Surviving As The Villainess
Chapter 36 - Hidden Target

After experiencing an unfortunate incident at the restaurant, Liyuna was seen speechless in the car, making Sara who saw her feel worried. Ever since her son came back from the bathroom, she just fell silent and asked him to come home soon. Sara had no idea what was going on with Liyuna and tried to ask.

"Yuna, what's wrong?" Sara asked in a soft, non-pushy voice. He wanted Liyuna to tell him everything without anyone feeling forced.

However different from Sara's wishes, Liyuna did not respond she simply shook her head slowly. Seeing that, Sara could only take a deep breath and let it go. If that was something she should know, Liyuna would definitely tell her. Maybe Liyuna just felt mostly fed and wanted to be alone.

Far from Sara's guess, Liyuna was currently thinking about her meeting with the young man earlier. The young man did look dangerous and scary but on the other hand Liyuna felt familiar with him. He tried to think about who the person was in depth and finally found the answer he wanted.

The young man was one of the targets, rather hidden targets. Liyuna did not recognize him because he looked different to the one in the game. In the game he has gray-black hair while the one he saw had gray-white hair. That was what made him not recognize the young man.

Hajun, that's the name of the young man. Hidden targets that are very difficult to conquer. He was the last target the player had to complete in order to know the whole story. Yes, if it's not wrong he's a leader who leads the underworld. That explains why he had such a look. Among other targets, Hajun is the target that has the longest lifespan with Yuriel, which is 11 years. That's why this caused a lot of controversy when hidden targets were introduced.

According to Liyuna herself, she did not bother about her age with Yuriel because they met at a legal age. Yuriel was 21 and she was 32. So for Liyuna there was no problem with their lifespan. But other fans do not like it and always dispute this, inversely proportional to their reaction when they find out that Zion also has a considerable age distance with Yuriel, which is 10 years. I don't know what the alley makes them to the trigger like that but certainly this problem was always a hot topic among players.

And for Liyuna who had yet to complete the hidden target, she knew the storyline in the route. How did he know that? There is a theory about the hidden route of the target in the forum. Based on the information contained in other routes, many people make theories about this last route. Liyuna who did not have time to play the last route could also guess what the last route would be like.

Based on the most popular theory, the hidden target route was a completely different route from the other routes and the route by which Liyuna as the antagonist was said to die a terrible death. On that route, Liyuna faced death painfully. He will likely be tortured and his body thrown into the sea. The only bad ending he thought was more horrible than the others. The story in the Hajun route was no less terrible, Yuriel had several times almost died because of enemies Hajun and he was even kidnapped just to pull Hajun out of hiding. Yuriel in that route was really a very good pass.

Liyuna's body shuddered in horror as she recalled the theory about Hajun's route. He had to try to keep Yuriel from choosing the route and play it safe by choosing the other three routes because Liyuna was confident that he would enter Hajun's route, his hopes of survival would be thinned to see how difficult Hajun's route was.

The car Liyuna was driving stopped right in the outdoor parking lot of the Castris residence. Sara and Liyuna entered the house, greeted by a few servants waiting in front of the entrance.

Previously Liyuna did come escorted by Noel but Liyuna felt that she should not have asked Noel to wait for her because she had to adjust the problems concerning her family so Liyuna asked Noel to return to Castris's residence. Noel, who is currently relaxing at the guard post along with the guards working for the Castris family, saw Sara's car parked not far from where she was standing. He quickly contacted Karl to provide the information.

In addition to being Liyuna's personal driver, Noel also had the task of reporting every incident that happened to Sara and Liyuna to Karl. You could say, Noel is a private driver double as a protector.

Sara and Liyuna looked at Yuriel who was sitting in the living room with a book. He who saw Sara standing not far from his seat lowered his head, trying to eliminate the air of her existence so that Sara would not be disturbed by it. But the unexpected happened, Sara instead walked up to him and crouched down in front of him.

"Hello." Greet Sara with a soft voice.

Yuriel lifted her head and looked at Sara's eyes with a hint of fear but it did not make Yuriel ignore Sara's greeting.

"Hello." Reply with a soft voice.

"Yesterday night you must have been scared, sorry auntie?"

Hearing Sara apologize, Yuriel immediately nodded her head slowly. If the person he thought hated him yesterday apologized, wouldn't that be a good sign? True said Liyuna, Sara definitely did not mean evil. He might just need some time to adjust to the changes and also, Liyuna wasn't lying. When he opened his eyes, Sara would have been in front of him.

"Yes, Yuriel also apologized for being troublesome."

Sara who heard what Yuriel said became increasingly guilty. He as an adult should not act arbitrarily, he should be able to accept it better. But if rethought, Sara is also not entirely guilty. Feeling disappointed in a partner who says nothing about something as important as that is natural.

Sara hugged Yuriel gently, Liyuna who saw her smiled. The little steps he made bore fruit. This way, Sara would survive to the end and Yuriel would have no reason to abandon her.

They chatted afterwards about Yuriel's life before coming to Castris's residence. Much the same as the one in the game, Yuriel is adopted by Karl because his father is very ill and has no choice but to join Karl.

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"Sara's." Call him hoarse as if he had been singing for a whole week. Charles never appeared as bad as this and this surprised Sara.

"Karl, why are you home?"

"I heard from Noel you came home."

"Um."

Karl walked slowly closer to Sara before dropping his body in front of Sara. Sara reflexively held onto Karl's shoulder tightly.

"Hey, are you okay?" Sara asked, she could not hide her worries.

Karl held Sara's hand which held her shoulder and kissed her gently.

"I'm sorry, I know I disappointed you."

Hearing that Sara became silent. Karl was really annoyed and felt very guilty to Sara, therefore he revealed himself to be very messy as he is today.

"Right, I'm very disappointed." Sara said.

There was nothing to hide, more Sara was honest with her current feelings. He was disappointed, but he was no longer angry.

"I'm sorry. I've been selfish for not telling you first and not thinking about Yuna's feelings."

"Right, you have to make up for everything by making Yuna happier."

"Yes, I'll do it. I'll make you a lot happier, too."

"Hum... I trust you."

Hearing Sara's words, Karl raised his head to look at Sara's eyes. Karl's eyes looked so red, like they were crying. From her face it was seen that she was shocked to hear what Sara had just said.

Sara believes.

Isn't that what he wanted? Yes, without saying anything convoluted, Karl understood the meaning of Sara's words. That means Sara knew that Karl did all this for a reason and she kindly did not force him to tell the reason and decided to believe all his actions. Karl felt grateful as well as relieved, he was now able to focus on doing what he had to do.

"I won't let you down again."

TB

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