Episode 73. The Mysterious World of Adults
“Haa, haa!”
Christine scolded her harshly as she gasped for breath.
“Was that all you could do? You can’t even miss an unexpectedly flying object.”
Jennifer was more furious than Adele.
“Are you crazy? It’s only been a week!”
“Huh, you throw it in the right direction and call it genius?”
“Well, confidence is important at first.”
Jennifer’s voice trailed off.
Christine scolded him harshly.
“Adele is a woman, and she’s my fiancée, so you're not trying to please her? Jennifer, I didn’t know you were so good at flattering.”
In the end, Adele approached the two of them with a gun in hand.
“Is that true, Lord Jennifer?”
“That’s true, but you’re still doing very well. You’re really talented.”
Adele glared at Christine and said to Jennifer.
“No, damn it, the captain is right. The enemy will attack unexpectedly, so we should deal with skill rather than confidence.”
Jennifer opened his mouth in bewilderment.
He didn’t know that even Adele would side with Christine.
What kind of rhythm should he dance to...
“Yes, yes, I understand. Look forward to hellish training next time! Then let’s take a break. I’m really getting tired.”
His back, as he trudged out of the shooting range, looked like he was going to die.
***
Adele continued to glare at Christine even as Jennifer disappeared.
“Then you teach me properly.”
“No. You’re not feeling well, so I’ll stop for today.”
She blocked Christine’s path as she turned around.
“No, I can’t rest when Stone might be a silver wolf. I don’t think I’ll be able to deal with such a terrible beast with my skills.”
“Huh, you’re going to take it on yourself?”
Christine shook his head in absurdity.
Clang!
Adele pointed her gun forward. She glared at him as if he had an enemy she wanted to kill.
“I will never forgive anyone who killed my mother, be it an animal or anything. I will end it with my own hands.”
Christine stared at Adele. Her sharp expression and the way she aimed her gun were flawless and almost enchanting.
How could she have improved so much in just a week? Jennifer would have praised her so much that his mouth was dry.
“Yeah, whoever it is, don’t hesitate.”
“Chris!”
Adele shouted in surprise.
Christine was standing in front of her gun barrel.
“Get out of the way. It’s dangerous!”
He reached out and grabbed Adele’s pistol, aiming it at his forehead.
“If you hate him so much, here!”
“Chris, please let go of this!”
This time, he put the gun barrel to his heart.
“If you have even a little sympathy for him, here... shoot.”
Unlike Adele, who was frightened and panicked, his eyes were colder than ever.
As if he were the one holding the gun.
'Yes, I'll shoot without hesitation, Adele!'
Christine also thought that the culprit who killed Adele's mother was Stone.
However, he couldn't be sure because his memory of that day wasn't perfect.
Moreover, he was also in the forest where her mother died.
On the day when he started to mutate into a beast and went berserk.
'So Adele, if by any chance I'm the culprit... Shoot me. Don't forgive me.'
Crack! As soon as Christine put down the pistol, Adele's fierce hand slammed into him.
"You're crazy! What are you doing? What if I accidentally pull the trigger?"
Adele's heart still hadn't calmed down in shock. Her limbs were shaking so much that she had difficulty standing.
He was the one who got hit, but she was the one whose face was red and crying.
"That wouldn't have happened. I was holding the safety device."
"The safety device...?"
"Yeah, didn't you know?"
He pushed a person to the brink of hell and then laughed so calmly. As if nothing had happened, as if it was a joke.
His expression was so annoyingly beautiful...
In an instant, she felt like she had been pulled from hell to heaven.
A man who was truly harmful to the heart.
“I didn’t know. I was so surprised.”
Adele glared at him, feeling stung.
“You look like one handcuff wasn’t enough.”
“You’re quick-witted.”
At that moment, Adele put down her pistol and rushed at him.
Then she wrapped her arms around Christine’s cheek and...kissed her.
“...!”
He flinched for a moment in surprise, but then fiercely swallowed Adele’s lips.
Their rough breaths were hotly entangled.
I don’t know.
Is this the right thing to do in this situation?
But if she didn’t do this, Adele didn’t know what to do with this crazy feeling.
He might be a wolf, he might be the beast that killed her mother, and if that’s the case, she couldn’t forgive him...
But when she saw Christine standing in front of her gun a moment ago, all those thoughts disappeared.
‘If he gets shot by chance...!’
Just that thought made her mind go blank.
She also thought that it would be better if she were to be in the wrong.
If...
If you know, Chris...
If you’re a wolf, if you killed my mother...
...Could I kill you
***
Zimmer, who was looking around the mansion, muttered seriously.
“I’ll have to buy some flower seedlings next time I come.”
This was the training center of the ‘WG 1st Unit’ belonging to the White Ghost Knights.
Until now, the White Ghost Knights’ main weapon was the sword. Christine was also the best swordsman in the Kalime Empire.
However, he had secretly introduced the latest weapon, a modified musket. And he was training the members of the 1st Unit as snipers.
To do so, he had purchased the mansion of a fallen noble and decorated it as a special training center.
“Even if it’s a mansion used as a training center for men, it’s too bleak.”
Spring was just around the corner, but it didn’t seem like even a single flower would bloom properly.
Isn’t spring the season of flowers?
Zimmer was smiling happily as he imagined the mansion in full bloom.
“Damn it! What kind of rhythm are you telling me to follow? Eat this!”
Jennifer, who had been grumbling, raised his middle finger toward the sky.
“What happened?”
Zimmer asked formally.
Christine and Jennifer would often get along well and then growl like enemies. It was hard to tell if they were on good terms or bad terms. They would fight over trivial things, no matter what.
“The you said, I thought that eccentric personality changed a little in front of his fiancée, but it’s still the same. I’ll bet my new underwear that Miss Adele will run away before spring.”
“Underwear, and you, the Captain?”
It was unexpected. Wasn’t Christine always so affectionate to Adele that it made him shiver?
“Yeah, it seems like he’s planning to turn his fiancée into a mercenary.”
“No way.”
“I said it. If you’re curious, go see for yourself. It looks like he’s going to train her to death.”
Zimmer was a little worried. He had been wondering what had happened in the carriage on the way here, and the atmosphere between them had been strangely cold a moment ago.
***
Snap!
The two who entered the shooting range worriedly almost screamed.
They saw an unimaginable sight.
Adele mercilessly slapped Christine on the cheek.
Who was Christine?
Even though he looked so fine, he was called a demon on the battlefield. The reason the enemies fled at the mere sight of the White Ghost Knights' flag was half because they were half afraid of Christine.
Even if she were his fiancée, they would slap Christine on the cheek.
Of course, there was a high possibility that he had beaten her.
The two of them racked their brains, wondering if they should run quickly to save Adele or if they would be able to survive. That was when.
"Ugh, ugh, I laughed!"
Jennifer's hair stood on end.
It was shocking enough that he got slapped, but he laughed after getting hit.
"Don't you think he looks a little crazy because he was so shocked?"
Zimmer had a different opinion about Jennifer's words.
"Well, I guess it's not crazy, but rather some kind of expression of affection."
"What! An expression of affection?"
Jennifer, who had been tilting his head, was shocked once again.
This time, wasn’t it Adele who had slapped Christine’s cheek and kissed him back?
“Hic! Hic!”
He quickly covered his mouth, which was about to hiccup.
What kind of situation was this?
“The situation is over. Get out.”
Zimmer turned around with an expression that showed no surprise.
However, Jennifer couldn’t take his eyes off the adult world unfolding in the distance.
In fact, he was a pure young man who had never held hands with a woman until he was this old. He hid behind a tree and watched the sight he had never seen before, so he didn’t move. However, Christine’s fierce gaze fixed on him, as if he knew he was peeking. His gaze alone was enough to kill him.
Before such an unfortunate incident could happen, Jennifer crawled out of the shooting range.
“I just don’t understand!”
Jennifer frowned, scratching his head.
Just a moment ago, it was so fierce that he thought something would happen between them. And then he got slapped on the cheek, and then she kissed him.
And in broad daylight, in a place where everything was open, so passionate that it was hot during the day.
And Christine didn’t stop kissing her even as he glared at them.
As if he were declaring her his own.
His expression was confident, arrogant, and somehow strange, making the viewer feel even more embarrassed.
“Chief, is that really what you like?”
Zimmer turned his head at Jennifer’s question.
“That kind of taste?”
“Feeling pleasure from being hit, liking being hit, being turned on by being hit...”
At Jennifer’s words, Zimmer rested his chin on his hand and pondered with a serious face.
“Well, I don’t know what happens between you two. But one thing is for sure.”
“What is it?”
“Adele is always ready to burn.”
“Damn, the world of adults is so mysterious!”
***
“Ah!”
Adele let out a soft scream as she took off her dress. Tanya, who was helping her change, quickly approached her.
“Are you okay?”
Adele smiled bitterly, caressing her right wrist.
“I can’t say I’m okay today.”
“Oh, your wrist is really swollen. Did you practice target practice today?”
“Yeah.”
“It’s really bad today. If you keep this up, your wrist will fall off before you can even fire a gun.”
“That’s not it.”
“I’ll go get an ice pack and some medicine, so don’t do anything and just stay still!”
After giving Adele a firm warning, Tanya quickly left the bedroom.
“Phew.”
Adele collapsed on the bed in her thin chemise.
After practicing shooting, her wrists always hurt because of the recoil after firing. However, she had recently gotten the hang of it, and it would get a little better after a steaming session. However, today, she was so focused on hitting the target that Christine threw that she didn’t even realize that her wrists were straining.
However, she ended up laughing at him.
“Bad guy...”
“Me?”
Adele turned around in surprise.
The ice pack and box of medicine that Tanya had gone to get were in his hands.
“Leave it there.”
Feeling like her weakness had been exposed, Adele deliberately wrapped her right wrist with her left hand and said haughtily.
“Give me your arm.”
“Yes. It’s nothing.”
“Then is it my turn to attack you this time?”
“What?”
“I was surprised earlier. You suddenly attacked me and kissed me. I wanted to repay you.”
Adele frowned as she met eyes with Christine, who was smiling slyly. He had not expected that she would kiss him like that in a shooting range.
To make an excuse, her mind was in a state of confusion and confusion with various emotions.
The desire to push him away and the desire to want him were all mixed up, and she felt like she was going to explode.
So, should we call it a kind of runaway?
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