
- A few moments before, continued the conversation Stephen and the white-robed woman who had been cut off earlier
"What do you mean?" Stephen did not understand what this echoing voice was saying.
"Your partner will be here soon...." The voice of the white-robed Woman said again more clearly, making Stephen able to catch his point well.
"!"
'Feronic?!'
"Where do you know?!" Stephen got carried away, he became a person who asked the same thing as asked by the echoing voice earlier.
"You can't feel it? Thank goodness my drink worked."
'Drinks?' Stephen did not understand what the echoing voice meant.
Cretaceous.
"!" Stephen was slightly surprised by the door of the room that suddenly opened, and from behind the door was seen a young woman in a white dress.
"You?!" Stephen could not hide his surprise about what he saw now.
"You're not his subordinate!" Stephen shouted a little, he realized something was not right here.
"Why? Mr. Alex is stronger than me." The woman in the white dress plays her own long hair.
"Felicia...." Stephen looked at the young woman in front of him with an unusual gaze.
Whatdoes thatmean? Stephen's eyes seemed to be in disbelief at what he was seeing.
'Why am I unconscious from before?' Stephen wondered why he was not aware of the lack of a person he knew.
'I'm sure he not only disguised his appearance, but also his magic energy as well....' That's the reason that makes the most sense right now.
'He hid his previous identity and now easily revealed it? What is he thinking?' Stephen did not really understand the strategy used by a person he knew.
Stephen's eyes seemed to regret something. I don't know what it is, only he himself knows why he saw someone he knew like that.
"Why did you attack us?" Stephen's trying to dig up information here. No matter in front of him this was a person he recognized though.
"Mister Alex's orders, long time no see, Stephen...." Felicia smiled slightly, from that smile she seemed to really want to meet with Stephen.
With a direct answer to the point and also still had time to greet Stephen at a time like this.
Stephen knew this young woman in a white dress, she was Felicia, a woman who was closest to her brother.
"You know? The taste you gave me years ago still feels today...." Felicia bowed, her tone becoming a little low now.
'Year-years?' Stephen could not even call the events that had been 'years' long.
The word 'years' does have a broad meaning, but most of the people who hear it will assume years it is not a long time. And some people might think otherwise.
Stephen was in a stronghold where he thought the word 'years' was a short time.
Stephen looked at Felicia seriously, he understood very well what this Felicia meant.
"I didn't create that feeling, you tortured yourself." Stephen's voice shook as he answered Felicia's words. As if Stephen himself had prepared his first-hand answer, he said it with forced courage.
Stephen strives to get straight to the point in every word he puts out. After he found out that the one who attacked and brought him to this place was someone he knew, Stephen did not change how he spoke.
"To be dumped by you doesn't taste very good...." Felicia continued her earlier statement, the tone of voice she was giving off sounded clear, and anyone who heard it could feel the emotions coming out strongly.
"I don't remember we've been in a relationship before." Stephen was not carried away by his own feelings. I don't know why he feels responsible here.
Responsible for what? Stephen didn't feel like he was dumping Felicia, why should he get carried away now?
Doesn't the word 'disclosed' only apply to two people who have been in a special relationship? Stephen didn't see that from himself and Felicia either
"Rude once~" Felicia plays her long hair more intensely. You could even say he even slightly ruffled his own hair.
"Don't keep torturing yourself, Felicia" Stephen advised, he didn't expect Felicia to have changed much since he last met.
"You made me look like Stephen. Have you forgotten everything we've been through?" Felicia approached Stephen, trying to make the young man understand what he meant.
Stephen was silent for a moment, indeed he did not intend to remember what his past was. The goal now is to live a new life without being distracted by the past.
"Have you forgotten it?!" Felicia's face looked so disappointed by Stephen's reaction.
Felicia looks and sounds demanding something from Stephen, who is silent as Stephen is processing what is now happening.
Why didn't Stephen understand what he was saying?
Stephen was still silent below, he did not expect to be able to meet his old colleagues who had not met for a long time. This meeting was also unexpected, as had happened before, his meeting with his own brother.
'I didn't expect it to be like this....' Stephen is complicated now. He thought this matter was only with his brother, but who would have thought it would also involve someone he knew as well?
'I should have guessed this from the beginning...." Stephen thought his brother would send someone he didn't know at all and make things easy.
But in reality who was ordered by his brother was even someone who existed in Stephen's own past.
"Are we not still friends?" felicia asked, she then slightly crouched down to look at Stephen with a meaningful look.
Stephen became confused by the pattern of conversation that often changes like this. Felicia was so angry and demanded a confession from him, and now she calmed down and asked something else.
"It's just that, so why do you have to be tormented?" Stephen did not deny what Felicia was asking. He always considered him a friend.
So then there is no need for such a conversation at the beginning, right? Stephen thinks Felicia understands the situation here now.
Felicia stood up again and said, "There are still a lot of things I want to talk to you about, but my target will be here soon."
Felicia smiled back. Stephen could not guess what the expression on his face meant. Felicia was like this before.
"It's a good thing Mr. Alex still loves you Stephen."
Stephen was silent, he understood the harmonious relationship between brothers, but he could not feel it at all with his own brother.
"So you're gonna set me free here?" stephen asked quickly and without expectation.
"...." - ".Stephen got to the stage where he could recall how his friend had been. Ever since his last meeting, Stephen had the trick to deal with his fickle nature like this, but now after a lot of time has passed, he has absolutely no idea what to do (even Stephen can also forget something).
'Felicia... Why are you siding with my sister?'
It felt like Stephen wanted to ask that, but he paused it because he did not want to make the situation more complicated here.
'I don't know the true feelings of his heart. He can do anything now....' Stephen is aware of his position here. In general, he is already a prisoner here.
There was nothing he could do, even gathering the physical strength that ordinary people could just do was already extremely difficult to do.
'Trying to forget the past is not always good 'huh?' Stephen realized something here, he was trying to forget most of his old memories, in order to carve a better life.
And indeed he had managed to forget about it, and Stephen had not expected to deal with someone present in the past.
Stephen who had broken off the relationship (in the sense that he no longer communicates) with his brother was finally able to meet again.
And now he met a friend who was quite unique, unfortunately he forgot how to deal with it well.
'He is dangerous. I have to be careful....' Stephen was lucky enough that several times he responded firmly, but he is still alive today.
But that firm response is not entirely wrong either. It will be more complicated too if he gives a confusing answer, right? Stephen did not want to make Felicia misunderstand any further.
Felicia is very good at acting. With his appearance like that it was not difficult for him to make the interlocutor so side with him.
And that's when her existence is dangerous, she's good at getting things done quietly, and getting the job done well.
But in the previous case it was not secretly, but he hid his identity well until now.
"You didn't just kill me here? Didn't I hurt you?" Stephen quickly spoke before Felicia turned around and left this room.
Stephen began to remember what Felicia meant, which was about his past, about how they often spent time together.
'Is that what Felicia wanted all along?' Stephen was unconscious until this point. He considers Felicia to be his close friend, and he has unwittingly hurt her and tormented her all along.
No need to repeat what Stephen had said before. He had said clearly, that everything they went through with all that was nothing more than a close friendship.
But Stephen was unaware of the facts behind it. It was Felicia's own feelings.
"I would like to, but it would be even more troublesome if Mr. Alex was angry." Felicia smiled slightly, it turned out that she was more concerned with her purpose than her own feelings at this moment.
Stephen realized, after many moments they spent together, until at one point the two of them were no longer as close as usual.
At that time his brother was present and always comforted Felicia, at that time Stephen was indeed completely cut off from Felicia.
Why did the two of them break up such a close relationship like this? the only ones who knew it were Stephen and Felicia.
'I don't want to bring up the past, but I think Felicia is on the good side with big brother....' Stephen used to think this way, and until he found out he and his brother were different ways of life, Stephen thought Felicia would live life on her own.
But it turned out that it was not like that, Felicia took the same life path as her brother. A life path that Stephen would not take.
'So he is now on the other side along with big brother huh?' Stephen finally came to know why Felicia could attach importance to her own goals compared to her own.
'If only I had met Felicia who was on her own life path....'
'Then maybe I have....'
Stephen knew what could happen. With such a strong sense of hatred it was certainly not difficult for Felicia to do anything to him right now.
'So I'm still lucky....' Stephen who now can't do anything can only be silent. If it wasn't for her brother who wanted her to stay alive. What is happening now could end up in a different way.
'Silver does only care about his main purpose.' Stephen seemed to know why his brother wanted him alive.
The reason is simple, because he is not the main target, but Feronica.
'Thank God I didn't let Feronica alone back then.' Stephen was reminded of how Felicia's unexpected attack suddenly came. When he was not there, Feronica would have been lost without his knowledge.
'I still have a goal, I can't let Feronica alone.' Stephen remembered his purpose, which was so closely related to Feronica. So to find out the truth of course he needs the existence of Feronica.
Ian certainly can't let Feronica be in a state of danger right?
'I have to get out of here....' Stephen rewired his brain to get out of here.
But as he knew now, he could not do much at this time, other than just sit down and accept the state of his body which even felt increasingly weak.
Stephen began to feel his eyes getting heavier, he did not understand why his strength felt like it was coming out for no apparent reason, as if his strength was being forced out without his own permission.
"My drink works great! Yay!" Felicia is proud here.
Stephen tried to lift his head that was getting heavy.
"Minu-man?" Stephen sounded curious, from the beginning he had heard Felicia talk about drinks. What drink does he mean?"
"Ah, you should be thanking me Stephen, thanks to my special drink, you'll take a long rest once~" Felicia finally said something about the drink she meant.
"W-what?"
'So that's why I'm so sleepy now?' Stephen suspects Felicia gave him the drink while he was unconscious before.
'Shit!' Stephen's gaze began to darken, slowly but surely his consciousness also disappearing slowly.
Tock....
Geck...
"See our guest has arrived, I have to prepare a special drink for him too!"
"Good break Stephen!"
'Feronic?!'
'Ja-don't. drink .. that water...."
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