The blonde model had to push her annoyance to the far back, smiling politely up at him like a professional. “What may I help you with today, sir?” she asked, clasping her fingers together in front of her op top of the wooden desk that separated them. He looked around the room for a bit and then suddenly sat up, bringing his own hands up to the desk.
“Evangeline san, if I may, I would like to gain your help with something very important,” he told her, making Eva backtrack to the night that he had said almost the same thing to Alice and herself. She gave him a half stare before leaning back onto her chair. “What might that be, Marin san?” For some reason, Eva didn’t feel like putting up her act in front of him. The man had already seen her while she was mad so why even bother pretending to be some cheerful doll now? In the end, she had let her smile slip off to a blank expression, staring the man down greatly.
He seemed taken aback for a minute before sloppily putting back a façade of his own. “Ha, I had a feeling the one I saw that night was the real you. But, I don’t mind. This is actually quite serious,” he told her, taking out a report from nowhere and handing it over. “Read that. If you are up for the job, I’ll see you later with your reward,” was all he said as he got up as simply as he arrived and left.
With not even a single change in her expression, Eva flicked her eyes down to the folder, back at the door, and then back to the folder again. She carefully tore the film printed with the word ‘confidential’ off, revealing the few pages of reports inside. For a while, she sat there reading through the contents until she finally sighed heavily and threw the papers down.
“How annoying,” she groaned out loud. Why on earth was she asked to deal with something like that? Was there any shortage of Rune Knights? She eyes the now sprawled around pieces of paper on top of her desk, sighed again, rubbed her temples and got up to grab a hooded robe off the rack to a corner. She couldn’t believe she was asked to investigate zombies.
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