Chapter 115.1

Dave became interested again and focused on her words.

“How are they different?”

Dave set the teacup he was holding down on the table. There was half a cup of black tea left in the cup.

“My lady, shall I have more of this tea or not?” 

It was an unexpected question, but Yurina did not suspect it was strange. When she was in class with Dave, she often asked these non-class related questions, but later it turned out that even those absurd questions were class related.

“I think you can drink.”

“But why?”

“You still have a lot left. Dave always drinks tea without leaving it.”

Hearing Yurina’s reply, he placed the cup on the corner of the table without hesitation.

“Wrong. Today it tastes so cheesy that I no longer want to drink it.”

In fact, his tea has always been like that. Yurina kept silent about it and only issued:

“Yeah, that’s right. But why?”

“Then I will ask you again. Shall I have more of that tea or not?”

“You say you don’t drink.”

“No, I will drink.”

“What?”

“Just think, even a teaspoon of these leaves is worth a fortune. Can’t I just pick it up and throw it away like this?”

No, why are you even brewing such a nasty tea out of those expensive tea leaves? While Yurina was fed up with it, he took the teacup he had pushed aside and drank her tea.

“Do you know what I mean?”

Yurina took her eyes off the tea and looked back at Dave.

“Can the future change?”

“That’s right. Let’s assume that if there is a magic that can see the future. When I first said I wouldn’t drink tea, if I looked into the future, there would be a scene where I throw away this tea after the lady leaves. Actually, I thought so.”

“By the way, when you ask the question again, are you saying that if you look into the future, you’ll see Dave drinking tea?” 

“Yes. After all, if I tell you one, you understand ten.”

Every time he did something like this, Yurina asked him not to beat around the bush and get down to business. But today everything was different.

She paused for a moment to clear her mind. Dave gave her time to think without rushing.

“But they say that fate always flows as the Goddess commands? And what’s more, I heard that whatever happened, it happened by the will of the Goddess.”

“Are you talking about the old-fashioned temples?”

Dave covered his ears with his fingers as if he heard something he didn’t want to hear.

“It’s just easier to manage people that way. By the will of the Goddess, I was born a nobleman and you a commoner, so there is nothing to fuss about here. How comfortable would it be to be brainwashed like this?”

“That’s right.”

“But wizards are free-thinking people, and I am one of them too. As the lady said, the future is predetermined and fixed by the Goddess, but why can’t you see the future? At the very least, high priests could receive accurate prophecies from the Goddess? But by no means, their prophecies are always vague, and everyone is ready to interpret them in their own way.”

Its history was long, but the conclusion was that we still cannot see the future.

‘So it was a false assumption that Marquis De Flon knew the future?’

But it was too early to give up. Yurina had a different plan.

“Well, Dave.”

“Yes, lady?”

“Is there some kind of magic to return to the past from the future?”

“Return to the past?”

“Hm. Well, sort of like time shift magic, sort of space shift magic… same thing?”

Judging from the assumption that Yurina, who was asking the question, could see the future, and the assumption that she would travel through time, in fact, the latter sounded more absurd.

Surprisingly, Dave didn’t answer right away. He stared at Yurina and drank all of his already cold tea.

Yurina intuitively felt that Dave was guessing about her thoughts and focused on his words that would come out of his mouth. But after a while, the words that flew out of his mouth were a little out of blue.

“My lady, do you like studying history?”

“Huh? History?”

The topic suddenly jumped to another place, but Yurina nodded her head while putting on a shy expression. No matter how much she thought about the connection between magic and history, she couldn’t understand it, but she decided to trust Dave.

“Well, it’s not that I hate it. I don’t like it either.”

“I see. So let’s talk fast. Can I have another cup of tea before that?”

When Yurina nodded, he quickly brewed new cup of tea.

“I’m not a big fan of the story, but this time I have no choice but to bring up the history. Lady, don’t you remember what happened in the Empire about 150 years ago? You learned that in history class.”

“150 years ago?”

Yurina went through her memories. She hadn’t touched history for a long time, but it wasn’t hard to understand what Dave meant.

“You mean there was a rebellion?”