Chapter 103.1

He was speechless for a moment. After sobbing in silence for several minutes, he rubbed his wet cheek against Yurina’s neck and finally uttered a word.

“Sorry.”

It was the same apology she made when Yurina heard about his past. Yurina understood that he was crying for her, but she couldn’t figure out why he was apologizing.

She apologized to Reynard for a good reason. She said she’d take care of him, so she brought him in. She felt sorry for her for not taking good care of him, but Reynard had no reason to feel sorry for her.

It all happened before she met him, and there was nothing he could do about it if he knew this beforehand.

“Why are you sorry?”

“I couldn’t be by your side, for giving it to me. It must have been very painful, I think.”

He couldn’t even control his emotions properly, so he couldn’t speak properly because he was giggling. Could it be that he discovered the image of his parents who died in a carriage accident in the appearance of Yoon Se-na, who said that she was unable to do anything except die in an accident where no one was there.

Yurina deliberately pretended to be more calm and whispered in a bright voice.

“It wasn’t a situation where I could be by your side. But what are you sorry about?”

“I’m sorry though.”

“You don’t have to be sorry. It’s already past.”

Yurina answered with a smile and felt that this conversation flowed the same way as when she had just heard his story.

‘Is it the same mind as me?’

Accept the pain of the other person more than your own pain and suffer together. She thought this was real love.

Yurina patted him on the shoulder, but Reynard continued to tremble as if he couldn’t calm down. After a while, he seemed to have calmed down a bit. He lifted her head, took a look at Yurina, and then put her back on her bed.

“Do you believe everything I say?”

“Huh.”

“Even if I just said something strange?”

“To be honest, I didn’t know what this meant at first. But after hearing what you said, I understand everything that has been strange.”

Reynard’s lips touched Yurina’s temple. At the same time, she felt angry and felt an intangible energy flowing through her body. Yurina noticed at once that he had used healing magic.

His lips touched the nape of her neck this time. The same warm feeling ran down the back of her neck.

“Even when I first met you, you didn’t look like a 10-year-old child, you seemed like a grown adult. At the time, I thought it was something else because you was an aristocrat, but after meeting Aiden and other kids at the academy, I realized that not all aristocrats are like that.”

“Huh.”

“Besides, I always thought it was strange that you were overly afraid of dying. People are all afraid of dying. Even now I am afraid of dying. But you…”

He gritted his teeth and caught his breath as if his emotions were running high again, and he fumbled with his fingertips on Yurina’s bare skin, which was slightly exposed through the tight gown. It was a gentle, gentle touch, like touching a scar from an accident that doesn’t even exist on her current body.

“It was like you was afraid of dying. I wondered what a 10-year-old child would be afraid of indefinite death. There are no such people around like you.”

“…”

“But when I saw the attack in Crohn Kingdom, I thought you always lived in danger. I didn’t know it when I was young, but after I grew up to a certain extent, I realized that being born into an aristocratic family isn’t always good. Especially if you’re at the level of Carthia, you’ll have a lot of enemies. Of course, I’m not saying that the Marquis and the Marchioness are bad. Both of them are good people. But there might be people out there who don’t like it.”

“…”

“But that wasn’t it.”

He lowered his head, not even thinking to wipe the tears running down his cheeks. Tears dripped onto his face, leaving marks.

Reynard kissed Yurina’s stomach with trembling lips. The feeling of anger unique to healing magic was felt, and the energy of mana filled with the whole body spread. On the spot where his hot breath touched, tears filled with even hotter feelings fell.

“So much… … I think it must have hurt so much.”

Yurina lifted her head slightly and looked at him trembling above her, then carefully combed his hair.

“It’s okay. It’s already been 7 years. I’m fine now. I don’t remember anything.”

It wasn’t until after she had said something she didn’t mean to appease him that she realized again that Reynard’s words about her being okay earlier had been a lie.

He must have had the same feelings as her now. The tears of her beloved were worse than the wounds that had already festered and rotted in her own body.

“I’m really fine.”

Actually she wasn’t. Still, if she could reassure him, she could have told him this white lie again and again.

However, despite Yurina’s comfort, he continued to kiss her body and use healing magic.

As if doing so would cleanse the wounds of the terrible accident seven years ago.

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“So you’re saying that the future you saw is a story from a book you read in the place where you lived before?”

Reynard asked in a calm voice if he had calmed down before he knew it and gave Yurina an arm pillow. He didn’t cry anymore, but his whites were bloodshot red from crying so hard, and the corners of his eyes were red too.

Yurina wanted to treat his swollen eyes with her modest skills, but she couldn’t because he grabbed her hand before she could even touch it.

As if he was scolding a child, he stared into Yurina’s eyes and shook his head. The expression was so determined that instead of using her healing magic, Yurina kissed his red eyes.

Reynard asked to do it once more, turning his head to show the other eye. Yurina kissed him on his right eye as well.

As if satisfied, Reynard smiled with satisfaction and pressed his lips on Yurina’s eyelids for a long time.

“You died in an accident, but when you woke up, you were Yurina Carthia.”

“Hm.”

“Because of what you saw in the book, you were afraid that Karion would kill you if you continued like this, so you went around the orphanage looking for Karion before Marquis De Flon did. Then, you mistook me for Karion, who had blonde hair and red eyes, and brought me here. that’s right?”

“That’s right.”

“You mean you thoroughly avoided His Highness the Crown Prince to avoid being chosen as the Crown Princess because you were still anxious?”

Yurina couldn’t even speak properly because she was crying, but his summary was perfect. Yurina lightly nodded her head.

“That’s right. Since I have Karion, I thought everything would be fine as long as I didn’t get involved with His Highness the Crown Prince. Because what Marquis De Flon wanted was for his daughter to become the Crown Princess. If he doesn’t see me as a rival, he has no reason to kill me.”

“But then you found out that, just like the story in the novel you read, Karion was sponsored by the Marquis De Flon family. Is that why you were so surprised? You’re afraid Karion will kill you like he did in that novel.”

“Right, but…”

Yurina looked at Reynard’s expression, blurring her words.

‘Why are you so calm?’