The Obsessive Male Leads Want to Eat Me Alive

Episode 5: Water Trauma (I)

But unfortunately we didn’t have that much time.

After a while, someone visited our secret hideout.

Like a raptor before snatching up its prey with its claws, she said with her golden eyes twinkling.

“You were hiding in such a place like a mouse?”

It was Madam Mimosa—!

My small heart pounded and fell to the floor. It felt like all the blood was rushing out of my toes.

“Annette. It’s really disappointing.”

“…Madam.”

Madam Mimosa spoke coolly while holding a sharp whip.

“I trusted you because you were an exemplary student who never caused problems.”

Gulp.

My throat was dry because of the tension.

Panic seemed to come when the worst situation I had imagined in my head became a reality.

“……”

Sislin was also scared, and his breath quickened. Because he had already been severely punished by Madam Mimosa.

‘What should I do? We shouldn’t have been caught now.’

He hadn’t overcome his water trauma yet, and there was no way to naturally return to the Forest.

If things went on like this, he would get beaten…！

What would happen next was obvious.

Sislin, who barely opened his heart a little, would retreat into the cave again and the situation would get much worse.

Madam Mimosa looked around the hideout and hit the furniture with the end of the whip.

“You stole all the furniture here, too. Sislin… What a rude thing to do.”

Upon her cold gaze, I was surprised and shouted as I hid Sislin behind my back.

“It’s not Sislin’s fault. I did that!”

“Annette. I know you care about the Trees, but you shouldn’t embrace them unconditionally.”

“I’m telling you the truth, Madam. Trust me… please.”

“Sislin has already broken eight rules. I cannot forgive him.”

Ahhh… It increased by one because of me.

“At first, he complained that he didn’t want to wash and ran into the cave. Do you know how worried the teachers were? …How often did I emphasize the need to abide by the rules?”

In the Forest, severe corporal punishment followed a problem child.

“Get out of my way.”

Unsurprisingly, Madam Mimosa pushed me by the shoulder and swung a sharp whip towards Sislin.

Wheeik!

Ouch, that!

That whip must hurt a lot…!!!

At that moment, I hugged Sislin tightly, showing my back instead, and shouted.

“Sislin isn’t complaining, he is afraid of the water!”

Madam Mimosa’s rod stopped in mid-air for an instant. But still, the strict blonde seemed unwilling to forgive.

“Annette, whatever the reason, the fact that Sislin broke the rules doesn’t change.”