Chapter 102 (1/2)
Chapter 102
As people were busy inspecting their gear, they stood up straight the rew serious and tense
When the long echoes of the truarb one by one started walking towards the forest
Dauard
Even so, there were some ere still on the field
Tenfestival states that all participants o into the forest within ten minutes
Once more, I scanned the faces of those who had re
Leo wasn’t there
‘Did he go into the forest?’
A heap of people rushed into the forest a while ago, so hein that asn’t very characteristic of a male lead, but you never know
Whatever reason there o back to the barracks immediately anyway
It would be a problem to meet Leo in a place like this for no reason
After all, I couldn’t check his position with my own eyes, so I just needed to leave the doubts behind
“Let’s go back and rest now”
“Yes, Sister”
Alicia was looking still gazing at the forest with anxious eyes, but after I whispered to her, she nodded
With our arether
However, we couldn’t even take more than a few steps
“Your Ladyshi+p”
It was the voice of the person I wanted to avoid the ht now
I wanted to pretend that I didn’t hear him, but Alicia already turned her head
Inevitably, I also had to look back
Sunlight poured over the head of thethere
Beneath the sun, his red hair looked like burning lava
The kind of dangerous and sinister lava that couldat once
The eyes that met mine were no different
Our eyes lance fro man who had succeeded in his acts of ave off an uncomfortable atmosphere almost instantaneously, but he just bent his eyes into crescenthad happened
“Oh,Duke Carter
As Leo greeted us, he gave us asmile
“How have you been, Your Ladyshi+p?”
“I’ve been well”
“Lady Alicia, how about you?”
The arrow that was his greeting soon changed its target and turned to Alicia
I stared intently at Leo’s side profile
He suspiciously looked as if he had come across a sudden prize
As if he was a beast that had snatched the neck of his prey, which had only a moment’s carelessness
“Ah, yes I’ Duke Carter, have you also been well?”
Alicia stammered, but eventually finished her reply ad to see for me, but I wasn’t in the least pleased that the person she was talking to was Leo
“Yes, I also have been well thanks to you two,to say
After the funeral, we contacted each other only once
And it was the same case with Alicia, too
I orried that they ed letters secretly, but I know that only one letter from Leo was sent to her
Just the same with me
“More than that”
I smiled and spoke up first
I needed to break the conversation off before Leo would start speaking azes to ing by your outfit, it see festival, Young Duke”
“It’s alright There’s still nine lanced away as he answered, looking at the clock on the podium
Indeed, just as he said, the trumpet was sounded less than a minute earlier
But that’s impossible
With the way time moved so slowly, it left only a bitter taste in h, the corners of Leo’s lips curled up
“But it seeht will be absent fro attire”
His red eyes flashed towards the person behindhis breath as he stood guard
‘I wonder if their eyes h nothing special happened, I answered nonchalantly with a nod
“Yes My escort knight’s job is to protect me”
“Oh, of course His job”
With the casual reply, his languid red gaze returned to the back again
This tilance
A deep, sharp gaze like a wild beast that was meant to eat nature’s prey
“Then,abehind me The way he asked nize Cassion?’
An unexpected sense of anxiety rose, but I shook it off with a shrug
Any unnecessary anxiety could also prove to be a bane
Alicia’s curious gaze followed
Although she hadn’t said much so far, Alicia seemed to be curious about Cassion’s ht tone
“He injured his face during training The doctor said that he should be careful not to expose his skin to sunlight for theaI shouldn’t have asked?”
“It’s alright You didn’t intend it”
In other words, it’s true that you asked so io away
However, Leo pretended to be unaware