The Fate Of The World Is In My Hands, But All I Want To Do Is Eat! - Chapter 117

Chapter 117: Do not…

give your life to just anyone Chapter 117: Do not…

give your life to just anyone “Then, would it be considered sufficient compensation if the favor I ask for is your life, right?” Alice asked, staring at him with a certain look of interest in her eyes.

Devon went silent and gulped.

From the way she was looking at him…

If it was his life, then…

But Alice suddenly stifled a laugh.

Then, she laughed.

“Haha, I was just joking.” She said, wiping beneath her eyelid with her index finger to swipe out the hilarious tears that had formed in her eyes.

“Believe me.

I would never use your life for anything, Devon.

So, don’t take it seriously.” She started stepping back with a hearty smile.

But he suddenly caught her hand.

“No,” he said, confusing her.

What was he going to say this time?

She wondered, looking at the seriousness in his face.

Should she just have stuck to using his life as compensation?

But he looked so stunned by her words that she couldn’t use that condition for much longer and had to take it back.

But then he pressed her hand to his chest.

“What you have done, saving the lives of the people who I am responsible for, is something that even my life doesn’t suffice.

So, I will gladly give it to you.

And if there’s anything else you want, do not hesitate to say.

I will do anything for you.” Alice stared at him with shocked eyes.

Was he crazy?

Giving up his life like that to her, she didn’t need it.

She was just following Leo’s advice.

He didn’t have to take it seriously.

After all, she said it was a joke.

She gritted her teeth, feeling uncomfortable about the whole thing.

‘Hey, Leo, did u know this was going to happen?’ she asked, *Oh, whatever do you mean?* Leo clearly sounded like he knew and was playing dumb.

This guy was going to land her in trouble someday.

He knew Devon would act like this…

This seriousness with her hand on his chest, promising his life to her.

It was weird.

So weird, why would he promise his life to a young girl like her?

Was that how deeply he felt indebted?

But she didn’t like people feeling indebted.

The feeling was suffocating and horrible.

She didn’t like it.

“Hey,” Alice called.

“Don’t do that.” She said and he looked at her to see her head bowed.

“Don’t feel indebted to me just for this.

With your life?” She raised her head, suddenly looking angry and he flinched.

“Do you have any idea how precious life is?

How could you give up the rights to your life to someone else just for a stupid show of gratitude?

Pride?

You don’t want to owe me?

Then, fine.

Just take me out to dinner every night for a month.

That should do just right.

Do not…” She stepped closer to him, and the hand he had dropped on his chest, she used it to grab his collar.

“…give your life to just anyone.” Devon stared into her eyes.

The anger and contempt of this idea bleeding out of them.

He didn’t know if she was mad that ‘he’ wanted to give her his life or that she just hated the word ‘indebted’ but he did know one thing.

“Miss Alice,” he called, raising his hand to brush her cheek lightly.

“I’m not giving my life to just anyone.” He said, confusing her, till he said, “I’m giving my life to the one person who I know will be able to take care of it properly.” “Huh?” Alice tilted her head, lost.

“What do you mean?” “I wouldn’t offer my life to anyone for any reason.

The right to live is very beautiful in its own way.” He explained.

“But can you enjoy that right when you can’t even keep your life safe?

I thought I was powerful, but in front of you, I am not a beanstalk wishing to grow as tall and huge as you, which can reach the sky.” He smiled at her softly but Alice still couldn’t understand.

How does any of this answer her question?

“Miss Alice,” he gently grabbed her chin and lifted her gaze to meet his.

“…I don’t know why or when I got so fond of you but you’re truly amazing.” He complimented her and her eyes widened.

What did he say?

“You’re such an amazing person that I can’t compare.

And to you, who is so amazing and capable of accomplishing the impossible, I would have no worries in life if my life was in your hands to control.

You are…” His hand moved from her chin and rested on one side of her face, his thumb grazing the corner of her eye and smiling.

“…someone I admire.” Just like that, Alice felt her heart thump.

It started racing and she felt panicked.

What was this again?

Why was it happening?

She gazed into Devon’s soft gaze on her and pursed her lips.

She needed to focus and not let her annoyingly racing heart disrupt her thinking.

First, Devon had strayed from the question she asked spewing all these weird things that weren’t necessary to hear.

She gulped and closed her eyes.

The way he explained giving up his life to her made it seem like she was his eternal benefactor and he would be more than happy to leave his life in her hands.

But then again, she didn’t want his life.

It was his and…

She shook her head softly.

Knowing someone owned his life…

How was he comfortable with this?

“Miss Alice,” he called and she opened her eyes.

He still had that warm look on his face.

He was dazzling, completely charming and maybe that was why her heart was beating so weirdly.

His charms were just too much for her to handle.

“Call me Alice.” She said all of a sudden.

“Let’s drop formalities, shall we?

And I don’t want to own your life.

I told you,” she slowly loosened her grip on his collar.

“…it was a joke.

I don’t need your life.” “You may say that now, but I won’t hesitate to put my life on the line on your behalf.” He said, and that kind of came off as familiar.

Too familiar, in fact.

Where had she heard it from?

“Please, don’t do that.” She shook her head and dropped his hand from her face, “The last thing I want is to have someone close to me putting their lives on the line because of me.” She said.

“Just imagine the pain the person who gets left behind will feel.” She felt a thud in her heart.

It felt like her heart was familiar with these phrases, this feeling of being left behind.

She pressed her hand to her chest and looked away.

Ah, it must’ve been the emotions of her past life.

She was left behind so many times, ended up being the last man standing and so…

Loneliness must’ve really dealt a big blow to her heart.

Getting left behind…

It must’ve been awful.

Devon watched her and suddenly hugged her.

He saw the sadness in her face and decided to comfort her.

He didn’t know if it was something that happened in her past that made her have such a heavy and sad expression like that but it was still hard to watch.

She lived a really hard life.

CREATORS’ THOUGHTS Author_fredah Yeah, her life was hard in her last life and this life…

it seems things will go easy for her.

Thankfully