Chapter 287.

Chapter 287.

Chapter 287. An Insidious Trap. (4/8)

“Maybe there are animals watching us...” Likely feeling awkward, Jass had stopped singing, but the song continued anyway.

Hell no, I have to escape before this dreadful fate falls upon me too. For the time being, there were no openings in Rosa’s defenses though. With no other choice, I had to remain a good boy to not raise her guard. I had to let her believe I’d thrown away any thoughts of fleeing from my impending doom.

“... and thinking that someday ‘we will beat them down!’”

“DOOOOOOOOWWWWWWNNNNNNN!” I jolted back to reality as a deathly scruffy low voice reverberated throughout the room.

When I looked back up from the ground, my eyes widened a bit when I saw the origin of that death metal scream. Izora had both hands wrapped tightly around the microphone as she loudly screamed into it with everything she had. Her face parallel to the ground, she was bent forward with her hair flipped forward hanging down in front of her.

Everyone in the room was frozen and stared at her in disbelief. That satanic scream really came out of her? What the actual fuck? How?

Jass, similar to everyone else, was also wide-eyed. However, I noticed something strange. When Izora stood back up straight, her hair flung back over her head to its original position behind her back.

She had a wide smile as she looked at Jass. On the surface, it looked like she’d gone and sang like that to encourage him to not let what other people thought of his singing get to him.

‘Just sing however you want to. Who cares if people laugh? We have the freedom to sing any way we want even if people think it sounds awful.’

I don’t believe that was what she intended with her actions, but that was definitely how it looked from a guy's perspective. Especially when that guy had tunnel vision and liked that girl.

The look in Jass’s eyes... if my interpretation wasn’t incorrect, he’d unconsciously become a bit more smitten with Izora. It was now a little more than simple physical attraction. He’d found an attribute, one not simply physical that he was attracted to.

Guys were truly such simple creatures. All it took was a meaningless smile or a simple gesture from a girl to become infatuated.

“Oh, we have the brains to think hard...” Jass didn’t miss the next lyric, he confidently sang it out loud forgetting about whether he was in tune or not.

“... they were born-”

“They were born!” When Jass reached that lyric, Izora repeated the line in a deathly scowl for her part.

“-with the fate-”

“With the fate!”

“-of dying for someone.”

“For someone, a human baby!”

“A human baby, when will they find out?”

“When they find out the true fact YEEEAAAAAAAHHHH!”

“That at the point they were born, we are-”

“Pffthahahaha! He really called it Godzilla’s death throes. What the hell? I can’t breathe!” Rosa, holding her stomach, hunched forward on the couch with her right eye shut and the other just barely open.

“It’s not that funny, Rosa. Laughing isn’t right.” Alicia defended but kept her mouth covered as her body trembled.

“Hahaha! It’s fine to laugh, it’s genuinely funny,” Izora didn’t take offense to it, she herself was laughing at the employee’s description of her singing just now.

“I think it was pretty cool though,” Jass spoke up amid the laughter.

“It’s not cool. It’s just weird for a girl to sing like this.” Izora thought he was just trying to be considerate and refuted him.

“Certainly. It’s not cool at all. Girls shouldn’t sing like that, you’ll damage your vocal cords and ruin your voice,” Zale took a different approach to make himself appear as though he cared about her and didn’t want to see her hurt herself.

“What? Not cool? Personally, I agree with Jass. It’s totally cool and badass. I definitely can’t pull it off. It sounds pretty hard to do. What about you, Alicia?” As usual, Rosa took whichever stance opposed Zale’s. Though it was true she had an interest in that sort of music as she sometimes listened to death metal songs.

“It’s different. But it really gets you energized. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.”

“Huh? Uh... but... it’s weird...” Izora looked pretty unaccustomed to the mostly positive reception she’d received.

“Sure, it might be a bit caught off guard when you hear that coming out of a girl’s mouth, but so what? That’s all. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it,” Rosa refuted.

“Uh... right...” Izora sat down on the couch with her right hand balled up in front of her cheek and the bottom of her palm in front of her lip as she scratched below her sideburns.

“You're more embarrassed when people don’t make fun of you for it? Aren’t you too cute?” Rosa scrutinized Izora interestedly with her fingers stretched around her jaw and index finger pointed up over her lips.

“I’m not embarrassed.”

“Sure, sure.”

“I’m really not embarrassed at all.”

“Yeah, I totally believe you~,” Rosa teased with a cheeky grin.

“Ehem. Isn’t it my turn to sing with you now?” Zale cut into their playful little exchange.

“Huh? Oh, right. I forgot.” Izora, absentminded, gave such a flippant response.

Zale’s smile cramped up when Izora said she’d forgotten about him.

“It’s not very nice to forget me, don’t you think?”

“Pick a song.” She ignored his complaints and sidestepped around it.

“Sure...”

Visibly frustrated, Zale selected a song as instructed before he stood up with Izora, and moved closer to the screen at the front. Jass bumped shoulders with Zale in passing and shot a cocky grin his way. Jass was obviously more than happy to see Zale ruthlessly shot down by Izora.

Zale received the microphone from Jass with a glare and furiously tightened his grip around it. No matter what he did, none of it had any effect on Izora, nothing phased her or put a dent in her impenetrable armor. Her acting was nearly flawless. If I didn’t know she had the hots for him, even I’d be convinced she had no interest at all.