228 – Roommates
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It’s a big deal. What should we talk about now?
There was an awkward silence for a while. Somehow they revealed each other’s identities, but it was a failure that they hadn’t prepared at all how to deal with it from now on.
While I was not able to open my mouth and just looked at it, a reaction came out first from the other side.
“Can I ask you a question?”
“Huh? What?”
“Why do you live as a ghost?”
It was a somewhat expected question. Well, it’s something everyone should be curious about.
I thought about how to answer for a while, and then I just told the truth.
“A goddess wanted it.”
“Goddess?”
“It’s complicated to explain. It’s easier to understand that I was chosen roughly by God.”
As if my answer seemed too out of the blue, Sharon had a puzzled look on her face with her eyebrows raised.
Anyway, judging from that reaction, it seems that she is an ordinary person who has nothing to do with God. In fact, in my heart, on the one hand, I suspected that she was an apostle of God, just like Sharon and I and the princess.
“Hmm. It must be a joke.”
“Why would you lie about something like this when everyone is caught?”
“Then is the goddess just and good?”
“Isn’t that so…?”
I hesitated for a moment to answer. It was because the memory of the past Ireland suddenly came to mind while trying to affirm it for granted.
Until now, of course, I had only believed that the Goddess was good. However, after she exchanged questions and answers with the goddess of time, she continued to have a mysterious feeling of uneasiness.
The goddess of lies. A warning to be careful as she is still cheating on me.
To be honest, even now, the problem was covered up and postponed, but nothing was resolved in a clear way.
It was only a momentary pause, but Sharon slightly narrowed her eyes and tilted her head as if she had noticed the subtle silence. But fortunately she didn’t ask anything more about her than that.
Does Goddess know that I am doubting her? You’re probably just guessing. As long as we can read each other’s emotions to some extent, of course, I must have noticed that my mind was confused.
How come he doesn’t say anything? Do you think it’s a vain worry that doesn’t even need an explanation?
Or maybe it’s because you’ve been hit to the point where you don’t even have an excuse.
I had an intuition that the current uncomfortable atmosphere would not go away easily, no matter what.
Until something extraordinary happens to put an end to this ambiguous situation. I couldn’t even predict where the end would point.
“Yes. I’ll trust you for now.”
Sharon, who broke my thoughts about her, stared at my face without saying a word for a while.
She turned her head away because the gaze was unnecessarily burdensome. Unable to bear her awkward silence, she spat out whatever came to her mind.
“What are you going to do now?”
The long-awaited battle of notices has finally come to an end. It wasn’t the ending that one of the two was completely finished, but rather, it was difficult to say that it was solved neatly.
Maybe this is not the end, but another beginning. Now that we know each other’s identities, we have to make choices about how to treat each other from now on.
“I have no intention of fighting right now.”
It was Sharon who first expressed my opinion. She said she wouldn’t be hostile casually, but she was worried if she should believe this.
“Then… Are you saying you won’t chase Raven from now on?”
“No. That’s not it.”
Her incoherent words made her wonder if it was a joke, but judging by the look on her face, she seemed to be serious.
“It seems like we both live differently day and night anyway, but it would be a loss to both of us if we had to fight until daytime. Aren’t you?”
That was not wrong. While working as a phantom thief, his status as an academy student was useful in many ways.
Of course, I also have the identity of Lupin, but the status of an academy student closely related to the realm of magic was also a great help for camouflage.
Perhaps Sharon is in a similar situation. Whether you are a phantom thief or a detective, in order to move secretly at night, you need a camouflage identity to cover your identity during the day.
So, in other words, since our mutual interests coincided, we decided to conclude a temporary truce while the sun was up.
It was an offer that I had no reason to refuse. At least while I was wearing my school uniform, I had the desire to rest comfortably.
However, before accepting Sharon’s offer, there was something I had to check first.
“I will ask the same question. Why are you doing detective work?”
I still vividly remember the first day I met her.
A green-eyed girl who saw through my tricks and discovered my true identity at the mansion in Lappano.
Sherlock has always been sincere in holding me from the first time I saw her until now.
I wondered why. Is it simply the same for other criminals as well as me, or is it only for me. If so, I wanted to know why.
“Why do you want to catch a phantom thief?”
Sharon didn’t answer my question right away. She kept her silence and met my gaze for a long, long time before she spoke slowly.
“Revenge.”
A completely unexpected answer. After repeating the one word she had uttered, he asked in a daze.
“What?”
“Don’t worry. Because you don’t seem to be maybe.”
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Sharon kept her mouth shut as if she had nothing more to say. She hesitated for a moment on how to take the remark she had just made, then barely nodded her head.
“Okay. It’s late tonight and you must be tired, so let’s go to sleep.”
Even though the culprit has been caught, there is still a long way to go before reaching the land after completing all the post-processing, such as rectifying the situation, testifying witnesses, and arresting the culprit. Even if I can’t do it, I won’t be able to set my feet on the ground until tomorrow morning.
It would be good to get some sleep during that time. Although there is a very high probability that he will be called for an investigation while sleeping anyway.
Anyway, we decided to stop here for today and go back to our respective rooms to rest. Even at first, I thought the guest room was just a place to throw luggage, but I never thought I would sleep here.
Of course, her men and women couldn’t share the same room, so she hurriedly divided her men and women into new dormitories.
Since the cruise was so large, there were enough rooms left even if it was assigned to a room for two people.
But if there is just one minor problem…
“Why are you here?”
A person who shouldn’t be in the room I was assigned to was sitting on the bed.
“Do you understand? Did you ask the teachers if you twisted it?”
It’s been a while since Gina’s ticklish tone, but in the current situation, it’s more embarrassing than welcome.
“You, you are a woman.”
“Huh. So what.”
Yes. The fact that she was a woman was only known to me.
At the academy, she’s wearing a boys’ school uniform and is disguised as Jean Granger, not Gina.
No, even so, this is a bit strange.
Of course, shouldn’t the school trip accommodations be assigned to the same class? Why do I have to share a room with another classmate?
I thought I would have passed it, but I immediately ran to the teacher and argued with the thought that this was not real. Then the answer came back.
“I couldn’t help it because the number of people was not right.”
“Why is it me?”
“Originally, we were going to draw lots, but you were away while we were allocating rooms.”
Ah. It must have been the time I was taking a walk with Sharon on the deck. When I heard that I was the cause, it became vague to protest.
“Anyway, it’s just a matter of being with the same boys for a while. Or is there some other problem?”
“No.”
In the end, I had no choice but to calmly agree.
What can I do? In that situation, Gina can’t even reveal that she was actually a woman.
Tumbling back to the room, Gina raised her pouty eyes and smiled cynically.
“Ha. Didn’t you like me that much? Enough to run in panting and protest to ask for a room change?”
“…It’s not like that. It’s just that we’re afraid we’ll be uncomfortable with each other.”
“Ah. Can’t you be in the same room as a girl? Other than that, you went for a nice walk with a girl just now, right?”
Did you see that I was with Sharon?
But was that a bad thing to say coldly, dripping with chills…?
“If you screw up, you sleep alone with that b*tch. Oh, you can’t even sleep because you’re playing with fire?”
“Please. It’s never like that with him.”
“Huh. You will.”
What the hell is wrong with treating people so coldly? Still, I thought we had become quite close recently, but was it all just my mistake?
I was too tired to argue with Gina. I flinched and spread loosely on the bed, then waved my hand.
“I am so tired right now… I’m sorry, but let’s talk after sleeping.”
“To be or not to be.”
As soon as I lay down on the bed and put my head on the soft pillow, I fell asleep.
The moment I closed my eyes and tried to fall into the land of dreams.
Creak.
With the sound of the bed, I felt the warmth and sweet scent right next to me.
At the moment, I woke up and opened my eyes to see Gina’s face right in front of me.