Chapter 35

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The knocking on the door makes the Blacksteel girls' heads turn.

It's heavy, the hand that knocks on the other side. It can almost make someone feel threatened. Luckily they've been close to death for a small but good chunk of their lives.

The man knocking on their door speaks up, "Miss Franka, are you in there?"

Liskarm stared at the door with emotionless eyes while seated at a chair as she's in the middle of making a schedule.

Vanilla and Jessica both peeked their heads out of their rooms, curiously looking at Liskarm and wondering why she isn't doing anything about the knocking man.

Another door closes, and Franka comes out drying herself with a towel.

She looks at all of them, wondering what just came up, when the man on the other side knocked and called out again.

"Miss Franka?"

That voice made one of her eyes twitch.

Liskarm looks back at her. "What do you want?"

She sighed. "I just got out of the bathroom, feeling nice and fresh, and life throws the ultimate stressor at me.."

"Since when was he the ultimate stressor to you?"

Franka asks back at Liskarm, "Are you sad?"

"Guess I should let him in." Liskarm casually announced as she stood up and walked to the door.

Franka immediately grabs her hand, tight.

She looks at the vulpo, with tired eyes.

"Just let me think, okay? You're at it again launching yourself at the enemy without a care in the world." Franka whispers while her eyes are wide as she is immediately annoyed at the vouivre.

"Aren't you talking about yourself?" Liskarm replied. "Well, there's the proof I need, you're losing your mind over that guy."

That guy knocks at the door once again. "Miss Franka? Anybody home?"

"Sh-shouldn't we let him in already?" Vanilla suggested.

"Sorry to say this but you're just feeling pity for him because he's clearly a man who grew up in the mountains." Franka tells the tall vouivre, her resentment towards the man evident in her voice.

"I mean, who even knocks at automatic sliding doors?" Liskarm adds up. "He only needs to swipe his ID. And also, why can we hear someone knocking at our door made of solid steel?"

"He's terrifying..." Vanilla commented, to which Jessica nods in agreement.

"I'll use the window." Franka tells them.

She heads to the large cabinet beside Liskarm's workstation and pulls the uppermost drawer, from which she pulls out a full set of grappling hooks and cords.

Liskarm sighed at her as she placed her hands on her waist. "Just for trying to escape your suitor?..."

"Grrrr, he's not."

"What a good use for our equipment.."

"And you're just watching me. So it's fine."

"Tsk."

The vouivre approaches Franka. But the latter, knowing what the other is about to do, raises her hands up high.

"I've got something in mind already, so put it back!" Liskarm orders her partner.

"Sure, after you manage to snatch it out of my hand~"

Franka keeps giggling as the attention was shifted from trying to escape the knocking man to making fun of her partner's height once more.

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