129 – Bait – 3
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Mikhail and the drug dealer is a scary story, but it wasn’t really the cat that rustled. Naturally, it was Cordelia who was sneaking up to hear the conversation between the two. Concentrating on eavesdropping on her, she couldn’t afford to look under her feet, so she accidentally stepped on the trash that was rolling on the floor. It wasn’t too loud, but it wasn’t so quiet that it was drowned out by the silence of the night.
Cordelia blamed the sky for why such rubbish was rolling under her feet at such a timing, but she didn’t solve anything by saying that. All she could do was pray for her to remain undetected. That she should simultaneously pray to heaven with her resentment. It felt contradictory.
And, miraculously, did the sky hear that prayer? Surprisingly, the two heard the cat’s cry and went back with the illusion that it was simply the presence of an animal. But Cordelia couldn’t be relieved.
Because the one who made the cat noise wasn’t a real cat either. Instead, he was a human who trained his vocal cords to the limit. Even though it’s been quite a while for Leela, she was satisfied with her own voice acting that fooled the two perfectly.
“Oup! Town!!”
“Could you please be quiet?”
The dirty girl in my arms didn’t seem very happy with the situation. Lyra thought as she felt Cordelia’s saliva flow from her palm. Lyra’s hand, which was covering Cordelia’s mouth, was damp.
It was only natural for Cordelia that suddenly someone unknown to her identity had blocked her mouth behind her back. Thanks to her, she was able to fool Mikhail and the merchant perfectly, but unlike the two she could deal with, she approached it completely and could not even deal with the person standing behind her. That’s because he’s completely behind her.
When she thought about which one was more dangerous, she felt that the latter was much more dangerous. She begged me to make it through, but not in this way. Isn’t it like calling a tiger after trying to chase a wolf?
“Me! Please stay still!”
“Eup!!!”
Lyra whispered in her ear to Cordelia. I wondered if she would calm down a bit if she knew it was someone she knew. But that judgment was wrong. Cordelia shook her head for a moment to think whose voice it was, but as soon as she remembered who the owner of her voice was, she began to struggle even harder.
In Cordelia’s mind, the events of Hestia’s abduction were still vivid. I’m not sure what she did, but she wondered if she was thinking of kidnapping herself this time. Her tears welled up in Cordelia’s large eyes.
‘Sorry Mikhail. It’s not like you’ve been secretly acting alone by separating us for nothing, but I’m sure I’ll be a nuisance to you out of vain curiosity. What will become of me now?’
Cordelia started sobbing with her mouth shut. For a lyre, she was dazzled. Now that she’s suffering for someone, she doesn’t even recognize the person who saved her and misunderstands her like this.
She pondered for a moment whether to just knock out Cordelia, who showed no signs of calming down, but she still does this. Just thinking about it makes her head hurt.
Lira said almost begging.
“I’ll explain later, so can you please quietly follow me for now?”
“Oup! Town!”
Even though she keeps her mouth shut, she seems to be able to hear an answer telling her not to play tricks. Eventually she whimpered and uncooperatively her ward had to force her Cordelia to her own safe house.
I had tried countless times to move a person who had been subdued, but it was almost the first time for Lira to move a living and fluttering human. Besides, Cordelia was much taller than Lyra, so she ended up throwing Cordelia into her safe house and shutting the door, her body completely covered in sweat.
She released her hands from holding Cordelia as she nearly fell as soon as the door to her safe house closed.
“Ah. It’s hard.”
“You, you! What are you going to do to me!”
“What can I do with that?”
Cordelia questioned her messed up face. Lyra wiped the sweat from her forehead once.
“I’m going to kidnap you like Hestia… !”
“After. First impressions are important.”
Lira’s heart was filled with frustration at the fact that even after she came this far, she was still in the middle of an absurd misunderstanding. But who to blame? It’s an objective fact that she’s a bad b*tch. She let out a sigh, and slowly, she let Cordelia know that she was by no means her enemy.
“Shall we examine each one of us? Am I putting some restrictions on your actions now?”
Cordelia looked down at her own arms and legs and shook her head at her report.
“Am I restraining you? No Did I do something to harm you? Not even that. I had a chance to overpower you, did you actually do it? Even though I struggled as much as I could, I dragged it all the way here while covering my mouth. Did my actions harm you? If it helped, it helped, not harm.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
The more Lyra’s words continued, the more Cordelia’s throat tightened.
“Then let’s think about it again. Do you still think I kidnapped you?”
Cordelia shook her head once more. After listening to Lira, she thought about it calmly, but she had a lot of strange things to say about kidnapping. Like Lira’s attitude, as if she wanted to leave at any time, and seemed to have no intention of stopping it. Cordelia then began to listen to Lyra for a bit.
“Then is it safe to say that we are ready to talk calmly with each other now?”
“… Huh.”
Cordelia, feeling ashamed that she had made such a fuss for no reason, touched her hair. After Cordelia calmed down a bit, Lyra led the conversation.
“You must have a lot of questions first. Why don’t you ask?”
Cordelia hesitated for a moment, then she asked what was on her mind the most.
“That, why did I help?”
“Do I really need a reason to help?”
“It’s not like that… , that.”
In Cordelia’s opinion, Lyra wasn’t the kind of person who would help others for no particular reason. No matter how much she did, she couldn’t f*ck her in the face of the person who helped her, because you’re not the kind of person to do it. .
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Michael and Cordelia too. Is it impossible to drop the scarlet letter once attached? Lira was a bit bitter.
Why did you help? No. Why was she looking at Mikhail and Cordelia in the first place. To be honest, I don’t even know Lira herself. A few days ago, when she was told by Mikhail that other people were more important than you, she honestly didn’t want to see it.
She has been trained for a long time to keep her composure in most situations, so it was quite unusual for her to feel so upset. She felt ashamed because she seemed to have thought that she had become a little close to her alone.
She didn’t really have anything to say that she was friendly, to be precise. It’s just that she was mistaken because it was her first time seeing it. It was the first time for her to have a normal conversation with her peers, even something really insignificant.
It’s like a kind of engraving effect. It is said that ducklings regard the moving object they see for the first time as their mother and follow them around. Lira too, for the first time in her life, had a flirtatious chat with a peer of her age, and she regarded him as her friend.
Looking at it objectively, it’s pretty heartbreaking to see her as only one friend. However, she was a person who did not know the sweetness of Lira’s life but had seen enough of her bitterness, so she was able to brush it off right away. Even if she is scorned by passers-by while rummaging through her garbage cans, or abandoned by her boss, to whom she has devoted most of her short life, no one is her mentality. Only this much problem was not even on the axis of the problem. Besides, when she thought about it after a few days, she also thought that she couldn’t help it because of the stigma she had to carry.
After sorting out her thoughts, she sat still like this, and honestly, she thought that she had left her child at the water’s edge, so she followed Mikhail. Cordelia found it right away. She wears her distinctive tail like this and yet she goes unnoticed. Her worries were not worries, but realities.
After all, after days of following the two unnoticed by her, her body moved as soon as she saw Cordelia, who almost had an accident with her nose. In fact, she doesn’t feel as much affection for Cordelia as Mikhail does…. To be precise, she was closer to having no one with whom she felt so much friendship except Mikhail.
Cordelia and Hestia could see in her eyes that they would be uncomfortable with themselves, and Seol-ah, on the contrary, was a bit uncomfortable with herself. In the end, there was only one Mikhail left.
Anyway, when asked ‘why did you do that?’, The answer was ‘just’. The trouble is, Cordelia doesn’t seem to believe that answer. She pondered for a moment on how to explain this, but she just gave up on her answer and decided to smile. She didn’t have the confidence to explain herself well, and she thought that she would just play a trick instead of persuading her so hard for no reason.
“No comment.”
“Ask me if you have any questions!”
She said, “She never said she would answer.”
Cordelia looked at Lyra in amazement, but her seed didn’t work either. This time Lyra asked her Cordelia.
“What the hell were you doing this late at night?”
“If you saw it, you would know. He was following Mikhail.”
“Stalking?”
“No!”
Cordelia, who had been grumbling with her mouth sticking out her mouth as if she was so dissatisfied, jumped up in anger at her remark that she was stalking her. Leela thought that following someone every night without her knowledge could be called stalking enough, she thought, but she put it out of her mouth and she didn’t bother provoking it more.
Cordelia explained why she acted the way she did, how she wanted to somehow prove that what she did was not stalking.
“At first, we thought we were doing something behind our backs, but I was worried about something….”
At first, she listened with one ear and let it out with the other, but Lira also agreed with that part. She hadn’t known Mikhail for a long time, but she had a strange side to him that drew others’ worries.
“So, what are you going to do with me now?”
“What, what, how? Students should quickly go to the dormitory and sleep.”
Whatever she herself might think, Lyra didn’t want to sit around watching her wandering around in the middle of the night like this any longer. All she wanted was to keep her whole situation in the palm of her own hand, not the appearance of variables beyond her control.
“Go to bed quickly.”
“Wait!”
Lyra pushed Cordelia on the back. From her expression, Cordelia screamed, feeling threatened that if she went in like this, from now on she would be tied to a bed in the dormitory and forced to sleep.
“Well, there might be something I can help with!”
“What can I do to help?”
Lira put her hand on her chin and was troubled. That can help…. She lit up her eyes.