Chapter 78.2

Although he was a talented person who made the whole Empire buzz, Reynard wasn’t of noble birth and hadn’t yet acquired a knighthood. If he had told the Marquis that he liked Yurina, the latter probably wouldn’t object.

Rather, he could try to somehow solidify Reynard’s position in the Empire and tie him to it.

But others were different.

The daughter of an influential Marquis and a commoner. It was obvious how the public would gossip about this relationship.

‘I thought it would be okay if we liked each other.’

Yurina rubbed her throbbing temple as her mind suddenly felt complicated. Just a few days ago, she had seriously wondered if her feelings for Raynard were much less than his feelings for herself.

After all, Reynard was already ready to sacrifice his life for her, but she was just beginning to honestly confess her feelings.

However, after a few days off, she was able to become a little more aware of her emotions.

She wondered how Reynard hadn’t gone mad. Yurina couldn’t understand how he endured that loneliness while he was at the academy.

Yurina sighed once more and stood up from her seat. Usually she left the room and went to the living room, which was used as an office. Now it was empty inside.

“Do you know where Ray went?”

Yurina asked Betsy, but she hesitated to answer.

If he wasn’t in the living room, he was either at the gymnasium or at Dave’s lab.

‘Couldn’t he be practicing swordsmanship again?’

Yurina repeatedly told Raynard to refrain from practicing swordsmanship since his body had not yet fully recovered, but he didn’t listen. On the contrary, he said that if you neglect the loads, then the recovery will be slow.

Yurina’s three older brothers agreed with Reynard’s words and even sparred with him every day.

Yurina began to doubt the results, but Reynard fought again and again, mixing magic with sword. He was a kind of magic swordsman.

In the Empire, magic swordsmen were rare. This is because children who showed talent for magic were too busy with magic itself, and didn’t look towards swordsmanship.

The three older brothers, especially the twins, didn’t even think of missing out on this chance, and stating that fighting the magic swordsman was a new experience.

Yurina was startled whenever she heard the wooden sword clattering violently. But she was helpless to do anything when Reynard kept telling her that everything was okay.

Luckily, Betsy gave her her the answer she was looking for.

“Reynard said earlier he was going to the annex.”

This meant Dave’s lab. If so, Dave and Reynard are doing magical research right now. Their research topic these days was ‘Why does Reynard’s eye color only change to purple?’

Although she studied magic out of necessity, Yurina wasn’t particularly enthusiastic, and now wondered if this was such an important topic for the whole study?

However, how important it was in the magic world that those two even sent a letter of inquiry to Crohn Royal Academy.

“Let’s go to the lab.”

“Yes, milady.”

When Yurina left the living room and was about to move down the hallway, a maid came out of Yurina’s room. It was the Marchioness’ personal maid.

“I was wondering where you were going because you weren’t in the room, but you were here.”

“Was my mother looking for me?”

“Yes.”

“Now?”

“If you have nothing else to do, the mistress asked you to come to her right now.”

“Okay.”

After thinking for a while, Yurina followed the maid to the Marchioness’ room. It was rare for her to send her maid to call her Yurina, so she wanted something urgent to say.

“Mother, did you call me?”

When Yurina entered the room, Marchioness Carthia, who was distributing instructions to the maids, approached Yurina with a smile.

“Yurina, please come here.”

She took Yurina’s hand and sat down at the tea table. Looks like it was prepared it in advance. After all, colorful desserts and black tea now stood on the tea table.

The freshly baked cakes were still emitting smoke.

“You have liked those cakes since childhood. It’s still the same.”

Yurina just nodded without saying a word. Who knows what the past Yurina was like, but the new Yurina likes these cakes the most.

She still couldn’t forget the taste of the first buns with jam after coming to this world.

Yurina looked at the snacks on the table again.

Scones, chocolate cakes, cookies, salmon sandwiches. Among the offered items were only snacks that Yurina especially liked.

She was blown away by the care and attention to detail.

Yurina smiled meekly as she sipped her tea. Now she felt a soothing warmth in her stomach, down her esophagus.