On Sunday, June 28, 675, at the Versalkin Academy, the Gray Ruichi were preparing their luggage to return to the main palace of the Duchy de Moliard.
A very long time had passed since they left their family palace, nearly a full year from September 1, 674 to June 31, 675.
The period they had to spend in the city of Gusembourg was 10 months, including 6 months as students at the Verselken Academy.
A deep sigh escaped from Gray's mouth as he put his luggage into his bag while Yoruichi helped him, because the Duchy de Moliard was ordering its children to rely on themselves, as the rest of their family had done since its founding.
"The days have been very difficult, but beautiful at the same time. However, Yoruichi, you must become stronger than you already are. You are still at the rank of a saint. I am not proud of having reached the rank of a novice ruler, because you need to become stronger." The tone of Gray's voice carried a great deal of advice.
Which Yoruichi could see clearly
However, he did not feel upset about the fact that he had to accept it. Armin became an expert ruler, on top of that he unlocked the rank of hidden - worthy - and Seok broke through several ranks in a short time to become an expert ruler in turn, and Jian Yi is currently at the rank of holy ruler.
Tom Yuta Beatrice Geia is still so far away from them that they don't even know him, yet his desire to become stronger increases every day. 5 months will be the period in which he will fully develop.
Yoruichi spoke excitedly while gathering Gray's things, "Don't worry, I will be stronger than I am. In the next 5 months, I will kick your ass to show you that I have become stronger."
Gray looked at him with slight annoyance for several seconds, then laughed as he closed his bag and placed it in his dimensional space.
His facial features turned slightly sad as he remembered what had happened over the past 5 months of misfortunes and adversities, "Nevertheless, I was extremely afraid. I had never been more afraid in my life than I was on Jigua Island, the battle in the city of Uspeakers, and the day I thought I would lose my childhood friend, even though I had no love relationship with her. I considered her and Beatrice my sister."
Yoruichi's eyes sparkled as he looked at him for several seconds before a mischievous smile appeared, "Be honest. You love her, but after learning about her relationship with Yuta, you stopped loving her, right?"
Gray looked at him with obvious annoyance and opened an empty bag, "I don't like her. There's another girl I see in those dreams. It's strange since I saw you, Lucy, and Jian Yi, Armin Tom, which makes it real in turn, so that's the girl I'm going to marry."
Yoriichi looked at him with contempt for several seconds before throwing a wind spell at him, which left Gray shocked for a moment before he shot a fire spell at Yoriichi's face, which left him shocked for a moment as well, before he dodged it.
He spoke in a tone filled with anger while pointing his finger towards him, "When you did that, you vile scoundrel, in love with a girl you saw in a dream, did you become crazy because of that incident when we were on Jigua Island?"
Then Gray responded with more anger while a green, yellow aura emerged from his body, "They are strange memories or visions of the past, and the characters are all real. Do you understand that? That's why it's real. Did you like it or not?"
Yoruichi's gaze was uninterested in what he said, because he saw him as a very cheap lover, so he continued his work, ignoring him for fear that cheap love might be contagious.
On another side, outside the walls of Gusmburg City, Yuta was training Jian Yi as usual
"Jian, get ready, the second training will begin. Do push-ups while placing the cube on your back." Yuta's tone of voice was calm as he looked at Jian Yi who was in a push-up position.
He fell flat on his back, and Jian Yi found it difficult to hold him temporarily, so he spoke excitedly while raising himself, "I'm ready 1-2-3."
Yuta kept looking at him with incomprehensible looks. Several minutes passed, during which Yuta did not say a single word, which made Gian somewhat confused.
Yuta broke the silence as he grabbed a leaf that was falling to the ground, "You want to know why I am with the Last Patch Venerable Bing Taoxin in the sub-center of the Mount Hua Sect, isn't that the case, Jian Yi?"
Jian Yi remained silent for several seconds as he remembered that day, and the other remembered his mother's words before she returned to the world of the dead.
"I'm sorry, dear Jian Yi, but I can't stay with you. I'm so sorry, but death is death. However, if you become stronger, maybe you can bring me back again, hahahahaha."
There was a slight smile on Jian Yi's face as he looked at the ground as he was doing push-ups to speak in a tone filled with calm and determination, "I don't care what you were doing. I realized something during the festival that a person is not obligated to make everyone love him. As for me, the revered last patch, Ping Tao Shen, fighting for someone who does not care whether I exist or not is foolish, and I do not want to involve myself in something that does not concern me."
Yuta looked at him with slight shock. He did not expect to hear this from Jian Yi, who did not believe in the honor of his clan, to realize that meeting his mother had a great impact on him.
He decided to change the subject immediately while cutting a cube of spray using a piece of paper whose weight, hardness and durability were infinite, like a piece of butter. This made Jian Yi shocked for several seconds. He had been trying to destroy him since the beginning of his training with Yuta.
"What are you going to do on vacation next?" Yuta's tone of voice was calm as he looked at him as he got up, wiping the dust off himself.
Jian's voice remained silent for several seconds before he spoke with a tone full of determination, "I will return to the Mount Hua Sect and I will be with Tom, Seok, and his companion Hinatako. However, I will refine my abilities, since I doubt that I will break through anytime soon."
Yuta got up from his place while turning a green leaf into a spray before throwing it into the air and speaking with a slight smile while placing his hand on Jian Yi's shoulder, "That's good for you to refine. You have become stronger in a short time. You still have to refine it to show your best potential before you break through to any rank. The long road is better than the short road. He who knows how to build a road is not like someone who walks on a road."
Jian Yi shook his head as a sign of agreement while listening to Yuta Caseral's words, which made Yuta leave the place, announcing that the lesson was over, which made Jian Yi fall from extreme fatigue and exhaustion.He is unable to move his finger due to extreme fatigue, despite being a holy ruler, and the training is still tough. Although he was frustrated at the beginning of the training because he did not notice any progress, he is still with the same difficulty and always falls at the end.
However, after weeks of training, I will tell you that real training should always be tough. If you feel that things are easy, then you are not training truly, but rather you are merely wasting your time.
He drank a medicinal potion with great difficulty, as his hands began to tremble pitifully while holding the glass containing the potion inside.
He felt very comfortable after eating it and got up immediately to stretch his body
"Great, training day was refreshing. However, there are only two days left until the end of our stay at the Versalkin Academy." Jian Yi's tone of voice was filled with anticipation for what was to come in the next 5 months.
So he heads into the city of Gusmburg with a warm smile on his face for what is coming because he now has a goal in his life, which is to become stronger than he is and bring his other mother, Martha, back to life.
However, he did not want his goal to be short-term. Rather, there were much greater things that he wanted to achieve in the distant future, and power would be the means that would enable him to achieve them.
Elsewhere, Beatrice was reading a book belonging to her grandfather Boswell while recalling her meeting with the Reverend Last Smiling Kingston at her grandfather's grave and placing those poisonous flowers on his grave.
However, she did not understand the real intention of who did that, but from the confident and unexpected way he spoke, she was aware that the matter of his death was a hoax of some kind.
However, the place that occupies her mind is her grandfather, Buswal. She had been carrying many doubts over the past few days, especially since he had treated her with love since she showed her strength, while not once trying to improve her image during the time she spent with him.
Which made her doubt his real intention to bring her closer to him, as her grandfather was a famous scholar and the first commoner, who was called the Emperor. He was a charmer in his time to the point that the Azwassen family became nobles after being commoners.
He put the book to the side while she sighed, filled with intense annoyance. She wiped his face, trying to clear his mind, while she spoke in a voice that described her psychological state, "What the hell is happening in this world?"
She turned her gaze to Lucy, who was almost awake with obvious annoyance, and slapped her in the back of the head
Lucy raised her head in shock and then turned her gaze to Beatrice as she placed his hand on the back of her head in pain, "You vile, dirty, scumbag, why did you do that?"
However, Beatrice did not pay much attention to what he said, so she got up from her place and returned the book to a shelf designated for it. This made Lucy very angry because Beatrice was constantly ignoring her.
Patrice spoke in a calm tone that made Lucy confused. She did not expect her to change the subject to something so serious, "Could it be that my grandfather Boswell has been exploiting me for so long? Is it possible that he is still alive and has caused me all these problems to make me one of the most hated people?"
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Lucy remained silent without saying anything, and could not find any word to respond to her with. Does she say, "You are right" and makes Buswal's image more degrading than that, or does she say no, and lie to her, and makes her shock stronger when it becomes clear that she was right about Buswal being the reason for everything that happened to her?
She took a deep breath before speaking in a calm, sympathetic tone, trying to reduce Beatrice's depression, "I cannot answer such a sensitive question, however, in either case, I will be someone you can turn to and cry as much as you pessimist."
"I did not expect to hear such mature words from a person like you. You have been behaving strangely. Are you sure that you are Lucy Kathali, daughter of Belgord Kathali, or scum who disguised herself as her? However, on the other hand, your presence is not bad. Who would have expected that an imitation would be better than the original?"
Lucy's face turned annoyed as she listened to Beatrice's words, which she considered very insulting. However, a slight smile appeared on her face, which she tried to hide while she listened to the rest of Beatrice's words.
"However, thank you for staying with me all these years. It is something I cannot forget easily."
Lucy sighed with suppressed happiness as she looked at him and got up from his place, leaving the library while stretching her body. "We spent a long time inside the office. It's time to leave, isn't it?"
Patrice shook her head in agreement as she laid down
Books were in their designated place, which made Lucy upset that they were organized excessively instead of leaving this matter to the library official
After several minutes, Patrice turned to him, ignoring Lucy's angry looks, and continued on their way out of the library without saying anything, out of respect for the library's rules.
After several minutes had passed, they had left the library and were wandering around the academy courtyard, which was almost empty of students. They had been in the last days more than that. A day had passed since the beginning of the final exam.
Because they participated in a battle against the Scorpion Organization on Jigua Island and fought the Goblin ruler Cavlior in Uspeckers City, Versalkin Academy granted them an exemption from the final exam.
It was canceled for the battle major students because all the students refused to do it for fear of another catastrophe. They had survived death twice and none of them were brave enough to meet death again.
The fact that there were students who left the city of Gusembourg a long time ago for their original homeland to spend time with their family members made wandering around the Verselken Academy very convenient for them, as it was almost empty at the moment.
"How about you come to the Kathali family's palace in the capital of the human empire. You will find a lot of information about your grandfather, Buswal. There is his birthplace." Lucy's tone of voice was full of happiness and enthusiasm as she looked at him.
Which made Beatrice look at him suspiciously for several seconds before she spoke, "Let me guess, you think I'm going to ask to go with Yuta to Barhais, right?"
Signs of tension appeared on his face while she looked away from Beatrice's face, causing her to look at him with half-closed eyes, which increased Lucy's tension.
She let out a large amount of air in one breath before speaking, "Yes, you are right. I thought you might ask Yuta to go with you. I heard that he has two sisters, See and See, and there is a relationship between you, isn't that?"
Ypatrice sighed in annoyance as she looked at her and directed her gaze towards the conference room where the ranking of the best student in their specialty was placed and she was ranked second, even though she was fourth in intelligence and second in combat because she did not show her real abilities, but she was aware that she would not be able to obtain first place from Yuta's hands.
She spoke in a calm tone with annoyance that Lucy could easily detect, "No, I was going to go to my grandfather Boswell's hometown and find out who he really was."
Lucy looked at her for several seconds before patting her head gently, which made her very upset, as Lucy was two years older than her and taller than them.
To move Lucy's hand away from her head, which made Lucy laugh by mocking her, she changed the topic directly, fearing that Beatrice would take revenge on her.
"However, I want to ask you about something. What would you do if you knew that Boswell was actually taking advantage of you? What would you do then? Ignorance and knowledge have a wall of acceptance between them." Lucy's tone of voice was serious as she looked around her.
However, Patrice did not find a way to respond to Lucy's question: What will she do when she learns the truth? Will she cry in a corner, waiting for the other person to hold her close to his chest with love and warmth, or will she face the matter directly?
Another thing was a choice that seemed to her a better option than waiting for help from someone else, which would not make her better but would prevent her from developing and remaining as she is.
However, these were just human thoughts that may or may not happen, but when the right time comes, she will decide what to do, but she will only choose the option that seems good to her.
"I don't really know if my grandfather Boussoal is because of all the bad treatment that happened to me from members of my family and the charges against me, including the killing of members of the Azwassen family, then I will kill him if his death was also a lie."
"My life is not in anyone's hands, no matter who wants to make me laugh, I will kill him with Yuta and anyone else."
Lucy's gaze was filled with slight shock as she listened to Beatrice's words. Although there were many accusations against her, Lucy was sure of one thing: she was not called a demonic angel for nothing. She had a terrifying talent and strength. In the end, she is considered the greatest talent in human history.
In addition to that, she was able to fight the Goblin Lord Cavliore with complete ease and was equal to the strength of Geia Gilford, even though she used her sub-wing, indicating that she was extremely powerful.
This was something that made Patrice annoyed by Lucy's look, which was showing shock, but turned into surprise after several seconds.
"However, do you want me to be a widow before I get married on the basis that you are having a love affair with him or something like that, like threatening to kill him? It is very annoying. Beatrice Azwassen. If you want to kill someone, then kill me. That is old dementia, Boswell."
Beatrice continued to listen to Lucy's words, full of empty threats, to ignore her completely. Her words were more annoying than her looks.
"Okay, okay, with that, Yuuta is not a good person, and you know that. There are many hidden things going on around him that make being wary of him and not completely trusting him is the best option."
Lucy rolled her eyes in annoyance. However, she knew that Yuuta was not someone who could be easily trusted, yet she found herself loving him.
Although she hated him at first, she was saved from the hands of Severus and the people who kidnapped her because of her contract with the ruler of time, and Achilles, who tried to assassinate her, and threatened Belgord because he wanted to kill her. However, she was unable to be a magician because of a problem in her heart at that time.
That's why she loved him, or this was an attempt to convince himself of it. However, she was not waiting for Yuta's help, but she loved to rely on herself in order to develop and become the strongest. Moreover, she loved because she wanted to create a family and a strong person to protect her and be with her. She did not want an ideal romantic life, but rather an acceptable life.
Let Lucy speak, changing the topic, "How about we go to the Academy to eat something? I'm very hungry." Patrice did not say anything until her looks indicated that she agreed to that, as she wanted to eat something cold.