Chapter 193: No Worries

Reinera POV

Reinera was a mess. Not even her focus skill was able to rein her emotions in. She could not actually believe that things ended up this way. What were the odds?

This might have been the single worst possible way she wanted to tell Julius about her secrets. She was not prepared for this situation at all.

Not to mention that she would be probably dying here pretty soon and knowing that she dragged Julius along didn’t do anything for her guilt. Her potentially one true friend at this school and she goes ahead and gets him killed alongside her.

Thank goodness I didn’t have any more friends, perhaps if I did I would have killed them too, she said to herself in a bitterly joking tone.

With that being said, it remained that they were stuck in this terrible situation together. All because some stupid noble probably thought that they had an opportunity to damage another faction. That was what really pissed her off.

If it was because of something she did or something she said, she would understand a bit more. However, it was most likely just because of some stupid politicking and that was frustrating.

And now the boy in question wasn’t even that mad anymore. It was like the moment he found out that she was Grace and spotted the necklace all of his previous anger vanished.

Furthermore, he was now acting like there was nothing wrong, going so far as to focus his attention on the artifact around her neck instead of their perilous situation.

She just gave him a disbelieving stare. She always knew that Julius was an unusual boy, after all, that was what had drawn her toward him in the first place, but this was different. She expected a different reaction than this.

He didn’t notice though and continued on his thoughts. “Would someone like Lily be able to sense such mind-altering effects?” Julius asked curiously, his eyes shining brilliantly as his eyes didn’t leave the necklace. It seemed he was interested to know if such subtle mental effects would work on someone like Lily.

She found herself caught up in his casualness as well and answered his question before she could help herself.

“Well, a normal psychic wouldn’t be able to, but Lily is well… Lily for a reason. I kind of expected that she already knew that I was hiding something. Sorry, but why aren’t you more upset?” She asked with her lips pressed together tightly.

“Do you want me to be?”

“Of course not, but I feel like a normal person would be very upset in this situation,” she logically pointed out.

He just shrugged his shoulders in response.

“Aren’t you still upset that I dragged you with me?” She asked, confused.

He gave a wave of his hand. “Not that much anymore. I was more upset that a random stranger pulled me into their mess, but obviously you’re not a stranger.”

She stared at him with a completely blank face.

“Aren’t I? I have been hiding my true identity this entire time you know? How can you still consider me a friend after this?”

He gave her a disappointing look. “Of course you’re still my friend. You might have been hiding your name and what you look like, but let’s be honest, what’s the real mask? I have a sneaking suspicion that the princess card is more of a mask than the Grace one,” he said bluntly.

She didn’t give an immediate response to that. She just stared at the stone floor while biting her lips. That might be entirely too accurate, she thought to herself resentfully.

“You might have a point about that,” she finally said.

A stark silence filled the void. One that she was desperate to fill.

“I was going to tell today after our classes,” she admitted to him.

She watched as he gave her a curious glance. “Is that why you wanted to talk?”

“Yeah, I noticed that piece of mana you left on me yesterday and thought it was about time to tell you something.”

“You noticed that, huh?” His face looked a little bit guilty. Although, she was happy that she was finally getting some real emotion of him.

“I didn’t know what it was, I just knew that it was about time to share some things,” she explained.

“So you were going to tell me everything?” He asked.

She shook her head softly. “Not everything,” she told him truthfully. “Just enough.”

He nodded his head. “Oh,” he stated plainly.

Another breath of silence passed between them.

“I still don’t get why you aren’t more upset. Look at where you are because of me?” She asked, confused.

He finally turned and gave her his entire attention. “I told you before, I don’t have any plans to die in here.” He sounded so relaxed and calm. She didn’t understand why. It was like this was a regular Tuesday morning to him.

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“We are in a Tier 3 labyrinth rift all alone, how do you expect us to survive?” She asked.