Chapter 215 – You Changed Him (1/2)

“Nana!!!”

Elena’s clear voice reverberated through the quiet night.

She suddenly opened her eyes, her blood-red eyes dyed with terror.

The night sky was covered by the large trees, the weaving branches induced nightmares. Elena cried out and suddenly sat up, she took deep breaths but found it hard to breath, her heart beating nonstop.

“What’s wrong?” A familiar voice came from next to her.

“N-nothing…”

Elena nodded and turned to look at that handsome blond youth.

Caesar sat near her gently stroking the sword on his lap while staring in a daze into the darkness. The other pink-haired girl lying next to him was in a deep sleep curled next to him, completely undisturbed by Elena’s yell.

After tonight, tomorrow was the last day of the competition, Loran Academy had already entered deep into Despair Forest, so night watch became ever so important. According to the map, they should reach the silver vault during lunch tomorrow, as long as no one gets in their way.

Caesar only asked out of concern, but never intended to go over and comfort her. He remained seated at his spot, Elena could understand that was probably because he was royalty and she was Lin Xiao’s maid. Since her master wasn’t here and it was deep into the night, he had to maintain a distance from her.

“Nightmare?” Caesar asked.

“Un.” Elena nodded.

“That name… no, never mind.” Caesar was about to ask, but felt that it wouldn’t be right. He shook his head and stopped speaking, pretending as if he never said anything.

Does he not want to speak out of turn? Elena had thought.

That’s good as well, since he didn’t talk to her, she could have some time to calm down.

Yes, she had a nightmare, she dreamed that both her niece and Snow were in danger. Snow said that she would protect Elona, but she herself was in trouble as well.

Was she just overthinking it? Snow was the Saintess, Elona should be safe with her.

“Huuu…”

After a couple of deep breaths, Elena finally calmed down. She tried to shake off her anxiousness and get back to sleep, but she couldn’t and kept tossing and turning.

“Sigh…”

She sighed and sat back up, extremely agitated.

“Do you want to talk? It seems that you’re very anxious.”

“There’s nothing to talk about.” Elena firmly rejected him, but after thinking about it, and since she couldn’t fall asleep, she might as well, “Caesar… if you think that I was worrying about Lin Xiao, then you’re wrong. It doesn’t matter whether he’s dead or alive!”

“But I didn’t say you were worrying about him… why are you in such a hurry to deny it?”

“… No, okay.” Elena pursed her lips and felt like she said something wrong.

“Nana… is she a close relative?”

“Did you hear that? Un, I guess so, I dreamed that she was in danger… no, that’s not it!” Elena was about to talk about her dream but remembered the background setting Lin Xiao had for her, and that she shouldn’t have any relatives, so she quickly corrected herself, “I-I was just suddenly reminiscing the past, I…”

“Elena, you can’t lie.” Caesar suddenly interrupted her.

“What?”

“You’re not like Lin Xiao, I can never tell when he’s joking or being serious… but you’re different.” Caesar stared right at Elena, “So, you’re not a noble lady from a fallen household, and your background setting was all fake, right?”

“…” Elena didn’t say anything.

Lin Xiao was only gone for a day or two and she already clumsily exposed herself. Since she couldn’t do anything but welcome his gaze and unyieldingly asked, “So what?”

“Nothing, I just wanted to say what I was thinking. Who you are has nothing to do with me, I just know that you’re Lin Xiao’s maid and that’s enough.”

“Oh, so?”

After that, there should be more right? Otherwise, why else would Caesar say so much useless stuff?

As expected, Caesar paused, then continued on.

“You’ve been anxious these past days, it’s out of worry for Lin Xiao, right?”

“I just said, I’m not worried about him! Please don’t get it wrong.” Elena frowned as she replied.

“Is that so? But like I said, you’re not good at lying.”

“Tsk…”

She hated his conceited expression.

“Caesar, is it strange to you that I, as a maid, am not worried about my own master?”

“Yes, extremely so. I always thought that you guys had a very good relationship.”

“Sorry, but you might be blind.”

“Do you hate him?”