CH 17

T/N: Thanks Lexria for the Kofi! 2 extra chapters will be released as promised!

Louis immediately recognized who Harrison was talking about. Besides Louis, Jude also reckoned that it was her.

“She not only drives people crazy, but she’s crazy herself. Don’t you think, John?”

“Yes. Charlize is really crazy. Why else would she do this?”

“Why? What happened? Did she try to kill herself again?”

Harrison bobbed his head up and down at Jude’s question.

“Yes. She jumped out of the window of her room with a bouquet of flowers from John and I.”

“She actually looks down on us. Ha, how can I torment Charlize like this. We’re the only ones who’re being tormented by her instead.”

“She won’t blink an eye even if I lift a knife and point at her throat.”

Harrison nibbled his nails with a nervous look.

He didn’t know why, but he couldn’t think of anything when he saw Charlize dying with a dim smile.

Obviously, he wanted Tia, but somehow he had an ominous feeling that he could not live without Charlize.

A girl who always played with him.

She’s more hateful for making him feel like this.

Harrison felt like his head was going to explode when all kinds of thoughts came to him at once.

“Let’s put aside the story of Charlize and talk about Tia’s whereabouts.”

Jude spoke in a casual tone, looking at the rest of the people except those who were caught up in Charlize and did not think about Tia.

“Jude, have you found anything about Tia?”

When John asked, Jude shook his head.

“I couldn’t even find a trace. Where the hell did she evaporate to?”

Jude breathed out slowly and said lowly.

It had already been two, or three months since his savior disappeared.

I miss you, Tia.

Jude suffered more from separation anxiety than others without Tia.

“Jude, I will be next to you. So please do your best.”

Jude couldn’t hide his depression as he remembered the memory of Tia hugging him with a smile.

Harrison uttered a word in the increasingly somber atmosphere.

“Charlize said Tia would appear in three years. Isn’t that right, John?”

“Oh, I heard that too. Charlize seemed to know something about Tia.”

“Then why don’t you torture Charlize right now and find a clue about Tia?”

Harrison waved his hands at Louis’s harsh tone, an angel-like healer loved by the world.

“If I could open the mouth of Charlize, I would have already opened it. This time, I think it would be better to hold and stretch like a water ghost.”

Harrison gave up trying to seduce Charlize. It was harder to seduce the girl than to seduce a rock.

“How are you going to hold and stretch her?”

John had a question on his face.

Harrison coughed and laughed devilishly.

“I will be next to Charlize and bother her whenever I have time. Again and again. Wouldn’t she get tired and tell us about Tia? Think about it. Imagine what would happen if we’re stuck together in a relationship that she hates. Of course the idea itself is terrible. But I can talk about Tia casually like this.”

Harrison’s solution was simple, but it was quite a difficult one for them to do.

They didn’t want to see her even once, let alone being with her whenever they had time.

They think hell is better than that.

However, John and Louis seemed to like Harrison’s proposal and nodded yes. So Jude was forced to agree in the atmosphere.

With a “Let’s start tomorrow”, Harrison ordered those who had time to roast Charlize sweetly, and disbanded at the hideout.

They didn’t know.

The fact that Charlize has a powerful ally now.

***

The quarrel between Charlize and her brothers in the bathroom quickly ended. It was because Jeremy took Eugene out of the bathroom. They were so angry that their shoulders moved up and down.

“Lua, I’m sorry. My family members are rude, aren’t they?

Lua saw a human being saying sorry to him, the devil, for the first time. So he looked blankly at Charlize.

“Lua?”

“Oh, you don’t have to be sorry. Who feels sorry for the devil?”

“Just because I want to apologize. This is what the days ahead will be like. I’m apologising in advance. I’m involved with some crazy guys.”

Lua was interested in Charlize’s words.

‘Crazy people? It’s not bad to deal with people like that.’

Charlize smiled at Lua’s faint smile.

“So my devil. Please destroy the world. That way, I think my blocked breathing will open.”

“Is there really no one on Charlize’s side in this world?”

Lua was continuously wondering about Charlize’s words of destroying the world, so he asked carefully. Charlize smiled softly at his question.

“Yes, there isn’t.”

A light voice without a tremor.

Lua thought that the humans he had met so far were not even humans, and looked at Charlize strangely.

A human being who wants to throw everything away.

Even her life.

Lua, who was in the bath, suddenly got up from his position and hugged Charlize. His wet body warmed her dress.

Charlize was not embarrassed by Lua’s sudden embrace.

She knew she was just getting sympathy from the devil.

She didn’t think much of it.

“I’ll be nice to you.”

“You’re a good devil. Are all demons like this?”

Lua smiled with his eyes bent and shook his head slightly.

“That can’t be true. You are my benefactor who freed me from the dungeon. And you are also my contractor.”

“Well, rather than a benefactor, I’m using Lua openly.”

“It doesn’t matter if you are using me or whatever. Charlize, I will grant all your wishes with your evil energy.”

“Okay. Since you are embarrassed about your bare body, I’ll wipe your body with a towel and bring Lua’s clothes.”

At that moment, Lua quickly hid himself in the bath when he heard she knew he was bare.

“Your body is harder than I thought. As expected.”

Charlize grinned at Lua’s cute behavior and went to get something to dress him.

“…You don’t have any shame. Charlize.”

Lua murmured as he looked at Charlize leaving the bathroom.

With ears as red as ripe apples.

***

It has already been a month since Charlize was released from prison and became free.

Time flew by like water.

She got used to sleeping in the same bed as Lua.

After a month without any incident, Charlize became bored.

But every day, one or two people would come to the drawing room every, and they would wait for her in the drawing room from sunrise to sunset.

Of course, Charlize left them alone because she was not in a good enough relationship to meet them who came separately. She thought they would give up soon.

Strangely enough, however, Charlize’s brothers, Eugene and Jeremy didn’t say anything to them even if they continued to visit.

‘Why? Are they planning something weird against me?’

Charlize sat at the bedside and thought with a careful expression.

“What’s the matter? Charlize?”

Lua yawned and hugged her from behind to consume Charlize’s evil energy. After having his fill, he rubbed his lips against the back of her neck.

“It’s just that it’s weird that they’re leaving me alone. I sigh every time thinking what the hell those dogs are up to.”

“Are those dogs the enemy of Charlize?”

“You can think of them as my enemy. Because I’m a bad sister who hates my younger sister.”

“Well, I’ve never heard that you have a younger sister before. What kind of girl is she? Is she a human being with a lot of evil energy like Charlize?”

Lua, who moderately absorbed Charlize’s evil energy, asked curiously.

“She’s a good girl. Unlike me, I don’t think she has any evil energy.”

“But I don’t think I’ve seen Charlize’s sister.”

“She ran away.”

“Why?”

“I don’t know. Why did she run away from home? Her surroundings were always bright and happy, and people around her loved her only. Why did she throw away this happy life herself?”

Lua spouted out a word just in case.

“Maybe she left because Charlize bothered her?”

“Half right and maybe not half right. I’m not really sure. I’ve never been nice to her.”

“Well, I understand.”

“I wanted to be loved, so I thought about it as true love, but it’s all useless.”

“Have you ever really hadn’t someone in your heart?”

“I never had.”

“Why?”

“It’s not bad to live alone.”

Charlize replied with a wry smile. Then she jumped out of her seat and reached out to Lua.

“Lua. Shall we take a morning walk?”

Lua stared at Charlize’s hand, which looked white and soft, and lightly placed his hand on her hand.