Chapter 112.1

The impact of those words was greater than expected. Yurina and Reynard, who had been listening silently, and Karion, who had spoken those words, were speechless. A chilly silence fell around the rose-scented table.

In particular, Reynard squeezed Yurina’s hand so tightly that it turned white under the table. Yurina felt more pain from the tight grip on her chest than the heavy pressure from her hand.

It was Reynard who was shocked and hurt by the fact that the person she was originally looking for was Karion, not him. Yurina wanted to hug him tightly right away, but she couldn’t because of the situation.

‘Could this be Marquis De Flon’s trick?’

Trying to put a wedge between her and Reynard? When she thought so, Karion’s remarks made her even more disgusted. Yurina squeezed Reynard’s hand tightly and asked Karion somewhat sharply.

“What do you mean?”

“Exactly what I said. In my dream, the young Lady Carthia found me at the orphanage and supported me.”

“Is this your whole dream?”

“No. The dream was longer.”

He looked back at Reynard and continued. He spoke rather quickly, thinking that his retelling should be in time before Lydia returned. Finding no place to intervene in the middle of his speech, Yurina listened silently without asking any questions.

The more she heard his words, the more surprising everything became.

Yurina Carthia, who appeared to Karion in a dream, was calm and friendly. Hearing those words, Yurina somehow thought of Marquis Carthia.

It was a snowy winter day when Yurina found Karion. She was at the orphanage with Marquis Carthia, who went there to provide assistance. It was then that Yurina found Karion, shivering in the cold in the corner.

She found him, grabbed his hand and restrained him from trying to escape. And then she handed him a warm piece of bread. She didn’t scream or cry, even when she saw his red eyes, which would have scared anyone away. Rather, she kindly asked why he was here alone and in the cold?

Karion was embarrassed by her gentle gesture, but her soft touch was even warmer than bread, so he no longer resisted. However, he had nothing to answer, so he only avoided her gaze and stuffed his mouth with bread.

Instead of asking him questions, Yurina sat next to him and watched him eat.

“Then a wizard hurriedly ran to find the lady.”

“Wizard? Are you talking about Dave?”

“I don’t remember the name exactly, but I think it was something like that.”

Dave, who sweated even on that cold winter day to find ‘Yurina’ who suddenly disappeared without a word, saw Karion next to Yurina and discovered that he had talent at once. Dave’s eyes lit up and he prayed that Yurina would definitely take Karion as ршы disciple.

“The lady followed the wizard’s words and said she wanted to take me to Carthia’s estate. The Marquis agreed to patronage.”

Thus, Karion ended up in the capital’s mansion of Carthia.

Raynard, who had listened to the story up to this point, glared furiously at Karion without hiding his attitude.

The hand holding Yurina suddenly turned cold and trembled. His chest moved wildly back and forth.

Yurina patted the back of his hand with her other hand. When she looked back at Yurina, at least a bit of composure returned to his face.

‘Should I stop him?’

When Yurina asked in a mouthful, he shook his head. His voice echoed in her head as if whispering in her ear.

‘I’m okay. There are still stories left to hear.’

Yurina looked at his forced smile and then turned back to Karion.

“So what happened next?”

The story continued.

In fact, the future was predictable and obvious. Just as Yurina felt for Reynard and Lydia for Karion, in his story, Yurina cared for Karion with all her heart.

As a friend, and as a sister, she didn’t blame him for his shortcomings, but kindly taught him and waited for him to get used to the mores of the nobility.

At the same time, it is natural that feelings for her arose in Karion.

Desire to have more than friendship, thirst for love. At the age of 12, on the border between childhood and adolescence, he left for the royal academy, never being able to understand what his true feelings were.

Dave wanted to continue training Karion like he did with Reynard, but neither Yurina nor Marquis Carthia wanted to show Karion to the world.

Although his talent was recognized in the academy, Karion was still looked down upon due to his red eyes. The more humiliation he experienced, the more he bared his teeth, and the more he devoted himself to his studies.

At the same time, he launched a red-eye study. It’s because he wanted to be worthy of Yurina. He wanted to declare to the whole world that he wasn’t cursed, or at least that the curse wouldn’t pass on to Yurina.