"Ravel, why do you keep sneaking glances at my side and behind me? Is something wrong?"
"Ah? I, um, well..."
Ravel became flustered, her little fingers twisting together as she did not dare meet that faintly amused gaze.
At that moment, Ravel clearly understood that although the person before her seemed not to know what she was looking at, he had actually seen through her long ago and was deliberately teasing her.
"If it were you, what would you choose?"
He suddenly asked her such a question.
"M-Me?"
Ravel's voice was somewhat nervous, and her gaze carried both anticipation and unease.
She lightly pursed her tender lips, and her eyes grew watery.
"If it were me... the front."
"Why?"
"Because..."
Her voice grew softer and softer, quieter than the words themselves, as though even Ravel could not hear it clearly.
"I see. Then let me check and see whether it truly cannot be accepted."
"Huh?"
Ravel froze. Had she misheard?
"Stand up here."
Before the somewhat tsundere blonde girl could step onto the desk, Bai Yue cleared away the pile of documents on it.
"S-Stand on it?"
"Yes. This counts as punishment for not listening. I already told you to rest, yet you worked overtime on your own. So, are you going to accept the punishment, or go rest right this instant?"
"I... I-I choose... choose to accept the punishment."
As Ravel stammered out her answer, she felt uneasy about the punishment awaiting her.
But she felt even more anticipation.
If he truly carried out the kind of punishment she had seen, it meant that what she had been hoping for could probably happen as well.
Thus, she clumsily climbed onto the desk.
She normally would not have been so clumsy; it was mainly because of how nervous she was