Interlude: The Saint of Orléans (1)

Today.

As she read the novel Kim Yul had been putting aside for a while, Chloe's emotions changed from moment to moment.

First: denial.

"W-What? No way, desuwa! There's no way Liu Bei could fall, no way the high elves could collapse......!"

She even compared the newspaper serialization and Kim Yul's draft, reading back and forth to check whether what she'd seen was really the serialized version or whether someone had secretly swapped the manuscript.

"Kim Yuuuuul...! After all this, you expect me to trust you? What a bad, wicked, rotten man......!"

Because she let the anger boiling up inside her out with a KRAAANG, the employees kept away from the area near the boss's office for a while.

Then came.

"Hmm, this must be a dream, desuwa. I've been in such poor health lately that I'm dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreami......"

Negotiation...