Chapter 170 (1/2)

“I’m gonna have to go get Donalian Culton and some of the office staff involved. That’s quick. It won’t take long. Don’t look at me like that. I’m sorry,” Noah pleaded.

Kyle understood her rambling words perfectly and had a look on his face that he’d rather not have understood them. Without a word, he rose from his seat and approached Noah. Then, he pinched her left cheek tightly, stretching it out. “Really, Noah. Without consulting me at all, you’ve done everything reckless and I do all the cleaning. At this point, my doubt that you’re just treating me like a backseat passenger is becoming reasonable.”

“I did it, so I’ll take care of it!”

“It’s chaotic. It’s much easier for me to do these things. Why the mine? That is such an impulsive purchase. Overconsumption. Did you think of it at all?”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t know this would happen. But it was such a loss not to buy that bonanza…” Noah tried to appeal to Kyle, but his temper only increased, so Noah had to surrender both of her cheeks as a sign of reflection.

After a long while of Kyle’s nagging, the interrogation of the miners was finally finished. There were two things left: Kyle’s task and Noah’s.

Noah edged Kyle’s back into the cliff. “Sir, then, you’ll have to go down now.”

“I’ll have to go down there? That’s weird.”  Naturally, Kyle began to pry into her ulterior motives for trying to send him away. “You must have talked to fairies on your way up here earlier, what did you hear?”

“That Muell is cute…?”

“You’re going to run up the slope because Muell is so cute? You dislike walking, let alone running. You’d better stop making lame excuses and just tell the truth.”

Proving once again his excellence as an investigator, Noah had to tell him her conversation with the fairy, as she was left with no more excuses.

“Well, it seems that the bond between the soul and the body must be completely cut off. But looking at how healthy I am, I don’t think the bond with my original body is completely broken, and if this body of Eleonora was simply a corpse, it wouldn’t have been able to assimilate with me.”

That was enough explanation for Kyle.

“Oh, so the soul of Eleonora Asil still exists, too, and perhaps it was Adrian Rossinell who stole her soul. Somewhere, Miss Noah’s body will still be alive? So, while I close the case of the missing miners, you’re gonna look for your body, that’s what you mean?” spoke Kyle.

In complete astonishment, Noah mumbled, “I sometimes wonder how fast your brain works.”

“Is it possible? What’s the risk?” Kyle asked with a frown.

“The fairy said that the dragon cradle acts as an entrance to cross the dimensions. I was wondering if there might be something at the entrance.”