It’s unusual. It’s clearly summer season, so why is it so chilly? My hair stood on finish on the unseasonal chill.

The corners of Liel’s mouth slowly turned upward as he appeared down at me, and the chilly air appeared to soften away like a lie.

I questioned if it was simply me.

My doubts had been short-lived, as Liel’s pale complexion caught my eye.

Seeing his expression, I reached up and wrapped my palms round his pale face.

“Your palms are too chilly. You don’t look completely happy. Is one thing incorrect?”

Frightened, I waited for his reply, unblinking. Simply as my eyes had been about to glaze over, Liel spoke up.

“It’s nothing, however one thing simply occurred.”

“Yeah……?”

His face remained expressionless, and he lastly launched his grip on my chin below my intense gaze.

“Are you able to give us a minute?”

Liel mentioned, turning to Melissa.

Apparently, Liel didn’t really feel comfy confiding in anybody however me.

Melissa checked out me as an alternative of answering. I nodded, and her eyes narrowed.

She stood up and left, saying she’d see me tomorrow.

Then Liel spoke once more.

“So, you’re going to spend your trip fascinated by him?”

Since I hadn’t talked about Pavon’s title, “he” had turn out to be the phrase I used to check with him.

By the way in which, “fascinated by Pavon” is a phrase that might be misunderstood by others.

“The place did you hear that?”

The place did he hear that and why does he communicate so unusually?

I requested, and he came to visit and sat down subsequent to me.

“If he’s actually handsome, comes from household, has persona, and has a clear file with ladies, then perhaps it’s price giving this a critical thought.”

Wow, how may he recite that appropriately?

Truly, I don’t bear in mind Melissa’s precise phrases, so I can’t be certain, however I’m fairly certain that’s what she mentioned.

Liel didn’t cease there, he parroted my phrases.

“I suppose so.”

“Uh…….”

“‘If that’s the case, it wouldn’t damage to consider it a bit extra—.”

I can see the place you’re coming from, so cease it now……!

It felt like disgrace was pointing a finger at me. I gripped his arm tightly in an indication that mentioned please cease and shook my head shortly.

“Did you get confessed to by a boy in your grade?”

“Sure, however…….”

“Who?”

“I don’t assume it’s acceptable to say that…….”

I didn’t inform him the title as a result of if I had been Pavon, I’d really feel unhealthy.

I actually didn’t anticipate Liel to be so taken with my love life.

Come to consider it, I had as soon as requested him if it was okay for him to get entangled in my love life.

I assumed again to that dialog and got here to the conclusion that he was a youngster who hadn’t but hit puberty.

“Can’t you inform me extra?”

Pissed off by my continued vagueness, he turned to me with a innocent look on his face, as if soothing a toddler.

Properly, …… what ought to I say?

In any case, I had promised him that I’d, so I figured I ought to at the least reply his query.

“Such as you mentioned, I acquired confessed to by a boy in my grade, and he requested me to consider it over trip and get again to him.”

I mentioned, bluntly and matter-of-factly. The corners of Liel’s lips twitched at my unkind and transient rationalization.

“The explanation you didn’t say no instantly, is as a result of you might have emotions for him?”

Liel requested in a gradual tone after looking at me for some time.

I didn’t hesitate to reply his query.

“No, it’s not that, I don’t actually know him. I used to be going to say no to him instantly, however he simply ran away……….”

Even when I had adopted Pavon, I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t have caught up with him.

“If my legs had been any sooner, I’d have at the least tried to catch up……!”

The extra I thought of it, the extra I felt unusually damage. I rolled my eyes in frustration, however there was no response.

Within the sudden silence, I opened one eye and squinted at Liel.

His face was even paler than earlier than.

This was not the time to speak about me.

“And also you?”

“…… me?”

“What’s incorrect with you? You’re even paler than earlier than.”

He hesitated to reply. His demeanor was so completely different from when he’d informed me about Pavon.

I swallowed laborious, nervously.

“Are you okay—.”

“Lucy.”

He leaned his head towards my shoulder. Liel’s hair tickled the nape of my neck.

“I’m presupposed to go on an extermination mission over trip.”

“Huh?”

I requested, so shocked I nearly brushed his shoulder.

“They are saying I’d get killed if I am going.”

“Ok, killed……!”

“But it surely feels like an amazing alternative, so I’m going.”

Going together with the extermination mission meant following the knights out of the Empire.

I had a nasty feeling about it, I had a sense one thing was going to occur, however I by no means thought it might be this unhealthy.

“You’re actually going to observe them? It’s too harmful.”

I questioned if he may return and inform them no.

As he mentioned, going alongside on a mission of extermination at such a younger age was an amazing alternative to construct his expertise and place, however what good would it not do if he died?

I hoped he would nod in settlement, even when solely belatedly, and say, “Isn’t that proper?

I feel he added that he would possibly die as a result of he wished me to cease him.

However my guess was superbly off.

“…… I’ve already determined to go, and I need to go.”

“…….”

“Don’t inform Grandma Anise and sister. They’ll fear.”

The Academy will contact the Duke anyway, even when I don’t inform them. And after they do, my grandmother will know in addition to Dioleta unnie.

Don’t you even assume that I’m apprehensive too?

The phrases rose to the highest of my throat, however I didn’t dare say them to him.

I knew finest that I used to be the one one he may speak in confidence to.

***

[Liel’s POV]

“You’re coming?”

Hemil requested, his eyes narrowing.

“Sure.”

Not like him, Liel’s mouth curved into a skinny smile.

“Once more, you’re going to the rear, do you perceive?”

“Sure.”

Hemil glared at Liel, who nodded obediently.

Having taught him for a yr and a half, Hemil knew that Liel was secretly fearless.

However may he actually be that carefree in fight?

Any knight, even one who has by no means confronted a beast earlier than, is sure to spark a combat. Some would even throw down their swords, which had been their lifeline, and run away with their backs to the beast.

He knew it was unlikely that the calm Liel would do such a factor, however he was nonetheless apprehensive.

“After……. What ought to we are saying to Duke Marsen…….”

The choice was made between them, however it fell to him to get Liel’s consent and break the information to the Duke of Marsen.

Hemil gritted his enamel, chalking it as much as age.

“When you’re completed, I’ll go away you to it.”

Liel, who had been watching Hemil silently as he wrapped his head in his palms, mentioned, taking a step again. Hemil waved a hand at him as if to say, “Go on.”

Liel turned and walked out of the employees room.

At the same time as he walked down the hall, he realized how futile Hemil’s concern for him was.

Even when he had been to die, it might haven’t any impact on the Duke. It was not as a result of he was a bastard.

In truth, if he had been a bastard, he would possibly even have the ability to afford a funeral. However the Duke would solely have the ability to reveal the reality when he died.

‘What sort of illegitimate youngster is he, when there’s not a drop of blood of the Duke in him?’

Liel muttered in a murderous voice.

He was nicely conscious of his predicament. That he has not a drop of the Duke of Marsen’s blood in him.

And he knew that his worth would solely enhance if he lived as if he’s useless.

Duchess Delphina thought it humorous that Liel didn’t understand the worth of what he had, however she was mistaken.

In fact, Liel had no intention of giving up something however the appropriate to inherit within the first place.

In any case, even with the appropriate to inherit, the Duke of Mersen would by no means grant him the seat of the Duke.

There was just one factor he had wished since childhood.

In his thoughts, he recalled the dialog he’d overheard earlier.

“If he’s as handsome as he says he’s, with household, persona, and a clear file with the women, it is likely to be price giving it some critical thought.”

“Uh……. I suppose so.”

He felt like he was being judged by others. He was not a noblewoman like Lucy.

Her father was a commoner, after all, however that was not the case for him, who was a commoner on either side of the household.

Furthermore, Lucy was the only inheritor to Home Seywint.

Maybe the person who had confessed to her was extra worthy than he was, primarily based on these phrases alone.

As a lot as he hated to confess it, he hated it greater than he may bear.

So he’d intentionally informed her concerning the extermination mission, realizing that she’d fear about him.

It was cheesy, however at the least this fashion she’d have the remainder of the holiday to consider him.

Organizing his ideas, Liel paused in the midst of the unlit hallway and closed his eyes.

What he lacks proper now.

“A house, a situation…….”

He felt like he was lastly getting a way of who he was going to be sooner or later.

***

[Lucy’s POV]

He was gone. And not using a correct goodbye.

He didn’t even inform me his departure time so I couldn’t see him off.

I rushed out the entrance door of the academy early within the morning, simply in case, however Liel had already left.

It was mentioned that he left early within the morning.

Disappointment, fear, and resentment mingled collectively, and I stood there for some time, staring on the gate by which the carriage should have handed.

A couple of days later, I returned to the Marquis of Seywint.

As anticipated, each my grandmother and Dioletta unnie had been conscious of Liel’s participation within the battle of attrition.

“Don’t fear an excessive amount of.”

“Sure, Lucy, I’m certain he’ll come again safely.”

I’m certain they had been additionally apprehensive inside, however they had been busy attempting to cheer me up after I appeared so depressed.

However nonetheless, I couldn’t assist however fear.

Even when Liel was probably the most expert swordsman within the academy, he was nonetheless an eighteen-year-old boy who straddled the brink of maturity.

What’s extra, he’d solely turn out to be actually sturdy after he turned evil. Proper now, he was only a human with an uncommon structure that allowed his wounds to heal shortly.

It was factor that his wounds healed shortly, however that didn’t imply they didn’t damage.

The extra I thought of it, the extra my head throbbed and ached.

You, why did you out of the blue determine to go there and fear folks a lot…….