Chapter 171: Vacation Begins

“Is this Sunlight Island? This is my first time coming to a place like this, it looks amazing!” Liyami said enthusiastically.

Liyami had every reason to be this excited. After all, she had grown up in the orphanage within the Shadow Secret Society, specifically used for raising orphans and training assassins. After growing up, she was constantly carrying out various assassination missions all over the place, rarely having any real leisure time, let alone going on a proper vacation.

And now, Liyami not only had this rare vacation time, but it was on this small southern island she had never been to or known about before. How could this not excite her?

Perhaps Liyami’s mood infected the others, or perhaps they were simply captivated by this rarely-seen summer scenery themselves. The somewhat subdued atmosphere among the group became lively once again.

“This is truly… even better than I imagined! It seems I really made the right choice coming here!”

Lavinia said with a nod and a smile, looking like she was already immersing herself in the summer atmosphere.

The others agreed with Lavinia’s words. Kolin was no longer expressionless, but was also wearing a smile. The aura of lethargy that had surrounded Eleanor had also nearly vanished, replaced by a renewed vitality.

As for Laura and Xiaolan, it went without saying. They had been looking forward to this vacation from the start, and were now almost unable to restrain themselves from wanting to reach out and touch the seawater.

“Look, look! It really is the sea! This is my first time seeing the ocean, I never imagined it would be so beautiful!”

“Ah, so comfortable! Is the ocean really this comfortable? This seawater feels completely different from lake water!”

Seeing Laura and Xiaolan so excited, Laine looked quite helpless. After pulling Xiaolan’s hand back from the sea, he had to admonish them.

“Alright, don’t get so excited yet. There will be plenty of time to play later. We still need to go drop off our luggage first.”

Although Laine said this, even the normally calm him now wore a faint smile on his face. It seemed he also liked this place very much and was full of anticipation for the upcoming summer vacation.

It was only after hearing Laine’s words that Lavinia snapped back to reality, remembering their luggage still hadn’t been dropped off.

“Let’s go to our accommodation first to put down our luggage, then we can go out to play!”

Needless to say, no one would object to Lavinia’s suggestion. After all, she was the one who had organized this vacation, naturally having the authority to arrange everyone’s schedule.

So, the group first followed Lavinia to the place they would be staying for this vacation. It was a beachfront villa that looked very nice just from its appearance.

“Oh? So generous? Staying in a villa directly?”

Liyami looked at Lavinia with some surprise, not expecting her to care so much about this vacation and be so generous.

“Ah, it’s just a bit of money, can’t really be called generous or not.”

Lavinia modestly brushed past the topic and was the first to carry her luggage into the villa. Seeing this, Liyami didn’t dwell on the topic for long either, following Lavinia into the villa. The others followed as well.

After everyone had put away their respective luggage, Lavinia announced free time.

Laura and Xiaolan had long been impatient to go out and look around, so as soon as Lavinia announced it, they immediately ran out. Laine followed them just in case.

As for Liyami, although she was also excited and thrilled, she hadn’t forgotten the main purpose of this vacation. That was to get Kolin to agree to her confession!

Several days had already passed since the day she confessed to Kolin, yet not only had he not given a reply, he didn’t even mention the matter. This made Liyami, who had originally been quite confident, suddenly feel a bit nervous.

While this situation of dragging out a reply without saying anything could also be because Kolin hadn’t made up his mind yet and was in the midst of intense inner conflict. That would mean Liyami had a great chance!

However, besides that, there was another possibility: that Kolin was simply acting as if the matter didn’t exist! Although that would make Kolin seem very rude, even a bit of a jerk. But Liyami had to consider this possibility. After all, she was the one who confessed, not someone else. It was normal for her to be nervous and even want to know the answer quickly. No one could say her behavior was wrong.

Therefore, after putting away her luggage, Liyami immediately went to Kolin’s room, wanting to invite him out first.

But what Liyami didn’t expect was that she came up empty. Kolin’s room had nothing except for the luggage he had just put down. He himself wasn’t there, not even a shadow of him.

Looking at this completely empty room, Liyami couldn’t react for a moment.

Who?! Who acted so fast?! She had used the fastest speed to finish unpacking, yet someone still beat her to it?!

Just as Liyami was pondering who could have beaten her to it, a helpless voice came from beside her.

“Give up, you won’t find Kolin. He ran out long ago.”

Hearing this, Liyami immediately turned to look at the speaker, finding it was Lavinia with a rather helpless expression. Seeing this, Liyami stopped pondering and planned to directly ask her who had invited Kolin out.

But Lavinia seemed to have already seen through Liyami, speaking the answer before Liyami could ask.

“No one invited him. He ran out on his own long ago, saying he was going to investigate the recent disappearances on the island. Sigh, although I expected it, I didn’t think he would be so serious about this matter. To go investigate right after arriving and dropping off his luggage on the very first day. Truly worthy of the kingdom’s Holy Knight!”

Hearing this, Liyami was also a bit surprised that Kolin would just set aside the vacation like that and go investigate the incident alone. He could have rested for a few days first, then let them all investigate together.

“Really, that’s just like something he would do. Whatever, I’ll go take a look around the area first too.”

Although Kolin’s actions were a bit outside Liyami’s expectations, it wasn’t really a big problem. She hadn’t expected to get an answer from Kolin on the first day anyway. In fact, this might be better, giving Liyami more preparation time to properly investigate what places nearby could be useful for this date.

Thinking this, Liyami’s disappointed expression from earlier changed as she began replanning her itinerary.

Lavinia, standing to the side, was taken aback for a moment seeing Liyami return to normal so quickly, then also showed a smile.

“That’s right too. Although Kolin is important, this is our vacation after all. We can’t just revolve everything around one person. Alright, let’s enjoy ourselves first! We can give Kolin a surprise when he gets back!”

Hearing this, Liyami glanced at Lavinia and smiled in agreement.

“Then why are you still standing here? Aren’t you afraid of being beaten to it by a certain someone? That’s the number one rival!”

The ‘certain someone’ Liyami referred to, Lavinia naturally knew who it was. So, after stretching lazily, Lavinia leisurely left the place. Before leaving, she left a meaningful sentence.

“You’re right. Can’t just stay in one place without moving. Have to take action quickly!”

Of course, this was something Liyami understood perfectly well already.