Huey, who was being led across the hall by Philina’s hand, grabbed Philina’s wrist and stopped her in her tracks.

She looked back at Huey with a frown.

“Philina.”

Huey walked closer to her, leaning down to be at eye level.

“Did you fight Lord Argeny earlier?”

At the sound of his voice, Filina just looked up at Huey without saying a word.

Then he opened his mouth, touching Philina’s hair with a grim face.

“I think I’ve seen the two of you talking a few times before…”

“…….”

“Are you friendly with Lord Argeny?”

Huey added a word, lips up softly.

“More than me?”

Filina stared at him dryly, then tried to turn away.

There was no need to answer.

But Huey wrapped his arms around her shoulders again, and once again met her gaze.

“I’ll answer and go.”

He smirked and spat out in a mischievous voice.

Filina said with an expressionless face.

“I’m not close.”

Huey’s face, which had a gentle smile on his lips, slowly cleared.

He asked, tilting his head to one side and bluntly.

“But why is your expression like this?”

“What’s my expression?”

As Philina frowned, Huey raised his hand and poked her brow.

“It’s like having a fight with your lover and getting angry.”

At the sentence he uttered carefreely, Philina shook Huey’s hand with a puzzled face.

“Where’s this look like I’ve fought with my lover? I was just! I hate Lord Argeny so much!”

“Why don’t you like Lord Argeny?”

“I just don’t like it. For no reason, just hate him.”

With that, Filina tried to turn around again.

But Huey, who had seized her once more, opened his lips in a low voice.

“Philina. I don’t like people, but it can’t be without a reason.”

At his words, Filina narrowed her brows.

Seeing her, Huey continued to speak in a light voice.

“There are always the slightest intimate reasons that come with people’s feelings.”

“What do you mean from earlier…”

“For example, they don’t like the color of my hair, they don’t like the clothes I’m wearing, my personality doesn’t match with them…”

He grinned and shrugged.

“There are so many reasons. It’s the same when people fall for someone, right?”

Huey’s hand touched her rosy hair affectionately.

“Maybe he was fascinated by your beautiful hair that resembled a rose.”

This time, his iris stared intently at Philina’s red eye.

“He may have felt love in those noble eyes that resemble ruby jewels.”

The surrounding area was quiet, as the sun had not yet risen. The cold morning breeze brushed against their skin.

As she looked at Huey, she felt her pupils move sideways. Behind him could see Henry, who had just walked out of the dorm.

With a heavy sigh, he stepped into the hall and stopped to look at Hughe and Filina standing in the distance.

She said to Huey, making eye contact with Henry.

“Why do I hate Lord Argeny?”

A small smile slipped between Philina’s lips.

“Well, it would take me half a day to list them with my mouth, right?”

Her eyes drifted to Huey’s, and she opened her mouth to face him straight.

“That’s why I don’t tell you. There are so many reasons to hate Lord Argeny.”

That fact annoys me so much and bothers me.

Filina swallowed the back words and turned around.

This time, Huey didn’t catch her either.

Instead, he just stared at Philina’s back with a blank face and muttered:

“You have nothing but Lord Argeny in your head right now? It’s sad.”

He walked helplessly after her.

Henry, on the other hand, looked at them from a distance and frowned.

Huey and Filina walked toward the lab. Naturally, I thought the door was locked, but I saw someone open it from the inside.

“…… Captain Weaver?”

He frowned, checking his face through the crack in the lab door.

Soon after, the door to the lab was firmly closed again.

Henry narrowed his brow and stared silently at the place where they had entered.

A quiet air drifted into the surroundings.

Meanwhile, Filina was following Weaver’s guidance to the freezer.

At the end of the lab was a staircase leading down to the basement, at the bottom of which was a silver door made of solid iron.

Weaver held the card to the machine next to him, and the door rattled open.

As I stepped into the freezer, I felt a chill. Philina scanned her surroundings with widened eyes.

It was the same with Huey, who was next to him.

“Wow, this isn’t a complete work of art.”

Huey looked at something and made a small admiration.

As he followed his gaze, he saw a high-ranking monster in the middle of the freezer that was hardened by a large layer of ice.

It looked familiar.

It was clear that it was the one blocking the passage to the hallucinatory forest.

He was a sturdy statue of blue ice.

Weaver walked over to the crowd of machines, looked at an object, and opened his mouth.

“This is a freezer box with fortifying drugs. Maybe Carmen is aiming for this.”

When I looked at where he had pointed, I saw a box made of thick rebar that looked heavy from a distance and sat next to the machine.

“First of all, I’ll be waiting in the Oval Office.”

Weaver said, moving his gaze and scanning the machinery in operation in the ice shed.

Since he could call the Imperial Knights with the call bell in the Oval Office, he decided to go there and wait.

After all, there was no room for the three of them to hide in the space where the ice statue was placed.

I wonder if it’s all under the desk where the machine is running.

Even if Huey and Filina entered, it would be breathtaking if Weaver, whose whole body was made up of tight muscles, joined them in a space that seemed to be narrow.

“As soon as Carmen shows up, cast her magic out of the window to send a signal.”

Weaver looked at Huey and said, and he nodded his head roughly and then opened his mouth in annoyance.

“Okay, so get out of here. I’ve got something to get from Philina.”

Huey waved his hand in the air as if to tell him to get out quickly. Then Weaver asked, looking back at the two of them with a serious face.

“What the hell are you going to get here? This is a public space. Maybe the two of you did something weird . . .”

“Don’t be creepy, get out, Captain Weaver.”

Philina murmured in a voice she didn’t want to hear, but then raised her eyebrows and said bluntly:

“Or do you want to do it for the general manager?”

She scanned Weaver with a dry face.

Weaver, who had been looking at Filina, turned away, his expression hardened.

I heard the door of the basement closing slammed. At the same time, the light from outside was completely extinguished.

The surroundings were filled with darkness.

Huey took her and forced her under the desk where the machine was.

His large body clung to the side, and Philina became nervous.

“Are you sticking to it on purpose? Why don’t you go away?”

“No, I don’t. It’s too narrow here. On top of that, I’m tall and I’m big.”

Huey spat out an excuse and whispered in her ear.

“Now that you’re the only two left, hurry up and curse at me.”

Filina looked at him with a small sigh.

When Huey tried to get out of the way of catching Carmen, it was this that Philina seduced.

‘When I’m alone with you, I’ll curse you.’

At once, he was succumbed to an unspeakable temptation.

Filina was staring at Huey with a pathetic face.

He stared at Philina expectantly.

I’ll do what I want.

She pressed her lips close to Huey’s ear.

I tried to get my emotions together and spit out as intense, bold profanities as I could.

I could feel him swallowing nervously.

Eventually, Philina’s lips slowly parted.

Iron—

The door to the freezer opened, and someone broke in.

Filina quickly turned her head to check on the other person. She felt Huey’s hand grabbing her sleeve from the side, but she brushed it off coldly.

It was so dark that I couldn’t see the other person’s face.

He walked leisurely, with a familiar step, and lightly scanned the statue of the demon in the middle of the ice shed with his hand.

Then he immediately turned his head to the side of the desk where the machine was placed.

The dim light that had been pouring out of the window was gradually illuminating his face.

Filina watched him approaching, quietly holding her breath.

A chair under the desk and another statue in front of it obscured the figures of Huey and Filina.

Huey, who had been playing a prank beside her, also looked at the man who was slowly approaching her.

Suddenly, the face of the man who had approached the place where they were hiding was reflected in the light from the machine.

There was no doubt about it.

Carmen Geller was the only one who would sneak into the freezer in the wee hours of the morning.

Carmen raised her lips as she looked down at the freezer box next to the machine. Then he found a piece of paper lying on his desk, took it, and ran it down quickly with his eyes.

“…… The content is completely different from the material you reported to me. After all, the researchers must have deceived me all this time.”

He blurted out a low expletive, casually tossing the paper away.

A white sheet of paper flew into the air and landed beneath where Filina and Huey were hiding.

Carmen drew her sword from her waist.

I was going to smash the freezer box as it was.

The fortified drugs that were successfully tested were stored in a separate freezer box to be used only in the event of a special event, such as war.

The fortified drug, which is injected directly into the demon and is being experimentally studied in the laboratory, is still an unfinished work, so only those that have been completely successful are kept here.

And even Carmen, who dared to hold the rank of deputy general manager, could not touch the freezer box.

That’s why you don’t know how to open the box, so you wield your sword ignorantly.

Filina was going to silently witness him opening the box containing the drug and stealing the fortified drug.

Don’t let Carmen get out of the way.

He raised his sharp blade upwards.

Carmen’s sword was about to slam into the freezer box.

Flutter—

Huey, who was next to Philina, made a slight noise as he took the paper that had fallen in front of him with his hand.

At the same time, Carmen’s movement to put down her sword stopped.

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