Lady Devil - Chapter 68

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I supported my upper body with trembling arms and lay on my side. I couldn’t say anything. I just felt like my heart was burning up, thinking the person in front of me must be a lie. My mind exploded into blankness, unable to think of anything.

“…As I was wondering how to wake you, you called out to me.”

Johannes whispered to me. It was a melancholic voice. It felt as if he was speaking in an unfamiliar language, and I couldn’t understand its meaning. I only sensed with my whole being the unbelievable fact that he was here.

“Jo… hannes…?”

Johannes remained silent. After raising his body, he reached out his hand again to me, who couldn’t even move.

It was the same hesitation as before. Almost approaching, yet not quite. I felt the touch of Johannes’ fingertips, which had hovered in the air before finally reaching out carefully, slowly wiping my eyes.

“Ah.”

With my dull mind, I was startled half a beat late at the sudden contact and ended up taking in a breath that made my already tense shoulders heave. Johannes, startled by this reaction, quickly withdrew his hand.

His gaze fell drop by drop through the pitch-black air. At that moment, he might have recalled the last conversation we had before that day.

And perhaps I had been crying in my dream. The area where his touch had landed was already damp. My entire eye area stung terribly, even as I couldn’t believe the person I was seeing. In that moment of indescribable confusion, it all felt like a lie or an extension of a sad dream.

“Jo…”

As I unconsciously tried to reach out to him, Johannes turned away from me and slowly sat back.

“How much more do you intend to sway me before you’re satisfied?”

He muttered lowly, bowing his head forward like someone completely exhausted. It was entirely different from the kind voice in my dream that had avoided me. It was a tone that showed clear signs of fatigue and even mixed with inexplicable anger. I couldn’t even understand the meaning of his words right away. Sway? What had I done?

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