But Lewayne was more serious than ever.
“You are my salvation.”
“…….”
“I saw a lot of possibilities. There was also one possibility among them. A future in which His Highness Prince Cedric eventually dies despite all our efforts.”
“Ah……”
“However, the green substance from Aceras that had been absorbed into His Highness Prince Cedric instead of you is a development that has never appeared before. Also, all the situations keep going beyond my expectations due to your presence that didn’t exist before. That’s why I’m not sure if I can protect the Prince.”
“…….”
“But I’m going to use every possible method. I really want you to be happy. As this is the last time.”
Dalia was touched by the affection hidden in his words.
Of course she was scared.
She’s afraid that Cedric will die, afraid that everything will go the way Lewayne saw it. She’s afraid everyone will have the worst ending.
But she wasn’t alone.
The person who has repeated dozens or hundreds of times without anyone by his side was holding on only because of her.
She couldn’t get any weaker either.
Then Lewayne raised his head and spoke with tears still in his eyes.
“In that sense…….”
“In that sense?”
“I know this is difficult, Miss Dalia, but I’d like to go to your room. Will it be alright?”
“……What?”
Dalia was taken aback at the unexpected request.
But when had she ever read his thoughts properly? Besides, she couldn’t bear to refuse after hearing that.
She finally agreed.
She can’t believe that she let another man enter her room when Cedric hadn’t even properly entered yet. She felt a little guilty.
Dalia entered the room first, cleared all the things related to personal privacy, and then called Lewayne in.
As soon as he entered the room, he went straight to her desk. She was taken aback by the unexpected course.
However, even when he actually went in front of the desk, he was staring at it without moving at all.
Then he called her in a depressed voice.
“Miss Dalia.”
“Yes?”
“I’m sorry. I don’t dare to touch your desk either.”
“…….”
He always had common sense in strange places.
Dalia sighed and asked what he was looking for.
Lewayne spoke, staring at her intently.
“I told you, Miss Dalia. I will do everything possible to prevent the coming future.”
“……Yes.”
“I’m looking for the item I used when I called you into this world.”
“What?”
Dalia asked him back in wonder.
Lewayne nodded as if he had expected this.
“It’s the diary where I wrote that I hope you will be able to save many people with your hands.”
* * *
Dalia sent him back down to the drawing room and searched the room for a while.
And she found a treasure box under a wooden board where she had previously hid money to escape.
But what Dalia was looking for was not money, but an old book Lewayne had talked about.
Dalia’s old diary. Among them.
[I hope you can save a lot of people with this power]
A diary with the words written by Lewayne.
After a long search, Dalia found the page.
‘…….’
Why is Lewayne suddenly looking for this diary?
She stared at the cover for a moment, trying to grasp his intentions.
Dalia was actually thinking about the functionality of this diary.
If they don’t save Aceras, Cedric may die.
Even if Cedric did not die, Aceras would have to sleep forever.
In this situation, she had no choice but do nothing while waiting for her feelings toward Aceras to improve on their own.
Lewayne had said before.
It may be that Dalia is able to purify the transcendent because the power of the transcendent matches the wavelength of her soul.
Why do the two wavelengths coincide? It may be because the ‘dragon’, who gave the blessing of mana to the transcendents, was from another world like Dalia.
Lewayne once said. Each world has its own unique wavelength.
Then, wouldn’t all objects from Dalia’s world have the same wavelength as hers?
‘It’s an item used to transfer my soul to this world.’
The wavelength of the world Dalia lived in may also be here.
So, just in case, Dalia was thinking of taking this before the ball the next day.
Well, even Lewayne was looking for this diary. Dalia’s hypothesis was given some weight.
‘I don’t know yet.’
Dalia went down to the drawing room.
In the meantime, Lewayne had spread out a map of the Imperial Palace and was waiting for her with several pins stuck on it.
His expression slightly brightened when he saw the diary she had on her side.
“You still have it. I was afraid you might have thrown it away.”
“Yes, Mr. Lewayne. But why this……?”
The light in Lewayne’s eyes darkened again.
Dalia knew from her experience that he was looking at a distant past at times like this.
Each time, she felt sorry for the man in front of her, and even his mountainous size made him feel small and pitiful.
“As you might have expected Miss Dalia, this is the item I used to bring you to this world in the past.
If my previous hypothesis is correct, then the wavelengths of your world are in here.
If this matches with the wavelength of the transcendents, we can purify Aceras with this. Not to be affected by Miss Dalia’s fluctuations of emotions.”
As expected, Lewayne seemed to have the same thoughts as Dalia.
“Then……how can I use this?”
“Let’s discuss that from now on.”
She put on the glasses that Lewayne brought.
Dalia also bowed her head.
Then, she quietly called him.
“Duke.”
“Yeah.”
“I apologize.”
“What do you mean?”
“For what I said before. When I said that is it not because of the Duke that Cedric was trapped in his fate? I shouldn’t have said that.”
“Even if I were Miss Dalia, I would have said the same thing.”
“No. You were just working hard until everyone was happy. And the Duke has paid enough.”
“…….”
“What I said back then…… I regret it.”
Before they knew it, the night was getting deeper.
Lewayne spoke a moment later.
“Thank you.”
“…….”
“When everything is over, let’s go boating together, Miss Dalia.”
“Boat……ing?”
“I think I probably liked it in the first regression.”
Dalia softly laughed.
In the end, the full-fledged conversation dragged on for a while longer. Lewayne returned to his house only after three in the morning.
Thanks to that, Dalia skipped breakfast the next morning and spent a lot of time in bed.
Then she finally got up when she could no longer delay her preparations for the ball.
After busily putting on her dress, finishing her makeup and hair, Dalia was left alone in her room.
There was nothing special to bring, as Lewayne took her diary to handle the magic.
Instead, she packed all the self-defense magic tools Cedric had given her.
‘In case something dangerous happens.’
Only then did she sit up in satisfaction.
‘I hope everything will work out now.’
Dalia did her best.
When this is over, she will eat a lot of delicious food with Cedric, play board games, and go to places she hasn’t been to.
She will go to the ball with Hikan and go shooting practice with Adrisha.
She should play with Meldon and Beolde too, and let Lewayne know the fun of life, who couldn’t even rest because of his regressions.
Dalia swept through her bag a few times with a determined expression before clenching her fists.
