For Miss Yushua, the situation might have been rather awkward, but compared with the mortifying embarrassment of their last meeting, it was nothing.
To her surprise, she felt a little... pleased with herself?
Afanisi looked as though she wanted to swallow her whole-jealousy mingled with envy, along with the look of a sore loser.
Although the girl had never seen such an expression before, an intense sense of satisfaction welled up inside her. She vaguely sensed that it all stemmed from Jonas, who was holding her in his arms.
"Good... morning!"
Afanisi spoke through gritted teeth, anger flashing in her eyes.
When Yushua had first gained authority over the Black Ring, Afanisi had merely felt that something she cherished had been stolen. But now, not only had the other woman taken it, she was flaunting it right in front of her!
-All that was missing was an announcement that it now belonged to her completely!
The atmosphere grew awkward again. Their gazes repeatedly met in midair, almost throwing off sparks.
Yet Jonas, the man at the center of it all, took half a step back and watched the scene with interest.
Miss Afanisi seemed to have misunderstood something. Or rather, in her mind, Miss Yushua had done something unforgivable.
He already had a vague idea of what that something was... but he wasn't telling.
Wasn't watching two adorable nun-kittens fight for his affection more entertaining than a tedious romantic showdown?
Afanisi eyed Yushua's far more generously endowed figure with a hostile expression, wariness filling her gaze.
Before, that wariness had stemmed from Yushua's terrifying dream ability, which could silently rob people of consciousness. Now, however, it had transformed entirely into jealousy and resentment toward those two shamelessly enormous things.
They were equally slender and graceful, their skin equally pale