Chapter 151: Figuring Things Out

Reinera POV

Reinera couldn’t remember the last time when she had enjoyed herself this much. The closest thing that she could think of was when she and her uncle ran around the palace pranking their family. But that was also a couple of years ago.

This time around, she was enjoying herself with someone who wasn’t her family. Which was new and exciting.

It had been around a week since she had met Julius in the library and apologized to him. During that time, they met daily at the library before their classes. It became sort of their routine and unspoken commitment.

They wouldn’t even talk with each other for a long time. But they were both content as they silently enjoyed the other’s presence. Most of the time it was the two of them reading their own books while Amelia stood by watching with suspicious eyes.

She still was bothered by not knowing what his skill was. She had tried to pry the secrets out of Julius’s perception skill every day they were there. She was very perturbed by the fact that a boy like Julius was able to completely see through her stealth ability.

No matter what kind of changes she made, it had no effect. She made sure to vocalize her frustrations to Reinera at night as well.

That created some slight issues. For Amelia that is, it wasn’t an issue for Reinera. In fact, it was a blessing in disguise.

The problem was that since Julius was able to sense Amelia no matter what she tried, that led to the unavoidable dilemma of Amelia following her around everywhere she went as Princess Reinera. If he was somehow able to sense Amelia following her around like a little duckling, then it wouldn’t take a genius to guess the relationship between Grace and Reinera.

That was why Amelia had started to give her more space, at least when she knew that Julius might be in the vicinity. She wasn’t going to lie, she was savoring those moments. Just knowing that she didn’t have someone watching over her shoulder made her feel more free. It was also funny to see Amelia upset about not knowing what to do about Julius’s unique skill.

On another note, she started to learn about Julius. It was slow, but she learned that just like her, he loved food with a passion, which she already knew, but was still nice to confirm. She also found out that he had a small little life spirit named Drasil as a familiar.

One day when he arrived at the library, he brought out the adorable green little spirit. Drasil was quite unique even to some of the other life spirits she had seen in the past. This one seemed very aware for a spirit at its stage.

Many of the other spirit familiars she had seen were just simple little blobs of mana when they were that young. Drasil, on the other hand, acted very intelligent. He was also quite the glutton to her immense amusement.

She was pretty confident that the spirit had inherited that particular trait from his contractor.

Amelia was curious as to why Julius would pick a life spirit as a familiar instead of a fire spirit and asked him why. He responded that he had a small affinity for life and chose it because he thought a life spirit would be cute.

Amelia didn’t quite agree with that logic, but then again it wasn’t abnormal to choose familiars based on appearances. And to be fair, fire spirits were infamous for being little balls of destruction and mischief.

There was just one major thing that continued to bother her.

It was the fact that she had been lying to her newfound friend. And the pessimistic side of her wondered if he would still be her friend if she told him the truth.

Sadly, she definitely could see him feeling betrayed by her secret and feeling like she had been lying to him since day one. Then not want to be friends anymore. Even worse, she couldn’t blame him for feeling that way.

That was what scared her the most. The possibility that he wouldn’t want to be her friend once he knew who she was and she wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.

So far she had been able to make excuses about what classes she was in. But every time she saw him in Applied Combat, she felt an overwhelming sense of guilt. She had talked about telling him with Amelia a few nights ago, but she had been adamant she should not tell him.

It wasn’t that Reinera didn’t agree with her either. Amelia made some valid points. She hadn’t known Julius for very long. It had only been a week since they had been meeting up in the mornings.

But it felt like it had been much longer.

Today was the first time they had agreed to meet with each other outside of the library. He had invited her to eat dinner with him along with the others. To which she readily said yes.

She hadn’t been able to apologize to the rest of them. That was kind of her plan for today.

She stood out in front of the cafeteria waiting where Julius told her to. Amelia wasn’t with her at the moment, there were some things she needed to take care of.

While she waited, she tried to rehearse her apology to the others. Julius had already told her that he mentioned their meet-ups in the library and notified them that she apologized to him, but she still wanted to apologize to them directly.

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Not too long after, she saw Julius along with Lily, Edgar, and Aubrey approach the cafeteria. Three of them were seemingly cheering up a downtrodden Lily, who looked quite weary.

Julius was the first to see her and waved his hand at her as he headed toward her. She gave a tentative wave back at him with a small grin.

“I see you came,” he commented when he got within earshot.

“Of course I did. I said I would, didn’t I?” She said in mock offense.

He shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know. I wouldn’t be surprised if Amelia told you not to.”

She playfully swatted him on the shoulder. “She has been much better. You got to admit that,” she told him.