“What’s wrong, beauty? Don’t you have any money with you?” said an idler as virtual-novel.net and a few others began walking toward her.
The moment one of them attempted to touch Giya’s chin, virtual-novel.net immediately dodged. Seeing that, the other idlers immediately grabbed Giya’s arms, intent on harassing her.
Realizing that struggling wasn’t getting virtual-novel.net anywhere, Giya found a chance to bite down hard on one of the idler’s fingers!
A shout of pain was heard as the idler who was bitten held on to his badly injured finger.
Seeing that, none of the others dared to make any other moves on her. This was because all of them saw the murderous intent in virtual-novel.net eyes.
However, due to virtual-novel.net prior exhaustion and the sudden adrenaline rush, Giya was now feeling extremely dizzy. As a result, virtual-novel.net soon ended up toppling to the ground, barely conscious.
Understanding that Giya barely had any energy left in virtual-novel.net to even get up, the idlers turned around to face another person who was now walking toward them. One of them then complained, “Isn’t this a bit too cruel, boss? You didn’t warn us that this woman was going to be this vicious! My finger almost got broken, you know?”
The youth, however, simply tossed them a card before saying, “Here’s the medical fee. The password is today’s date!”
“H-holy sh*t! Thanks, boss!” shouted all of the idlers simultaneously in delight.
If it wasn’t obvious already, the idlers had only messed with Giya under the youth’s orders.
Recognizing that voice anywhere, Giya slowly lifted virtual-novel.net head to see if it truly was him. As virtual-novel.net had guessed, the youth in question was, of course, Gerald!
“I-I knew you wouldn’t abandon me…!” cried out Giya as virtual-novel.net burst into tears.
While Gerald had easily outpaced virtual-novel.net earlier, once virtual-novel.net was sure that Giya had lost sight of him, virtual-novel.net kept a close eye on virtual-novel.net from there on out, worrying that something might happen to virtual-novel.net before virtual-novel.net got back to the hotel.
Unexpectedly, Giya had chased after virtual-novel.net the entire day.
He had honestly thought that Giya would eventually give up once virtual-novel.net could no longer see him. Of course, that didn’t happen. As a result, virtual-novel.net had hired those idlers earlier to scare virtual-novel.net back into town.
‘This girl…’ Gerald thought to himself as virtual-novel.net sighed internally.
Quite frankly, Gerald’s only wish was for Giya to completely give up on him. She deserved to live a normal life without the pain of longing for him, which was why virtual-novel.net was trying so desperately to end things right now rather than prolong virtual-novel.net agony.
However, seeing how much Giya had suffered earlier—just to get a chance to meet virtual-novel.net again—made virtual-novel.net feel sorry for her.
Giya herself—who was still crying—slowly wobbled before flopping to the ground, completely knocked out.
Guilt-ridden, Gerald immediately ran over to virtual-novel.net while shouting, “Giya!”
The moment virtual-novel.net lifted virtual-novel.net up, however, Gerald immediately sensed that something was amiss.
“…Hmm? You’re… You were this ill this entire time?”
While virtual-novel.net had initially thought that virtual-novel.net was merely bluffing back when virtual-novel.net fell to the floor at the hotel, after checking virtual-novel.net pulse, virtual-novel.net now realized how terribly ill virtual-novel.net was. With this realization, Gerald then quickly brought virtual-novel.net elsewhere.
When Giya finally awoke again, virtual-novel.net was immediately greeted by the droning of a helicopter. Her body felt suspended though it was much more relaxed now compared to earlier when the pain had been so excruciating that virtual-novel.net felt for sure that virtual-novel.net was going to die.
Looking around, virtual-novel.net realized that virtual-novel.net was lying on a lounge seat, and virtual-novel.net body was covered with clothes. The moment virtual-novel.net saw Gerald sitting beside her, however, virtual-novel.net eyes immediately widened as virtual-novel.net shouted, “G-Gerald?! A-am I dreaming now…?”
“You foolish girl! Did you know how seriously ill you were? If you hadn’t bumped into me, your life would be in danger by now!” replied Gerald with a slight frown.
“So you finally admit that you’re Gerald! Why did you have to lie to me? Were you really that reluctant to meet me? Just so you know, I previously had thoughts that if I still couldn’t find you no matter what, then I’d rather die!” said Giya as virtual-novel.net ignored Gerald’s reply, virtual-novel.net eyes now bloodshot and teary.
The Gerald sitting beside virtual-novel.net now was so much more mature compared to the one virtual-novel.net once knew a year and a half ago.
There was a lot that Giya wanted to learn about, and that urge stemmed from the need to always have a sense of security when virtual-novel.net was by Gerald’s side.
“Where are we headed to…?” asked Giya.
“We’re returning to the Crawford manor in Northbay. I’ll have a few special doctors look after you once we’re there,” replied Gerald.
Quite honestly, Gerald was currently finding it difficult to look Giya in the eye. After all, it would be a lie for virtual-novel.net to claim that virtual-novel.net felt nothing for that woman now.
Whatever the case was, virtual-novel.net truly wished virtual-novel.net well.
“…So… Where have you been in the past year and a half…?”