Sevitis had no time to deal with this girl; her mind was racing.
‘Could it be that she already recognized me as the vampire from that night? No, if she had, wouldn’t she just grab me directly? Why bother with all this chatter?’
‘Then how did she guess? Or does she actually know I came alone through the forest?’
Just as she was getting paranoid, Eulalia reached out a slender finger and gently tapped the pendant that had slipped out of Sevitis’s collar without her noticing, explaining with a smile:
“Don’t be so upset. I just guessed randomly after seeing your pendant— its appearance changed so much, I wondered if it had caused some miracle.”
Sevitis lowered her head sharply, finally realizing that in her earlier frantic movements, she had accidentally pulled out the pendant hidden in her clothes.
‘Wait… if the pendant is exposed, then she must have recognized me right away?’
‘So this girl could have called me out using the pendant earlier, but she just watched me put on that act?’
‘Damn it, I knew it—this woman’s heart is absolutely pitch black!’
Sevitis cursed furiously in her heart. Seeing her so flustered, Eulalia dropped her teasing and her tone suddenly softened:
“But if I had been there at the time, I would have definitely protected Sevi and wouldn’t have let you run into that accident.”
Sevitis was slightly stunned.
“After all… Sevi can only be bullied by me.”
“You—!”
Under Sevitis’s gaze that looked like she wanted to pounce and bite her, Eulalia turned around, clasped her hands behind her back, and walked toward the center of the clearing in excellent spirits.
She sat back down on the large flat-topped stone, then extended her pale hand and patted the empty spot beside her.
Those azure blue eyes looked at Sevitis, their gaze filled with impatience.
How could Sevitis not understand what she meant? But it felt so frustrating—being completely controlled by this girl!
“What’s wrong?” Eulalia tilted her head. “We agreed that if you lost the bet, you’d chat with me. Don’t tell me Sevi has become a bad kid who likes to welch on bets in these few years?”
Sevitis naturally wasn’t the type to be a sore loser, so she reluctantly braced herself, walked over sheepishly, and climbed onto the stone to sit.
But her expression clearly showed reluctance. She didn’t obediently sit next to Eulalia; instead, she deliberately kept a large distance.
Her posture was on high alert, as if the person sitting next to her wasn’t a golden-haired beautiful girl but a ferocious man-eating monster.
No, this girl was far more vicious than a monster.
If a monster angered her, she could just draw her sword and cut it down, but this golden-haired one was a Saint Candidate of the Theocratic Nation.
Attacking her at Kantaier Academy would be outright suicide.
What’s worse, she couldn’t beat her now. Before she even drew her sword, she’d probably be pinned to the ground with one hand.
Eulalia blinked, looked at the black-haired girl who was deliberately turning her face away, then looked down at the distance between them—enough to fit a cow.
Pat, pat.
She patted the empty spot beside her again, the crisp sound precisely reaching Sevitis’s ears.
Sevitis decisively chose to pretend she hadn’t heard it.
Who knew what schemes this black-hearted woman was plotting by insisting she sit so close?
She absolutely wouldn’t fall into her trap again. She’d just leave her hanging.
Sensing that someone was trying to resist with silence, Eulalia wasn’t annoyed.
She decisively changed tactics.
She placed her hands on the stone, lightly moved her body toward Sevitis, and silently scooted closer.
Sevitis keenly noticed the movement beside her.
Like an alert cat, she imperceptibly lifted her bottom and shifted a bit in the opposite direction.
Seeing this, Eulalia continued to press closer.
Sevitis had no choice but to keep retreating.
The two of them continued like this— one scooting closer, the other shifting away.
Until Eulalia suddenly stopped moving.
By now, Sevitis had nowhere left to retreat.
Half her bottom was hanging off the edge of the large stone.
If she moved any further, she’d be sitting on the ground.
After the two stopped moving, the forest fell into a strange silence.
A gentle breeze passed by, leaves rustling softly, carrying a faint sweet fragrance of grass and trees.
At that moment, it was as if the entire noisy world had faded away, leaving only the two of them on the stone.
‘Strange, why did she stop moving?’
‘She wasn’t afraid of the other making an obvious move, but she was afraid of her doing nothing—who knew what dirty trick she was brewing?’
‘No, just in case, she’d better take a look.’
So she quietly tilted her head, trying to glance behind her with her peripheral vision.
However, her field of vision didn’t capture that conspicuous golden hair.
Instead, with her turning movement, that sweet grassy fragrance suddenly became intensely strong, as if it were spreading right against the tip of her nose.
‘Something’s wrong!’
Sevitis’s heart tightened, and her gaze instinctively dropped.
At that sight, her breath instantly caught.
Eulalia wasn’t sitting beside her at all.
This golden-haired Saint Candidate had already completely leaned down, hands propped on the stone beside Sevitis, looking up at her from below.
The distance between them was now a mere inch.
So close that if Sevitis lowered her head just a little, their noses would lightly touch; so close that Sevitis could even see the tiny dewdrops clinging to Eulalia’s eyelashes.
Only at this moment did Sevitis finally look straight at the Saint Candidate before her.
Five years had not stripped her of her purity; instead, they had sculpted her features into something even more breathtaking, indescribably beautiful.
Those azure blue eyes clearly reflected Sevitis’s dazed expression.
The scene felt like a lifetime away.
Though Sevitis had been telling herself that she had come to take revenge on the girl before her, faced with this sight, her twenty-year-old male heart still broke through its defenses most pathetically.
A wave of heat immediately rushed up from the base of her neck, and her cheeks visibly flushed red.
Seeing the completely frozen black-haired loli before her, the smile in Eulalia’s eyes finally melted into a water-like tenderness.
She tilted her head slightly, raised one hand, and gently brushed a strand of golden hair that hung at her chest behind her ear.
Under the interplay of moonlight and tree shadows, she flashed Sevitis a radiant smile that could illuminate the entire night, her voice soft as a dream:
“Ah… you finally deigned to look at me.”
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