Cold Man And Miss Stone
42. One Week More

Emilia almost crushes the cockroach that suddenly perched on her arm if not aware of the structure of the animal's body is too hard. Spontaneous course Emilia took the glasses, saw it turned out to be a small robot.

"Yes, Emilia."

Emilia's forehead immediately wrinkled. "Senior?"

"Do I sound like him?"

"Then?"

"Your guardian dog, you could say."

Intelligence, is it? Why are they sending this? "What's wrong?"

"Your art asks you to move faster."

Emilia remained silent. He immediately frowned deeply, because so far what he saw from Samuel was really just a relaxed and uncaring attitude. There's no gap yet.

But Emilia denied Mahesa.

"Give me a week."

"Then it's good."

"Then?"

"We'll move more aggressively behind you. So it doesn't rule out the possibility that you'll still get in trouble."

"I'm fine." Emilia crushes the robot, throwing it into the closet immediately.

Death Rowan. Another week, however, he must die and Argantana heats up. How do you lure that to happen?

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Although yesterday there was a big commotion and dragged many people, this morning again like nothing happened. Of course, Emilia found many gazes from the other servants.

Already involved in the scandal of being Samuel's lover, suspected of being the mastermind of the spread of photos and so on, Emilia was still calm.

He knows their heads. And he doesn't care.

"Ema."

Samuel cared about them.

"Make me coffee. Add the sweetness."

Emilia serves Samuel coffee. But when he laid down, Samuel deliberately touched his hand.

"Ema." Samuel spoke softly until only Emilia heard him. "You don't want to sit?"

Looky. This guy, when his organization is fucked up, when his family is fucked up, when his own reputation is fucked up, he cares more about seducing than doing things.

I don't blame him because in the end he and I are the same, but still he sucks.

"I'll eat later." Emilia pulled her hand faintly. "If you have, I'm leaving. Rowan's clothes haven't been taken."

"Ema—"

Emilia had already passed first, gone to do her job. He wanted to get Rowan's clothes washed. Although among them Emilia remembers that Rowan is *******game.

How did he lure the boy?

Emilia did her job in silence. When he stood by the window watching the view of the park, he accidentally saw Rowan archery.

Rowan turned around when she heard Emilia's voice.

"It's my hobby."

"Hm."

Rowan was silent, but then came to Emilia who was carrying a fruit snack and a glass of cold water. "Thank you," he said, although aware Emilia usually does not move without orders. "Is something going on?"

Slowly, Emilia shook her head. But he deliberately made an expression as if 'well, ordinary' until Rowan might speculate there.

"Want to sit?"

Emilia nodded. Follow Rowan sitting under a tree. "Who taught you archery?"

There was a sense of surprise on Rowan's face before he calmly replied, "My mom."

"Your mother?"

"Hm. He's a countryman too, like you. Only, the difference ...he's ambitious and aggressive."

"...."

"What do you think?"

"Regard?"

"They're charged." Rowan is testing it. "I'm sure you're clean, but if it were me, I'd be hurt when everyone treated me that way."

So he wants Emilia to get hurt for being accused? The problem is that Emilia does not feel accused, because she is the perpetrator. So how did he get 'injured'?

"Have any results changed?"

"You mean?"

"What if I said I didn't do it, then they stopped being suspicious?"

Rowan.

"For me, if a conclusion has been made, whether it is true or not, someone will believe it. I was too. So what's wrong?"

".... I heard you didn't go to school. Not having an education. It may be a bit harsh for you, but a person's intelligence is reflected in his reaction. So—"

"I never said I was a fool from the village."

Rowan nodded in surprise. "I'm not—"

"I didn't go to school and I didn't get an education." Emilia smiled. "But my brain and yours are the same."

It seems he feels guilty. "I should remember my mom was the same."

"Not educated?"

"My mom only goes to high school. To be honest he married my father out of beauty, not out of ingenuity." Rowan laughed wryly. "But my mother was not a fool. He learned from his surroundings."

"...."

"I think I understand why Uncle likes you."

Emilia. Didn't expect Rowan to reveal it so blatantly.

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