BXBX NOVEL Chapter 99: Chat With Lorelei
"He cares about every single thing, even though he acts like he doesn\'t give a damn..."
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"Thank you very much, Gojo," Nolan called out as Gojo pointed to his body.
Immediately, a blue wave of divine essence appeared around Nolan, and he felt the sensation of water fading away as his clothes dried up once more.
Once Gojo did that, he rose up from his reclined position before walking past him, pausing for a few seconds beside him.
"The group only agreed on being in the room for the last three hours. You can go wherever you want."
"Just be back in the last three hours, and don\'t cause trouble for the Atlanteans," he said before walking past him and disappearing down the hallway from where Nolan had come.
[He\'s a pretty cool guy, really,] the system called out to Nolan, who simply smiled a little before opening his door and entering his room.
But he was more than shocked when he found someone sitting on his sofa, his bag on her lap.
"You! How did you get here?" Nolan asked in shock as the figure raised its face, filled with nothing but innocence, at Nolan.
Of course, she was none other than Lorelei, and Nolan looked around the room and soon found out how she had been able to arrive in the room earlier than him.
Just behind her, the window was wide open, and he remembered vividly that he had never opened it at all upon arriving in the room. That meant someone else did, and it was safe to say it was her.
"What\'s this?" she asked with an innocent expression as she brought out something from his bag. Nolan walked over to her, picking it up from her hands and turned it upright.
"Just a clip," he replied to her, placing it back in his bag, before he picked it up from her lap and closed it up.
"How do you even find me? You\'ve been following me all this while? And also, this is the palace."
"Not just any random person is allowed in, and you will be in danger if found. Return back to your home..." Nolan called out.
He came into his home to find someone who had broken through the window and was now rifling through his stuff. He didn\'t find the experience enjoyable at all.
"Don\'t worry. This is my home," she said to him, and Nolan paused in his footsteps.
"This is... your home?" he asked with a raised eyebrow, his heart rate slowly increasing as he considered the chance of something becoming a reality.
"Yes. I\'m the Atlantean Princess," she declared casually, but Nolan remained unmoving from the shock.
"The Atlantis Princess... She is actually the Atlantis Princess!"
Now he was feeling awkward. How should he greet the princess?
But he soon remembered he was a Celestial heir, and that wouldn\'t be necessary for him.
"I\'ve heard of who you are from the guards. You\'re the child of the Celestial ones," she said, and Nolan thought about it for quite some time before eventually nodding.
"Yes, you can say that," he replied.
"What are you doing here anyway?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.
The last thing he was expecting was an impromptu visit from the Princess of the Atlanteans, the daughter of the King of Atlantis.
"I... I was just... I wanted to... I just wanted to talk to you, since... you\'re the only one who can hear me," she finally completed after stammering repeatedly.
Nolan watched as she kept her face down, and he wondered if that was from embarrassment, but something piqued his interest even more.
"Is it true that no one can hear you?" he asked her, sitting on the opposite sofa, and Lorelei raised her head up before nodding.
"Yes, they can\'t hear my voice or my play. Anything I touch can\'t make a sound," she said to Nolan, and the system confirmed it to him as it couldn\'t hear a single thing from the discussion.
To anyone else, it would have seemed like Nolan was talking to himself, as Lorelei\'s lips moved with no words coming out.
"Is it some type of defect or...?" Nolan asked. The condition was quite a special one to him.
"No. It\'s a natural-born curse," she replied, and Nolan\'s eyebrow raised, and a hint of cautiousness flashed in his eyes.
The person before him was cursed!? It was almost unbelievable.
"A curse, huh?" he mused as he remembered his own \'special\' physique. His God\'s Slave physique.
Couldn\'t that be called a curse too?
"Many people don\'t believe in curses. You seem to be different, though," Lorelei said to him. powered-by-MvLeMpYr
She had witnessed Nolan\'s expression, and she could say it was different compared to 99% of reactions. Most believed she was just defective and had lost her voice. But she and her father knew well it was beyond that.
"I know a thing or two about them," he replied with a shrug, not willing to reveal too much.
"I have a question, though..." Nolan suddenly said, and Lorelei raised her head.
"That song that you played. It was telling a story. A story about a girl locked in a cage..." Nolan said, remembering the words he heard put into the song, and Lorelei simply stared at him with her innocent eyes.
But in her mind, she was reeling in shock and a single question lingered.
\'How could he also know of the message hidden in the song....\'
"It mentioned the girl being all alone and in fear, and her emotions were described so vividly until the song suddenly came to an abrupt stop..." Nolan said as Lorelei\'s eyes narrowed.
"That\'s the end of it," she said to him.