Chapter 87.2

This kiss was a detailed contact, like injured animals licking one another’s wounds. A sympathy that embraced and caressed one another’s sore spots. After some time, as Iellie parted her lips, Zachary stared at her.

“Look, Zachary.”

Gasping for breath, she stated, staring straight into Zachary’s eyes.

“I’m right here.”

“…Len.”

“Proper in entrance of you, inside attain of your eyes.”

She uttered firmly. Zachary’s eyes trembled like a windswept lake as he checked out her.

“Then, don’t be afraid.”

“Nonetheless…”

“I’ve advised you a lot occasions that I’ll by no means go away you.”

Iellie’s phrases left him speechless.

By no means go away you.

…It was a candy phrase, as if a dream.

“You say everybody leaves you due to you…”

“….”

“…I’ll show you fallacious.”

Iellie smiled confidently whereas wrapping her arms round Zachary’s neck. He caught his breath. It felt like a lie. Nonetheless, there was a glimmer of hope. His coronary heart swelled.. he wished to imagine her phrases one way or the other.

“Zachary, do you imagine me?”

Iellie’s eyes sparkled like the daylight on a spring day. Zachary couldn’t resist that gaze in any respect.

“…Sure, I imagine you.”

Listening to his low voice, she smiled brightly earlier than she wore a apprehensive face.

“Your physique is sizzling.”

“I’m okay.”

“You don’t look okay in any respect!”

Saying so, she narrowed her forehead loads.

Zachary laughed at Iellie. He had been exterior too lengthy and was soaked within the rain. Even the biting chilly that coated his entire physique felt as far-off as others.

“Even so, since you’re by my facet, you are concerned about me… I’m glad.”

He actually meant it.

On the identical time, Zachary’s respiratory was disrupted. His knees buckled limply, and his physique titled. His brow was sizzling like a ball of fireplace. Due to that, Iellie’s face, which was touching his brow, turned pale.

“Zachary? Zachary!”

That voice that desperately known as out to him was the very last thing he remembered. Concurrently aid, his thoughts darkened.

After that day, Zachary fell significantly ailing. It was as a result of his fatigue piled up, and he was additionally mentally exhausted. In addition to, since he was soaked within the rain, it could be even weirder if he didn’t collapse.

“….”

His listening to was the primary a part of his physique to get well.

The air round was heat as his imaginative and prescient was coated by darkness like a gentle curtain, and the sound of individuals speaking lowly tickled his ears.

“Why is Zachary so distracted?”

The proprietor of that crying voice was Iellie.

…Len, why are you speaking like that?

He centered intently on their dialog. The voice, which at first seemed like a mumble, slowly finds type.

“I heard that the Head has not been capable of sleep correctly currently.”

“That’s proper, however…”

“In addition to, because the earlier Head handed away not too way back, it should have been very troublesome mentally.”

It was the physician who gave the reason. The physician spoke to Iellie in a gentle tone.

“Nonetheless, he’s so sturdy that he’ll get away from bed very quickly. Don’t fear an excessive amount of.”

“However, he had by no means closed his eyes for therefore lengthy.”

“Nicely, Miss. It’s solely been 5 hours. He’s simply sleeping.”

A second of silence handed, and he might really feel a heat towel wiping his brow and cheeks. Zachary wished to open his eyes. He wished to open his eyes and inform Iellie to not fear and that he was effective.

‘…However, I’m too drained.’

His entire physique was drained like moist cotton. Zachary wished to return to sleep like this. How might he be sleepy even together with his eyes closed? Whereas serious about this and that, he was caught within the swamp of his sleep.

He fell asleep helplessly.

Zachary was asleep just like the lifeless. Recollections of the previous got here and went arbitrarily by the layers of desires. The dream he had now was the dream of his childhood, earlier than assembly Iellie, when he was suppressing himself.

“Isn’t the Younger Duke a bit scary?”

It was a banquet that was hardly ever held on the Duke’s citadel. The kids who have been hanging out with one another chattered and chattered.

“I heard that the winter magic of Hessenweitz has the facility to freeze the entire world?”

“And the Younger Duke is alleged to have been born with the purest blood of the Silver Dragon.”

The kids’s eyes have been full of many colours.

Jealousy of a boy of the identical age as them casually increase martial arts that even sturdy knights couldn’t obtain. Concern of others… The second coming of highly effective magic appeared to return out of legend.

The kids rolled their eyes and continued speaking.

“My father stated that he made numerous majors in battles with barbarians.”

“Ah, not simply the barbarians. They are saying he even took the lives of these horrible beasts instantly.”

Zachary sneered.

The facility to remove an individual’s life without delay and freeze beasts instantly… Even when he touched it together with his finger, the whole lot crumbles. Everybody stated he was a monster. It was the facility to make folks sad…

“…Ev, everybody round me is sad due to me.”

Crunch.

The leaves bought trampled. The faces of the youngsters who regarded again with out serious about it froze instantly.

“Younger, Younger Duke?”

“Uh…”

Though they spoke loads, they should have been afraid to see the topic of such overwhelming tales proper in entrance of their eyes.

“…I’m, I’m scared.”

“Monster…”

Zachary’s very existence evoked visceral worry in folks. The kids quickly wept.

“Oh my God, what are you guys speaking about in entrance of the Younger Duke!”

“Everybody, come right here!”

At the moment, the noble girls hurriedly ran this manner. The noble girls with their kids wrapped of their skirts bowed their heads to Zachary.

“Sorry, Younger Duke!”

“They made a mistake as a result of the youngsters are younger and don’t know a lot. Please have mercy…”

The kids in entrance of him have been the identical age as Zachary. However in any other case, the youngsters have been wrapped of their mom’s skirt. They could possibly be infantile with their dad and mom, they usually took it with no consideration that they have been liked.

“….”

The world they lived in was totally different, and typically he felt skeptical… when might he be a part of their world?

“—ry.”

All of a sudden, a pleasant voice got here.

Zachary raised his head with a twinkle. A world full of heat, freed from loneliness. The one one that opened the door to the world he had at all times wished was calling him…

“…Zachary.”

A heat, gentle hand, a well-recognized contact. She brushed the messy hair on his brow and brushed his cheeks.

“Ah, actually.”

Adopted by a barely hoarse voice. Oh, this individual. He laughed with out realizing it.

‘…My Iellie.’

“How lengthy are you going to sleep?”

Iellie grumbled in a small voice. As he heard the voice, Zachary felt it was time for him to get up.

“I’m ready for you want this.”

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