Upon opening her eyes, what greeted her was not the dead world, but the ceiling of her bedroom.
It was only then that she rembered that it was all a dream.
Could it be possible that she t Richard last night? Despite knowing that such a tragedy would not occur in the future, her subconscious mind kept retrieving mories from her past lives.
Perhaps it was because of the nightmare, she felt suffocated.
After the regression, every ti she dread of her past life, it was always filled with sadness and regret.
Because the dreams that illuminated her previous life had never shown a single mont of happiness. Dreams always showed her the monts that were full of pain.
If she had to dream, why couldn’t she dream of sothing happy? Why did she have to keep seeing such sad scenes? However, if there was an advantage to it, it was that it motivated her to never let that tragedy happen again.
Elena stood up and looked at the paper on the desk.
There, things she had done with him and the things she had been thinking about doing with him were written there.
When she recalled the fact that she wrote them down in front of him belatedly, she felt ashad. Of course, her desire that she didn’t want him to see was still kept deep in her heart, but even so, writing down her wish, especially in front of him, sohow made her face hot.
Touching her blushing face, she carefully looked at the back of the paper he had written on.
Just as she watched him write it down, Elena already knew what was on the back of it, because she watched him write his wishes on paper. But even so, she seed to be secretly peeking into his secret, and her heart trembled strangely.
“Hehe…”
The number of wishes he had written was incomparably smaller than those of Elena, but the small wishes written there were enough to make her smile.
Rembering the mories of writing down wishes together with him in the garden last night, Elena no longer had any nostalgia or regrets in her head.
The past was just a page that had already passed.
If she continues to dwell on the past, then what was the point of going back in ti by regression? So let’s think only of good things. For her own future, who erased her destiny, there was only one thing left to fill with him, as written here.
“I’m looking forward to it today.”
Outside the window, today’s sun was gradually rising.
Elena carefully folded the paper in her hand and put it in the drawer.
Then, like yesterday, she started to prepare to go out, imagining the days she would spend with him in her head.
***
I spent a surprisingly long ti in the training hall, but thankfully I didn’t end up being late for breakfast.
Entering the dining hall, I bowed lightly to Joachim, who was sitting at the head table and took the seat next to Elena, which was naturally assigned to while staying here.
“Good morning, Damian.”
“Good morning.”
As I approached, she greeted with a small smile. Receiving her greeting every morning was a source of new energy for since I started living here. I replied softly and smiled back.
Before taking my seat, I glanced over the breakfast table for a mont.
There were only three people present here, Elena, Joachim, and myself. But since I had t the Twilight Tower master at the banquet yesterday, I thought he might appear in the breakfast room as well.
Unlike the banquet, this place was solely reserved for the family, so no matter how close they were, he couldn’t suddenly intervene.
Nevertheless, there was always a possibility, so I felt a sense of relief that no one else was present.
I didn’t have any ill feelings towards the twilight tower master, but I wanted to refrain from intruding like yesterday.
The nu for today’s breakfast was very simple.
It consisted of warm at stew and soft bread for a simple appetizer.
Soone might see a nu like this and think that Edelweiss was poor, but how could the only three dukes in the empire not have money? The selection of the nu must be because of the banquet held yesterday. Above all, this amount was appropriate in the morning when there was no appetite.
I picked up a spoon and poured the stew into my mouth. Then the aroma of the warm soup slowly began to fill my mouth. Since there was no appetite, it was better to savor the taste slowly in this way and awaken the taste buds that had not yet woken up from sleep.
‘The taste is good, but… sothing is missing.’
It was clear that the head chef responsible for Edelweiss’ als was truly a top-notch chef. I had never thought the food here was bad, whether it was the at stew I was currently tasting or any other al I had during my stay in Winter Castle.
Still, ho-cooked als were always the best.
Perhaps I had beco accustod to my family’s head chef’s cooking over the past five years. Whenever I ate food that was similar to what I had eaten in Kraus, I would find myself favoring our head chef’s version, which always left a burning sensation in my stomach. Sotis, mories of my family back in Yeongju-si would co flooding back as well.
Darn it. Was this the early onset of nostalgia?
I wasn’t so kid crying for their mom at a retreat or anything.
Anyway, it was probably because our head chef had made the at stew so incredibly well that I was feeling this way. If not, how else could I suddenly be reminded of Yeongju-si like this? I erased the thought that ca to my mind as I watched Elena munch on her stew, giggling as she blew on it to cool it down.
While the al was in progress, Joachim suddenly spoke to .
“So, how was the banquet last night?”
“Well, to be honest, those kinds of gatherings don’t really suit . It just felt cramped.”
“Looking at what you’re saying, you’re still young. Banquets are originally such places. Even if everyone’s smiling on the outside, it’s a gathering of cunning wolves ready to tear each other apart. But if you were Kraus, you shouldn’t be afraid of those wolves.”
“In that regard, you passed the test yesterday,” Joachim suddenly complinted . I nodded my head and thanked him, but I couldn’t shake off the feeling that his complint was sowhat ominous, almost like a bribe before asking for a favor.
It didn’t take long for to discover the true nature of this sense of incongruity.
“Well, now that the banquet is over, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take a look at rohim in peace. In that sense, would you like to visit a place with a beautiful view that I know of?”
So that was the point.
No wonder he suddenly started praising . He must have been trying to lure sowhere.
More precisely, he probably wanted to take and Elena together. Since this wasn’t the first ti Joachim had said such a thing, I was expecting this to co out today, the day after the banquet.
Given my father’s personality, there was no way he would have hidden the fact that our family and Elena went out together. Joachim, who was known for being pushy, couldn’t just let it go. Maybe he wanted to go out for a stroll with his daughter as well… What should I do?
“Well, I have a prior promise today.”
“What was your prior promise? How long have you been staying here, does it make sense that you’ve beco close enough to make an appointnt?”
At my words, Joachim said he didn’t understand and looked at suspiciously.
First of all, my statent about having a prior appointnt was not a lie. I had promised to spend the day with Elena. Probably the next day and the day after that as well.
While I was here in rohim, I had no decision-making power. In order to accomplish what she told , I would follow her wishes, and therefore, whether or not to go on an outing with Joachim was sothing that Elena, not , had to decide.
I looked at Elena without hiding my embarrassnt. She shook her head and answered .
“Father, I’m sorry, but Damian made plans with first today.”
“Uh huh..? Really? If you’re going sowhere, won’t you tell your old man?”
“The night market. It’s the night of the week when the night market opens. Damian has never been out in the winter castle, so I thought it would be the best way to introduce him to rohim’s sights…”
“Then! You’ve thought it through very well!! When it cos to rohim’s specialties, it’s the night market. There are many things that are hard to find in the South, so it will be a very good experience.”
As Elena finished speaking, Joachim imdiately backed off. No matter how strong his desire was to go out for a walk with his daughter, he couldn’t force her to do sothing she didn’t want to do.
However, the disappointnt lingering around his eyes had not disappeared. As his daughter had chosen her fiancé over him, he must have felt bitter as a father. Knowing this, Elena smiled and said to Joachim:
“Thank you for the complint, Father. Oh, by the way, I was reading a book about the starlight magic spell ‘The Light of the Stars’ at the Mage Tower’s library, but there were so parts that I didn’t quite understand… If you have ti after the al, could I ask you to explain it to ?”
“What are you talking about! Of course, you can!”
Joachim was very excited by Elena’s words. Elena secretly looked back at and closed one eye. That made realize that what Elena said to Joachim was a lie.
Until now, she had never talked about magic in front of , but I knew better than anyone how much she had knowledge about magic.
What Elena had just said to Joachim was just an excuse to spend ti with her father.
She had taught herself everything so far, but it seed that Elena also knew that Joachim wanted to teach her, even though he didn’t say anything.
After all, Joachim’s desire to go on an outing with us stemd from a desire to spend quality ti with his daughter, so there was nothing that could satisfy him as much as Elena’s words.
“I’m sorry. Damian. I wanted to show you different aspects of Winter Castle before the night market opens.”
“No. Education is an important issue for knights as well. Then I can’t just sit still.”
Originally, Elena promised to show the rest of the winter castle that I couldn’t see last night, but it couldn’t be helped. I would have to continue my training from this morning.
However, Joachim unexpectedly told a surprising story as I was thinking about it.
“Ah, co to think of it, Damien. There’s sothing I need to tell you.”
“Yes? What is it, all of a sudden…”
“You probably already know since you t yesterday, but The Twilight Tower master. He wants to et you.”
Wait, why was this old man’s story suddenly coming up?
More importantly, who was the person who just asked out for a walk a mont ago?
I looked at Joachim with that doubt, but he just shrugged and smiled warmly at Elena, as if he didn’t know anything. What was going on? Was there no more use for ?
Anyway, our morning quickly ca to an end.
As soon as the al was over, Joachim hurriedly took Elena and left-
“See you again, kid.”
“Ah, yes. Uh, goodbye…”
-Leaving in front of the archmage who chewed up.
I felt like I’d been screwed over.
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