Maria revealed a barely noticeable smile and explained the truth.
Ch'en really had talked in her sleep last night, but she had not sucked on anything. Maria had only said that to tease the little girl who looked so stern and repressed.
After all...
"You really are a terrible woman."
Burning with embarrassment and indignation, Ch'en looked at Maria's faintly smiling expression and gritted out her assessment.
But Maria seemed quite pleased by it.
"I do not like hiding my emotions too deeply... Perhaps that is necessary on certain occasions, but in everyday life, I do not think expressing a little more is a problem."
"But what you just did was simply teasing me, wasn't it?" Ch'en angrily ate the meat bun in front of her, her expression displeased.
Maria merely smiled, her voice suddenly softening.
"I was only teasing you."
"Guh..."
Ch'en's face reddened again.
A Commission from Rhodes Island
Breakfast soon came to an end.
After breakfast, Ch'en left.
On one hand, she had learned from Maria that Hoshiguma had completely misunderstood the relationship between them... While Maria did not care about such things, and Ch'en knew Hoshiguma was not one to gossip, she still felt uneasy.
She was going to explain exactly what had happened to Hoshiguma.
On the other hand, she still had some doubts.
Logically speaking, if Hoshiguma, as a member of the Special Operations Group, had received some emergency order, then Ch'en, as the group's captain, could not possibly have received nothing.
In other words, someone had definitely bypassed her authority and assigned someone else a mission... Though it was only a guess, Ch'en still wanted to confirm it. Otherwise, she would not be able to rest easy.
As for Maria...
She needed to go to work.
Emperor had only given them two days