Office Romance with a Werewolf - Chapter 107

“Why haven’t you spoken since we came back?” Randell asked Ranz.

“I am just worried.” Ranz responded glumly.

“Worried about what?”

Ranz just looked down and didn’t respond.

Randell didn’t know how to deal with this side of his brother because usually Ranz has the most positive and outgoing energy between them.

“We just separated our bodies, but you can still tell me what’s worrying you, Ranz.”

Knock, knock, knock,

Their conversation was cut off because of a loud knock.

“I’ll open it.” Randell stood up and left the kitchen.

Knock, knock, knock,

“Who is there?” he asked before opening the door.

“It’s me, Daniel.”

“Oh sir, why are you here?” Randell immediately opened the door.

“Hmm? Where’s Nida?” He asked and entered the apartment, pushing Randell to the side.

“Ah, she’s taking a shower.”

“Shower?”

He walked straight to the bathroom and knocked on Nida’s bathroom door.

“Hey! Come out there now.” He shouted and knocked on the door impatiently.

“What?” Nida calmly comes out of the bathroom. She’s done bathing and is now wearing a hoodie and sweatpants.

“What? ‘What’ is all you got to say? I have been coming here for the whole week. Where have you been?” He grabbed her collar and looked down at her angrily.

“Week? We are gone the whole week? ”

“Don’t play dumb. I have to take care of all the mess you left! ”

“My mess?” Nida smirked, and that made Daniel step back.

“You’re strange,” he noticed. He then pulled out a black plastic bag from his spatial space spell and gave it to Nida.

“You really love to store my things in a garbage bag.” She commented after she checked what was inside the plastic bag. It was all her things, including her underwear, that she left at the hotel.

“Here’s your things too.” Daniel also handed another plastic bag to Randell.

“We broke the window. Did you pay for it?”

“Yes, including the room.”

She frowned, thinking of her expenses, and threw the towel wrapped around her hair and peered inside the kitchen.

“Ranz, aren’t you done eating yet?” She called for Ranz because he was not coming out of the kitchen, even though he obviously could hear the arrival of Daniel.

“Ranz? he is here though?” Daniel said while pointing toward Randell.

“No, that’s Randell.” Nida pulled Ranz’s arm because he was walking slowly. “Here, this is Ranz. He is your buddy, right? ”

“Buddy? Don’t tell me you told her? ” Daniel narrowed his gaze towards Ranz. He doubted that the person in front of him was Ranz because of the way Ranz avoided his gaze and kept his mouth shut.

“Did you go mute?” Nida commented. She then sat on her couch and pulled out a pack of chips that she had hidden in her drawer.

“Ah right, this Daniel in front of me has a messed up memory too. Only my dust, Ranz, and I know the realest memory. ” She thought internally while she started snacking on her chips.

“Anyway, I didn’t know that we were gone for a week. We only stayed a day at the world tree. ”

“Why did you go there?” Daniel is confused by the sudden, strange situation.

In Daniels’ version of what happened, on the night before Nida disappeared, he was sick because he forced himself to use a teleportation spell, and while he was sick, Tikbalang attacked the wolves. He sent Nida to Randell to help protect the pack. He heard the two revived the one who died in the battle, and after that night, Randell and Nida disappeared.

While looking for them, he ends up paying for the hotel room that they destroyed and retrieving their things like smart phones and underwear.

The Tikbalangs that became Nida’s slaves were also following him after smelling the scent of Nida on him because he was carrying around Randell and Nida’s underwear until he got home.

The Tikbalang had been looking for Nida to serve her, but their new master disappeared into thin air.

And now, hearing that the two went to the world tree may mean something major and troublesome happened to them.

“Ah, we just requested for Ranz to have his own body.”

“What? Why? ”

“What do you mean, why?”

“I thought you didn’t like to deal with the wolves. Why add another wolf to take care of?” He honestly spoke, even though the two wolves were beside them.

“Wolf?” Nida repeated what Daniel had called the two.

“Does he think these two are still werewolves?” She asked herself and her dust answered her internal monologue. “Ah? They are still werewolves but restricted from using their werewolf abilities because one may die. ”

Her dust reminded her of the real situation between the two. “Ah, right, the world tree told me this. I have so much to think about that I sometimes forget some important details. ”

Nida laughed at her own silliness, and the three looked at her, confused as to why she was laughing so suddenly. because they were not aware of her internal monologue.

“Is it fun? You made me do a lot of work this week. ” Daniel irritably exclaimed while crossing his arms and leaning forward to Nida.

“Work? I’ll pay you for the hotel. ”

“I don’t care about money. What will you do then with all the Tikbalang? ”

“Tikbalang?” She was reminded again of one of the things she had set aside and forgotten. “Ah, right. I pulled their golden hair. Where are they though? ”

“I trapped them in my spatial spell because they wouldn’t stop following me!”

Nida jokingly stated, “Why won’t you adapt them instead?” which Daniel just responds to with a deathly glare.

“Transfer them to my spatial spell.”

“You know how?” Daniel was surprised by Nida’s sudden showing off of her priestess power.

“I learned from World Tree.”

“How come she’s so generous towards you?” He was suspicious of the world tree’s apparent overabundance of favoritism toward Nida.

“World Tree despises neat freaks.” Nida sarcastically remarked. She then reluctantly formed her dust into a circle with a portal in the center.

“Throw them here.”

Daniel was too tired to interrogate her more, so he just opened his own spatial space and transferred the Tikbalang to Nida’s dust.

Neigh

They could hear the Tikbalang, but the horse like creatures couldn’t even greet their master as they were pulled inside the portal immediately.

“How about the pack?” Randell asked out of concern.

“They are fine. I am back to health now and you don’t have to worry about them.”

“That’s a relief.”

“Well then, Tikbalang and werewolves have been taken care of. I’ll send you the money later. Then what else do you need?”

Daniel stared at Nida for a moment before he could speak again.

“You were marked as AWOL, so don’t expect a job to return to.”

“Oh, that’s expected.”

“You won’t be shouting about losing your job?” He was surprised that Nida didn’t throw a fit.

Nida was acting cold, which made him feel guilty, as if he had done something wrong to Nida, but he had no idea what it was.

“Nah. I was planning to leave anyway.”

Nida stood up and held out her hand.

“Give me your hand.”

“Why would I?” Daniel hates the idea of holding her hand because her fingers are still greasy from the chips she’s eating.

“I ate a twig. I’ll lend you some of its powers. Take it as a reward for all the hard work.” She was well aware of Daniel’s obsession with cleanliness, but she purposefully made her fingers greasy in order to tease him.

“No thanks, I am not sick anymore.” he said while exiting Nida’s apartment.

“Where are you going? Stay here longer.” She grabbed Daniel’s arm and channeled the power she gathered from the world tree.

“Hey! I said I don’t need it!” Daniel shouted, surprised by Nida’s greasy fingers. “Oh my god!”

“HAHA! All done!” Nida smiled brightly and got away from Daniel.

“I’m done here!” Daniel runs out of her apartment, leaving the three alone again.

“What are you going to do, Nida?” Randell asked worriedly.

“With what?”

“Because of us, you lost your job.”

“Don’t worry, I am not the only one who is jobless.”

“Huh?” Randell tilted his head and then followed where Nida’s eyes were staring.

“Ah, right. Ranz doesn’t look like me anymore!” Randell exclaimed, as he realized the new life they needed to face.

“Ranz is basically a new person who does not have any background. He is basically like a mushroom who suddenly popped out of nowehere.” Nida stated while also thinking about what she should offer to help him have a normal life.

She’s thinking that if these two wolves lived a normal and peaceful life, her life would be peaceful as well.

“I’m sorry, Ranz, but I have to take the life you’ve worked so hard for.” Randell said as his shoulders slumped down.

“I did it for you. Don’t apologize.” Ranz gently tapped Randell’s forehead.

“Hmm?” When he felt someone tugging on his hood, he looked at his back.

“Ranz, let’s go job hunting?”