Office Romance with a Werewolf - Chapter 111

Dolls can be so lifelike that they can help you deal with your emotions. When you’re feeling lonely or bereaved, the presence of your doll collection can bring you joy. A doll can sometimes assist you in uncovering and releasing emotions that need to be expressed. If you’ve ever talked to a pet, you’ll understand the value of keeping a doll nearby when you’re feeling down.

In Nida’s case, these three dolls are her only friends who accompany her on her darkest days. She talks to them when no one believes her about witnessing a werewolf. The dolls know every secret and story she has. The dolls were her family because her real family abandoned her a long time ago.

She can’t believe that one of her dolls was crushed and too impossible to repair.

Sob, sob, sob

She couldn’t help but cry, and her chest hurt from the extreme anger.

It was as if someone had killed her closest friend.

“Is there any valid reason why you have to ruin my dolls? Fine! Tell me!” She angrily shouted after looking straight at Ranz, who kept avoiding her gaze.

Her silver dust swept up the living room and swirled around violently, but it soon settled down once Nida noticed blood on the floor.

“Whose blood was that?” she asked internally, then she returned her gaze toward Ranz.

“Why are your knees like that?” he asked Ranz, who was stiffly standing.

“Am I too hasty in judging that it’s Ranz’s fault?” She finally calmed down and could now think straight. She made her dust disappear, and closed the distance between Ranz and her.

“You — Explain yourself. You’ve been quite since a while ago.” She crouched down to look closely at Ranz’s knees.

“Ack!” Ranz groans in pain once Nida touches his bruised knees. But he kept his position, standing straight.

“Tell us what really happened, Ranz.” Randell said worriedly, but he was surprised when Ranz suddenly fell into his butt.

“Nida.” He called her name and didn’t know if he could get angry for pulling Ranz down. That made Ranz fall on his butt.

“Tell your brother to spill what really happened. His skin was also peeled off. I don’t think my house is that dangerous to stay in.” Nida coldly said, but she proceeded to heal Ranz’s feet and knees.

“I’m sorry.” Ranz apologized but still doesn’t know how to explain what happened to himself. He doesn’t want to tell them that he has become so weak that he trips multiple times.

“I..I.”

“What?” Nida becomes impatient because Ranz takes time to speak.

“I was cleaning.”

“Cleaning?” Nida looked into her opened bedroom door and saw that her room was cleaned. “Are you cleaning the doll’s place too?”

“Y-yes.” Ranz bit his lip as he felt nervous.

“Then why is my doll over there crashed?”

“I didn’t know you were teleporting things to the living room. It was too late for me to save the doll. I’m sorry.”

“You didn’t know? Didn’t I call you, Ranz.”

“Yeah, you also said okay.”

“I.. I just said okay, but I didn’t get what the phone call was about. Hic, hic. I’m sorry.”

Randell and Nida were stunned to see Ranz crying like a child.

Ranz was a willful and unyielding person. They never thought that Ranz could breakdown like this too.

In reality, Ranz was crying because he felt very pathetic.

He feels pathetic that he can’t even admit his mistake.

He felt pathetic that he was scared Nida would kick them out.

He felt pathetic that he was scared that something might happen to them while they didn’t have any more supernatural strength.

He feels pathetic because he is crying because he feels pathetic.

He had never felt so helpless in his life.

“Did you already eat?”

Ranz flinched once Nida’s voice became gentle again.

Nida’s anger disappeared, and she suddenly felt bad for Ranz, and she thought that it was somewhat their fault.

“I’m sorry.” He apologized again and kept wiping off his tears, but it wasn’t stopping no matter how hard he tried.

“Stop crying.” Nida frowned but moved closer to him and hugged him to her chest. She stroked her hand on his back, which comforted him.

Uuwaaaaaaaaaa

He hugged her back and cried even more.

“Hey, hey, hey, why are you crying more?”

She let out a sigh and just let Ranz hug her and wet her chest with his tears.

She then looked into her hand that was holding the head of her doll and only felt sad about it.

“Hey, Hidalgo.” She called for the tikbalang, who was just watching at the side.

“Yes, my lady!”

“Take this and that other part of the doll.” She gave instructions while she remained in their hugging position.

“Yes maam!” Hidalgo followed Nida’s instructions without question.

“There’s a green tool box under the kitchen sink. Take that as well. ”

Hidalgo hurriedly went to the kitchen to get the tool box.

“I’ll give everyone inside my spatial spell a task.” Hidalgo gulped down his saliva in anticipation of their first group task. “I’ll free you all once you fix that doll.”

He saluted and was about to say something, but he was thrown inside Nida’s spatial spell before he could speak.

“Aren’t you done?” Nida asked and got irritated because Ranz was leaning more on her chest.

“Hey! Huh? How can he fall asleep? ” He asked Randell after she lifted Ranz’s face.

“I’ll take her to bed. Sorry, Nida.”

Randell carried Ranz in his arms and walked into the empty bed room that Nida would lend this room to the two boys to stay.

“No need to apologize again.”

She brushed her bangs up and felt exhausted from what had just happened.

She then looked at the two remaining dolls she had.

“I hope the tikbalang can fix your sister.”

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“You wake up early? Opps!”

Ranz was so startled when Nida suddenly appeared in the kitchen that he let go of the plate he was holding. Luckily, Nida’s dust caught it before it touched the floor.

“Are you this clumsy?” She asked, but Ranz didn’t respond. “I guess not.”

She then walked closer and touched Ranz’s forehead.

“This lobster is well cooked.” She teasingly commented, seeing Ranz blush, that even his neck and ears were all red.

Ranz just moved away and hid his face with his arms.

“Why are you early? It’s still four in the morning?” She asked because she was woken up by the sound from the kitchen.

Living alone made her sensitive to sounds around her house, which made her get up and check only to find Ranz sorting out the groceries they had shopped, and also cooking something at the same time.

“I guess I’ll be talking to myself.” She keeps talking even though Ranz is keeping his silence.

“I’m sorry.”

“Is that the only word you know? Did you turn stupid?”

“N-no. I’m sorry.” Ranz bit his lips once he realized he had said the same words again.

“Haha. You really did turn stupid. ”

Ranz stiffened up once he saw Nida smile at him.

“Relax. You’re going to stay at my home from now on. If you keep up your act like that, you will surely break another thing here. ” She gently said, as if her tone was comforting Ranz.

“Thank you.”

“Don’t tell me any more nonsense. Come here and finish what you’re doing. Later, we will go out. ”

“us?”

“Yes, we will take Randell to work first because we are going to use his car. ”

“W-what are we going to do?”

“To shoot your ID picture.”

“Ah, thank you. ”

“You have really turned taciturn.” Nida said while chuckling, but after that, the two didn’t talk about anything else, just got them busy inside the kitchen.

“Huh? Why didn’t you wake me up? ” Randell asked, still rubbing his eyes as if he had walked out as soon as he woke up.

“Everything was done anyway. Just eat your breakfast.” Nida pointed to the chair, and Randell just sat on it while yawning.

“You cooked?”

“No. It is Ranz’s cooking. ”

“Oh nice! He cooked very well. ”

“How did you know he cooked well?” Nida curiously asked and sat in the dining area with a table filled with food cooked by Ranz.

“Sometimes, after cooking food, he will switch with me so I can taste the food.”

“Oh, that’s strange.”

“Haha! Well, it is normal for us.” Randell happily talked to Nida, then waved his hand to make Ranz sit down because he was just standing there watching them.

“Why aren’t you sitting? Don’t tell me you put poison in this? ” Nida teasingly said, but Ranz responded seriously.

“How can I put poison in there? Randell is also eating.”

“My gosh, he really can’t take a joke? ” Nida asked Randell in a hushed tone, making fun of Ranz more.

“He usually takes jokes; I don’t know why he turned like that. Maybe puberty? ” Randell joined in teasing Ranz, which made his brother feel embarrassed and turn red once again.

“Oh, no! a Lobster!” Randell and Nida jokingly called Ranz a lobster at the same time.

That made the three of them burst into laughter.

“That’s a nice breakfast. I hope they act human forever..” Nida thought to herself while enjoying her first warm breakfast for the first time in a long while.