chapter 5

Jaylyn and Zekiel went to a restaurant. After the chaos, Jaylyn invited the young man to eat outside. She was worried that Richard might go to her house. Maybe not, but it's hard to rely on mere assumptions. Another thing is that she also thanked Zekiel for coming.

After seeing that the young man was barefoot, Jaylyn borrowed what he could wear from the guards. Fortunately, one of the guards' shoes fit Zekiel. She had a lot of questions for this but she waited for them to sit down completely before she asked.

"Zekiel," she said to the young man as he stared at the food as if he was still asking if he would eat it or not. And the way he looked at the steak seemed like it was the most unbelievable thing he had seen in his whole life.

He looked at her.

"Why?"

That's just what it always says.

"Can I just call you 'ZEK'?

Zekiel's too long. If that's okay with you."

"ZEK?" It seemed to think.

"If you think it's better to call me that, that's up to you."

Jaylyn smiled. She was thrilled