Chapter forty Two - The Missing Mirror

After a while, even Adam, who still didn't know what was going on between Tyler and Dean, continued to speak bluntly. His action of seeking death was really commendable. "Oh yes, what were you two doing lying on the ground earlier? I killed three or four mosquitoes by the time you two got up. Were you two dozing off just now? If I hadn't spoken back then, I think you two would have slept already."

Tyler felt a headache after hearing this kind of gibberish. He tried his level best to control himself and his feelings, but this person had to do something like this and make things between him and Dean awkward again. He knew these words had also stimulated Dean in a bad way. He didn't even dare to glance at that person.

Pursing his lips, he cleared his throat and said, "Let's go. We're getting late."

"Late?" Adam tilted his head in confusion. For him, Tyler's words were weird since they were already walking for a long time. Should they run instead? "Aren't we walking already?"

Tyler curbed his anger and walked even faster.

Behind them, Dean pressed his lips in a thin line to suppress his smile. Firstly, Adam's words had indeed stimulated him, and he even felt like he was on the verge of losing it when he unknowingly glanced at Tyler, who had a trace of blush on his cheeks, and the latter's ears had also turned red.

Dean suddenly felt like this reaction of Tyler was way too funny. So he quieted down and kept staring at the other man's face with a hint of amusement in his eyes. Sure enough, he couldn't get enough of him even after all this time.

Before Tyler could feel the male lead's gaze, the latter averted his eyes. He coughed awkwardly and glanced at Adam. "Maybe you should just sew your mouth permanently before a certain someone murders you with his bare hand."

After that, neither Tyler nor Dean talked. Even while crossing the sea of monsters, the two of them kept silent and walked while keeping a distance. The monsters were so frightened after seeing that mirror that they didn't even dare to touch the three of them, staring at them from a distance.

At first, Adam naively thought that these two people didn't have anything to talk about. But after half an hour, he felt that something was wrong with them. Why weren't they talking?

And whenever they would talk, they would just ask Adam to indirectly tell the other person something. For instance, Tyler wanted to go and see the cave on the left. So he nudged Adam and said, "Tell your comrade that I'm heading there."

Dean heard this and parted his lips without glancing at Tyler. "Adam, tell your comrade that we should first look at the place where we had rested for the first time."

"Adam, tell your comrade that we would be dead tired while going back and forth all the time. So it's better to see this first." After this, Tyler didn't wait for Dean's words and directly walked toward the cave on the left.

Before Dean could open his mouth, the person with glasses cleared his throat awkwardly. "W-We should go there."

At this, Dean darted his sharp and cold gaze toward Adam, making the latter shiver. But he didn't do anything and walked in the direction of the cave, still keeping a distance from the other man.

Seeing this, Adam finally realized that Tyler and Dean were ignoring each other. He didn't know what had happened, but there seemed to be a trace of ambiguity in between them. Did something stimulate these two to act like this? They were clearly fine before.

But after thinking for a while, even Adam understood that these people weren't actually sleeping after falling on the floor. They were perhaps staring at each other in a daze.

After realizing this, cold sweat formed on Adam's forehead. He suddenly felt frightened since he had used the same topic to make a joke out of it.

Why did he have to open his big mouth?!

At this time, he decided in his heart that he wouldn't ask for death anymore by speaking randomly.

Even though Adam was silent, he still glanced at these two from the corner of his eyes. He suddenly realized the relationship of his temporary comrades was awkward with a trace of romance.

For example, if Tyler ended up touching Dean's hand by mistake, both of them would jerk and get far away from each other as if they had just touched something that gave them an electric shock.

'Are they in that kind of relationship?' Adam finally came to this conclusion but didn't have any confidence in voicing out his suspicion.

After hours of struggling from one cave to another, they finally gathered together in one of the caves and placed all the pieces of mirrors they found on the ground. But somehow, the pieces of mirrors wouldn't join with one another no matter what. There was always a trace of crack, separating every part. 

Just then, Tyler squinted his eyes and said. "One part is still missing."

The finished mirror was as big as Tyler's height, and thus, the parts they found were also bigger than the palm of one's hand. But when Tyler squinted his eyes to observe the mirror carefully, he noticed a small piece as big as half a finger was missing in a corner.

Hearing this, even Dean looked over and said, "Adam, your comrade is right. Maybe we should separate and search for it."

"But haven't we searched enough already?" Adam didn't wait for Tyler's response, who was busy looking at the mirror.

But Tyler didn't wait for their conservation to end. He simply stood up and went off outside to search. On the other side, the male lead narrowed his eyes, staring at the mirror for a long time.

They already obtained the number of mirror pieces they needed to pass this second stage. And yet, one of the pieces was missing. This clearly told him that something wasn't right. 

It seemed something had forced that small part to separate from the original mirror. This action itself went against this world's story. And Dean didn't have to think twice before confirming what exactly it was that forced that small part of the mirror to separate.

It should be none other than Tyler's power that was hiding in this world.