Chapter 113.1

The method he used was not an ordinary method like poisoning. He faked an accident and tried to harm Yurina.

After the Crown Prince got officially engaged to Yurina, their engagement ceremony was held once at the Imperial Family and once at Carthia Manor. No matter how insidious Marquis De Flon was, he would not have been able to organize an assassination right in the imperial palace, so he aimed for a party to be held at the Carthia Mansion.

“When the party was ready, the chandelier fell from the ceiling at the moment the lady went to the center of the hall.”

A chandelier in a banquet hall is an ornament that reaches the pinnacle of splendor, and the richer and more honorable the family, the larger and more luxurious the chandelier. It was so heavy that if it fell, the person under it would die on the spot.

Therefore, the chandelier is usually firmly fixed with the help of magic. In addition to the appearance, it could be said that it was a symbol of wealth because it had to be able to use fixed magic, which is an advanced magic, on a regular basis.

And the chandelier that Dave was fiddling with before accidentally fell off at the moment when Yurina was passing by. Fortunately, Karion, who noticed the strangeness from the very beginning, saved Yurina with his magic.

“The magic didn’t work properly, so I had to teleport with the young lady.”

Upon hearing the story, Yurina recalled the image of a wolf that aimed at her. Just like here, the chandelier is aimed exactly at her, and for some reason the magic didn’t work.

“As soon as I saw you, I used physical defense magic, but for some reason it didn’t work. Time is running out to grasp the situation and use magic again…”

The only difference here was that Reynard couldn’t immediately respond to the incident, since he was away from Yurina. Karion was able to take action a little faster and avoid injury because he was at the scene from the very beginning.

Karion said that this is all the machinations of De Flon. And if so, is the wolf with black magic really the Marquis’ trick?

“It could also be a coincidence that the chandelier fell. And I don’t see it as possible that Dave made a mistake with it. But how do you know it was a conspiracy and not an accident?”

“There were strange traces of mana on the chandelier. No one but me noticed it. Of course, we didn’t immediately catch the man behind everything.”

There were still many gaps in the investigation. So Karion watched the situation without saying anything to anyone.

Not realizing that he was in the circle of suspects, De Flon made a new assassination attempt. It was then that Karion revealed that the Marquis was the organizer.

At that time, Yurina was already engaged to the Crown Prince. To encroach on her meant concocting a conspiracy against the imperial family. Or, to put it simply, it was treason.

All members of the De Flon family, including the Marquis, were detained by the Imperial Knights. Marquis De Flon tried to flee, leaving Lydia behind, but was captured by Yurina’s brother, Riggs Carthia.

Yurina lost touch with reality as she immersed herself in this story and felt dizzy.

Moreover, what Karion said was the exact opposite of what she read in the original novel.

Not about the fact that Yurina envied Lydia, wanted to become a princess, and became a victim of a wizard. But the fact that Marquis De Flon himself fell from the actions of Karion.

“So… both Marquis De Flon and his daughter were executed?”

Karion slowly shook her head at Yurina’s question in a trembling voice.

“I don’t know.”

“What do you mean?”

“I never dreamed of an execution. The last thing I saw was the face of the Marquis, who cursed me in prison and said that he would pay me back in the same way.”

He further said that since childhood he had seen many of these dreams, but apart from them he had never seen anything.

His story ended like that.

Yurina had to gather her strength to digest all the stories she heard.

She was tormented by an ominous foreboding, as if she was promised punishment if she didn’t believe the story of Karion. But at the same time, Yurina was worried that these revelations might be the cunning plan of Marquis De Flon.

So, to believe, you need to demand confirmation that this story wasn’t invented by the Marquis.

“But why did you tell me everything?”

“It seems to me that this dream was not accidental. After all, if it were a dream, nothing would be so vivid, and it won’t be repeated many times.”

“But then what if not a dream?”

“It felt like I’d experienced everything once.”

Karion’s eyes quickly turned red. He seemed to have special feelings for her, just like when he first met Yurina and started shedding tears. Reynard, noticing the oddity, moved a chair a little closer to Yurina.

‘If you feel like you’ve experienced it once, are you saying you’ve been reincarnated or regressed?’

It would not be funny if he said that he had returned while she was possessed in the book.

However, she wondered why he, who was supported by the De Flon family and had feelings for Lydia, dared to come and tell Yurina every detail. She wonder if he has dreamed that he loved Yurina so many times that he feels special feelings for her.

Or is it all the machinations of De Flon?

Obviously, Marquis De Flon was not here, but now it seemed to Yurina that the two of them were now walking on a tightrope across the abyss. This is a dangerous path on one rope, where you can stumble and crash on the rocks in an instant.

‘First, we need to check whether this is really a story from his dreams or an invention of the Marquis.’

Yurina didn’t know Marquis De Flon, and Karion, who had dreamed of it, worked hard to come up with a story she could know.

“How accurately do you remember your dreams?”

“I remember it in pretty detail.”

“Then did you learn to dance in your dream?”

“Yes. I learned.”

“In the little hall?”

“I think it was called a small hall.”

“How was it when you learned to dance?”

“What exactly are you asking?”

“Anything. Please tell me anything you remember.”

As soon as Yurina finished, Reynard’s voice echoed in her head.

‘You mean the broken piano?’

Yurina squeezed his hand in affirmation.

The small hall is a small living room that Yurina and her brothers used not for banquets, but for dance classes or for family games and dances.

However, after all three of her older brothers entered the academy and Yurina became seriously ill in the winter before meeting Reynard, she didn’t have much time for dancing.

By those years, she had already mastered the basic dance moves, and she didn’t need to learn dancing until she was older. And she couldn’t dance because she didn’t have a partner who was the right size for her.

Her three older brothers were busy with other things with Yurina when they returned from vacation, so they didn’t go into the small hall. Maybe that’s why no one found that the piano in the small hall was out of tune. On the day when Yurina and Reynard first tried to dance, part of the piano keyboard sounded a little strange.

And now Yurina wanted to confirm it.

If he really dreamed about those days with Yurina, he would know about it too. But Marquis De Flon was not aware of such details.

“The dance teacher was Viscountess Darson. When I was learning to dance, young lady became my partner…”

Raynard grinned at the word ‘partner’.

“And every time I stepped on your foot, you assured me that everything was fine. It took me quite a long time to learn how to dance. Of the instruments, mainly violin or piano…”

Saying this, Karion frowned.

“Now that I think about it, the piano sounds kind of weird.”