The face beneath the mask turned weird, until it devolved into bafflement, then anger.
It spoke so much bad news and frustrating stuff that he didn"t know what to comment first. It sure learned customer service though, no? Offering something to do while waiting for whether that whatever poison which unexpectedly scratched him near his main artery could cause him death or not. Just wow. He was speechless, and at a lost.
In front of him, Alessa had already stopped crying, intently watching every movement of the man who suddenly became rooted on the spot. The girl blinked the few drops of tears on her lashes. She was still in that clear mind state and had discovered that something was off about the guy before her.
How come his built, posture, and voice was so familiar?
Was her imagination playing on her?
"... This person is reminding me of him. But what are the odds that somebody who thinks of me as a huge nuisance will go out of his way to save me?"
Alessa watched as the guy touched the bleeding cut on his neck.
"... Pretty low, right?" The answer she came up with almost made her choke and sob again.
"It"s just that... This should be an operation orchestrated by my dearest sister. And he"s capable enough to discover it if he wants, no?" she then thought to cheer herself up.
However, when she pondered over it more seriously, it actually made sense. This was even after discounting the little Alessa within her who loved to fantasize about white knights in shining armor. Chris was her G.o.d of information. After witnessing him once dug into every bad record of a Government Department Secretary before, she was convinced that if he wants, nothing should be out of his grasp. Digging into the stinky past of Country F"s current President would not be so much of a challenge as well.
If it was really the case... The woman"s thought continued to spiral out of control, unaware that the person she was almost deifying only deducted her situation due to Sofony"s warning.
Alessa"s teary eyes widened at the part still oozing blood and dyeing his neck and fingers red.
"Y-your wound..." Unexpectedly, her voice still cracked despite having grown some confidence about her hunch.
If he was really Chris, and he got wounded, no matter how small, due to her...
At the same time as she processed her shock, her body just moved forward with her hand reaching out to where the glaring red was.
To her extreme surprise, the masked man backed away a step. The gesture made her chest tighten. But in the next moment, shock and panic washed over her whole body system as she witnessed the person suddenly dropping onto the floor, landing on his knees and barely supporting himself with his one hand that was propping him up from the floor and the other that was tightly grabbing on the bed"s edge.
"Y-you!"
Noticing him trembling badly and out of the sudden starting to sweat heavily, Alessa was shaken and didn"t know what to do.
"... To think... I will be poisoned... d.a.m.n...!" she heard him laboriously complained.
"Poisoned!" The girl raised her voice in fright. Even though she hadn"t truly verified whether the person was the one she was hoping he was, she crouched down next to him, also trembling. She kept extending and withdrawing her hands but in the end didn"t dare touch him.
He was suddenly in deep pain. Even without him groaning and saying, it was too obvious from his bodily reactions.
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"..."
It took him a few dozen seconds to digest everything it said since he was distracted by all of the extremes that it enumerated.
Yup. All.
It was because when the innocent and unknowing woman approached him...
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