Chapter 786 (1/2)
The wo to one side, revealing half of her forehead She had soft facial features, giving Roland an ientle and delicate character Yet under the current circumstances, her exquisite beauty did not strike Roland but actually gave rise to his increasing suspicion of her being a ghost
Apart frooas a little too shabby A few stitches were coarh it were picked up from a waste station
”I, I heard you go out, so I wanted to check if the door was properly locked When I turned around, however, I saw she was standing there!” Zero was ghastly pale, evidently terrified by the event
The woman seemed to also notice the commotion As she raised her head and looked at the door, her expression changed abruptly
Roland curled his hand into a fist in secret He was ready to take the blow
But what the woman said next completely blew his mind The woman uttered an exclamation of surprise ”Your Majesty?”
What?
Your Majesty?
”Uure out what had actually happened
”I'm Phyllis, Your Majesty What's happened here?” The woman was as puzzled as he
”Phyllis?”
Roland revolved a hts and questions in his mind rapidly
”Is she the God's Punishment Witch in the castle hall? Why would she intrude his drea to the other world? Where's Anna? Why hasn't she appeared?”
”Hold on, you know each other?” Zero realized so here ”What does shenow?”
”Ahem, she's a remote relative of mine” Roland suddenly realized that it was not the time for him to stand in a daze ”As to the way she addresses ether and it's normal that she comes up with some particular names”
”A relative?” Hearing that the woirl soon slipped back to her usual bold, defiant manner She started to become more skeptical as well ”You just asked who she was”
Utterly unabashed, Roland shot back, ”Did I? I only saw a crying craven who almost wetted her pants”
Zero reddened to her temples ”You, you liar!”
”Didn't you just shriek? This lady was in the room earlier You were just too occupied with your homework in your bedroom to notice her”
To Roland's dismay, the woman soon took the implication ”Sorry, I I didn't mean to startle you I was in another roo I was about to say hello when you cried out and rushed out of the room”
Roland put a final touch to their iuess that was it She asked what had happened The truth is that you scared her If I find a little girl screaet out, I'll be as confused as she was”
”I I” Zero groped for words that did not come She could not deny the fact that she did screaht in such a dileirl felt her eyes moist with tears
Roland realized that was a bit too irl to bear, so he bent over and ruffled her hair ”Anyway, it was a miscommunication Go back to study now”
He could not help feeling a twinge of guilt for Zero because he knew a child like her could not possibly see through the intricacies of guiles and subterfuges deployed by adults Her life would only be corown people, as this was an inevitable step, a cereurate her adulthood and become mentally mature
Roland had thought Zero would run into her bedroom in tears, but she actually sniffed and dried her eyes quickly before kicking his ”Uncle, you such a jerk!” With these words, she rushed back to her room in a fury
Roland twitched his lips Her reaction was a little different from what he had anticipated, but overall, she had learned the lesson