Back at the bookstore, Iryz finally finished drawing her piece of artwork.
"It is a masterpiece!!!" she shouted out aloud as she looked at her sketch pad. Happiness was brimming in her eyes as she looked down at the opened page, looking as if she was staring at something so precious. Hearts were literally pouring out of her eyes.
"Look!!! I just made your handsomeness doubled!" Iryz turned the pad to show Zeres the drawing she had just completed and was so extremely proud of.
Zeres just stared at it for a while, seriously observing the lines and angles that she had done. He nodded slightly in approval and commented, "You’re good." Then he stood up and moved from the spot that he had been required to freeze himself in for quite some time. "Now it’s time for you to give me an answer in exchange."
His face was serious as he said that. It was clear that he was all business now and was in no state of joking around. Iryz’s initially big and wide smile was now slowly fading as she realized that the handsome man could no longer wait nor have himself being delayed in having his questions answered. And she knew not to continue pushing his buttons. As he had warned her earlier, he was not the kind of nice witch that she had imagined him to be. There was no way she was willing to cross his bottom line and find out if that was true. She was not that foolish.
"Alright... sir, you can now start questioning me. I will try my best to answer it." She was still enthusiastic as she said that. Her good and open attitude gave a good impression to Zeres that she was not trying to play him for a fool and squirm her way out of their bargain.
After nodding his approval of her cooperative behaviour, Zeres slowly moved past her and stood next to her computer. His long fingers tapped on the table as he stared into her eyes intently.
"This story of yours, tell me the continuation." Zeres said and Iryz did not move nor speak but only blinked a few times. She looked as though her nervous system had suffered a lag for a moment.
She opened her mouth, but nothing came out. She obviously did not expect to hear those words that he had said at all.
"That... that’s your question?" she had to ask again just to make sure that she got it right.
"What is the continuation of this story?" Zeres turned his words into a question.
"Err... why are you asking about my story?" she could no longer stop herself from asking. Even though she could tell that this man was asking this question very seriously, Iryz could not help but be baffled by it. Why on earth was he asking for the continuation of her story? Wait... he had seen and read her story and...
She narrowed her eyes at him. "Sir... you have seen my storyboard..."
"Yes." He replied curtly.
"And now you want to know what will happen next?"
"Yes."
Suddenly, she gasped. Her eyes wide as saucers now, as she held her face in both her hands. She had not thought that he was into this as well!!
"Oh my god! Y-you’re a... you’re a BL fan too?!" she squealed as those words came to her mouth. She felt as though she would faint from too much stimulation.
Zeres creased his brows. "Just give me an answer now, little girl. Don’t waste my time anymore." He growled out, ignoring what Iryz had just said as he did not quite understand what she was even trying to say. As long as she can tell him the continuation, he would not care what she thought about him. After all, she was of no significance to him. So her opinions on him was inconsequential.
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