Lady Devil - Chapter 168

168.

Ha. Damn it….

In the midst of being unable to hide his anger, Johannes nevertheless, somehow, barely managed to back away from Inette. A dark red emotion was plastered like mud under his eyelids.

“What is this nonsense….”

Inette clutched both her arms as if hugging herself. She twisted her waist diagonally as if avoiding a harmful beast. Her thin shoulders were hunched defensively. It was clearly a frightened posture to anyone who saw.

Johannes’s gaze, having clearly witnessed that sight, finally faltered. A deep sigh slowly flowed out from between his lips, which were tightly pressed together with a clenched jaw. At last, his gaze was pushed out and fell to the corner of the corridor.

The sense of betrayal that made him feel like his eyes would roll back was hard to swallow, but he never intended to hurt her. He had grabbed her purely out of thoughtlessness. His miserable empty hand involuntarily rose to his forehead. From his eyebrows, distorted as if melted by fire, to under his eyes, everything hid under his grasp.

With all kinds of misunderstandings and anger making his entire chest feel like it would burst, along with added self-reproach that he shouldn’t have done that, it was truly unbearable. Until then, Inette had only stared intently at Johannes’s every move without the slightest movement. Regardless of how they felt, the fierce argument between the two seemed to be entering a lull.

Booo….

It was just then that the heavy sound of a horn blared for a long time from far outside the fortress. The siblings’ gazes, startled by the clattering sound of the bridge lowering, gathered at once and then fixed on the end of the corridor.

A dead-end wall. The embrasure, opened lonely in the bleak corridor without even a proper window, only captured the pitch-black exterior in a width about the size of a child’s head, as if one could be sucked in. Inette, who had been staring at that darkness with an almost entranced gaze, suddenly grabbed Johannes’s hand.

“Let’s go, Johan.”

“…….”

“No time for long talks, let’s hide for now.”

Johannes’s whole body spun following her hand, his attention briefly distracted by the outside situation. He immediately became flushed again. For that reason, he could only enter his bedroom following Inette after firmly closing his mouth. However, he stopped abruptly at the doorway.

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