“Why? What is it?”
Sniff Sniff…
“Um? It is strange?”
Now, Sera tilted her head to the other side and brought her face up close to Riley. She started to smell him.
“Young Master, you are definitely here?”
She looked puzzled. Sera explained why she was thinking like this.
“There are two.”
“Two?”
“Your smell… There are two sources?”
Sera looked confused. Riley realized this was because of the doll that Nainiae had made. He flinched inside.
‘Should I just tell her what really happened?’
It was not going to be possible to hide it forever… Riley wondered if it would be better to just tell her what happened now instead of being found out later and getting scolded. Leaving him behind, Sera started to walk first.
“Do I also have an allergy?”
Sera wondered about that since spring had just come. She tilted her head to the side once again.
“Have you found Nainiae?”
“Ah, yes.”
Riley thought it would be better to talk to Nainiae first instead of telling Sera what really happened. Riley asked where Nainiae was and Sera looked back at Riley.
“Please follow me. She is in the same place. It is probably…”
It seemed Sera was doubting her sense of smell because she could smell two different sources of Riley’s smell. Sera blurred the end of the sentence as if she was not confident.
‘They are in the same place that means…’
Having watched Sera’s response, he concluded that the doll and Nainiae were in the same place.
“Sera, isn’t this the way towards the library?”
“Ah, it is.”
With her eyes closed, she was focusing on her sense of smell as she walked. Sera didn’t realize which direction she was walking towards. After hearing Riley, she nodded in agreement.
“In the end, your guess was correct. It looks like you just missed her, but… why do I sense another source of Young Master’s smell?”
Sera had a puzzled look as if she was trying to figure out a maze. As if she was thinking that she just needed to check, Sera was trying to enter the library first. Riley panicked inside and flinched his face.
“Aaaaaachhhhh!!!”
“… Kiiiaaak?!”
Sera nervously had her hand on the library door’s handle. Having heard the sound of his coughing, Sera screamed from being surprised.
“Y… Young Master? You scared me!”
“How am I supposed to control sneezing?”
Riley coughed loudly so he could let Nainiae inside the library know that he had come back. Riley moved past Sera.
“Let’s go in.”
“Ugh, I thought my liver was going to drop!”
“Ugh, I’m telling you that it was not intentional.”
[TL: ‘I thought my liver was going to drop’ is something that people say to express how frightened they were in Korea.]
Riley opened the library door while apologizing to Sera. He found Nainiae hurriedly putting away the doll’s legs. He glanced at Sera who was right behind him.
“Nainiae!!”
Nainiae’s shoulders flinched.
“Just where did you go while leaving the Young Master behind!”
Standing next to Riley, Sera was scolding Nainiae in a loud voice. Riley sighed in relief inside.
‘Ugh.’
Fortunately, Sera walked into the library a step later than Riley. It seemed that she hadn’t seen Nainiae putting away the doll.
“T… That is…”
Nainiae looked at Riley and then at Sera to check their moods. Like a person who had just got asked a very difficult question, Nainiae started to open and close her mouth like a fish.
“I went to the restroom for a moment while Young Master was sleeping on the sofa. In that brief period of time…”
Veins popped out of Sera’s forehead.
“So?”
“I… lost track of Young Master.”
Riley was sure Nainiae must have been feeling wronged about this. Still, Nainiae looked ashamed and lowered her head.