Her round eyes were alternating between him and the princess, so he guessed her small head was spinning rapidly. A crescentlike smile appeared on Agares’s lips.
The smile, like a sculpture on his cold face, captivated Sylvia’s eyes.
Sylvia grabbed a handful of Agares’s cloak as he tried to pass by without saying more.
Knowing well that if she missed this time, she wouldn’t have another chance to see him, she reacted reflexively.
“Just a moment…!”
“…”
The sound of Agares’s footsteps halted coldly, and his right hand clenched and unclenched as if to suppress his discomfort.
Unwanted touch was not pleasant. He found this human quite irritating.
‘I can’t cover it up and can’t get rid of it.’
Agares knew a certain degree about humans’ relationships and ecology.
He had no interest in those things originally, but he had become accustomed to them by reading books and looking up various sources after becoming friends with the little one.
It would be troublesome for Evelia if he exerted force on the princess here, or worse, took her life.
How should he handle this?
‘Maybe it’s best to bear with it for now and fake an accident later.’
In Agares’s head, unthinkable brutal thoughts passed by for Evelia.
Evelia placed her small hand on top of Sylvia’s.
“Remove your hand from my friend, princess.”
Evelia looked up at Sylvia, who was much taller than her, and spoke firmly.
Agares looked down at the top of his young friend’s head with his eyes slightly wide open.
The clear voice of his little friend swept away the darkness inside him.
“If you two are truly friends, it doesn’t seem like the princess has any right to intervene in the magician’s will.”
Sylvia, who was already irritating, looked down at Evelia and said in a prickly tone.
“I have no intention to intervene in Ash’s will. I’m just being considerate as a friend.”
As Sylvia’s tone was sharp, Evelia squinted her eyes and retorted. She was saying in a roundabout way that ‘my friend doesn’t like you.’
“Ash…”
The sweet name flowed out of the small princess’s mouth, which made Sylvia murmur unintentionally. Obviously, the little princess seemed to know the magician’s name.
On the other hand, Evelia frowned slightly at that murmur.
‘I don’t like it.’
It was inexplicable why this woman kept pushing herself forward when her friend didn’t like her. Even the nickname Ash was granted to her.
‘Mom used to say that. If you’re gentle to everyone, it will become a blade that harms the people around you.’
Evelia agreed with that. She didn’t want to be generous everywhere and lose her own things.
Especially if it made her friend uncomfortable. Even more so.
Before Agares could say anything, Evelia made the first move.
“Princess, that name is allowed only for me. It’s a nickname among friends.”
“That’s something you should allow!”
Sylvia was raising her voice, but Agares cut her off firmly.
“All my decisions follow this child’s will.”
“But, for a moment to converse…!”
“No, Princess. I’m sorry, but I’ll go first. I have somewhere I was headed.”
He did not want to waste any more words.
When Evelia slightly bowed and walked ahead, Agares followed his little friend’s back.
And then, for a moment, his steps paused as he passed Sylvia.
Agares slightly turned his head and muttered.
Evelia, who was striding ahead, didn’t hear it, and Ishaat, who had been behind him, faintly heard the sharp warning.
“……Never raise your voice in front of that child again.”
Since the menacing atmosphere subsided, Sylvia could no longer reach out and had to stand rooted to the spot.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]“Fascinating.”
Ishaat closely followed Evelia’s back, admiring.
“What is?”
“When I first met you, I thought you were rather naive, or clueless, even when I spoke ill of you. I thought you were of the opinion that good is good.”
Evelia shook her little head, as if to say that wasn’t quite the case.
Excluding all emotions, Evelia knew that Sylvia hadn’t done anything significantly wrong.
She felt a bit sorry for being too cold. But her precious friend was the priority.
“Hmm, good, indeed. If the one in high position is generous, people won’t clap their hands, they’ll try to cut them off.”
Listening to Ishaat’s advice, Evelia nodded, then swiftly turned her body and warned Agares sternly.
“Rabbit. Try following. I don’t like it. No. Go away.”
“All are words I don’t want to say in front of you.”
Agares slightly raised one corner of his mouth and lazily answered with a smile.
To someone, it was a charming smile that could make them blush and lay down all they had. To the current Evelia, it was just utterly foolish.
What’s he laughing for, this fool?
“You blockhead!”
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
