HELLBOUND WITH YOU 🅱️🅾️🆗 5⃣

Chapter 410: Last chance

Meanwhile, Chaeyoung was busy looking into the crystal ball, methodically looking down a map of the country and surveying each area, mentally memorising the places where she was not able to see anything.  Jisoo merely sat on his chair, eyes close as if he was asleep but Chaeyoung knew that he wasn’t. He was probably calculating their next move, as always.

After some time, Jisoo knocked on the door to the room where Lisa had taken Jennie. Jisoo was expecting Lisa but Jennie was actually the one who came out.

With a slightly narrowed eyes, Jisoo asked, "don’t tell me that guy passed out?"

Jennie nodded. "Mm. He fell asleep."

Jisoo was speechless. Sleep was now necessary to the modern common vampires but the vampires who still drank blood, like the royal family and Lisa, should be fine even without sleep. They were able to last for days without having any sleep. Sleep was just a form of relaxation for them, not to mention that Lisa just slept for hours yesterday.

"What did you do to him this time for him to fall asleep so easily like that?" Jisoo nonchalantly asked but Jennie just walked over towards Chaeyoung, unbothered by his words.

"I didn’t do anything!" she puffed her cheeks at him.

"Are you sure? That guy seems to be doing all these unusual things whenever he’s around you."

"Fine. Yes, I cast a spell on him. Happy?"

"So you want to become a witch, huh?"

"That’s right. There’s nothing wrong with that, is there? I also want to become powerful like you guys!"

She ranted when Chaeyoung piped up. "It’s okay, Jennie. You are powerful in your own way, believe me," she smiled so encouragingly at Jennie that she couldn’t help but feel better. Why did she feel like Jisoo was riling her up for no reason sometimes.

"Thank you, Chaeyoung," she said before her eyes fell on the crystal ball. "Did you finally find something?"

"Mm. Almost."

Jennie focused her attention on the map. She had seen the map of this country from the last time she and Lisa visited this place.

"So these unmarked places are safe?"

"Hmm... for now yes. I was able to spy on these places and I couldn’t find any unusual activities. The only place I can’t see is here." She pointed to the easternmost part of the country. "I believe they have a hideout somewhere out there. There’s also a hidden place here in this western part."

Jennie gaze zeroed on the places Chaeyoung pointed to like she was looking for something and then she lifted her face and looked at Jisoo. Gone was her relaxed expression and the lines on her forehead appeared again along with her worried expression from a while ago. Both Chaeyoung and Jisoo felt her unease and fear once again.

"Jisoo... about what I said a while ago. I am really worried. I..." she stammered, causing Jisoo to speak with impatience.

"Just say it, Jennie. What are you trying to say?"

Jennie looked at him as she swallowed.

"I think... it will be best if we can be sure that something like that will not happen to Lisa before we go into the enemy’s lair."

"We are already in the enemy’s lair, Jennie."

"But they still don’t know that we’re here, right?"

"If they have the witch queen, they will already know we are here. And they might even be waiting for us now."

"So you are saying we are still going despite knowing that an ambush might be waiting for us?"

Jisoo sat back, folded on knee over the other and rested his face on his palm.

"That’s how we always work. Vampires don’t play defensive wars. We are always the ones who attack," he told her as a matter of fact. "And Lisa... this was how he had done things and that won’t change."

"But Lisa isn’t in his best condition. And you don’t know what kind of enemy is waiting for us. And like I said, what if they end up taking Lisa from us?"

"So you want to go back now? Retreat? And then what? Waste more time? Did you forget that Lisa is running out of time, Jennie?"

"I’m not saying we should go back, Jisoo. And no, I haven’t forgotten. I am very well aware of that."

"Then what exactly are you planning to do?"

Their exchange of words finally paused. Jennie gaze at him was serious and her intensity actually surprised Jisoo. ’Such a little brave human talking back to him so fiercely like that... how amusing’, he thought.

"Speak."

"I will bring his memories back first."

Silence followed by her words. She had said those words with such conviction and unwavering will, but Jisoo lips simply lifted up slightly at the corners.

"You’ve been trying to do that for days now, Jennie, and he is still in the dark."

"But it is working, Jisoo. What happened last night was a good sign. He even remembered where he threw the toys. Re-enacting the things that we did together seems to be paying off. I think that with a little bit more push, he might remember everything and once that happens, he will not be in danger anymore," Jennie explained.

"But what if that won’t work?" Jisoo retorted. "You know that things aren’t always that simple and straightforward, right?"

"I know," her voice weakened. "I know that this isn’t simple or straightforward to solve. If it was, he would have his memories by now. I know there is no easy road. But..." she looked up, eyes filled with emotions. "I want to try it... one last time."

The room was once again enveloped with silence. They could feel Jennie desperation. It was almost as if she was going all in on the cards she had been dealt, giving her everything to one last gamble, as if this was her very last chance. The game was ending and she would either win big or lose everything on this bet.

"Give me a day, Jisoo. Just a day..." she added. "That’s all I am asking."