- Final -

They managed to escape the room.

Endorsi's driving, although she claimed it to be safe and nice, it was actually quite rough. Just a moment before, Charlotte felt that she was going to die.

She sat down and looked at the sky. If t his was the outside of the tower, then she would say something like "the sun is nice today" or sort of those. But in the tower, there were no sun, moon or everything that she knew. 

But still, she made it. She was alive. She was saved along with the others and the very last minute.

She decided to lie on the ground and take some rest, using her arm to cover her eyes, "My head hurts....my body also hurts...there I thought I am going to die together with that charcoal....."

"Really?" Khun asked to her. "Just few moments ago, you are sympathizing him."

"Don't talk to me....my head hurts" Charlotte said.

The others also made it out alive along with the hostages.

They planned to leave with the Floating Ship as soon as possible before the rankers from enemy's side found them out. And of course, they encountered with one of them and Quant immediately jumped from the Floating Ship to shield the regulars. But the strange thing was that the ranker immediately surrendered and left them alone.

While the others looked confused, Charlotte was about to tell what happened behind the scenes....although she didn't know much. Bam helped Charlotte who had some headache to walk and then, all of them left the Workshop by riding the Floating Ship.

With this, the Sweet and Sour Team became the winner of the tournament. In one day, lots of things had happened.

To celebrate all the good news, they decided to hold a party with liquors and everything. At night, it was quite noisy and crowded with all the regulars there.

When Celeste noticed that Altaira was walking to somewhere else, she stood up and decided to follow him, to see what he was going to do. Altaira gestured her to be careful and quiet as he slowly opened the door of a room where he found four people sleeping there.

Charlotte ended up sleeping in the same room with the three others. After everything that happened in one day, she was very, very tired that her mind didn't function properly and simply choose a room to sleep. Judging how tired she was, even if Altaira played drum next to her ear, she won't wake up.

Celeste left for a while and when she returned, she brought a blanket for Charlotte. Altaira smiled as the two of them carefully entered the room and covered her with the blanket. Where was the other blanket? Where the other blanket was used by the trio who were also sleeping quietly.

After that, the two of them left to join the others.

Noah sighed and tilted his head a bit when he saw Charlotte. He couldn't help but to smile and sat down next to her before patting her head, "Have a good rest, moron."

The next morning, Charlotte who closed her eyes felt that there was something bright. She frowned and shook her head a bit before carefully opened one of her eyes before she opened both. The morning has come, she thought.

She sat down and looked around. She did have spend a good night sleeping. She looked at her right and left before she realized that she was sleeping in the same room with the trio. Her brother was still sleeping, the crocodile was still sleeping and Khun was still sleeping. Khun covered himself with the blanket while Rak was resting on her brother.

She smiled when she saw that and stood up while holding her blanket. She used that blanket to cover the two of them.

Bam seemed to feel something as he turned around for a bit. Since he moved, Rak's head also fell. But since he was tired, Rak didn't wake up yet.

Charlotte made an eye closed smile, suppressing her chuckle. After she covered them with the blanket, she stood up and walked away.

She cleaned herself and then walked outside the room and then took a deep breath. After sleeping for the whole night, she felt more refreshed.

Altaira approached her with a glass of water. Of course she took the glass and drank all the water until the glass was empty.

"Seeing you suddenly bringing me a glass of water in the early morning with that smile..." she propped her cheek with her right hand. ".......Could there be something good will happen today?"

"I'm having a date with Celeste" he answered.

"For real?" Her smile grew wider when she heard that.

"Don't get too excited."

"Rather than getting too excited, I'm just happy to know that you finally get a girlfriend" Charlotte said. "How did you bewitch her until she is willing to be your girlfriend, eh?"

Hearing the word 'bewitch' made Altaira suddenly felt irritated. He didn't need to win a girl's heart by using something like bewitching.

"Don't start a fight when you have just wake up" he advised. "Don't you know that fighting in early morning will bring you bad luck for the rest of the day?"

Charlotte stretched her hands, "Really? Well, my luck isn't that good. Whether today I will get bad luck or not, I guess it has nothing to do with fighting in the morning or not."

Altaira was sure that Charlotte didn't remember that she was the one who used to say the words that he had just said. His sister was someone who could easily forget a minor detail.

"Do you know where we are now?" Altaira asked again and Charlotte shook her head, "Where are we?"

They were in the Wolhaiksong resort.

"Oh...."

"What? Aren't you supposed to be excited?" Altaira asked.

Charlotte turned around and said to Altaira, "Of course I am. After all, this is my first time coming here right?"

Altaira just chuckled. The two of them then left to get some breakfast.

"Both of my brothers are going to a date today" Charlotte said. "As their sister, I don't know whether I should be happy with that or sad that I would be left alone."

"Whatever you are planning, I suggest you to drop the idea of stalking us" Altaira said. "We won't give you a chance to get some blackmail materials."

Charlotte just smiled. If Altaira didn't remind her, then maybe she would have forgotten. She wanted to see how her brother would spend the rest of his day and how he would enjoy his date with Celeste. Of course, if a certain white ghost knows about it, then she could say good bye to her peaceful life. 

Well, Charlotte assumed that he must have known about it already and might did something to ruin their date. If Noah really planned to destroy their date, then it gave her a good reason to come. 

"I forget to ask about your wounds" Altaira said to Charlotte. "How are your wounds now?"

This morning, when Charlotte was awake and when she was taking a bath, she learnt that all her wounds had disappeared without leaving a single trace. This was kind of surprising.

Altaira assumed that it was probably because she was an irregular. Irregulars always had extraordinary power and he told her to not think too much about it as it was a good thing. 

Altaira told her that the rankers that came weren't only Lero- Ro and Quant, but there was also someone called Khun Hatzling.

"Khun Hatzling?" Charlotte felt that she had heard his name somewhere before.

"He is the one who intruded the Test Floor final exam" Altaira helped her.

"Your older brother?"

"I'm not close to him" Altaira said. "He isn't my older brother."

"But the two of you came from the same family right?"

"If you put it that way, then how many siblings I have?" Altaira asked. He flicked her forehead and said, "I just need one naive younger sister."

"Who are you calling naive?" Charlotte asked and hit his hand lightly. "Don't flick my forehead."

"Then why whenever Khun or Bam flick your forehead, you never tell them to stop?"

Charlotte gestured Altaira to lean closer so that she could whisper the answer, "If you are one of the protagonists in the Manhwa, then I will let you flick me as many times as you want."

Altaira hit her shoulder lightly. He knew that the two of them weren't the protagonists, but more like some intruders and variables. But that didn't mean they as variables couldn't be the protagonists right?

"You don't even help us when we were fighting Reflejo."

"There would be plenty of chances in the future" Altaira responded.

The two of them continued to talk and walk until Altaira suddenly paused. This made Charlotte wonder what happened to her brother when he didn't walk or talk in all sudden. But a moment later, he claimed that he had a good idea.

"What good idea?" Charlotte asked as she had no idea for whatever her brother was talking about.

Seeing how Altaira suddenly smiled playfully and mischievously, Charlotte had a bad feeling. It was because that whenever her brother made that kind of smile, nothing good would happen and the one who suffered most of his tricks was her. When she was young and foolish, she was often teased and bullied by her brother because of her lack of knowledge.

"Just wait for it" he said to Charlotte. "I'm preparing someone a date."

He said those words and then walked away first.

"Preparing someone a date?"

This made Charlotte wonder about what he meant by that. Preparing someone's date? No matter how she thought about it, she can't figure what her brother wanted by preparing someone a date. Was he someone nice enough to trouble himself in others' romance life and marriage? No, he wasn't.

She can't figure out what her brother meant from those words or who will the poor victim be. Because of this, she felt restless and uneasy.

At two p.m., both of her brothers were prepared to go on their dates, leaving Charlotte alone. Charlotte wanted to seek some friends to play with but she didn't know who to look.

Rak, Yeon and Prince were going to spy on Bam's date with Endorsi Zahard. A date with Zahard Princess as soon as he returned to his old friends, the others could only envy him for being lucky and fortunate. A date with Zahard Princess wasn't something that would happen to every single person and the others could only dream to have one.

While on the other hand, Altaira was going to have a date with Celeste. The trio-Estrella, Estelle and Raisin- graciously deny the idea of stalking the two of them as they had enough of the dog food and decided to do something else.

Charlotte wasn't really close with the trio so whatever they were doing won't have anything to do with her. Instead, she was looking for Noah. Noah could be say as her friend and Charlotte hasn't thanked him properly yet. But since he was still a mere ghost, it was hard for them to do things together. Aside from talking and chatting, what else they could do?

Altaira noticed that his only sister was bored and therefore, he gave her a simple task to do. If Charlotte did this for him, then he promised that he would buy her whatever foods she wanted.

"It's not the first time you told me to do something bad by bribing me with foods" she said while holding the paper that Altaira folded and then handed to her. "What do you want me to do with this paper? Read it? Tear it?"

"If I am going to have you tear it, then I could do it on my own" Altaira said. "Just give it to Khun."

"Khun?" Charlotte raised one of her eyebrows.

If Altaira wanted to send Khun a message, then he could just use the pocket right? Why did he have to make it complicated? Charlotte assumed that Altaira must have come up with a bad idea to do and decided to unfold the paper to read it. But before she could read even a single word, Altaira had pinched her cheeks and told her that if she dared to take a peek on it, then Altaira wouldn't let her off. In order to save herself, Charlotte immediately promised that she won't sneak a glance towards the paper and then handed the paper safely to Khun.

But after she handed the paper to Khun, after he told her what her brother wrote inside the paper, she regretted to not break her promise and to beat up her brother before he left on his date.