.
Anyway, as expected, Rachel didn’t think much of yesterday.
“Really? So, did your sister go back to work? Really good!”
“Sure. To be honest with her, it gets resolved as soon as we talk about it, so she’s a little nervous.”
Unlike Yulia, who was genuinely happy, Sharon seemed to be deep in thought about her.
Then she said something quite meaningful.
“Didn’t the phantom thief really help you?”
“Huh? What are you talking about? You said you were hired by the director of the foundation? Did you fall asleep while we were talking?”
“You never know. The two are related.”
I didn’t expect you to mention it so openly. Hearing just what he said, it seemed like he was convinced that I was the thief, but when I looked at his expression, it seemed like he just threw it out without much thought.
It was Yulia who answered that. She resolutely shakes her finger and lays out her rebuttal.
“That makes no sense. Rachel didn’t ask the thief directly, it was just a conversation between us. By any chance, even if the director had something to do with Raven, how would he know and arrange a job for you?”
Sharon shrugged her head in response to her logical argument.
“Maybe they overheard us.”
“Does that mean we have a Raven in our class?”
“Well, it’s not impossible.”
At this point, I think it’s almost at the level of knowing and enjoying it.
Of course, if you think about her role, she’s still not sure, so she might be deliberately trying.
If I had confirmed that I was a phantom thief, there would be no reason to raise my guard by mentioning it this far.
Our eyes meet just in time. Sharon’s mysterious expression makes it hard to read what she’s thinking.
In the midst of such a delicate confrontation, Rachel suddenly intervened.
“Oh, right! Yesterday, Sharon, I saw someone who looked just like you.”
“Is she the same person?”
“Her sister went to the office where her sister worked and she said that the employee there looked very much like Sharon. They say she’s Juliet. Is she family by any chance?”
Sharon blinked her eyes a few times and shook her head in her flutter.
The series flow was so natural that she didn’t even think of it as acting. Apparently, Sharon doesn’t know who the real Juliet is.
“Hmm. So is she just a look-alike? She really does look alike.”
“Since you said that, I miss you too. She looks exactly like Sharon!”
“I have to say something. Feeling a bit more mature? How many years should I say Ice Princess? So, of course, I thought she was her sister.”
If the two are really sisters, there’s a good chance Juliet is on her sister’s side.
At least on paper, she’s two years older than Sharon.
“Have you seen Crow too?”
An arrow suddenly returned to me.
She shook her head at Yulia’s question. If it was Lupine, I might not have met Juliet, but as a Cro Maurice, I had never met her.
“No. I am also curious.”
“Is there any way to see it? Shall I apply for a scholarship?”
After hearing that, Rachel looked at Yulia with her bewildered expression.
“Hey. You are not in a position to receive a scholarship, but to give it to others.”
“Who is taking it? They just wanted to see Sharon’s unnie while applying.”
“You are not my sister.”
Sharon’s retort was easily chewed up. The two talk about Juliet, who has already been confirmed as Sharon’s older sister.
“It must have been recently. The last time I went, no one was there.”
“Since the real talk came out, shall we go? Do you want to go with Cro?”
“Huh? Me?”
I smiled awkwardly and was embarrassed inside.
Me and Lupin can’t be in the same place at the same time.
The last time Sharon came to visit, she tricked her into doing it, but now it’s next to impossible to do so. This is because a variable named Juliet has been added to the office.
If you use the same method as last time, you won’t be able to respond to all of Juliet’s actions. Because she is not just a customer, but a co-worker, she has to share a much wider range of communication.
If I hastily accepted it here, I could be ruined. Even if she was a little suspicious, the correct answer was to safely give an appropriate excuse and not attend.
“Sorry. I have business today…”
“You? What are you going to do with no friends besides us?”
“Rachel. It’s rude to ask questions like that.”
Yulia, who blocked her embarrassing question instead, nodded her head and understood while putting on a regretful expression.
“Then I can’t help it. I’ll go with the girls today!”
“I think I will have a hard time today too.”
“Huh? Even Sharon?”
“Yes. I have a job too.”
“Really…?”
Rachel, who looked at the two of us alternately for a moment at Sharon’s declaration of absence, narrowed her eyes and asked in a suspicious voice.
“Something is strange. Haven’t you two ever fallen for something like this before?”
“That, was it…?”
“It definitely was. Because of group assignments, when we went to the art museum, the two of us missed each other at the same time!”
You have a good memory. Hearing her story, it seems that Yulia also recalled memories of her at that time.
Yes. It is true that there was such a time.
But at that time, I was a thief, so of course I had to get out of it.
I couldn’t explain the problem so straight away, so I just kept my mouth shut.
“You can’t believe it… Are you two dating?”