Chapter 48

Kind.

Demus laughed without realizing it. Could there be any word that would clash with him better than that?

“Didn’t Adolf tell you that the contract wasn’t terminated?”

“Are you saying you’re going to use this as the new workplace?”

“No way.”

This small house was very far from Demus’ taste.

“I hope our contract will be carried out smoothly.”

Demus, sitting with his long legs crossed, put his clasped hands on his thighs.

“The biggest reason I signed the contract with you was that I liked your naked body. I don’t want any scratches on it. Moreover, I don’t want to see you distracted from your work because you’re fussing over something pointless.”

Liv blushed at the directness of Demus’ words. She was taken aback, defenseless, as if the bare minimum of vigilance she had always shown had been left behind somewhere.

She looked too overwhelmed to understand what Demus had been saying. And Demus kind of liked the way she looked.

He was quite satisfied to see the desperately built pride collapsing little by little.

“That’s why I solved it.”

“Solved…”

“Yes, this house. Of course, the robbery was not intended, but I’m sure that must be your luck.”

Liv looked confused. If it were her usual self, she would have declined everything by saying that she was really okay or no, thanks.

However, she was unstable, unable to recover from the shock. She looked so weak as if she would collapse just from a light touch. She also looked dangerously fragile as if a slight pull would drag her away.

“Quite an incredible timing it was, as I happened to be in that neighborhood today.”

“… What brought you to my neighborhood today? If it’s about this house, you could have told me about it on the extra work.”

Liv managed to ask calmly. She was pretending that she had regained her senses.

Demus, glancing at Liv’s strongly clenched hands, replied in a languid tone.

“Well, I guess you must have called me anxiously.”

Liv’s eyes shook wildly. She opened her lips and lowered her gaze without saying anything.

Demus, staring at her who looked tired and was absorbed in her own thoughts, consciously leaned his back. The cheap sofa was not at all comfortable, but he deliberately stretched out and leaned back. Then he asked in a casual tone.

“Are you still looking for God in the chapel?”

Sometimes it took patience to kill the enemy.

Until reaching the shooting range. Until it became convincing that the bullet would completely take away the enemy’s breath.

This was not only applicable on the battlefields. He needed to be patient to catch something. The target didn’t have to be his enemy.

Be it prey or anything else.

The calm blue eyes recalled what had happened a while ago. The woman who was shaking and increasing her pace, and the scoundrel who chased after her.

“Shall I go and help her?”

Adolf was about to intervene, but Demus stopped him. Standing in the darkness, Demus quietly held his breath. It had been a while since he held a gun barrel, but his blood was boiling like a man who had been firing guns until yesterday.

Yeah, this is what it felt like. He even thought of that.

The gun was aimed steady at the target. The darkness was no obstacle for him.

“Ugh!”

He didn’t pull the trigger even when the woman fell to the ground. Demus waited a little longer. Until he had what he wanted, the perfect range.

Until Liv Rhodes came within his shooting range. All while measuring the timing of when she would fall completely into his hands.

And finally, at the moment when the scoundrel raised his hand and the horror flashed across the woman’s face.

Bang!

The woman, who looked like was about to burst into tears, raised her head at the moment the gunshot rang. With eyes wide open as if she couldn’t believe the miracle that was happening in front of her.

That woman was now raising her head again before his eyes.

Demus noticed that she was asking for an answer. She was wondering who saved her. If the one who caused the amazing miracle was a God, whom she wasn’t sure of his existence, or…

This time, Demus gave her his affirmation.

“I was the one who fired the gun.”

Demus smiled faintly as he watched the woman’s face crumble helplessly.

It was a pleasant victory he felt after a long time.

***

The new house she moved to was in a quiet, normal residential neighborhood, quite a distance from where she lived before.

The previous house was attached to the neighbors’ house like a chicken coop, so there were a lot of things that bothered her, but in the house she moved into, Liv could have the whole house as hers. Of course, everything was good compared to the previous house.

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