"If I said I wasn't moved, what would you do?" Vermouth asked Chen tentatively.
"Then I'd have no choice but to punish you. As for how I'd punish you, I think you should know." Chen gave Vermouth a look that said, You know what I mean.
Well, of course Vermouth understood, because it wasn't as though she had never received Chen's punishment before.
But precisely because she had experienced it before, Vermouth felt even more flustered.
Vermouth had now realized that she could not escape at all. No matter which way she went, it was a dead end. As for a third path—sorry, there was no third path.
"What are you two talking about that has you so happy?" Yukiko Kudo's jealous voice reached Chen and Vermouth's ears.
Vermouth glanced at Yukiko Kudo. Since when had she looked happy?
This witch, Vermouth, was feeling incredibly heavy-hearted right now. What awaited her was a raging storm, yet Yukiko Kudo actually said she was happy.
"Aren't you going to keep watching Akako Koizumi demonstrate magic in her room?" Chen asked Yukiko Kudo.
"I'm not watching anymore. I have no interest in magic at all," Yukiko Kudo said, her expression stiffening slightly.
"Oh? Are you really not interested? I'd guess you just can't learn it, so you say you aren't interested." Vermouth stared at Yukiko Kudo.
Her other identity, Sharon, had been very close friends with Yukiko Kudo, so she knew Yukiko Kudo extremely well—thoroughly well, in fact.
Yukiko Kudo's expression stiffened even further. Life is already hard enough; why do you have to expose me? Why do you have to tear open my wounds?
She cast Vermouth a resentful glance. A woman was no woman if she did not avenge a grudge. Yukiko Kudo was already plotting how to make Vermouth, that