Chapter 1037: Value
At this thought, Boheng involuntarily glanced at the rearview mirror and met Hesta's gaze.
"What is it?" Hesta asked.
Boheng smiled and looked out the window somewhat awkwardly.
"What is it?" Hesta asked again.
"Nothing, I—"
"I wasn't asking you," Hesta said. "I was asking Eunice."
Boheng turned around in confusion. "Eunice?"
Victoria looked back as well. "Are you feeling unwell? You've been fidgeting this whole time."
"...I need to use the bathroom," Eunice said quietly.
Only then did Boheng realize that Eunice had seemed restless not long after getting in the car. He had assumed the girl had something on her mind and had not pressed her.
"Just say so next time," Boheng said softly. "There's no need to be embarrassed."
Eunice did not answer—indeed, she did have something on her mind. A conversation from that morning kept circling through her thoughts.
She clearly remembered that, just before they left the farm, the two children, Eleven and Kiki, had charged toward Hesta's car, clamoring to come along.
At the time, the Inspector and her companions had been checking luggage in the hall, so they naturally had no attention to spare for this. Eleven and Kiki had circled the car, knocking and tapping on it with determined expressions, and no one came to stop them.
Eunice remembered these two children. On the night when she and her teacher Boheng had gone to Hesta's apartment, the two little girls had been carefully protected by several Quicksilver Needles. She had always assumed that children held in such high regard must also be Quicksilver Needle wielders. Yet when she brought it up that morning, Kiki and Eleven had seemed unfamiliar with the subject.
At first, Eunice thought the children were lying to fool her, so she continued talking about Chelated