Chapter 334: Dream (4)

——That night time.

Johanna caught onto one thing. Not too long ago, for varied causes, she had virtually utterly deserted her duties. No, she had misplaced curiosity and drive, however her instincts had been nonetheless sharp, and right this moment she had detected an uncommon circulate of funds.

“…….”

Johanna silently scrutinized the paperwork. They had been cleverly disguised, however suspicious sufficient to warrant doubt.

A scheme so nicely hidden that even she could not be sure.

Maybe it was only a determined try by that man who had as soon as mentioned he merely ‘wished to dwell.’

Johanna scanned the papers with impassive eyes.

Previously, she might need been considerably indignant. However now, she was merely intrigued, not feeling betrayed.

Maybe as a result of the sufferer was Derek.

“…… lnteresting.”

Derek was a shame to Libra. Moreover his goddamn overwriting souls antics, he at all times pursued shortsighted income and screwed issues up greater than as soon as.

Hopefully, he would not get caught this time, as he was presently flaunting his face all over the place in probably the most flamboyant means doable.

Stupidly, correctly, or regrettably, Derek had entrusted Zia with the shares of [Industry] and [Commercial District].

And this was the outcome.

“Hmm.”

Johanna had fairly just a few questions. Most of all, it was in regards to the money reserves.

Zia’s operation was, to place it merely, brutishly simple. As simple because it was troublesome to detect, and as simple because it required a large amount of money…

Nicely, she might simply ask straight.

Johanna clenched the paperwork and walked out into the hallway. She knocked on Zia’s door.

Knock-knock—

At that second, she wasn’t certain what she was pondering.

However when she swung the door open.

Her thoughts went clean for a second.

Due to the surprising scene earlier than her.

“…….”

In the course of the Front room stood Shion.

Zia was tightly embraced towards his chest.

Johanna quietly noticed the 2, who appeared as if they could merge our bodies if left alone. The vivid scene was etched into her retina and iris.

Her face hardened. It stiffened as if all moisture had been sucked out of her face.

“……Ha.”

A hole chortle escaped her. It was a sneer she did not even understand she had made.

Johanna instantly rotated and closed the door.

Crash—!

One thing shattered. It appeared she had damaged the door unintentionally, but it surely did not matter.

It was higher than breaking the our bodies of these bastards.

“…….”

Johanna got here and went, and within the aftermath, the door was smashed to items, with fragments scattered across the room as if an earthquake had occurred.

In the meantime, Zia was nonetheless asleep.

I laid her on the couch. She appeared to be dreaming peacefully, her face harmless like a toddler’s. I stared intently at her.

Was she actually asleep, or simply pretending to be?

Both means, I could not ensure along with her, however time was operating brief.

Within the present state of affairs, there was just one factor I wanted to do.

I went exterior to chase after Johanna. I ran down the hallway and stopped in entrance of her room.

——Knock-knock.

I knocked.

There was no response.

——Knock-knock.

I knocked once more and spoke.

“Woman Johanna.”

Nonetheless, there was no reply.

——Knock-knock.

“Could I are available in?”

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“l’m coming in.”

I opened the door alone.

Creeeak…

Johanna was standing in the course of her huge bed room, shrouded in darkness, the air she breathed, sharp.

“Woman Johanna.”

I referred to as out to her. Quickly, her piercing blue eyes flashed ominously.

“…Does Zia need succession?”

It was a somewhat direct query.

Apparently, Johanna had already grasped Zia’s intentions.

“Ha!”

She set free a hole Chuckle.

“However, I actually do not perceive.”

She checked out me as if analyzing. Her pupils flickered with advanced feelings.

“Peculiar.”

She murmured. Her faint breath touched my chest.

“Sure.”

At occasions, I had requested myself this query. It was a self-mocking inquiry.

I questioned how a lot of myself I might promote for my revenge.

Maybe, the whole lot.

“l’m sorry.”

That is why I apologized to her. I wanted to apologize for what I had performed.

“I could not bear it any longer.”

I positioned my palms on her cheeks. My palms gently enveloped her face, slowly pulling her nearer to me.

Our lips met.

Within the Aerial Backyard, the moonlight seeped by way of the window. The pale mild illuminated her.

“…1”

Her eyes widened abruptly. Her trembling transmitted to me. The pounding of her coronary heart felt like it could burst by way of her whole physique.

I mimicked that too.

Johanna is inherently an individual of faint feelings. After a fiery ardour sweeps by way of her, she would possibly doubt my regular heartbeat.

So, I made my coronary heart beat too.

“…”

My trembling appeared to calm her, and she or he quietly closed her eyes. She exhaled deeply and let her arms fall.

I centered on this second.

It wasn’t troublesome.

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All it took was performing.

…How lengthy had it been?

The ticking of the clock sounded dozens of occasions, and because the moonlight shifted away.

I indifferent my lips. I checked out her with eyes stuffed with sin. Johanna regarded again at me equally. Her eyes had been profoundly sorrowful.

I gave her a tragic smile.

“l’m actually sorry.”

I apologized as soon as extra. I moved once more. I stretched out my arms and embraced her. A breathless sound escaped Johanna’s lips.

Nevertheless, I could not give her myself all of sudden.

Even when I had been to promote my soul, it could be simpler to do it in components.

Now, one other act was wanted.

Actually, it hardly wanted to be referred to as performing.

From a sure level, ache was rising inside my physique, and by specializing in that ache, that was all it took.

I closed my eyes.

“Ugh.”

I set free a tough groan and closed my eyes. Earlier than Johanna might even specific her confusion, I had misplaced consciousness. I leaned my whole physique towards her as I embraced her.

“…Shion?”

She referred to as my title in a bewildered voice, however my imaginative and prescient was already pitch black.

I could not see something.

The easiest way to pretend fainting is to truly fainting.

…

Exterior, faint noises could possibly be heard. Somebody whispered urgently to repair the door. Quickly, the identical door was reattached to her room, and the slight breeze that had been coming in stopped.

Had the ‘incident’ concluded?

“…”

Even then, Zia, who had been Mendacity on the couch, slowly opened her eyes.

She rigorously sat up. She regarded across the room and poured herself a cup of water.

Chrrrr.

Only a single sip.

With that, the drunkenness that had overtaken her physique vanished, and her flushed cheeks paled.

Zia cleared her throat with a cough and sat down in her workplace chair. She Lifted her laptop computer and checked a number of paperwork.

Faucet-tap. Faucet-tap.

She started typing on the keyboard, resuming her work.

Faucet-tap. Faucet-tap.

There was a lot to do.

She most popular to speak her instructions by way of textual content.

Faucet-tap. Faucet-ta…

Nevertheless, in some unspecified time in the future, her fingers stopped shifting.

An odd curiosity arose. An pointless concern occupied her thoughts.

What had Shion and her sister performed? How had Shion chided her sister?

“…”

Zia rapidly turned her head. It was a curiosity uncharacteristic of her.

She had left her sister in Shion’s palms, and she or he should not have been curious past that.

She moved her fingers once more.

Faucet-tap. Faucet-tap.

Within the silent room, solely the sound of the keyboard tapping quietly echoed.