Chapter 253 (1/2)

Laurent Protection Bureau, Zone 2 of Tezeba, Rendia Annex.

The annex, which Kyle had ordered to close down while he left the capital for a while, was still tightly closed despite his return. Of course, looking in from the outside, that could only mean one thing.

I’m sleepy… Noah, surrounded by a mountain of books that would be twice her height, blinked hastily. She didn’t know how many nights she had stayed up already. The white things are letters, the black things are paper…

“Miss Noah, you can close your eyes for a bit… Oh.” The worried Penelope, who was wandering around the mountain of books, became startled and shrieked. “Miss Noah— blood. Blood!”

“Blood…?”

Absently lifting her head, she felt a warm wet something dripping down her nose. Penelope blocked her as she lifted her arm and was about to wipe it away with her sleeve. Moving about desperately, Penelope quickly stuck a napkin under Noah’s nose to stop the bleeding. Noah laughed shamefully.

“Thanks, Penelope.”

“It’s good to go through the records meticulously, but taking a rest for a bit would also be good. If General Leonard finds out about this we’ll never hear the end of it…”

“Oh, send Kyle a message that I took a 5-hour nap today.”

Penelope’s face became pale. Noah took the napkin from the woman’s hand and pressed it harder up her nostril. And to comfort the pensive Penelope, she gave a rather tempting suggestion.

“I’ll ask Kyle to fix your holiday vacation schedule, Penny.”

“Really?”

“Sure. When this trial is over, you, Kyle, and Paul should all take some time off.”

Penelope, who had a grave complexion, felt alive at her words. Poor woman. It’s like looking at the old me, thought Noah. Penelope nodded as she looked enthusiastically at Noah with admiration in her eyes.

“I’ll tell General Leonard that you took a 7-hour nap.”

“No, no. If you do, he’ll just nag at me for sleeping all day, so please just tell him five hours.”

“Got it! Don’t worry, Miss Noah.”

Then, this solves the nagging problem.

When Penelope, who of course was impressed by her words, returned to the Protection Bureau and praised around the neighborhood about her, Noah didn’t expect her image to change.