‘But what can I do? I have to write this to get out of here.‘
‘It was never premeditated or a planned crime, it was just an accident. I never contacted Yulem, and it seems that there was a conflict in the process of approaching them first, knowing I had imprinted the dragon… And now, I’m doing this…’
“Why should I write it?”
Noah flinched at the look in Kyle’s eyes when she tried to throw away her sixteenth letter of apology.
“Miss Noah, how many nights did I tell you I was working overnight to reduce your sentence?”
“…Four days.”
“So, how should people behave when they’ve received help?”
Kyle asked in a nice yet intimidating way. Noah gave up and continued after three seconds of silence.
“I’ll write it down….”
Noah sulked and her pen moved in a depressing way that reflected her mood.
‘If you forgive me this once, I will really be reborn as a new person…’
***
‘I am a little tired’, Kyle thought.
He blinked slowly and read Noah’s letter of apology. The first copy was well written, but as Kyle looked at the other copies, the writing became more difficult to read. The last copy was almost impossible to read.
However the emperor wouldn’t read them one by one anyway, so instead of nagging Noah to write it correctly, Kyle placed the fifteenth apology letter into a folder.
Whilst Noah wrote her sixteenth letter of apology, Kyle took out an incident log and checked the list of things he still had to deal with.
‘There’s still so much to do.’
Once Noah’s trial was over, the dragon’s egg disappearance case would officially end. However, the real culprit was someone else, so Kyle must follow Lenia’s tail and catch the forces that were backing her.
In the meantime, something serious was happening in Noviscocia, so Kyle had to go on a business trip, as he could not be in two places at one, Kyle couldn’t deal with Tezeva and Noviscocia at the same time.
Fortunately, Penelope and Paul had reviewed the recordings of the terrorist attacks on the train to the Edmans and the Angelic ship, but he was unhappy if he didn’t check it himself…
Ring
After a moment of silence, the pager on the desk rang. Surprised, Kyle pressed the button on his pager and winked at Noah to continue.
-Boss, I have something to tell you.
“Penelope?”
Kyle’s body became tense and he snatched the pager and answered.
“Why? Is there something wrong?”
– No. It’s not like that, but… Are you still interrogating the Baroness?
“What’s going on?”
Kyle’s voice was low. Once he entered the interrogation room, his men rarely called him out. They knew he didn’t like to be disturbed, but the fact that they disturbed him meant something had happened.
Kyle spat out sharply.
“I’ll come up. Wait.”
– Oh no… Captain. It’s not urgent, so I’ll report it to you later. I’m sorry to disturb you.
“What? Penelope, are you kidding me?”
Kyle was about to reply with fatigue and irritation in his voice but stopped when he saw Noah.
‘She can’t be surprised and start to cry again.‘
“…..I see, Let me know later.”
In the end, Kyle answered Penelope in a friendly manner and then turned off his pager.
“Oh, are you leaving?”
Noah’s face was filled with anxiety. Kyle noticed Noahs’s eyes watched him and she appeared to hate the idea of being left alone in the interrogation room.
“Are you going to go?”
“I have something to do…”
“I’m nearly finished writing. Wait, then let’s go together…”
Noah reached over the table and took Kyle’s hand. Kyle looked down at her hand on his hand and felt a little embarrassed. The last time Noah treated the wound on his face, he thought it, but Noah was quite friendly with him.
“No?”
“……”
It was hard for Kyle to refuse when he saw her expression.
Noah stared at Kyle and pouted. How could I leave her when she was like this?
Kyle realised what he was doing, and realised Noah was like a cat.
On a sunny day, a cat lies on its stomach by the window and sleeps in the sun. It comes only when it is in a good mood or needs its owner, and then it fled and went back to its place when the business was over and it went to sleep.
“….Then do it quickly.”
Kyle couldn’t believe it, why was he accepting everything. As soon as Kyle gave a positive answer, Noah’s face lit up.
Kyle was pleased as he watched Noah move her pen diligently, unlike before, and eventually, he sat across from her.
After Kyle finished looking at the incident log, he closed the journal and felt the start of a headache. No matter how tough Kyle was, he still needed a break…
Kyle was curious after looking at Noah so he asked, “Miss Noah, what did you say was your original hair color?”
“Mine?”
Noah, as she held a letter of apology, raised her head. Kyle quickly realized that he had asked something irrelevant and shook his head quickly.
“No. I’m sorry….”
“It was brown.”
In spite of Kyle’s embarrassment over his question, Noah still answered. Noah didn’t mind the question.
… Then can I ask you a little more?… As soon as Kyle thought this, another question popped out.
“What about eye color?”
“It was similar to my hair color. Light brown. I have heard I was a little dull in my color.”
Noah looked happy as she replied to Kyle.
“Well, it’s kind of genetic. I guess I resembled my mother.”
“…. I see.”
“I was not as pretty as Eleonora was, but I was pretty good-looking. If I had known I would have this much trouble, I would have preferred to enter a dead body, somehow. I wouldn’t have chosen to enter this body and suffer like I am.”
It sounded creepy but it didn’t bother Noah.
Thinking about it annoyed Noah, and she mumbled a few more words in a grumpy voice and moved the pen fiercely as she continued to write the apology. Noah was one of the few people who Kyle had seen who was this motivated when writing a letter.
Kyle suddenly thought that Noah’s shell really didn’t seem to fit her.
Noah always insisted that she was a very ordinary person, and despite the fearless look on her face, she had no experience with weapons, prison, crimes, or trials.
At first, Kyle felt that the expressionless face was similar to Eleonora. But as he looked at it today, he realised he was wrong. Once he thought about it, Kyle’s thoughts continued to stretch towards Noah Park’s original body and her original face, and what it looked like.
….. Honestly, Kyle was a little curious. Even so, there was no possibility that Kyle would see it in reality.
Bang. Noah used Kyle’s pen hard enough on the last part that it broke. She lifted her head.
“I’m done! Can I leave now?”
“Good. You did a great job.”
Kyle came to his senses and collected Noah’s last letter of apology.
The trial was just tomorrow, it was no time to daydream.
***
Penelope had been cooped up in her office all afternoon. On the large translucent screen that appeared on the desk, the recordings Kyle had passed over were constantly being played.
It was very rare for Kyle Leonard to miss something. He was a person who calculated five or six steps ahead. If it wasn’t for Kyle’s injury, Penelope wouldn’t have been handed this recorder to look at.
“Huh … what’s going on?”
The records were of about fifteen hours of footage, from about 1 o’clock in the afternoon to about 5 o’clock the next day, exactly two days ago. Everything that happened in the magic power room was shocking, but there was something else that embarrassed Penelope the most. It was what was recorded at around 3 am.
“I was worried that you might not make it, but fortunately you are safe.”
The screen was dark, but looking at the rough silhouette, Penelope could see what the situation was. Kyle was underneath and someone was on top of him.
“Good. It would have been quite difficult if Miss Noah hadn’t come.”
Almost as Kyle’s voice was heard, the screen lit with a faint orange hue. The hair on the screen was a subtle apricot color. There was only one woman with such unusual hair, as far as Penelope knew. Eleonora Asil.
“Did you have dinner?”
“… Are you asking me if I have had dinner?”
… However, she didn’t understand the conversation between Captain Kyle and Eleonora.
“Are you injured? I was worried!”
At first, Penelope didn’t understand. Eleonora Asil had 15 criminal records. After adding this crime, she was a violent criminal with 16 possible convictions, and Kyle Leonard was a dedicated investigator.
There was no way they were in such a relationship…
However, it was difficult for Penelope to erase the doubts. In the first place, Eleonora was writing apology letters, but why did Kyle have to stay beside her? To stay for days, in an enclosed interrogation room with only the two of them.
Penelope even called Kyle when he was in the interrogation room. The boss’s voice over the phone was as cold as usual but…
Penelope fiddled with the tape recorder with a frown.
In fact, Penelope had attached a small recorder under the desk in the interrogation room where Kyle and Eleonora were today. If Kyle found out, she would be suspended immediately, but their conversation was dubious enough to take the risk.
“Miss Noah, what did you say was your original hair color?”
“It was brown.”
Penelope’s face was filled with embarrassment and doubt.
‘Why are you talking like this?’