Unlike the way he lost his composure when he first saw Karion, now he only felt sorry for Yurina, who had suffered terribly, but showed no other reaction. However, Yurina felt that his excessively calm appearance was somewhat foreign to him.
“Do you really believe everything?”
“I said I believe you.”
He replied in a tone of asking why he asked such a thing again. However, Yurina was still bewildered.
‘Is everything really okay?’
He said he believed everything Yurina said, which might sound absurd. But believing it and accepting it casually were two different things.
At least, if you know that the world you live in is a world created by someone, and that is also a world in a book, you might be agitated.
“Aren’t you scared? I said I came from somewhere else and knew the future?”
“Why are you afraid of that? Because you knew that, you came to see me.”
“But…”
Yurina hugged his waist tightly and buried her face in his arms. She thought she had confided everything to him, but in fact she hadn’t spoken the words she held most deeply in her heart.
The heart that pricked every time she saw him smiling happily.
‘Can I tell you?’
She thought for a moment that it would be okay if she pretended not to know, but she couldn’t. In her nervousness, Yurina groped for no reason on his muscular back before opening her mouth.
“I was trying to use you.”
It was a guilt that had been sitting in his mind ever since she knew he had a heart and that he had given it to her. Such guilt that she didn’t deserve his pure affection for choosing to support him out of selfishness.
Even after knowing each other’s hearts completely, there was anxiety that if he knew all this, he wouldn’t love her purely like before.
“I brought you here and was good to you, it was all for my sake. But are you okay?”
But Raynard didn’t show much agitation this time either.
“So what?”
“…”
“In the first place, you said you weren’t purely supporting me either. I do remember this? What you brought me into was a deal from the start. In exchange for you bringing me out of that hell, I agreed to protect you.”
Reynard hugged her tightly as if he would never let her go.
“And you said it once. It’s okay if I don’t keep my promise to protect you. Would you have been able to find me if I ignored all that promise and stayed in Crohn Kingdom or made up my mind and went into hiding?”
“No.”
Sos?”
He laughed lightly
“I came back to be used by you.”
Used. The meaning of the word was obviously not light, but he spoke lightly as if it was nothing.
“I love just being by your side, being used by you the way you wanted, but you even say you love me. Is there anyone in the world as happy as me? But weren’t you?”
Yurina shook her head while burying her face in his arms.
“I’m very happy too.”
“That’s it. Right?”
That one word mixed with laughter made her feel as if her breath had been cleared. She somehow felt relieved and confident that now she could truly and truly love him.
Yurina nodded vigorously, and Reynard kissed her on the forehead.
“By the way, after hearing your story, the things you went through keep coming to my mind.”
“Yes.”
Yurina remembered the hunting competition.
“In the novels I read, I definitely went through my coming-of-age ceremony safely. Unlike in the novel, things can change because I went to see you, but why did that happen in the hunting competition? If you hadn’t graduated early and never returned, no, if I had found the real Karion, I would have died.”
“What?”
Reynard was the first to show agitation.
“The story has changed.”
At first, she thought the story had changed since Reynard had graduated early. However, now that she thinks about it, unlike the contents of the original story, it would have been possible because he was a different person from Karion that he graduated early and returned.
If Yurina had brought Karion instead of Reynard, she might have died in this hunting competition.
If so, who the heck did it? If Yurina died that day, who would benefit the most from it?
After thinking about it, the conclusion was the same.
“Anyway, Marquis De Flon keeps getting stuck in my heart.”
“What are Marquis De Flon and Karion planning?”
Yurina shook her head as she heard his voice filled with hostility.
“I don’t know yet. However, if there is a real mastermind behind the count who was cited as the mastermind last time, it is highly likely that it is Marquis De Flon. In fact, I told my father after the hunting contest tolook after De Flon. However, my brother and father have been researching for a while, but the family of Marquis De Flon said they couldn’t find any connection with the count at that time.”
So, Yurina really wondered if De Flon wasn’t involved in this incident.
Until she met Karion today.
“If Karion had been there, we might have been able to contact him without leaving a trace.”
Reynard added seriously.
“Or maybe he used black magic. Even the royal mages didn’t notice black magic.”
Yurina nodded slightly.