Volumes 3 Absolute possession

Jieun: Shim Yak Island

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※ Issue date: 03 December 2021

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19.

Ishana is dead.

Her questionable death cast doubt on Lia's heart.

"Is Evan the culprit?"

The daily life, which I thought was only peaceful, was actually an illusion built
with the lives of many people in two. It was from the slightest provocation that
led me to doubt it.

Excellent agility to run a long distance and snatch a falling plate quickly. Why
couldn't such a man avoid Ishana's attack? Whenever Leah saw Ivan's injured arm,
she was seized with a strange sense of anxiety.

Peace that only lasts if you turn a blind eye to the rising anxiety.

Is this really true peace?

"LIA."

"Gasp..."!

Leah was horrified as Ivan's fingertips brushed against the back of his neck. When
she turned around, Evan was standing. She had a subtle smile, but she looked at
Lia's overreaction carefully.

"Why are you so surprised?"

"……Oh, that's

As Lia stammered, Ivan poked her in the cheek.

"You look like the main character in a horror movie."

Lia's body hardened like a person who hit the nail on the head. Evan stared at such
Lia and asked as if she was throwing it.

"Is it because of her?"

Yeah, I'm afraid you killed Ishanna.

Lia swallowed her heart that almost popped out.

"You don't have to be scared, Lia."

Evan sat next to Lia with her injured arm on the back of the sofa.

There was a chill in my skin. When Evan approached, it felt like the temperature
around him dropped sharply. Lia glanced at Ivan. Why? Evan next to me felt like a
completely different species, not someone I'd ever known.

"You have me."

Ivan's hand clenched Lia's right hand.

“…….”

Is that you?

Did you kill Ishanna?

Words that I wanted to ask were caught at the end of my neck. Would he admit it if
he had the courage to ask? Did you kill yourself? Do they nod their heads with an
expression of really insignificance, as they announced Ishanna's death?

My heart ached when I imagined it. If such an imagination becomes a reality, Lia
was no longer confident of holding out.

Killing someone for me.

It was never supposed to happen.

"LIA."

As Lia continued to be mesmerized, Evan, who noticed something unusual, called her.
Lia was still slow to respond. Fear was spreading in his dark eyes. Evan sighed
inwardly.

Why is he so nervous as if he's sitting next to a psychopathic serial killer? I

couldn't understand why Lia was doing this. Because I'm not sad about Ishanna's
death? But don't you need to be sad?

Ivan tried to understand Lia's feelings, but this time he decided it was too much.

"I have an appointment tomorrow, so I think I'll be back a little late."

So he created a promise that didn't even exist.

"I wonder what I'm doing at the CIA. I haven't been in touch with him lately. Oh,
not because of Lia. I just did it because I was lazy."

Ivan asked Leah, leaning over.

"So I have to leave LIA alone for a while. Will it be okay?"

When Lia said nothing, he added.

"If you're bored, you can call a professor."

It was a bait thrown by Ivan.

Only then did Lia raise her head.

"……Yes."

Lia answered, taking the bait.

* * *

The next day.

Lia quickly ran to the front door as the intercom rang.

"Thank you for coming."

"What? By the way, isn't he here today?"

Hesder asked, looking over Lia's shoulder.

"I have an appointment with the CIA...….”

"Oh, I see."

Hesder nodded without further question.

The two drank a cup of tea in the large drawing room. Hesder, who was excited to
show Sauvignon's picture, belatedly noticed that Lia's expression was dark.

"What's the matter? You don't look good."

Lia looked at Heather with wide open eyes like a cat caught stealing snacks. I even
looked around without realizing it.

"I have an appointment tomorrow, so I think I'll be back a little late."

When Evan disappeared, the anxiety that had been rising in my mind finally
exploded.

"She's dead."

Lia opened her mouth with difficulty.

"What?"

Hesder coughed in surprise at my voice, which was louder than he thought.

"Isshana is dead?"

Hesder put down the cup he had been drinking. I thought I'd spill all my tea sooner
or later if I kept holding it. Lia poured out words, as if the clattering sounded
like a signal.

"I went directly to the rehabilitation center because I was emotionally disturbed,
but since then, I've been killed in a drug accident."

Hesder knew that Ishanna entered the rehabilitation center.

But he's dead?

"Who said that?"

Hesder stammered. Only after asking did I realize that there was only one person
who would tell Lia about it.

"……Ivan."

Lia had difficulty bringing out the name she had been holding for a long time in
her mouth. Hesder licked his lips.

"It's weird. My family...…, The fact that all the people who bullied me died...….
It's like someone planned it on purpose."

"There's a separate culprit who killed Miss Lia's adoptive parents. You know?"

Hesder gently laid his hand on Lia's lap. Lia looked into space like a lost man.

"Did you really hurt Evan's arm?"

Hesder's hand paused.

"A few days ago, I caught a dish that was falling off the shelf. I'm sure it was a
long way away.…. That's also an injured hand. Is it possible for such a person to
be attacked by a woman who has never been properly trained?"

"……I think it could be if you let your guard down."

Hesder replied, avoiding Lia's gaze.

In fact, Hesder had always had similar questions with Lia. But what would change if
it were true? Unless you're running away with Lia. All I could do was shake her
happiness.

However, since Lia brought it up first, it was hard to pretend not to know anymore.
In particular, Hesder had made up his mind to leave Le Eden. Maybe this was the
last chance to save Lia.

The question was whether Lia wanted to.

"Why would he do such a thing? Is there a reason to hurt my body? Or………, do you
have any suspicious wishes

asked Hesder in a subtle voice.

"…… Evan once put a bomb on his neck."

Lia's face was shaded.

"What?"

"He uses his body as bait. He's holding me hostage with his life. Instead of
hurting me."

Lia was obsessively fiddling with the teacup. Her hands were white. His gaze in the
air also shook uneasily. But it wasn't just scared. Lia sympathized with Ivan like
that. He was both fearful and affectionate.

"That worked."

The wonderful Hesder muttered.

"……Yes, it worked."

Lia also laughed helplessly because she was dumbfounded.

A short but heavy silence ensued. It was Hesder who opened his mouth first.

"Do you love me?"

At Hesder's blunt question, Leah lowered her head like a sinner. I have been asked
a similar question before. I was in denial then.

But now?

If you had to name your feelings for Evan, it would be closest to love. Even if
it's morally wrong.

'But...'

Taking someone's life because of himself, and threatening his life with security,
was never forgivable. That was all the more wrong. Love that hurts others couldn't
be called love. I shouldn't have called it love. The same was true of self-abuse.

"I'm going to leave Le Eden soon."

Hesder nailed it as Lia looked puzzled.

"Maybe this is my last chance to help you."

"You don't have to do that because of me."

"No, it's not because of Lia. I'm leaving because of my personal reasons. You don't
have to feel guilty because you're going to include Lia in that. What do you want
to do? Do you want to go with me

Hesder looked at Lia gently. Lia lowered her head again.

Not long ago, she thought Ivan was a lonely soul like me. He overlapped himself
with him. Did he imagine a relationship where people who were hurt were caring for
each other?

No, I may have vaguely hoped that the other person who I couldn't understand would
feel the same way as me. Not knowing about him was still the same. Lia didn't know
anything about Evan.

What kind of love Evan pursues and what kind of future he dreams of.

So this was the last chance to break up the wrong relationship.

* * *

Mahogany liquor shelves, reindeer heads stuffed in the center of the wall, glossy
wooden floors, and slow-beat jazz tunes added to the idyllic bar.

It was quiet inside even on weekends because it was maintained by a membership

system. the few visitors there

"Let's call Eric."

"Eric is busy on weekends, unlike us.”

"Really? What does he do these days?" He's still following a boss who's not
interested in him?”

"Well, I don't know because I haven't called.”

"I haven't called you, how do you know you're busy?”

"Just, persimmon?"

Ivan shrugged his shoulders.

Skull also began to share the mixed cards, perhaps not meaning to sing it
sincerely. Then another voice broke into the conversation.
- I'll let you know when I'm ready. Until then, don't show anything. You can do it,
right?

"Hwiyu, that's why. That's a big misunderstanding."

Skull whistled, tapping earphones in his ears. The conversation between Hesder and
Lia was being conveyed through a bug installed in the penthouse.

"Did you think I killed Ishanna?”

That's ridiculous. Evan crumpled up his face.

He looked at Skull in disbelief and with a face claiming his innocence. Skull
shrugged his shoulders.

"It was an accident. Don't you think we can be honest?”

"You're trying to run away from me, aside from that.”

Evan stared at the wiretap that he put on the table as if it was a real problem.
Actually, that was a real problem.

"Again? You ran away once before?"

"Oh, that's... that's...…!”

Evan tried to explain what had happened, but he was so frustrated that he
didn'trying to explain what had happened. Then he made a strange noise and messed
up his hair. Ivan murmured with his forehead facing the table.

"I really know what Lia is thinking, but I don't know what she's thinking.”

"It's the hardest thing to understand women."

"I thought we finally connected."

"I still don't know what she's thinking."

"If we get him this time, we'll have to unclog him and get him pregnant right
away.”

"My daughter told me not to act like I know her. Do you know how sad I am?"

"If you have a child, you will give up the idea of running away. A child needs a
father, right? I'm sure I'll be a really good dad.”

"But come to think of it, so does my son. I live like this at home."

"But what if I force her to get pregnant and she hates me? But I don't want to rape
her.….”

It was simply not a conversation that made sense. Both of them only said what they
wanted to say.

Evan stretched out like a dead body. Meanwhile, Skull brought three glasses of
whiskey from the bar and drank it one after another.

It was fortunate that Eric wasn't here. Not only did you hate this position, but
you didn't want to join in the future plans.

"Shall I take Professor Hesder's side?”

asked Skull, who sipped in the last glass.

It was not that he didn't listen to Ivan's nonsense at all. Hesder and Lia were
planning to flee again. Nasty. Then there was only one job for his employer.

"No, leave it alone."

"What?"

For a moment, Skull thought Evan might be drunk on the smell of alcohol. However,
Ivan, who raised his head, looked horrifyingly heartless.

"In the worst case scenario,"

Evan picked himself up.

"I should be in custody, right? I really don't want to."

Evan crumpled his face as if he were in a very difficult situation. Eventually,

Ivan put a lot of bills on the table.

"You're telling me to watch first, right?"

"Instead of that, do the other way around. I'm afraid she's dead."

"I see. Making sure will help you clear up the misunderstanding."

Ivan smiled at Skull's words.

Yeah, it's a ridiculous misunderstanding.

Killing Ishanna in rehab? Me? In vain? As planned, she had more hell ahead of her.
A living hell to think it's better to die.

But what can we do that's already dead. You can't even put it in formalin.

"I don't think it's a coincidentally

Evan came out with a bug in his hand in hand.

The fatter moon was coloring the city's night view than yesterday. Ivan breathed
deep into the cold night air. When I exhaled, my breath spread like cigarette
smoke.

"Yes, Lia. I'll give you a chance if you want to leave.”

But this is the last time.

Don't test my patience any more.

* * *

"I don't want to go. LIA, you don't want to let me go, do you?"”

Evan rubbed his big body against Lia and acted like a baby. Evan suddenly cried
that the CIA had called. It seemed like a mission to be away for quite some time.

But it was a unique opportunity for Lia. Lia adultly admonished him that she was
sad to say goodbye.

"That means the CIA needs Evan.”

"All I need is Lia.”

Evan hugged Lia tightly and whispered.

The voice with sincerity was so heavy that my heart sank just by listening to it.
What do you mean you only need one? There is no such cruel word in the world.

'So you killed Ishanna?’

the mysterious death of one's sister Maybe this is the beginning. This man may
continue to kill people. He'll also continue to put himself in danger to gain the
attention of course.

"I love seeing Evan work hard."

Lia said, avoiding Ivan's gaze.

"Didn't you get tired of being with me?"

Lia shook her head violently. And he added.

"You look like a married couple."

"A married couple?"

"Yes, I feel like I'm waiting for my spouse back from work...…, It's like a normal
couple

Lia was gibberish. Evan burst out laughing. It was a joke to me, but it was lovely
to see Lia always taking it seriously.

'But it's not lovely to try to run away from me.’

What kind of couple plans to run away with their spouse? Huh? Ivan touched Lia's
hair with his hand with a smile. And I wet my hair in my hand, smelled it, and
kissed it on my forehead.

"Then I'll be back, Lia."

Evan left the penthouse with a mysterious atmosphere. Ivan has been out a lot
lately. Good for Lia, who wanted him away. So I saw him off without a doubt, and as
soon as he left, I called Hesder.

"I'm gone. I'm going to be late for work today."

- Really? What's different from your usual self?

"I haven't. I think I've been in touch with the CIA a lot lately

The hand holding the cell phone was tense. It was a cell phone that Hesder secretly
gave.

- Okay. I'll be there soon. H. And do you want to take the rhinitis medicine in
advance?

"What? Oh, yes."

Stop.

That's how the line was cut off.

"So you're going with Sauvignon."

Lia stared blankly at the screen showing the call time and sat down. Everything was
like a dream. Is this the right time to escape?

Hesder has arrived.

As soon as she entered the penthouse, she handed Lia a shopping bag with clothes.

"I change all my underwear, too

"What?"

"You can't take anything from this house. He would have planted a locator in his
underwear.”

"Is that possible?"

Hesder replied by raising one eyebrow. Lia went into the room and changed her
clothes. Everything, including underwear.

"I'm going to change the car once in the middle."

"Aren't you supposed to get on the plane here?”

The two hurried to the underground parking lot and talked. Hesder handed over Lia's
passport, which he had already brought from Langdesi. Lia looked nervously at the
passport she received.

"I'm going to the Horbon Airport."

replied Hesder.

Hesder's car was standing near the exit. Like a scene from a spy movie, the two
opened the car door at the same time.

"Maaaah!

"Soyong?"

LIA, sitting in the passenger seat, turned her head when she heard a cat crying.
Sauvignon was meowing in the back seat of Kennell.

Hesder at the wheel murmured timidly like an excuse child.

"……I couldn't leave my child because he was a family.”

"No, I was expecting it. You told me to take the medicine."

Lia replied.

"All right, then."

Hesder checked Lia and the Sauvignon in the back seat one by one and backed up the
car.

* * *

"You didn't bring anything out of the house, did you?”

"Yes."

Before transferring to the second car, Hesder asked again.

Lia nodded with a rather stiff face.

It was not until the penthouse building was no longer visible that Hesder breathed
a sigh of relief. Lia glanced at Heather in the driver's seat.

'You said you were going to the airport in HORBON.’

Horbonne was a small town opposite North Buret, which had to be driven by midnight.
It was decades ago that the last road maintenance project was carried out because
it was an underdeveloped area. As a result, the travel time naturally became
longer.

"I'm sorry."

Lia apologized out of the blue.

"What?"

"I wish I could drive.”

"It's okay. I was planning to go there anyway, even though Lia is here."

Hesder said with a grin.

"Is there any special reason to use the airport?"”

"Well."

Hesder sank into a small slumber.

"Should I say hometown?" It's that kind of place. I thought I'd stop by to say
goodbye."
"Were you born in Hobon?"

"I was born in a different city. I lost my parents in an accident and grew up with
my brother and my aunt in Horbon. I'm going to my aunt's house. Oh, you don't have
to worry because your aunt died before.”

Lia looked sad at the family history she heard for the first time. Hesder quickly
changed the subject, worried about the heavy atmosphere.

"You know what? Horbon was one of the most terrible cities in Le Eden. If there was
a slum in Langdesh, it was full of criminal detention centers."

Horbon's prison was still open 24 hours a day. It was especially famous for
accommodating felons throughout Le Eden. Among them was Rousseau, a gang leader in
Langdesh.

"It was said that a poor man born in Langdesh would die in Horbon, so I said it
all. If you look at it like this, there's a connection between us, too."

Hesder asked mischievously.

The beginning and the end. Lia just had to laugh awkwardly.

"But the airport was built and developed around it, so I was devastated, or I would
have been branded a criminal detention center forever. Well, that's what I think.”

It sounded like that if it wasn't for using the airport, I wouldn't have returned
simply because I missed my hometown. Maybe there are good memories, but there are
as many bad memories as there are. Lia could vaguely understand Hesder's feelings.

[Horbon 1 MILE]

"Horbon" is written on it, right?”

Hesder asked, frowning when his son-in-law was dark and couldn't see the sign well.

"Yes, that's right. I have a mile to go."

From the time I entered the highway, one or two drops of rain began to fall, and
thick raindrops poured fiercely as if to make a hole in the ground. To make matters
worse, the car entered the old road as the navigation guided it in the wrong
direction.

"We need to build a road so we can drive. Is it everything if I pierce it? Are you
going to take responsibility if I hit someone at this rate? It's all about
collecting taxes and spending them on something."

Hesder grumbled, slowing down. Lia also paid more attention and looked around. On a
late night when the moon did not rise, the car moved at a constant speed, relying
on headlights.

"It's a forest all around, so wild animals might pop out."

Hesder opened his mouth first because he turned off the radio to concentrate on
driving. Lia wanted the animals not to come near the car lights.

"I'll take better care of...…,”

Then I heard a humming sound over the forest.

"What are you talking about?"

Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay!

It was the sound of a siren. Even though I closed the window, it was a clear
warning sound. It was a bad omen because it was usually not easy to hear.

"Oh, it rings often on rainy nights."

But Hesder wasn't surprised.

"There are a lot of prisons around. So at 11 o'clock, I'm going to sound a siren
and recommend you stay inside the house as much as possible.”

"I see."

"There's nothing to worry about.”

It's been a while since I heard that. Hesder murmured with a nostalgic look.

Lia was greatly relieved by her words. Yeah, it shouldn't be a big deal. It was
time to loosen the tension.

(Playing!

Hesder braked and honked at the same time.

"Gasp!"

Leah's body leaning forward quickly recoiled. The sleeping Sauvignon also made a
yawn inside Kennell. Lia calmed down Sauvignon in the back seat on behalf of
Hesder.

"What are you, do you want to die?!”

Hesder opened the window and shouted, sticking his head out. Regardless of whether
his face was wet in the rain, he even hit Clarkson with his fist.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

"What's going on?"

Lia also straightened up and looked straight ahead.

The headlights lit up the raindrops. And someone stood in danger in the pouring
rain. He seemed to fall down immediately, but as expected, his bent posture
collapsed to the floor in an instant.

"Wait here. I'll check it out."

"No, let's go together!"

Hesder and Leah put on a hood on their outer garment and came out.
"……my, I didn't hit it. You know, right?

"……Yes, I know."

With their arms folded, the two approached the fallen person carefully.

"Oh, my God, why are you lying down? ominously."

If you do this, you have to flip it.

Hesder crouched down in front of the fallen man, exhaling a curse. He was over 180
centimeters tall. Just looking at him, he was a big man who breathed a sigh.

"LIA, can you light the light on your phone?"

"Yes."

Lia took out her cell phone and shined around. Hesder carefully examined the fallen
man's body and tactfully turned the giant man over. The man's white shirt was wet
red on the belly.

"……blood, blood."

Lia's face turned pale. The hand trembled and the light on the floor shook.

"Is he an escaped convict?"

"Well, I don't know. You look like a civilian in your outfit."

Hesder slipped back and the mud on the man's face washed away by the rain. Soon a
familiar face came to light.

"Eric?!"

Lia and Hesder shouted at the same time.

"Ugh, uh....”

Eric frowned in response to the sound of calling me. But he was still out of his
mind.

"Why, why is Eric here...….”

"Let's go back to the car."

Hesder jumped up and grabbed Lia's hand. After a short time of judgment, she looked
more cold than anyone else. Lia doubted my ears.

"What?"

"It doesn't matter if you don't report it. If we get involved for nothing, we'll be
the only ones bothered."

"What are you talking about?"

"Eric is a CIA agent. I guess he got hurt on a mission. That kind of wound means
that the other person is that dangerous, and it involves us as civilians? I
wouldn't be happy over there either."
"But I can't leave it like this...…!”

"I won't blame you even if you pretend you don't know. No, you might want to
pretend you don't know."

"But you're not strangers. It's Eric.….”

"So?"

At the same time as Hesder asked, thunder rumbled in the sky.

"Forget it? This man helped Ivan to imprison Miss Lia."

Leah was unable to refute.

"Of course, I've joined in, so I have nothing to say. But at least not now."

"Eric, too....”

Lia looked up at Eric who had fallen. She said with a strain on her neck.

"He took me outside and showed me the way to escape. Mr. Hesder is asleep, so you
may not know,

"I know. I pretended to be asleep on purpose. But you finally came back. That's
about it. What that human being can do for Miss Lia."

“!”

The thunder rumbled again.

It was smaller than before, but it was enough to raise tension. In the dark, the
two looked at each other silently. But Leah understood what Hesder was trying to
say. His eyes were saying that Eric was just a stumbling block.

"I'll stay. Professor, go ahead."

Lia said resignedly.

And I did the cell phone right away that was shining on the floor to call the
rescue team. I heard a sigh in front of me. Lia pressed the screen with her thumb
as if she would not let go of her resolution. He didn't want to pursue his own
happiness while putting Eric in danger. I'm sure you'll regret it in the future.

"Stop."

Like this.

Then Hesder took the cell phone from Lia's hand and put it in her pocket.

"I lost. Let's move to the back seat together. Miss Lia is holding Sauvignon."

"Professor!"

Lia's face brightened. Hesder swung his hands tiredly and walked toward the car.
Lia took off her coat and covered Eric's body.

"Hang in there."
Lia grabbed Eric's cold hand and said,

* * *

The office on the top floor of the building overlooked the night view of the city.
The light of the penthouse blinked over the open view.

It has been nine hours and 27 minutes since Lia left there. Evan turned to the
monitor.

"Are you thinking of going to the airport in Hobon?”

Evan murmured with his chin covered his lips. It was exactly like asking Lia
directly.

"I really don't know what you're thinking.”

Evan clicked his tongue.

Then the cell phone rang. It was an unsaved number, but I could tell who it was at
once. It was an Elijah.

Ivan imitated a CIA agent's distinctive angular tone.

"Ivan Yelka, you're on the phone."

- I'm trying to identify the agents. Evan, is your place safe?

"At this late hour, the director himself? This is an honor."

- It's not a minor issue. CIA agents in Le Eden are being attacked.

Attack?

Evan took the tablet PC out of the drawer. If it was Russia, the intelligence would
have contacted us. But there was no news from Russia. The same is true of the other
side. Meanwhile, an encrypted mail arrived from Skull.

- If you're caught, we're in a lot of trouble.

"Really? Well, the other agents will kill themselves as soon as they are caught, so
it doesn't matter

It's not me.

Ivan answered, breaking the code.

[Three escaped from the prison] [Unidentified fugitive due to rioting in prison]

Ivan, who was staring at the screen, immediately deleted the mail. His expression
remained the same, but the atmosphere surrounding him turned threatening.

Evan changed the call to a speaker and walked in front of the hanger. The movement
of the coat on his body was swift.

- Try to keep a low profile for the time being. You belong to the CIA for now.

"The timing is bad."

Evan suddenly cut Eliza off.

- What does it mean?

"I've got some work to do."

Evan put on the leather gloves that he had put in his coat pocket. The blackened
hand tore through the white hair.

- Didn't you hear me? For the time being.

Bang!

It was a flash. The shot smashed the cell phone and punched a hole in the desk.
Evan kicked the closed door. The door fell with a bang.

"So take care of your own business."

I need to go find mine.

* * *

"Lia, get some rest."

"No, I'll take a rest after this."

Lia took the basket that Hesder had brought and put it on the sink. The basket was
thick with blood-soaked towels.

The two arrived home safely carrying injured Eric. It was late and it was raining
cats and dogs, so there was no one on the street. After treating Eric like that, it
was well past dawn.

"It's uncomfortable because there's no hot water, right?"”

"It's okay because I can use the boiling water."

Lia answered, looking at the pot of hot water. Hesder smiled awkwardly.

"I had someone else to take care of me, but I forgot I was in a different area for
a while. I didn't know it would be this bad...….”

"Everything is fine except hot water. The light bulb is fine."

Lia and Hesder both looked up at the same time.

The faces of the two were reflected in the light bulb that was not lit. The
electricity came in properly, but instead of the lights, it was lit up with
candles. It erased the appearance of being popular in case someone comes in.

"Are you okay, Eric?"

"Yeah. I thought the bullet went through my body, but fortunately, it just grazed
my side."

It was a wound that could be treated with a surgical tool brought by Hesder. The
two, who treated the bloody towels, returned to the living room where Eric was
sleeping.

Eric occupied the three-person sofa alone. Lia and Hesder dragged a chair and sat
down in front of the fire. It was the worst environment for patients as the cold
energy filled the house. There was no choice but to light the stove as soon as
possible.

Hesder rummaged carefully through the embers. The curtains were drawn and the dark
room was tinged with the orange of the stove.

"Is he your younger brother?"

Lia asked, looking at the frame on the table.

There were two girls in the frame. Leah recognized Hesder at a glance. As a child,
Hesder was no different than he is now. A face full of confidence and gorgeous
beauty.

Next to it stood a much more demure-looking girl. The hair color was the same, so
it was presumed to be a sister. Hesder looked at the frame and smiled.

"My brother is abroad now. That's where we're going."

"Are you leaving Le Eden to meet your brother?”

Hesder nodded.

"My brother is a dead man in Le Eden. It's like nothing.”

"What?"

"I killed a man.”

Lia's body was very excited.

That fragile looking girl grew up and killed a man. I couldn't believe it. The
words that followed were even more shocking. The man who did terrible things to
Hesder's brother turned into a victim just because he was killed.

"I call it an accident. No, it's justice. Because he deserved it. But it wasn't the
world The legal system was so weak that I sentenced my brother to life in prison."

Hesder's face was shaded.

"So I saved the body and disguised it as my brother. My brother took my fake
passport overseas. The good boy wouldn't last a day in prison, so there was no
other way.”
“…….”

"Do I regret it?" You're welcome, but I do want to go back to the past. I would
have killed that son of a gun instead of my brother."

Hesder gritted his teeth and bowed his head.

"So that no one can see you."

Hesder said in a cool voice. She was quietly angry. And through that holy anger, I
could see that she deeply missed her brother and loved him.

It's ironic.

I thought anger and love were heterogeneous emotions that could never be put in the
same category. But Hesder loved his brother, and he was angry.

Furthermore, he even affirmed that he could kill his beloved brother instead.
Hesder, whom Lia admired so much. Her true intentions from her normal mind were
shocking.

However, it was a matter that could not be judged by right or wrong. Because I
didn't dare to measure Hesder's love for my brother by the standards set by the
world. Real family love is so heavy and dedicated. Lia had a sour nose.

"My brother was my only weakness, and he was the only one who knew it.”

The man meant Ivan.

Lia's heart sank. I felt like a sinner for loving such a man. No, the sinner was
right.

"I'm sorry, professor."

"Lia, what's the point of apologizing?"

"But,"

"In a way, it's karma. He's coming to me and helping me lock up Miss Lia.
Threatening...…, When I asked, I thought God was punishing me."

Before I knew it, a ray of light came through the curtains. The rain, which had
been pouring like crazy overnight, seemed to have stopped. As I listened a little
more, I heard the birds chirping.

"Anyway, I learned something in the meantime."

“?”

Hesder crept up. Just in time, Eric tossed and turned on the sofa.

Hesder listened and fiddled with something. All she could see was her back, and Lia
didn't know what was in Hesder's hand.

"It's a lesson to make sure no one knows what's dangerous."

clattering

It sounded familiar and ominous.

"Professor?"

Hesder passed Lia and approached Eric. Eric, barely awake, asked in a hoarse voice.

"……what are you doing?"

Lia approached the two men. Eventually, he realized that it was a gun in Hesder's
hand and stiffened his body.

"My gun, no? I know how to use it.…,”

"I'm done loading, so don't worry."

Hesder pressed Eric's forehead with a gun.

"Now answer the question. Who attacked you?”

"……Confidential. I can't get you involved."

Eric looked half-asleep as if he had come to his senses. Nevertheless, his

straightforward personality remained. Hesder clicked his tongue.

"Ha. It's amazing. The moment you fell in front of my car, it was over. We're all
tied up!"

cried Hesder.

Eric closed his eyes with a sound of pain, as if his head was ringing at a loud
noise. He muttered in a tired voice.

"……is it a dream?"

"Do you want me to punch you in the head?" Whether it's a dream or not."

"Kyo, professor, stop it...…!”

Lia clung to Hesder and begged. Her voice opened Eric's eyes. Only then did he
realize that it was strange.

Why are Hesder and Lia in Horbon?

"……No way."

"Yes, he ran away. It was almost a success until I met you.”

Hesder took Eric's word.

"Why did you come all the way here, leaving the airport nearby...…?”

"That's none of your business. Ivan Yelka, did he send you this? Then I can't let
you live."

When Hesder threatened, Eric closed his eyes again. He gently placed his hand on
the wound to confirm that the bandage was wrapped, and then straightened his arm.

"Don't you watch the news?"

Eric asked in a scolding tone. Hesder and Leah exchanged glances and waited for
Eric's words to follow.

"Three prisoners escaped from prison."

"What, what? Then the siren sounds."

Hesder was at a loss for words. The cause of the trouble was that I turned off the
radio because I was driving.

"Then it's the escaped prisoner's fault?"

"No, I don't think so.”

Eric took a big breath, and then raised himself on the sofa with one hand. Still,
there was a gun pointed at his head.

After much consideration, Eric came to the conclusion that it was best to tell the
truth.

"The CIA agents in Le Eden are being attacked one after another. Starting with the
killing of an agent two days ago."

“!”

"At the same time, we got information that the middle bosses under Rousseau had a
reunion. Prison security issues were also mentioned, so I came here to investigate
whether Rousseau was properly imprisoned. I was shot in the other than that.”

"Lu, Rousseau is the gang boss who led the murder of Lia's adoptive parents,
right?”

Hesder's face turned blue.

"There is a high probability that Rousseau is among the fugitives. And there's a
possibility that he was involved in the murder of a CIA agent."

"Why haven't you figured that out yet?”

"There was a riot inside the prison, and I was the only CIA agent who arrived in
the area, so I was attacked."

Eric said self-helpfully.

"Then Evan,"

Ivan's name popped out of Lia's mouth reflexively.

Ivan was also a CIA agent in Le Eden. If it was really Rousseau's fault, Ivan was
also likely to be attacked. This is because Evan made a great contribution to
arresting Rousseau.

"Mousa, shall we do it?" Will it be okay?"

Lia asked with a very confused look.

Evan would be the only one who survives this mess. And Lia will be the only one who
cares about him. Eric and Hesder thought the same thing at the same time.

Eric glanced at Heather. At a glance, I could feel hostility toward Evan. In the
end, he relieved Lia on behalf of Hesder.

"Ivan's gonna be fine

"That's why I'm leaving this damn country."

Hesder interrupted angrily. Then he threw the gun that he was holding at Eric.

"We're leaving on a plane this afternoon. There's a hospital nearby, so you can
walk on your own."

"It should not be tied to the authorities."

"You didn't even get to the hospital? Do you just want me to die?"

No way, but he really shouldn't be involved with civilians. Eric said with a sigh.

"God saved you."

"It's not God who saved you, it's me”

Hesder certainly nailed it with a hazy face. Then he quickly added if he thought of
something.

"No, I was going to kill you.”

"If you shoot here, the police will come in."

"Not here, but in the woods."

Hesder interrupted and glanced aside.

"Lia saved your life. I asked to leave it, but Lia said she couldn't.”

Hesder looked proudly at Lia. Lia blushed and lowered her head. Eric also knew how
much risk they took to help me.

"This place will not be safe because of me, so let's go to the hotel.”

Eric took a check from his wallet and handed it over. Hesder frowned and flicked
the hand holding the check.

"I have money, too Take care of your body. I'll lend you this house. I leave as
soon as I get better."

Hesder picked up the luggage he had put in the corner. Lia also picked up Sauvignon
and put it in Kennell.

"Oh, it's too bright."

Hesder frowned.

When I came outside, the sun shone through the clouds.

Stained pools of water glistened throughout the road. It didn't rain, but the cold
early morning air was mixed with the smell of rain. So the two got into the car
leaving Eric behind.
"Are you worried?"

As Lia glanced out the window the whole time, Hesder asked. Only then did Lia look
straight away.

"I've decided to throw away everything that's going on. I decided to take care of
the things that I could keep."

Hesder held fast to the steering wheel and continued.

"At the end of the day, the number of lives a person can protect is limited. I'm a
doctor, so sometimes I've been oblivious to that fact. I felt like I was an
omnipotent god when I saved the patient."

Hesder paused at the signal.

And when the blue light came on, Hesder spoke again.

"I'll decide it for you now. Lia, take care of your own life. Don't worry about
anyone else, including me."

Lia spread her hands gently. And I stared at my palm.

The number of lives a person can protect is limited. I know. It's hard to save my
life with such a small and thin hand. Lia recalled Evan who saved me at the time of
crisis several times.

If he's in danger, who'll protect him then?

"Lia, it's okay."

Leah looked up to Hesder's consolation.

At the same time, I was resentful of myself. I can't believe he's the one who comes
to mind in this situation. What a worry about him. It was hard to stop thinking
about him even though I knew I shouldn't do this.

That would be the same for Evan.

Evan was more devoted to Lia than anyone else. She was a human being who would
commit an offence without any hesitation. As if it's enough to get Lia's hands even
if she leaves the rail.

'If I had told you to care more about yourself, not me...….’

Could you have relieved a little of this cramp? I wish I had told Evan the same
thing that Hesder told me.

However, Evan would not have given up on Lia, according to legend.

It was that kind of man.

That's why you have to run away.

Before he became more evil.

20.

The two stayed at a hotel near the airport and waited for the evening. This is
because prisoners escaped from the prison and flights were suspended, and they were
informed that they would not resume until late in the afternoon. It was fortunate
that the flight was not canceled.

"How do you feel?"

asked Hesder, unpacking. Lia replied after a moment of thought.

"It's a little strange."

"How is that weird?"

Hesder looked at her and asked anxiously. Lia answered again over time.

"In the past, whenever I tried to run away, my heart beat like crazy...…. I'm
strangely calm right now."

"That's the proof that reason is back. I think it's good."

Hesder smiled affectionately.

"Is that so?"

Lia also smiled mixedly.

I really hope so. It wasn't rational at all in my head. Maybe Rousseau's

organization is aiming for Ivan. I'm afraid I'm in danger. I was still worried. But
there was nothing I could do.

At the same time, I wanted Evan to give up on me. In a way, it was good for Hesder
and Lia that Evan was in danger. As such, the possibility of escaping Le Eden has
increased.

but.

If that really happens...….

So I rather wanted Evan to give up first. That won't happen, though.

"You're all unpacked, get some sleep." You didn't sleep a wink last night."

"No, you've been driving all along."

Lia shook her head. But Hesder also showed no sign of backing down. So Lia
suggested.

"Then why don't we take turns sleeping? I'll be on the lookout."

At Leah's words, Hesder paused and burst into laughter. Lia was embarrassed because
she seemed to overdo it.

"I can't sleep...….”

Lia murmured in an insecure voice.

"Yes, yes. Then I'll take a nap first, so wake me up as soon as you feel
suspicious. Got it?"

Hesder laughed mischievously and poked Lia in the ribs with his elbow. But she was
also thinking of the worst in her mind. If "someone" broke into the room, it was
impossible for the two to overpower it.

"At least I won't hurt you."

Hesder glanced at Leah, recalling someone.

Lia will be fine. The white devil worshipped Lia. But maybe, Lia could never get
out of the world again as soon as she was captured by the devil. Ivan was a pseudo
who wanted Lia to be the only god of his own, not the god of all.

"Go ahead and rest, professor."

Lia pushed Hesder to the bedroom door. As soon as Hesder lay in bed, he fell asleep
like a log. Leah leaned one shoulder against the door and looked at Hesder, who
fell asleep. Even if he pretended not to, he would have been very tired.

"Meow..."

At that time, Sauvignon came up and rubbed his face against his leg.

"Huh? Okay. Let's get out of here."

Lia carefully hugged Sauvignon. When Sauvignon's white fur touched the flesh, the
man came to mind.

Lia shook her head and shook off her thoughts about him.

* * *

“…….”

Time went by slowly.

Lia stared at the ticking second hand. Then he turned to the passport he had put on
the table. When I came to my senses, I was shaking my legs without realizing it.
Lia walked around the sofa and sat down again. Hesder as well as Sauvignon were in
deep sleep, but as time passed, his mind became clear.

It wasn't that I wasn't tired. Like a condemned prisoner being dragged to the
execution ground, all kinds of emotions overflowed in his heart like waves. A
feeling of helplessness that can do nothing but wait for the upcoming death. The
helplessness strangled me.

"No, it's not."

Lia shook her head inside.

He was not on death row. What approached her was freedom, not death. Real
liberation awaited. The only thing left is to throw off all restraint and stand
tall on two feet.

Whether you want it or not.

'I'll decide it for you now. Lia, take care of your own life. Don't worry about
anyone else, including me.'

Lia clasped her trembling hands, and thought through what Hesder had said. Don't be
weak. I shouldn't have held Hesder back, who reached out to me.

Then the phone rang in the living room.

“!”

Lia rose reflexively. But I couldn't walk away easily.

"Who is this call from?"

Lia unknowingly bit her fingertips. The flesh was chipped through the white teeth.
Anxiety swells in my mind.

"Is it a call from the front desk?"

However, neither Lia nor Hesder remembered asking the front desk for something. The
phone rang again and again. The other party was not going to stop until Lia picked
up the phone.

'Professor is going to wake up."

Finally, Lia stood in front of the phone.

Let's not say anything until the other person first reveals his or her identity
first. With that promise, I picked up the phone and put it to my ear. I bit my lips
in fear of breathing.

- Rest in peace, Leah.

“!”

I almost dropped my phone. Lia hurriedly fixed the phone.

- And as soon as it calms down, pack up and go down to the front desk. If you name
it Liam Everden, the bodyguard will escort you to Hotel W. The hotel we're at now
is near the airport, so security is not good. It's dangerous.
It was Evan.

His tone was surprisingly calm. But that part felt more frightening. Lia slowly
reflected on Ivan's words. Hotel W was located about 15 minutes away from where I
am staying now. It was also farther from the airport.

"Well, I can't do that."

Lia shook her head violently. He asked urgently.

"How did you find my location?"

- I can find Lia wherever she goes.

The answering voice was cold. Just listening made my ears ache. Feeling the
temperature around her dripping, Lia unknowingly stroked her arm.

She looked at the door where Hesder was asleep, and lowered her voice and said
firmly.

"Stop it. Don't come after me anymore!"

- Chasing? Who? Me? LIA?

Ivan reacted absurdly. Rather, it was Lia who was embarrassed. How shameless.

- No, Lia.

Eventually Evan said as if he were running a child. Perhaps because of his unique
way of speaking, Evan really seemed to be standing in front of me. So Lia turned to
the wall.

- I'm not after Lia. I'm going to get mine back. That's all.

"I'm not your thing. That's why I'm running away from you."

- Leah, you're walking to the fire pit now.

“!”

If you stay like this, you'll be persuaded. Eventually, Ivan acts as he pleases. So
Lia raised her voice to the ground.

"That's better!"

Rather than you becoming a monster because of me.

Then there was a rustle in the bedroom. Did the professor wake up because of the
loud noise? I looked back, but I couldn't hear any more. Lia held the phone tightly
and put her forehead against the wall.

I was trying to focus on the call again, but Evan didn't answer for a long time.

"…… Evan?"

In the end, anxious Lia found him first.

- Yeah, I'm listening.

a still calm voice

But there must be a completely different feeling behind that calmness. Is it anger
or disappointment? Sadness? Pity? Lia didn't know exactly how he felt.

But one thing was certain.

The more Lia becomes like a fire, the calmer Evan becomes. So what should we do
now? Lia came to the conclusion that she should not push him or get angry, but
should be friendly.

I don't know if this will work.

"I know you've done a lot for me."

Nevertheless, he was in a hurry to run away, let alone thank himself.

You must have felt betrayed by me.

"But there's a line to keep."

Lia recalled Ishana's mysterious death. Killing a man because of himself. It felt
like he was constantly pushing Ivan into the depths of evil.

Ivan, who listened silently to Lia, asked implicitly.

- Do you mean the line that we should protect as human beings?

"……Yes."

- Lia's saying I crossed the line?

“…….”

- I know. You think I killed Ishanna?

“……!”

- That's why I'm running away desperately.

Ivan interrupted. It seemed to give Lia a moment to think.

"Did you know everything?"

asked Lia in a quivering voice.

- Yeah, I wish I'd asked you straight from the beginning. Being this emotional
won't solve anything, Lia.

"If I asked you honestly...…!”

As her voice rose again, Lia closed her mouth. If I asked you honestly, I was
afraid you'd answer honestly, too.

Yeah, I killed Ishanna.

For Lia!

When I think of Ivan smiling brightly while saying this, my heart collapsed.
Sometimes Evan felt like a child who was too pure to distinguish between good and
evil. It was like that now.

"I was afraid you'd answer honestly. Admitting murder...…. But it's a problem that
can't be overlooked. Killing someone else because of me...….”

Lia's eyelids quivered. My eyelashes began to get wet.

- Lia. I didn't kill Ishana.

Evan replied in a calm voice.

- Unfortunately, there is no evidence to exonerate right now. Of course there's no

evidence to prove guilt.

At the back of my mind, there were doubts that Ivan would have killed Ishana. But I
didn't mean to blame him. Then why? Why did he get choked up by such provocations?

"I'm...."

Lia slipped with her back against the wall. The hand clasped at the receiver
trembled. Lia covered the vase with her palm and gulped down her tears. Finally,
after finally getting over the emotion, Lia put her palm away and said,

"I don't want you to kill anyone because of me. I don't want you to be evil because
of me."

At least Evan was a good thing to me. The first person to let me know what I would
call love. Even now, the warmth he gave out remained all over his body.

- Then that's a relief, because we haven't killed one yet. Listen, Lia. If I killed
her, it wasn't because of Lia. It's entirely for me. It means I did it in the first
place because I'm a bad guy. Did you get it?

Ivan's voice was heard again over the phone.

- But if Lia continues to behave like this, I don't know what I'll do then. Why do
you keep provoking me? This isn't funny at all.

"…… That's why I'm running away.”

Lia said with a sad look.

Ivan and himself. When they are together, they will only. It was a parallel line
that could not last forever.

Falling into the abyss together at the moment of crossing, such was not love. Ivan
becomes a villain when he's with me. That's why you run away.

'I can find Lia wherever she disappears. It's like fate. We meet everywhere. It may
sound ridiculous, but Lia will realize it soon. If I find Lia like that, and she
runs away again, and I find her again and again, won't I realize it? H. I'm meant
to be with this man for the rest of my life.'

"……There is no destiny, Ivan."

Even if it's fate, I'll cut it off myself.

No, this was a terrible affair.

Lia put the phone down as it was.

* * *

"Professor, wake up."

Lia woke up Hesder urgently.

"LIA? What's up?"

"Evan has located us."

“?!”

Hesder's body sprang up like a spring. She came down the bed and ran to the phone
with a completely awake face.

"Professor?"

Lia stood bewildered and looked at Hesder's back. At that moment, a thunderous roar
rang out.

"You son of a gun!"

Hesder was furious with the other person who answered the phone. A torrent of
savage abuse came out like a shot.

"You sold us out, didn't you? I was just letting him die on the street. Next time
you're in front of me. I'll make a hole in your stomach!"

Hesder huffed after hanging up.

"Did you call Mr. Eric? Do you think he informed Ivan of our location?"

Lia asked in embarrassment. Soon the true Hesder shrugged his shoulders, splitting
his hair with one hand.

"Maybe not. Huh, I just needed someone to vent my anger."

"What did Eric say?"

"I don't know. I just said what I wanted to say and hung up."

Hesder opened Kennell and Sauvignon quickly went inside. It's better than a person.
Hesder murmured.

She took a slow deep breath and opened her mouth.

"We can't just wait for the flight time now that we've got our location. Let's go
to the harbor. Remember when I told you I took my brother abroad?”
"Yes."

"There's a small dock in Hobon that only locals know. There are brokers who help
smuggle in. I got their help."

"No way."

Lia realized only then. The reason why Heather left the nearby airport and came
here. It was because of the situation in mind that if you can't get out of the
airport.

But I can't believe it's illegal. That would be illegal The risk was too great.
Especially Hesder.

"I'll go to the dock by myself. Professor, wait here for the plane."

"You can't."

Hesder said emphatically.

"What if he catches me?"

“!”

"Even if Lia escaped safely, would you still be able to survive without coming back
if he used me as bait?”

"I'm...."

Lia blurted out the end of her words.

Lia and Hesder knew the answer.

Just as Lia couldn't just pass Eric, it was clear that if Hesder was caught, he
would return to Ivan's arms. The freedom gained by hurting others meant nothing,
and I didn't want to live to that extent.

"So it's better to move together."

Hesder had already made up his mind.

"I'm not saying this on impulse. This was one of the plans.”

It was just the second best thing.

When the career path was decided, Lia could no longer hesitate. As time goes by,
the distance between Evan and me will be narrowed.

"I think Evan has already told the front desk. He told me to move to Hotel W. It's
safer there."

"Then let's run to the emergency exit. The staff don't know.”

"Yes."

Lia and Hesder hurried to the emergency exit.

* * *

“…….”

When the one-sided call was cut off, Eric stood bewildered and looked at the phone
in his hand. I felt as if I had heard all the curses I'd heard in my life.

"……Are you suspecting that I handed over their information?"

Or maybe Hesder's fiery nature simply required something to vent his anger. Eric
put down the phone, reflecting on his displeasure.

The wound was sealed properly, and the medicine Hesder left did not interfere with
walking and running. Now, the rest of the work was finished when we arrived safely
at the headquarters and reported what had happened so far.

"……Damn it."

But my feet didn't fall off easily. Evan found the location of Lia's party. It
wasn't surprising, but it wasn't easy to ignore. If I hadn't helped myself, I could
have gotten away faster.

G-ing-.

Then the cell phone vibrated.

It was an Elijah.

"Yes, sir."

- I just got a call from the prison. There's Rousseau among the fugitives.

Fortunately, overnight prison riots were suppressed. But it was going according to
the worst-case scenario expected.

- An additional agent was killed last night. The tests revealed that it was
Rousseau's fault. It's their weapon.

"……I was also attacked in a forest near the prison last night. They are believed to
be the men who helped Rousseau escape."

- Yeah? Any witnesses?

"Nothing."

Eric replied, avoiding his gaze as if Eliza was standing in front of him.

Lia and Hesder. It's none of your business. I couldn't mention them for nothing.
Fortunately, Eliza got to the point without further questioning.

- Looks like someone handed Rousseau a list of CIA agents. In real time to the
route.

"You're saying it's the CIA insider's fault?”

- Yeah, maybe they planned it before Rousseau's escape.

It didn't matter when the information was leaked. What was important was that
Rousseau had ordered his men to assassinate a CIA agent even before he escaped. It
was literally a revenge killing. It was the nerve of a large organization to do
such a fuss ahead of the escape.

- I've ordered all agents to gather at the Nordic branch. We'll start the
interrogation in the order we arrive.

"Did other agents know that the list was leaked?"

- Yeah. I wanted to go easily.

Eric understood Eliza's words straight away.

One of the CIA insiders handed the enemy a list of agents. So quickly all agents
stop their duties and return to the Nordic branch. There will then be an
interrogation to find the spy.

'If he's the one who passed the list, he'll disobey orders.'

Unless you have a pretty big liver. Of course, if he had made a perfect alibi, he
could have returned to the Nordic branch and pretended to be a good agent. But in
the long run, it was impossible to escape the CIA's investigation network.

- Eric, you're no exception.

"I know."

- I just arrived at the Nordic branch, too. So I want you to arrive as early as
possible.

"I'll be right back."

- Then I'll hang up.

The line was cut off.

Eric looked around the house before going out. The sunlight through the curtains
shone inside. As I tried to turn around again, I saw an ash stove.

'Lia saved your life. I asked to leave it, but Lia said she couldn't.’

Hesder's words came back to me in my head.

If Ivan's location had been discovered, it would be impossible to leave Le Eden in

a legal way. Eric shook his fist and opened it, and was lost in agony. My mouth was
parched like a victim in the desert.

If the plane is impossible, the only way left is to...….’

Maybe,

This time she might be able to help her escape.

* * *

Shoot!

Slap.

Lia and Hesder stood side by side in front of the sea.

The waves washed up on the shoreline hit the gray rocks. white foam The crumbing
foam felt exceptionally fleeting.

"I'm going to spend the rest of my life with my brother."

Hesder murmured softly. The Sauvignon in Kennell wept.

"Yes, you, too."

Hesder added with a grin. Leah looked at Hesder's profile and threw her gaze into
the sea.

"Someone who will be with you for the rest of your life."

Who will you spend the rest of your life with? Perhaps it was the worry and long-
cherished desire of all mankind.

The waves broke again. This enormous nature has a knack for making humans even more
shabby. And humans become more lonely in it.

I used to...….’

Some time in the not-too-distant past, Lia also thought.

I think it would be nice to spend the rest of my life with him. But now, it has
become a dream as fleeting as the waves that hit the rocks and disappear.

Lia consciously drew a line, referring to Ivan as 'the man'. The same was true of
Hesder. The moment I put my name on my lips, I felt like the man was going to come
back to life in my heart.

But it shouldn't have been.

Whatever he had received or how sweet it was, he had to let go now.

For each other.

"We're going to sail now."

One of the brokers who was prepared from afar waved.

It was a normal looking appearance for someone who made money by illegal means. In
fact, his original job was a fisherman. The smuggling was a side business, and the
ship he used was also a fishing vessel he used to fish.

"Wait, I counted, and I didn't have enough money."

Just as Lia and Hesder were about to board, another broker approached and blocked.

"What do you mean?”

Hesder asked annoyingly,

"Did we explain it wrong? It's for one person.”

The broker replied snobbishly.

That was awesome. I meant to pay double the original cost. However, Hesder had no
choice but to soften his personality because he knew it would be useless to go out
strongly here.

"Here."

Hesder handed over a bunch of bills.

"And this is a hard work."

And then put another bunch on top of it

"If we both cross here safely, we'll transfer another 20 percent, so let's shut up
and go."

He glared fiercely at the brokers.

The man blocking the entrance stood aside. Finally, Lia and Hesder were able to
board the ship.

"Then you can follow him and unpack, and this lady can help me clean up the net.
The Coast Guard is patrolling for seven o'clock. We don't have time to guide you
slowly like a tour, so let's move quickly."

A ship was standing in the direction indicated by the man. Lia and Hesder became
urgent and had no choice but to move as they were told.

'It's an old ship...….’

Lia looked around the stairs and thought.

Squeak, squeak.

Every step I took made an uneasy sound on the wooden floor.

Lia, who followed the broker into the cabin, put her luggage on the floor. She
looked anxiously toward the deck, and the broker said.

"The rest of us will be down soon. Lady has something else to do here. Give this to
your friend when he comes."

The broker threw something. It was a life jacket.

"The flare is here. I won't be able to use it. And signal from above and I'll open
this part. If you pull the groove you see here, it opens."

The man kindly showed a place to hide.

"Well, then."
It's dripping.

The man closed the sliding door that had been open. He strode up to Lia. There was
a lot of calluses in his palm, and every time he rubbed his hand, there was an
unpleasant sound.

"It's almost time for us to finish our work on the deck. Shall we wrap this up?"

"Wrapping up?"

Leah, who was completely off guard, looked up, clutching her life jacket. A huge
palm was approaching my face. At this time, I didn't expect what would happen.

Like this.

The life jacket fell to the floor.

* * *

"Puha!"

Hesder exhaled like a man just out of the water.

My mouth was fishy and my head was spinning. I felt like the sea was rolling in the
boat. The red hair was still drenched in seawater and drooped like seaweed.

"Hey, where am I?"

Hesder looked around but couldn't see. It was dark everywhere. His body was also
tied to a chair. Hesder struggled to untie the rope somehow.

It's shaking!

“!”

Then someone grabbed the back of the chair from behind and pressed it. The rocking
chair did not budge as if it had been welded to the floor. Cold sweat poured down
my throat.

'The lights aren't off.’

Hesder opened his mouth and took a breath, and something touched his lips. It was a
rustling vinyl that touched the lips. When I breathed through my nose, vinyl
covered my nostrils this time.

It was then.

“Boo!”

"Argh!"

As soon as the plastic bag came off, a man with a skull tattoo put his face in.
Hesder screamed with a loud voice. Perhaps satisfied with Hesder's response, the
man giggled and straightened himself.
Who's that crazy guy? Where are we?

It didn't seem like a colleague of the brokers. Hesder looked around quickly.
Unpainted raw cement walls were all around. When I looked up, I saw a fluorescent
lamp full of spider webs. The light bulb blinked uneasily as if it were about to
die.

"Gasp!"

On the other side, two men covering their faces with bags were tied up in
underwear. They were both soaking wet like Hesder.

But it was different from her. It wasn't seawater that wet their bodies.

Under the chair was red with blood.

Maybe he was tortured, but his whole body was full of bruises. His face was like
the head of a dragonfly on the verge of falling.

"Ugh...."

"Ugh, uh...!”

I didn't lose consciousness. Because the sound of pain flowed irregularly through
the black bag. Every time they took a breath, the vinyl stuck to them, revealing
the outline of their nose and lips.

"There's nothing to pity, miss."

“?”

The man with the skull tattoo leaned one arm on a chair where Hesder sat, took out
a cigarette and bit it in his mouth. The fire from the Zippo lighter caught on the
tip of the cigarette. The man inhaled the cigarette deeply, then said with a wry
look.

"They were going to die anyway."

Later, cigarette smoke came out with a long breath.

"C, what are you...….”

"We're breaking up soon, so let's not be too strict."

The man patted Hesder on the shoulder and walked forward. Every time the man took a
sip of his cigarette, there was a paper burning sound.

"You guys stop pretending to sleep."

"Argh!"

A tattooed man rubbed a cigarette in his mouth against the man's thigh tied to a
chair. The man next to him shrank to his heart's content at the sound of a scream.

Hesder closed his eyes more tightly in fascination. But it couldn't stop the smell.
Every time I breathed, I smelled fat on the cigarette fire.

It was the first time I had seen such terrible torture in person.
"Ugh...!"

Hesder couldn't help but vomit.

Hesder, a surgeon, performed numerous surgeries and had a strong stomach. However,
medical practice and torture in front of the eyes were different. Just as the
doctor's open surgery and the lunatic's behavior of tearing through the victim's
stomach are different.

Bang!

At the sudden sound of the sound, not only Hesder but also the man with the skull
tattoo raised his head. Someone kicked in the door like a primitive man who didn't
know how to use tools.

Everyone's eyes were directed there.

The heels that stood vertically slowly descended. At the same time, the body bent
straightened. The man finally stood upright and looked around from top to bottom.

It was Evan.

Finally, his blue eyes reached Hesder. Hesder became frightened. Contrary to her
expectations, however, Ivan turned his head indifferently. Rather, he was more
interested in Skull's cigarette in his hand. He took the cigarette from Skull's
hand.

Skull, whose cigarette was stolen, peeled off the envelope that covered the men's
faces. Only then did Hesder find out who the men were. They were brokers who
deceived me and Lia. His face was swollen like a player on the ring, so it was so
damaged that he couldn't recognize it. But there was no mistake.

"Open your mouth."

Evan said, crumpling a cigarette butt with only a filter left.

"Ha...."

The broker mumbled his lips inside and opened his mouth. All the teeth had been
pulled out. Ivan threw a tail into it.

"Swallow it."

"Whew...! Whoa, whoa!"

The broker gulped down Ivan's tail. Ivan did not respond much this time, and Skull
covered his mouth and vomited in vain instead. But his face was full of joy.

"Oh, my.….”

A man who was fed up with a cigarette and even swallowed a butt sobbed. Is Evan
crying over that? murmured softly.

Evan was definitely different today.

Like a machine that imitates human behavior, all behavior felt awkward as if the
screw had been loosened. But his blue eyes contained hidden emotions.
a lustful possessive that is as shady as old water and muddy as mud

Intense anger from being robbed of one's own.

hostility

"Are you scared?"

When Ivan asked, the man nodded.

"Are you scared?"

"Oh, my God.….”

The man nodded again.

"Then you shouldn't have created this situation in the first place."

Evan looked at the man with eyes that he really didn't understand. Then he took a
military knife out of his pocket.

Click.

The folded knife unfolded and a sharp blade was revealed. Ivan tapped the man on
the cheek with the tip of his knife.

"Why did you do that? Why did you try to steal mine?"

Tap it again.

Each time the man trembled. Evan circled around him. When the man scratched the
chair tied with the blade, an eerie sound continued.

"If you took it from me, you should at least have kept it. What if I give it to
someone else?”

"Oh, my...!"

"I came all the way here to find it, and it was all in vain."

Finally, Ivan, who stopped, leaned down and whispered.

The blade, which was narrowly rich on the skin, wiped the skin. Blood droplets
formed over the thin marks.

Evan was infuriated with unbearable anger at the sight of the blood.

I'm going to kill him.

Ivan raised his sword hand high.

"Stop it! Are you going to kill him?!”

Hesder raised his head stiffly and shouted.

Evan paused. Soon her eyes turned to her. As if she had finally noticed her
presence, her blue eyes turned for a while and then disappeared.

"Yes, I'll kill you.”

Evan answered calmly.

Any problem? he asked silently. Hesder couldn't say anything. Why are you standing
still? Skull kicked his tongue but felt pity for Hesder.

"You have to ask where she took you...…!”

"I know."

His eyes widened at Ivan's answer.

"Well, then, what are you doing here instead of going to the rescue right now?”

Ivan, who was thinking about something, straightened out his bent body. His
attention shifted from the man to Hesder.

"Why did the professor help Lia?”

"That's

"Revenge?”

Evan cut off Hesder's words.

"Because I took your brother as a hostage? So you took Lia away from me this time
and got back at her?"

"Oh, don't make me laugh. You think I'm like you? I didn't want to do anything I'd
regret. That's all!"

Ivan smirked.

"I see. I feel guilty. What a righteous human being our Professor Hesder Berghagen
is! I couldn't just pass by a woman in danger. He was a good Samaritan!"

Ivan's emotionless face began to come alive. It didn't bode well. He must have been
very excited, and red veins began to sprout on his neckline.

"Oh, I took the risk to save the woman who was in custody by a madman. So from
today, let's relax and sleep. I don't care what happens to a woman who's free!"

Ivan raised his head and shouted with his arms wide open. His voice and eyes were
filled with madness.

Soon, both arms fell helplessly as if the thread on the body had been broken. Evan
threw his knife on the floor and rummaged through his jacket pocket.

Even if it ended in failure, he would have tried to live by saying that he did his
best. Humans like you are obvious."

Ivan muttered.

What he took out was a silver revolver.

Evan filled the cylinder. Fingrrrrr, the cylinder with the bullet went round.

"I'm so obsessed with the purpose of letting her escape, I don't think about
anything else at all. That's what's irresponsible about it.”
You can't do that. Like me, think, do it. Ivan mumbled, poking himself in the head
with a gun.

"Mo, stop talking nonsense and just tell me where Lia is!"

"I don't want to"

Ivan replied with a grin.

"Even if the professor finds out in the first place, what? You're gonna go get it
yourself? Without any plans? I hate impulsive people. Do you know why?"

He turned sideways. The gun aimed at one of the brokers.

Bang!

"Because you shoot people like this!"

"Argh!"

The bullet penetrated the broker's right foot.

Bang!

"Yeah, like this!"

"Argh!"

The ensuing bullet clipped the other foot.

The shot man screamed with his head down. The colleague who was watching ended up
peeing. If hell existed, it would be right here, Hesder thought.

Now there was no limit for Ivan. This was a natural result as Lia, who made him
play a human role, disappeared. It was like giving a weapon to a child who didn't
know the danger of a gun.

Fortunately, Evan soon got tired of playing with guns.

"Okay, I'll let you know. Lia is now in the Nordic branch of the CIA. You're
relieved from the professor's point of view, right?”

Ivan said in a rather soft voice.

"I have to go save Lia now. The professor takes care of these kids. So I can come
back and torture him for a longer time.”

"Well, what's the point of that? You said you'd kill him anyway!"

"No, of course not."

Ivan shook his head. He also knew how meaningless this revenge play was. You don't
have enough time to love Lia, but you have to live with this anger in your heart.

I was so sorry for Lia. I could never show her what happened here.

But, Lia.
I wouldn't be like this if you hadn't left me in the first place. No, Lia didn't do
anything wrong. It's my fault for letting you go. I'm sorry, Lia. I'll be there in
a minute. You'll forgive me, right?

"It's just anger."

Ivan muttered, looking into the air with empty eyes.

"If Lia finds out about this, Puck will like it."

Evan frowned at Hesder's words.

How dare you use Lia's name to threaten me. I think of her more than anyone else.
I'm the only one who can save her!

"……You guys are always angry at nothing. I lost my wallet in traffic, I lost my
wallet, I was in hot water, I was acting like a psychopath all over there.….”

Evan approached the man who peed. Then he began to pound the man's forehead with
the revolver he was holding.

Pfft, pfft, pfft!

"Why, me, crazy person, treat me?"

Blood spattered in all directions.

Ivan's white skin also had red blood on it.

"I'm a human being, too! It's sad to lose something precious. I'm so sad that I
can't control my emotions.”

Crack!

There was a crack in the bone. Yuck, yuck. Ivan took a rough breath with his head
down.

"Lia was my only one.”

Hesder could not say anything more at the frantic appearance.

"You're not. You're more precious than Lia. That's why I'm leaving Le Eden. Why did
you pretend to be for Lia? You hypocrite. Professor, I call a man like you a
hypocrite."

Evan lifted his head.

"That's why they took Lia to this dangerous place. That's not enough. You're trying
to cross the sea illegally.….”

Ivan turned his wrist and pulled out a revolver stuck in the man's flesh. The man's
forehead was hollowed out. The man lost his mind with the whites of his eyes
exposed. The crab foamed down from its open mouth.

Evan obsessively rubbed the revolver on his shirt. When the blood didn't wipe, he
eventually threw the revolver into the corner.

"I'm sad."
Evan sighed.

"How come there are only these people around LIA? Lia deserves to be happy. It's
all interrupting our love.”

Ivan covered my face with a bloody hand. A big hand covered his face like a mask.
Is he really crying? Or is he pretending to cry?

"……poor Lia. I'm going to go save her."

Evan staggered toward the door.

Hesder, barely awake, tried to open his mouth.

"Yes!"

"If you want to live, don't provoke me more, miss."

Skull's hand wrapped around Hesder's mouth. Hesder had to watch helplessly as Ivan
left.

When Ivan disappeared, Skull cut off the rope that wrapped Hesder's body.

"I won't stop you if you're going to run away, but you'll be safe here. Until the
situation is settled.”

"Watch that crazy guy find my friend and lock her up?"

Skull looked straight at Heather and burst into laughter.

"You don't even watch the news? Rousseau broke out of prison."

"I know, but what about it?”

"He put a bounty on Mr. Yelka's neck.”

“……!”

"Don't worry, I won't be near your friend until I punch a hole in his belly."

Hesder stared blankly at the wrists with the rope marks. Rousseau's after Ivan?

Maybe it's better.’

If Russo kills Ivan, Lia is free.

said Skull, insinuating that he had read Hesder's thoughts.

"What you want won't happen."

 21.

An incandescent light bulb lit up a long desk. Lia was sitting on one of the chairs
facing side by side across the desk.

Lia glanced at the mirror attached to the wall. The window-sized mirror with a
longer width was a magic mirror used in the interrogation room.

Would someone be looking in here from the outside? How long do we have to be stuck
here? Will Professor Hesder be okay?

My mind was all over the place.

Breathe in.

As soon as the door opened, Lia rose from her chair.

It was Eric.

He had just finished questioning in the interrogation room. Eric's mind was full of
work about Lia when other agents proved his alibi and innocence.

I saved Lia. But what's next? Frankly, I haven't thought about it since. The weight
of life saved on impulse was unbearable.

"Lia."

"Mr. Eric."

The two exchanged awkward greetings.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting here. There's no place to take him."

Lia shook her head. And asked in an urgent voice.

"What about Professor Hesder? Are you okay?"

"We're still searching."

Erik's answer distorted Lia's expression. Tears welled up in my black eyes. I tried
to endure it somehow, but it was my limit. Transparent droplets trickled down.

Lia ran away with Hesder. Then Ivan found out his location, and as a second best
option, he tried to leave Le Eden through an illegal immigration broker. There was
a little noise, but when I finally got on board, I think I was very relieved that I
finally succeeded.
But that was the beginning.

The broker with Lia showed his true colors. He was a kidnapper disguised as a
broker. When I heard that they would sell them to auction houses where pervert rich
people from all over the world gather, I felt dizzy.

Leah was helplessly transferred to another ship and Hesder's whereabouts were
unknown. By the time of such remorse, the Coast Guard found Lia. In the meantime,
there was Eric. The only clue, the broker, ran away.

"Because of me.... It's all because of me. I should have gone alone. No, I
shouldn't have run away...…!”

Leah, who was stumbling, fell on the desk.

How many more people should be sacrificed because of me alone. I wasn't running
away. Why did you do this? Endless guilt ate up Lia's soul.

"Why do I ruin everything?"’

Lia thought in tears.

Eric hesitated and approached Lia. However, the hand that stretched out to comfort
the trembling shoulder eventually went into the pants pocket without touching it.
This is because I knew that clumsy consolation would not help. You didn't have a
knack for comforting people in the first place.

G-ing-.

Then Eric's pocket vibrated.

It was an unsaved number. Eric glanced at Lia. She seemed overwhelmed to control
the surging emotions. So I thought I should give him some time to change his mind.

Eric stepped back quietly and came out. Fortunately, the other party waited
patiently.

- Hi, Eric.

As expected, it was Ivan.

"……what can I do for you?"

Eric asked, pretending to be calm.

- Shall we share the information that we're most curious about? Yeah. How's the
safety of a precious person?

"……What?"

- I'll go first. The professor is safe.

"You got him? Are you next to me?"

Eric looked at Lia's door and turned his head and pressed him.

- Yes, I was. I'm treating another patient.

"Patient…?"

- You missed the kidnappers because you couldn't do a terrible job I got him. I'm
thinking of keeping him alive for a long time and torturing him.

"You're crazy, and you're bringing him in."

- It's time to answer my question.

Evan coldly cut off Eric's

"………Lia is safe too. The Marine Police raided and saved him from being kidnapped by
human traffickers."

Eric replied with a gentle voice. But the answer did not come back immediately. Is
the line disconnected? Eric checked the cell phone screen with anxiety. The line
was still busy.

Then, Ivan said softly.

- A good dog only brings what its owner threw. You don't steal someone else's and
bring it to me.

I sweated a cold sweat on the back of my neck with an eerie tone than usual. I felt
as if death had come before me. Eric stole a cold sweat with his other hand.

Evan knew better than anyone how to scare people under limited conditions. It was
an instinct imprinted on blood. In such a situation where only voices can be heard,
only voices and silence created tension.

But it was himself who was in the ascendant.

Eric was comforted by the fact and managed to talk.

"You still treat people like objects. That's why Lia ran away. Don't you think so?"

- Are you provoking me? That's pretty laid back.

"Yeah, I'm relaxed."

- I envy you. I'm very nervous.

Evan confessed his feelings frankly.

But for that matter, the voice was calm. It was like the silence before the storm.
It was obvious that a typhoon would hit the place where the silence had gone.

"Why are you so nervous when you're here to pick me up?"”

- I guess the CIA hasn't got any information yet? Russo put a bounty on my neck. He
seems to be very angry because he put himself in prison after his brother.

"What?"

- I mean, I'm a living target, man.

At the end of Ivan's words, the sound of gunfire was heard.

Eric instinctively stood with his back against the wall. Then I realized belatedly
that it was a sound heard from beyond my cell phone.

"Did he get attacked? Where are you now?"

- Never mind this side and go back to Lia.

Evan's voice was faintly conveyed whether he was shooting in response.

"Hey, Ivan!"

- And tell him that Professor Hesder is safe. Oh, Sauvignon, too. My friend is
protecting me. Do you call this "consecration"?

Evan made a sarcastic remark.

"Why didn't he call the CIA for help?”

- There's a spy in there who gave my information to Russo. Who do you trust?

"You're going to leave LIA alone in such a place?"

- Are you blaming me? If you can't handle it, you should have waited calmly until
the owner came to look for it.

Bang! Bang, bang, bang!

The sound of gunfire became more frequent. The sound sounded like it was indoors.
Soon, however, the sound of the gun went out of hearing. Ivan! Ivan! There was no
answer when Eric called again.

Did he leave his phone and run away?’

It didn't occur to me that Evan would have been shot to death. I'll hear from you
again. The moment Eric tried to hang up the phone, there was a sound of his cell
phone.

- Don't worry, I'll be right back.

“……!”

- Lia is mine.

* * *

"Ha...."

Eric stood blankly with his cell phone disconnected.

Then the sound of the heels came at a constant speed, kicking the ground.

Eric looked up at the shoes that stopped in front of him. Eliza swept the hair cut
straight to the jawline with one hand. Eric looked at the elegant figure as if
possessed, and put his cell phone in his pocket and stood right there.

"Eric."
"Director."

"Congratulations on your removal from the charges."

Eliza, who took a step closer to Eric, put her hair behind one ear this time and
organized it. Every time she moved, a sweet scent spread out. Eric felt dizzy for a
moment and straightened himself.

"You were the last one."

Elijah slapped Eric's abs with a report he was holding. Eric was handed the report
and unfolded it. The Rousseau jailbreak was a sorted document.

Eric said quickly through the document.

"Ivan Yelka hasn't arrived yet."

"I'm here to tell you in person. Russo put a bounty on Ivan's neck. You must have
had quite a grudge against him. This has cleared him of charges."

Eric hesitated to tell the story of the call earlier, but Eliza quickly continued.

"I called Evan to check on him and he hung up because he was busy.”

Was he under attack then too? murmured Eliza.

Eric stepped in and corrected me.

"Lia Henriksen ran away. I probably didn't have time to go after her."

"Really?"

Eliza opened her eyes wide. Before long, his eyes became thin as he was lost in
thought. Bad timing. Eliza murmured.

"Why did he run away? I wouldn't have left if I knew what risk Evan took for him.
There are not many men as devoted to women these days as he is."

Eliza simply couldn't understand Lia. It wasn't envy as a woman. Eric knew it was a
thorough profit calculation response.

His boss was such a human being.

For example, it was she who turned a blind eye even though she knew that Ivan was
imprisoning Lia. I had to use Leah's candy even if she was bitten by it.

Eliza was also conservative as a figure at the height of class society. In a sense,
it was similar to Ivan's He did everything he could to his end. However, we try to
deal with it legally, not illegal as much as possible.

It is illegal for Ivan to imprison Lia. But if love springs between the two,
Eliza's idea is that there's nothing wrong with it as a result.

I'm sure it's the same now.

But Eric couldn't agree with him.

"It was fortunate that I had to wake up late and run away. You can't live in
captivity for the rest of your life."

"If there is a person holding a leash, there are people who are taken away. Leah
Henriksen was the latter. And in that relationship, a sense of security will spring
up. It's a simple psychology."

"In other words, domination and obedience. People like Lia need a more normal and
stable relationship."

Eliza looked at Eric observantly. Eric, who realized his gaze belatedly, closed his
lips with regret. I was afraid that the anxiety in my proposal had been caught.

If Eliza were in the same position as Ivan, she would stand in the same position as
Lia. Eric and Elijah, it was Elijah who held the leash in their relationship.

According to Eric's logic, he also had to leave Eliza like Lia.

But I couldn't. Self-reliance is impossible for him. That's why I didn't know Lia
was encouraged to escape by overlapping herself.

What you can't do

passing on to others

How cowardly such a man is.

"Mr. Commissioner, I...….”

"Shh. That's good. I'm glad you didn't get hurt seriously."

Eliza gently stroked Eric's chest. Surprised Eric took a big breath and his heart
fluttered. H. It's ugly.

"It's nice to talk to you face to face after a long time.”

“…….”

"I'm glad you're safe. Again."

“…….”

"I'm so glad you're not a traitor.”

Eliza folded her eyes and smiled.

Eric held his breath and stared at the smile. Even the folds of the eyes are
lovely. It reminded me of my time with her.

It's beyond imagination that a woman has to live with to become CIA director. An
incompetent boss, colleagues who ignore me, a subordinate who tries to target a
mutiny.

Eric watched clearly from Eliza's side as she reached the top. She was her idol and
god.

The only seat next to Eliza allowed. Eric knew better than anyone how special the
position he was standing in now.

"There's no way I'm going to betray you."

Eric said in a strangled voice.

Eliza laughed in silence. She tapped Eric twice more on the chest and turned her
back.

Eric, who was suddenly immersed in emotion, belatedly called Eliza.

"Director, I still have something to report."

"What's going on?"

"We rescued Lia Henriksen off the coast of Horbon."

"I heard you saved a civilian. I didn't know it was Leah Henriksen."

I thought I'd tell you an important fact now, but Eliza looked unexpectedly calm.
Eric saw a glimmer of hope there.

"Can't the CIA protect her? ……from Ivan."

"Well, I don't think I'll know that until then. But I have no choice but to pay if
he wants. We made a deal."

Eliza thought for a moment and opened her mouth.

"We'll protect it in the Nordic branch first. I might be an important witness in

the future."

"What? What do you mean a witness?"

"No. It's nothing. I'll leave her to you for the time being."

Eliza wrapped up the situation neatly.

Seriously, is that it?

Eric stood bewildered and hurried back to where Lia was.

* * *

"Professor's okay?”

"Yes, the white cat is safe, too."

Lia's face, which had been pale all along, turned pale. However, he still looked
tired. Eric thought he had to let her rest quickly.

"Here you go."

With Eliza's permission, Lia will stay in an annex to the CIA's Nordic branch. It
was a room where no one had stayed for a long time. Eric looked inside instead of
Lia and checked for damage.

"Let me know if you need anything else."

"Well, he's...….”

Lia looked at Eric with a blur at the end of her words. Eric quietly waited for Lia
to continue talking.

"Do you know I'm here?”

Eric nodded without hesitation.

"But he won't come right away."

"Why?"

I became a little hesitant to give the next answer.

"The situation outside is a little bit, it's not good."

"What do you mean "not good"?”

"Rousseau, who escaped from prison, offered Ivan a reward."

Lia doubted my ears. So Rousseau was determined to kill Ivan as well as the CIA
agent in Le Eden. The worst imagination has come true.

"It's good for you."

"What's the good news?"

Eric tried to evoke the situation, but it was rather counterproductive.

"Didn't you try to run away from Evan?"

"I didn't want you to be in danger...….”

Eric somehow choked up at Lia's shaky appearance.

"I'm the man who imprisoned you."

"……I know."

"You don't have to pity me. You don't have to feel guilty.”

"…… I know, I do."

"Then why are you looking so regretful?”

Eric realized that he was questioning Lia without realizing it, and hurriedly
closed his mouth.

"I'm sorry. I was trying to blame you."

"……I fell in love with you."

Lia squeezed her voice and barely answered.

I can't believe I'm in love with the man who imprisoned me. It couldn’t be worse.

But he didn't want to justify himself with a lame lie. Because he wasn't just a
victim, as Eric thinks.

"If you do this, I know you can't. That's why I left. The man, for my sake...…, I'm
gonna do something terrible. I shouldn't be used to that."

Eric looked down at the sobbing Lia. Unlike me, who cowardly hides her innermost
thoughts, Lia was honestly facing her feelings. He revealed the disgrace he wanted
to hide the most. Feelings that are reprehensible to everyone.

"You're strong."

Eric thought.

"It's an illusion."

Then he said in a disconfident voice.

"Do you know Stockholm Syndrome? It is a phenomenon found not only in crime but
also in everyday life. It's not just Lia. Nevertheless, you should not assimilate
to the perpetrator. I need to get my ego back."

Eric's voice became more and more powerful. But Eric also knew. Everything he says
is nonsense. It was a sophistry that even he could not persuade.

"With time, you will be proud of yourself for escaping."

No.

Leah Henriksen will not escape from Ivan Yelka.

as long as he is alive The white monster will return after killing the
obstructionist. To reclaim his spoils.

* * *

The Nordic branch was surrounded by dense forests with no end in sight, so even
residents living in adjacent villages did not know the existence of the facility.

Lia didn't even know exactly where this place was because she needed an employee
code to use the external contact network.

It was presumed to be a region of the United States of America through the American
flag flying here and there and the eagle sculptures decorated around it.

Lia spent the whole day indoors.

Each room had windows, but the lighting was not good, so it was dark if the lights
were not turned on. Except for the annex, most of the spaces were restricted from
access to only the officials. In addition, there were armed guards everywhere, so I
didn't dare to go out of the building alone.

Lia stood at the window and looked out.

Low-rise but modern-day buildings. It was like a high-tech industrial complex built
in nature. People in suits with passcards on their necks busily walked back and
forth on the clean and tidy lawn.

They were real CIA agents.

But it looked like an ordinary office worker.

knock, knock.

A knock heard from outside made Lia hurriedly retreat from the window. The opponent
opened the door before Lia's permission was given. As if he's done his duty by
knocking.

"How's it going? How's it going?”

a straight bob an intelligent look A middle-aged woman in a wine-colored two-piece

came in and asked after her. At first glance he seemed a man of high rank. While
Lia thought of something to answer to, she looked around and naturally walked
around the room.

"My name is Eliza McClane."

Eliza showed her employee ID around her neck and sat cross-legged on the sofa.

"Oh, I'm LIA."

"Yes, I know. Miss Henriksen. Let's talk comfortably."

Eliza smiled softly and tapped on the side. Lia hesitates I sat across from her
seat

"I got a report. I almost got kidnapped by human traffickers.”

"Yes."

Lia answered in a heavy voice.

"Thank God our agent found it."

"Thank you, Eric."

Eliza smiled with satisfaction.

"He's a good agent. doing one's best in one's duties without resisting orders from
one's superiors It's a matter of too much sympathy."

Sympathy.

The word stuck in my ear like a thorn. Did Eric come to help out of pity for me?
Then it was not too much sympathy as a result. At that time, Lia and Hesder felt
life threatening.

"Pitying an enemy or victim to a CIA agent always has bad consequences."

She loosened her crossed legs and put her chin on her hands. As the upper body
tilted slightly forward, there was a shade on the face.

"In that sense, Evan is excellent. Basically, I'm indifferent to others.

Unstructured boldness and freshness like an agent who has taken an elite course. I
needed that kind of subordinate. It's a problem because sometimes it pops up in the
unexpected direction."

Evan is not indifferent to others. The word was caught at the end of my neck, but I
couldn't bring myself to spit it out.

Eliza straightened herself out as if she had read a subtle complaint from Lia's
expression.

"The only thing Ivan was obsessed with was you, Lia."

Lia clenched her fist unknowingly.

"I'll be honest with you. Lia is not worth anything to me. If it weren't for Eric
or Ivan, I would have kicked you out of the Nordic branch. No, it's kind of weird
to say kick out. Let's correct it. They probably followed the procedure and handed
it over to the authorities.”

What happens after that is not my concern. So Eliza drew the line coldly.

But Lia didn't blame her. Eliza was American, and Lia was Le Eden. She had no
reason to protect non-native foreigners.

"If you thought America was on the side of justice, I'm sorry I let you down about
this."

"No, I've had enough help."

Lia answered with her head down.

"I'm sure Eric told you what's going on out there”

Eliza changed the subject. Lia suddenly raised her head. The escaped gang boss is
aiming for Ivan's neck. I was worried about his safety. It was a lie if it didn't
bother.

"It's okay to ask questions."

"Is Evan safe?"

Perhaps this was an unexpected question, Eliza paused. But soon he answered in a
calm voice.

"I heard you were running away from him. Why are you curious about his safety?"

"It's...."

"I admit it. I knew you were being held by Ivan Yelka, but the CIA accepted it.
Because I thought it was safe for you to be with him. Of course, you're right to
say that you were the carrot to appease Ivan."

Lia felt more afraid than betrayed by the CIA director's gentle admission of the
crime. Is it Ivan Yelka who even holds people in this position in his hands?

Can I get away from him?

For a moment, I felt foolishly worried about Evan.

"To return to the question and answer, it's been 48 hours since I last contacted
him."
“!”

"I wouldn't have died. If he had been killed, Rousseau would have displayed the
body."

Lia's face was pale at Eliza's blatant expression. Eliza almost crossed the line
and provoked Lia as if she were being formal.

"Do you have any idea what Evan is doing right now? I came here because I thought
Miss Lia would know."

"I don't know. I was running away from him, as you know. That's all.”

Lia asked hesitantly.

"He... does Ivan know that I'm here?”

"You have access to the data, so you know.”

You think I know?

But why isn't he here yet? It would be safer here than outside. It was time for him
to arrive.

"I've got to go now."

Eliza rose up without hesitation when she confirmed that Lia had nothing to find
out. Lia called her up in a hurry.

"Director McClane."

"Say it."

"Is it okay if I stay here?"

"You don't have any place to go right now, do you?"”

Leia had nothing to say when Eliza replied back with a question.

"Oh, don't worry if it's because of Evan. Maybe something more important than
finding Miss Lia. Maybe that's why they can't reach us."

Eliza disappeared after leaving meaningful words that may be provocative or

consoling.

* * *

Where and what is he doing?’

Leah crouched down in the corner of the sofa and thought endlessly about Evan.

Is Ivan's life in danger? Then how much? You can't even chase me? I didn't even
know it was a more dangerous situation because I lost contact with the CIA.
"Wasn't he trying to run away from Evan?"’

Time will make you proud of yourself for escaping.’

Eric's words echoed in my head.

I know. I only have a limited time. I had to make a decision within that time. How
to escape. I was alone this time. There was no one to help.

Elijah, director of the CIA, said I had no value, so it was a good thing. I
wouldn't bother stopping her if she left here.

But shouldn't you be here to meet Evan? To find out that he's safe...….’

Lia hesitated hundreds of times.

an inescapable self-contradiction the folly of being caught in a trap on one's own

feet a prey that has fallen in love with a hunter

Ivan Yelka.

Yeah, he was a hunter, not a prey. Then he was targeted. Why?

'Because of me...'.’

Lia closed her eyes.

This wouldn't have happened if I hadn't been involved. This time it was also
because of himself. He put Ivan in danger.

Before she knew it, Lia lay curled up on the sofa. His hands shook as if they were
praying.

You're not going to be responsible for anything. You're not going to be able to
handle anything.

Why did you run away?

The tears filled my eyes. Tears well up. I felt dizzy. I felt nauseous, and my
whole body throbbed just with stress.

"……I thought you'd be happy if I left."

At least I believed it wouldn't sink together.

But I guess it was all an illusion.

Lia was unconscious of a slight fever winding around her body.

* * *
Why are you alone here? I don't play with my friends.'

The temporary nursery built in the poor protection zone only had a glossy
appearance, and the internal environment was poor. A cheap mattress full of fleas
and cockroaches was attached tightly and dozens of children were put on top of it
to sleep.

When the news broke that the second girl of the Henriksen family was going to
volunteer, nursery officials doubled the number of people who accepted the idea
that a huge donation would soon be poured out.

Blinded by greed, he grabbed orphans on the street and locked them in a narrow
room. It was only after everything was done that Lia found out.

"No, it's not."

"What?"

'We're not friends. I don't have any friends.’

The child was also one of the orphans taken for calculating adult circumstances.

I was always wearing a hoodie, so I rarely saw my face. Sometimes, when the child
makes eye contact with the sparkling blue eyes through the drooping hood, the child
hurriedly turns his head.

Lia didn't seem to hate it. Because I could feel the child often hovering around
me.

I didn't know his name, age, or face, but he was a child who was especially
bothered.

How much can you afford?’

A child once said this.

Lia was greatly embarrassed, but she tried not to show it. Children in the slums
grew up exposed to crime, and there were no adults around to teach them morality or
responsibility. Expecting a right sense of ethics was another form of violence for
the child.

People don't buy and sell with money.’

But I want it.’

"You mean me?"

"Yes!"

Even at the meal time that everyone was looking forward to, he was a child who
picked up leftover food. Such a child spoke in a bright voice for the first time.

Lia thought of a clever idea after reflecting on her lonely heart.

"Being friends?"

I don't like friends.’

The child turned his head sulkingly.

Lia looked through such a child and paused when she saw her knee exposed under her
shorts. The wound on my knee hurt my heart, so I turned my eyes without realizing
it.

You don't want to see it because of the wound?’

"……What?"

Lia turned her head again and the child was staring at her. The blue eyes, which
were always busy avoiding the eyes, stared straight ahead.

My mother said she didn't want to see me either. He doesn't want to see everything
he left behind.'

Oh, did he do that?’

'Yeah. I'm his.’

My heart sank for a moment.

"You can do whatever you want."’

'…… Oh, no. That's not true.’

Don't you think so?’

'Yeah, I told you before You can't own a man. He has emotions and he thinks. No one
who feels pain should be treated carelessly.’

Can I hate my father then?’

What should I say? My lips didn't come off prematurely. So Lia gently hugged the
child. I was sad because I felt sorry for the skinny body that had only bones. At
least the warm child's body temperature barely prevented Lia from crying.

The children's bodies are warm. And it was fragile. Lia loved the poor beings.

'Yes, you can.’

Lia wrapped her arms around the child's head. Then he whispered quietly.

But don't do that for too long. If you continue to hate someone, that feeling will
make you suffer someday.’

Lia dared to wish.

I hope that someday there will be someone who will tell her love, not hate, in her
life. I prayed with all my heart.

'Okay, but promise me you too.'

"Huh? What?"

"It won't be anyone's."

"Yes."

Slap!

The background and characters change with a burst sound.

The season is winter. An angry adoptive mother and an adopted daughter. Someone
watching it.

Do you know how much you donated because you've been poking around? But why are you
making such a fuss?’

'Oh, mother...….’

I can't stand it anymore. That's enough of the volunteer work. I didn't want to
come to a place like this anymore. I think I'm going to get germs. Ugh!
Lia stood blankly holding onto her red, swollen cheeks. The gallant Sarvina has
moved away. I was looking at her back and someone asked.

Why were you just getting hit?’

Oh, it's you.

Lia thought blankly.

What should I say?

Being a mother, it justifies the violence inflicted by the child's father.

Because your mother is a bad person? It justifies the self who caused the problem.

human contradictions that are infinitely generous to others but severe to

themselves

"Liar."

The child pressed Lia's silence.

You're right. I'm a liar.

I dared to ask you what I couldn't do. Trying to change a person's life with
unconvincing advice.

How stupid he is that?

* * *

“…….”

Lia opened her eyes.

The sweet melody of the piano tickled my ears. Classical music was coming from
somewhere.

"Where does it come from?"

Lia wiped away the tears on the back of her hand.

When I stood up, tears flowed from my unwashed eyes. Lia looked endlessly at the
small stains spreading on the sofa and looked up at the popularity felt in front of
her. And I took a breath without realizing it.
A white man was sitting opposite.

It is hard to approach a sharp exterior like a broken piece of glass, but when you
fold your blue eyes and smile, a gentle smile spreads and gives off a gentle
atmosphere.

"…… Evan?"

Lia carefully put his name in her mouth.

Ivan. It's Ivan.

Lia's fingertips moved forward, groping for the coffee table. But he couldn't bear
to reach the distance he sat.

The moment I touched it, it seemed to disappear. Wouldn't it flow down between your
fingers like a shapeless sand? In fact, isn't all this a dream?

Yes, dream.

It's a dream.

Evan can't be here.

with such a serene expression

"LIA."

Evan called her name in reply. The piano melody was harmonized with a sweet voice.

Lia closed her eyes and reflected on his voice.

It took a long time to raise my eyelids for fear that it would disappear if I
opened my eyes again.

But Ivan was there. She kept waiting for Lia.

"……I'm sorry."

Lia apologized to Ivan in the fantasy.

In reality, they rely on dreams to carry out what they can't do. The cowardly child
grew up to be a cowardly adult. Lia hated this self so much. Self-hatred again.

"Why are you apologizing?”

asked Evan, frowning.

"I put you in danger. I shouldn't have run away...….”

"Do you regret?"

"I don't know. I just, I didn't want it to be like this. I'm…"

I couldn't control this overflow of emotion. Lia paused and took a breath.

"I wanted Evan to be happy. I thought I'd only be unhappy if I was around."

Ivan is not the only one. People who are involved with them end up unhappy. Lia
recalled a child she met at a nursery school where she was volunteering.

"You're wrong. I'm even more unhappy when Lia isn't around. My only fear is that
when I open my eyes the next day, Lia is not with me."

Evan answered softly.

For a moment, Lia was choked up.

No, you don't know what you're really afraid of. A feeling of helplessness when a
loved one is in danger. A sense of shame from the fact that all this was caused by
me.

"Does such a man do this?”

It was an instant.

Lia rose impulsively and grabbed Ivan's arm. The sleeves rolled down to reveal the
scarring. I no longer wore a bandage, but the long, thin wound marks remained like
a brand.

"Why, did you do this? Why did you lie that it was Ishanna's?”

Chimi, who couldn't resist, asked, shaking Ivan's arm.

"I wanted to hog Lia's attention.”

The innocent, innocent answer made Lia despair.

"……really, are you doing this yourself?”

"Yeah. I'm sorry. by deception."

Lia lowered her head. As soon as I was confirmed the truth I didn't want to know
from my opponent, the pain in my imagination became a reality and strangled Lia.

It was strange. It was a dream but it hurt like reality.

"Are you angry?"

Ivan, who was staring at Lia, asked carefully. Lia shook her head.

"I'm not angry."

"You're lying. You're angry.”

"I feel sorry for you doing this because of things like me. So, I don't know what
to do...….”

Lia had nothing to do for this precarious soul. Every moment together, Ivan's soul
seemed to be worn out. He is in love with his own flesh. And Lia had no choice but
to watch it.

"It's like me. Then what am I to love Lia?"

Evan muttered in a sad voice. Then, when she saw Lia, she asked as if she was
throwing it.

"Why did you run away?"

"……I became afraid as my heart grew bigger for you."

You know everything about me, my weakness, my pathetic, my ugly self that I didn't
want anyone to know, but I don't know anything about you.

It further jeopardizes this shaky relationship.

"I don't know anything about you, Evan. And yet you take risks for me like this.
You end up doing bad things...…. It's not fair."

Lia let go of her arm. This time Evan went over the coffee table. As he approached,
Lia was pushed back.

It was finally when Lia fully leaned on her back.

"I'll let you know."

Evan held on to the back with one leg on the sofa. Then he took Lia's chin with his
other hand.

"That day, I visited with the aim of killing Gelbrun Henriksen.”

"Yes…?"

"The CIA ordered me to kill him. But he was already dead. If I didn't die, I'd kill
him with my own hands. Motivation is not for Lia. Because it was one of the many
missions of the CIA.”

Isn't it a dream?

Ivan's answer was too realistic because it was a dream.

"You asked me if I killed a man for you, didn't you?" No, but it's true he pushed
me to the brink of death.”

Evan's blue eyes stared at Lia. Lia swallowed her saliva in her mouth. And he
glanced at Ivan's hand, which held my chin. The warmth of my hands was warm. Also,
his breath falling over his head was vivid.

Finally, Lia realized that this was not a dream.

It was Evan.

He really appeared before my eyes.

"Putting it all together. Who?"

asked Lia in a quivering voice.

"Lia's sister. I took her passport and sent a reporter everywhere she was. I'm the
one who overturned the car and ordered it to be hospitalized. At the end, she
disguised herself as attacking me and put me in a psychiatric hospital."

Evan asked with a really pure eye for an answer.

"Would it have been better to kill him?"”

Lia couldn't say anything.

The fact that a person can destroy someone's life so meticulously, and that he or
she accepts the fact that he or she is the first man he or she loves.

I couldn't believe it.

"This is the ugly part I've been hiding. And Lia. I call this feeling love."

Lia shook her head.

"No, this isn't love, Ivan."

"The definition of love varies from person to person. Is it right to define the
emotions of billions of humans as a common interpretation?"

Lia kept shaking her head. And I pushed Ivan's hand, which grabbed my chin.

I have to push him out before I can be persuaded again. He was the only one who
could break up this dangerous relationship.

"Then Lia, name this emotion."

asked Ivan.

"If it's not love, what do I feel?"

Ivan put his hand on his chest and frowned painfully. Lia tried to answer as
rationally as possible.

"It's a desire to own like a thing."

"I won't deny that I have that feeling."

"No, that's all I'm thinking about...…, What?!"

Ivan's hands wrapped around Lia's cheek. The gaze from above was parallel. I can
feel his breath right under my nose.

"I know what love is. Lia taught me."

“……?”

"Love is a heart that truly cares for and cares for others. It's an effort to make
you happy, not to be unhappy. Love,

"Love is…"

Lia muttered unconsciously after Evan.

Words were already being played in my head. I once said the same thing. To the kid
who really wanted to be happy. I was talking about my ideals. I'm not ashamed of
myself.

"It's the most noble feeling in the world."

The sentence that was dead in Lia's past was revived through Ivan's voice.

No way.
"…… Ivan, you!"

Evan's warmth penetrated deep into his throat. I forgot about it for a long time.
His temperature, his breath. How hard the body in hand was, on the contrary, how
gently he hugged me.

"Wait, we, we, we talk,"

"You can't."

When her lips fell for a while, Lia hurriedly opened her mouth. But Evan couldn't
help but put his mouth together again.

My tongue got tangled up. Whenever my tongue rubbed, the sleeping bumps opened
their eyes one by one. The mucous membrane in the mouth became increasingly
sensitive.

"We're running out of time, Lia."

"Ha……, ha."

When Ivan finally let go of his lips first, his mouth did not move as if he had put
an anesthetic. Lia was just about to do it with her head down. The fluorescent
light was dazzling.

"Ha!"

Ivan's tongue came up, licking his neck. The hot breath stopped right in front of
my lips.

"I had a hard time sneaking in here."”

Evan whispered in a rather flushed voice.

"……What do you mean sneak in?”

"The guy who sold Rousseau the CIA agent's information."

Ivan's hand dug into Lia's thigh. As soon as I reached the zipper, the expectation
of the ball began to get wet.

"And the one who encouraged me to kill.”

Zeeks. The zipper is down. Lia dodged her eyes in shame as she might be caught in
her wet underwear.

"It's inside.”

Evan didn't care and whispered his hand into her underwear. A neat plot
disorganized his fingertips.

"Well, traitor, to the CIA...…, Do you have it?"

"That's correct."

Evan clutched at the table, clenched hands. Clitoris was crushed in his firm hand.
Lia took a big breath.

"If I don't identify myself, the traitor won't move hastily. I'm sorry, I left you
alone in this place like this. It was really scary, right?”

Evan was worried about Lia as if he had forgotten all the conversations he had just
had. However, she kept rubbing her head against it, making Lia's body defenseless.

"Huh, ha..., I ran away from you, Evan. Did you forget?"

"Yeah, yeah, I know. He ran away because he loved him so much. I understand
everything.”

Ivan poured kisses on Lia's neck, collarbone and every part of her lips.

"I won't lie to you again. I won't make you doubt it. My true feelings for Lia,
I'll show you everything now.”

"Ugh, sleep...!"

Evan laid Lia down on the sofa and climbed on top of her. I heard the sound of the
belt loosening from the lower body.

Are you going to do it until the end?’

Make a loud noise and someone will come in from outside. Ivan said the CIA had a
traitor. The best option she could choose in this situation was to hold her breath
and wait for Ivan's lust to subside.

No, I didn't even know I wanted to vent my passion. My body was wet and slippery.
Thinking rationally is just an excuse.

"Look, whenever I see LIA, she's so firm.”

Before I knew it, Ivan, who took out the genitals, rubbed the hardened porcelain
into Lia's stomach. It was not enough to bring Lia's hand and let her hold it.

"Do you still doubt my true feelings?" I don't stand up like this unless it's Lia."

"Well, that's a problem, ah...…, Well."

Whenever Lia tried to respond, Ivan pushed his tongue deep into his mouth and made
a mess.

"Lia, if you touch her, she's clingy, she's dusky."

Ivan was right. I've only rubbed it a few times, but the love that flowed out was
soaking in the conspiracy.

"I get hard, Lia gets soft. We're so compatible

Evan pushed a middle finger into a ball. The inner wall rocked with joy. At one
touch of his hand, the desire to be stabbed in the depths of his heart wiggled.

"No? Is it just a physiological phenomenon?"

"Ah, uh, ah...…!”

Fingers bent and stretched and violated the vaginal wall. When the fingers soaked
in love turned around, they seemed to be tense in front of them. Ivan's lower
abdomen, which cherished his middle finger, trembled.
"Lia has become a body that only responds to me.”

Ivan licked the tears in Lia's eyes.

Slowly savoring the taste, he whispered.

"Right?"

22.

Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft!

Frequent friction caused the walls to become limp. The doughnut-like swollen
entrance seemed to last quite a while.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...…!”

Lia gasped. My stomach was burning. My head feels dizzy. I held back my groan as
much as I could, but my voice became hoarse. To that extent, Ivan was pushing Lia.

If this pleasure continues, I felt like I would lose my reason and cry my head out.
Leah called his name urgently, hoping that it would stop.

"Ugh, hh, two, half...….”

"Yes, LIA. Good. I love it."

Ivan rubbed his smooth cheeks against Lia's body and murmured in a raised voice.
Even with Lia's plea, she had no intention of stopping this pleasant act. No,
rather, Lia believed she enjoyed it.

Every time I screwed up, the entrance of the uterus was sucking at my ears. Even
though it's been a long time since Lia's body did its best to embrace mine.

I was grateful and proud of it, so I hurriedly sprayed semen first. It was a sign
that Lia's body was mine.

"Ah, ah, ah, ah, stop, I want to go...…, Whoo...!”

Lia shook her head. But her legs were clinging tightly to Ivan's thick waist like a
cicada. Eventually, the uterus was lifted up and went away twice in a row.

Finally, Lia's reason was cut off.

There was a smell of semen everywhere. Every time Evan did his waist, semen flowed
from the jitgu and the smell became thicker. It wasn't a groan, it was supposed to
stop this fishy smell.
Even if I wanted to hide it inside the ship, so much semen poured out constantly
that it was impossible. continuous friction a burning womb a second chance. Freshly
wrapped semen was mixed and spilled over the creamy semen.

"Uh, hah. Lia, I see, I feel good. It keeps getting cheap."

"Ha, ha, ha...….”

"I wanted to keep going, huh, Lia left, back, back, inside. I wanted my semen,
full, full.”

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"Ha, da, cheap, uh, uh...….”

After finishing the assessment, Ivan crumpled up his big body and dug into Lia's
arms. Dazed by a slight fever, Lia unknowingly began to take off her coat.

"It's hot. It's hot."

It wasn't until Evan's bra was taken off that Lia realized the real reason she
wanted to take off her clothes. It was because I had an urge to breastfeed Ivan,
who was whining like a child.

Ivan tapped the flat nipple in front of him with his front teeth. As the nipples
began to rise little by little, the bumps were wrapped around the tongue. Finally,
the hardened papilla was inhaled with force on his cheek.

'Feeling good...'….’

Lia shivered. I felt cool as if toxins accumulated in my body were escaping. I was
just milked, but my whole body felt refreshed.

"Ugh...!"

At that moment, Lia's body shook. Ivan's mother, who is still stuck in her body,
began to assert herself. He grew in size by drinking milk that didn't even come
out.

Ivan pushed his lower body as deep as he buried his face in the milk. The uterus
was weighed down in the shape of a jaji, which was exfoliated, and even the bladder
was stimulated. There was a sudden rush of yoga.

Leah tapped Evan on the shoulder in a hurry.

"Lee, Ivan, me, cheap, uh, something to wrap, like...…!”

"Yes, LIA. You can wrap it. Whoo, it's okay. Me too, in Lia, how many times did I
wrap it, I don't know, uh. Ha. It's so cheap, my urethra, it hurts."

"No, ang, hwa, make-up, uh...…!”

When I gave strength to the pee hole, I also put strength to the vaginal ball. The
walls stuck tightly to the fence. That means the pressure got worse.

"Ah, uh, ah! Press down, press down, Ivan, room, glow, hhhhm...…!”

"Huh? Bladder?"
Ivan, who was sucking Lia's milk, finally raised his head. As Evan rose up, hot
urine flowed out of Lia's urethra.

“!”

Surprised, Lia gave her strength and barely held back her pee. I felt like my
stomach was twisting badly. My intestines were twisting.

"Lia, I have to pee."

Evan muttered as he looked at the transparent urine pooled in the joint. It was
like a little spring in the forest.

Lia's eyebrows were shaking. She looked at Ivan with pitiful eyes. As soon as he
said something, he felt like he was going to burst out like a fountain.

"I'm sorry, I didn't notice.”

Evan held Lia carefully without pulling out.

"The sofa, don't get wet. Let's go to the bathroom."

Evan sat on the toilet, hugging Lia. I didn't get out once before I hugged and came
to the bathroom.

Lia said, loosening her arms around Ivan's neck.

"Please take it out..."

"Wrap it in this position."

"What, what, no...…!”

Lia flashed her head. Evan looked at Lia cutely and whispered.

"Lia wants to wet herself with urine. It's all right, hoo, wet it. What?"

"Well, I don't want to. Please, please take it out, oh, oh?"

As Lia continued to insist, Ivan began to lift his back. Lia recoiled and
blackened. I could feel the water swaying in the bladder.

"I can't help it, yes. Let me help you. Come on, shh, let's do it."

"Uh, ah, ah!"

As Lia continued to hold out, Ivan even touched Clitoris with his thumb. Just as
animals rub their genitals with their tongues to help their young pee.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"Oh, it was cheap."

Pouring water.

Finally, transparent urine flowed down and wet the groin. Soon, the urine stem
continued even after riding the thighs and legs.
Lia tried to control her urine volume somehow. However, he soon realized that it
was meaningless and eventually completely relaxed.

"Lia peed warm."

"Oh, my God.….”

"Did you feel good, LIA?"

"Oh, my"

Leah leaned her head on Ivan's shoulder and drooped. Finally, Lia, who emptied all
her bladder, whimpered like a child. As if applying ointment to shame, Evan gently
encouraged and praised Lia.

Good job, good job.

Lia didn't have the energy to get angry either. I just thought it was a relief that
I didn't get caught by anyone other than Evan.

"Oh, it hurts. It's tingling...."

"Should I take a shower now?"

Ivan whispered softly.

Thinking it was finally over, Lia raised her waist and pulled out the cock. When
the head of the ear came out with a pop sound, the lump of semen fell into the
toilet in the slightly opened vagina. Unlike when the urine flowed, the sound was
heavy.

"Come here, Lia."

Lia walked in front of the shower booth with Evan's help. His legs trembled like a
newborn deer cub. At last, Ivan came inside and tried to grab the shower, but Evan
took the lead first.

"The water temperature is too cold here."

Ivan, who turned the lever toward the hot water, murmured complainingly. When the
hot water finally came out, Ivan wet Lia's chest from afar.

"I'll do it, crab."

"You can't even stand up properly."

Evan stopped Lia from taking the shower away.

A stream of water came up along the calves and thighs. Soon after, when it reached
the groin, the semen and love money dried up in the plot were swept away.

"Come on, lean on me, Leah. There you go."

"Hmm...."

Leah stood with her back against Evan's body as he told her to. Now the water has
reached over my chest. Ivan grinned as he gently rubbed Lia's body with his other
hand.
"It's like watering a flower."

"Ugh……."

Ivan chattered on behalf of Lia, who was too tired to refute.

"Here, do you feed me well?”

"...Yes, for every meal, bring me a lunch box."

"It must be an instant."

"But, well, I'm eating, I'm eating...….”

"Really? I'm proud of you."

Evan smiled relievedly.

At that time, the hand that was kneeling came between the legs.

"Are you wiping yourself clean?”

"Yes…?"

"Look, here. You have to clean the space between Poppy."

Evan lifted Poppy between the plots with his index finger. When she tapped
Clitoris, who was bouncy with her middle finger, Lia shook her body.

"I learned that women also have something like love in them."

"Oh, uh...?!"

"Especially on a day like today, I've packed a lot, so the semen could dry up a
lot.”

"Oh, sleep... hhhhhhhm...…!”

Evan spun Poppy around and checked between Clitoris.

"It's clean. But just in case."

Evan covered the clitoris with a shower head. The stream of water shook and
stimulated the negative nucleus. Leah put her nails up and grabbed Evan's body in a
hurry due to unfamiliar stimuli

"Oh, yeah, Ivan, stop...…!”

"I'm washing it clean. Why?"

"Shi, no, ah, I feel weird...…!”

"It's not weird, it's good, right?”

Ivan pinched Lia's papilla with his other hand and twisted it slightly. When Lia's
lower body was about to collapse, he skillfully raised his knees to block it.

"I'm telling you how to defend yourself.”

"Ah, uh, ah...…!”

Evan turned the shower around in close contact with the sound.

I felt like I was lying on the beach with my legs wide open. The waves gently
licked the sound, then moved away, came back, and seemed to repeat licking.

"If you miss the taste of my hands, come in here and wash yourself. All right,
Lia?"

"Ha, ha, oh, no, I don't, I don't...…!”

"If you masturbate in bed, your blanket gets wet. Lia can't because she has too
much water. Look, I'm still washing up with water, and I can't stop smelling wet
inside."

H. There must be a lot of our secretions on the sofa, so I'll clean it up before I
go. I'll do it. Don't mind Lia," Ivan whispered.

"Oh, oh...!"

Then Lia began to tremble in her arms.

"Huh, uh...!"

It's finally coming to a head.

Evan slowly led Lia's body to the floor. When Ivan loosened his strength from his
hands, Lia's body, which was finally liberated, fell forward.

"Ha. Ha. Ha...….”

She trembled with her hips upright. Under the tightly closed pink anus, a water-
soaked vagina sprang up. It wasn't just that. Ivan's handprints and teeth marks
were filled everywhere.

Evan was mesmerized and looked at the red marks he left behind.

"LIA, I was going to let you rest, but why are you seducing me like this?”

Evan had a hard-boiled shod in his hand like a shower. With her other hand, she
grabbed Lia's butt and hit her ears with a jill-ball. As it was, Lia pushed it deep
to the root of the cock without any time to react.

"Oh, yeah!"

Smack!

A dark conspiracy clung to the white butt. Evan nudged in with a lot of force.
Every time, tiny drops of water on the body splashed in all directions. Lia lost
her mind as she stared blankly at the red genitals going in and out of me
relentlessly.

* * *
When I opened my eyes,

Lia was alone in the bed.

"Dream..."

However, I was convinced that it was not a dream due to the heat remaining in the
lower body. There were also a lot of red marks on the collarbone.

Lia, who was feeling her body, was lost in thought for a moment. It was a hard
single bed for two people to lie down on. Lia hurriedly opened the bedroom door
just in case.

"Hello, Lia."

Lia was relieved by the greeting she heard from somewhere. But it took time to find
Evan. He stood in the darkest corner of the living room, not very wide.

"You haven't gone yet.”

"Yeah, I can't get my feet off LIA when she's asleep. More than that,"

Ivan nodded out of the window with his arms folded.

"The real CIA agents are protecting Lia. You're relieved, right?

Lia approached him and shook her head.

"No one is interested in me.”

"You'll know what happens if you touch mine."

Evan added casually.

"It's a joke, Lia."

Evan reached out and pulled Lia. Lia's body spun around and settled in Ivan's arms.
It was a position where the inside could not be observed from any angle from the
outside.

“…….”

“…….”

Evan said nothing.

It was about time to leave. Lia could vaguely understand how he felt. Even if it's
safe, it's hard to leave yourself alone.

But even if you take him,

I'm just a burden.’

Lia closed her eyes and thought.

I tried to run away from Evan, but now I want to follow him. Alas, but I couldn't
leave Ivan alone walking to hell. Because it was for him to run away.
That's what I believed.

"What are you going to do now?"

"We need to find a traitor."

Ivan lifted Lia's hair with his fingertips. Last night, Saekaman's hair, which was
beautifully disheveled underneath me, shook like a thread hanging out of the
universe. I still knew the figure before my eyes.

"There's a way to get away with her."

“…….”

"I want to prove it.”

"What?"

"I'm not as evil as LIA thinks I am"

Lia looked up. Ivan folded his eyes and smiled when his eyes met.

The harmless smile made Lia feel like she was the perpetrator. It was a man who
caused guilt to his opponent. But even this couldn't be blamed.

"I have to bring proof that I didn't kill Ishanna."

“…….”

"I promise you, I'll never do anything Lia doesn't like after all this. I want to
live with Lia for the rest of my life."

After speaking, Ivan stared at Lia.

Now it was Lia's turn to answer. But his mouth didn't fall off easily. Time was
running out, but there were so many things I wanted to ask.

"I just proposed."

"……What?"

Lia asked back in surprise.

"I thought it was time to propose. Didn't Lia have similar thoughts?”

"No, I'm not.…!”

I was at a loss for words for a moment. I can't believe you proposed to me in this
situation. The misunderstanding hasn't been resolved yet.

"Was it too fast?"

Ivan blinked innocently.

"You can answer slowly."

Ivan gently released Lia's body. Why does he feel sorry as he gets farther away?

"Wait a minute, Ivan."

"What?"

"We've met before, haven't we?" A long time ago...."

Lia blurted out the end of her words.

Evan thought it over and smiled

"Well? Answer the proposal and I'll let you know then.”

He swung round to the door.

Lia asked urgently.

"You're coming back, aren't you?"”

"Of course, I have to hear the answer to your proposal. H. Clear up the
misunderstandings between us."

"Well, what am I supposed to do here in the meantime?"

I didn't want to hold Ivan back from leaving to clear up the misunderstanding. Yes,
this time we don't run away and face it properly. No, it was exactly the next time.
If there's another chance.

"LIA is..."

Evan stopped and murmured.

"Lia only thinks about me. Just as I always think about Lia."

That was Ivan's last words.

* * *

“…….”

The corridor on the third floor heading to the northern annex was unusually bleak.
Several lights were left broken, and the sun did not cut well, so the air that
touched the skin was filled.

Eric felt more strange today. Is it because my footsteps echo in the empty hallway?
Or simply because of the flu. Although he was born with a healthy body, he was
vulnerable to stress due to his sensitive personality.

It's crumpled.

Eric took a vitamin out of his pocket and chewed it and walked fast. Come to think
of it, there was an announcement that a mechanic would visit to replace the
stabilizer.

When are you going to fix it?’

It was time to pass the corner where the iron cabinet was attached.
"Where are you going in such a hurry?"

It was a voice that should not have been heard.

Eric stopped there and slowly turned his head.

When his stiff neck was finally fixed, Eric's body hardened like a ghost.

"Please say my name when I see you after a long time."

He's my colleague.

It was Ivan who walked out of the dark. dressed as a mechanic Eric quickly checked
around. The CCTV lights were all off.

Eric asked in a subdued voice.

"Why did you hide your identity?"

"I never hid it. Look, it's one of the things the CIA created for me

It's not mine.

Evan nastily waved the pass card around his neck. Tuck. The pass card in my hand
fell between the beautifully swollen breastbone.

"This place is safe."

Eric said.

Ivan laughed.

"You interrogated all the agents, but you couldn't find the unsub? But according to
Eliza, the unsub has no choice but to be an insider. What does this mean?”

“…….”

Erik shut up when Evan asked a persistent question.

All agents proved their alibi, which meant they were all back on the list of
suspects. The inquest failed perfectly. Only insiders had access to the agent list.

Eventually, the incident fell into disarray again.

"The director is trying to figure out a way."

"Yes, I suppose so."

Evan was sarcastic. Then he said with a gentle smile.

"Have you ever thought about the possibility that there was no traitor among the
agents from the beginning?”

"What? So how did the Rousseau get a list of CIA agents?”

There was no sign of an outsider's intrusion into the CIA security system. Eric
couldn't agree with Ivan.
At that time, Ivan clapped his hands to make a clap and rubbed them. He changed the
subject.

"Should I talk about something else?" We don't have time."

Eric was impressed by Evan's appearance of bringing up the topic first and ending
it on his own.

"Don't trust Eliza too much. No. I'll correct you. Don't commit yourself. Don't
risk everything you got, Eric."

"What?"

"You can't be a loyal dog either. What kind of dog is a dog that has a rut on its
owner? It's a rutting male."

"You punk...!”

Eric's face was grimly distorted. One more word, and I was about to blow my fist.

"Remember the first mission we had together?”

“!”

Eric paused.

Search for CIA agents who are having an affair with the Red Mafia. It was a secret
order from Elijah, then deputy director.

At the time, she gave Eric Evan as her partner. a tiresome bad relationship that
has been going on like that I wanted to cut it off today.

"Actually, I was the only one on the mission.”

Eric gave me a look at what he was talking about. Evan looked at the flashing
lights frantically due to a malfunction of the stabilizer.

Finally, when the light bulb was picked up, he spoke.

"Eliza thought you joined hands with the Red Mafia, too."

"……What, what?"

Eric's face turned white. It took me a while to understand Ivan's words because I
was blank in my head. The mind understood, but the mind was still unconvinced.

"…… you, you saved me? So, you want me to say thank you?

Eric tried to pretend to be fine and asked back.

I know, this isn't the question I'm supposed to ask now. However, I didn't want to
turn the arrow to Eliza.

You're saying the director ordered Ivan to kill me too?’

No. You didn't trust me at the time. Eliza is a woman who doesn't give her side
easily. But it was different now. Yeah, it's different now. Now he was the complete
right-hand man of Eliza. Eric had to continue to persuade himself.
"The expression 'saved' is embarrassing. If I had to argue, he cleared me of the
charges. During the investigation, I realized that you had no connection with the
Red Mafia. You can't kill a good agent, can you? Even if it's an order."

If you kill an innocent person, your bed feels uncomfortable. Evan muttered.

Eric clenched his fist so tightly that his hands were pale. The fingernails dug
into the skin. The painful spread reminded me that all of this was real.

"Then Eliza got really angry. What's wrong with your work? Isn't it funny? I was
supposed to come in as an agent. You always treat me like a contractor."

Why has Ivan been hiding this fact for a long time? Eric glared at Ivan.

It wouldn't be a lie. The reason Evan hasn't said it so far.

That's.

'It wouldn't have been any good to tell you that at the time.’

After letting time pass by in silence, Ivan knew that Eliza and Eric's relationship
had to be stronger and then burst. As expected, Evan took out his cell phone and
looked.

"If you don't believe it, the recorded conversation,"

"That's enough."

Eric cut Ivan's words coldly.

"You're disgusting."

Eric was sick of Evan's behavior of holding on to his weaknesses and controlling
others. But now that I think about it, I've been signaling myself throughout the
class.

Don't love Eliza any more.

Maybe I wasn't mocking my love for Eliza simply to scratch my nerves. In fact, Ivan
sympathized with Eric.

The wax figure who has come to admire the sun is pitiful. Even if you reach the
object of yearning, your whole body will eventually melt away. Nevertheless, the
human being who throws my whole body away

What a silly creature.

"How many times have you regretted standing next to Eliza?”

Ivan asked, glittering curious eyes. She only thinks of you as a tool. That's what
cold blue eyes seemed to say.

"This is my last chance to part with her, Eric. Don't stand in the wrong place."

Evan tapped Eric on the shoulder.

Eric couldn't even move until Evan left. Finally, when Ivan's footsteps were not
heard, his life was over until the last light.
There was nothing but silence and darkness in the hallway.

And,

Distrust.

It's shaking

a love affair

* * *

- We've located Rousseau. I'm currently staying at my acquaintance's workplace.

It's a membership club run by an Italian smuggler.

"Good job."

Evan, who left the Nordic branch of the CIA, ripped off the silicon mask and threw
it into the lake. The skin of a real human face seemed to float on the water.

- Did you come out alone?

"Yes, that's right. Why?"

- No, I thought it would be dangerous to keep Miss Lia in the office.

"It's all right. I've hidden all the equipment I need to escape. We've planted a
side of us

clattering

Ivan replied, loading his gun.

"If you're on our side, do you mean Eric?"

Skull murmured indignantly, "How did you seduce him?"

"Man's mind is delicate."

Ivan smiled mischievously and added.

"The rest depends on Lia's will. If Lia decides to join me, everything will go
according to my plan."

Skull asked back after a moment of silence.

- What if Lia doesn't do what Yelka wants?

"Are you worried about me, Skull? It's sweet."

Evan smiled pleasantly. He answered in a confident voice.

"Lia is supposed to pick me.”

Just like the day when you looked at me out of all the kids. Just as he couldn't
leave no matter how crazy he was.

Leah, you denied it, but we're meant to be. I also accepted the fact that no one
could separate us.

It's your turn now.

Pick me as best you can.

Lia proves that we are meant to be.

"Lia is mine.”

* * *

So, what am I supposed to do here in the meantime?’

'Lia only thinks about me. Just as I always think about Lia.'

Ivan's last words lingered in my head throughout.

Lia folded her fingers under the desk. Slowly raising his head, he saw a middle-
aged man sitting across from him. He took out the glasses in his front pocket and
wiped them.

Lia was in the interrogation room.

'Why am I here...….’

Inside the narrow square space, there were only two desks and chairs in the center.
And the magic mirror on one side of the wall. Lia glanced at the window that didn't
illuminate anything. At least it was clear that there was no one on the other side.

The man opposite introduced himself as a lawyer. It did not explain who it was
defending. Perhaps he was ready to ask a new question, he opened his mouth and
closed his jaw muscles. In Lia's eyes, the figure felt like a predator's warm-up to
chew on the soft bones of the prey.

"Is it true that you lost your mind and were kidnapped by Ivan Yelka right after
the incident?"

Lia wrinkled her brows.

"That day, I fainted because of the sound of the gunfire. Evan is trying to protect
me.….”

The man lifted his glasses with one hand. Then he sighed and tapped his index
finger on the desk.

"It's not protection, it's confinement."

The lawyer corrected Lia's expression.

"Are you going to testify in court like this? Ivan Yelka protected her? It's
against Mr. Henriksen."

"What do you mean a court?"

As Lia's voice shook, the lawyer rummaged through the envelope as if he had been
waiting. Then he threw the paper on the table one by one.

Tap, tap, tap.

Lia counted the numbers.

One, two, three.

A total of three pictures spread out on the desk. Each one had a different face,
and the common thing was that they were all black-haired Asians. The age group was
similar.

"These are the victims of Ivan Yelka. They all have something in common: Asian
women like Mr. Henriksen.”

"Victims?"

"Yes, they were all killed after something similar to Miss Lia."

Murder?

Lia blinked slowly. I didn't understand this situation at all.

"If everything you just said is true, does it mean that the CIA has ignored it all
this time?”

Lia asked cautiously.

"What does that mean?"

The lawyer leaned forward with his fingers crossed.

"The director of the CIA told me. I don't have any value for the CIA. So, Evan
allowed me to be locked up. That means Evan knows he'll kill me in the end...…, You
mean you didn't do anything?”

The lawyer faltered at the unexpected answer.

"Can you take responsibility for that?"

"Isn't the blame on the CIA, not on me? I've pretended not to know everything
that's happened...….”

Lia slipped her hand over the picture.

"I don't know why you're lying."

She gathered the pictures in front of me and pushed them toward the lawyer.

"There's no way Evan would do such a thing."

The ensuing voice was certain.

Rather than the fear that Ivan would kill himself, the fear that he might kill
others or take his own life came more realistic. Evan, who has been watching for a
long time, was such a man.

"It's a typical Stockholm syndrome.”

The lawyer was not embarrassed. Rather, Lia's face became more confident when she
showed strong faith in Ivan. It was an attitude that spreading the shoulders wide
held the chance to win.

"I don't know because I'm the same sex, but for women, a man like Ivan Yelka would
be attractive."

“…….”

"Isn't it the subject of fiction that psychopaths blindly love a person? Long in
safe custody of such a dangerous man. You may be under the illusion that you are
special. I understand."

The lawyer quickly turned into a clinical psychologist. She even nodded with a
smile as if she understood Lia. It was a disgustingly gracious smile. But even a
fool could see a knife hidden behind his back.

"Mr. Henriksen, the emotional and physical communion you had with the man is all
false. It's all his fantasy.”

The level of conversation quickly rose. Lia's face flushed with shame. It was time
for the lawyer to continue his unpleasant brainwashing.

"That's it."

The closed door opened. It was Elijah who came inside.

"Come out."

Eliza's head motion raised the lawyer.

Eliza strode up and sat where the man was. She looked at the scattered pictures on
the desk and smirked as if she understood what had happened.

"Are you serious?"

She looked back and asked. When he looked sternly at me, wondering if I could only
think of such a repertoire, the lawyer rolled his eyes rigidly.

Eliza sighed deeply and waved her hand. The lawyer hurried out.

"He's a big shot in the business. But now it's like I'm grumbling at my words."

Eliza tore up the photo taken by the lawyer, saying it was Ivan's victims, and
scattered it on the floor.

"I guess I've lost my touch since I got older. What a cheap trick you're trying to
fool. Don't you think so, Leah Henriksen?"

Eliza looked at Syria with her arms folded.

"It was all a lie, after all a lie.”

Eliza did not answer. It wasn't to avoid answering. It was close to thinking it
wasn't worth answering.

Why does the CIA director want to tear me apart from Ivan? Lia looked at Eliza with
anxious eyes.

"Do you know how I got here?"

“……?”

"If a woman is to succeed, she must have everything but herself as an enemy. Keep
that in mind, Henriksen."

Eliza pronounced "Henriksen" with particular emphasis. Lia's expression hardened,

and she quickly noticed and asked.

"I don't like the way you call me Henriksen."

Lia did not answer.

"I suppose so. A family of criminals who have been involved with gangs.”

"……What?"

However, he had no choice but to respond to the words that followed.

"Why am I so surprised? Don't tell me, you never noticed while working as a family
secretary? Have you ever put your hands on your conscience and siphoned off your
father's political funds?"

"Political funds, I have never...…!”

Lia's face turned blue.

"Does your father have an affair with a gang?"’

Is this also a lie?

The allegation that Ivan kidnapped and killed Asian women was not only poorly
founded, but also failed to crack Lia's affection for Ivan. Moreover, if Ivan is
the child that Lia remembers.

But what about family problems?

It could have been a hidden truth, just that I didn't know.

Once again, the shadow of the Henriksen family came over Lia. Lia was obedient to
her misfortunes. However, it was different from the past that he made a voice for
himself.

"As far as I know, I've never been involved in anything illegal.

But if that's true, I'll cooperate with the investigation as much as possible”

"You're pretty clever, aren't you?”

“?”

"Isn't he siding with the child of the mental patient who kidnapped him or
pretending not to know about the irregularities committed by the family?"

"Don't talk to Ivan like that."

A psychopath. I wasn't supposed to hear that. Evan. The child is...…. Lia bit her
lips without realizing it.

Eliza pressed Lia, ignoring her words lightly.

"The evidence we have shows that you were involved in the Henriksen family's money
laundering."

"No, I swear,"

"I'll give you two choices, Henriksen."

Eliza stood up with her hands on the desk. Her shadow overwhelmed Lia.

"Choose one, whether to admit the Henriksen family corruption and go to jail, or to
testify in court that Ivan Yelka was the victim of kidnapping and confinement."

I meant to kill either myself or Ivan.

Lia was greatly embarrassed.

"Well, I don't know, but why are you doing this to Ivan?”

When I first came here, Eliza seemed to have no interest in Lia. I even told my
face it wasn't worth it. However, now she was pushing Lia, even mentioning the
matter of her dead family.

As if I was waiting for the right time.

Was all this her ploy? To keep oneself off guard yourself.

'Cause you're worth it

Eliza smiled. It was a face that showed Lia's mind clearly.

Eliza turned her desk and stood next to Lia. She pulled Lia's chin up as hard as
she could.

"Because Evan betrayed me.”

"Betrayal, Evan?"

"He handed over the CIA list to the gang. That lunatic is killing an innocent
agent.”

“?!”

It can't be.

I heard Rousseau put a bounty on Ivan's neck. But Evan is a traitor? It didn't add
up.

But Leah couldn't argue hastily. It was Eric and Ivan who told the truth. If Eliza
was questioning who she heard it from, she had no choice but to mention the name of
one of them.
“…….”

At the crossroads of choice again, Lia chose silence.

Fortunately, Eliza let go of Lia's jaw as if she didn't notice the real reason why
she didn't say anything.

"So forget about the traitor and cooperate with us."

"There's no way Evan would betray the CIA."

"The man who imprisoned you. What do you trust and be confident about?"

"It's against Ivan's conviction to hurt innocent people."

"I can't believe you even used the word 'belief' to a lunatic.”

Eliza burst out laughing.

She murmured, looking into the distance.

"A man in love is so lovely. The part where I give everything to the other person.
It's kind of pathetic.”

“…….”

"I want you to sacrifice Ivan if you can. Didn't he run away because he hated it so
much?"

Eliza whispered softly.

No, she's wrong. He loved Evan more than anyone else. I still missed him deeply.

Lia shut her mouth tightly. The current silence was the only resistance she could
make.

"Then I'll go home today."

Eliza scoured Lia up and down and went out. He was confident that it was only a
matter of time.

* * *

Entering the director's office, she took out her cell phone hidden in the safe.

Missed calls were piled up. Even now, the phone was on the way. When I pressed the
call button, a violent curse poured out.

- That crazy punk is cracking up on my men! What are you going to do?

"What's the problem? If it's ruined, it'd be enough to fill it up with another guy.
Were you such a loving person?"

Eliza responded nonchalantly. As she calmed down, her opponent flared up.
- Damn it. If things go wrong, I'll tear you apart.

Don't worry, I'll never be at a disadvantage as long as Lia Henriksen is here.

Eliza swallowed her laughter.

"I'll send you a new mercenary, so you take care of your job."

- a dog's ass Send them to the right guys! And, just backstabbing. Right now, I'm
going to

Stop.

Eliza unilaterally hung up the phone. It felt like talking to a parrot who could
only repeat one thing.

"You idiot."

If you take care of Ivan, I'll break your neck first. Eliza took out the bourbon
whisky she had left in the drawer of her desk and drank it up.

After drinking the second cup in a row, she pressed the pager.

"Call Eric."

It's time for another interrogation.

Now, Eric, whose side are you on?

* * *

Eric sniffed as soon as he came inside. Eric, who quickly noticed the smell of
alcohol in the air, asked, frowning.

"Did you drink?"

"It was a tough day."

Eliza took a bottle of whiskey from the drawer and put it down on her desk as if
she had no intention of making excuses.

"Will you have a drink?"

She asked, pouring the third cup.

"Whisky is not my cup of tea."

"Yes, you preferred vodka to whiskey. That's why I thought you were a damn
Communist spy."

Eliza laughed as she held up a glass full of wine. It's been a long time of CIA
humor, but Eric couldn't just laugh along.

It was after Ivan told me that Eliza had believed me to be a traitor in the past. I
was suddenly afraid that the belief might still be valid.
"The director is an ardent patriot."

Eric hit back with his whisky chin.

Eliza drank the third glass. I'm a patriot. You're a patriot. I only drive domestic
cars. Eliza muttered to herself and suddenly threw away the glass in her hand.

It's clink!

"Director..."!

"Do you know what's the hardest thing about working on this floor?"

Eric stopped trying to pick up a broken piece of glass.

"To protect the country, we need the power of the damn foreigners. You mean the
locals. Yeah, like Ivan Yelka!"

"What did Evan do?”

"It's him."

Eliza wrinkled her face.

"He handed over a list of CIA agents to a gang in his country.”

"What?"

Eric was suspicious of my ears. He lifted his head from the floor as he gazed at
the menacing glittering debris.

Eliza grabbed the desk and vented her anger.

"I gave too much power to the white devil."

“…….”

"I didn't believe it, I needed it. Necessary evil, yes. I'm paying for my crime.”

“…….”

Eric gently gripped his right hand. As if a piece of glass had been embedded, the
sense of the fingertips gradually faded.

'Eliza thought you joined hands with the Red Mafia, too.’

The specter of the past came back to life in my head.

Eric remembered his colleagues, no, traitors, who were murdered by Ivan that day. I
believed it was a colleague. Although they were not close, they sometimes drank
together and asked after their families.

If it wasn't for Evan, he'd be...….

"Director, I used to..."

Eric hesitated and blurted the end of his speech.

I'm

Is it true you suspected a traitor? I've given orders to shoot him

"You're the only one I can trust now, Eric."

“!”

Eric suddenly raised his head.

Eliza was looking at herself with unshakable eyes.

Yes, I needed this very certainty. No matter how many times I heard it, it wasn't
enough. Eliza was a foggy woman. Everything is obscured from a distance, making it
difficult to see even the shape. Fortunately, even if you get close, you can't get
your hands on it.

I wanted you like that.

I wanted your trust.

"But didn't you say that Rousseau put a reward on Ivan's neck?"

"It was all acting. He held hands with Russo and hit me in the back of my head."

“…….”

Alas, still a foggy woman today.

Can I part with you like the white devil's horse?

What the hell are you thinking about?’

Eric was lost in thought.

Eliza's words didn't add up for the life of me.

"I don't understand. Why does Ivan betray the CIA?"

"He asked me to delete all of his data related to the CIA one day. But when I
refused, he was vindictive. He had the woman he wanted, so he was going to break up
with this world."

"Why didn't you do what Evan wanted?”

"If such a dangerous man wanted to leave the CIA, he had to keep a minimum shackle.
It's better than killing. Don't you think so?"

Eliza replied unshakably. In time, she came one step ahead of Eric.

"But because of Lia Henriksen's escape, Ivan's plan went awry."

Eliza's hand gently touched Eric's cheek.

"I'm proud of you."

“…….”

"I was always worried because I was so affectionate, but I didn't expect that to
help me. I'm telling you, we don't know about people."

Eric asked after a long silence.

"Are you going to use Miss Lia as bait to threaten Ivan?"

"Well."

Eliza moved away with a disdainful smile.

"Just keep it to yourself first."

Maybe it's a little bit of course

Is it trust earned by sacrificing others?

What a miserable pleasure this is.

"……I see."

Eric answered with his eyes closed.

Leah Henriksen had a vague idea of what was going to happen. My heart tightened
with guilt. But even this will not last long. The gray fog that surrounds you will
blind your conscience.

salvation and conscience

Eric had to choose only one.

* * *

"Henriksen, have you decided to put Ivan on the bench? There's nothing much for you
to do. He found out that he was shooting a CIA agent and ran away. It's enough to
testify like that's enough.’

'I can't do that.’

That night, Eliza visited Lia again.

Even when she said it was her last chance, Lia firmly nailed that she did not
intend to take Evan to court as a kidnapper.

The mind was unshakable.

'Really? You'll regret that decision.’

So Lia was moved to another place.

I walked for quite a long time with my face covered with black cloth. At first, I
tried to remember the direction by the number of steps or the position of sunlight,
but eventually I gave up when I realized it was impossible.

The new residence was a small room with no windows. At least a separate bathroom
protected Lia's dignity. Except for that, it was a prison space.

Leah crouched on the bed and waited anxiously for the door to open. And I dared to
hope that the man I imagined stood in front of the open door.

Like before, like so many moments when he saved himself.

"……Ivan."

Suddenly, my eyes were wet with tears. Just before the slightly larger teardrops
flowed down, Lia wiped her eyes with her hands.

'I can't be weak...….’

There was no torture or threat, but the fact that she was trapped alone in a small
space put psychological pressure on Lia. Now the food has also entered the small
sliding door under the door.

Full-fledged isolation and criminal treatment.

If Evan gets caught, he'll be worse than this, right? It broke my heart to imagine
that.

"If I were to blame for my family's sins...….’

If you go to jail like that, will Evan at least be safe? Without the baggage that
holds him back, Evan could live well anywhere.

'As long as I'm stuck here, Evan is bound to be in danger. What should I do? If you
come to my rescue and get caught...….’

At least you can tell me the CIA is after Ivan. But this time again, Lia couldn't
do anything. Other than just being helplessly locked up.

23.

'You look very emaciated, by the way. Why don't you take sick leave for a couple of
days?'

'No, I can't believe I'm on sick leave in this situation.'

'I'll need you a lot in the future, and I hope you're in the best condition. In the
meantime, I'll think about what to do with the traitor.'

"All right."

Eric, once again, you and I are the only ones who know about this

"Yes, sir."

As Eliza said, Eric, who was under extreme stress, was finally hospitalized for
half a day before his condition improved. It was the first time I felt so helpless.

There was no contact from Eliza while coming back to the Nordic branch. I wish
you'd tell me what you'd do in the future.

Is Evan really a traitor? No, it can't be. Then did the director misunderstand?"

Finally, Eric recovered his energy and calmly arranged the situation. I had to
figure out Eliza's intentions.

Eric put a cigarette in his mouth.

The headquarters is said to have made a fuss about this. It was the first time that
a number of agents were killed in a foreign country in the shortest time. It was
also caused by an insider leaking the list of agents.

There were already a lot of people who disapproved of Eliza, the director of the
women's bureau. It was like that again this time. Eliza had no choice but to be hit
hard if she could not find the criminal early.

"Are you going to put it all on Ivan?"

Ivan was born in Le Eden and was a gang member. It was convincing enough that he
betrayed the CIA.

In the past, it would have been impossible to turn Evan into an enemy. But it's
different now. Evan, who is perfect, has a weakness.

his first bond on earth

Leah Henriksen.

Her presence demoted Ivan to a normal human being. Ivan was able to gain the upper
hand for life because he had no lingering feelings about life. This is because
there was no desire to have something crazy and to own it.

"Are you going to use Miss Lia as bait to threaten Ivan?"

"Well."
Eric understood at once the meaning of Eliza's impertinent smile. She will use Lia
by all means for her own ends.

Eliza made the worst choice because she rescued Lia Henriksen. I can't believe you
turned Ivan Yelka into an enemy.

"You said you believed me, but you didn't tell me the real purpose."

Eric was more worried than disappointed.

Eliza kept this insidious plan under wraps. Eric was no exception. Even though he
finally found out about Eliza's situation, there was nothing Eric could do in this
situation.

but.

If Evan finds a traitor...….’

I forgot that the cigarette filter was burning, so even my fingers were heated.

"Oh, my God."

Eric shook off his hand a beat late. The ugly shrunken filter fell to the floor. It
looked like who it is now.

Eric caressed around his mouth with a nicotine-stained palm. As if running away
from reality, he was bitten by another cigarette in his mouth and threw it to the
floor.

It was time to choose.

Will I be loved as Eliza's dog again? Whether to protect human conscience by

choosing Leah Henriksen.

Finally, Eric, who made a decision, headed to the building where Lia was.

"What do you mean you don't have access?"

"It's the director's order."

When Eric found Lia, he was already a step behind.

"At the moment, the only person who can see the suspect is Director Eliza McClane."

"Suspect?"

Since when has Miss Lia been on the CIA's list of investigations? Instead of asking
the security guard more, Eric accessed the CIA database.

Sure enough.

The folder of the corruption case of Gelbrun Henriksen, which was thought to have
ended the investigation, was restored again. It was only two days after talking to
Eliza.

Is this what he ordered himself to take two days off for?

Eric covered his darkened vision with his hands. Darkness bloomed where the fog
that was covering my eyes disappeared. I felt like I was sinking deep into the
darkness.

* * *

"Director."

"Eric."

The director's office, which he visited again, was filled with thick cigarette
smoke instead of the smell of alcohol. Eric stood at his desk through the foggy
smoke.

"How did the Gelbrunn Henriksen investigation resume?"

"Our original purpose was to expose the fact that Gelbrun Henriksen was involved
with the Le Eden gang. But Ivan Yelka stopped him. Why? Because his adopted
daughter, Lia Henriksen, will be put on the guillotine."

Eliza rubbed out her cigarette in the ashtray.

"You asked me if I was going to use the Leah Henriksen Yeah, I think I'll use all
the cards I have. What's the problem?"

Eric faltered at Eliza's brazen response.

"Do you regret bringing in Lia Henriksen? I'm very glad you brought her."

Eliza smiled with her chin on the back of her clasped hand. Eric spoke with
determination.

"I'll leave it to Ivan again."

"What do you mean?"

Eliza's eyes narrowed.

"Don't you know that Ivan is not the culprit? It's not too late."

Eliza opened her eyes wide, a little startled. Well, you're not that tactless
either. Eliza smirked with a face that she had expected at this point.

"The last two days have been a period of monitoring whether you're a really
reliable subordinate. Fortunately, you gave me faith. I haven't contacted anyone."

“……?”

"But leave it up to Ivan to come back and tell me? Do you think he'll do it with
his bare mouth? I'm gonna ask for a bigger price. I've had enough of negotiating
with the white devil."

"……so you're going to accuse him of something? Who's the real culprit?"
"It doesn't matter if I find it later."

"Didn't you trust Evan?"

"Every tool has a life span. Evan has reached the end of his life."

"No, Evan's gone to kill Rousseau now. We'll get rid of him and we'll find a
traitor, too. So if you give me a little more time,

"Did you keep in touch with Evan?"

“……!”

"Since when?"

“…….”

Eric shut his mouth tight.

He was so excited that he lost Evan. It was a shameful mistake to be a CIA agent.
But it's too late to regret. Eric begged to save Leahman at least.

"If you touch Miss Lia, you'll only provoke Ivan."

"You're welcome! This is my first and last chance to be in a better position than
Ivan. It's stupid to miss this."

Bang!

Eliza hit the desk.

"I'm the one who gave you the chance."

Eric frowned in his heart-wrenching anguish.

Is this pain the price of a traitor? No, Eric just wanted to help Eliza. I didn't
want her to be on the wrong side.

"Oh, Eric."

Eliza leaned her back against the chair. She clicked her tongue sadly.

"I shouldn't have stuck it with him. You've grown attached in the meantime. You
used to be like that. I hesitated when I was ordered to deal with the Red Mafia and
his colleagues."

"……I didn't hesitate."

"Really? It's different from Evan's report"

Eliza tilted her head.

She cleverly tried to drive a wedge between the two. Eric even felt strong pity for
Eliza when the obvious trick was seen.

"You said you believed me, but why do you always hide the most important truth?"

Eric expressed his resentment. He no longer wanted to see his idol collapse.
"It's like a seven-year-old who grumbles. Did Evan say that? That's when I tried to
kill you."

Eliza admitted to the past with a grain of salt. Eric looked at her with great
bewilderment.

"Yeah, my judgment was wrong then. Fortunately, he admitted it. Otherwise, you
wouldn't have been standing in front of me by now."

Eliza lifted herself up by pushing the chair back on the desk with one hand.

"Do you want an apple? I had to hide it because I was afraid your tender heart
would be hurt."

"……Have you ever thought that the wound would get bigger over time?"

"Who raised that scar by squeezing it out?" Is it me? No, it's Ivan. It's Ivan
Yelka. Eric, you still don't understand? I still trusted you and gave you a chance,
but you blew it away like this."

Eliza tapped the desk as if she was dumbfounded. Then he went around Eric's side
and continued.

"I wanted a perfect child all my life. If I look at red and say blue, the child
will say blue as well."

“…….”

"Why didn't he remain a perfect child?"

Eliza returned to her desk.

"It's not a perfect child, it's just a domesticated dog."

"Dogs can't tell the difference in color. Wait, you're better off as a dog in that
respect?"

Eliza put her thumb down, pretending to put her hands on the desk. She pressed the
button hidden under the desk with her thumb. It was too late when Eric noticed the
suspicious movement.

"You should have stayed as a dog."

Bang!

As soon as Eliza was finished, someone kicked the door.

Eric looked straight at the armed mercenaries approaching me. There was plenty of
time to pull out the gun, but Eric didn't. He looked sadly at Eliza. Once again, I
hope she changes her mind.

"Are you the Director!

Pick!

The anesthetic gun was stuck in Eric's body. Eric stumbled and fell, speechless.

"Why are men so sentimental?"

Eliza came to Eric's side and murmured. And there's no such thing as before

Being more comfortable here won't change the reality.

Eric hardened his uncomfortable posture as if he were punishing me. Soon his body
stretched helplessly. I wanted to fall asleep forever.

- It's not a dream, so get up and take off your eyes.

“!”

Eric jumped to his feet. At the same time, I felt muscle pain all over my body. He
asked, gripping his twitching forehead.

"……What have you done to my head?"

- Didn't you watch too many science fiction movies? Or are you not fully awake? I
just bought a person and put a mermaid in his right ear.

Eric put his hand to his right ear.

- Sorry. It was on the left.

"Damn it."

Realizing that the sound was heard from the left, Eric lowered his arm with his
fist tightly clenched.

- Haha. Now you've eaten your ears?

"……Are you joking in this situation?"

- What's the situation? H. To sum up, you were abandoned by Eliza? So, are you
ready to end your long crush?

Eric bit his lips that he rolled up and swallowed.

He rolled his eyes quickly. There were no surveillance cameras in the room. That
means that only eavesdropping is possible through Evan's earphones.

"Did you take care of Rousseau?"

- in a momentarily.

"Who passed the CIA agent list?"

- I can't tell you that yet. Because it hasn't proven that you're completely on my
side of me.

"Now I'm not on anyone's side."

You've been abandoned by Eliza.

Eric swallowed his words and looked around. This was a space where the captured
'enemy' were held. The price of daredevil to Eliza was too harsh.

- There's no time for sentimentality. Hurry up, Eric. Chop, chop.

"……Damn it."
Eric stood up against the wall and stood in front of the sink in the room. When I
turned on the hot water, only cold water came out. He hesitated and soaked his face
with water in his palm. My hands were freezing. But thanks to you, I came to my
senses.

"Gelbrun Henriksen's investigation folder has been restored. The director will use
Miss Lia to turn you into a traitor."

- I guess so.

Evan even affirmed Eliza's actions, saying that the country would have done the
same.

Eric was amazing. It contrasted with her old self, who admitted to being nervous
about losing Lia.

"Did you know this was gonna happen?”

- To a certain extent.

"Damn it. Then why didn't you take LIA with you?"”

- If I had brought her out, Eliza would have immediately identified Lia as an
accomplice Lia will be on the wanted list. Eliza's judgment is unexpectedly blurred
when she's in a corner. The behavior of an excited person is hard to predict. The
only way to confuse you was to leave Lia behind.

"……Misunderstanding?"

- Yeah, the illusion that I'm in a good position. By now, Eliza must believe she's
in control of everything.

"And you? You're an exception, aren't you?”

- Maybe.

Ivan gave a vague answer. But his voice was full of confidence. In fact, just
seeing the two of them talking like this, it was proof that Eric felt guilty and
knew that he would oppose Eliza.

It was a real creepy human being.

"Evan, all you have to do is find the traitor. Then it's all over."

- Like the Red Mafia case?

"……yes, like the Red Mafia case."

Eric murmured sadly.

- It's the opposite this time.

"What…?"

- You were suspected then, but now I'm the criminal.

Eric grinned over Evan's words. I asked him in a desperate voice.

"I don't want him to make the wrong choice anymore. You're the only one who can
stop it, Evan."

- Good.

Evan readily replied.

- Kick the door as hard as I can when I signal. Until then, stay dead. There is a
motion sensor in the room instead of a CCTV.

* * *

"Then I'll see you later."

After finishing the phone call, Ivan split the flowing hair with one hand. The sun
was setting. The sunset dyed the silver hair red.

The sunset from the rooftop was dazzlingly beautiful, and the man standing against
it was brilliant.

"The sunset is so cool"

Ivan grinned at the man under my feet. Then he looked around and whistled.

"Expensive drinks, top-notch snacks, full of friends. Did you have fun?"

"Ugh...."

"Oh, I'm sorry I killed my friends. But it was self-defense, you know? I'm here to
talk, but they pulled out the gun first.”

Evan chinned the center of the rooftop.

Broken bottles, glasses, guns, and bodies were floating on the long rectangular
heated pool. More than 20 people were quickly overpowered. It was not sunset but
real blood that spread red on the water.

"Don't you think so?"

Evan whispered, and the man shook and nodded with difficulty.

Evan hit his head once more and put his long legs aside. Then I crouched down with
my arms on my knees.

"They're from a coastal country, aren't they?" Is that why? I'm still floating well
in the water."

"Huh...."

"You know, Russo. Since when have you been mute? You've been in solitary
confinement for a long time, so you forgot how to treat people?”

Ivan stared at Rousseau.

Rousseau was still shaking with his head down. Ivan sighed deeply and grabbed him
by the collar. Then he grabbed the gun with the other hand and began to shoot
Rousseau in the mouth.

"People, talk, when, eyes, look, talk, talk."

Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft!

"Clearly, clearly, okay?"

Pfft, pfft! Pfft!

"What did you learn from me?" Your twin brother had manners...….”

Ivan muttered with a sad face as he recalled the past.

Rousseau was angry at him, and his bloodline burst in his eyes. Even though they're
separated, they're brothers. Ivan was impressed. As he thought, Rousseau hated Ivan
for putting Felice in prison.

"When we last met, what did you say to me? Yeah, you son of a gun. I fed you and
put you to sleep, and you betrayed my brother! Next time I see you, I'll tear you
apart."

Ivan playedfully shook Rousseau's collar and copied every word he had said.

"Sigh. It was so much fun then. By the way, There are some errors in what you say.”

Ivan gently held Rousseau's right hand. Then he said, splashing his fingers one by
one by one.

"One. I made a living before I joined your organization."

"Argh!"

Crack, crack.

"Two. I didn't separate you, you left the organization unilaterally. He's so upset
that he doesn't pay attention to him."

"Argh!"

Crack, crack.

"Three. I never betrayed you. I don't believe in your kind in the first place."

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...…!”

(Singing "Drumroll.

Rousseau sobbed like a child as he looked at my strangely shaped fingers. Bloody

saliva flowed from the corners of my mouth. No, acupuncture blood was more
appropriate.

"Shi, shihipal, what are you talking about...….”

Rousseau asked with a dull pronunciation. Every time I spoke, my broken tooth
rolled around my mouth. I accidentally swallowed a few and managed to spit out the
rest.
"Yes, your thumb."

Evan cut Rousseau's thumb in an instant.

"Argh!"

Rousseau rolled around holding his bloody hand. Ivan took his cell phone out of his
pocket and turned off fingerprint recognition.

"It's a fingerprint, if I have to."

"Ugh, eok, ah, hibal, hibal color!"

"All right, all right. I'll just get your fingerprints and give it back to you.”

Ivan checked his cell phone history by lightly ignoring Rousseau, who was swearing
at me. The encrypted folder contained, as expected, a list of CIA agents staying in
Le Eden. Evan sent all the files that would be evidence to his cloud.

"I know who gave it to you.”

“!”

"You mean the enemy is my friend? No matter how hard it is. She helped put you in
jail. How could you hold hands with a girl like that to catch me? Huh? I'm so
upset, Russo."

"Hippal, I know that! You're the only one who's gonna leave this country!"

"What? Are you serious?"”

Ivan laughed out loud.

Ivan put the Ingel brothers in prison one after another. Rousseau broke out of
prison and joined hands with Ivan's enemy. He was once his enemy, but now he has
become a comrade who wants to kill Ivan together.

Of course she doesn't.

Eliza McClane.

She was a woman who thought everyone but herself was an enemy. Even my
subordinates.

"Do you think Eliza will leave you like that?”

"I'm going to be beaten by a chubby American girl!"

For a moment, Ivan kicked Rousseau in the mouth.

"……shhh. shut up. The American woman is about to say.”

I need to listen to it'

Ivan muttered in a cool voice.

* * *
I haven't been able to reach Rousseau for hours.

Eliza became nervous. Don't tell me you've been beaten by Ivan? No. He had been
attacked several times because of the bounty.

I couldn't even get into the Northern European branch.’

As a result of continuous monitoring, Ivan failed to penetrate the surveillance

network of the Nordic branch. He'll be hiding somewhere like a rat. looking for the
next opportunity

'Lia Henriksen is in my hands. It's like winning a game.’

Eliza calmed herself down, and she heard someone knocking on the door outside. The
secretary opened her mouth and came inside.

"Director, the White House has contacted you,"

"Later."

"Oh."

Eliza walked quickly past the secretary and somewhere.

Boom!

The door, which seemed to be closed forever, opened. Lia jumped to her feet.

"Lia Henriksen."

“…….”

But the person standing at the door was not the person Lia imagined. Maybe he read
Lia's thoughts, Eliza sarcastically said.

"Are you disappointed that you're not the prince you've been waiting for?"

When Lia didn't answer, Eliza came up to her and grabbed her shoulder. My eyes were
wide open to the pain felt on my shoulders.

"You like this kind of stuff, don't you?"

Eliza whispered as she pushed Lia to the wall.

"Ugh, what are you doing...…?!”

"Pretending to be innocent. You like to be locked up in a space like this,

neglected, and finally forced to do it, right?”

"No...!"

"I'm just telling you exactly what he's done to you.”

"I didn't fall for it!"

"Really? Look me in the eye and say it, Leah Henriksen."

Eliza grabbed Lia by the chin.

The grip was so powerful that it went up to the heel as well as the chin. Although
her eyes became teary due to her physiological reaction, Lia tried to hold back her
tears by giving strength to her eyes.

"It's different..."!

"It's no different.”

Eliza put Lia's chin down and stepped back. Lia grabbed her neck and gasped.

cried Lia, who was barely able to speak.

"Eliza McClane, I will never do what you want!"

"You know what I want?"

"Anything...!”

Eliza smirked cutely at Lia's defiance.

That's a ridiculous protest. A baby boy.

"All I want is for you to go to jail instead of your family's sins. Or help put
Evan in a cell. Frankly, I'd like you to pick the latter."

“…….”

"Why do you keep making things difficult? If you put a psychopath in jail and the
world becomes peaceful, what's so good about it? I don't understand why you don't
cooperate.”

"So you've been using such a dangerous person for years?”

Lia cried out in tears.

"Why are you doing this to Ivan?”

"It's no longer useful. So you'd better make the right choice when it's useful to
me.”

Lia was shocked by the attitude of considering Evan as an object. Did he belong to
such a place? Have you lived for these people?

Poor girl. I didn't want Evan to live like this.

Lia lowered her head. In the end, tears that reached the limit fell.

"All the family members who used to bully you are dead, too But do you want to
cover up the sins of your dead family to save a madman? Now you have to live your
own life."

one's own life

Like Eliza said, is it right to cut off everyone's interaction and live for
yourself?

I wanted to find who I wanted to be with, what I liked, and what I didn't know.

The life Lia wanted was a life where she lived thinking about those things. Ivan
made me have such a dream.

"Don't sacrifice for others like any other pathetic human being. I'll give you one
more day to think about it until the last negotiation."

It was an ultimatum, not a negotiation.

"No, no matter how many times I ask, my answer is the same."

"What was your answer?”

"I'm not going to hand over Evan to you.”

Lia stared at Eliza with force in her eyes.

* * *

Toottoottoottoottoop.

Rousseau's bloodied face was covered with water. It wasn't rain. The blue eyes
looking down at me were overflowing with clear tears.

Evan was up and down unbecoming of a giant over 190 centimeters tall.

"Ugh...."

“……?”

Rousseau looked at Ivan in a bewildering manner. You crazy punk. Is he really

crying?

"Ha, I'm so happy."

Ivan, who had been like that for a long time, sniffed and raised his head. Still,
he was still moved, so he even rubbed his dark chest with his palm.

"Lia chose me."

Ivan said.

"Did you hear that, Russo? Lia picked me."

"...Lee, Lia is Nu,"

Rousseau's eyes widened when he tried to ask who Lia was.

Leah Henriksen. It was an Asian girl adopted by Gelbrun Henriksen. But what did she
do?

"To stand up to a scary woman like Eliza with that little body. And that, for me...
…!”

Evan shouted with emotion.

"See? LIA is this kind of girl. You really care about me. It was the same on the
first day we met. I couldn't move the moment I made eye contact. I couldn't
breathe. It's like being made for me."

Evan muttered gibberish.

"So, that's why I wanted...….”

Ivan, who was muttering in emotion, bowed his head again. The tone of his voice
dropped in an instant.

"I know. You can't have everything just because you want it. Especially me, because
I always broke what I got. No, not me, but around me. I won't let you have
something. I didn't, I didn't want much. Just one, she's all I need. Lia was
enough.”

“…….”

"Actually, I wanted Lia to have me. I wanted to be Lia's. But if I think she's
abandoning me, I can't control my emotions if I think she's abandoning me.”

“…….”

"So I thought. If I own it, I never abandon Lia. We both don't have to be hurt.
Others treat what they own, but I never do that."

Evan continued to talk with a face full of excitement.

"So, where was I? Yeah. Remember when people around me told me they wouldn't let me
go? Look. Even now, as soon as I have Lia, everywhere is eager to take her away.
But they'll never take it away. I got it somehow. How courageous I have been to
invade Lia's life."

Rousseau frowned.

From the middle, I couldn't understand what Evan was saying. All I could hear was
some madman mumbling.

"Shi, Shihibal, yes, ha-ho-shifen, what's the story...…!”

Rousseau interrupted impatiently.

"What do you want to say?"

Ivan tilted his head.

"What I want to say is...….”

Ivan stared at Rousseau's grimly crushed face and asked in amazement.

"What, were you still alive?”

Crispy!

Blood spattered all over the place. Rousseau's slurred pronunciation was no longer
heard.

Evan brushed the blood off his clothes and put his hand on the in-ear. And quietly
called the name of my beloved lover.

"LIA."

* * *

“!”

Lia shuddered.

I felt like I was calling myself somewhere. Realizing that it was an illusion, she
hugged her knees and waited for the misfortune to come.

G-ing-.

“……!”

Then there was a vibration under the bed.

Leah sat on the bed falteringly, glancing at the CCTV in the corner. Her legs
covered under the bed and the vibration rang again. This time it was not an
illusion.

Lia glanced under the bed pretending to take off her shoes. Something glittered in
the dark. My heart began to pound. Lia held back her desire to check the CCTV again
and took it out as naturally as possible.

"In-ear..."

It was small enough to not be caught by CCTV as it was a type that adheres inside
the ear. Lia pretended to hang around the room, swept her hair back and fitted in-
ears.

- There's nothing to be nervous about, Lia. The CCTV has been changed to play the
same scene.

“……!”

- But the acting is pretty good. The security wouldn't have noticed.

"I,"

Evan.

Leah, who was about to mention his name, hurriedly closed her mouth.

- You can say it. If you're nervous, just listen to it. H. And don't worry because
I can see Lia. Can you look at the camera?

“…….”

Lia hesitates I turned to the CCTV. The red-lighted lens was staring at me in
horror.

- There you go. Good boy.

The camera moved up and down like a nod.

For a moment, Lia, who lost her strength in her legs, collapsed in the place. I
covered my mouth with my hands in case the sobbing sound leaked out. I regretted
thinking that I would be able to see myself anyway, but my hands did not fall off.

- I put in-ears when I infiltrated to see Lia.

"How do you know I'm going to be locked up in this room?”

- by the power of love

LIA was relieved by the ridiculous answer and laughed. However, he quickly pulled
himself together and said what he had to say.

"The CIA is aiming for Ivan. I think you handed Rousseau the agent list."

- Yeah? I don't care what they think. What about LIA? Do you believe that?

Ivan asked as if Lia's words were the most important. Lia answered right away
without hesitation.

"There's no way Evan would do such a thing."

- Yeah, I'm busy keeping Lia in custody.

"Well, don't say that."

Lia murmured in an upset voice.

- Huh? What do you mean?

"……I've never been in custody."

Lia's eyes shifted from the tightly closed door to the CCTV lens.

"What these people are doing is imprisonment."

At least that's how it feels to me. Lia dropped her head weakly and murmured.

A small sigh was heard over the in-ear. It's because he's so innocent. Fortunately,
Ivan's talking to himself was not delivered to Lia.

- Didn't you say anything else about me?

Lia shook her head. I was worried that Ivan would lose his coolness if I told him
what he had been through.

"I don't even remember. It was all an obvious lie."

- How can you be sure?

"Time with Ivan. That time convinced me."

Lia tried to recall Evan's volume in her hand. I missed the comfort and kindness
that I always felt sincere when dealing with myself, even if my ethics seemed to
have gone wrong somewhere.

"I'm glad I got in touch with you. Well, I'll tell you the next time the director
comes.”

- What do you mean?

"My father was involved with a gang when he was alive. But I didn't know that, and
there's no evidence, so I'm probably innocent in court. Evan can stay away from
anywhere while she pretends to cover up her family's sins, as she says."

- Lia.

Evan cut off Lia's words.

"What?"

- I knew it.

"What happened to my father?"

- Yes.

Evan was ordered to assassinate Gelbrun Henriksen. The reason was that Gelbrunn was
involved in a gang.

- The CIA wants a U.S.-friendly opposition candidate to be elected in the next

presidential election.

"……my father was a ruling party figure."

Only then did the puzzle seem to fit together.

- Yeah, even if Lia goes to court, the CIA won't miss another chance. As originally
planned, he will expose the political irregularities of Gelbrun Henriksen and put
it on Lia.

“…….”

- Never mind the politics. I'm not going to let Lia get involved in such
backstabbing.

When Lia was silent, Ivan comforted her in a gentle but powerful tone.

- Lia and I are a team forever. I'll make sure you get out alive.

clattering

The door opened when the lock was released.

- But to do that, Lia has to trust me, too.

"……Ivan."

- You're gonna trust me, right?

* * *

LIA and I are a team from now on. You're gonna help me get out of here alive,
right?’

I wonder why?

The reason why I remember meeting Evan for the first time is.

On that day, I had an ominous feeling from the time I went outside. The world
beyond the distant fog seen in the train, strange others who showed interest in me,
and the dark sky as if they had visited the polar night.

What did you think when you saw the body of your murdered parents?

Leah wished for rest and death. I thought death was the only answer then. So he
even leaned toward the gunman.

Evan caught himself like that. Stuck firmly inside me, I fired a bullet at the
enemy. The sound of the gun was so close that I thought my ears were eating. Even
though Evan covered my ears with his hands.

Yeah, Ivan was covering his ears.

Held helplessly in his arms, he shuddered. Now that I remember the memory of that
day, I realized how dangerous the situation was.

Even then, Evan tried to save me. And yet I acted impulsively, putting him in
danger, and finally losing my mind...….’

It was none other than himself who always held back. This time, this time, never...
….

- Lia, stop in front of the corner.

“!”

Lia quickly glued her back to the wall.

I followed Ivan's instructions and walked for only ten minutes. I couldn't even
feel a trace of a person. It seemed that Lia had not yet been discovered that she
had escaped. However, Lia had a lot of thoughts, so it was hard to maintain her
composure.

- Breathe slowly. in one's sober senses.

Perhaps she was caught in her impatience, Lia put her hand on her pounding heart.

"Who's there?"

When Lia asked gently, Ivan replied affectionately.

- I don't have any. I think Lia is very nervous.

As expected, I got caught. I felt heavy as if I had let him down.

- You're doing great. You look like a real agent.

"…… Evan is helping. I just have to move as I'm told.”

- How many fools can't even do that? Lia is born with it. It’s authentic.

Evan made a fuss.

Thanks to this, I was relieved and laughed. But Lia asked with a smile under the
pressure that soon revived.

"Do you move when you're working on the spot?"

- Well, since it's rare to know the internal structure as it is now, we only get to
know the data captured by satellites or thermal imaging cameras in advance.

In fact, I meant to jump in with my bare-handed.

Now there is Evan behind him, but I was heartbroken at the thought that there would
be no one behind him when he was on a mission. Have they lived through such a
dangerous thing?

be used to one's heart's content At the end of the day, he was cast aside as a
traitor. I was choked up when I thought of Eliza, who was treating Evan as a tool.

I'm gonna get out of here for sure.’

And I wanted to hug Evan as much as I could. Stifling the affection that rose
toward him, Lia waited for the next instruction.

- Shall we go now?

"Yes."

Lia nodded.

- The hallway light will go out for a while. Go straight ten steps, then turn
right. You can do it, right?

"Yes."

As soon as Lia left the corner, the hallway light went out. Darkness covered
everywhere, but no sound was heard.

One step, two steps, three steps, and after filling ten steps like that, I felt a
movement when I turned to the right.

“!”

“!”

The other party also did not say anything as he felt Lia's signs and was
embarrassed.

- It's okay. I'm sure you know him.

Evan soothed Lia in a gentle tone.

I can't believe I know you.…?

- Say hello, Lia.

As soon as Evan's words ended, the light came on with a pod.

"…… Mr. Eric?"

Surprised Lia stood still and Eric approached. He tugged at Lia's wrist.

"I'll say hello later."

"Yes."

Two people reached the entrance.

- ……Lia, did Eric just grab Lia's wrist?

"……What? No. No."

When Ivan asked jealously, Lia hurriedly pulled out the grabbed wrist.

Eric couldn't hear the conversation between the two because of the different
frequencies, but maybe Lia's behavior made him vaguely aware

"Do you get jealous in this situation?"

He scolded me with a face that said, "It's amazing."

- In this situation, I can't help but be jealous. Don't you know the effect of
shaking legs?

"I'm going crazy."

- Oh, just in case, I'm not saying Lia will fall for you. It's the other way
around. Don't worry about Lia just because she broke up with you.

Eric tried to argue further, but shut up.

It was now the last hurdle. Eric took out his pass card and opened the gate. The
reddish glow of the sunset was dazzling. The two frowned at the same time.

- The car is at the coordinates.

* * *

Cawing. Caw!

When Eric started the car, a flock of birds fluttered up. The dense forest and the
ridge surrounding it felt like a prison made by nature. Maybe that's why I felt
like I was still trapped even after I left the Nordic branch.

"You can keep your eyes closed for a while. I'll wake you up when I get there."

"No, it's not."

Lia shook her head. She glanced at Eric and opened her mouth cautiously.

"Why is Eric helping me?”

Eric was a member of the CIA. Is Evan taking advantage of his weaknesses again?
Evan only listened to the conversation between the two and said nothing.

"In exchange for helping Lia escape, Ivan said he would hand over the criminal's
information."

"That means... that Eric believes in Ivan, too?”

When Lia asked with anticipation, Eric frowned as if it was difficult to answer.

Ivan, who had been quiet all along, whispered petulantly.

- That's sweet, Eric. I'm sorry, but I don't like men.

"Shut up, damn it...…, H. Well, I'm not saying this to Miss Lia. You punk...
because Evan is talking nonsense."

Eric, who was distracted while driving and responding to Ivan's nonsense, shook his
head.

"I mean, where were we?”

"Thank you for trusting Evan, I wanted to tell you.”

Eric was speechless for a moment at Lia's polite greeting. Then he said in a soft
voice.

"I don't believe it. I just admitted that Ivan was the only one who could solve
this problem.”

Unlike him. Eric added in a sad voice.

"He's, you mean Director McClane, right?”

Eric, who noticed Lia trembling with fear, held the steering wheel tightly and
apologized.

"I apologize on behalf of the director for what he has done to Ms. Lia. That,
obviously, was not right. You shouldn't threaten innocent people for a purpose. It
goes against the CIA's beliefs. I apologize again."

"No, it's not Eric's fault."

- No, Eric. It's all your fault.

"It happened because I brought you here, so I have the cause."

- Yeah, you're the mastermind of everything. Why did you take Lia?

"Can't you shut up for a second, Evan?"

- I'm the sound of your conscience.

Eric tried to hit the steering wheel, but when he saw Lia sitting next to him, he
grabbed it again calmly.

In fact, rather than being forgiven by Lia, I wanted to defend Eliza's position. He
is no match for himself anyway. I've done too much cheating while working for the
CIA.

But what about Eliza?

She was different.

It was just different from the upper line of inertia calling for equality and
justice. Eliza, a former agent, was more realistic than anyone else. It was human
at the same time.

He had the opportunity to listen to Eliza's speech sometime in the past.

Her lecture relieved Eric of the itching that he had felt while living as an Asian
in the United States. Equal opportunity, a world without discrimination.
Politicians always mislead the public with plausible words, but criticized that the
reality has not changed at all.

My eyes felt wide open.

I wanted to work for someone like that.

'Not all humans are on the same starting line. Sometimes you can't even get on the
track. We're lucky by comparison. There's a little handicap, but it's not fatal. I
want you to stay with me.'

When he finally achieved his dream, Eric had another dream.

Eliza McClane. She became her dream. She was an idol, a god, an absolute, a figure
of everything Eric wanted.

"Lia."

"What?"

"I'll take you to Ivan no matter what."

It was also a commitment to oneself.

No human being would want his god to fall.

Protecting Lia was also protecting Eliza. I didn't know that winning this time was
not a conscience, but a terrible love and hatred toward Eliza.

* * *

(Singing "WHlol.
The whole building of the CIA's Nordic branch was alerted. Eliza pressed the
security room connection button and shouted.

"Are you advertising that there's a security breach? Why don't you turn off the
alarm right now? You should've seen it from me and posted it first!

- I'm sorry, Commissioner! Leah Henriksen and Eric Han, who were in custody, left
our precinct...…,

Bang!

Eliza hit the phone with a plaque bearing my name and title. As she opened the door
and went out, the waiting secretary stamped on her feet.

"Director, at the White House...…. Ouch!"

Eliza scooped out the files that her secretary had handed out. Paper that erased
some of the words with black markers was scattered all over the place.

The secretary fell flat and began to pick up the scattered paper in a hurry.

"Director! Director McClane!"

Despite the secretary's earnest cries, Eliza never looked back.

Eliza got into the car and started the engine when Rousseau called. Are you kidding
me?

"Why did you call me?"

- Hello, Director. How have you been?

"Why are you...….”

Eliza's face turned pale.

- I was very sad. My precious thing was stolen.

The voice over the phone was not Rousseau. A cold sweat broke out on Eliza's
forehead. I shivered as if I had a chill.

But Eliza's bold heart nourished the fear with anger.

"You son of a...…!”

- Don't be angry. That's why Eric left. You've been separated from your husband for
quite a while, haven't you?

Eliza paused when Eric's name came out.

"How did you coax him?"

- We happened to get what we needed from each other. Oh, of course, in my case, I'm
getting my stolen stuff back. If you return Lia to me, I will hand Eric the
information of the "real" traitor.

Evan pronounced the word "true" with particular force. Eliza was silent.
- It's a good deal, right? Plus, I'm saving Eric's life! Of course I didn't say
this. Honestly, I want to kill him. But I don't think I can handle any more blood
on my hands.

Ivan, who was chatting excitedly, asked in a subdued voice.

- Eliza, how many more people do you have to kill to be satisfied?

Eliza smirked.

"I can't answer that question. I'm not satisfied."

- You're not a human being.

Eliza threw her cell phone into the passenger seat. The cell phone screen cracked
when it hit the door with a dull sound.

Eliza hurriedly opened the glovebox. He took out a pistol house and tied it around
his waist, took out a gun hidden in the car and finished loading it.

And muttered in anger.

"I'm not a human being? That's not what you're saying, you disgusting monster."

24.

Eric, who got out of the car first, looked around with suspicious eyes. The
coordinates Ivan sent me arrived at the construction site where the construction
was suspended.

The no-go sign was hidden among the lush weeds. But it didn't matter. The spooky
atmosphere of the abandoned building became a sufficient warning sign.

Eric asked, just in case.

"Did you sing the right coordinates?"

- It's the only place that can land a helicopter within a 10-kilometer radius.

"……Damn it."

Eric soon convinced and opened the car door. Lia, who came out, looked like she had
similar thoughts. However, Lia realized that she should not hesitate, so she boldly
took the lead first.

"Go, Eric."

"I see. Stick behind me and follow me."

Eric stood in front of Lia and handed her a flashlight, and he hurriedly took out
the flashlight himself and crossed the hand holding the pistol. It was a method of
holding the enemy with a gun while illuminating the dark road.

"Let's go."

"Yes."

The two headed into the building together.

The inside of the building was very dry and cold, and the breath came out between
the lips. There was an irregular sound of water dripping somewhere. In addition,
the unfinished walls and the stale smell from the floor made my eyes cold.

"It must be the building you were going to use as a hospital."

Lia said, shining somewhere.

Rusty bed frames piled up in a corner like barricades. It was like a scene from a
disaster movie. In addition, there were many other things that could be used in
hospitals.

- It's a building made for clinical trials, but it seems like the authorities
didn't get permission. That's how it was thrown away.

"Don't talk nonsense."

When Ivan's words were delivered to both of them at the same time, Eric intervened
and scolded him.

- Oh, Eric. Are you afraid of ghosts?

“…….”

To Ivan's mischievous question, Eric responded in silence.

"We've arrived."

Finally, Lia and Eric reached the roof of the building. Before I knew it, countless
stars twinkled in the dark night sky. Erik asked hastily as he stared blankly at
the beautiful spectacle.

"What about a helicopter?"

- Seven minutes to go.

"Are you sure it's safe here?"

- Of course.

Eric glanced at Lia standing next to me.

Lia's black hair fluttered in the night breeze. Her hair was pulled aside and her
eyes, which looked infinitely pure, were revealed. There was no distrust in his
eyes.

Eric took his breath slowly.

"Ivan, if you want to save Lia, follow me from now on."

Eric aimed his gun at Lia. Surprised Lia opened her mouth and covered her lips with
her index finger.

- What are you doing, Eric?

"I'm sick and tired of being swayed by you.”

Eric pulled out his in-ear and threw it far away.

"Oh, Eric...…?”

"I'm sorry, Miss Lia."

"What's wrong with you all of a sudden?”

"Do you think there's a reason for hurting people?"

"Mr. Eric,"

"No, I'm hurting you because I don't really think about it. You don't know how hurt
your partner is!"

"…… you know Eric."

Lia tried to calm Eric with a trembling voice.

"If you do this...…, You know how hurt Evan is."

Eric looked sad at Lia's words. However, as if he had made up his mind, he took out
his cell phone and called someone.

"It's me, Eric."

* * *

"……What's going on here?”

"As promised."

When Skull in the cockpit asked in great embarrassment at Eric's unexpected

behavior, Evan answered in a nonchalant voice.

"Eric will return Lia to me, and I will hand over the traitor's information."

"Didn't you tell me it was all Director General's?”

"Ha ha. Of course. If I did, I wouldn't have moved on with my plan. Eric's not up
to it."

That's why you're used for the rest of your life. Pity. Evan murmured with a
pitifully.

The helicopter then stopped about two kilometers from the landing site.

"Wait here for a while."

"Should I turn it on the auto mode?"

"No. I'm enough for myself."

Ivan grabbed a sniper rifle and glued his eyes to the sights. The ground viewed
from the sky was like a terrarium.

The gun, which was slowly descending, came to a standstill. The images of the two
people confronting each other were reflected on the lens of the sights.

'I know, Eric. You can never hurt Lia. You're trying to convince Eliza. Right?

* * *

"………Oh, my gosh."

Lia breathed with her hands wrapped around her mouth. My heart beat like it was a
sprint.

What happened?

Lia slowly fumbled through her memory.

- And, Lia. If something unexpected happens, don't be scared and do what Eric tells
you to do.

Just before entering the abandoned building, Ivan whispered. I didn't know what it
meant at the time. It was not until I came up to the rooftop that I could
understand Ivan's words.

Eric pointed a gun at me. He said he no longer wants to be swayed by Ivan. He threw
the mermaid that was stuck in my ear and even took Lia's and trampled it.

I thought Eric would betray Ivan and hand me over to Eliza, but Eric's actions were
unexpected. She suddenly held her gun in her hand.

'I've unlocked it. Use it when it's dangerous. I won't be able to use it. I will
protect you for sure.’

'What is that....’
'Hide in until everything is done.’

Lia looked at the pistol with the safety device off. She was now hiding behind a
huge ventilation system on the roof. Eric told me not to come out until everything
was done and then left.

It's time for everything to be done. What the hell does that mean?

More than that, did Evan know this was gonna happen? So, like Ivan said, should I
do what Eric tells me to do?

I was just confused.

"Eric!"

Then, a familiar voice rang out on the roof.

Instead of sticking her head out, Lia lay flat and watched the situation through
the cracks on the floor.

'...Eliza McClane!'

Somehow Eliza and Eric were confronting each other. Eliza looked around and
shouted.

"Where is Lia Henriksen?"

"He's already gone."

Eric lied without a blink of an eye.

"What?"

Eliza's face was grimly distorted. I thought he was on Ivan's side and betrayed me,
but it was strange to see him confess his location.

by the way.

You lied to yourself.

Eliza was furious that Eric had betrayed me.

"I'll confess for you."

Eric walked forward with a limp.

"I confess I was the one who handed over the CIA agent list to Rousseau."

Eliza was silent for a moment. Then she smiled dejectedly.

"It doesn't end so easily."

"If Evan finds out who the real culprit is, everything will be solved. Aren't you
trying to buy time until then? You can't sacrifice innocent people anymore. It's
not too late, sir."
"…… you idiot."

Eliza gritted her teeth.

"Don't you see that Evan's problem is to find the culprit?”

"Do you know who the culprit is?”

Eric asked with his eyes wide open.

Eliza grinned with laughter at the innocent appearance. My eyes were wet with
tears.

"Of course. There was no criminal among the agents from the beginning."

"……What?"

"What's the worst case scenario? When the unsub who leaked the CIA agent list to
the enemy was an agent like you or a local agent from a gang? Or, "

Eliza straightened her head, wiping away tears from her eyes. Her eyes shone
coldly.

"When I was the head of the CIA."

"Ha, but. Why did you...….”

"It's a lucrative business if we can kill some agents and raise them to
international issues. I needed an opportunity to intervene in Le Eden politics
again. That's all."

Eliza aimed her gun at Eric.

"Now stop acting so bad and tell me where you hid Lia Henriksen.”

Eric chewed his lips.

'Poor thing. Used and abandoned like a dog. Eric, aren't you going to be like that
someday?'

Have you thought about the possibility that there was no traitor among the agents
from the beginning?’

'Don't trust Eliza too much. No. I'll correct you. Don't commit yourself. Don't
risk everything you got, Eric.'

Ivan's sarcastic advice crossed my mind.

Eric has so far taken Ivan's words the other way around like a green frog. The more
he urged Eliza to leave, the greater the desire for her, and the more compassionate
he became to the advice of a dangerous human being.

I know. I kept turning a blind eye to reality. He did what he believed was best,
not assuming the worst.
This is the word of stupidity.

Finally, Eric could imagine the end of Eliza when all this was over. Her articles
will be all over the world.

CIA witch who killed her subordinates to achieve her goal. Journalists will
scramble to pick the most provocative headlines.

Is it life imprisonment? It could be the death penalty.

The White House will also throw her away, pretending not to know. In fact, the
desire to oust Le Eden's ruling party and elect a U.S.-friendly opposition
candidate was more of a desire than of Eliza's.

Eliza McClane.

In my eyes, you were a tool of the country.

tools to be used and thrown away

But I couldn't wait to see idols degenerate into tools.

"……I'm not confident to see you fall."

"Don't worry. I'm the one who keeps my place better than anyone else."

Lady in the fog who raises her chin to the end.

Eric smiled sadly at the woman.

He gently raised his arm with a gun, and Eliza, who didn't miss the sight, grabbed
the gun. But it wasn't her where Eric's gun went.

Eliza faltered for a moment, then pushed hard.

"Is it suicide to decide to do it?"

"Don't make me regret my time with you, sir."

"You coward. I'll just kill you."

The moment Eliza put her finger on the trigger,

(Singing!

Bang!

Two shots rang at the same time.

* * *

two collapsing bodies The red blood slowly spreads as it fills the cracked cement
floor.

Watching all this through the narrow gap, Lia jumped up and started running.
- And, Lia. If something unexpected happens, don't be scared and do what Eric tells
you to do.

'Hide in until everything is done.’

Ivan and Eric's words came to mind one after another, but by the time they
realized, they were already in front of Eric.

"Eric! ERIC!"

Lia flopped down in front of Eric. When he grabbed the missing flashlight and shone
around, a pool of red blood reflected.

"Ah, ah...!”

Half lost consciousness, Lia tried to pick up the blood. His trembling hands as
well as his gun were covered with blood.

"……it's no use. On this street, do you think I'll miss the vital point?”

Then I heard Eliza's voice from afar. Eliza was also lying on the floor.

Lia looked at her blankly

"Why are you.... Why the hell did you do that?"

cried out loud.

"How! Eric is your servant! Ivan, I just followed your orders...…. Don't you feel
guilty for the people you used!"

"Ha……. Finally, I have to hear a whine, Dani. I'm sorry, too.….”

Eliza smirked.

"Do you think I'm heartless? It's all about necessity, taking advantage of others,
turning a blind eye to others. He's a fool.…, That's it. On this floor...…, the
distinction between good and evil becomes blurred There are only people who are on
my side and not on my side."

"That's not true. You can't define relationships with people by being so narrow-
minded."

"An innocent girl. You're in this business, too.…, It's tightly woven."

“……?”

"Your father tried to hold hands with Rousseau. But that damn, Ivan, he's
threatening to bury the Henriksen family's corruption to protect you.…!”

Eliza, who was coughing up blood, staggered up. Lia followed her slowly and looked
up. And my eyes met with a gun that opened its mouth toward me.

"Sigh, I can't even talk anymore. It's time to finish, Leah Henrik, Sen. Guns, hold
up...…, You have to protect yourself."

Eliza gave Lia time to fight back. It wasn't for Lia. It wasn't because Eliza was
just. It was because he couldn't admit that everything he had achieved would
collapse because of such a young girl.

"Raise the gun."

Eliza emphasized again.

Only then did Lia realize that she had a pistol in her hand.

'I've unlocked it. Use it when it's dangerous. I won't be able to use it. I will
protect you for sure.’

Eric was shot and seriously injured now. We had to get rid of Eliza here to save
him. I have to buy time until Evan comes.

I. I.

You have to shoot.

But can I?

Lia shook with a gun in her hand. The sight made Eliza's heart flutter even more.

Just because of this ordinary woman, my life, my dreams, my everything...….

"Henriksen!"

Eliza exclaimed with all her might.

“……!”

Only then did Lia reflexively point the gun at her. But it was still shaking. My
hands. My body. All the cells.

shudder with fear

"No, it's not."

They resisted at the same time.

He faced the noose that had bound him all the time.

"I'm not Henriksen!"

"…… No. You are Henriksen. You have to, you have to. What I'm killing right now.…,
He's a criminal. A civilian, no...…!”

Lia and Eliza looked at each other with guns pointed at each other. As it was, time
seemed to have stopped. The invisible threads seemed to have tightened their
bodies.

Evan. I think I know now. What kind of heart have you had to live to protect me."
Lia put her finger on the trigger.

"Hold on."

At the same moment, a question crossed Lia's mind.

It was Eliza who shot Eric. What about shooting Eliza? Eric was pointing a gun at
my head. So it was impossible to shoot Eliza.

"That's it."

Then, a large shadow cast over Eliza's body.

clattering

Someone pointed a gun at the back of Eliza's head.

"……Ha."

Eliza laughed dejectedly.

"Perfect timing.….”

It was an eerie and nostalgic sensation. Decades after graduating from the field. I
never thought I'd show my back to the enemy again.

Eliza dropped her gun as if she had accepted the defeat.

"Kneel down."

"That's right."

Eliza's body descended slowly.

Flop.

Finally, a man stood behind Eliza, who was completely on her knees. He was a
mysterious man who looked sacred even though he had a gun on someone else's head.

The brilliant silver hair fluttering in the wind, the blue eyes shining through it.
There were exceptionally many stars tonight. He was a man of such a fascinating
light that I wondered if he was an angel descending from the holy light.

Like the day you first showed up to me.

"Hello, Lia."

"……Ivan."

Lia looked at Ivan with tearful eyes. As the tension eased, the arms aimed upward
fell to the floor.

The blue eyes, which looked down coolly on Eliza, shone cleanly as soon as they
headed toward Lia. The voice was also so sweet that it was hard to believe it was
the same person.

"Yes, Lia. I'm fine now. It was really scary, right? Good job. Good fight.”
"Yes, yes....”

Lia sniffed like a child and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. And
carefully put the gun down. My hands were still trembling.

Evan smiled kindly at Lia and informed Eliza of the situation.

"It's over, Eliza McClane. 'Cause I uploaded evidence on the White House server
that you handed Rousseau a list of agents."

Ivan continued, pressing Eliza's head with a gun.

"Oh, the fact that he threatened civilians, and the scene where he shot his men.
Every single one."

Eliza, who was about to answer something, coughed up a handful of blood and
collapsed forward. He had already lost his mind by bleeding a great deal.

Evan passed the fainted Eliza and sat on one knee in front of Lia and Eric.

"Ivan, Eric is...….”

"Shh. It's okay, Lia. He was prepared to do it."

Evan wrapped her clean hands around Lia's cheek. And wiped away the remaining
tears.

"I'm sorry to put you through this."

Ivan clapped his lips on Lia's forehead as if he were claiming ownership.

At that moment, Eric's body, which was lying down, was greatly moved. (Coughing)
Eric began to cough. Lia turned her head hurriedly. Ivan's face became sulky when
Lia's attention was focused on Eric again.

"Eric, are you awake?"

Ivan watched the figure and raised one arm. Skull, who confirmed his cause of
death, landed the helicopter.

"Fortunately, I avoided the vital point."

Skull, who got off the helicopter, checked Eric's condition and tried to put him on
his shoulder like a bundle. When Lia was surprised to see that, he secretly looked
at Ivan and moved Eric into the helicopter with his arms preciously.

"Shall we go?"

Ivan took Lia's hand and led her.

"Come here, Lia."

Ivan, who got on the helicopter first, reached out. But when Lia hesitated to look
at the fallen Eliza, he came down from the helicopter and stood next to her.

"Can I leave it here?"

"The local police will be here soon.”

Evan picked up Lia and put her on the helicopter.

"If the police arrive on time, they won't die.”

"……Yes."

After checking his watch, Evan tapped the helicopter. The helicopter slowly climbed
up.

Lia was held in Ivan's arms and couldn't take her eyes off the roof of the
building. The bloody smell faded and a huge pool of blood turned into a small dot.
It was not until Eric's breathing gradually stabilized that Lia was able to lean
her face against Ivan's chest.

Before I knew it, a helicopter crossed the coast.

"Look, the sun is rising, Lia."

Ivan tapped Lia on the shoulder.

Lia stared blankly at the sunset spreading over the horizon. With my eyes closed,
the warmth of the sunset touched my skin more clearly.

They say everything has an end.

After enduring a nightmare night, the morning came. Leah cast her eyes at the
sunset. Her eyes turned upward. The transparent skin and blue eyes were also
colored with sunset.

"……It's pretty."

"Sunset?"

Ivan bowed his head. Lia folded her eyes and answered with a smile.

"No, Ivan."

You came to my rescue

It's so lovely.

Lia hugged Ivan tightly with her arms and felt his warmth throughout her body.

* * *

"It was revealed that the head of the CIA joined hands with a criminal gang and
killed agents, which caused a huge stir. Ex-CIA Director Eliza McClain is currently
being extradited to the United States on seven counts of foreign exchange,
rebellion and murder.』

The wind blew from the outside and the curtains covering the window fluttered. The
afternoon sun came in through the cramped gap.
How many days have passed since that day? Eric counted the days in his head. Eliza
returned home, but he was still in Le Eden.

knock, knock.

Then, someone knocked on the wall.

Eric turned his head and Hesder stood leaning on the door frame. She wore a white
gown. Eric replaced him by telling him to come in by straightening his head.

"How are you doing?"

“…….”

Eric didn't say anything. Hesder skimmed through the medical table he was holding,
shrugged, and put it on the shelf next to the bed.

"The surgery went well. He will be repatriated as soon as the discharge date is
set. I'm not going to deal with it because I'm a victim, but I have to be careful,
too. Because I can't move as much as I used to be

Realizing that the other person was listening to me with one ear, Hesder said
nothing more. Eric couldn't take his eyes off TV from now. But it didn't seem to
concentrate. His eyes were, like, empty.

Is this what a soulless human being looks like? Hesder thought bitterly.

"The White House spokesman denied the cause-and-effect relationship with the
president and stressed that it was an arbitrary act by Eliza McClane. Lebeden
authorities are making every effort to deal with the situation...….』

Eric couldn't concentrate on anything. The news delivered by the reporter felt like
a strange world. I couldn't even believe that I was deeply involved in the center
of the incident.

All senses seemed to penetrate the body and disappear as they were. Eric closed his
eyes and inhaled. The only smell I can feel. Only the smell of disinfectant from
Hesder's body gave a strange sense of stability.

"Should I turn it off?"

Hesder asked, glancing at the TV. Why am I watching such exciting news?
Fortunately, Eric's vital signs were stable.

But are you sure you're okay? You've been through those things? Hesder observed
Eric anxiously.

"That's all right."

At last Eric spoke, and Hesder tried to change the subject so that he could miss
the opportunity. But Eric was faster.

"I thought it looked like Lia Henriksen."

"Who?"
"Myself."

The look of Eric's confession forced Hesder to remain silent. You'll want to pour
out anything. So I decided to listen to his confession quietly.

"I was born and raised in the United States, but I always felt like a foreign
object. All I needed was Eliza. She gave me a reason to live, hope. When I came to
my senses, I was completely fascinated by her presence.”

Charisma.

A word derived from the Greek word 'Khárisma' which means the grace of God. Eliza
had an attractive charm. Like a human being loved by God, she achieved miracles
similar to cutting through the Red Sea and healing the sick.

Eric looked at the TV screen again. His black eyes showed Eliza in handcuffs being
arrested. Now she is abandoned by God.

The place where the grace of God died was replaced by a mark of a man who killed
his brother in envy, and the scarlet letter, which the guilty woman had to put on
her chest.

"Do you mean Evan is like that to LIA?"

asked Hesder, reflecting.

If Eric was Leah and Elijah was Ivan, the two remaining men would eventually follow
the same path as the ones ahead. Is that what you want to say?

"That's what I thought. But not anymore."

“……?”

"I ran into Ivan everything. I couldn't agree with him all the time. We were just
like water and oil. But, to be honest, deep down in my heart, there was a desire
that resembled Ivan."

Eric clenched his fist.

"The difference between Ivan and me was whether to express that desire or suppress
it.”

"It's not much different for everyone else. No, normal people know how to control
their desires. I don't know what part of you looks like Evan”

It wasn't just comforting, it was sincere. In Hesder's view, if he had to tie it

into one category, he had to put Elijah on Ivan. And to this poor man who was
betrayed by his trust,

"…… I told you. I couldn't give up on her."

“?”

"People who have suffered deep losses, whether innate or acquired, are bound to be
twisted inside. It's hard to have a normal relationship."

No, I don't even know what a normal relationship is in the first place. Does that
even exist?
Eric caught his breath for a moment and continued.

"My love for Eliza was more like blindness, obsession, and worship. ……it was far
from the ideal love that the world wanted."

It was in line with Ivan's feelings for Lia.

"I've been denying it."

"Ivan didn't hide that desire."

Hesder took over Eric's words and answered.

In fact, she was also vaguely feeling it. Every time I faced that white man, the
disgust that was seething in my mind.

Ivan was like a mirror reflecting his opponent. A mirror of sin that reflects the
most hidden emotions, desires, and graces. Ivan's actions to protect Lia and his
actions to protect his younger brother were not much different.

"Are you saying it's homophobic?"

Hesder asked with a wry smile.

"It's kind of like that."

Eric also laughed. And he added.

"How can you be jealous of the other person who did what you failed? It's so ugly."

"Do you think Evan's love will succeed?"

"There's no reason to fail."

Eric answered without an ounce of thought.

Now that all the distractors are gone.

Finally, Ivan got his hands on the world. The figure of the world was in the shape
of Lia, and she would reign over Ivan as God's blessing for life.

"…… Evan is beyond the standard set by the world. It wasn't until I did that that I
owned what I wanted."

Evan got what he wanted most by throwing everything else away.

There is a secret desire inside of man. sadism and humiliation possession and
attribution The number of desires that exist in this world is as infinite as the
limit of imagination that a person can think of.

The only thing that remains unchanged is that the world does not allow all desires.
a standard accepted by the world-wide What goes beyond that standard is considered
withdrawal or perversion.

Love that can only be obtained by violating the ethics set by the world is just
ugly and corrupt in the eyes of others. It would be a sweet negligence and reward
for one party.
At this moment,

Eric envied Evan more than anyone else.

Blessed at the same time. I had no choice but to admit the two's misaligned love, a
relationship that deserved to be pointed out, as a human being who was born in this
land and wanted to own others, not me.

I had that desire myself.

And I believed that desire was love.

25.

somewhere in northern Europe

A boat that appeared to have been left unattended for a long time was tied to the
lake dock with a rope. The birch was surrounding it, and it seemed to have snowed,
perhaps because of the white bark of the tree.

in the lakeside villa

The long-awaited phone rang.

"Say the surgery went well."

Ivan said, putting down the phone.

Lia stood where his gaze stopped. Only then did Lia release her strength from her
grip.

"And Eric won't be brought to justice."

Ivan, who was thinking about something, added.

"Professor Hesder returned safely, and Sauvignon is doing well with her."

Ivan smiled.

The case has finally come to an end. It was a perfect ending that couldn't have
been better.

Lia let out a sigh of relief as she relaxed. However, I couldn't say it easily.
What should I say?
After escaping from the rooftop of the abandoned building by helicopter, a lot has
happened. Evan didn't have to use her hands in advance to face the police herself.
The case was quickly settled and after everything was finished, Ivan and the villa
in the forest.

I learned something while watching part of the investigation process from Ivan's
side. It wasn't Ivan who killed Ishana. The real culprit was Elijah.

Eliza, who found out that Lia was Ivan's only weakness, killed Ishana to separate
the two. And Lia bit the trap. Ivan misunderstood that he had killed Ishana and
carried out an escape.

I'm a fool. I don't know that.….’

In a way, everything was caused by one's ignorance and misunderstanding. If we had

a more honest conversation, if we had trusted Ivan a little more, this wouldn't
have happened.

"I'm sorry, Ivan. It's all because of me...…,”

"It's not Lia's fault. So that's it."

Ivan, who was just around the corner, put his hand on Lia's chin. He slowly lifted
Lia's face up.

"What about me?"

"What?"

Leah asked back Evan's impertinent question.

"Are you still a dangerous person to LIA?"

"You are..."

A man who is insensitive to death, accustomed to murder, and infinitely far from
normal life. a lack of common sense and ethics shapes that change from moment to
moment and cannot be identified.

It was Ivan in Lia's eyes.

"No, I was misunderstanding."

But it was Ivan who ended all this work. No one could have had a more perfect
ending.

"Thank you for saving Eric and Professor Hesder."

"I thought Lia would be sad if I let her die."

At Ivan's answer, Lia shut her mouth gently. A lonely smile spread across her face.

"Did I just get it wrong?"

Evan asked, looking gently.

Even Ivan of the world seemed to have realized something about this. I felt even
more sorry for the effort to think like an "ordinary" person.
Did Evan really cross the line?

Is he evil?

Isn't it you who drew the line?

I tried to squeeze this man into the world's standard. Even though I can't go in.

"I think everyone is born with it. It's like luck doesn't come on. Something that
doesn't work out even if you try exceptionally hard. Everything that touches my
hand is ruined. No matter how precious you are, you end up leaving."

Evan opened his mouth as if he had read Lia's insides.

Ivan let go of Lia's chin and stepped back. His hands hid behind his back as if he
were running away and disappeared.

"Lia was the first person I wanted to own completely. It's not my thing to have
something, but I wanted to try it. I thought it was the best, but it was the worst
for Lia."

Evan's behavior of avoiding my gaze like a timid child stimulated Lia's sensitive
sensitivity.

"Sorry, LIA said it was her first time. Would it be better if it was the second or
third time? But it's impossible. I didn't need someone more precious than Lia. It
will continue to be the case."

Finally, Ivan straightened his head.

"I want to hear the answer to your proposal that day."

If you don't mind. He added quietly.

Ivan in front of me looked like a wild animal abandoned after riding a human hand
once. Nevertheless, the poor beast wandered through the streets without being able
to return to nature because he could not forget the warmth of the first human
being. And many people threw stones at the beast.

"Evan."

Lia approached Ivan carefully. a narrow distance again Evan's breath narrowly
slipped over his head and disappeared. When I think about the years he suffered
because of me, I keep feeling guilty.

"I'm sorry."

"I don't want to be apologized."

Evan whimpered in a discontented voice.

"I know. You want an answer to the proposal, don't you?"

Leah smiled.k.a smile.

She reached out her arm and brought the hand that Evan had hidden behind her back
forward. Evan stared at Lia's lips with anticipated and tense eyes.
"I want to spend the rest of my time with Evan."

For a moment, Ivan thought Lia was an angel from heaven. I was so mesmerized that I
looked at her and later rummaged in my pockets.

"Lia, wait a minute. Hold on a second."

“……?”

Lia tilted her head in a flustered manner. Evan, who finally took out something,
took a breath.

"I'm nervous to do it properly."

However, unlike words, the movement that followed was very natural. I've simulated
it hundreds of times in my head. Ivan grabbed Lia's hand and put a ring on her
finger.

It was a ring with blue diamonds that resembled his own eyes. The size was perfect,
too.

"What do you think? Do you like it?"

asked Evan cautiously.

A shy smile spread on Lia's face as she stared blankly at the ring. Lia nodded,
clutching her ring with care.

"It's pretty."

Then Lia suddenly realized that it was strange and rolled her eyes nervously.

"Why? What don't you like?"

When Evan asked with a melancholy face, Lia was even more at a loss

"Well, that's....”

Gently raised his right hand.

"You put the ring on your left hand."

"I'm also..."

Ivan laughed mischievously, saying, "You don't even know that?" Then she grabbed
Lia's right hand and kissed her on the back of her hand.

"Lia has pretty right hand."

I turned my wrist and leaned my cheek against Lia's palm. Sweet numbness spreads
everywhere his breath touches. I felt like my dead skin was coming back to life.

"Please play the piano with this hand next time."

Lia's face, smiling broadly, was reflected in the blue eyes that sparkled like
jewels.

"Yes."
Lia answered in a brighter voice than ever.

* * *

"Well, well, ah...….”

"Ha, Lia. Lia."

On the bed, the two In-young hugged and mixed their tongues.

'I'm dizzy...'

Lia gasped and thought.

Ivan restrained Lia's body, which flinched with her long arms and legs. A huge
white snake seemed to bind itself.

"Put out your tongue more."

"Well, yes...….”

Leah stuck out her pouty tongue and Evan swallowed it. Evan squealed and sucked
Lia's tongue. The tip of the eaten tongue tingled. I felt like my tongue was going
to be pulled out. Every time my tongue brushed against me, my whole body felt numb.

"Whoa...!"

Lia tried to pull out her tongue late, but Ivan let go only after her thin tongue
blew.

Finally, Lia, who put her tongue in her mouth, gulped down her saliva. My tongue
tingled. I became numb as if I had been injected with anesthesia.

"Lia, it's so sweet today."

It's like sugar. Ivan laughed his head off. The red tongue ticked hatefully through
the gap between the slightly open lips.

Only my tongue was swollen, so Maria hesitated and stuck out her head. Evan noticed
Lia's intentions and calmly gave her tongue. Leah snapped at his tongue in case she
missed it.

Kiss, kiss. Good.

Leah placed her hand on Ivan's handsomely swollen chest and eagerly sipped the tip
of his tongue. His eyes were closed to see how focused he was. Ivan observed the
figure leisurely.

"So cute."

How long has it been? Bored, Ivan pushed his tongue into Lia's mouth. Then Lia
slightly frowned. The inside of my mouth was so narrow that I only put a little
tongue in it, but it was full.

"Lia is narrow up and down."

I only recalled what I already knew, but my lower body became heavy. It felt like
blood was pouring all over my body between my crotch. At the same time, Ivan's
tongue stretched like an erection, filling Lia's narrow mouth.

"Ummm…"

In the end, Lia, who couldn't hold out, opened her eyes gently. He's crying with
tears in his eyes. How can they be so lovely?

Ivan smiled like a fox, and stuck his tongue in Leah's neck.

“!”

Lia's eyes flashed open.

Evan pulled her neck so that she wouldn't pull her head back. Lia's body twitched
as the tip of her tongue pricked her Adam's apple. The pitiful appearance of
trembling in the product encouraged sadism.

"Uh, hh, hh...…!”

Lia tried to shake her head in the stinging agony. However, he couldn't shake it
off no matter how hard he tried to hold his neck. Ivan drew out his tongue only
after wetting Lia's throat with his strong saliva.

"Ha, ha....”

Leah breathed heavily with a face full of excitement. Each time, the swollen breast
narrowly brushed Ivan's body. Lia tried to widen the distance by pushing Ivan with
her arms.

"Sue, I'm suffocating...….”

"I'm sorry, Lia. I was too mean

The red porcelain was completely exorcised and skinned. As Ivan slowly scoured the
pillar up and down as if he were self-defense, the urethra formed a pine cone at
the end of the urethra.

"Huh? Lia. Come on."

Ivan rubbed his lips against Lia's head and acted childishly. Unlike the cute way
of speaking, the flesh in his hand became prominent and the smell deepened as time
passed. Lia's face slid down like a butterfly drawn to the scent of the dim night
flowers.

"Well."

Lia bit the tip of her ear in her mouth. I felt warmth immediately when I gently
wrapped my ears around my tongue with a swollen tongue. My tongue was burning. The
bulge seemed to gush out of the urethra.

"Downpour..."

Leah took a bite of Ivan's ear. There was no room to move the tongue because the
flesh filled the mouth. As soon as he started sucking, Evan responded with a
trembling back.
"Uh, ah. I feel good, Lia."

"Uh. Jjok."

Lia grabbed the swollen pillar and sucked the jaji in earnest. The inside was hard,
but the skin was soft because it was raw, so I felt like I had a water balloon in
my mouth. Lia raised her teeth so that it wouldn't hurt and stimulated the outside.

"Oh my...!"

Evan's body was in a great flutter.

The only thing Ivan could observe in the relationship was when he held his cock in
his mouth as he is now. On the contrary, if Evan washes under me or the cock enters
the vagina, not the mouth, Lia lost her mind first.

"Yes, LIA. There, all right. Suck me more....”

Ivan begged, brushing Lia's hair gently with his fingers. Even the child-like
whining was lovely. I wanted to please him more.

No wonder Lia, excited at the thought of taking the initiative, pushed Evan's paw
into her mouth. The earlobes scratched the roof of the mouth and invaded the Adam's
apple.

"I can't breathe."

Lia swallowed her paw only to the point where she thought it was her limit. That
helped to avoid a false area. He swallowed his saliva and tightened his throat I
repeated the unraveling.

Ivan's, it's too big

Lia glanced up.

"Ha. Ah, Lia...….”

Ivan rubbed his face against the pillow with his eyes closed. The transparent skin
was full of color, and the abundant eyelashes trembled. Evan is at a loss for
pleasure. The visual stimulus was tremendous.

"Well."

Lia gathered her lips inwards and gave strength. At that moment Evan's brow
narrowed. My mouth was full of hot water.

"Oh...!"

Evan exhaled a short breath and remained firm throughout the appeal. The face that
went back to the side was buried in the pillow, and only the veins that grew on the
neck were visible neck were visible. It was a pity that he couldn't see his
expression, but the twitching veins told him instead that he had reached his peak.

"Whoo...."

Finally, when the situation was over, Ivan threw up a long breath this time. The
stopped chest slowly went up and down and swelled.

Lia gently pulled her hair back. My jaw muscles were stiff.
"Poo-ha."

The crown of the ear scratched the semen on the tongue and escaped. Plump, semen
spilled on the sheet.

Lia put her hand on her chin a beat late. He stole semen around his chin by hand
and swallowed what was left in his mouth. Before I knew it, I got used to this
fishy taste. I even thought it would be a waste if I didn't swallow it.

"Did you eat it for me?"”

asked Ivan in a languid voice.

Thank you. His compliment made me feel better. Lia crept up. Ivan was still burying
his face in the pillow.

"Evan."

"Yes."

As Lia gently reached out her hand, Evan straightened her head. His eyes were
moist. His blue eyes were also wet. The sweet smell seemed to come from the hot
skin like a ripe peach.

"Did you like it?"

When Lia asked shyly, Evan also nodded shyly.

"Lia. It's sexy."

Evan smiled with one cheek leaning on the pillow. Then she sprang up and climbed on
top of Lia.

"I love racy LIA. Now let's do more racy things.”

"Well, Ivan.... It tickles."

Kiss, kiss.

Ivan kissed Lia all over her body. It was like a big dog getting on and acting
cute. Ivan, who was biting Lia's neck as much as he could, stopped moving.

"Evan?"

"By the way, Lia."

"What?"

"Don't I have a ring?"”

Lia looked up at Evan, blinked, and replied with a very sorry look.

"I'm sorry. I'll prepare it next time."

"It's okay."

Then Ivan smiled broadly as if he had never done so. Lia tilted her head to the
sudden flow of conversation. Then, Ivan peeled off Lia's bottoms.
"Instead of a ring."

“……?”

"You can put Lia's boji in your sleep."

"……what? Ugh……!”

Evan pulled a handful of Lia's waist down. At the same time, the earhead, which was
fitted to the entrance, penetrated the inner wall. How hard he tried to lift it up,
it seemed that his ears were lifting up to his intestines.

"Ah, ah...!”

Lia's head leaned back wide. The whole body trembled like a twitch. The flash
seemed to explode in front of my eyes. Lia put her nails up and held on to the
sheet. Nevertheless, it was not enough to endure this intense shudder.

"Did you just put it in?"”

"Ha, ha...….”

Lia's eyelids quivered.

"Hoo hoo. So cute. But Lia. The size of the ring is a little small."

Evan whispered, his head down. My stomach was so stiff that I felt like I was going
to cut myself. Lia could only look at Evan with wet eyes. His stomach was so full
that I couldn't move a muscle.

"It's okay. If you rub it like this, it stretches quickly, and it tightens."

"Ugh, uh...…!”

"Lia's body, it's my custom ring."

Evan repeated slowly pulling and shoving. Fortunately, the inside of the paper was
slippery with affection, making it easier to move over time.

"Lia. We, hoo...…, It's been a while since I did it, but it's going in well”

"Well, well, well...…!”

"Just a kiss, but wet."

"Ah! Ah!"

Evan worked hard at her waist and tore Lia's coat off completely. When even the
black bra was pulled out, the collected chest shook and spread. No matter how many
times I saw the milk carton shaking, I was not tired of it.

"The nipple, too. You're standing pretty." You want me to wash it, right?”

"Huh...!"

As Ivan flicked the nipple with his finger, the vagina curled up and convulsed like
crazy.
"Yeah. Why aren't you answering me?”

Ivan bit Lia's nipple and whined.

The inside of the uterus was sucked as if to come in more, and the entrance was
tightly bitten at the root of the pillar so that the cock could not be pulled out.
She was already answering honestly with her body, but she also wanted to hear Lia's
voice.

"Uh, hh, ah, ah!"

On the other hand, Lia's head melted soggy that all she could think of was "I feel
good." My tongue, which lost its strength in my wide open mouth, drooped because I
was reflexively moaning.

Jjop, jjop.

Ivan was sucking until the nipple was swollen, then came up to Lia and overlapped
his lips. With the tip of her tongue she lifted Lia's drooping tongue. And when I
poked under my tongue, sweet saliva sprang out.

Chuu, cold. Chuu, Chuu, Chuu.

Like a blood-sucking vampire, Ivan was busy taking Lia's body fluids. Fortunately,
her sensitive body heated up with pleasure and got wet with moisture. It never
dried up.

"LIA. Suddenly, I put it in. Are you mad? Huh? You're not mad, are you?

Ivan asked, pushing the pawn deep.

Instead of answering again this time, Leah wrapped her legs around his waist. Evan
supported Lia's butt with one hand. And with the other hand, she put Lia's arm
around her neck. I liked the feeling of being limp and clinging to my body.

"Ah..."!

Lia groaned close to a scream as she poked her mother with all her might. I slipped
my nails into Ivan's skin. the climax again Tears trickled down. The pleasure of
welcoming the wall was indescribable.

"Lia. Me too, I'll pack it."

"Well, well...…!”

Evan also produced a desire.

More semen filled the uterus than when it was sprayed on Lia's throat. I didn't
know that the body instinctively felt that it could only be conceived if it poured
here. Of course, Ivan's behavior was still tied up, so it was close to a dildo
without reproductive function.

"Sighing."

Ivan, who coolly discharged the semen accumulated in the seminal sac, exhaled a
slow breath. The inside of the uterus was covered with semen, and it felt like I
was soaked in the water mixed with starch. Evan caught his breath for a moment and
began to shake his lower body.
"Good. I feel good."

"Yeah, yeah, uh...…!”

Leah gasped, flat on Ivan's body. When the uterus, which still has a peak
aftertaste, ached, the lower abdomen stiffened.

"Oh, no, I don't want to, stop, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...…!”

"Huh? You don't like it?"

"Keep rubbing, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…!”

"Yes, yes. Here, if you rub it persistently,

Ivan lifted Lia's waist and stabbed her deep into the ground. The quality that was
still closed quickly increased. Lia's eyes were wide open to the sense of skin
opening.

"It's like you're getting better, it's getting better. Right, Lia?"

"What?! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…!”

The semen penetrated into the opening. Soon, the ears stirred in the vagina as if
tapping a mortar. The boat bubbled up. The sound of water flowing from the junction
was so shallow that Lia wanted to cover her ears with shame.

"Ah, uh, yeah, it's hot, hh, deep, uh...…!”

"Yes, Lia's inside, haha, hot, narrow, and pleasant. I want to go deeper."

Evan lifted Lia's leg and turned her body upside down. The tightly closed pink anus
and the vagina chewing on mine were clearly revealed.

How much I pounded it, the white flesh was red like an apple. Noise and Daeumsoon,
which opened in a circle along the shape of a pillar, were also swollen.

Ivan spread his thumb and the semen flowed down through the gap.

As soon as I let go of my hand, the noise order clung to the pillar. I was still
not used to loosening and tightening, so I was so nervous that I broke my jaw. But
the narrow one was just enough to make it wider.

Dipping! Dipping! Dipping!

Ivan broke the vaginal wall, which began to tighten as his posture changed. Lia's
groan was crushed under the pillow. But the flinching tightening of the inner wall
made it possible to guess that she was excited.

"Lia, how do you feel, haha, how do you like it? Huh? I love it. Leah Bogey,
sticking together...….”

Ivan put his hand on his belly, which was swollen from eating the jaji. When I
pressed it with a little force, the inner wall shook like crazy.

"Oh, my...! I'll touch him.…!”

Leah tilted her head and shivered. Ivan put his face close to Lia's cheek with
moved eyes.

"Thank you for eating so deeply, Lia."

"Ha, ha, ha...….”

"My shit, it's long, it hurts, right? Until you get used to it, I'll keep pushing
it so that Lia's boji can remember my jaji shape.”

"Hehe."

"That's right. Should I put it in when I sleep?" Then I'll get used to it faster."

"Huh...!"

When Evan whispered in her ear, Lia turned her head as if she couldn't stand it.
Her ears were burning red.

"Are you embarrassed?"

asked Evan in a jolly voice.

When I saw Lia, who was embarrassed, my excited body calmed down and my reason
gradually returned. I wanted to push her further. It was so lovely, I wanted to
torment you a lot. Right before I cried.

Why do I feel so mean? He's not even a seven-year-old.

But Lia is so cute.’

Ivan kissed Lia on the back of her neck. Her honest body, which shakes every time
her lips touch, is lovely. As I kissed the joints of my spine along the spine, a
sound of pain flowed through the pillow gap where my face was buried.

"LIA, let's do it again while looking at each other's faces What?"

As Ivan tried to turn Lia's body forward again, Lia hugged the pillow tightly and
held on.

"Boo, I'm ashamed...….”

"What are you ashamed of? We're going to be married now. Married couples do much
more lewd things”

Past memories flashed through Lia's mind.

Sex with Ivan was a series of obscene acts that I couldn't even dare to say.
Without taking it out, he begged the uterus one after another, poked the inside of
the boji until the fountain burst with his tongue, inflated the clitoris and
papilla, and even shook the cock between his chest.

I don't think there's anything more sexier than this, but what more sexier?

Then Evan turned Lia's body forward without saying a word. The biting wall of the
magnetic field went round and round together. Lia screamed in silence.

"I'm happy."

"Well, yes...?”
When I looked forward again, Evan was looking at me with a face full of excitement.

"At the thought of doing a lot of boorish things with LIA and his wife. I'm so
excited, so happy."

Evan burst out laughing.

The white teeth felt as frightening as the teeth of an animal. However, all Lia
could do was shrink and tighten the inner wall at the same time. Not knowing it
stimulates the predator in front of you.

"Lia, I like you. I like it. I love it.”

"Uh, ah, ah...…!”

Evan began to move his back again.

When the muddy inner wall was crushed, Lia let out a sweet moan. Ivan took his
mouth to the scruff of Lia's neck to savor the sweetness more deeply.

Red glare bloomed on the spot where the white teeth brushed against. Sucking and
chewing and biting, Ivan left his mark all over Lia's body.

But it wasn't enough. Even if you hold on to your clear waist and leave a hand
mark, it will disappear over time even if you get a bluish bruise on your buttocks
after hitting your lower body like a dog. Then, on the contrary, I wanted to
imprint Lia's existence on my body.

"I'm really afraid I'll engrave Lia's name on my body."

"Oh, no. Come on, come on."

Lia, who could only groan throughout, managed to open her mouth and dry Evan.

"But if you don't, how do you prove that LIA is mine?”

"You know what? I'll keep it on my hand for the rest of my life."

Lia showed the ring she was wearing on her hand even in the midst of shaking. For a
moment, Ivan stopped his back. The blue eyes bent strangely.

"Then I'll keep it on Lia's boji."

Ivan hugged Lia and murmured. When I pushed my back up as it was, the semen that
was stored inside flowed down.

"Oh my god!"

Once again, the stomach was filled with semen.

Fresh, cheap semen filled the uterus by pushing out the previous one. Lia felt the
heat rising in her stomach and hugged Ivan's body with all her might.

* * *
It was not until the sky was purple that Ivan's genitals escaped. Leah, who fell on
the bed, didn't even have the strength to lie down right away. Ivan watched his
masterpiece, splitting his hair with one hand.

Red buds that bloomed along the backline, gum marks left on the back of the neck,
and blue bruises along the shape of the fingers were on the clear waist. Although
she controlled her strength, Lia's skin was so thin and sensitive that it left
marks easily.

"Pretty, Lia."

Evan grinned and opened Lia's hips. The fat spread together and swollen vagina
vomited semen. As the semen no longer flowed, Ivan laid Lia's body down properly.
Then he spread his thighs again and stroked his convex lower abdomen.

"Ha...."

The closed qigoo opened and semen flowed out again. Ivan pressed his lower abdomen
to take out the semen, and then put his finger in the stretching jilloo to collect
the leftovers.

"Oh, I'm tired, yo. Now, that's...….”

"Yes, yes. I'm going to stop now, Lia. Let's just take out what's inside."

Evan comforted her affectionately, and Leah gave up calmly. Every once in a while,
whenever the tip of my finger brushed against the convex flesh, the inner wall
closed tightly. Then, the joints of the fingers were clearly felt in the vagina.

"Ah, ah, hh, yes...….”

"LIA, why do you keep seducing me, huh?"

"There, if you touch it, hmm...…!”

"I can't help it because the semen is stuck in between. I'll loosen it up with my
fingers and take it out. "Let's hang in there"

Ivan stirred his fingers in a lump of semen.

"That's right. I almost took it out. I'm sorry I packed a lot of semen, Lia. You'll
forgive me, right?”

Ivan kissed Lia lightly on the cheek.

The semen was still wet after all that scratching. There was no way that the
vaginal wall could distinguish between the act of scratching semen and caress. The
mucous membrane heated up more sensitively just by the presence of foreign
substances, and as it stabbed here and there and stimulated it, it had no choice
but to spill the love.

Leah managed to catch her breath only after her mischievously poking fingers
slipped out. Little by little, the senses of the body returned. I felt a sense of
emptiness for some reason. Maybe that's why the pawns that had been in the vagina
for hours escaped.

I want to wash up....’

My whole body was sticky. In addition, semen and love were dried up in the groin
and thighs.

Ivan, who was looking closely at the droopy Lia, wetted the towel and wiped around
her thighs.

"I'm getting water in the bathtub. Let's go wash up when we're done."

Ivan whispered sweetly.

Finally, the warm water filled the bathtub.

Evan picked up Lia carefully and headed to the bathroom. Every time I walked, the
loose cock shook between my crotch. Evan frowned as the cock smacked his thigh.

I wanted to reinvent it and put it inside Lia's boji. Whether she knew what was
inside of her, Lia was half asleep even when her body was submerged. Evan put Lia's
back against me and wrapped her arms around her waist.

"Isn't it warm, LIA?"

"Yes……."

Lia replied with a slow smile. A feeling of languor enveloped me.

Ivan stared down at Lia's body. two dunes projecting beneath the slender shoulders
In the center was a red papilla. The appetizing figure gave me an appetite and
hardened my self again.

Evan gently wrapped around Lia's breast from the bottom. An elastic chest clung to
the palm of my hand. Leah was so tired that she didn't stop Ivan.

Evan was encouraged and began to peck at the chest. When I dipped myself in warm
water and touched my glutinous rice cake-like chest, I felt a sense of stability in
my heart. But apart from that, the desire between the legs grew more upright.

"LIA."

Ivan whined, resting his chin on Lia's shoulder.

"My heart is soft."

"Um……."

Leah closed her eyes and let out a blurry groan. Evan's face became sulky at the
response that seemed to bother me for some reason. At the same time, a mischievous
smile spread like a devil.

"You know what? When I touch it, it hardens, but when I touch LIA's chest, it
softens"

"Huh...!"

Evan grabbed both nipples and pulled them out. Lia shook her body with her neck
bent.

"Lee, Ivan, Sleep...…!”

"Ha ha. Never mind. The nipple is getting hard”

Ivan pinched the nipples that pulled to the limit. At that moment, Lia twisted her
body and splashed water out of the bathtub.

"Oh my god"

"Lia's nipples are sometimes in there, but it's cute when you scratch them with
your fingernails.”

"Uh, ah, uh, stop, hah...…!”

"I'm standing upright today, maybe because I washed it all the time. Right?"

Evan whispered ironically.

Lia looked tearful at Ivan's fingers as she looked at the elongated nipple. The
round chest gradually turned into a cone. Every time, the nipple was tingling and
my eyes were dizzy.

"Sigh. LIA, if you keep rubbing it with your butt. Look, my sleep gets hard, too.”

Ivan has been acting cute for a long time now. On the other hand, Lia had no time
to think about anything else because she was resisting the stimulus spreading in
the papilla.

"Uh, oh, please, let go, give it to me...…. It's torn."

"Huh? Yoo-doo? Haha. It can't be true."

My skin got thinner because I pulled it so much. Ivan's eyes narrowed at the
nipple.

"It doesn't rip. But it might stretch out."

"Oh...!”

Evan twisted the papilla again. Inside Lia's wide-open mouth, her tongue was
clenched.

"Don't you want to grow, LIA? Do you want me to press it again?”

"Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!"…!”

Ivan pushed the nipple in with his index finger. The fingernails drilled sharply
into the oil wheel. In Lia's head, the image of Jaji going in and out of Boji came
to mind. Evan thought the same thing, and he rubbed the prick on Lia's body.

"Lia, I'm standing again."

"Well, well, I'm here to wash up...….”

"Don't you think it's okay because you're doing it while washing up here?"

"It's okay, no, no, ah...…!”

Ivan, who let go of the teasing nipple, hugged Lia tightly with both arms. And
rubbed her spine with an exorcism.
"Oh, it keeps getting bigger. Well, in the water, hoo, cuddling naked, is it weird
not to stand up?”

"Hehe."

The breast was gently crushed in the hard, muscular arms. Whenever Evan rubbed his
body against my back, the water in the bathtub fluctuated.

'It's hot. I'm dizzy. Ivan, Jaji, you keep rubbing your body...….’

Lia blinked her dim eyes. Unknowingly, you tighten and loosen the inside of the
boji and want to sleep. I hope that the big cock will spread the flesh once again.
I wanted to feel better because I was stuffed and poked.

"Lia, let me sleep. Just once. Huh?"

"Ha, just once...…, It's."

Lia lifted her hips gently. Ivan pushed the pawn through the low gap and skillfully
found a hole in the view and hit the ears.

Blowing out!

The two bodies meshed perfectly.

a hole-shaped clash The pleasure made Lia's eyelashes quiver. Evan shook his back
excitedly, feeling that the flesh was tightly engaged.

Lia's body shook up and down with a bang. Then, the upper body gradually tilted
forward, and eventually, he was scorned like a female cat in a rut with his arms on
the edge of the bathtub.

"Ha, Lia, Lia...….”

"Yes, yes, ah! Ivan...…, Oh my god!

The water in the bathtub clapped its drooping breasts. As much as he was hit, his
chest stirred in the water to make a spray. White secretions floated on the water's
surface, which was a little lowered due to the overflow.

"Oh my god."

Ivan's hip crumpled in his hand. Ivan released semen while holding onto Lia's
buttocks as if they were about to burst. Lia trembled as her stomach warmed to the
same temperature as the water in the bathtub.

"Ha, ha, now, take it out, ah...…!”

Lia looked back slightly, and Evan started to lift his back again. The breast that
was stretched and submerged in the water shook again.

"Ah, one, one, ten thousand...…!”

"Yeah, LIA. In terms of standards. Haaa. LIA, you haven't gone yet, have you?
Right?"

Ivan leaned over and covered Lia's body in a circle. However, unlike his tight
posture, he repeatedly pricked the shallow part of his ear. In particular, even by
chance, there was never a cock in the way Lia felt. It was a deliberate move to
tease.

Dip it in. Dip it in. Dip it in!

In the meantime, I discharged a large amount of semen twice into Lia's womb. Only
the ears were pushed in slightly, but lumpy semen flowed out.

At this rate, I thought I would be played in Ivan's arms forever. But more than
that, I had a greater desire to peak.

"Oh, my, please...….”

Finally, Lia cried and begged.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"More, more, deeper, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...…!”

"I can't hear you, Lia. When you ask, you have to speak up. What?"

Slap!

Evan hit Lia's butt lightly. Lia screamed in silence, tightening her mouth. When
Evan didn't respond, Lia even shook her waist herself.

"Ha, ha, deeper, poke, give it to me……! In paper, in paper, stir……! Please,
please!"

"Whoa, Lia, were you in such a hurry?”

Evan clutched at Leah's chest with ease. And I rubbed the nipples to my heart's
content.

"Okay, but I want to go one more time."

"Well, yes, yes...…. Oh my god!

Smack!

The cock, which had been stabbing only near the entrance all along, invaded the
inside.

"Oh, my! Aang!"

Evan hit Lia wherever she wanted. Not enough, she came far beyond the depth she had
set as the limit and poked her uterus. The lower body felt crushed.

After the merciless exchange, Lia reached her long-awaited climax.

"Ha!"

The vagina tightened and pressed the genitals. Under the pressure of being
uprooted, Ivan clenched his teeth and endured the situation. LIA's body, which had
been at its peak by constantly poking at Boji, was drained of power. She gasped
with her forehead on the edge of the bathtub. Evan patted her back affectionately.

"Did you feel good?"”

Ivan asked, patting Lia's bottom lightly. Lia nodded with her eyes closed.

"Well, yes...….”

Evan grinned and bit Lia's ear. The white teeth chewed on the cartilage.

Finally, he pulled his earlobes aside and took off his lips, whispered softly.

"I still have one more shot."

* * *

A few days later.

Ivan arrived at the detention center where Eliza was imprisoned. Snipers stood
guard inside surveillance towers placed everywhere. It was as secure as prison.

"This way."

Evan entered the building with an agent who came to meet him. The narrow and long
passageway that seemed to continue endlessly was filled with cold air. No other
sound was heard. Only two footsteps that were offbeat were echoed and disappeared.

in the visiting room

Evan settled down in a chair. He pressed the button and said.

"Let him in."

Beyond the glass wall, the iron door opened. Soon two security guards emerged from
both sides, restraining Eliza.

"Ivan Yelka."

Eliza, who discovered Ivan, called his name in a sarcastic tone. He had a sneer
around his mouth, but his eyes were absolutely that of a loser.

"What a mean wild beast that bites its master's throat."

"Don't worry. Because you're the last one to do this. I'm tired of cleaning up the
messes of the higher people."

Eliza gritted her teeth. The dead eyes blazed with anger.

Ivan looked at her indifferently and tapped the transparent glass wall.

"Do you need this?”

"Security policy can't help it."

The agent who led Evan to this place answered with an apologetic look.

Ivan's calm face twitched. Then he stared at Eliza as if he were looking at a

pitiful object.
"You know what? With this service, the White House will delete all of my databases
in the CIA”

“…….”

"When I get out of here, I become a person who doesn't exist in the world. Unlike
you, who will be on record forever."

“…….”

Ivan, who calmly provoked Eliza, suddenly shut up.

"I'd like to talk to my old boss."

"That's

"Can't I?"

Ivan smiled at the agent.

It was an order, not a request. The agent hesitated and motioned over the glass
wall. Security guards who had detained Eliza backed off, letting her go.

"10 minutes."

"Thank you."

The agent greeted Ivan with snow and went outside.

Clattering. The door closed. Now there were only Ivan and Eliza in the visiting
room with transparent glass walls between them. Ivan, who was seeing off the agent
with a greeting, also straightened his head.

"The power is incredible."

Ivan said with an innocent look.

"You think you're going to get addicted? I could get you a high seat if you
wanted.”

"I don't need it."

Ivan shook his head.

"You should have been satisfied on the spot."

"Shut up. Who do you want to teach when you're a wild animal?”

"to pick up the beast You're the one who grew it, right? Even though I knew I had
bitten off my former masters."

It happens sometimes. An arrogant person like you. Evan murmured with a jubilant

"If it weren't for you, it would have worked out as planned. It's all because of
you...…!”

"I'm not here to argue"

Evan frowned.
"Are you here to laugh at me?"

"Do I look so cold?"

He shrugged his shoulders.

"I came to say thank you.”

"……What?"

Ivan rose, laying his hand on a shelf attached to the glass wall. Squeak. The chair
he was sitting on was pushed back.

"Killing Ishanna in the psych ward wasn't part of my plan. Honestly, that part got
you a punch.”

“…….”

"I didn't expect Lia to run away from me because it was a spark."

The knuckles on the shelf crackled. Eliza looked straight at the back of Ivan's
hand with veins rising. Unlike his powerful body, Ivan was smiling.

"Is it repeated again?"

Soon he lowered his head slowly and murmured.

"Is it being taken away again?"

"What are you talking about?”

"In that short moment when Lia left me, I was really distressed to remember my
childhood nightmares."

“…….”

Eliza crept up to observe Ivan at rest. At that moment Ivan lifted his upper body
quickly. His face was exalted to the skies. Like someone who's had a lot of
stimulants.

"But on second thought, it was a very good situation for me!"

"What?"

"Thanks to the madness you've created, Lia has come to experience what a vicious
group the CIA is. Oh, it's really heartbreaking for Lia to go through that. But
that's all right. I'll take good care of you from now on."

Ivan gibbered with great excitement.

"Now Lia thinks I've been used and abandoned by
thought the poor child in the slum had wandered
the right path, but he was actually used there.
justice! But, finally, it was saved. There's no
story. Right?"
you. Well, you're not wrong. I
for a long time and finally entered
From the great evil in the mask of
one who won't be moved by this

Evan held his breath until his excitement calmed down.

Then he gently laid his open palm on the glass wall.

"Thank you, Eliza."

Eliza crumpled her face as she looked at Ivan's palm glued to the glass wall.

"For moving as I thought."

At the end of Ivan's words Eliza rushed in. But a solid glass wall was blocking the
two.

"Argh! You son of a gun! Ivan Yelka! You son of a gun!"

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Eliza knocked frantically on the wall. Ivan leaned one shoulder against the glass
and giggled and watched Eliza's anger.

"Oh, Eliza! You were the best boss ever!"

Ivan wiped away the tears from his eyes from laughing and straightened himself out.
Eliza's fist, which was hitting the glass wall, slipped.

"………How did a monster like you come into being?”

Eliza muttered, looking at him with contempt. Evan leaned over to meet her eye
level.

"I have to go now. I have to take care of Lia. I'm the only one who can protect Lia
in this cruel world."

Evan, who checked the time, turned his back without hesitation. Then Eliza caught
Ivan.

"Hey!"

Ivan, who stopped, only turned his head back.

"Why?"

"……what happened to him?"

"Oh, you mean Eric?”

Evan rolled his eyes. I didn't know he'd ask after Eric.

"The surgery went well. The problem is that he insisted that he wouldn't testify
against you...…. Looks like you're putting people in trouble. Well, it's none of my
business."

"…… you idiot."

Eliza laughed dejectedly. A dog that protects its owner who abandoned him until the
end.

"That's why you should have killed him."

Eliza raised her eyes at Ivan's words.

"I can't believe I missed you in that distance. Are you sure you're an agent?"

"……I would have succeeded if you hadn't disturbed me.”

"Pretending to be strong. I know you missed it on purpose. I'm sure Eric knows.
That's why they want to take your side."

"Pathetic fellow."

"We call it a romanticist."

Ivan put his hand on his chest and closed his eyes.

I call them losers

Eliza snorted. Ivan didn't answer any more. It was just a smile. And that made the
remaining Eliza even more miserable.

"That's pathetic."

Eliza muttered as she looked at herself reflected in the glass.

The real pathetic thing was himself. Did he just throw everything away and run for
this? I had a lot of regrets. However, the past has long been turned into an
irreversible gray glory.

* * *

“…….”

Leah, left alone, put her hand gently on her chest.

Solitude was her old friend. Nevertheless, the time left alone felt strange. That's
how much Evan's existence is in my mind.

Evan left home early in the morning.

Her face on the helicopter looked exceptionally lonely, so she smiled broadly and
saw her off, but Lia was not in a good mood either.

Do I have to go?’

This is the last time.’

In the end, the words that popped out unknowingly grabbed Ivan's ankle. Ivan said
there was one last thing left to tie with Eliza.

He tried to reassure Lia by telling her specific figures on how much the United
States was spending to prevent Eliza's escape.
In such a dangerous place...….’

As Lia's face grew whiter and whiter at the astronomical number, she eventually
embraced her without saying a word.

It's okay, Lia. Everything will work out just fine. That's how safe I meant. Ivan
whispered and kissed Leah in the ear and left her behind.

"Eliza McClane."

I ended up reciting her name without realizing it.

Who in the world wants to turn the head of the CIA into an enemy? Also, how many
can defy that absolute power?

It's time to end it, Leah Henrik, Sen. Guns, hold up...…, You have to protect
yourself.’

That day, Eliza was seriously injured. Nevertheless, it didn't occur to me that I
would dare beat her.

Lia glanced gently at her hands. a right hand broken by one's sister

I believed it would be impossible to do something with this hand again. I was able
to aim a gun at Eliza because of some possibility that crossed my mind at that
moment.

Eliza.

If I pull this trigger,

Can Evan be saved?

Can I be free from you?

"I'm not Henriksen!"

That day, Lia denied her roots

It was to protect the child.

by one's own power and nothing else

 26.

Deng-. Deng-.

The clock struck four. It was an antique that did not match the drawing room
decorated with modern art.

Lia was more nervous than usual and was at a loss what to do with her drooping
gaze. The indifferent sound of the second hand made a person more nervous.

"Sigh."

Finally Sarvina opened her mouth.

Lia was even more intimidated because the first word was a sigh.

"You're so you, too. Can't you stay still for a second?”

Sarvina snorted, flapping a piece of paper in her hand, looked at Lia's hand and
closed her mouth gently. It was the right hand that was seriously injured in the
accident. I could vaguely guess that it was not a simple accident. It might have
been Ishana's, her eldest daughter. But the guilt didn't last long.

"Well, it's better than being stuck in the house and doing nothing. These days, I
feel stuffy whenever I see you."

Sarvina put the paper down on the table and signed it.

"Here, take it."

Sarvina held out the paper. Lia picked it up carefully and bowed her head.

"Thank you."

"Don't do anything useless except volunteer work. If you're involved in drugs or

stealing, you'll get away with it!"

"Yes……."

Sarvina's screams made Lia feel intimidated and reply.

Only then did Sarvina rise to her feet, looking as if she had completed her role.
Lia, who was left alone, stared blankly at the application for volunteer work with
her mother's name on it, and clearly wrote her name next to it.

"Are you sure you're going?”

When I went to submit an application for volunteer work, the teacher in charge
asked with surprised eyes.

Lia asked back after a little pause.

"Weren't you recruiting?"”

"No. I really didn't know there would be students to go. Since it's such a
dangerous neighborhood.”

The teacher in charge looked at Lia with the eyes of seeing unusual creatures.

A few days ago, a notice for recruiting volunteers was posted on the hallway
bulletin board. There were notices in various fields such as public institutions,
mentoring, and volunteering, among which it was the volunteer work at the nursery
school that caught Lia's heart.

"If you don't mind, why don't you change to another volunteer? I'll introduce you
to a nice place.”

The teacher in charge called somewhere. Lia shook her hand in surprise.

"I really want to go here."

And he plucked up his courage.

"My parents gave me permission...….”

The teacher in charge of Lia thinks for a while I stamped my seal on the
application form.

* * *

Contrary to the teacher's concern, the nursery was built on a well-lit and open
hill.

It was far away from the so-called slum street, and there was a bus stop, so
students from other countries also volunteered. Although the rule that students
should not enter the living space was a little strange, I quickly accepted the
explanation that it was to prohibit private meetings with students.

"Oh, Miss Henriksen. Please put it down. You'll get hurt!"

"But they're all moving it”

Officials here did not want to entrust Lia with the bad work. The reason was
obvious. Her visit to the nursery was considered a kind of populism to help her
father's political activities.

"Can't you take a picture with us over there?"”

There, Lia was not one of the volunteers, but Lia 'Henriksen'.

Where she arrived, five or six of the youngest and prettiest children at the
nursery stood huddled together. Outfits that did not suit children who were
supposed to run around added to the sense of difference. It was like wrapping a
gift.

"Huh. You should stay there."

The children kept shaking their bodies because the clothes they were wearing seemed
awkward. Eventually, the photographer gave one of them a hard time.

"I'll hold it."

Lia sat the child on her lap. The child sitting on her lap began to twist and play,
wondering if Lia's black hair was amazing.

"What are you doing? Miss Henriksen feels uncomfortable, doesn't she?”

One of the adults who couldn't see came up and tried to take the child away. Lia
stopped urgently.

"Wouldn't this be more natural?”

The officials exchanged glances at Lia's words

"You must be Miss Henriksen."

"You know better than we do."

He gave a sly smile.

When she saw it, Lia was suffocated.

The flash went off in front of me constantly. I saw volunteers carrying things hard
in the distance, and Lia wanted to run away somewhere.

What am I doing here?’

I felt a lump in my chest. I couldn't express this feeling exactly, but I think I
felt very ashamed and helpless.

"It's over, Miss Henriksen."

The photographer lowered the camera and grinned.

The children, who had been aching to stand still, ran somewhere in unison,
shouting. The children were mixed among the other children gathered around the drum
where firewood was placed to avoid the cold.

"You must be cold, so please stop eating inside."

"What about those kids?”

"I prefer to play outside, so I won't go in even if you tell me to."

The head of the nursery answered with a big smile.

The director took Lia into the building. He also talked about the worst cold spell
this winter, heating costs, building expansion, library expansion, and far-
deficient state aid benefits.
Lia, who had only been listening blankly, gently put down the cup that she had not
had a bite. It is only now clear what nursery officials want from me.

"It was my personal choice to volunteer here. But I'll ask my parents if they can
donate. Financial matters are not something I can do for you...….”

"Yes! I hope you can visit the mayor next time."

The director replied with a ready answer.

"Well, will I be able to serve like everyone else next time?”

"What?"

"I can take as many photos as I want if my photos are promoted, but taking pictures
all day long...…, I don't think so."

Lia's words made the director look strange. His gaze resembles that of the teacher
in charge when he went to submit an application for volunteer work.

It's like watching a freak show

No.

"Oh, come to think of it, Miss Henriksen was about the same age as the children
here when she came to Le Eden for adoption."

A superior gaze that seems to see something pitiful, pitiful, below me.

She was just here to do volunteer work, but Lia was ashamed that something inside
of her was revealed.

"So, is Le Eden worth living? Can't you remember your nursery days since you were
adopted by the Henriksen family? In a way, the kids here are lucky, too. It's
because I'm abandoned and I have a chance to go to a better house."

Lia clenched her fists.

"Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like if I were an orphan. Haha!"

That's ridiculous.….

"I'm at the collection center. They want me to pay the money

Breathe in.

Then, the door opened and a child called the director.

"This guy, he's talking about adults."

The director stood up and looked at Lia.

"Oh, that's..."

“……?”

"She sometimes jokes like that because she's raised by her parents, who are members
of the organization. It looks like someone from a government agency. Then I'll be
on my way."

"……Yes."

The director took something out of the shelf and rushed out.

"It's a lie."

"What?"

"I was kicked out of the organization. It's trash that doesn't do anything after
that."

"……What?"

Bang!

The door closed again.

'Did you just talk about your parents...…?’

Lia blinked at the closed door I got up late.

There was no one when I opened the door again. Only black smoke rising from the
drum where children gathered was blowing in the wind.

* * *

Whoo!

The cold wind scoured every nook and cranny of the building. The rattling bus was
also full of cold air. Lia put her scarf under her nose.

I visited the nursery every weekend from that day.

The director, who couldn't control the smile on his face when he persuaded his
father to hand over the check, showed blatant discomfort when Lia didn't bring
additional money.

In the end, he didn't pay attention to Lia as he used to realize that there was
nothing more to rip off. From Lia's point of view, it was good to be able to focus
on her original purpose of volunteering, but on the other hand, there were doubts
that the nursery was operating properly.

"Lia, my friend wants to have an interview. Can you spare me a moment? If it's in
the newspaper, the donation may increase further.”

Fortunately, the volunteers were all enthusiastic. Often at these requests, Lia
readily agreed, and donations increased as her good deeds were known throughout the
community.

As a result, Sarbina, who was initially delighted with Lia's volunteer work, began
planning to hold a donation party for the nursery in the name of the Henriksen
family.
As a result, the inside of the nursery was more energetic than ever. The season was
winter, but early spring seemed to come to the hearts of nursery children and
volunteers.

"These are the new books that came in today.”

"A lot, right? It's all thanks to Lia."

When I put books on the bookshelf with volunteers, I laughed for the first time. He
smiled foolishly alone and quickly straightened his face as if someone was
watching.

"You did a great job.”

"Go home safely."

On the day I went to volunteer work, the sun fell exceptionally fast. It was not
once or twice that I looked back because I was disappointed with the way I left.
The faces of children who didn't even know their names kept glaring.

Only college students majoring in college were able to directly contact and serve
the students. Watching it from afar, I thought about going to a child-related
department. The smiles of the children cheered me up.

It was one day.

"It's so cold, but you're all running around, right?"”

"They're kids."

Two volunteers looked out the window and said, Lia was wrapping Christmas presents
for the students indoors with other volunteers.

"I'll throw this away."

"Thank you, Miss Lia."

It was time for Lia to come out to take out the trash.

A child standing alone with his back against a tree stood in sight.

"What are you doing here?"

"You can't talk to a student, can you?"”

replied the hooded child. Compared to his small and fragile-looking size, his
pronunciation was clear.

'I was kicked out of the organization. It's trash that doesn't do anything after
that.'

Oh, it's that kid from then.

I didn't notice until I heard the voice. No, actually, I've been bothered for a
long time. It may have been more eye-catching because he was always wearing a
hoodie and shorts that didn't fit the season.

"It's okay as long as you're not alone inside."

Lia replied with a smile.

"Why are you alone here? I don't play with my friends."

"No, it's not."

"What?"

"We're not friends. I don't have any friends.”

Lia hesitated and crouched down in front of the child. When I raised my head to
meet my eye level, the child put down his hood and covered his face.

"Hey, thanks for your help that day. Actually, no one came.”

On the way home, the director rushed to meet him and found out that the child had
lied. Actually, no one came to see me.

"But you can't lie."

Lia's firm voice made the child's lips sulky.

"Thank you, though.”

When Lia smiled with a relaxed expression, the child faltered to the side.

"……I want to go."

Then he ran away like a wary cat. Lia stared blankly at the child's distant back
and slowly rose.

"LIA, what's wrong?"

"What?"

Then a volunteer spoke from behind.

"Because I'm laughing alone."

"Oh, nothing."

Lia blushed shamefully.

It was the second time I smiled secretly here.

* * *

After Christmas, the children were all wearing the same hats, gloves, and scarves.
The only child is not wearing anything.
"You don't like the present?”

"Do you have to like it?”

"What?"

"They're all the same anyway.”

"……Yes, it is."

Lia smiled bitterly.

"If you're going to do this, it's better to give it money. Then we can each buy
what we want."

What a precocious child, Lia was again caught in a lonely mood, reflecting on the
child's

"You know what?"

Then the child hopped up in front of Lia. The child asked, touching the stretched
hooded sleeve.

"What?"

"How much can you afford?”

The question made Lia feel like she had been hit on the head. But Lia answered
firmly, not panicking, but in a comforting tone, not scolding.

"People don't buy and sell with money."

"But I want it.”

"You mean me?"

"Yes!"

The cute answer made my heart sinker.

In fact, I remembered that the child became more estranged from other students due
to the previous fight. It was a fight that started because they secretly hid the
snacks they received at meal time and distributed them to street cats.

What should I do? I wanted to catch the child who kept on being evasive.

What does this child need most now?

"Being friends?"

"I don't like friends.”

The child turned his head and sank down. A small arm wrapped around his knee.

I know. The fact that what you need now is not a friend. You need an adult you can
rely on. I miss my guardian who will love me to the fullest.

I was like that, too.

The lack of an unfulfilled heart in my childhood has tied Lia to the past. Perhaps
volunteering at a nursery school is because they can't forget the past. Like a
homing instinct, wanting to return to a familiar place.

I was looking through the child's body with a sad gaze, and the wound on his knee
caught my eye. Lia turned her head as if she were running away.

"You don't want to see it because of the wound?”

The child's question was acute.

"My mother said she didn't want to see me either. He doesn't want to see everything
he left behind."

"Did he do that?”

"Yes, I'm my father's.”

The child who was looking at the wound raised his head and said,

"You can do whatever you want.”

"No, it's not."

"Don't you think so?"

"Yeah, I told you before, right? You can't own a man. He has emotions and he
thinks. No one who feels pain should be treated carelessly."

the blue eyes that look at oneself

The vivid blue color reflected my frightened face. I already know what this child
will say in the future.

"Then can I hate my father?”

Lia hugged the child quietly.

"Yes, you can."

I feel sorry for the skinny body that has nothing but bones. But the breath on the
skin was warm. It reminded me that this child was still alive.

This child was both herself and others to Lia. Rather than leaving it behind, a
desperate desire to be a part of my body crossed my mind.

"But don't do that for too long. If you continue to hate someone, that feeling will
make you suffer someday.”

The child, who was calm in Lia's arms, looked up.

"Okay, but promise me you too

"Huh? What?"

"Not to be anyone's."

"Yes."
That day, the two promised on their little fingers.

The child's face was hidden by the hood, but perhaps both were laughing.

* * *

Lia's worries grew day by day as the child still couldn't get along with the other
students. In the end, I tried to consult the director, but I was told not to care
because I was originally a problem child.

"……I didn't seem like a troublemaker."

"I understand your concern, but...…. We take care of the students."

Even though he wasn't responsible, he muttered as if the director wanted him to

listen.

He instinctively seemed to notice that Lia was the son of the Henriksen family.
They noticed for what purpose they adopted Lia. Lia sighed deeply with a resigned
face. It doesn't matter. I was used to this treatment.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Kids are making a lot of trouble these days. I'm under a lot of
stress."

As Lia stood with a dark expression, the director apologized again.

"……Yes, it must be hard."

"Ha. By the way, I heard Mrs. Henriksen is preparing a charity fundraiser?"

The director rubbed his palms against his lips.

The inner circumstances of these heartless adults didn't matter. After all, this
charity fundraiser was important for Lia, too. Pride, shame, for the sake of the
children here, I was willing to throw it away.

"Let me tell you how far it went."

Lia replied with a smile.

If I offend the director, I wonder if he releases it to the students. What can I do

then? Eventually, I come to the conclusion that I can't do anything.

'Smile, Lia. If you frown, we'll get cursed at instead. Do you understand?'

So smile.

"If you're an Asian, smile even more." I can't see the change in my facial
expression. I look ugly.’

You have to be obedient to get what you want.

I remembered the teachings of my mother and sister in my mind. Yeah, I'm doing what
I can now.

I wanted to protect this little world.

I don't know the topic.

The sky was dark when Lia came out. I heard a familiar voice thinking, "I have to
go back quickly."

"You don't have to force yourself to please the director. I'm leaving now."

"What?"

It was that kid.

"Leaving?"

"Father is looking for you."

Come to think of it, the child's father said he was in an organization. But did he
end up being kicked out? Lia said as she groped for her past memories.

"Do you want me to kill you?"

"What?"

"The director keeps bothering me. As a gift...."

Lia grabbed the child by the shoulder in surprise.

"No!"

“……!”

Perhaps because he shouted too loudly, the child froze like ice with round eyes.
Lia carefully embraced the child.

"You're not supposed to say that. Please don't say such sad things. What?"

"……OK."

The child replied in a brooding voice.

"Let's go. I'll walk you home.”

Then she grabbed Lia's hand and dragged her. The child took the lead bravely. Lia
shook her head in embarrassment.

"I'm late. I can go alone."

"Hey!"

Then someone yelled.

The child gently let go of his hand.

"……father."

The child murmured softly. It was more of an angry voice than a frightened.

"What a jerk! You're not answering when I call you? Hey, dude, don't stand there
stupid and come over here right now What?"

How can a father call his son like that? Even embarrassed Lia was hardened, and the
child's father strode up.

Lia stopped the man late.

"Ji, what are you doing?”

The man was the biggest man Lia had ever met than his father. 2m is big enough.
Even though all the muscles of his youth turned into fat, his whole body was like a
weapon.

"Huh? What the hell is she?" I'm taking my baby. Is there a problem?”

The man blew his eyes. The smell of alcohol stung him and made me sick.

"I'm a volunteer."

"Hot. Sipal. What am I supposed to say?"

The man frowned heavily and gathered his phlegm and spat it out. A yellow lump fell
right next to Lia's feet.

The unseemly child stepped in.

"Father, stop it."

"You shut up!"

Whoo!

The child's body flew far away with a strong fist.

“……!”

What, what, what happened?

The accident came to a standstill. I couldn't move. But time was running. The man
strode up to the fallen child.

It's moving.

It's moving.

We have to stop.

We have to stop him!

"What are you doing?”

Then the director came rushing to me.m. He looked around and whispered to the man
as if he had a rough grasp of the situation.

"I'll take Anna quietly. Do you know who that is?"

"Huh? What do I know? That Asian girl...….”

The muttering man raised his head as if he had realized something.

Bloody eyes stared at Lia as if to eat her up, and she bent unpleasantly.

"Ah, isn't that Miss Henriksen?”

The man smiled like a roly poly and nodded.

"I've never known such a precious person, Won. I didn't learn anything. Excuse me.
Please forgive me for apologizing What?"

He smiled as if he were embarrassed while apologizing. Lia managed to move her

shaky legs and approach the child.

"Oh, leave the child behind."

"Hey, kid."

At Lia's words, the man gave a chin to the child.

"Do you want to be here?"

The man's index finger shot down the air.

"………No."

The child shook his head. Then he picked himself up, brushing off his clothes. Even
Lia's worried hand shook off coldly.

"I want to go home."

What do you mean home?

It's not home where you't

You shouldn't call such a place a home.

"You can't go."

"Miss Henriksen."

The director blocked Lia's way.

"Leave the store. He's a dangerous rich man. If you get involved with people like
that for no reason, only the mayor will be in trouble. You have to think of other
children."

"Isn't she a student here?"

"We were just providing temporary protection. That kid is lucky, though. I have
parents to take care of me."

"What are you saying?"

"Oh, Miss Henriksen!"

cried the director.

Lia closed her mouth like a habit. In front of the angry opponent, he was forced to
shrink. Like an instinct imprinted on the body.

"I'm telling you, you're in trouble if you keep doing this. Is that the only kid
you're specializing in?”

"It's not that...…. You need help, don't you? Call the police

"What if I report it? The police don't go in there either! Yeah. Well, let's say we
looked it up. It's just coming back here. I'm going to come back to find the
author. Can you take responsibility for the stabbing? This kind of thing, it's
common here. If you pay attention to each and every one of them, you will be harmed
by other students."

The director criticized Lia with the eyes of not knowing it.

"You're from a nursery school, don't you think? I'd rather live under such parents
than be an orphan."

“…….”

"Well, Miss Henriksen, who met good adoptive parents, would know anything."

The director clicked his tongue.

"Wake up. I'll take you home today."

The director raised Lia, who was stretched out like a broken doll.

When Lia barely turned her head, the rich man was gone.

On the way home,

I tried to ignore the director's insidious intentions that glanced at me. Sure
enough, the director met Sarvina and talked about what had happened a while ago,
stressing how much he had risked for Lia.

"He's a very dangerous human being who can be kicked out of the organization. I
brought Miss Henriksen here myself to see if she'd be harmed. Yes."

"Oh, my God. That's what happened. Hey, Lia. Are you hurt?”

Sarvina was as worried about Lia as anyone else.

"I don't know who that kid is so brave like."

"Ha ha. This is all thanks to a good home education. By the way, I heard that you
are preparing for a charity fundraiser at the nursery school, is there anything
else I can do for you?”

"I thought I'd call you about that."

The ensuing conversation was no longer audible. Lia had only thoughts about the
child in her head.

* * *

I couldn't fall asleep.

It was dawn, but the sky was darkened. The winter sun rises late, and disappears
coldly fast.

It's a cruel season.

'Be clear about what you've raised.’

That's what my father said one day.

I don't know what the value of raising means, but I knew what a person had to do.
If you're a person, you have to protect someone weaker than you.

For the first time in her life, Lia gave herself to impulse.

"Ha, ha....”

Perhaps because of the nightly snow, the streets of the poor areas were
horrifyingly quiet. Lia moved forward through the ankle-deep snow.

What if I report it? The police don't go in there either!’

It's a place where people live anyway. It's just that people don't live like
people. Don't be scared. Don't be scared. Lia comforted herself by adjusting her
collar.

And I listened to the sounds around me. A woman's scream, an unintelligible foreign
language, and a dog barking were heard in the distance.

I had never seen the child's name, age, or even his face properly. I didn't even
know where the house was. But when the sun comes up, when people come out, don't
you think we can get some clues?

It's been a while since I wandered around thinking about my child.

As time passed, reason gradually returned.

What am I doing here?’

Lia came to a standstill.

It just came out on the spur of the moment without any countermeasures.

Are you sure you're willing to help?

"………Ugh."

The pain rose from the injured right hand. Lia gently wrapped her right wrist
around her. It was a natural result to go around in this cold weather without
gloves.

"What are you doing here?”

Then the child's voice was heard.

Is it auditory hallucination?

Lia glanced back. The creature I had been looking for was looking at me with his
hood on.

"Are you hurt? Are you okay?"

Lia hurriedly tried to take off the child's hood. Then the child struck Lia's hand.
He was also surprised and stiff with a puzzled face, and said in a timid voice,
"I'm sorry."

"No, I'm sorry to scare you. Why are you walking around alone?”

Barely true Lia asked carefully.

"I thought I heard a cat, so I was looking for it.”

The child looked around and opened his mouth.

"I don't think there's one left. The adults kicked them out. I don't want to see
you."

"……I see."

There was a brief silence.

"You know, this place is dangerous for people like you. So hurry back home. I'm
leaving."

The child lifted his heel I got off," he said. He looked so carefree as if he were
out for a walk. But it was somewhat awkward, like a deliberate act to reassure
himself.

"Go, hurry up."

As expected, the child quickly showed impatience.

"Where's this punk!"

Then, the voice of an angry man resounded in the quiet street.

"Are you trying to kill Abby? I'll kill you!"

Lia instinctively hugged the child.

"Let go, let go...!"

As the child struggled, Lia sat down completely.

"You lied again."

“…….”

"It's all right, I'll protect you."

Lia looked up determinedly.

"What? Four years again?”

The man who found the two men came up. The smell of alcohol was strong as if he
were drunk.

"Well, you sent me a good one, but why did you come to me again? What?"

The man crouched in front of Lia and tapped her forehead. The child, who saw the
figure, was furious and wriggled, but Lia pressed the child's back head tightly to
fix it so that it could not move. The breathing of the resentful puffing child was
crushed by the chest.

"Well, stop it."

Lia said in a trembling voice.

"What do you mean stop? Can't you see this? That crazy kid did it."

The man showed his red wet forearms. Lia was frightened and hardened. But when I
looked closely, it wasn't blood. The man's body smelled of wine.

"It's been a while since I've had some expensive wine, and he broke it. What are
you going to do with this? What?"

"……only for that reason,"

Lia bit her lips. I shuddered with anger and absurdity. Blood all over seemed to
flow backward.

The man looked at Lia as if he were having fun.

"Do you like him that much?" You're going to take her and raise her? Man, this was
a total pervert. Well, you can sell him if you want him."

The man made a suggestion with great generosity.

"……people are not things they sell for money."

"What are you muttering about? So are you going to buy it or not? If you just take
him, he's a kidnapper. You know, you want to be put in jail?”
The man shouted.

"I'm from the Henriksen family!"

Lia also closed her eyes and shouted. The man flinched at the unexpected response.

"You're going to sue the Henriksen family? Give it a try. It won't work out the way
you want it to."

The man said nothing more.

I know.

I wasn't scared of myself.

It was in response to the three letters of "Henriksen" after my name. Just as an

animal instinctively notices a stronger opponent than I do. The Henriksen family
reigned at the top of the city of Langde.

While the man was paused, Lia grabbed the child's hand and ran away to the nursery.

* * *

"You can stop running now.”

"Oh, my....”

The stopped child pulled Lia's hand.

"He's not following me."

"Oh, my.!”

The child nodded his chin as if to check. Lia looked back, taking her breath away.
The man's shadow was not reflected. Only the open road continued for a long time.

Still, Lia wanted to run away.

From everything that bothers me.

The child's father was just one of many things Lia wanted to escape from.

"Everyone is sleeping, so let's stay here."

Lia took out the key hidden under the pot and opened the door. It was an annex used
as a shelter for volunteers.

"I'll take you to the adults who will help you when the sun rises.”

I was speaking in a nonchalant voice, but my heart beat like crazy. It seemed like
the father of the child would break into the door right away.

"My father said he loved me and hit me.”

At the child's sudden words, Lia dropped the blanket she was holding.

"I don't know. Why do you hurt me when I love you?" It's not good to be sick.”

The child frowned as if he didn't understand. Lia quickly grabbed a blanket and
approached the child. I carefully wrapped a blanket around the child.

You're so small and fragile

How did you endure such a heavy world with this body?

"No, it's not."

"Isn't it?"

"Love is a heart that truly cares for and cares for others. It's an effort to make
you happy, not to be unhappy. Love,

Tears trickled down Lia's eyes.

"It's the most noble feeling in the world.”

Lia buried her face in a blanket covering the child's body. Fortunately, the child
turned a blind eye to Lia's tears.

"Are you tired? Shall we sleep a little?"

"Yes."

lean on each other like that and wait for the morning to come My eyes closed
gently.

When I opened my eyes again,

There was no child.

* * *

"There's no single day that just passes by!"

Where did it go wrong?

"Do I have to be threatened by such an unlearned jerk? What? You want me to make
amends for kidnapping your son? It's amazing!"

Ah.

I remembered.

Even the beast instinctively notices the opponent who is stronger than me. But the
man was a human being. a very mean person who can only take care of his own
interests Unlike beasts, humans are computational beings. If he can afford it, he
can sell his own children.
"What did you say? You didn't you answer?"

Slap!

The head turned sideways with a burst. Lia stood blankly holding onto her swollen
cheek.

"Do you even know how much you donated because you've been poking around? But why
are you making such a fuss?"

Sarvina shuddered around her arms.

"I can't stand it anymore. That's it for your volunteer work. I didn't want to come
to a place like this anymore. I think I'm going to get germs. Ugh!"

As Sarvina turned her back, Lia clung urgently to her arm.

"Oh, mother...…!”

"What else?"

"He, he, he, he,"

"Can't you stop stuttering and say it straight?”

Sarvina burst into a rage and struck Lia's hand. Lia tried to speak clearly, but
she kept running out of breath. Sarvina, who was watching the gasping Lia, clicked
her tongue.

The child was handed over to another protection agency. Don't bother me any more."

"……then the father of the child,"

"How dare you climb up on me without knowing the topic? You think you're going to
let me go?" I was stuck in an alcohol addiction center. There's nothing I can do by
myself.”

Lia lowered her head.

My mother was right.

In the end, he didn't accomplish anything. At best, he used Henriksen's name to

stand up to the man. Even that failed miserably. I couldn't say anything to let the
child meet again.

Did I?

In what capacity?

"Come out."

As I followed my mother outside, I could feel my eyes from somewhere. I turned my

head in the direction where I could feel my eyes, but there was no one.

Why were you just getting hit?’

A familiar voice reproached itself.

Oh, it's you.

I had the illusion that the child was watching me somewhere.

"Liar."

Right.

I'm a liar.

I can't take responsibility for anything on my own. I'll live forever parasitic on
the name Henriksen. Even the little boy couldn't protect. No, how great was he to
take responsibility for the weight of his life?

He's arrogant.

And I'm weak.

I'll never do this again.

To embrace a life that you can't take responsibility for and eventually let it go
with disappointment.….

* * *

"Evan."

Lia called his name quietly.

There was still a sense of when the gun was pointed at Eliza.

"Do you regret it?" You're welcome, but I do want to go back to the past. I
would've killed that son of a gun instead of my brother.’

Hesder's voice came to mind, saying he would do anything for his younger brother.

The fervent affection felt holy on the one hand. Courage to get your hands dirty
for someone you care about. However, now I realized that I had such feelings in my
proposal.

It's clattering.

I heard the door open from outside. Lia picked herself up.
As I walked to the front door, Evan stood with his back to the white moon.

"Did you meet him?"

"Yes."

Lia slowly approached and grabbed Ivan's hand. In a different atmosphere than
usual, Ivan looked through Lia as if observing her.

"………If Ivan was a little late, he would have pulled the trigger.”

"LIA?"

Evan looked at Lia with astonishment.

Lia couldn't believe that this word came out of my mouth either. But it's also who
it is. It was another mind of his own that he wanted to deny and had turned away.

"But even if it did, I wouldn't regret it. ……At the moment, I thought that was the
best. I couldn't afford to think about anything else."

Looking back on his past life, he was always on the edge of a cliff. It could have
crashed at any time. Evan loved such a woman and would have known that she could
not be saved in a normal way.

A man who loved me even though he knew all my faults. But why did I choose only the
good parts of him to get drunk? To love someone would be to permeate not only the
goodness but also the evil of the other person.

He pulls the trigger casually toward others, and at the same time is endlessly
sweet to hungry street beasts. The whole thing was Ivan.

And now I know why this man was so blind. In the world where the child was born,
possession was the only way to love someone.

"While I was waiting for you, I remembered the old memories."

Lia clasped Ivan's hand and said,

"There was a kid I really wanted to do, but I couldn't do anything for him. So I
had a chance to protect her again. So I'm happy.”

Lia frowned.

"Because it wasn't Henriksen who pointed the gun at me that day. Because I can
protect you myself. So...."

Tuck, Lia leaned her face against Ivan's chest.

Ivan gently wrapped around Lia's back hair.

"Yeah. I was happy, too.”

“…….”

"Thank you for protecting me, Lia."

"I'm sorry I didn't notice sooner."

"No, I didn't tell you that either."

Lia looked up at Ivan. And asked cautiously.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Well, that's."

Evan smiled awkwardly at Lia and then turned away.

"I think it was disgraceful.”

Lia felt sorry for the appearance. To the point where I want to hug you.

"Also, I was worried that Lia would continue to treat me like a child."

Evan added mischievously.

Lia stared at Ivan like that and buried her face in her chest and laughed.

"You can't treat a man this big like a child."

He has been acting like a baby to his heart's content, and now he doesn't want to
be treated as a child, which seems clever, but he feels infinitely lovely.

Also, it made me feel numb. I didn't know that the loss that the child must have
felt when he couldn't protect the woman he loves, that helplessness, made Evan what
he is now.

Then Ivan whispered.

"Lia. There's a place I want to go with Lia."

"Where do you want to go?"

* * *

Lia looked at the paper in her hand.

The destination on the train ticket was Langde Station. I didn't ask Ivan for the
exact destination, but I could see where we were heading.

Where it all started.

I'll be going back there. Like a flock of salmon in the spawning season that goes
up the river.

"Here you go, Lia. Go ahead."

Evan opened the train cabin door. The train was divided into small compartments.

"Yes, thank you."

Is it because it's a weekday? There were no passengers. Especially around Lia's

compartment, there were empty seats. It was not common to have no passengers like
this, but Lia didn't care much care.

"By the way, Lia."

"What?"

"Are you still using honorifics?"”

"Don't you like it?"

asked Lia, her eyebrows slightly drooping.

Evan blinked at Lia without saying a word

"No, it's not that I don't like it. Just do as you like."

He replied with a look of satisfaction.

Lia was lost in thought for a moment. Then she said with a little shy smile.

"I think this is comfortable."

"All right."

Evan also responded with a refreshing smile. But Lia was troubled again.

"It's awkward to speak casually all of a sudden." Did he want you to be

comfortable?’

Lia, sitting by the window, glanced next to her.

Evan was reading a local publicity magazine. As soon as I felt Lia's gaze, I turned
my head and looked at her.

"Why?"

Ivan asked slowly, stretching the end of his words.

"Are you hungry? Or water?"

Lia then poured out questions to find out the purpose of seeing her. Lia looked
excited as if she were a child on a picnic, and smiled lightly and shook her head.

"I just watched it."

Either honorifics or informal speech was fine. So will Evan. I just want to
continue this hard-fought relationship.

"Hmm."

Evan opened his eyes thin and put his arms on the table and folded his fingers.
Then he put his chin over his pinched hands.

"Come on."

“?”

"Enjoy yourself."
When Evan saw Lia's face, Lia was embarrassed and avoided her eyes. That's because
there was a strange atmosphere in him that I don't know why.

"I'll read this. You're not going to read it, right?”

Lia opened a magazine that Evan had put down. I tried to concentrate on the
writing, but I could still feel the sticky gaze. This could not have caught my eye.

I heard a grin next to me. Eventually, Ivan, who came close to her and put his body
in close contact, put his arm around Lia's waist.

"I'm excited to be alone in a small space with Lia."

“……?”

Lia doubted my ears that she had misheard.

Then I heard a tapping sound from under my chin. Lia lowered her gaze in anxiety.
Sure enough, Evan was naturally unwrapping Lia's blouse.

"…… Evan?"

"What?"

When Lia lifted her head and looked at him with shaky eyes, Ivan tilted his head
nonchalantly.

"Why?"

He even stretched his tail in a cute way.

In the meantime, the button that had been locked has already been released half
way, exposing the bra that covers the chest.

"What are you doing now?"

"It's our first train trip, so I just wanted to do something a little racy.”

It wasn't a little racy, Leah thought, looking at the hand coming through the loose
blouse.

Ivan's palm gripped one side of his chest. My bra was crumpled and my breast almost
popped out. Only then did Lia grab Ivan's wrist with both hands.

"This kind of thing in public...….”

"Huh? Public places? No. I booked all the tickets."

"What?"

Lia doubted my ears again.

"Is that possible? What about standing room? Did you block standing room?”

"Yes, standing up. Actually, I wasn't sure either. Do you know what? It worked."

Ivan replied with a smile. I didn't forget to add it naturally.

"Isn't it amazing? There's nothing you can't do if you have love for Lia."”
How in the world did he even block standing? Lia stopped thinking more. It was
better to show affection for me by controlling my life.

'No matter how much...….’

Leah, who was creeping back, was blocked by the window frame. Ivan stopped rubbing
his chest and bent his eyes to smile.

"I did. I don't think it'll cool down until I take a step back.”

Evan glanced between my legs. Lia's eyes followed him.

It wasn't a lie. The pawns stored in the right direction stood tall as they were
about to break through the pants.

"Lia, help me."

"But this place is a little...….”

"There are more people after you get off"

Evan whispered in a low voice. The strangely subdued breath seemed to come through
the ear's wheel and dig into the brain. I let go of my strength by itself.

Lia looked at Ivan with drooping eyebrows. Evan also had a whining look on his face
after her. But it never sided with her.

"Can't you stand it until the dorm?"”

"I can stand it. LIA, are you okay? I don't think my erection will go away until
then."

It's embarrassing to take someone with you.

Evan talked to me like this.

During the conversation, his lead was bulging. Lia closed her eyes and was deeply
troubled. Meanwhile, Ivan buried his face in her upper body and stuck out his
tongue to lick her breastbone.

"Ivan……!"

Lia was frightened and pushed him away.

"Okay, then let's do this."

Ivan offered to pretend to step back.

"Let's take turns washing it."

“!?”

Evan pulled back and naturally began to loosen his belt.

"I don't want to force myself in a place like this either. But I'm not the only one
who gets it."

Even though Lia never allowed it, Evan took out a ruler and grabbed it as if it was
natural. The pre-comms stuck in the ears dripped down.

Evan was astonishingly aware of Lia glancing at the door to the curtained hallway.

"I told you, we're the only passengers here. Of course, there are no flight
attendants who check train tickets."

“…….”

Evan picked up the pawn with a stickiness. Poppy was pushed up and covered the
ears. The strong smell of flesh seemed to fill the room.

Leah mumbled her lips. Perhaps because of long learning, the thickness of the cock
that was filling the mouth came to mind and saliva was secreted from the mouth.

"LIA, will you wash it first? Or should I wash it first?"

Every time I petted the cock, the dew on my ears grew. Finally, as the glandular
fluid flowed down, Lia approached gently. Ivan's cute appearance like a small
animal wary of humans kept raising the corners of his mouth.

Evan rested his hand on his back and leaned on his back. He stood tall as if he had
a hard iron core.

Carefully approaching Lia bowed her head. And he put one hair flowing down behind
his ears and opened his mouth wide. I had a close breath at the end of my ear.

"Down."

When I touched the unusually hot lump of flesh with my tongue, the temperature
became similar to the inside of my mouth. The lukewarm mouth was filled with a raw
smell. Lia was sucking her thick ears like candy, shaking her head little by little
and swallowing the pillar.

Juicy, juicy, juicy, jujup, jjup.

Lia was still tactless compared to trying. When I played pelatio, saliva that I
couldn't swallow flowed out of my mouth. However, thanks to such wetting, I was
able to put the remaining pillars in my mouth a little easier. I didn't mean to.

"Ha, Lia."

The round back of Lia's head, which moved hard up and down, was lovely. The long
straight hair flowed down to the floor to cover the jaw, but thanks to it, the
sense of touch and hearing became very sensitive, doubling the excitement.

"Oh, Lia. Feeling good...….”

Ivan groaned, leaning his head back with his hand on Lia's head. Every time I took
a big breath, my chest swelled like a balloon.

'It's too big.'

The ruthless size made Lia cry a little.

It was indoors, but my throat was not opened more than usual because I was nervous,
not at home. On the contrary, Ivan was so excited about this situation that he was
putting all his strength into his crotch. The astonishing size of the cock swelled
even more out of Lia's mouth.
"I can't put everything in."’

Lia gently grabbed the root of the pillar with both hands and made a jaw. However,
the pillars sticking out over the wrapped hands were also absurdly long. Still, I
did my best as long as I could wash it. The problem was that Evan wasn't satisfied.

"Well, Lia."

Ivan, who was sobbing happily, narrowed his brows slightly. He even tilted his head
as if he sensed something strange.

"Huh, yes...?”

Lia pouted out her hard-working suck and raised her head. The slightly opened mouth
was filled with sticky saliva.

Ivan wiped around Lia's wet mouth with his thumb, suppressing the urge to kiss.

"Can you wash it a little deeper?"

And I've been asking for a cheeky favor that doesn't suit my very apologetic
expression.

"Boo, it's impossible.”

It's too big.

Lia stuttered and bowed her head. Evan gave him a sly retort.

"You haven't even tried it?"

"I did, but Ivan's was too long...….”

Lia closed her eyes tightly because she was ashamed to say this with her own mouth.
In fact, the person who induced this answer was seriously thinking about something.

"You used to go in more than today”

"No way....”

"No, it's true. I swallowed this much."

Ivan touched his hand next to the towering pillar and spread his thumb and index
finger. Surprised, Lia managed to shut her jaw.

"It's almost everything, right?

"Yes, that's right."

Ivan grinned. Staring at Lia's suspicious eyes, he soon grabbed the cock and shook
it and continued.

"I'm going to stop moaning, so please finish washing it. I think it's going to
shrink because it's cold.”

I wanted to ask again, "Then can't we just cool it down like this?" but I knew Evan
was just talking. Instead of shrinking, the red porcelain stood upright and showed
off its majesty.
"Ah..."

Lia opened her mouth wide again. At the same time she nagged, Ivan put his hand on
the back of his head. As Lia lowered her head, the weight was put on the hand
holding her head.

Leah put her hands on Ivan's thigh and started Pelatio again with his help. Like
that, Ivan repeatedly loosened his hands when his head came up and gave strength
again when he went down.

"Well, uh....”

Just as a blocked hole opened, the ears were pushed in to a place that had not been
reached. Lia, who was a little burdened, tried to spit out the cock, but she
couldn't because she was blocked by Evan's hand.

“……!”

Then, eventually, the part of the hand-wrapped jaw came into my mouth. Tears welled
up as my ears pricked my Adam's apple. Lia belatedly tried to wrap her hands around
the pillar.

But it was late.

"Ugh, look, LIA. All of them, they're going in.”

"Oh, my God

When Evan pressed his head again, the ear head that passed his Adam's apple slowly
pushed into his throat. Leah's fingernails, which stood close, scratched Ivan's
thighs. When there was no response, he even tapped with his fist.

But it didn't work. Ivan had already half let go of his reason by the fantastic
tightening of his throat, which clung inexorably.

"Oh, LIA..., My throat. I love it. It's tight like a boji."

Leah managed to wrap her fingers around the remaining roots and made a jaw that was
almost as bad as her own. A winding conspiracy stuck and tickled my fingers.

Then Ivan's hand swept down Lia's back hair and wrapped it around her right ear.
The other hand touched the left ear.

"I'll pack it in a minute. Please hang in there. What?"

"Ummm…"

"That's right, that's nice."

"Ugh, uh."

Evan moved her wrapped head up and down. Leah, who had earlier given up resistance,
relaxed her neck and shoulders. However, he did not take off his finger holding the
pillar. Rather, it was fastened more tightly as if it were locked. It'd be really
dangerous if more shit came in here.

"Sigh. Oh, my.…!”

"Huh, hh."

Evan's breathing grew rougher. Lia was also distracted by the sense of a cock in
and out of her throat. Finally, semen was scattered all over my neck. Lia spilled
even a drop of semen on the sheet, so she passed it all over her neck.

Evan lifted Lia's head after three separate wraps. Lia collected her cheeks in a
thin way to suck the jaji in case semen flowed even while her head was lifted up.

"Sigh!"

There was a pop, a sound, and a thick earhead slipped out of my mouth.

Whenever I breathed in the crane, the outside air came into Lia's mouth. The air
felt fresher because the whole mouth was soggy with semen.

"It's my turn now."

Ivan lifted Lia, who was holding her breath, and laid her on the table. Lia opened
the open blouse with her hands. I could button it up again, but I didn't. If you do
that, Evan's attention will be on your chest.

Fortunately, Ivan was concentrating on revealing Lia's skirt.

"It's black"

Evan changed his clothes together in the morning and asked, though he knew it,
naturally. Then, he rubbed his fingers between the cracks on the panties.

Ivan's upper body came up to the table like a stretching leopard. He whispered in a
low voice.

"And I got a little wet."

"Ha!"

The finger that was rubbing on the underwear pricked the jigu without even looking.
Like there's an eye on the tip of your finger.

"Ah, ah....”

I just rolled my fingers in a circle with my underwear in between, but a groan came
out automatically.

Side.

Ivan kissed Lia's lips lightly. And after kissing briefly twice more, he swallowed
his lower lip and mixed his tongue in earnest.

"Umm, hmm, ha...….”

It was a kiss so dense that my thighs twisted. Every time my tongue brushed against
me, my whole body was numb. Before I knew it, my chest was resting on Ivan's
shoulder.

Evan is happy to observe such Lia I put my index finger on both sides of my pelvis.
Then, he came down as he was and put his finger on his underwear. The panties on my
finger rolled off.
"Wait, Lia."

"Uh. Yes."

Ivan lifted Lia's waist with one hand and completely peeled off her underwear. I
only took off my lips for a moment, but Lia made a mournful sound. Ivan looked
pitifully at Lia.

What should I do?

I need to wash Lia's face now.

Ivan kissed Lia lightly on the lips. Lia, who thought she would mix her tongue
again, poked out her tongue. But he immediately raised his head and moved away.
Lia's face showed signs of regret.

Evan left Lia behind, groping her lower abdomen, buried her face between her legs.
As it was, he wetted the plot with his mouth.

"Huh...!"

Ivan, who was chewing on a lump of flesh in his mouth, licked up the sound. Lia
reacted immediately, shaking her back.

"Ah……, hah……!”

Ivan's lips went straight to Clitoris. The tip of the tongue, which was pointed
like a fish thorn, pulled out the negative nucleus. With her flamboyant mouth
movement, Lia's bottom already shed sticky sorrow.

Evan bit the nucleus to the point where it hurt a little. Then, the hummingbird
sprang out of the jitgu and wetted his chin. Evan focused on sucking Lia's negative
core, leaving the love of her face flowing.

"Uh-huh, ah-huh, ah!

Juicy, juicy, and tzuyu juice.

Before she knew it, Lia's hands were gripping Ivan's silver hair. Now Lia is lying
on the tableThe expression "spread" was more appropriate than "base." As soon as
Evan pulled Klee, his upper body fluctuated, and the black hair hanging under the
table shook wildly.

"Ah, ah, Ivan...….”

Before long, Lia pressed Ivan's head as if she were begging.

Evan looked up at Lia while biting her. Leah finally bowed her head and made eye
contact. Her face was flushed like a person who ran without a sip of water in the
midsummer sand.

“?”

Evan stared at Lia with round eyes and munching her lips at her biting. Like a
young beast who doesn't want to miss the toy he finds.

Lia hesitated to look at Ivan like that. In fact, Evan knew why she was doing this.

Ivan laid down the negative core he was biting and looked at the spreading hole
below it. Love was flowing from the poking hole like an open wine bottle. However,
Ivan occasionally spread his tongue wide and licked the part of the voice, and did
not push his tongue into the hole.

You want me to put it in.

Fill the ship with my own shit.

"So cute."

Ivan grinned as he looked at the old lady Lia. It was worthwhile to deliberately
caress Klee until she wanted it first.

But Evan decided to fret Lia a little more. It was because of his rather odorous
personality.

"Why?"

Ivan came up and asked slowly.

When she deliberately stabbed Lia in the body with an erection gesture, she tilted
her head and inhaled her breath. Even if I didn't see her, I knew what she was
going to be like. The mucous membranes are so sensitive that they're flinching.

"I'm seeing Lia again. I have to go down to wash her. If you have something to say,
say it quickly. What?"

Ivan bit Lia's ear cartilage and urged her to answer.

"……put it in, give it to me."

"Did you want to put it in after all that bouncing?"”

"……Yes."

Lia nodded shyly. And I spread my legs a little more, which were already wide open.

Ivan seized the clublike position and tapped on Lia's voice. Every time there was a
thud, a heavy sound.

"You're showing all your breasts in the running train.”

"Oh!"

Ivan pulled Lia's bra with his other hand. The breasts, which were gathered
tightly, popped out of the bra cup and shook. Ivan pinched and twisted the
protruding nipple cutely.

"I'm so wet underneath, too

"Hmm...."

When Evan brought a bean curd, Zigoo stuck to him like a hungry man for a few days.
If you put it in the mouth to suck it, it was about to dry up the cock. I wonder
how much I'll squeeze out of my shit today. I've already had chills down my spine.

"I listen to LIA well, so I'll put it in.”

Lia's black eyes sparkled at the mention of putting it in.

"LIA, thank you. You should say thank you, right?

"Well, thank you, hmm...….”

Smack!

In an instant, the ears came in through the vaginal wall. Lia trembled with joy
that penetrated her body without finishing her words.

"Nice. You're a kid Lia is."

Evan shook his back without a break. Each time, there was a sound of slapping as if
he had hit his cheeks with his palm.

"I was really going to wash it once in a while and finish it off. Sigh……………Lia begs
to pester BoJi, you do this?"

"Uh, yes, yes, that's right……!”

Lia nodded, forgetting her shame. Whenever I scratched the itchy part of my ears,
the cool pleasure spread. Anything else is good enough. I felt like a slave to
lust.

"Lia, let's kiss."

"Well, well, yes...….”

Lia opened her mouth gently.

Evan also bowed his head with his mouth open, but his lips kept falling apart
because his body was shaking. But it was impossible to stop the violent waist
action. As much as I saw him sucking the cock, Ivan's cock didn't think of getting
out of the wall like a hook.

"Down."

After hitting my teeth a few times, my lips barely engaged. Once the lips, which
had been dislocated like that, were meshed once, they stuck tightly together like a
close lower body.

Two tongues stroked each other as if they were swimming in a vacuum in their
mouths. Both of their lips were shiny after finishing Fella and Canille together.

"Well, Lia."

Ivan leaned over to put his tongue deeper. Lia's breast was crushed under the hard
chest muscles. The feeling of soft fat being pressed against my body was dizzying.

When I pushed my hand between the overlapped bodies, held my chest and rubbed it,
my hand marks came up on my white skin. Ivan kept rubbing his chest with a nipple
between his fingers.

If you get pregnant, how much more milk will it look appetizing? I might spit out
my breast milk as soon as I got it in my hand. Ivan thought that after this trip,
he should go to the hospital immediately and have a vasectomy.

'Wait, then I won't be able to have sex for at least two weeks.’
As my thoughts reached this point, I felt nervousness that I had never experienced
before. You can't have sex with Lia for two weeks? Ivan was shocked again,
reminding himself of the obvious.

Even now, Lia is tightening mine as if she's going to pull all the crap out of
me...…. I can't believe I can't be in a relationship for two weeks. Will Lia be
able to hold out? Of course, if you endure it for two weeks, the sperm could come
alive and feed you the real semen. Even so, can this lewd hole wait for two weeks
rather calmly?

I had to hand something over for him. Fingers? I know what it tastes like, but will
they be satisfied with their fingers? A device. Yeah, it's an adult device. Ivan,
who found the answer, managed to regain his reason.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...….”

Then I heard a dying moan downstairs. Ivan bowed his head.

Leah's eyes were wide open by Ivan's ruthless waist, who was in agony. The boji
wrapped around the cow was also swollen like a donut.

"LIA. LIA?"

Evan called Lia with her face close together. Only then did Lia's eyes return to
focus.

But I was thirsty, so my voice didn't come out. Evan, who noticed it, paused and
gulped down the bottled water. And with one hand he grabbed Lia by the neck.

"Uh...."

The water Ivan had in his mouth moved into Lia. Lia gulped down the water. The
uncontrollable stream of water flowed down the thin chin and settled in the chest.

"Sorry, it was hard, wasn't it?" I was a little excited to think that I was doing
something bad with Lia.”

"Bad... What do you mean, bad?"

"It's not a good thing to do this in public, is it?"”

Evan winked at Boji, who was biting his mother's ass. Lia blushed when she realized
her words belatedly. I even coughed because the water left in my mouth got stuck in
my throat.

"Oh, every time I cough, it's tight. LOL...….”

"Oh my god"

For a moment, a hot embers spread throughout the ship. It's Ivan's fault.

Lia looked up in amazement. Ivan looked pitiful, as if he were force majeure.

"Lia's boji seems to be specialized in draining the sod.”

"A, What do you mean all of a sudden?”

"No, you tighten it before you put it in, you tighten it like crazy when you put it
in, and you cough, right?”
Evan grumbled as if to listen. And then slowly began to shake his back again.

"Look, it's still tight."

"Ah, ah, ah!"

"Yes, yes. I'll let Lia go, too. And later, I'll feed you real damn water. Whoo."

"Well, well, yes...…?”

What do you mean? What do you mean? The slow-moving thoughts were scattered as soon
as Ivan's ears poked away from the spot.

"Ah...!”

The whole body felt paralyzed by the stimulus penetrating the body. Lia shook her
body with her head tilted to her side. The joints of my body have become hollow.

It was the climax.

"Ha, ha....”

Lia looked out the window blankly, breathing heavily. The view outside the car
window quickly changed. Where is this place? There was no stop in the middle, so I
didn't know how much time left until the destination.

"How was it, LIA? Do you want more?”

Then Ivan hugged his back and whispered. A deep-seated earhead hung narrowly at the
entrance. She was ready to dig back in whenever she allowed.

"It's more……, it's hard

"Okay, I'll dress you up, so you can lie down comfortably.”

Ivan nodded gently and carefully pulled out the cock. Then, Lia's breast was put
into the bra one by one, and the loose buttons were filled one by one to tidy up
her clothes.

Even with such passionate sex, by the time the train reached its end, neither of
them could find any excitement in their faces.

Of course, Lia had Ivan's semen in her stomach, but it was impossible to notice
unless she took off her clothes and spread her legs.

"If you're tired, it's okay to sleep at the dorm."

"Shall we?"

"Let's do that. Wash up and relieve your fatigue."

Evan swallowed the words, "Exclude the sod in the boji." In that way, the two were
mixed with the crowd by having a chat.

Lia suddenly felt strange.

In the past, when I arrived alone at Langde Station, it was as if everyone was
staring at me as if I were going to eat it, but now I didn't feel that gaze. No,
even if I faced such a person, I was confident that I wouldn't be intimidated as
before.

'Why? I don't know why.'

Lia glanced at Evan walking next to me with her arms wrapped around my waist.

I don't know why.

Lia never regretted coming here again. And I wasn't as scared as I used to be.

* * *

The next day.

It snowed when I got out of the hotel.

Ivan and Lia stopped for a moment and looked at the falling snowflakes.

"Shall we go now?"

"Yes."

Ivan took his chance first and the two got into the car. Snow kept falling without
stopping for a moment while Evan was driving to his destination

"We're here, Lia."

Evan stopped the car.

When I came outside, my footprints were left in the comfortable snow. Perhaps
because of the weather, there were few people walking around even though it was
daytime. Most of the stores were also closed. Ivan has been here relatively
recently, but Lia has been here for years.

a poor sanctuary in the city of Langde

Where it all started.

Lia's stepfather once said that the tragedy should be eradicated, citing the poor
in Langde City. The hidden meaning of the word was, "If you see it, it hurts your
heart, so hide it where you can't see it."

Gelbrun hid the dark side of the city of Langde and pretended not to know the
ruthless violence in it. I thought it was a way for me and other "ordinary" people
to live comfortably.

No one knows what's happening in here. People easily turned their eyes to the 21st
century, saying, "No matter how you find out, that will not happen in the 21st
century."

There are no gods or demons here.

Only humans who had to be demons to survive existed.

"I didn't see a street cat on the way."

Ivan spoke quietly.

It was rather sudden, but Lia listened to him quietly.

"I guess they all starved to death, or did they kill them for being loud? Humans
here don't know how to love animals. Yes, when I was young, cats would cry loudly
every night, and I remember him hitting me every time."

"……Ivan."

The man Ivan said was probably his father. Lia looked at Ivan with mixed feelings.

"I've never blamed a cat. You wanted to find a partner. The cat must have been
lonely. What can I do about God making it like that?”

Evan fumbled back a very long memory. No, it wasn't that old of a memory, but it
took me quite a while to recall the man's face.

"Now that I think about it, I think he missed someone, too. All beings are lonely.
But he had such high self-esteem that he didn't know how to love others. So he
couldn't even cry like a cat, and he hit me instead."

“…….”

"You're a trashy person, aren't you?"

Evan grinned as he looked at Lia.

What answer should I give, Lia was deeply troubled.

"I wasn't as nice as Lia thought."

Then Evan confessed.

"I'll tell you everything.”

What kind of life I've been living.

About me before I met you.

27.
The world we first encountered consisted of a man named Father, a woman named
Mother, and himself, a small child.

People agreed to call it a 'family', and the man was the king of the little world.
The child hated the irresponsible people who put a shining crown on the man.

"Where's the booze? Alcohol!"

It was the man's angry shout, not the alarm of the alarm clock or the chirping of
the birds that settled in the trees that marked the beginning of the day. The child
stared at the man with his small shoulders tightened and his neck stiff.

"Who hid it? Is that you, you rat!"

"Stop it!"

When the man grabbed the child by the collar, a woman ran out of nowhere and
grabbed the child's torso. So a tight tug-of-war ensued.

"Oh, my God...!”

I was strangled, my airway was blocked, and red handprints appeared on my belly
skin, but no one let go of the child first.

One day, I remembered a foreign currency I saw on a TV with a broken screen. Two
women claimed to be their biological mother over a child. A wise king who judged
them said,

'Then split the child in half.’

The words were spoken by the real mother.

'I'm the fake mother. Give that woman a child.’

Because he couldn't kill his beloved child in half. The king saw true love in her
eyes, not possessiveness.

'Then you are the real mother who gave up the child.’

But reality was different from fiction.

There was no mother who gave up to save herself. The child was vaguely aware. Those
who now hold onto my body and compete for strength were not real parents.

I'm just a possession.

"It's all because of you. If it weren't for you...….”

“…….”

The woman turned upside down when the man went out to buy a drink. She looked at
the child and grumbled. His eyes were filled with hatred.

Again? The child let the woman's words slip into one ear in an indifferent way.

"Why isn't there a day when it' Why are you going against his temper! Do you want
to starve to death together?”

The child knows.

That this woman didn't give birth to herself.

Money only mimics the motherhood they want in front of men and welfare workers.

"I'm your mother because of money. If it weren't for the aid...….”

As expected, the woman uttered the thoughts of the child's head. I was used to the
look of resentment.

"You're the kid I picked up."

“…….”

"Because I can't have children."

“…….”

"If it were your own child, you wouldn't be this mean!"

The woman put a curse on the child.

Three people who are not mixed with blood gather to play the form of a family. To
live. But there is no fraternity in between. There is only a simple power
relationship between kings and slaves.

"I'm about to enter the school, so can't I get more funding?”

On the day of the visit of an employee of the Welfare Bureau, the woman played a
sweet mother with the child at the forefront. The child stared at the employee of
the welfare bureau while still staring at his hands on my shoulder.

The eyes met.

Despite seeing a faint blue bruise exposed outside the child's sleeve, the welfare
bureau's support turned a blind eye. The bored voice and attitude unique to public
officials were also arrogant like a person with a cash cow, but their eyes were
shaking. The fear of wanting to leave this dangerous slum was evident.

"I'll get back to you."

"Thank you. You should say hi, too. Come on."

The woman forced the child to hold his head. The child closed his eyes completely
and separated himself from this dirty world.
* * *

One day, the woman disappeared.

When two police officers and a welfare office employee came to investigate the
case, the man expressed his resentment, saying that she was a cruel mother who
abandoned her child and ran away.

But the child knew.

The woman didn't run away.

The child clearly remembered what he saw the night before. The drunken man was
strangling the woman. The body could not be found, but that man must have killed
it.

The child wished for the downfall of the drunken king. Finally, the time for a
revolution has come. After making up his mind, the child followed the police to
reveal the truth, avoiding the man's eyes.

"He killed it."

"What, boy?"

It was common for a slum woman to disappear. It is an open fact that the police are
reluctant to put manpower into such a thing.

But the child at the time did not know that.

"Father."

The child, who I thought the police didn't understand, added clearly. But the only
answer returned was silence.

"Whoo."

The police simultaneously puffed out cigarette smoke.

He went into a brothel, or he went back to his hometown. The police patted the
child on the head while exchanging glances. The smell of cigarettes on my fingers
permeated my thin hair.

"Go home. My parents will be worried."

They were even oblivious to the fact that the child's mother was missing a while
ago. What would you expect in this situation? The child trudged home.

"I strangled your mother to death? Where are you talking nonsense! What?

The angry king shouted at the child. There were no sweet parents who were worried
about their children as police said.

"You strangled her.”

"She's not obeying her husband, so she has no choice but to give him a thrashing!
I've saved you from not having a baby!"
And this is also the rod of love, said the man, waving his fist. He imprinted his
rules on the child's body with violence.

"I'm the head of the family. You can do whatever you want because she's mine, too.
Do you understand, you son of a gun? If you follow me one more time to talk
nonsense to my friends, I'll break your leg."

The man threw the child into a corner.

Cock, take it back.

Sticky saliva fell on the floor.

pick up a disgusting looking thing I didn't even know I was thankful. You're an
abandoned bastard. Why was it abandoned? Because I was born with a stupid look.
Look in the mirror. as white as an old man's head

"There's no parent who'll love a baby like you."

The man was rambling on.

“…….”

The falling hair obscured the child's vision. The child pulled a handful of
bloodied hair. The bloodless part was white like snow. I've never eaten nutritious
food before, so I don't have any glossy hair. It's disgusting like a spider's web.

'You know what? On a snowy day, when you put a baby in a basket, his hair turns
white. So that angels can't find the baby's soul. pick up such a white baby Raising
couple said they will be blessed by God and be happy for life.’

The woman brought by the man was foolish as if she had a screw missing somewhere.
She endured silently no matter how mistreated and used by men. The woman longed for
the love of the man.

So I can be happy, right? Huh? I'll take care of you and he'll understand my true
feelings.’

In the eyes of a child, a man was a man who did not know how to give love. And it
was the same with women. A woman is a human being who cannot be loved. If I really
wanted to be loved, I wouldn't have chosen a man like that.

"When you were the only one, I ran around the neighborhood all day when the snow
piled up and left a footprint. Like you write your name on mine. I'm sure he's the
same, too I'm sure you're leaving a bruise because you like me.’
The child recalled the conversation he had with her a day before the woman died,
no, disappeared.

The woman looked lovingly at the bruises left on her body. The child simply didn't
understand. So, I decided to tell the cruel truth that the woman didn't know,
although I didn'

'He doesn't love anyone.’

Shut up! What do you know?’

The woman's gentle face turned devilish in a momentarily. She started screaming and
throwing things in the house.

In time she looked at the child like she was possessed.

'I'm such a mess. How could you...…, Will it be clean? How can a child's head be as
white as snow? It's really, really amazing.’

The woman gazed covetously at the child's hair and slapped him with a clap. After
hitting him a few more times, he started laughing like crazy. Laughing. Then he
burst into tears like a child and started looking for his mother.

Did she have a childhood? There must have been. That's why he's looking for his
mother. The child thought. I'll become an adult someday.

Then what kind of adult will he grow up to be?

One thing was certain.

You won't be an adult crying for your mother like that. The absence of a mother to
cry for the most painful moment.

It wasn't just my mother. There was not a single decent adult around the child.

'Then, I begged the man back home to leave me and run away, and I was strangled...
….’

The child slowly blinked and recalled the past.

As the man said, the woman did not know that she had been killed, but that she had
run away. He finally escaped from this vicious cycle of violence.

The child didn't want to admit the fact.

Because he couldn't do that. It was meant to be a man's property for the rest of
his life. On the other hand, I wanted the woman who ran away to be happy. I
couldn't blame her. You were someone else who had nothing to do with me from the
beginning.

The woman who played the role of a mother disappeared, but the stage of this family
was maintained with only two fathers and children. This is because the child
finally accepted his role.

"If you go against me one more time, you won't end up with this."

"……OK, Dad."

The child clenched his head in front of his big fist.

There are no visitors.

* * *

The petty adults of the later world raked in money in various ways. I was amazed at
how such an idea came from an ignorant mind.

"You're not going to stand out to me, are you?"

"Well, this guy. Even so?”

One day, a nursery school director visited the father of the child. He picks up
orphans in the street I raked in money as a way of buying sympathy for people. If
his father was a retailer, he was a wholesaler.

"Come here, little boy."

He threw the cigarette that his father was smoking on the floor and gestured to the
child. The other hand held an envelope of money received from the man.

Is it being sold? The child thought vaguely.

The child has never stepped on the threshold of school even though he is way past
the age of receiving elementary education. The first group to which such a child
belonged was the nursery.

"Do what this man tells you to do from today. Do you understand?"

"What do I have to do?"

When the child asked with a smart face, the director burst into laughter. He said,
"This is a smart guy," and praised him, not a compliment.

"When the cashier comes, you just have to deliver the envelope I give you without
anyone knowing."

"Collector?"

The child asked, wary of unfamiliar words.

"Doesn't the welfare office visit your house every month?" They're the same
people."

The director said they protect the nursery instead of the incompetent police. And
in return, you have to pay full-time. Otherwise, the orphans living in the nursery
will be scattered, and they need their own help to prevent such a tragedy.
"So you're the watchman who protects the children."

Nonsense.

The child snorted inwardly.

I agreed that the police were incompetent. However, I realized last night that
there was no adult who would protect orphans on the street for nothing on behalf of
such an incompetent police officer.

After all, it's all money.

And now he's in the role of transferring that "money. I can't believe you'really.
At a time when it's hard to save my life.

Is the only life you care about only a street cat? I was just born like that, but
it was pitiful to be hated by people. Ruining the beauty of the streets. What do
you mean, beauty? Funny. How dare you say beauty in this filthy slum?

"All right."

The child gently nodded, erasing his thoughts on the ousted street cats.

The director looked elated as if he thought his lie had worked. It was pathetic.
Don't you know that you're a slave who just moves as his father tells you to? Or
maybe it's a hypothetical effort to relieve the guilt in its own way.

"I look forward to your kind cooperation."

The director held out his hand and trembled.

The child took a step back. I felt a lump in my chest. It was as frustrating as the
day when I hurriedly passed the expired food on the back of my neck. I learned with
my body that the first food on that day would go bad after a certain period of
time, and that eating spoiled food would cause trouble.

It was like that even now.

I felt like someone forced the rotten food into my throat. He forced his mouth open
and pushed in a lot of unwanted things. If you eat this, you'll die. But if you die
without eating...….

'Take care of yourself.’

The child gave up thinking.

The only consolation was that while working under the director, he didn't have to
be picked up by his father for no reason at home.

No, it's not the rod of love. In addition, since he is the "possession" of his
father, he must accept the ruthless violence. That was the power that only those
who owned something could have.

* * *
Nursery school life was not smooth.

"He's not an orphan, is he?"

"Then why are you here?”

"I don't know."

The child was floating among the students. The students were instinctively aware
that our position was somewhat different from that of the child.

Yeah, it's different. You guys are the products displayed on the shelves and I'm
responsible for protecting the products from being ruined.

So that it doesn't get ruined.

So that it doesn't break...….

"Crying!"

However, when he came to his senses, the child was touching the director's
"object." The guy who was crying underneath me was one of the nursery school
students. She was three years older than her child, but she cried like a baby.

“…….”

The child turned his head gently. Blue eyes stared blankly at the red blood flowing
through my fist.

Why was I hitting this guy? Shouldn't I be protecting these guys?

The child asked himself.

And a conversation I overheard a long time ago replaced the answer.

'Oh, look at this cat. He's not wary of people. Is there anyone who can take care
of you?’

I guess so. I see it often here.’

Do you want me to name you?’

"All of a sudden?"

"How about Sauvignon?"’

'That's a good idea. The black dot on your butt looks like a grape.’

Not long ago, outsiders began to come to the nursery.

It was a group of young people who always wore clothes with a trendy brand logo in
the city with their hair neatly arranged. From the child's point of view, I didn't
understand why he had to come to such a place and suffer.
Then they found the cat that the child was taking care of on their way home after
the service and named it on the spot. It was one of the cats kicked out of the
slums. He managed to escape from the nursery school.

It didn't feel like it was taken away. The child didn't even think about naming the
cat. You'd rather be looked after by people like that than me. I used to think that
way and only bring snacks that sometimes come out as school meals.

But at one point it disappeared.

I know the culprit. It's this guy who's under me.

I just need to kill you.

If I kill you,

I know the missing cat won't come back, but I couldn't stand it without venting
this anger right away.

"………dying."

"Gasp...! Save me...….”

You're a watchman, so to speak, to protect the children.’

“!”

The director's words crossed my mind.

As soon as the child stopped punching for a while, the student who was being hit
crawled off the floor. The appearance of running away was also ugly.

"I know how to tell you, you, the director!"

"Right!"

"It's your fault. Why do you give food to a street cat to eat?

The student joined his friends in criticizing the child.

"That's mine."

said the child with force.

"It's mine. It's up to me what I'm going to do without eating it."

When the child got up in a threatening manner, the students fled quickly. The child
woke up shaking the dirt off his pants. I walked around all day, but I couldn't
find any trace of the cat.

"……. Sauvignon."

You finally have a name, so I can't call you. Why do things that I give my heart to
easily leave my hands?
* * *

"You hit a kid"?

"They threw the cat away.”

He might be dead. The child muttered in a brooding voice.

"Do you use a cat's face if you squish it like that?"

The director kicked his tongue.

Is it that the life of a street cat is worthless? If the life of a stray cat could
be converted into a higher value than a human orphan, could the cat survive? So who
sets the value?

The child was filled with defiance and stared at the director.

I was sick and tired of the behavior of others who neglected what they cherished.
And his inability to keep was pathetic.

The director seemed to have no intention of seriously scolding the child. It was
just obvious that he was thinking about how this would be seen in the eyes of
volunteers and outsiders.

The child, who was staring at the director, asked back.

"He's old and ugly, so there's no adult he wants What's the point of beating?”

Something black popped out of my mouth.

The child shut his mouth in surprise. When I looked up, I could see the face of the
director smiling insidiously. The look at me as if something had worked was
disgusting.

"You said it was him."

No.

I'm not his child.

Don't treat me like such a human being.

"You're not wrong, kid."

We didn't mix a drop of blood!

And yet the child occasionally found the man in his own image. In that case, I
suffer from terrible self-loathing. You will double-check how disgusting my
existence is.

"Me too, I want to fill this nursery with just young and cute things. Because our
customers prefer such children. You know her, right? Asian with black hair."

It's Lia Henriksen. The director added in an exasperated tone.

"Lia Henriksen."’

The child recited the woman's name in his mind.

From the first day of coming to the nursery, I had a memory of helping the director
who was blinded by money because he seemed to be in trouble. The child didn't
realize why. It just bothered me. He's more mature than me, but I think he'll die
soon if I leave him alone.

"A very rich lady. We need to rake up the sensibilities of those weak-minded women.
Huh? What? I mean, this one.”

The director grinned, rubbing his thumb and index finger vulgarly.

The child clenched his fist. The expression 'we' that man said was annoying. And an
expression of Leah Henriksen. She did not have direct contact with the students,
but treated all children equally.

He wanted to refute it, but the child clenched his teeth and bowed his head.

I could see my right leg dipping one foot in the black muddy water. Since birth,
the body has taken root in the slums and swallowed all kinds of dirty things. He
would be a monster who would grow up to be such a success.

Maybe, more than the ledger in front of me.

Such a monster.

* * *

"What are you doing here?"

Leah Henriksen in question has been playing by ear.

The child hid his gray hair with a hood. White is a bad color. Weakness to hide.
The abuse at home made the child cringe.

"You can't talk to a student, can you?"”

I'm not a student or anything.

So I laughed inwardly, but a sweet voice came back.

"It's okay as long as you're not alone inside."

Eventually, there was a boring question about why you didn't hang out with your
friends.

The child was quite restless, though he didn't show it on the surface. I feel like
I'm going to bring up that day.

"Hey, thanks for your help that day. Actually, no one came.”

The foreboding is not wrong.

"But you can't lie."

The following words throbbed and throbbed. It was a pain that I had never felt when
I was criticized by my father for no reason, when I was blamed by my mother, or
when I was scolded by the director for being half-hearted.

The crooked gaze continued to sink below. For the first time in my life, I wanted
to defend myself. I didn't want to live like this, I wanted to make excuses. There
was so much karma on the back of the child who first faced his conscience.

"Thank you, though.”

When I raised my head with difficulty, a smile as sweet as the sun welcomed the
child. Instead of making excuses for his actions, the child turned around.

"……I want to go."

And ran away.

I won't run into you again.

Never again. Never again.

But while making that promise, Leah's face glistened as she lay down. His sweet
smile, sweet voice, and the pleasant scent that tickled the tip of his nose.

It came back from a dream.

So I kept waiting for her to come. I think that's enough. Such a wish for this
terrible life...….

* * *

"Oh, my. LIA, did you prepare all this alone?" Let's wait and do it together. I'm
so sorry."

"No, it was my job anyway."

As early Lia finished her preparations, volunteers who arrived late were surprised.
The child was peeking out of the window with his heel up.

"Lia has everything ready, so I'll wrap up the gift in no time. I hope the students
like it.”

All the volunteers liked Lia. So did the child.

Actually, I liked it from the first time I saw it.

Unlike the elders in the slums, she always smelled good. I also liked the attitude
of people, objects, and handling them carefully.

Most of all, I feel like I'm seeing myself restless, as if I'm wearing clothes that
don't fit sometimes, as if I'm an uninvited guest at an uninvited.….
I think I instinctively felt that there was something similar.

"Can everyone attend on Christmas?"”

"Oh, I don't think I can make it on that day. I have a family gathering."

"Oh, really? That's too bad."

I think she'll cherish everything.

Children who were treated like dolls to take promotional photos. The cats that
other students kicked out. A woman like her mother who ran away because she
couldn't stand her father's abuse. A three-year-old student who was beaten to death
by me.

Maybe.

Even if it's like me.

"…… I want it."

Looking at the adults wrapping presents ahead of Christmas, the child imagined Lia
in her share of gift boxes.

"Hey, the director is looking for you."

Then a student called the child.

When I went to the director's office, the director handed me an envelope.

"What's this?"

"It's a Christmas bonus."

Three bills were contained in a much thinner envelope than the one handed over to
the organizer. A child who does not yet have a concept of price did not know what
he could buy for this amount.

"What can I buy with this?"

"Anything."

"Can people buy it?”

Like my father sold me to you.

Does it mean that I can buy someone too?

When the child looked at it with anticipated eyes, the director burst into
laughter. It was said that women would line up even if you didn't pay for it when
you grew up a little longer.

I don't need another woman. I want Leah Henriksen.

But does she want me, too?

The child left behind a tail-twisting question and tucked the envelope into his
pocket.

* * *

Lia did not visit the nursery on Christmas Day. I heard there's a family gathering.
It was unimaginable for a child to celebrate Christmas with his family.

Lia, who thought she looked like me, was living the opposite life. I know. Lia was
something I didn't dare to cross. In fairy tales, she was a princess, and she had
nothing. Such a pretty princess was inevitably bound to form with a nice prince.

Nevertheless, it was hard for the child to resist his growing possessive desire.

a life of being sold for pennies and being tossed about by the director If I had to
live like this all my life, I wanted to make at least one wish come true. It's a
goal, a goal.

I think you can hope for that.

Even monsters like me.

"You know what?"

"What?"

"How much can you afford?”

One day, the child plucked up his courage and asked.

I thought I could listen to the director harder to get her. You will be able to
comply with what you are doing without any complaints.

"People don't buy and sell with money."

You're lying.

There is nothing in this world that money cannot buy.

Lia flatly denied such a child's values. Does that mean that someone like me who
was bought and sold with money is not a person? The child frowned.

"But I want it.”

"You mean me?"

"Yes!"

The child erased his complicated thoughts from his mind. Just now, no, if there's
anything you want for the rest of your life, just one.

Leah Henriksen. She was the only one.

“…….”

“…….”
Lia looked at the child in silence. The child also looked at Lia.

"My heart is throbbing."

The child frowned involuntarily.

Lia's gaze was the first time she faced it in her life. No, I've been through it
before. The day I lied to the director to help her in trouble. I advised him not to
do so, but at the end, he comforted me with a friendly voice.

'You thanked me then...….’

Now Lia wasn't looking grateful. Did I make a mistake? The child was greatly taken
aback. He confessed his whole life. I wanted to let you know that I'm determined to
own Lia and make her happy forever.

But it failed.

I'm sorry.

Don't look at me like that.

I asked because I just wanted to have you. I'll really save you when you're mine. I
won't give up as easily as everyone else, and I won't treat you like my father.

The child could no longer face Lia, who did not blame her. Instead, he taught the
child the direction in which to live in a very sweet voice.

"You can't own a man. He has emotions and he thinks. No one who feels pain should
be treated carelessly."

The words sounded like comforting, "You're precious, too." It was amazing. Why
hasn't anyone ever told me that?

Of course, no one thought of a child as a human being. So I treated him like an

object that doesn't feel pain. The child has become accustomed to such treatment.

"I like you."

I really, really like it.

Who wouldn't be attracted to such a lovely woman? Anyone will want it. If I talk to
you even a little bit. If I had these friendly eyes for even three seconds.

"Okay, but promise me you too

"Huh? What?"

"Not to be anyone's."

Saying that, the child also promised himself.

I, too, will cherish myself.

There have been no reasons to live, but there were too many reasons to die. Such a
child has a goal in life for the first time.

Like a mother who dreamed of her father's love. The child dreamed of the love of
Lia Henriksen. Although the poor woman failed.

I'm sure I'll make it.

Lia was a generous giver of love. He wasn't a fatherly man who couldn't give love
at all.

And the child dared to hope that Lia's generous love would only go to me.

* * *

"I don't need this money.”

A few days later, the child returned the money he received from the director.

After meeting Lia, I felt ashamed of what I was doing. I learned shame for the
first time in my life.

And I instinctively realized that black money couldn't make her happy. To live with
a clean person, you had to be a clean person as well.

"What do you mean?”

The director raised his head as he covered the ledger that was falsely listed.

"I'm sick of collecting money."

"A hard-paying job is dangerous, kid. That's what happens when you get older

"Are you deaf? I won't work for you anymore."

The child cut off the director's words.

The director sighed deeply, leaning his back against the back of the chair.

"My young master seems to be misunderstanding because I was so nice to him. We're
not partners."

He dipped his horizontal pen perpendicular to the desk.

"It's a vertical relationship. I'm at the top, and you're here."

Then he said, poking the top and bottom of the pen.

"I fed you, put you to sleep, put you on clothes, and even gave you a job. Are you
trying to match me?"

An orphan with no name. The director murmured softly. The child clenched his fist.

"It's enough to make a name. I'll find a place to sleep, a place to eat, and a
place to wear."

The child said clearly.

The director burst into laughter.

"The only way orphans live on this floor is to beg for a wise adult. I thought you
were smart enough to understand."

"I don't live under a man like you."

"Do you want to go back to your father?"

asked the director, leaning forward.

The corners of the director's mouth went up meanly.

I know, street kids didn't have many options. So, what did you do?

"Yeah, I'm going back.”

The director only clicked his tongue at a cynical answer that was not like a child.

Yeah, I don't need a guy who doesn't listen. There are a lot of people who want to
do this job besides you. The director murmured and beckoned to the door.

I meant go out.

* * *

On the day the child decided to quit his job, Lia visited the director's office and
consulted about the child. Lia desperately defended the child, and the director
laughed at her.

It would have been nice if it had ended there, but I got a call from the director
and got involved with the father who came to pick up the child. At the moment of
crisis, I was anxious to see the director appear as if he had been waiting and take
only Lia, but there was nothing I could do as a child.

"Who is she? What?"

“…….”

"Doesn't he answer my dad's question?"

“…….”

"How do you know the Henriksen girl, huh?"

“…….”

The man smelled of alcohol and threatened to stab the child in the head. The child
rose again like a roly poly even if he fell on the floor under the influence of a
man.

I might as well be beaten down as the woman who left home. But it didn't. It was
the only resistance I can make now.

"Why did you say you're quitting your job as a collector?" a dog-like braturant Do
you think you can get a better job than that? Who's so stupid like him?"
The man grumbled and pulled a bottle of wine from the ceiling. There was no
punishment for quitting the job at will. The child stood blankly with an unexpected
face, and the man murmured as he sat plop on the sofa.

"I'll be the only one in the world to take care of a baby like you."

“…….”

"Who would like a guy like you. I don't have it because I like it."

The child wanted to return the word.

As I turned my head with my chin tightened, I saw a man sipping cheap wine leaning
on a collapsing sofa. How has this man been since the woman left, and the only
child left is sold?

Were you lonely?

Maybe that's why he gave me the house. a shabby house In this place where only
odors, soggy mold and a bleak gray future await.

You can't live as a slave forever.

"……I don't want to."

"What? What did you just say?"

"I won't be an adult like you.”

"Ha. What? Did he take his medicine?"”

The man staggered up with a bottle of wine. Half the remaining wine fluttered in
the bottle.

"Did you think she was going to take you? Stupid guy."

"I never thought of that!"

"Shut up! Don't contradict me!"

He flung up a bottle of wine.

It's clink!

The bottle of wine brandished by the man hit the wall. Broken pieces of glass
scattered in all directions. The child dodged quickly, but his chest trembled
considerably.

This guy. He really tried to kill me.

The child held a large piece of glass in front of me. You don't think I can do it?

"Do you want me to kill you?"

"What?"
"The director keeps bothering me." As a gift...,'

"No! Don't say that!" Please don't say such sad things. What?

But he soon dropped the piece of glass.

Then I started running outside.

“…….”

Snowflakes fell on the child's eyelashes.

The child closed his eyes and the heat around his eyes melted into the snow. When I
looked up, it was snowing heavily from the sky.

However, even this much snow cannot hide the karma accumulated in the slums. Even
now, crimes were taking place throughout this street. The same goes for me. It's
okay on the outside, but it's rotten inside than anyone else.

"Meow..."

At that time, I was awakened by the cat's cry from under my feet.

"……. Sauvignon?"

"Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww."

The cat cried long, as if it understood the name. And clung to the child's legs and
rubbed his body. The child dazed and hugged the cat tightly.

It was alive.

an armful of volume Weight. It was warm. It was really the warmth of being alive.
The child, who had been standing for a long time, suddenly realized something and
put the cat down.

"Go."

The child hissed and threatened.

"You can't be attached to people. Did you forget what you did last time?”

Despite the child's harsh advice, Sauvignon shrugged his front legs carelessly.

"…… I have to live alone now.”

The child said to me and the cat.

"Whoa!"

The cat cried vigorously and disappeared into the alley. The child turned his back
while watching the shadow of the alley devour the cat's white fur.

Then, there stood Lia.

Exactly the back of her. But the child was sure. I think it's Lia.

"What are you doing here?”

"You..."

Lia was right.

When the child came to their senses, the two ran along the road, relying on the dim
light of the street lamp.

Lia protected the child from a drunk man. Where did such courage come from in this
fragile body?

The child once remembered the story he had heard from a woman named mother.

On a snowy day, a child abandoned in a basket turns white, and parents who pick up
and raise such a child will live a happy life for the rest of their lives with
God's blessing.

Lia, do you know this story?

You probably don't know. Even if I knew, the child knew that he would not have
saved me for such a price.

"You can stop running now.”

"Oh, my....”

Lia seemed unable to hear the child. Eventually, the child stopped first and pulled
Lia's hand.

"He's not following me."

"Oh, my.!”

Leah, with her back to the lamplight, looked very precarious.

Suddenly, the child wanted himself to be an abandoned child in the story.

Then Lia will definitely be happy.

“…….”

“…….”

The child rolled over in a blanket and sat alongside Lia. The quiet silence sent
the child into contemplation.

All the time,

I always felt like I was in the mire.

The more I struggled to get out of it, the deeper it sank, eventually giving up
even resistance.
And yet, sometimes I want to have something. There were times when it was matter,
times when it was invisible ideas like love. One thing was clear. Everything the
child wanted hurt the child.

Possession, love, violence...….

These different concepts were complicatedly intertwined in the child's head. My

father called violence love. So love was a pain for a child, and possession was a
pain at the same time.

Life implies death, and possessing something just as dusk falls at dawn has the
potential to be taken away.

The child remembered the things he wanted but eventually couldn't have and lost.
They disappeared, leaving only scars. Why? Unlike my father, I didn't hit him.

I did my best to love you...….

And yet it couldn't be owned.

"My father said he loved me and hit me. I don't know. Why do you hurt me when I
love you? It's not good to be sick.”

"No, it's not."

"Isn't it?"

Tears streamed from Lia's eyes when asked by the child.

The child was afraid that he had asked the wrong question. I felt guilty about
making Lia cry. I don't know what to do when you're like this.

"Love is a heart that truly cares for and cares for others. It's an effort to make
you happy, not to be unhappy. Love,

Following Lia's words, the child learned that the concept of love I believed in was
not wrong.

"It's the most noble feeling in the world.”

That's right, Lia.

That's what I think love is.

It's what I wanted to give you.

If the soul is visible, Lia's soul will shine most beautifully in the world. As
soon as I realized that, I no longer wanted Lia. No, I shouldn't have wanted to.

It'll be ruined if you get it.

Everything one touches becomes unhappy.

The irony of losing something you haven't even had.

Ivan realized at a very young age that this world is the height of absurdity.
* * *

"My father was trapped in a facility, and I've been alone ever since.”

“…….”

"After I broke up with Lia, it became hard to tell what was right and what was
wrong. No, actually, I was confused even before I met Lia. It was Lia who balanced
that...….”

Evan blurted out the end of his words.

The only stepping stone that supported the precarious ego disappeared. After that,
Evan was lost in life. After such trial and error, I was able to create a minimum
rule that women and children do not touch. By that time, however, he was already
living a life far from normal.

"I'm actually a big coward, so I haven't been able to visit Lia."

“…….”

"I was a coward who couldn't even name my cat. I knew I wouldn't be able to protect
it if it really became mine."

“…….”

"Didn't I tell you before? Everything that touches my hand is ruined. If anyone
gets everything they want by nature, then they just lose it."

Ivan slowly held and unfolded his right hand, and continued.

"Then by chance, Lia came into my life, and I decided not to miss that
opportunity."

Ivan tilted his head gently to look at Lia.

"I wanted to have it. I wanted to own Lia this time. I won't throw it away, I'll
cherish it. It's pathetic to be thrown away.”

Lia also stared at Evan quietly.

Rather than losing something precious, this man was probably the most afraid of
being abandoned by his precious person. For a moment, Ivan seemed to overlap with
his childhood in Lia's eyes.

a child as white as snow

The child, too, came into Lia's life in a flash.

Lia knows now.

In Ivan's world, in the world where the boy was born, possession was the only way
to love the other person.

There is a gray area, not black or white. Lia met a child in the gray world. And
for a child, Lia was the only light. Even if it was weak, it would have been enough
to defeat the darkness surrounding the child.

"I don't throw it away. I won't throw it away, Evan."

Lia's arms wrapped around Ivan's body. Evan's body moved slightly. Now he seemed
unfamiliar with the warmth of others. However, she accepted Lia's hug in a calm
manner.

"I grew up so unrecognizable."

Lia stroked Ivan's face carefully. Evan bowed slowly for her.

A clear outline revived at the fingertips.

"But your eyes are the same as they were when you were young."

"Really?"

"Yes, I'm just as lovely as I was back then.”

When the opposite eye leveled, Lia said. Evan gently closed his eyes, relieved.
Lia's lips touched her closed eyelids.

"What scares Evan the most right now?"

asked Lia in a whisper. Evan answered after a short pause.

"...to be denied my life by LIA?"

Evan smiled with a frown.

"You can't deny it. I love you all. I won't turn a blind eye to what I want
anymore. I love you, Evan."

Just as Evan hesitated to intervene in Lia's life, Lia also agonized for a long
time. Love for Evan, is this the right feeling? I didn't even know it was a love
that deserves to be rebuked by someone.

But it didn't matter.

I didn't want to follow other people's rules anymore. I just wanted to live in the
direction of my heart.

With this man.

"I'll say it again. I'll tell you again and again. I love Evan so much."

"Lia..."

The eyes resembling the blue winter that will remain in the hearts of the two
people, and water permeated their eyes.

Lia wrapped herself around the lovely blue. He embraced Ivan's life, the weight of
the life that the child had lived, as if he had everything.

Just as Evan loved everything about himself.

"Me too. I love Lia so much. I'll spend the rest of my time on Lia, I promise."
"Me too, Ivan. Let's be happy together."

"Yes."

They were each other's saviors

became a companion in life

<Absolutely owned> The End.