Tournament (1)

'Underground?'

Livi merely raised the corners of her mouth, her eyes still wide with surprise.

It was the first time I'd seen her so shaken.

"Aha, so you lived underground, sis!"

"I was just joking. If you want to believe that, go ahead."

"Yes. I'll believe you."

Livi's slip after she relaxed resolved the mystery in an instant. The original nobles of Douglas Kim, despite speaking Korean and knowing Korean history, were ignorant of 'common sense.'

I'd always thought it made no sense, no matter that they had lived abroad in this globalized age, but once you said 'underground,' everything fell into place.

The nobles' way of thinking, so utterly different from that of commoners like Wishuan Weirui, no longer seemed impossible if a world of 'their own' truly existed.

"Where underground did you live, sis?"...