"Thalia, I already know Zeph is interested in n. Stop manipulating him!"
’What the hell, Valeriana?’ Zeph, looking at Valeriana, couldn’t help but think about her decision-making process not working the way it should, ’We are literally standing outside the academy, girl!’
"W-what do you an?" Thalia, breaking out of her own thoughts, looked at her in confusion, not understanding what she ant by this.
Turning towards Zeph, who averted his gaze, not eting hers, she got the gist of the matter.
"Okay," she nodded in affirmation, making Valeriana confused now. ’Is it solved that easily?’
Everything ended before she had anticipated it to, from Valeriana’s perspective. The mont she revealed Thalia’s secret, knowing her well, Thalia would have retorted back, but this...
Ignoring this, she turned towards Zeph. Now that Thalia had already agreed to back down, Valeriana could know the main reason for his visit or Thallasar.
"Tell Zeph, why were you—"
"It’s getting late, Thalia! Let’s go."
Not wanting to stay there, Zeph took Thalia’s hand and swiftly tried to leave the place.
But, of course, not wanting to leave Valeriana, he added, "Co on, you too, Valeriana, or we will be late."
Not wanting to destroy the remaining chances, he didn’t hold her hand. Instead, he moved slowly to maintain her pace while talking about random things to avoid Valeriana’s inquiry.
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Inside one of the offices of the main building, a woman entered, followed by a Craten girl who kept looking at everything blankly, getting the gist of the situation she was in.
In the previous life, Deventhia was not alive at the ti when Chrintain Valley attacked.
Her absence was the most regrettable thing for Valeriana and Estelle too.
At that ti, they needed the guidance of people who could beco a pillar for them, but every figure whom they treated as their teacher was already either dead or took the side of The Chrintain Valley.
Deventhia, Adriannel, or Diana’s father were so of the figures who could have beco an unshakeable support for them in those tis, but they had already died.
"So, you can see through my illusions," Deventhia moved inside the room before settling in the chair, folding her legs, intensely looking towards Estelle.
"I-I can’t do that," Estelle’s voice hesitated, feeling overwheld seeing her teacher like that.
In every life, she wanted to protect her, but the sa restrictions kept her in her place.
"I see," Deventhia nodded before leaning and placing her chin on the hand supported by the table, looking at Estelle.
"I am telling the truth, I can’t detect your illusion," feeling Deventhia’s narrowed gaze, Estelle tried to clarify things before it beca hard to handle.
Knowing Deventhia’s personality well, she was completely sure of her attempts to dissect her brain.
Even though it would not be physical dissection, being in the presence of soone like Deventhia was like exposing your brain, an entirely open book.
"I said, I believe you."
’!?’
Suddenly hearing a sound from behind her, Estelle turned, only to et her eyes with Deventhia’s.
Feeling confused, she turned to see her standing in both places at the sa ti, making her bewildered.
"T-this," she kept looking at Deventhia’s figure as she moved from her place towards the table with calculated steps.
The seated figure of her slowly started to vanish, making Estelle realize that the figure in front of her was just an illusion created by Deventhia.
A smile ford on Deventhia’s face while her gaze fixed at Estelle’s confused and bewildered expression, not wasting her ti see directly to the point.
"So, in your future, I died at the hands of Amrantha too?"
’!?!’
Estelle kept looking at the woman in front of her, her mind in a trance after witnessing all these things.
She wasn’t afraid that Deventhia had noticed her change in behavior, deducing her knowledge about Deventhia; it didn’t feel alarming.
But her mind was in turmoil, ’Why now?’
She had already endured for so long, and now her teacher was able to see through her. It was a relief, ’Wait!’
She swiftly turned towards Deventhia, her eyes widening. "How do you know that!?"
Deventhia, seeing Estelle like this, confird her suspicion.
Unlike Valeriana, she couldn’t read people’s thoughts, but what made her see through them was her experience.
The human body might seem complex at first, but when one understands it, deducing things from body language and other cues weren’t that difficult.
Of course, it wasn’t enough for her to guess Estelle possessed mories of upcoming future.
But the mont she made her fall into the illusion, she could clearly feel her emotions reacting much more intensely, especially in Zeph’s suffering.
This made her connect his usual suspicious behavior with Estelle’s.
Turning her gaze towards the Academy’s second-year building, she thought, ’This world is becoming more interesting.’
Estelle was not stupid, living for many life, seeing Deventhia’s gaze towards second year building and her interaction towards Zeph was already more than enough for her to link, Deventhia’s knowledge with a certain figure.
’ So, it’s true that you posses future mories Zeph’
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After entering the Academy, finally distracting Valeriana from asking the sa repetitive question, Zeph and Thalia had gone towards their dorm rooms to change into the Academy’s uniform.
Valeriana’s POV
They both went to dress themselves after Zeph talked about random things on our way to the academy premises.
Though I found him trying to avoid things, now that I think about my previous behavior, it feels confusing.
’It’s Aunt’s fault!’, She shouldn’t have told about Marriage thing.
I can’t even focus on my studies since morning. ’Guess I have to forget about this.’
Putting all those thoughts aside for the ti being, after all, even if such a scenario occurred, it would be after the third year.
Moving outside my dorm after changing clothes, I made my way towards the classroom.
’"Is this Young Master Zephyr’s Classroom?"’
Suddenly hearing the thoughts from a group of people in front of , I focused on a white-haired girl looking at the classroom door from whom these thoughts ca from.
’Is she new here?’ I couldn’t recall any girl like her belonging to our classroom.
But, Seeing her dress, which confird she was from Class A, made it even more confusing.
Observing her, I tried to tune in to more of her thoughts.
"’Sigh...focus Yue! Madam is also here, you just need to beco her sidekick.’"
Not comprehending what she was going on about, I proceeded toward the classroom, already entangled in all these matters since morning. ’Have to focus on studies.’
Upon entering the classroom, I headed to my seat, took my place, and began to open my books.
"Hey, are you two twins, and who is older among you?"
Suddenly, a voice caught my attention; it was Rihane talking to two girls. ’Isn’t that the girl?’
I recognized the woman; she was the one who had been thinking random things just a mont ago.
"’Are those horns? Oh my, should I touch them? They look cute.’"
’She seems quite cheerful,’ I thought, looking at the girl. ’What was her na again?’
’Yeah, Yue,’ I recalled her na from her thoughts.
Seeing how she found Rihane’s horns cute was more than enough to categorize her similarly to Rihane.
’But she...’ I looked towards her twin with brown hair.
Her eyes were searching for soone while her fingers were fidgeting.
Narrowing my eyes, I attempted to read her thoughts.
"’Will Young Master Zephyr beco angry with us? No, we are not his servants now. Rember what the professor told you.’"
’!?’
Is she talking about Zeph? What’s with this servant thing and the professor? Which one?
’Really now,’ I couldn’t help but think how everything from the previous day, after learning about Zeph’s preferences, until now felt too confusing.
’Focusing on the upcoming test seems important,’ I decided to ignore her and started to concentrate on my textbooks.
The upcoming test was in a week, and if not studied well, who knows what might happen?
I didn’t want to score fewer credits than Zeph. Already falling behind in rankings, I needed to focus on each test.
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’Finally,’ Zeph felt relieved after arriving outside the classroom’s doors, looking ahead, understanding how closely he had avoided a big problem coming his way.
’Everything will be alright now.’ eting Estelle was unexpected, and all things from yesterday were already beyond his understanding.
But now, he felt refreshed from everything, ’Thanks to Thalia.’
"Zeph!" Hearing a lodious voice, he turned to look at a woman running towards him with erald eyes and caral hair.
’This girl.’ Zeph chuckled, seeing Thalia running while waving at him.
Everything seed new today.
He realized his feelings from yesterday and even expressed them to the girl he was now madly in love with.
His only goal was now to give her so sisters so she wouldn’t feel bored.
After approaching him, Thalia grabbed his hand, leaning on him.
A genuine smile adorned her face as both entered the door with hope for a new day. ’Now, everything will be fine.’
"Greetings, Young Master Zephyr!" Both i and Yue bowed in unison, causing everyone to perk up their ears.
Zeph, who was blankly staring at Yue, felt sothing stir within him.
Her white hair seed to trigger a sensation only he understood.
Seeing her, he realized that this year was going to be full of surprises.
’Another villainess!’
"Y-young master?" i, noticing Zeph’s fixation on Yue and feeling an old mory resurfacing, tried to intervene, feeling anxious about a potential outburst.
’!?’
Turning toward that voice, Zeph’s eyes widened.
’Now, Who is She!? ’
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