Chapter 129.2

“If Your Highness wants me, you can do it as much as you like. Carthia, as a faithful servant of the imperial family, will not be able to disobey the imperial order. But…”

Yurina took a deep breath to calm herself while Curtis stared at her.

“Even if you do that, you won’t be able to win my heart. Does His Highness want that?”

If he couldn’t win her heart, it meant that he wouldn’t be able to win Carthia’s heart either. So, this is the question of why would he bother to make that choice when he could gain Carthia’s support even if he stayed still.

Yurina was convinced when she saw his expression as he lifted one corner of his mouth as if he was having fun.

He would never make Yurina the Crown Princess in the future. Because in order to solidify his throne, it would be more important to be her ally rather than making her the Crown Princess.

That’s where it all ended. And now all that’s left is the last hunt.

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Late at night, when everyone was asleep, Reynard secretly moved to Yurina’s bedroom. As if expecting him to come, Yurina was sitting on the edge of her bed with a light cardigan over her pajamas and staring blankly out the window.

He tried to muffle the sound of footsteps as much as possible, but Yurina turned her head towards him, apparently feeling a thin pulsating flow of mana.

When their eyes met, Yurina looked surprised for a moment, then drew a beautiful arc with her lips.

Raynard couldn’t move anymore, as if obsessed with something, he stopped and looked at Yurina’s smile.

It was so beautiful.

Those dark eyes with double eyelids that usually look like a calm cat but curl up kindly when she smiles, those blue eyes that always twinkle like stars, and those lips that always tell him what he wants to hear. She was so pretty that he couldn’t find a place that wasn’t pretty.

It was a smile that made him want to laugh just by looking, but oddly enough, Raynard also wanted to cry. When he realized his feelings for her, his heart was overwhelmed with mixed emotions, and he wanted to cry.

Anxiety, sadness. It seemed that she was somewhere far out of reach even though she was clearly within reach. The more he tried to get closer, the more anxious he felt as if she would get further away.

Even though he hugged Yurina tightly to get rid of that anxiety, the symptoms didn’t improve. He felt the warmth in hir arms and the scent of the flowers, but he felt that she was far away.

This anxiety manifested itself after he heard Karion’s story about his dream. Yurina kept repeating relentlessly that the Yurina from his dream was a completely different person. So he shouldn’t worry about Yurina changing her mind and leaving him.

And Reynard never doubted her love. It wasn’t groundless worry that she might abandon him and choose Karion that spurred him on, but her pitiful gaze of her Karion.

But lately, it was something else that was eating away at his nerves.

He heard that Yurina had already come from another world, and that this was a world from a novel she had read before. She never once questioned the story.

He felt sorry for Yurina, who must have suffered death, but he had never thought of anything more than that.  However, when he saw Karion telling an alternate history with another Yurina Carthia that he didn’t know, Reynard starts to question himself.

‘Can Yurina stay by my side?’

Yurina said that she couldn’t find out why she had come here without dying, and why she had awakened in the body of ‘Yurina Carthia’. She said, ‘What does it matter now?’

She laughed, but he couldn’t.

If she came without a reason, wouldn’t it mean that she could disappear without a reason? Maybe one day, the original ‘Yurina Carthia’ will suddenly return.  With the same face and eyes as Yurina, but ask him who he is and push him away?

He was so worried about that and anxious, so he felt like his nerves were on edge these days.

“What are you doing there? Come on.”

Yurina reached out her hand toward him who was still as hard as a stone.

Her voice was soft, but to Raynard’s ears it sounded like a command from a goddess he could never disobey. Before he could even think, his body had already reacted first and he stepped forward in front of her.

Instead of sitting next to Yurina, Reynard sat right on top of her. Gently straightening her shoulders, Yurina slowly lay down on the bed. Her golden hair, scattered over the white sheet, distracted his gaze.

Reynard kissed the nape of Yurina’s neck. Everything was in darkness because Yurina said she liked it that way, but her white skin glowed as if under the light of the sun.

Every time he moved his lips, a red mark remained on her body, blooming like a flower. But no matter how much he touched her, it seemed that this wasn’t enough. He wanted to get closer to her, and even if she was in his hands, he still wanted to get more.

Will this thirst and nervousness go away if he ties her wrists together so she can’t go anywhere?

“Ray.”

Yurina, who had been biting her lips under him and holding back her moans, wrapped her arms around his neck.

Don’t worry, I’m here. I’ll be with you. I am not going anywhere.

Raynard thought she would say something like that. Those were the words Yurina always said to calm him down when he rushed towards nervousness. But the words that came out of her mouth were seriously different from his expectations.

“When this is over, I will tell my family everything about our relationship.”