Chapter 97.2

In an instant, Raynard’s face, as he gently caressed Yurina’s cheek, visibly hardened. He took a step back from Yurina and asked,

“…What?”

“Did your mother raise you alone while she worked in a brothel? You don’t know who your father is?”

Before Yurina could finish her words, he let out a heavy sigh. He strained his eyes, examined Yurina’s expression, and tousled his hair roughly. His hair, which had been neatly brushed with oil, was tousled.

“What is that now…”

His chest rose and fell rapidly as he found it difficult to control his emotions. If Reynard wasn’t Karion, he wouldn’t have reacted so violently.

‘Then is it possible that Ray is the real Karion?’

Yurina thought his reaction was anger at her for bringing up a past he wished he could forget, or for revealing a secret he didn’t want to reveal.

Other than that, there was no other way to explain why his face turned red in an instant.

In this case, for Reynard, Yurina was nothing less than rubbish on his wound. Even though she had mentioned beforehand that it would be a delicate matter, this wasn’t a strong excuse.

“Ray, I’m so sorry. I lied…”

When Yurina tried to get closer, Reynard raised his hand to stop her. It was a clear rejection.

He looked at Yurina with a reddened face and turned away from her. Then, with long strides, as if running away, he took a few steps forward.

Looking at his trembling back, Yurina kept raising and lowering her hand, but in the end she couldn’t get close.

For a moment there was an awkward silence between them. Reynard was the first to break the silence.

He took a few deep breaths and opened his mouth, still turning away from Yurina.

“Why are you suddenly asking all this?”

“This…”

Yurina couldn’t find the words to respond so easily. If she wanted to explain herself, she would have to tell him the whole story about her coming here.

The story would begin by reading a fantasy novel that Yurina couldn’t even remember. And after the accident, she wakes up as Yurina Carthia. Also the story of how she was doomed to die and found him to rewrite her fate.

Even thinking about it now, it was pure nonsense, so Yurina couldn’t understand how she was supposed to explain everything.

No, that was just an excuse.

Yurina was simply afraid. She was terrified because she couldn’t imagine how Ray would react when he found out that she only took Reynard out of her own selfishness.

-You have no idea how happy I am to meet you-

‘I’m afraid I’ll never see his smile again, which makes my heart beat faster’.

Raynard opened his mouth again because she couldn’t speak.

“From the moment you asked if this guy’s real name was Karion, something was strange…”

“…”

“That’s right. If you had misheard, you would have simply asked me, ‘Is his name Karion?’ But you were just whispering under your breath if he was the ‘real Karion’. Like…”

Raynard closed his mouth and swallowed nervously, again hiding his rising emotions, clenched his fists and turned around.

“As if you already knew who this Karion was.”

It was a sharp point. And this was also an indirect answer, that he wasn’t Karion.

“Yurina.”

There was a feeling in his voice calling out her name that Yurina had never experienced before. Even his face, approaching Yurina, expressed complex emotions that couldn’t be described in simple words.

Sadness, despair, suffering. However, the anger Yurina feared was nowhere to be seen.

Raynard, who had come close to her, grabbed Yurina’s shoulder.

“My mother worked in a brothel? No. My parents were simple farmers. We grew vegetables, potatoes and carrots in the field near our house, sold them in the market and survived that way.”

This has definitely been decided.

‘Ray is not Karion.’

Her heart began to pound like a blacksmith’s hammer. The plot, which she had hoped had been rewritten, was now reverting back to the original.

And now Lydia will contact Curtis, and she will fall at the hands of Karion?

But at the same time, she wondered why Reynard was suffering so much? If he’s not Karion, then why the hell does he hurt so much, like she has torn out all of his innermost secrets?

A conflicting feeling arose in Yurina’s mind, she wanted to know this, but she was also afraid at the same time. As she instinctively avoided his gaze and tried to move away, Raynard grabbed her cheek and met her gaze.

“Before I left for the academy, you said you were looking for me. And you said it for a reason. You saw my talent and brought me to your place. You spoke in such a way that you supposedly knew that I would be waiting for you somewhere.”

Reynard’s red eyes, without trembling, now turned to Yurina. Raynard leaned over and muttered softly, keeping his eyes on Yurina.

“Actually, I’ve always been interested. Were you looking for me, or were you looking for the ‘Blessed’? However, since I was the only Blessed, it didn’t really matter. Whether you were looking for Tom or Blessed, I was exactly what you needed.”

“…”

“But now, when I see you like this, I keep getting strange thoughts.”

The whisper began to rise slightly. He couldn’t control his intense breathing and closed his eyes. When he opened them again, tears rolled down his cheeks.

“It wasn’t me you were looking for, but perhaps it was Karion, the guy you saw earlier.”