Chapter 23 (1/2)

CH 23

After leaving the Male Protagonist behind, we arrived in the garden. The garden was more beautiful than I expected. It was shining brightly with a variety of colors, which was enough to fill my inner achromatic colors.

I looked around the garden as much as I could and ate the meals that Winston prepared, but didn’t drink the cocoa prepared for me.

“What do you want to do now?”

“Study.”

“Then shall we go to the room?”

“Ah! No, I’m going to my mom’s Office.”

Winston stopped walking at that remark.

I was sure he didn’t want me to go because there was an incident like that yesterday.

‘I’m also a little reluctant about it.’

But that didn’t mean I could keep avoiding going to the Office.

‘More than anything, I want to be the first to greet everyone when they come back.’

It was a little embarrassing, but when they return, I wanted to greet them ‘Welcome back’.

“Aren’t you scared?”

“It’s my mom’s room…”

The end of the conversation was a little blurred, but Winston naturally turned the wheelchair to the second floor without asking any more questions.

“How do I get up to the second floor?”

When I pointed to the wheelchair and asked him, he lifted the wheelchair I was in, saying there was no need for me to get out of it.

“Winston?”

What’s going on?

No matter how light I was, I couldn’t believe he lifted a wheelchair in one go.

The bewildered eyes moved around.

I felt a little scared so I held onto my wheelchair. Then, I heard Winston’s voice telling me not to worry.

“Even if I’m like this, I have a great strength. Even if there is an incident, I will sacrifice my body to save you. So don’t worry too much.”

“Then Winston gets hurt?”

“It won’t happen anyway.”

Even when you feel uncomfortable with your hands…

He grinned at my back.

Fortunately, it was true when he said he was confident in his strength, and so reaching the end of the stairs was a quick climb.

Of course, when I entered my mother’s Office, the body I saw yesterday had disappeared.

“There. That’s my seat.”

A small silver desk next to a large desk.

I removed the chair in front, replaced the chair with a wheelchair, and opened the book on my desk.

While I was studying with Winston for such a long time, the clock started to shine.

‘It’s not an assassin or an intruder again, is it?’

As I flinched and trembled at the male protagonist’s memory who appeared with that light, I felt a gaze and looked up.

“Nothing that you might worry about will ever happen again.”

“My worries?”

“In order not to put you in danger again, everyone took a steady step.”

With these words, Winston said to look at the clock and glanced at it.

I tightly grabbed the pen I was holding and slowly raised my head as if I made up my mind to look there.

As soon as the light disappeared, Lennox and Ricarda appeared in front of it.

The two smiled and tried to greet me, but they were stunned and froze on the spot.

“Lennox? Ricarda?”

Seeing their strangely stiff face, I tilted my head, and at that moment, I could hear a small laugh behind me.

What is it?

Looking at winston’s laughing, it doesn’t seem to be a bad situation. It was not until I tilted my head again to look at them that I noticed that their eyes were on the wheelchair.

“Oh, that’s right! It’s said that the chair was prepared from the beginning?”

My voice popped up from the childish stupidity and embarrassment that arose from my mind.

The two finally warmed up to the sound of my voice and glanced at each other.

And the first one to open his mouth was Lennox.

“No, I’m sure Rica said the wheelchair wasn’t ready. What’s going on here?”

“Obviously Hyung said it wasn’t ready. Where did it come from?”

“You two are saying opposite things right now.”

Lennox blamed Ricarda, Ricarda blamed Lennox, and at my words, they finally closed their mouths with a surprised look.

“You both deceived me.”

As soon as I continued, the two shook their heads from side to side.

“No! What are you talking about?”

“Yes, absolutely not, Daphne! So… actually… mother!”

As if he wanted to add something, his eyes curled up.

The moment Lennox tried to blame mother for this situation, the clock flashed again, and she returned. She looked a little tired, but she greeted me with a smile on her mouth.

But the moment she saw me, her eyes shook as if there was an earthquake.

“Did you have a good… day?”

With that, mother’s words were blurred.

The red eyes momentarily showed embarrassment and disappeared.

You told me that facial expressions are important.

I watched her changing expressions from beginning to end and felt a late strangeness.

Of course, my mother smiled and said to Lennox and Ricarda, as if she was never embarrassed.

“Oh, my God. If the wheelchair was already prepared, couldn’t you have said that to me, kids?”

Even mom turned the blame on both of them.

At those words, Lennox and Ricarda looked at me in bewilderment. The two’s expressions of injustice and mother’s confident eyes contrasted.

I stared at those three and took a deep sigh.

Winston, impatient at my sigh, burst into laughter with a loud noise.

“Pfft-Pfft. Do you know that all three of you are saying different things?”

“Everyone knew and deceived me.”

And without even knowing that, I kept being held around.

Again, I took a deep sigh.

The three people who had flinched at the sigh, exchanged glances and laughed awkwardly.

“Just because I thought that carrying you around in my arms would make you more stable… that’s why I did it.”