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A tree with branches curved as if they were ready to become a large bow sheltered a grave beneath it. The final resting place for someone whose name is very familiar to my ears.
Someone whose smile is so distinctive because he always shows a devilish charming smile or sometimes his smile is really soft and warm.
Someone who can always make me feel annoyed because he likes to play with me who is still a child.
Someone I usually call Your Highness Yvone but whose real name is Teon Yvone, crown prince of the Yevonia kingdom and the first son of King Alan Yvone.
What's on my mind?. What do I see now?. Why is there His Highness Yvone's grave here?.
I suddenly became dazed. The emotional turmoil inside me seemed to just disappear because I was no longer able to process what had happened. I don't understand all the sights I saw earlier.
"Your Highness Yvone...died?" I muttered. I spoke as if my soul was not in its place.
I read the name engraved on the board attached to the branch of this big tree over and over again. The name was written with the letters I learned in this world. I've memorized the entire alphabet and can't be wrong. The letters clearly form the name Teon Yvone.
I didn't read it wrong...
That name really strings together His Highness Yvone's name...
This grave belongs to His Highness Yvone...
Sob-sob-sob
Tears flowed down my cheeks again gently. There was a strange feeling that came over me suddenly. Somehow I feel like I can't accept this. My emotions slowly overflowed again. I'm angry, I'm sad, I'm confused, I feel lost.
I can't imagine if this is his grave. I can't imagine if His Highness Yvone died.
I don't know why ...
This is very stifling ...
It hurts so much ...
My chest felt like it was being crushed by a large rock.
My head started to hurt. There are many memories suddenly spinning in my head. The memories are fighting for me to see. From memories of my past life, memories of when I was reincarnated, to memories that I can no longer remember.
No!.
No!.
Don't go!.
Don't go!.
No!!!.
"Cellia?!"
Blub!.
A faint, distorted voice reached my hearing. I seemed to hear Her Majesty Yvone's voice from under the water as if I was drowning in the deep ocean and heard her voice carried by the waves.
"Cellia!"
After hearing His Highnesa Yvone's voice calling me again, I suddenly saw the sight of the white room again. I also saw Cemille, Salamanca who was still holding my clothes, and His Highness Yvone who was now holding me. He looked at me worriedly.
"Thank goodness..." muttered His Highness Yvone. His face no longer showed anxiety.
I was still confused but I could feel warmth touching my forehead. It was His Highness Yvone's hand. I don't know what he was doing, but I saw a gleam of light between his hands that were holding my forehead.
"You surprised me Young Lady. Why did you activate your magic suddenly?. It was quite dangerous earlier because you were channeling mana for me..." explained His Highness Yvone, but I couldn't digest his words.
I just stared at his face and listened to his voice. He live!.
His Highness Yvone lives...
"I sealed your magic abilities temporarily. Until you enter the academy, you cannot use your time magic. Ah no. I forbade you from using magic back then, right?. Don't use your time magic again, okay?"
There he is!. Why can't I use my time magic?. What is the reason?!..
I really wanted to ask that, but my mouth just opened without being able to say a word. I'm still in a state of between believing and not believing what I see right now. His Highness Yvone is alive. I can feel his breath and heartbeat when he holds me like this.
"One more. You may not use magic if you are in the process of expelling or absorbing mana. That's very dangerous-"
Hiks!.
Waa!.
I cried and reflexively hugged His Highness Yvone. I hugged him very tightly. The sight I saw earlier was truly terrifying!.
How can I see His Highness Yvone's grave when she is still alive like this?!. Who made that grave?!. I want to protest!. You will definitely be punished if Your Highness Yvone finds out that someone made a grave for his while he himself is still alive!.
"Y-Young Lady?, Why are you crying?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. You definitely don't understand what I was talking about, right?. You don't need to think about it. I will take care of you. I'll explain it again when you're older ..."
"We'll be out of here soon too. Don't cry anymore, okay?"
I fell silent and let go of my embrace from His Highness Yvone.
"Hm. Good. Young Lady is cuter when you smiles. Come on, give me your smile..." said His Highness Yvone while wiping the remaining tears in my eyes with his hand.
His Highness Yvone waited for me to smile and finally I had to give his a forced smile. It's hard when I've just cried but I'm forced to smile straight away, huh!.
But at least she really was the His Highness Yvone I knew and he was still alive.
"Haha, you are indeed very funny Young Lady. Okay. Because you're smiling, I have to go back to trying to open the rune so we can get out of here..." said His Highness Yvone. He looks more enthusiastic now. This man seems to have a hobby of playing with small children!. Sigh ..
His Highness Yvone got up and focused again on solving the ancient rune. Meanwhile I saw that Camille looked helpless. He was so lethargic that he didn't have the strength to even stand up, so I picked up Cemille and carried him. Luckily his current form is a small dog and not a baskerville.
It seemed like Cemille's mana had also been absorbed by this magic room so much that he looked like a sick dog.
If only I knew how to channel mana into Cemille like His Highness Yvone did earlier. How does he allow me to channel mana into his body?. I only know that when he held my hand, the mana in me was suddenly sucked out and flowed into His Highness Yvone's hand.
"Sister" said Salamanca. She was standing quite far from me, even though she had been holding my clothes.
Ah, I just remembered. Sala is afraid of Cemille and because I'm holding Cemille right now, she's avoiding me.
But I saw that Salamanca was in good condition. She didn't seem to lack mana at all. Is it because Sala doesn't use magic like His Highness Yvone?. No!. Using it or not, one's mana will be absorbed out like Cemille. This little dog hadn't done anything since earlier, but its mana continued to be absorbed out.
But how can Sala look fine?. Did His Highness Yvone do something to Salamanca?. Maybe he gave Sala some kind of magical protection?.
Impossible. Magic protection definitely won't apply here because magic protection is created from mana.
Then what happened to Salamanca?.
While I was busy thinking about that. A sound of sand spreading was so subtle that I stopped thinking for a moment. I saw the white walls that surrounded us as far as the eye could see slowly fade.
"Ah, we are free at last. This is thanks to your help, Young Lady. Thank you," said His Highness Yvone to me.
Why thank you?. Even though I didn't help he in the slightest.
Oh no. Maybe he was thankful for the mana?. If I wasn't with him, he would have run out of mana in that magic trap, right?. But I'm still curious about how this magic trap came to be in the park. Who installed it?.
I intended to ask daddy, but it seems like I don't need to. I see His Highness Yvone intends to discuss this with daddy later. His Highness Yvone knows more about these magic traps than I do, especially about those ancient runes
On the other hand, Teon seems to be thinking about something after he was able to solve the ancient rune that trapped him in a magic trap that could absorb mana.
It was very clear that the magic traps were specially installed by high-level magic users who usually used Frux runes or ancient runes for today's names. But the trap rune was simultaneously also aimed at people who had high level magic who usually used the Frux rune.
But Teon thought it was strange because currently no one had such high level magic. Even academy graduates who have received the title of saint may experience difficulties if they are given a test such as removing the Frux rune because the Frux rune is no longer used nowadays.
Teon knows very well that the use of the Frux rune only existed several centuries ago, at that time when the world was still in a state of chaos after the war against demons ended.
According to the historical records he read, Frux runes were widely used to hunt witches and dragons.
However, if the trap was aimed at the leaders of the saint order, namely Weisstin in the present, it would make sense because they are quite skilled at using aether level magic using the Frux rune.
But, who would want to arrest one of the leaders of the saint order in this residence?.
Teon then immediately remembered that the rune was quite old and that meant the rune was not made to capture the leader of the saint order because it had not been formed in the past. Weisstin was only formed a few years ago because the world needed a new leader after the great wizard died.
"If Cellia hadn't activated her magic subconsciously earlier and if I hadn't held her little girl's hand, perhaps I would have never seen that scene..."
"The figure named Xion. A figure whose name I only knew from books because it was listed in every magic book I studied at the academy. He was the one who created a lot of magic and almost reached the same level as the great wizard.."
"Because only his name was written on the covers of the books, I became curious after seeing his figure earlier. Is he from this family?, the Leonhart family?"
"Does her full name Xion Leonhart?. Xion Leonhart, the Master of Spellscraft ..." Teon looked at Duke Leonhart's family manor with a look that was difficult to explain whether he was seriously curious or was feeling emotional turmoil that he would never show to anyone else.
Teon concluded that the person who set the magic trap with the Frux rune was probably a figure named Xion. A figure known as the Master of Spellcraft at the magic academy. Even though he didn't know, for what purpose or for whom Xion installed it.
"But what did I see last time?. Why does the grave have my name?. Was that the future that Young Lady subconsciously predicted"
From the view of the city, weather conditions, and the calendar he saw in the watch shop he passed while walking towards the burial hill behind the temple. Teon can conclude that the scene where he saw his own grave earlier was when autumn had just arrived and that it would be about three years from now.
"That means, I'll die when I'm nineteen years old?" Teon muttered. His face didn't show any fear at all, as if he was someone who didn't believe in predictions of the future. Instead, his face was decorated with a smile again.
"This is all getting more and more interesting ..."
"I wonder, how I will die again this time..."