Chapter 14-1: The Peak of the Absurd
She filled her cat's dish and left it near the carpet, while the little bird returned to its cage to eat its meal as soon as she released them.
After that, she opened the door, watching the two pets for a while, then demanded with a soft whisper.
“You stay here, I will monitor the situation” and she left a message on the phone.
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Downstairs, Susan had already made tea, by 10 minutes
In short, it could be said that she had also witnessed the incident.
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//Mayfair Street//
//5:00 PM//
“I’m back”
Nam Shin, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room, facing the computer, moved to greet her.
“Kee-Kee, how are you?” he asked.
Somehow, she didn’t look well. So, he was worried and let her play with herself, while he settled into the library.
“Good,” she muttered, taking off the coat so he could help her hang it up.
She bent down on the ground, put her backpack aside, and began untying her shoelaces.
“Ah, where’s Little Black?” he asked with interest.
When he came, he didn’t see him anywhere around. So, he assumed she had taken him with her.
“He’s sleeping” She pointed at the bag, pulling it in front of him. Nam Shin tilted his torso to look, then suddenly raised an eyebrow and groaned.
“Oh”
It turned out that the black shadow he was worried about was engrossed in eating some cat snacks from the bag.
“Meow” he meowed in disapproving protest, when Caroline picked him up to look.
'It wasn’t him!!' he protested.
However, the soft black fur tips of his jaws were almost completely clean due to the Interrupting.
The situation was actually funny.
“Was…he hungry?” Caroline frowned in embarrassment and muttered. She looked at him with guilty eyes then turned towards Nam Shin.
“No, you take good care of him. He's just a little bit naughty” He smiled slightly and then stroked the front of her hair gently.
“Umm.. you’re right” She shook her head affirmatively, then released him.
‘It wasn’t her fault anyway’
"The coffee is ready, I’ll reheat it for you" He said, then headed to the kitchen.
"Okay…" She smiled gratefully.
In return, he pointed towards the room and then the bathroom, urging her. “Go change”
She gently rubbed her cat’s fur, then walked towards the room and locked the door behind her.
Immediately after that, she entered the storage space.
She walked lightly towards the tidy and clean apartment, then let him have fun.
'No one but her and the black cat was here'
This... actually brought her back to memory.
When she blinked. She breathed in the air deeply, then began to take off her clothes once she reached the bathroom doorstep and relaxed.
As soon as her thick eyelashes intertwined and parted, she saw a mature silhouette of someone she knew.
It was as clear as the sunrise.
'Cadres!'
Against that soft smile and dimples, an unstable wave of realization, anger, and sudden confusion swept over her.
'You!'
She gritted her teeth violently, as the color of her eyeballs changed rapidly, like a festive lantern, and she hissed.
This color was a warning that could be a headache and a threat.
'...It's been a while. Hasn't it?' He spoke in a low, hoarse voice, while he kept staring at her.
His expression was magnetic.
And The atmosphere between them was so strange, confusing and unstable.
When she wanted to move and rise to resist and pounce on him, her breath suddenly choked under the water, and she coughed heavily congested.
In the last, it turned out that her imagination had been pulsating, and that what she had seen had been stimulated by illusions amidst the fumes of fatigue.
In the end, she felt frustrated and bit her lips in a crisis, and sighed.
'Why didn't she dream about Dennis?'
She shook her head to both sides and then took the shampoo.
Overthinking almost led her to hallucinate.
In less than 20 minutes, she emerged wearing a short bathrobe with a medium pink towel covering her hair.
She walked along the path separating the bathroom towards the room with the rest of the items, then began drying it.
“Computer” she whispered in a hoarse voice. Another feminine, businesslike voice echoed around.
“Yes, Lady” the voice was clear.
“Show the room's main screen” she chanted in a sleepy, relaxed tone.
Immediately after that, a blurry figure of a thin, delicate blue line appeared at the heart of the room before it separated until it hit the border of the wall, reflecting the apartment she was currently sleeping in from the background.
Meanwhile, she pulled on a loose, dark sweater and then put on a pair of gray cotton house pants and pulled her long hair up in a ponytail.
As soon as she ascended to the second floor, she entered the weapons room.
She chose a special black spy suit, tight and easy to adapt, impenetrable, hung inside a glass chamber and then pulled on a half-mask similar to a goblin with a pointed collar.
She chose a single smart communication headset, two pistols, one of which was a Walther P99, and stuffed the rest of the equipment into a portable metal bag, then descended.
When viewed, the appearance was simply graceful, streamlined, and not striking at night.
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The little black who usually stayed lying down to rest in his own bed, inside the bedroom, walked behind her with graceful steps following her.
“Do you want me… to take you for a walk with me tonight?” She said, approaching him with an amused smile gently rubbing him as she picked him up.
“Meow” he let out an arrogant, excited meow, keeping up with her.
When she came out, Nam Shin was still stuck with the computer working on it.
As soon as he saw her, he said, “I kept it in the microwave, it’s still warm”
“Thanks”
With graceful steps, Blackie jumped into his lap while she took her mug of hot chocolate with whipped foam and sat down beside him.
" What are you doing?” she asked with agreeable curiosity, taking a small sip, which kept the cat’s whiskers on her lips.
'Hahaha' "...a kid"
At first, she didn't understand. But when she saw his response, extracting a handkerchief from the box that sat to the side on the table, she sighed in realization and accepted it from him.
“It's a military map” he answered.
"I see" she nodded.