Chapter: 6, First time using the Skill
Inside a luxurious room, a white haired woman was lying on her bed, completely dazed. Her thoughts drifted to the distant old memories where she saw the radiant figure. The one she had always looked up to, the one beside whom she felt truly at peace and… happy.
Tears flowed through her cheeks, making the soft bed sheets wet as she thought only one thing in her mind, "This time, I will make you mine…Completely mine." She said as an obsessed look showed itself in her eyes.
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In another luxurious room, a woman with black hair was sitting on a chair. Her crimson eyes firmly looked at the sheet of paper as she crossed one after another words. She muttered under her breath as she crossed another word.
"Everything looks just like before with only a few minor details that don't have any major effect…"
She sighed and leaned back, her head looking at the ceiling as she added, "I hope… we can see that future… that happy future…" she said as a small expectant and longing smile appeared on her face, giving her a gentle look as if she was with a family she never thought would be true.
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In another room, a gray haired woman was doing exercise to distract herself from troubling thoughts.
As she finished the last sets of push ups, sweat poured down her delicate skin. She took a towel and wiped the sweat off as she remembered the words that man told them in his last moments.
She couldn't help but have expectations, if that person would say those sweet as honey words that warmed her heart the moment it reached her ears. She couldn't help but long for those words to only belong to her and also the person who spoke to only belong to hers and… hers alone.
With a new hope in her eyes, she promised herself, "This time, I have the power to achieve that future you desire… and I will achieve it and give it to you." Tears formed in her eyes as she pleaded to that figure in her mind, "Please…just wait for me a bit longer…"
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Dain woke up in his bed, his mind clear as he stretched his body with a long sigh. He rubbed his eyes and got up from the bed as took a bath and got ready to head to the cafeteria.
Inside the cafeteria, Dain quickly took his meal and sat on a corner then began to eat casually.
As he was eating, a woman in White hair came towards him. Penelope was wearing a white tank top under her black jacket with a fitting training pants that covered down to her foot. Her medium sized hair was tied back in a ponytail, reaching her waist.
She sat beside him, a bit too close than anyone would expect. Her jacket chain was opened just enough so that he could barely see her B-cup chest.
Dain moved his eyes to his food, paying them a bit too much attention, as he heard her asking him, "Hey Dain, wanna eat with me?"
The former ignored her, not wanting to talk to her. Suddenly, Dain felt something. His heart fluttered, the presence beside him intensified and his mind was replaying the moments he and Penelope spent together in his mind.
This feeling was just the feelings he had before he decided to abandon them. It was warm, sweet and comforting. A feeling that he never wanted to let go off…Dain Frowned.
He quickly used envisioning. Imagined that he was immune to control spells, and that he was unable to have the feeling of love for those three.
With that, the sweet atmosphere that was there a moment ago vanished. Penelope's presence returned to normal, his heart stabilized, the warm feeling disappeared and he felt a dangerous sense of clarity.
Dain sighed, the little bit of lingering feelings he had left for them had now completely vanished as if they were never there to begin with. The calmness stayed in his mind as he looked at Penelope, his heart which would've been in disarray by now completely still.
Penelope had a bright smile on her face as she thought that the skill worked. She braced herself for the proposal she imagined in her mind. But the words from Dain, shattered her illusions
"Why are you using something so horrendous on me? Do I look like a test doll to you?" He said. Her body froze, the hand midair didn't move as she was processing his words in her mind.
Dain quickly finished the remaining food and walked away from her, holding his tray without glancing back. The previous suffocating feeling was gone, making him clear headed.
Penelope was still frozen in the same position as her eyes followed the boy's figure but her mind and body didn't listen to her words as she stood there silently, her heart aching with a sharp pain.
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Within the cafeteria, in another table where it was clearly visible where Dain was sitting just a while ago. A black haired girl whispered to a gray haired girl and asked, "Why did it not work?"
The gray haired woman was also puzzled, not expecting an A-tier skill to do no work against it. She replied, "I don't know. It shouldn't have gone like this."
Previously, they had decided that one of them would secure Dainsleif's heart and keep him by their side, until the other two had finished their duties and were ready to be a part of his life. Then the one who had him would introduce the other two as concubines to him, fulfilling all of their desires.
Penelope was the one who refused any type of other job and wanted to be with him the most. Even though they knew what she had in her mind, they agreed since they had many ways to win his heart themselves.
"I guess we will know the truth at the Evaluation section…"
To be Continued…