Chapter 46 - Leaderboard (2/2)
Not long after, they finally reached an empty place.
Then Jeremy turned back to look at Eddie carefully.
”Eddie...” Said Jeremy.
*Gulp*
”Wha, what?”
Eddie, the big and muscular adult man whose height was more than 190 cm, actually gulped and stuttered.
”How do you feel about me?”
'What the...?'
Feeling a bit stumped at the sudden question, Eddie tried to explain, ”Fa, feel about you? No, no, don't misunderstand me. Actually, I don't like men.”
With a roll of his eyes, Jeremy replied back, ”I didn't mean it like that. I meant, why do you feel afraid of me? Tell me honestly; I will accept only the truth, though.”
”...”
With an uncomfortable expression on his face, Eddie didn't know what to do for now.
One thing, he didn't want to reveal his talent inside the Status Window.
Another thing, he didn't know the man's motives for asking a question like that.
”...”
”So, you don't want to tell me, huh. Never mind it then.”
With a slight shake of his head, Jeremy prepared to walk to an empty corner; he wanted to try something...
However...
'Have I just angered him? No, no, I'm a dead fucking meat.'
”Please wait!”
Jeremy stopped at the sudden call from Eddie.
”You want to tell me now huh?” Jeremy shot a glance at Eddie's face.
*Gulp*
Upon feeling such a glance firsthand, Eddie gulped loudly.
”Let, let me ask you first. What is your purpose of asking?” Eddie asked Jeremy back with a shaky voice.
However, as if he didn't want to answer that question, Jeremy's demeanors suddenly changed, with his abyss-like blue eyes peered deeply and directly into Eddie's shaky eyes.
As a result, Eddie felt goosebumps all over his body...
'It comes again, that, that awful sensation. Mitchell... please take care of my wife...'
Eddie's body was stiff as a stone.
”So, it is a skill? Hmm... Maybe, a talent?”
With a nod of his head, Jeremy started listing skills and talents that might have something to do with Eddie's current behavior.
However...
Soon Jeremy realized that most of his memory about those miscellaneous things like that was still inside his sea of consciousness.
Without retrieving the dormant memory out, he was utterly clueless...
'Well, I really don't want to burden my still-fragile mind by accessing for information within my sea of consciousness with some miscellaneous trivial things like that. Let's just ask from him directly then.'
With those thoughts in mind, when Jeremy saw that Eddie's conditions were not looking good, he then retracted his mysterious intent.
*Thud*
With his utterly limping body, Eddie dropped down to the ground with a thudding sound.
”Alright, if you want to sit down, why didn't you tell me in the first place.”
Upon witnessing such a sight, Jeremy decided to sit down on the ground too.
…
[A/N: Eddie doesn't have any wife or girlfriend.]