“Ah……”
Elia opened her eyes.
When she regained consciousness, she found herself on a bed in the medical clinic.
The atmosphere around her was dark and quiet, indicating that it was late at night and Military Doctor Theo had left work.
Did I end up fainting while running in the training ground?
“Exactly how long did I run?”
Honestly, I didn't remember anything after eight o'clock.
There was only one thought on my mind: I had to escape from the voices of my family in my previous life that were echoing in my head.
Illya muttered, letting out a meaningless laugh.
“How ironic, these humans no longer exist.”
Anyway, I knew Keisha's training would be hard after reading the original novel, but I didn't expect it to be this much.
“Moreover, that Axion is also a completely crazy monster.”
Kesha, who orders exercises beyond logic without blinking an eyelid, is crazy enough, but Axion, who carries them out, is also no less crazy.
“This is nothing but a gathering of lunatics.”
Illya's body trembled as she remembered Axion's form as he ran in front of her without losing his rhythm before she lost consciousness.
Even after taking large doses of the stimulant drugs Yusar had given her, confronting him seemed impossible.
More importantly, will I be able to receive training tomorrow?
If I had been brought here, my body would definitely be a mess that wouldn’t allow me to move……
And if it was Keisha's training, it would definitely be just as tough as it was today.
Despite the intense pain, she had to check her body condition.
Elia tossed and turned in the bed, then unconsciously screamed.
“What is this, why am I so fine?”
Her body was not in pain, but was amazingly healthy, even refreshed.
At my best!
I even felt energized and energetic, similar to how I felt when I took the magic medicine to relieve muscle pain that Yusar had given me earlier.
Elijah's face froze.
If it was military doctor Theo who cured me, he must have examined me before, in which case I would have been revealed to be a woman.
“I'm going crazy.”
I couldn't figure out the situation because I didn't remember anything.
She was in the midst of anxiety and confusion.
Squeak-
The door to the medical clinic opened quietly.
“Who's there?”
She shouted towards the door with a slightly wary face.
“Elijah, it's me.”
Upon hearing the answer, the wariness on her face eased slightly.
There was only one person in this place who called her by her real name in an affectionate voice.
Shining silver hair slowly appeared in the darkness.
“Yusar, what brings you here?”
“So you're awake.
Why does your face look like this?”
Ilya asked in an eager voice.
"What happened?
Was my identity revealed?"
Upon hearing that, Yusar laughed lightly and replied.
“You were about to be exposed.
But you weren't.”
As a result, Elijah sighed in relief.
Thankfully, I miraculously survived.
“What exactly happened?
How long did I run?”
Then Yusar asked her again with surprised eyes.
“Don't you remember anything?
Even getting past Axion in the end and getting past him?”
“I passed Axion?”
Ilya asked as she looked at Yusar with a confused face, and he nodded.
“Yes, Axion fell in the end.
And you, you kept running until Keisha issued the stop order.
It was truly amazing, even if you had taken steroids.
It truly deserves to be ranked first.
My alliance with you has been rewarding.”
Yusar added, his voice full of admiration.
“Moreover, even after you fell, you didn’t forget to whisper to me right before you lost consciousness, asking me to handle it if any critical situation happened.”
I made this request of him in the midst of this.
“So I was secretly waiting outside the medical clinic, away from the military doctor and Keisha.
I intended to intervene if they tried to take off your clothes and examine you.
But just at the moment when the military doctor was about to start the examination……”
Yusar paused for a moment, and Illya looked at him with a tense face.
“……Kesha stopped him.
He said there was no need to examine.”
“Kesha?”
“Yes.
Then I feed you a piece of the healing ball.”
Elijah's eyes widened.
I casually heard that the Healing Ball is an extremely rare and precious elixir.
“Why did Keisha give that to me?”
“I don't know why, but there was a strange atmosphere around the place.”
After Yousar said that, he fell silent.
Even in his eyes, Keisha and the military doctor’s conversation at that moment was definitely strange.
Yusar then saw Keisha taking some kind of medicine through a gap in the medical clinic's window.
It was a medicine he knew very well.
Devil seed.
They are the seeds of a magical herb that contain narcotic ingredients.
When consumed, pain and depression are forgotten for a moment, but they ultimately lead to addiction.
It was a drug that the women of the brothel he lived in as a child always took, so he couldn't forget it no matter how hard he tried.
Yusar did not know why the cruel Keisha, who looked like if you cut him he wouldn't have a drop of blood, relied on such drugs, but he considered it his weakness.
Therefore, he decided to keep this fact to himself for now.
Then, Elia answered brusquely.
“Maybe he wanted me to recover quickly so he could put me through hard training in any way possible.”
Keisha would not grant such a favor in vain.
But something seemed strange.
I have safely passed the risk of my identity being exposed, and my body has completely recovered.
But why did Yusar come to her secretly at this particular time?
It was more suspicious than just him coming to explain the situation.
Ilya looked at Yusar directly and asked him:
“But, why are you here?”
Instead of answering, Yusar strode towards the bed on which she was lying.
His face moved closer until he was very close to hers.
In the darkness, his face, which received the moonlight, shone extremely mysteriously.
His violet eyes crammed with extreme warmth.
Illya felt nervous when she saw his smile.
Although it was an amazingly charming smile, she knew at the same time that it was a malicious smile that he only made when he had a hidden intention.
Then Yusar laughed lightly and whispered:
“Why do you think I came here?”
Why this response?
I'm the one who asked the question!
Elia was startled.
Then Yusar moved closer.
Their faces were almost touching.
“……!”
Yusar's breath touched her face.
“M, what are you doing now……!”
"Guess what, Elijah.
What am I going to do?"
A charming voice flowed from his beautiful crimson lips.
His heavy breaths mixed with listlessness reached her ear.
Ah, I remembered!
Yusar was a scheming hero, and at the same time possessed enormous charisma...!
“I told you to guess.”
"Don't go too far!
How should I know?!"
She immediately stepped back, shouting aggressively, so as not to get carried away with him.
“Elijah, don’t pretend to be innocent.”
Yusar's violet eyes sparkled sharply.
“You have the ability to see the future.”
Elijah's eyes widened at those words.
“What are you talking about now?”
Instead of answering, Yusar stepped back.
Then he placed a few thin papers on Elijah's bed, and pointed at them with his eyes.
“Isn't this a newspaper?”
Yusar nodded.
“Yes.
As soon as I arrived here, I bribed a servant from the main building of the palace and received it every day.
It was just delivered at dawn today.”
Even while you are here, you should know how the outside world works.
He was a very meticulous person indeed.
“Look there at the exclusive news on the front page.”
Elijah looked at the news on the front page, he said.
[Exclusive!
Claude Trading Group discovers an untapped gold mine!!!]
[The largest gold mine in the history of the empire!]
[Will Claude Business Group rise to become a major business group in the empire?!]
…
So, it was Claude's business group, the Lennox family, that discovered the gold mine at this particular time.
Then Yusar opened his mouth and stared at her intently.
“Honestly, I never understood why you were so close to Lennox Claude in particular, someone as strange or unstable as him, and not anyone else.”
His eyes sparkled strangely.
“But if you knew this beforehand, the situation would be different.”
Elijah's eyes shook.
This bastard, how far did he find out?
Illya looked at him with a sharp look and feigned ignorance.
"Don't be silly.
How could I have known something like this beforehand?
And Lennox is a good boy.
Don't talk bad about him."
Then, Yousar smiled.
"I like Lennox too.
He's kind and obedient.
But, wait, you deliberately went looking for Lennox from day one and saved him, right?
Why did you do that specifically?"
How does Yusar know this?
As if he read her mind, he added.
“Ah, I was curious about how the soldier before me was sent away, so I investigated a little.”
He evidently found out from the followers who were under Patrick's command.
Yusar now looked at Ilya, and with his usual charming smile, his features brightened.
“Elijah, then, answer me honestly.
You have the ability to see the future, right?”