Chapter 68: Old agreement
"You saw it too!" Saeki turned to Tristan with pleading eyes, nose bleeding and expression full of betrayal. "I gave it to Yeri! How else would that Venice girl get it?"
WHACK.
Another kick from Shin, this one less dramatic but just as effective.
"Yeri doesn’t have a female cousin around her age," Shin growled. "That girl is Venice Ryung. She’s not a Zhi, and as far as I know, she and Yeri don’t get along."
"Exactly—eh?!" Saeki blinked rapidly, suddenly shooting up as if he hadn’t just been stomped like a cockroach.
His hair was a mess, face bruised, and tissue shoved up both nostrils as he scrambled for dignity. "Impossible! She told me she was Venice Zhi! How else could she be at the debut party?"
Tristan raised an eyebrow. "So if someone came up to you and said they were Shin Keir, you’d believe them too?"
Saeki: "..."
Shin sneered. "Although she’s not a Zhi, the Zhi couple have been kind to her and her mother. They let them stay at the main house sometimes. With Yeri usually at school dorms, it wouldn’t be hard for Venice to steal that business card and spin a lie."
He leaned forward, voice low. "Did you really think I didn’t investigate Yeri Zhi when we first met?"
Saeki opened his mouth, closed it, and then slumped back to the floor with a long, defeated groan.