Chapter 67.1

Sir Aaron returned without success.

“I’m sorry, milady. But I couldn’t find him.”

Sir Aaron was so sensitive to mana that he knew immediately that the unknown was a mage. That he didn’t find him meant two things.

One: The master mage is no longer around, he has disappeared.

Two: The mage hides mana to hide his identity.

In any case, it became clear that he had swept all tracks and escaped persecution.

“Would you like to continue searching?”

Yurina shook her head.

“No. If you couldn’t to find him earlier, I don’t think it will get any easier later on. Quite the opposite.”

Even if Sir Aaron is mana sensitive, he was a knight. If a mage chooses to hide his mana, it would be difficult to trace him unless the other side was a fellow mage.

“Then I’ll wait outside.”

After Sir Aaron left, Yurina was lost in her thoughts.

‘What the hell?’

Even after casting Space Division Magic, he really didn’t do anything to her.

He just asked if they’d seen each other before.

Just one question? And he cast such magic just for this?

Of course, space division magic was used so that mages could exchange secrets. But does a stranger need to talk to her using this magic?

Or rather, he approached her with some intention, but he heard the name of Carthia and ran away.

‘But why the hell was he crying?’

Purple eyes continued to flicker in Yurina’s face. She wished she could chalk the whole thing up to someone’s prank, but to be honest, it didn’t look like it.

Yurina wasn’t very good at reading people’s expressions, but at least his tears didn’t seem faked.

If all of his reactions were false, that would mean that he had deliberately contacted Yurina. He would have known who she was from the start.

There were more questions than answers. All the commotion gave Yurina a headache, so she lay down on a simple couch. Normally, she wouldn’t do that, but she didn’t have the luxury of thinking about etiquette because her whole body felt strangely broken and heavy.

“You must be very tired doing makeup early in the morning. Please sleep. I’ll tell Sir Aaron to send the guests out for a while,” Betsy whispered, covering Yurina with a blanket.

Yurina nodded and closed her eyes.

* * *

“Milady! Milady!”

Yurina, who had fallen asleep at Betsy’s insistence, now lifted her heavy eyelids. Before she could regain consciousness, Betsy grabbed her arm and lifted her up.

“Betsy, what’s going on?”

“Faster, plese!”

With a stern face, Betsy grabbed Yurina by the arm and dragged her out of the house. Emily approached Yurina with tears in her eyes.

“Milady?”

“We need to be faster!”

“What the…”

“We need to hurry!”

Yurina, who had rushed out of the house at Betsy’s urging, instantly turned pale at the sight unfolding before her eyes.

‘What is that?’

Outside the idyllic cottages reigned disorder. Like her, the people who used to rest in the houses now rushed around screaming, surrounded by knights of the escort.

“Milady.”

Aaron came up with a drawn sword.

“No matter what anyone tells you from now on, you must hurry and leave the hunting grounds. Find the coachman and return to the estate immediately.”

“What…”

Before she could finish speaking, Yurina heard the low roar of a wild beast among the bushes. Yurina reflexively turned her head to see several pairs of red eyes shining in the bushes and stepped back.

“Milady, don’t look back, run.”

Betsy took Yurina by the hand and ran.

Behind them, a howl could be heard, either of people, or of wolves.

Yurina was losing her sense of reality. And the pulse continued to give in her head.

The ferocious wolves were getting closer.

‘No…’

In an instant, Yurina stumbled, losing all strength in her limp legs. While Betsy and Emily squealed in horror, Yurina lost her concentration and fell to the ground.

Yurina looked around. A pack of wolves ran past the knights of the House of Carthia and ran towards her.

‘They will kill me.’

There were a lot of people around, but Yurina somehow felt that the wolves were targeting her.

She knew that she needed to run, but she couldn’t get up, as if her legs wouldn’t obey her. Betsy grabbed her by the hand and lifted her up, but her body continually sank to the ground.

Meanwhile, one wolf bared its sharp teeth and ran towards Yurina. The alarming situation now seemed to flow before my eyes barely, as if in slow motion.