Operation Red Book

"Using my magic power was too tiring, and I accidentally revealed myself, right behind you..."

Dorian choked, sighed helplessly, and lowered his head in frustration.

"cut!"

Holmes looked downright disdainful.

"You are so confident. You like to flatter yourself. Why haven't I seen you spit out two gold bars for me?"

"What do you mean? Are you saying she's mad at you?"

Dorian asked in a low voice with a gloomy face, enunciating each word.

"Of course!"

"why."

"because……"

The light and shadow alternated in an instant, and Holmes's spirited eyes suddenly dimmed.

He seemed to be recalling something, and the solemnity on his face was as deep as the night outside the window.

"nothing……"

Holmes swallowed hard, pretending to be calm on the surface, but he was trying hard to calm the turbulent waves in his heart.

He fumbled in his jacket pocket but couldn't find another cigarette.

"Then why is she mad at you?"

Holmes took the initiative to change the subject to Dorian.

"Because I disappointed her..."

"What are you disappointed about?"

"My mother's birthday party... At that time, I failed to protect her..."

With just one simple sentence, Holmes completely understood the guilt and loss that Dorian had in his heart.

Ivy suffered so much pain and humiliation at Mrs. Emerson's birthday party that she even let her guard down and fell easily into the vampire's tricks.

Come to think of it, it has been almost two or three months since this happened.

During this period, after Ivy woke up from the consciousness space, she deliberately went to cause trouble for Mrs. Emerson.

Of course, when Holmes heard that Ivy and Joshua had sneaked off to the party at McMillan Manor, his first reaction was to give both kids a slap on the face rather heartily.

He knew clearly that the place was a dangerous place, but he still ran to such a dangerous place without saying a word.

These two kids...are even more impulsive than the devil...

Fortunately, nothing particularly troublesome happened, otherwise Holmes would have to take them back to the countryside to feed pigs and temper his character.

"Tsk... How long has it been? Ivy wouldn't be so stingy..."

Holmes wrinkled his nose, glanced at the dejected Dorian, and rolled his eyes disapprovingly.

"If she could hold a grudge for so long, Joshua would have been thrown off the building by her hundreds of times..."

"In the final analysis, you just don't have enough experience. Look at Joshua. He seems cheerful and silly all day long, but he has caused countless troubles behind the scenes."

"If you ask me, you must have offended her in some other way."

"The rest... I, I don't know!"

Dorian raised his head with a bitter face, his eyes moving left and right cleverly, as if he wanted to sort out all the memories in his mind.

"After she woke up, I only dared to sneak into her room in the middle of the night to check on her."

"Usually...usually during the day I try my best to hide myself so that she won't find out..."

"See! That's the problem!"

Holmes suddenly clapped his hands and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"You're avoiding her, aren't you?"

"Yes……"

"You didn't apologize to her, did you?"

"I am always deeply sorry..."

"Tsk! You didn't apologize to her in person, so you said sorry to her with your mouth, right?"

"There was once before, in her room, when I was lying on the soft bed with her..."

"What did you say?"

Holmes' eyes lit up with a dangerous red light. I guarantee that this is more terrifying than an angry demon or a brutal vampire...

"But this time it seems... there really isn't..."

"Look, look, look! I was right, wasn't I?"

"Not being sincere means that you haven't apologized, and you haven't realized your mistake at all, and you haven't taken her seriously at all!"

"That makes sense..."

Holmes slapped his palm in sudden realization.

"She must be thinking... that you hate him, so she said 'I hate you' to you..."

Dorian blinked in confusion, uttered two "oh" sounds through his nose, and muttered to himself incomprehensibly:

"So...is that really what happened?"

Like a child who has just fallen in love, his cheeks blushed, his lips trembled slightly, and his eyes blinked with light and shadow, revealing an indescribable complex emotion.

"So...I should..."

Holmes stood at attention immediately, coughed twice, and immediately got into the state.

"Dress up nicely, put on some hairspray, spray some perfume, wear a formal dress, hold a big bouquet of flowers, or bring her a girl's favorite gift..."

"Find a time and space where you two are alone, look into her eyes, and be sincere and sincere..."

"Tell her: I'm sorry, I was wrong, please forgive me, can we go back to the close relationship we had before?"

A tender voice, affectionate eyes...

At this moment, Holmes looked like a playboy who had experienced many love battles.

Dorian felt sick to his stomach as he watched, and shuddered at the thought of saying something like that himself.

"But Joshua told me last time..."

Dorian tried to fight for it again and brought up Joshua, but was interrupted by Holmes.

"Joshua! You're comparing Joshua to me!"

"He is just a brat, not even 20 years old, what does he know?"

"Look at him, he's stupid and dull-witted..."

"Forget about apologizing to girls. I guarantee he never spoke to any girl more than three sentences... I mean the total number."

"You are a young man, and you are a mature gentleman who has experienced many battles. Think carefully about who you should listen to!"

"Listen...listen to you?"

"That's right!"

"So, I can appear in front of her right now, that's great!"

"Nonononono..."

Before he could feel happy, Holmes lazily raised his eyelids and uttered a few unpleasant syllables like he was training a dog.

"Until you repair SCO's barrier, you are not allowed to appear in anyone's sight. Not even a single green hair is allowed to appear!"

Holmes took a big step forward with his arms folded, his eyes fixed on Dorian's slightly panicked olive eyes.

"No matter how close your relationship with Ivy and Joshua is, you are not allowed to reveal the fact that you are in SCO."

"Forget about the mistake just now. I will have a good talk with Ivy about the two of you..."

"You stay here and recover from your injuries, and hurry up to repair the barrier!"

"I promised everyone that I would fix it within seven days. Now it's the third day, but you haven't made any progress..."

"Don't let me down, my dear Lord Dorian~"