Chapter 30: Female President (6) (1/2)
Chapter 30: Fe extremely carefully It see towards the fields like it was ai for the crops there
their precious food, Chi-Woo could also secureabout He moved as quietly as possible When he approached the shadowy figure, though, he realized that it wasn’t a s a dark robe
“Huh?” The robed figure said in surprise and stopped pulling out a root vegetable midway to look over his shoulder A pair of small and cute eyes met Chi-Woo’s The two of them stood still in aard silence until the child plopped down to the ground
“Ah…Ah…” The child’s lips closed and opened like he was greatly flustered Chi-Woo immediately understood the situation He had heard froot far worse uess why this child was clutching a piece of root vegetable tightly with both of his tiny hands Chi-Woo strutted forward, and the child lost his grip over his harvest, at a complete loss of what to do
“I-I’ and looked down at the child before picking up the root vegetable froround Then he spoke in a firm voice, “Follow me”
“Sorry?” the child asked
“If you don’t co tell on you to Lady Eshnunna”
“Ah, please don’t!”
It was a childish threat, but it was clearly effective Eshnunna was a great authoritative figure ainal inhabitants in the caot up to his feet
“If you folloillingly, I won’t tell Lady Eshnunna what happened here,” Chi-Woo said in a low voice and turned around After taking a few steps, he glanced behind and confirh the child was tre Chi-Woo didn’t direct the child to the restaurant where aplace, nor the area where Eshnunna was
“Make yourself comfortable,” Chi-Woo told the child when they arrived at his lodging place However, when the child reered around the door, Chi-Woo shook his head and said, “Ah! I guess I don’t have a choice I have to go to Lady Eshnunna”
The child clearly wanted to keep this from Eshnunna at all costs; he scra he had placed on the corner of his bed He took out the food Rawiya had packed for theht about his options briefly
ive away one…’</e box of snacks He opened the box, took out the wrapper inside it, and placed a pack of chips in front of the child
“Please eat it” Chi-Woo smiled at the blank eyes that stared at him from behind the hood
The boy didn’t immediately reach out He seeain, Chi-Woo picked up a chip and placed it in his ue Given his current circumstances, it tasted so heavenly to hih his body
“If you don’t eat it quickly, I’ the child on and pretended to pick up another chip When the child saw the big deal Chi-Woo rearier Chi-Woo let out a sigh and personally popped a chip into the child’s h!” The child shut his mouth to keep the chip out
“I told you it’s tasty Try it I just ate one,” Chi-Woo suggested gently, and the boy closed his eyes like he wasa serious decision and bit into the chip His eyes opened wide, and it didn’t take long for him to… Crunch Crunch, crunch Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch!
As the child’ssucked in
“Wow…” the boy let out a soft excla chips with a ser refusing Chi-Woo’s offer
‘He’s like a squirrel’ Chi-Woo looked at the boy war of chips was quickly eers clean and asked, “How old are you?”
After licking his lips, the boy replied warily, “Ten…”
rade’ Chi-Woo nodded and asked, “Do you have an older sister or brother? Or a younger sibling?”
“…I have one…older sister…” For so to reveal this part of himself to Chi-Woo Thus, Chi-Woo didn’t question the child further and took out another bag of chips fro, “Eat this with your older sister This, too” Chi-Woo handed the child the small portion of food that Rawiya had packed for the up The boy looked lost at the unexpected gift from Chi-Woo
“Eat the chips in secret I would share my snacks with everyone if I could, but I don’t have that much” Chi-Woo winked The child seemed to have understood and nodded He hesitated for a while before e to ask, “Um…”
“Yes?”
“Are you…a hero?”
Chi-Woo closed his h it was a simple question, he didn’t want to lie
“Did you come here to save our World?”
“…”
“You did, didn’t you?”
The boy’s questions made Chi-Woo nervous; it sounded like he wanted assurance, which made it even more difficult for Chi-Woo to come up with an answer He couldn’t tell a white lie to mislead the boy, nor did he want to make a promise he couldn’t keep
pressured him to open his mouth
on the door
over?’
“Who is it?”
up when the door slammed open
“Excusea small boy with you?” Salem Eshnunna spoke quickly Her eyes zeroed in on Chi-Woo, and the look on her face took hiracefulness and friendly smile were replaced by fierceness, and she had a chilly air about her, ed
“Yes, you were right I brought him here”
“Sister! No!” The boy ju in a protective tone, “It’s allInstead…!”
Chi-Woo stared at the child and thought, ‘Sister…?’
“Yohan!” Eshnunna kneeled so that her eyes were at the boy’s level and placed her hands on his shoulders “How could you…!” She was so overcome with emotions that she couldn’t finish her sentence In response, Yohan looked at his sister and explained the situation so precisely and articulately that it impressed Chi-Woo
As Eshnunna listened to Yohan’s explanation, she gradually calround
“So that’s what happened…why did…” She bit her lower lip and quietly got up from her seat “Yohan Could you leave us?”
“But Eshnunna—” Yohan replied
“I get the situation It’s late; why don’t you go to sleep now?” Eshnunna’s tone left no roouments Her attitude was completely different from before, and Yohan turned back to Chi-Woo
“U what he should do “Before you leave, I have to tell you that I honestly don’t kno I should answer the question you just asked me” Both Yohan and Eshnunna widened their eyes “Since it’sto a world like this, I don’t knohat to do in this situation, either”