Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World (Final Revision)

Something isn't right (5)

Cale momentarily paused before turning back to the door.

Then, he finally opened it.

In front of his eyes, there was a familiar couch, some shelves filled with books covering nearly all subjects and genres imaginable that she had bought with her pocket money, a desk, a bed, a cookie jar...

Her room was exactly the same as before he left.

Cale sighed in relief.

He didn't know if it was really a good sign, but Xin Jian wasn't in her room. There wasn't any dead corpse there either.

He stepped forward and approached a drawer.

Anyway, he couldn't only rely on his ancient powers in case it made him cough
blood. He needed a weapon, at least to hide his abilities if he wanted a slacker life.

Cale squatted down and opened the drawer.

"..."

At least, there was one good point about the man suddenly disappearing. If he had been there now, he would have thought that Cale was a pervert.

The teenager stoically looked at Xin Jian's underwear and removed it from the drawer.

Xin Jian was flabbergasted.

"Wow, he really dared."

The Oldest Dream turned his gaze away.

"Hmm, wasn't he in your room now?"

"Of course, he is."

Cale then took off the fake bottom and revealed the hidden compartment of the drawer before beginning to rummage through it.

His hand paused on a revolver.

"...?"

He had indeed been searching for a weapon, but he was still surprised to really find a gun there.

The teenager briefly searched through his memories and remembered that Xin Jian had followed him once to catch criminals and could have had the opportunity to take the weapon at that time.

In short, he realized that the presence of this revolver here was his fault.

"..."

There was a note stuck on it. It was written:

'Pervert.'

Being insulted, Cale turned it over to see if she had written something else.

'Cale, if you find this weapon but don't know how to shoot, you should know that it is still very useful to scare people away. By the way, you don't need to search, I didn't leave other notes for you behind.'

She had already guessed that nobody else but Cale would rummage through her belongings.

The crimson-haired man shook his head with a smile and took the revolver before putting everything back into place.

She should have read this in a book as well.

However, this time, Cale was wrong. This advice didn't come from a book but from real life experience of watching Klein threaten people when the latter didn't know how to shoot yet.

Cale checked his own room as well and investigated every corner of the orphanage until he was finally convinced that Xin Jian's dead body wasn't there.

'She should have moved underground.'

Cale was finally able to breathe.

Except if she had left the building while he wasn't there, Cale was now practically certain that Xin Jian was alive.