Chapter 139 - Chapter 138

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((( CLAIRE )))

Elaborate paintings were hung along the hallway walls. They looked like pieces from well-known artists and for sure, expensive. It felt good walking through the gallery, along the vases of fresh flowers.  

"Miss Claire…"

It was Ley.

I nodded at her presence.

"I can now go out that room. Please walk with me."

"Sure…if Master Zhio permits. We'll get scolded."

"He's always scolding me."

"Because he cares for you."

I didn't reply to that. I'm not really sure about his feelings.

"Do you know…about the Zel Cantheliz Massacre?"

I answered instead.

She nodded.

"What's the story behind it?" I'm really curious about it.

"That's not a story."

It was suddenly a male voice that responded. Ley?

Somebody pulled me away.

"Zhio!"

"I didn't tell you to go out."

"You did."

"I didn't," he batted an angry eyelid at me.

"But very well, you can go out in one condition."

He opened the door to the room I'm very sick of.

"If I lose to you every day," he continued.

"Lose?" I'm intrigued about his proposal.

"How about," he teasingly smiled, "chess."

I looked at him blankly. Did he really think I knew how to play that?

I shook my head.

"I don't even know how to play it!"

"That's why you have a tutor!" his voice raised at the word 'tutor',

"Learn from her. Stay in your room while I work. Do you understand me?"

I curved my mouth sourly.

"It's a deal."

He rummaged through his closet for his work clothes.

"What if I lose?"

He winked playfully.

"You'll let me flirt you."

Gross.

My face turned tomato red.

"Hey!"

"Good luck," his smile was big, "in learning chess."

That's one heck of a deal.

It sounds unfair to me.

(CLAIRE)

I had to know the basics of chess so I immediately accepted Ley's tutorial.

"…The bishop moves like this. Vertical," she moved the pieces just as she told me their moves.

"While the rook…could either move vertical or horizontal by how far you want."

"How about the horse?" well it looked like a horse so it has to be, right?

"It moves on the two unlinked tips of an L pattern."

"The queen?"

"The queen can do all moves except that of the horse."

Just like him. He can control everything… except me.

I'll show him that thing!

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