EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 140's

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Here goes! As expected!

The atmosphere around us turned serious.

I wanted to stare again at Bayu, the man was glancing at me as I looked at him. Although her face displayed a cold and serious expression but I could see the worry and tenderness from the look in her eyes.

“Although not everyone I invited here from the military, but I still want to hold a shooting battle arena.” Almost everyone cheered happily.

Once again I glanced at Bayu to see his reaction, but from his expression he showed nothing but silently looking at his grandfather.

“But, this cannot be done by all participants, only half of the male and female teams. The rest will go to the place under this hill completing different tasks,”

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I was with ten other women down the hill when the division in the women's group was decided. There were two women who were not from the military who participated in the shooting area, while me and another woman who was not from the military chose to go down.

Princess Larasati felt guilty because she chose the task of shooting, whereas those of us who went down did not know what was waiting below.

Every now and then I glanced back hearing the noise of the male team also descending. At a glance at the back, I saw the figure of Bayu also come down, it made me smile a little. Though he can come to the firing area, I'm sure his abilities will be of great help.

We were directed to another large villa in the middle of the forest, from a distance I could hear the sound of rushing water. Then we all stopped over a seven-meter-high waterfall. From where I stood, I could see there were many guards under the waterfall.

Don't tell me we have to jump out of here?

I don't like it and can't swim!

“I gave up on this one.” Suddenly Bayu's voice shocked all of us. Everyone's reflexes looked at him in silence.

I can't believe he said that as soon as we even heard what to do.

“Why give up so quickly?” That's an elder Jeremy's question from when we stood in our back row.

Bayu's cold expression looked at his grandfather, despite being glared at by elder Jeremy but the man did not turn his gaze away.

“Now it's morning, it's only half seven. The place here is cold and if this assignment tells us to jump, I don't want to get the flu later. Plus we all had no breakfast. After all this is not an event that we must fully follow ‘kan?” To be honest, that is a fact that cannot be disputed.

“So what do you think I'm holding this event for?” Bayu folded his lips into a straight line, it was his custom when he did not want to answer it even though Bayu knew the answer.

It felt like he had not seen such an expression on his face for a long time.

“Events for fun.” The answer.

Everyone was still silent, watching Bayu and elder Jeremy. The two are still looking at each other sharply which makes the atmosphere so awkward.

“Good! This task we cancel. Everyone please return to their respective villas.” The old man's words left us all dumbstruck. Didn't expect to be cancelled.

Then we looked at the elder who walked slowly away. “So we go back to the villa just like that?”

People began to whisper to each other, in fact we were immediately ordered to go directly to the villa. At first glance I glanced at Bayu whose eyes looked satisfied.

Arriving at the villa, breakfast is available. Everyone was busy taking the plates. I was about to go upstairs to stop when a waitress who had been giving me porridge this morning. In his hand was already a tray with porridge and warm drinks.

I immediately received it and smiled thanks after hearing that this is the menu that Dr. Stefan ordered. The karyu tables and chairs in the courtyard of the villa were still empty, people were still busy waiting in line then I immediately occupied one of them.

The cool air and the beautiful scenery around the villa made me feel comfortable. Although I am still full, I should at least appreciate this food.

I spooned a little porridge at the end of the spoon and went into my mouth just as my eyes saw a bunch of women coming down from where we were leaving.

It was a horde of teams that would do shooting duties, they came back very quickly. Could their duties be cancelled as well?

The figure of a woman shorter than me ran a little towards the table. Princess Larasat was immediately before me excitedly.

“I heard in your team there are those who oppose the duty of elders?” His eyes were still waiting for my answer.

“Yes. Are your tasks also canceled?” I asked while sipping a warm drink that had teased my nose since. The sweet taste of honey feels more dominant.

“Yes! We heard that our shooting duty was canceled after your team duty was canceled. Is the elder angry? So the one who broke him down was his grandson?”

I frowned in wonder. “Do you guys from the military don't know elder grandson Jeremy?”

“People here are new so no one knows his grandson's face. Many say that the elder is always defeated arguing with his grandson.”

“Yeah, it looks like that.” I answered, recalling the brief discussion.

Suddenly the Princess leaned her body closer to me to whisper. “See, women with long brownish hair there.”

I glanced at the direction the Princess pointed out, a tall woman with her long straight brownish hair was walking towards the table not far near us. Her face was small and beautiful, she was like a model. I remember, he was in a group of waterfalls.

“Why?”

“People say, the woman came here on purpose because of elder Jeremy's own grandson who invited her personally. She's a selegram model, Sandra, you know?”

I shook my head, really not knowing who he was. “The rumors are like that? Then what else?”

“There was a man who was suspected of being the granddaughter of the elders, this morning came to this villa. All the hooks that she came to see Sandra.”

“What did Sandra say about their meeting this morning?” I'm now curious, I haven't been here twelve hours but the gossip spreads faster.

“The person who roomed with her said that Sandra did not argue when asked about her meeting with the granddaughter of the elder this morning.”

I don't know if I should laugh or be upset right now. It is impossible ‘kan figure Bayu there are two? Obviously I saw him go out the door of the Villa and not come back, all morning I was downstairs and even if he came back to see Sandra, I would have seen him.

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