26 Her question

"I didn't see you, so I thought you weren't coming." Alice looks at me with a smile on her face but, it doesn't look friendly.

'At least to me.' I return her smile while nodding. 'I know how to judge a person. 'This girl is ruthless if she wants to.' She is sitting in front of me inside a private room in the library. No one can hear us here if they want to.

"I took a detour. I need to tell my friend and cancel our meeting." I lie with a smile on my face. 'I don't even want to meet you. You are not lucky my luck is just bad.' I complain in my head.

Private rooms inside the library are not easy to enter. People who can use this room are only those from the student council. Other people are those who receive invitations from the student council. Thinking that Alice took the time to use this room, I feel amazed. Because Alice is a careful person. She knows that I'm not ordinary.

She must have received information about me fighting the gangsters sent by Damian. The original Ava doesn't have any history of learning martial arts. Even if she has, It will be weird if there's no information about it when she investigated. Because Ava's parents are not businesspeople. They just have a high-paying job. Any people will find this information suspicious. In addition, I was even accepted as Rebecca's assistant even though I have average grades and achievements.

Someone with risky ambition like Alice will not let unstable probability like me escapes just like that. She must investigate me.

[How did you even get into this trouble in the first place…] The ball appears again to mock like it always does. [I disappear for a month, and you already get into trouble with another female lead from another mission.]

'An accident. I just want to save a person in trouble. Who would have thought such a coincident will happen?' I let out a soft sigh while staring blankly at Alice. She has been silent, and I'm waiting for her to start talking. Alice is also looking at me and seems to think of something.

[HA HA] The ball laughed in monotones. [Anyway, this is your problem. I will only help you in our mission and, if you fucked up too much and affect our mission.]

In my head, I rolled my eyes.

Putting my focus on Alice, I know something about her when I compared her to Becca and Vincent. Her cold personality is unlike Becca's coldness that comes from her being awkward and Vincent's coldness from his trust issue and a little bit of narcissism. Alice is cold because of her hatred of her biological father and mother issues. She was also being manipulated and bullied by former Alex a lot before Alex now appeared.

'In short, she lacks love.'

'You are so evil, Alex.' I tease her.

["What did I do?"] Alex asked in confusion because she can't understand my abrupt conclusion about her.

'Nothing…' I accidentally let out a chuckle before covering it with a cough.

"Cough! Cough!"

My cough seems to be misunderstood by Alice because she suddenly looks at me with raised eyebrows for a second.

"Ah, did I make you uncomfortable?" There's no change in her expression when she asked.

If the person in front of her is the original Ava, she might pee in her pants now. It did happen in the original plotlines when she was forced to face Becca in the toilet. 'The embarrassment.' I cover my mouth with my palm while sighing. This action is also misunderstood by Alice. She believes this is a sign of me being embarrassed in front of her, which is not. I'm embarrassed by the original Ava's unfortunate event.

Alice let out a smile that looks like mocking to me. I choose to control my expression to not let her think I'm above her. 'Making opponent underestimate you is one of the best ways to attack them by surprises.

"Do you know why I want to talk to you?" She asked. Still not getting to the main points. But, I still follow her in her games by pretending to be a person "pretending to be confused."

(Author's note because I don't know if this can be conveyed really well; "MC can act like someone whose bad at pretending. In truth, she is so good at pretending to the points she can acts like she cannot.")

"I don't know." I shake my head while clasping both my palm together. "Why?" Then I asked her. My nervous act makes me receives Alice's satisfied expression. It was only a few seconds but, I get to catch her expression.

Alice knows that I can fight and is suspicious. But she doesn't know my motive and who I am working for. She thinks that I want to hide this as a secret. In truth, I want to make her believe I want to hide this as a secret.

[You are overcomplicating things. Not everything is this complicated. Just tell her some convincing made-up story and be done with it.] The ball mocked. [You are giving me a headache.]

'Hey! In war, things like this cannot be taken lightly! She might have some evil plans ready for me!'

[That's in war! THIS. ISN'T.A.WAR!"] The ball emphasized its statement. [You aren't even included in her revenge list. The more you act like this, the more you will get her attention. Do you want her to put you on her revenge list that bad!?]

'I…' I look at Alice dumbly. 'Hiss... the ball is right.'

["I never thought that. Ha Ha! Sorry."] It was Alex who interrupts this time.

'No… It's fine. Let's just be done with it…' I let out a sigh.

"I want to ask you." Alice looks at me seriously.

"What's your relationship with Alex?'

"Huh?" [Huh?] ["Huh"] Her question is unexpected to me. Even the ball and Alex sounds like it doesn't expect that her first question is about my relationship with Alex.