My Idle System Chapter 97: Two Choices (4)

'Actually, now that I'm already this glued, this close to you, maybe you already have so parts of . If my heart is one of them, I don't know, though.'

'Anyway, you took too long to confront .'

'And what's certain is that my original attitude has changed a bit now.'

Eva, with many thoughts now swirling inside her head and different words spilling out, stayed silent for a mont, knowing that her fate could truly be decided in this conversation. She pondered over many things and finally spoke.

"I'll give you two choices, Christian."

'If there's even a aning to these choices, since with your personality, the decision you'll make is probably already set… though I'm not certain.'

"And, as it's always been, you will decide. I'll just go along with whatever you choose."

'Hmm, is that really the truth now? I don't know, but today's outco is really what you decided, it's just that this ti would be a bit different. So, maybe it really is, in the end?'

Christian, unaware of the depth of Eva's current feelings or the story behind each one, saw the smile still lingering on her lips, her expression unchanged. Thinking it couldn't be sothing too significant, he replied lightly.

"Okay, go ahead."

And as if on cue, Eva, receiving the green light, finally gave him the ultimatum.

"The first option would be that I won't tell you anything."

"It's just that there's no need to pretend that I'm not Olivia's mother anymore now."

"But, aside from this, I will not confirm anything, nor will I answer any of your questions just based on a theories you've probably already ford in your head."

"Huh?"

'Then, what changes?'

Christian now clearly had the word absurdity written all over his expression, and feeling frustrated, he asked Eva, desperate to know what was going on inside her head at the mont, without thinking further.

"Then, what would change with this choice?"

As he still rembered that it was a choice in the end, and he felt like there should at least be sothing more to it out there.

"Thank you for asking."

"The change is simple. It seems that you didn't try to get information about at all, through hacking or other ans like what you did with that trash math teacher from your school. Maybe it was for my sake? Privacy? Wanting to hear it from ?"

Eva, still smiling innocently, finally dropped the bombshell, and Christian's eyes widened in surprise, but just as quickly, he tried to regain his composure, attempting to return to normal. Inside, however, he was as disoriented as his calm and clueless expression, which he was now failing at badly.

'How much does she know?'

'No, is she actually sure about these things in the first place?'

'Was that why she had not brought up the hacking incident with ever?'

Christian, despite his awkward social skills, had never felt troubled about them before. He didn't care much about his surroundings or other people, after all, so his emotions rarely fluctuated. But now, in the presence of Eva, with her being this close, he felt like his acting skills, which he had previously praised, were now failing him. Panic began to set in, and he couldn't even register everything else she said after the ntion of hacking.

Still, he felt like he should at least say sothing, to avoid being cornered even further.

"What do you an, hacking?" Christian asked, his tone betraying the calm he tried so hard to portray.

Eva, still smiling as she watched all the changes in his expression, finally spoke in a soft, almost soothing voice, as if talking to a child.

"Calm down a little first, Christian."

Seeing how he started to take breaths, which were coming toward her face, she noticed that he was calming down, but the panic still lingered, not yet vanishing.

Eva felt a little hurt, as this ant that his trust toward her, unlike his feelings, was really different. But knowing that maybe her behaviors had contributed to this, she pushed those distracting thoughts aside and continued.

"Look, Christian, I'm not trying to confirm anything with you. You're free to admit it, and free to not."

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'Well, actually, I already confird it from your reactions, but confirming it wasn't my intention anyway.'

'Just so hacking or the like doesn't an much, but what it represents coming from you is different.'

Eva paused slightly, having so thoughts, still, she continued.

"I'm just saying that, through your ans, you are free to do your research freely about , and our relationship would continue."

"Actually, I want you to look up information about on your own."

'Maybe you would discover sothing that even I don't know after all.'

"You are free to look for whatever you want, no matter how small the detail is."

"There's no need to be considerate about my feelings or avoid looking through everything. I'm prepared to be bare before your eyes, in the end."

'I have nothing to hide, after all.'

"As for our relationship."

"I've already said it, but I have never refused any of your advances. Even now, if you said we should go to a hotel right after this."

"I wouldn't have refused you."

"So, despite it seeming like nothing would change with this choice, you at least got to know this piece of information."

'Well, I'm saying this because I know you wouldn't though. And knowing that you still wouldn't take advantage of in a way I could find uncomfortable, even after everything I've said, is probably the reason why I'm saying this in the first place.'

'If you were the type to do that, our relationship wouldn't have developed to this extent in the first place, after all.'

'So, am I being too unfair?'

'Am I considered to be lying?'

'But if it really cos down to it, maybe I'm really ready, like I said. Anyway, I wouldn't know until you take that step.'

'And with all the steps you've taken, I've always felt ready for a couple more from them. So maybe it's not a lie in the end?'

Eva was having many thoughts, so justifying what she said, so excuses, and others still. But then, suddenly, she rembered sothing that made her feel a little depressed.

'Christian, I don't know if the idea of selling my body ca to your mind.'

'But had it been soone other than you, I wouldn't have co to this point.'

'It's because it's you that I'm willing to go this far.'

'If it were soone else, I wouldn't.'

'Actually, if it really ca down to selling myself, I wouldn't have waited for you. I could have tried that long ago.'

'But trying to escape just from one bastard is already hard enough, and because I didn't want that, I'm like this, trapped in an invincible cage now.'

'Would it really make sense to escape from one, only to run to another?'

'It doesn't!'

'So, Christian, it's because I felt that you were different, not just special, that I'm willing to co this far.'

'even after everything, I said about not revealing anything to you, I'm now hoping tell you this, to explain myself, and for you to know that hurriedly'

'Even after everything I said about not revealing anything to you, I'm now hoping to tell you this, to explain myself, and for you to know it, hurriedly.'

'Have I ever been this contradictory with myself in my life?'

'No, that's why, maybe I have already fallen for you?'

'Is this heart of mine really starting to beat for soone else?'

'I don't know.'

'But…'

'I hope it's true.'

'As I don't imagine myself unhappy, being your woman.'

Christian, busy with his own thoughts, didn't notice Eva's expression, which seed indescribable at the mont. He was still panicking at first, hearing everything Eva said, but as he carefully processed her words, he began to feel that sothing was off.

Even the possibility that there might be a trap out there crossed his mind.

But then, looking at Eva, who was still smiling at him—well, more accurately, had returned to smiling, though he wasn't aware—he noticed their current sitting position. Her legs which were draped above his, seemingly just a step away from being in his lap, then their faces were very close to each other.

Finally, he felt like he was being too paranoid. The level of hacking he had displayed at school previously was by no ans sothing very rare.

At the country level, such a skill was still fairly common, so for soone like him, did Eva really need to get this close just to try and trap him?

Soone like her?

Was he really worth that much?

He didn't think so, at least from an outside perspective, also, while he wasn't sure about the image thing, Eva said, he had of her in his mind, but, after more than a month together, he felt that he was overthinking and that she wouldn't do sothing like this.