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You looked at the two people standing in front of you. Though they weren’t exactly paying attention, they were still there and whispering stuff amongst themselves.
You recognised both to be Kafka and Blade from the Xianzhou wanted posters. Jing Yuan had warned you of possible dangers of the job he offered you. Being his secretary certainly wasn’t easy, and the situation you’d gotten yourself into wasn’t helping.
Nevertheless, you never expected to actually get kidnapped. Especially by those two.
“Oh~ you’re awake” Kafka suddenly spoke up, bringing both hers, and Blade’s, attention to you.
You quietly sighed and looked at the wall to your right. A simple, light grey wall, with a few scratches and indents.
“Let me get straight to the point…” she continued, her tone switching to a more serious one as she walked closer to you.
“We brought you here for information. Of course… Silver Wolf told me of your position, it’s quite easy to infer you know as much as that General does.”
You could faintly hear Blade scoff in the background, as he stayed where he was. Though, ‘Silver Wolf’ was a name you didn’t recognise. In fact, you had no idea there was a third member of the stellaron hunters, which then brings about the question: are there more?
Deciding not to think about it too much, you looked back at Kafka and narrowed your eyes.
“I have the right to remain silent”
Kafka only chuckled as she heard your reply.
“Maybe on the Xianzhou” she rejoiced, before turning around and walking back towards Blade, though stopping half-way for some reason.
She turned to look over her shoulder at you before chuckling again.
“So…-“ she was about to say something, when a short girl with grey hair slammed the door open, holding a gaming console in her hands.
“Kafka, you’d said you’d buy me that game today. Let’s go, you owe it to me.” She exclaimed, crossing her arms.
“I did do that, didn’t I?” Kafka pondered
“Well… I suppose i can come along. Let’s go, silver wolf!” She starts walking towards the door, when, out of nowhere, Blade draws his sword on her, stopping her from leaving.
He glared at her, making his annoyance clear.
“And I’m supposed to stay here whilst you’re gone?”
“That’s right. I’m sure you can handle this, Bladie. It’s not a difficult task to get information out of someone~” the woman grinned and pushed his sword to the side, casually continuing her walk to the shorter girl.
“Well then, I’ll be leaving now. We’ll be gone a while, anyway… bye!~” she exclaimed, taking the girl, whom you now know to be Silver Wolf, with her and shutting the door.
“Kafka…” he hissed, keeping his glare fixated on the door for a while.
It was safe to say you felt… endangered… he certainly wasn’t happy, and if you didn’t cooperate, he’d probably turn to violence. Though you couldn’t be completely sure. You’d only heard stories about him from Jing Yuan.
“So….” You dragged out the ‘o’ sound, causing him to turn his glare to you.
You chuckled nervously, as he sheathed his sword and went to sit down, seemingly gathering his thoughts before finally looking back at you.
“Tell me what you know and we won’t have a problem.” Blade dictated, as if he wasn’t giving you a choice. However, you’re good at finding loopholes and getting out of such situations… as new as being kidnapped may be…
You pretended to think for a while, glancing back at the slightly damaged wall to your right.
“Hm… no… I don’t think I will”
“I’m not giving you a say in the matter.” He immediately replied, in a harsher tone than before.
“So unfortunate…” you said, sighing very over-dramatically. You could tell you were getting on his nerves, although, you didn’t really care.
You assumed that, since they want information, he won’t harm you in any way.
Blade glared at you, sighing.
“Tell me what you know. If you just hand over the information then you won’t have to stay here any longer.”
“Tempting, tempting….” you repeated before adding “but what if I want to stay here?”
“And why would you want that?” He asked, confused.
You stood in silence for a moment, giving him a deadpan look.
“Have you even seen yourself?!” You exclaimed, using your hand to motion at him.
Blade looked at you, his confusion not waning.
“What?” He asked after a moment, still not understanding what you meant.
You stood confidently, placing your hand on your chin, in a thinking pose whilst looking at him with a slight smirk.
“Well, you heard me! There’s a whole 5-star meal sitting in front of me!”
“What?” He asked again in slight disbelief, slightly sitting up in his seat.
“What? I’m not wrong!” You laughed, looking him up and down before adding to your sentence.
“My bad, 5 stars doesn’t cover it. However, 3 Michelin stars does!”
He opened his mouth, as if to speak, though he remained silent. Blade leaned forward and placed his hands on his face, thinking for a moment. After a few minutes, he just barely moved his hands, enough to see you. He had a mix of emotions visible on his face, the most prominent one being absolute, utter confusion.
“What? It’s not like I’m lying!”
He began muttering something to himself, however it was so muffled that you could only make out a few words.
“Don’t do…- irrational…- Kafka said…- important…”
“What’re you muttering about?” You asked, curiously, as you walked a bit closer to him.
“I’m trying my hardest not to get rid of you.” He replied, not even sparing you a glance. Though you most certainly could see just the faintest hint of a blush on his face.
“Oh come on! You wouldn’t do that~” you retaliated, taking on a more teasing tone now.
“Only because-“ he tried replying, however, you decided to interrupt him mid-sentence.
“Say, do you wanna, like… go out sometime?”
“Kafka was right…” he sighed “You’re absolutely insane.”
“No! I’m simply telling the truth.” You crossed your arms and leaned your weight on one foot.
“That’s great. Yeah no, I’m not going out with you.”
“Why?”
“Because I said so.”
You sighed, once again over-dramatically, and leaned against the nearest wall.
“Alright, fine… but I’m not giving up any information that could betray the Luofu.”
“I’m leaving the moment Kafka returns.” He sighed and sat up again, leaning against the back of the chair. He’s probably hoping for Kafka to return soon.
However, she didn’t return as soon as he hoped. Kafka returned a few hours later, absolutely exhausted so she only came to check on the both of you, whom were sitting in silence.
“Bladie, I’m going to bed. You stay here a while longer. I’m convinced Silvie won’t be of help to you. She had me buy her like 10 games!” She mumbled and waved, right as blade was about to leave when he saw her. Kafka shut the door behind her, leaving the two of you alone… again.
“So… about my earlier proposition-“
“No. Shut up.”