Chapter 58.2

“What are you talking about?”

“What am I talking about? It’s how it looks. I finished the academy.”

“There is one more year left.”

“So I finished early.”

“I’ve never heard anything like that before.”

Crohn Academy was notorious for being even harder to get out of than it was to get in.

But an early release a year early?

‘This wasn’t in the novel.’

If such a grandiose event happened, a lot of attention would be paid to it in history, but to make everything so simple?

Raynard, looking at Yurina’s incredulous expression, suddenly raised her hand and touched the necklace hanging from her neck. It was his gift a year and a half ago, before Yurina left the Crohn Kingdom. As he had ordered her back then, Yurina always wore the necklace no matter what.

“Remember what happened in the Kingdom of Crohn?”

“Your birthday?”

“No, not that. You were attacked.”

A year and a half ago, Yurina remembered that day like it was yesterday. Sometimes there were days when that episode visited her in nightmares.

“How can I forget?”

It was the day she could have died.

As if he read something in Yurina’s expression, Raynard frowned.

“From that day on, I had nightmares.”

He pulled the necklace off Yurina’s neck and closed his eyes.

The day Yurina left the Crohn Kingdom and returned to the Empire, Raynard had a nightmare. It wasn’t the first time he’d had a nightmare. He often had nightmares when he was nervous.

Raynard once had a nightmare in which Yurina kicked him out of the Carthia mansion. Finding himself at the academy, Reynard further dreamed that she had completely lost her memory and didn’t remember him.

However, one moment was much more shocking.

“Your image appeared to me in my dreams.”

And for Yurina, the next words would be more terrible than for Reynard himself, who saw this in a dream.

In the nightmare, Yurina was lying on the ground covered in blood. Lonely, in a place where no one is around. Yurina was in such a state that she couldn’t even close her eyes.

And Raynard always came to her too late. And even when he hugged Yurina’s cold, stiff body and tried all the magic he knew, she never came back to life.

His whole world collapsed.

With Yurina’s death, he felt that his life was meaningless and more than that not worth it.

When he woke up in a cold sweat, Raynard realized that what he saw was just a dream. But after that, Reynard couldn’t calm down for a long time. His whole body was trembling like an aspen in the wind, and he couldn’t breathe properly. Although he knew very well that nothing would happen to Yurina, his heart was constantly troubled.

For the past few months, nightmares have tormented him daily. And every time in the nightmare Yurina invariably lay on the road, covered in blood and paralyzed. When he woke up from his dream and tried to remember Yurina’s smile, he only thought about the corpse he saw in his nightmare.

He was seriously struck by the incident when Yurina was attacked at the Academy while he wasn’t around.

‘I never would have thought this would happen.’

Raynard was well aware of Yurina’s fear of death. But he had no idea where the threat might come from. This is because Yurina and death were incompatible. The Yurina who lives in prosperity and under the protection of many people.

He promised to protect Yurina just to calm her down, but he still hoped he wouldn’t go to extremes.

Back then, while tormented by nightmares, he was able to sincerely sympathize with Yurina’s fears. Yurina must have had dreams like this all the time.

She is the beloved youngest daughter of the Marquis Carthia. Twelve-year-old Raynard didn’t know that she could become a target for a huge number of people. But 19-year-old Reynard knew.

He gave Yurina the necklace just in case, but that alone wasn’t enough to calm Raynard’s heart. He was afraid of what he couldn’t predict.

And then he found a way to get home early.

“I was so worried that I couldn’t sit in that place.”

“Ray.”

“I went crazy. I was afraid that something else might happen while I was gone.”

Yurina closed her eyes, breathing heavily.

“You kept all this in your heart for so long.”

‘But what will happen now?’

She knew the contents of the original, and she knew that she would be fine until Reynard graduated. But what bothered her was that Reynard was unaware of all this.

And Yurina could no longer find similarities with the original story, so she decided not to rely on it anymore.

‘Things have changed anyway.’

She had already been attacked at the Academy.

Subsequently, Reynard’s early graduation could reshape the plot even further.

When Yurina came to that conclusion, she suddenly laughed at something. Yurina gently touched Reynard’s closed eyes, pursed her lips to hold back her laughter, and shuddered.

It was Raynard who grabbed her arm and foolishly rubbed his cheek against her palm.