My hopes of seeing Simeon quickly have been shattered. The following day, and the day after that, Simeon didn’t come to the room. The door was locked from the skin, and the darkened home windows have been specifically glazed so that you couldn’t see out.

I attempted to ask the one that got here in to feed me when he may depart, however to no avail. I needs to be grateful that he was no less than getting some meals. I attempted to chop the leash with a plastic fork, however my arms harm, so I gave up.

“I… I’m actually locked up.”

I lay sprawled out on the mattress and stared on the boring ceiling.

I don’t have a cell phone or a ebook. The considered sitting in a white room with nobody to speak to was sufficient to drive me loopy. I couldn’t preserve ready for the costs to be dropped.

I couldn’t take it anymore, so I received up from my seat and went to the window. I used to be so pissed off that I needed to interrupt the glass. However I didn’t have the instruments or the energy to interrupt it, so I simply screamed on the high of my lungs.

“Oh, for God’s sake, I’m going loopy, let me get some contemporary air!”

At that second, I heard the door open. I glanced again and locked eyes with Simeon, who was leaning towards the doorway. He giggled, his mouth barely lined, as he noticed what was so humorous.

“You possibly can’t go loopy.”

The sight of him smiling so pleasantly made my coronary heart flutter. I’ve to say, I really feel like I’ve lastly met my match. It’s not the identical as after we first met. It’s not the identical as after we first met, and the stress between us is gone.

I stare, and Simeon coughs somewhat and steps nearer.

“You may have advised me for those who missed the skin.”

“You didn’t come.”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t neglect you on function.”

“Nicely, you have to have been working.”

You’re the top of a well-known guild, so after all you’re busy, however for those who’re locking folks up, you need to no less than test in on them to see in the event that they’re alive, proper? I shrugged, as a result of I couldn’t say that…… after all.

Simeon should have sensed one thing in that transient second, as a result of he tilted his head barely, analyzing my colouring.

“Have been you bored?”

There was one thing so candy in his voice and tone that I nearly stated sure.

This actually makes me seem like a sulky canine as a result of the proprietor didn’t come. I used to be simply attempting to legitimately ask for sunshine. Not one thing to say to a topic who’s being held below suspicion within the first place.

The corners of his mouth twitched upwards as his forehead furrowed.

“Simply kidding.”

There’s a touch of laughter in his mumbled voice. Simeon brushes previous me and stops in entrance of an enormous bay window.

”Sadly, it’s not an open window.”

With that, he rapped on the window, and it turned clear below his contact. Excited to lastly be capable to see exterior, he walked over to the window and was met with a shocked shock.

“What…….”

The place the place I used to be kidnapped was a flower store on a busy road, so I assumed that the Apostle’s house was additionally close to there, however the window was full of blue waves. The ocean. I couldn’t imagine my eyes, and my mouth dropped open in disbelief.

“The place the hell am I…?”

“An island.”

“I do know that simply by taking a look at it!”

A distant island in the course of nowhere. No marvel folks can’t discover the bottom of the Apostle.

I glanced down and noticed a fantastic view of the ocean. The promenade alongside the island’s outskirts, the wildflowers poking their heads out of the rocks, the excessive cliffs of Asrai and the white waves crashing towards the shore – all of it appeared so acquainted, so paying homage to the scene within the Jungdong Cathedral with Heo-sang.

However now just isn’t the time for sentimentality.

“The ocean….”

I used to be fully remoted.

My sighs scattered towards the glass partitions like waves. It’s ridiculous that I ever dreamed of escaping, even for a second. There appeared to be nowhere to cover, not to mention escape, from this constructing. As I gazed out on the churning sea, Simeon requested me nonchalantly.

“What do you assume, are you feeling any higher?”

No, I believe I’m going to get crazier….

I have a look at the horizon, I have a look at the waves, and I realise that that is an island that’s no less than an hour away from the mainland. So that they picked me up after I collapsed on Songdo, drove me to the harbour, after which took a ship to the island? It may well’t be by airplane.

Nervousness gripped me.

“What did you do whereas I used to be asleep on sleeping capsules?”

“…I don’t know.”

It was a pointed query, however Simeon didn’t appear to have any intention of telling me. I can’t even have a look at that cheeky grin and never be indignant. I realised he’d in all probability have extra enjoyable if I yelled at him anyway.

I questioned how does the idiot, who was embarrassed to make eye contact with him, had become a creep and was inflicting him hassle.

“Do you wish to exit?”

“Uh, can I?”

”Should you include me.”

I take again the truth that I’m in hassle. It was irritating although, however it went properly. I adopted Simeon coldly.

The primary hall I encountered appeared like a luxurious lodge. The darkish gray partitions and white marble flooring mixed to create a clear environment, however it didn’t have the comfy really feel of a lodge. The uncomfortable silence was paying homage to a jail, with doorways at common intervals on the precise aspect solely.

As I quietly surveyed my environment, a middle-aged man with gray hair walked throughout the hall. Apparently, he’s an worker of the Apostle’s, he stepped apart as quickly as he noticed Simeon and bowed flippantly to him. I used to be struck by the harshness of his remedy of his superiors.

Simeon actually is the top of this nice guild, I suppose.

For some cause, I felt we shouldn’t be strolling aspect by aspect, so I slipped away. Then Simeon slowed his tempo and leaned over to whisper to me.

”Why?”

“Haha, no. Simply….”

I attempted my greatest to disregard the puzzled stares.

I don’t know the way lengthy I walked after that, however I lastly discovered a door that led exterior. I coldly opened the door and stepped out right into a panoramic view.

“The ocean…!”

I used to be in awe of the infinite blue waves. It was like a breath of contemporary air. I took a deep breath, and the salty scent of the ocean wafted in.

“Wow, I haven’t seen the ocean in a very long time.”

The sound of the crashing waves appeared to beckon me to come back this manner, and as I trudged to the sting of the cliff like a person possessed, I heard a fearful voice behind me.

“It’s harmful.”

“Aye, that’s effective.”

Throwing my arms up within the air, I stood on the fringe of the steep cliff. Wanting down on the blackness under, I used to be extra excited than scared. The urge to dive into the white, crashing waves towards the cliff was overwhelming.

As I gently tilted my higher physique towards the ocean, a robust hand gripped my shoulder, and I turned to see Simeon frowning and shaking his head. I knew what he was fearful about, so I smiled extra brightly.

“Don’t you assume it will be cool to leap out of a spot like this?”

For a second his eyes widened with shock. I may even really feel confusion on my pale hardened face. Did I make a slip of the tongue. Simeon murmured with a wry smile as he was about to ask why.

“…I didn’t assume anybody else would discuss it.”

“What?”

“No. Nothing.”

Simeon was again, wanting as calm as ever. I assumed I’d heard one thing sudden… Possibly I’m mistaken. Possibly he sensed I used to be taking a look at him surprisingly, however Simeon casually modified the topic.

“How’s your wound?”

“Oh, it’s nearly healed.”

“Already?”

“That’s the form of physique I’ve.”

He flipped up his collar for a greater view and turned his head barely to indicate him his neck. Then Simeon bent down to look at the wound as if ready. His eyes sparkled with curiosity, the best way they used to when he was taking part in cubes.

“It’s true… Superb.”

Then his narrowed eyes swept over my physique, as if he have been taking a look at a gem in a show case, or a chunk of artwork with a don’t enter signal. I questioned if anybody had ever checked out me like this earlier than.

“Hmmm,” he coughed, unable to take the blatant stare any longer, and turned to the ocean.

“Worse than that, I can’t even run away from a spot like this.”

“…You tried to run away?”

“I’m simply saying.”

He laughed awkwardly and appeared away. It wasn’t an phantasm that the air abruptly turned cooler. He couldn’t have appeared extra murderous together with his wordless smirk. Now it appeared higher for my status to not point out the phrase ‘flee’, even by accident.

There was silence, and I closed my eyes and listened to the sound of the waves, and abruptly I had a query.

“Can I ask you a query?”

“Not for those who’re anticipating a solution.”

I knew it. Whether or not he answered or not, I knew I needed to resolve it.

“How come folks don’t understand that is the bottom of the Apostle?”

It’s unusual to be in the course of nowhere. Lately, satellites are so good which you could scour a map of the world with a couple of clicks. And but folks nonetheless don’t know the place the apostle’s base is. It’s no marvel that dogged and chronic journalists have been scouring maps looking for his house base.

“The extra I give it some thought, the weirder it’s. It’s not like they hacked the satellite tv for pc….”

“Who else commissioned you to dig for info?”

“It’s not like that.”

He clenches his jaw tightly, and the one sound is the lapping of the waves. It’s quiet. It’s been some time since I’ve requested the query, and he hasn’t answered. I look over to see if he’s nonetheless suspicious of me, and Simeon stares meaningfully out to sea, muttering,

“It’s below his safety.”