“I’ll pay for my sins one day. Still, I…”
With determined look on her face…
Nainiae looked straight in Hamil’s eyes and calmly continued mumbling.
“Still, I don’t think I need to be subjected to criticism.”
“Ugh… You…”
“If you are still going to say I am selfish, then it does not matter. I am able to stand proudly. I used my magic only to protect someone, and I never used magic for any other reasons.”
Nainiae paused for a moment. She gazed upon the apple she was holding. She looked at it with loving gaze, as if it was the most lovely thing in the world. Nainiae mumbled in a serious tone,
“I used to think I just… want to die. I only had been suffering losses and enduring pain. I was exhausted from my life. I thought that I had been living just so I can die one day.”
“…”
“Now… I definitely want to live. I think that way now.”
Nainiae grabbed on to the apple tighter. Her eye contained resolve that she never showed before. With that clear eye, she looked at Riley.
‘Young Master, here, look! It’s an apple!’
With her sparkly eyes, she was telling Riley that with just her gaze. Riley sighed and looked at Nainiae.
‘It is not the apple that I need right now?’
Riley also responded just with his gaze. He looked at her with a dumbfounded look on his eyes. Nainiae tilted her head side to side as if she was trying to ask why Riley was responding like that. Finally, Nainiae discovered Rebethra and Astroa.
“…?”
A question mark floated up on Nainiae’s face.
“Shut up! I said shut the hell up! Beta… Bring back Beta!”
Thud, thud.
Hamil kicked off the vines that had been restraining his legs. Hamil shouted at Nainiae who was standing on the other side and then started to charge toward her.
“…”
Nainiae turned her head again and looked at Hamil who was running toward herself.
The expression on her face conveyed a sense of disappointment and pity. Nainiae raised her hand.
“I am sorry, Hamil.”
Nainiae mumbled Hamil’s name. Although there was no wind, the scarlet outwear resting on her shoulder waved once.
“B… Bring her back…”
Hamils steps looked like it was gradually getting slower. He eventually got on his knees all of sudden, and… he fell forward starting with his head.
‘Just now, what was that?’
Peruda, who just witnessed what happened, opened his eyes big.
He knew a sleep magic.
However, the problem was that… The spell that Nainiae just used was done without reciting any spell and without any trace of mana movement. It was done literally at a blink of an eye.
“Even if it is for a while, stay there and dream. Later… I wish we could have a long conversation in front of Beta’s grave.”
Nainiae mumbled while looking at Hamil. Now, Nainiae turned to look at Rebethra and Astroa. She waved her right arm in a large motion from left to right.
“Young Master, I am sorry. How should I say this… I was unable to resist? I was so overjoyed… No, what I mean is, the situation was such that it was hard for me to realize what was going on, so…”
Limply moving her right arm around, she made the apple to float in the air again. She looked at Riley. As if she was ashamed, she fiddled with her fingers.
“A… Anyway, I fixed it.”
Having heard what she just said, Riley slowly rolled his eyes and carefully looked at the space behind her.
The scenery around the place was distorted a little.
Riley got a rough idea of what she meant when she said she ‘fixed’ it. As if he found the mask confining and stuffy, he took it off and revealed his face.
“It is good that you fixed it, but just don’t cause the accident in the first place. You get it? If you came back, why didn’t you just stay in the mansion? Why did you follow me all the way to the Solia…”
“… Because I missed you.”
“What?”
“N… No! It’s nothing!”
Riley kept his face hidden tightly behind the mask until now. Now that Nainiae could see his face clearly, Rebethra, who figured it was Riley all along, narrowed his eyes, wondering why they were acting like that.
“Space… reversal?”
Looking at the distorted space, Hurial mumbled.
“What is that?”
“It makes a kind of barrier on the area. It is a Seven Circles magic. Unless the caster disengages the magic or a stronger mage forces the magic to be canceled, nobody can escape this magic.”
“…”
Having heard Hurial’s explanation, Rebethra put on a violent look on his face as if he found the situation to be annoying. Rebethra ground his teeth.