Book 1 Chapter 732
Kaang-!
Leo’s sword and Lisina’s ice sword clashed.
Hooook-!
As soon as the swords crossed, Lisina’s knees buckled.
In close combat with weapons, Lisina could never win against Leo.
There was no way she could win now with Chloe’s body in a fight she couldn’t win even with the powerful dragon body of her past life.
Kakak-!
Seeing Leo applying force with a blank expression, Lisina gritted her teeth.
“That body is quite lively! It seems better than your body in your past life!”
“It’s a vessel I’ve built since I was young.”
At Leo’s answer, Lisina held her sword with one hand.
At the same time, she concentrated magic in the hand she had removed from the grip.
Lisina, barely holding on, lost her balance.
However, as she let Leo’s attacking force flow past her, she punched Leo directly in the solar plexus.
Thwack-!
But Lisina’s attack was easily caught by Leo’s hand.
Of course, Lisina didn’t care.
Her goal was to get close to Leo.
Tzuh-
Leo’s body, in contact with Lisina, began to freeze.
‘This is stronger than I thought?’
The chill emanating from Chloe’s body continued to exceed Leo’s expectations.
Even with her magic resistance raised to its maximum and ice resistance spells layered all over her body, Chloe’s coldness ignored them all and seeped into Leo’s body.
‘First, I need to separate Lisina from Chloe’s body.’
Thinking that far, Leo shook Lisina off.
Leo, pulling his frozen body away, created some distance and caught his breath.
Then, concentrating his spiritual energy, he looked at Lisina, who was closing the distance.
Leo’s eyes momentarily turned gray, and gray spiritual energy swirled and gathered at his fingertips.
Leo rushed towards Lisina.
Seeing that, Lisina tried to retreat in a hurry.
But Leo, with his palm open, swung his arm faster.
“I’m sorry, Chloe.”
Pow-!
Leo’s palm struck Chloe’s chest as if pushing it.
Chloe’s body flew up into the air.
Along with it, Lisina, now in a spiritual entity state, was blown away.
“Ugh? Spiritual entity magic?”
Seeing Lisina with a slightly bewildered expression, Leo said.
“Even if it’s you, you wouldn’t know about spiritual entity magic created in later generations.”
The previous technique was a power that directly struck spiritual entities.
It seemed his prediction that he could separate Lisina by striking the spiritual entity attached to Chloe’s body was correct.
Just before Chloe’s weakened body hit the ground.
Leo caught Chloe.
Then he called Chen Xia, who was watching from a distance.
“Chen Xia, come here and help Chloe.”
“Ah, yes.”
Chen Xia hurriedly approached and took Chloe from Leo.
Leo, facing Lisina, said.
“Let’s stop here.”
Lisina, staring intently at Leo, snorted and then went straight through the floor to the level below.
“……It seems Lord Lisina is quite upset.”
“……”
As Chen Xia spoke cautiously, Leo started walking.
“Where are you going? Young Master Leo.”
As Chen Xia hurriedly followed, Leo said.
“Today, I’ll take Chloe back and then return to my room.”
“Are you going to fight again?”
Seeing Chen Xia ask cautiously, Leo chuckled.
“Am I a child? I’m going to have a conversation.”
Chen Xia recalled Lisina’s fierce appearance from a moment ago.
‘Will conversation be possible?’
Leaving Chen Xia, who was contemplating, behind, Leo headed downstairs.
***
“Haa!”
Lisina sat in the common lounge, sighing and covering her face.
‘This isn’t how it should be.’
She had fought out of anger, but that wasn’t what she truly wanted.
However, things weren’t going as planned.
‘It’s difficult.’
Even though she was called the King of Wisdom, this problem was always difficult for her.
As Lisina let out a wry smile with her complex feelings that she couldn’t grasp, it was then.
“Eigh! That tiny rat, Chelsea! She’s incredibly fast!”
“You’re faster.”
“You keep bouncing around sneakily, it’s hard to follow!”
Celia and Iliana appeared in the common lounge.
And they spotted Lisina sitting on the sofa.
“I missed the duchy, but I can make up for it by hunting other students and filling my score!”
As Iliana cheered and lunged forward, Celia reached out her hand.
“Are you going to attack without knowing who it is? What if it’s a senior?”
“She doesn’t look like a senior?”
Celia and Iliana approached Lisina.
Just then, clouds obscured the moonlight and starlight.
Moreover, the place where Lisina was was in shadow, making it even darker.
Thanks to that, her face was not clearly visible.
“What year are you?”
Celia asked with a puzzled expression, and Lisina replied with a smile.
“I’m a first-year summoner.”
It was a lie, as she didn’t think Celia and Iliana would know the faces of first-years from other departments.
Especially since Iliana took magic classes, she said she was a summoner just in case.
“Great! It’s hunting time!”
“You want to catch a first-year?”
“Whether it’s a first-year or a fifth-year, the score is the same. Then catching a first-year is more efficient, isn’t it? A lion gives its all when catching a rabbit!”
Seeing Iliana about to pounce, Celia clicked her tongue and said to Lisina.
“Seeing a first-year out alone past curfew, it seems you’ve had some trouble. Though we’re from different departments, would you like to talk?”
“Ehh. Even if she’s a first-year, she’s an enemy. And it’s obviously boring counseling about grades before the midterm exams, so why bother with counseling?”
Iliana stuck out her tongue and grumbled, showing her displeasure, and Lisina smiled.
“……Is it about someone you like? Do you offer counseling for that too?”
“Hmph. That’s my specialty, this older sister. Speak your mind.”
Iliana quickly sat on the sofa opposite Lisina.
Celia, with an incredulous expression, sat down as well.
“To have relationship worries with midterms approaching, you’re quite relaxed.”
“Uh-uh! Celia! What are you saying! This is a very, very important matter!”
Celia admonished, Iliana said.
“Now, what’s the problem?”
Looking at Iliana’s eyes, which sparkled even in the darkness, Lisina, suppressing her laughter, said.
“I just like someone, and we fought a lot.”
“Hmm hmm! Why did you fight? Did that person treat you badly?”
“……They treat me well sometimes and badly sometimes, but that’s not what makes me angry. It’s just……”
“Just?”
“They seem popular with the opposite sex.”
“Ehei! A flirt is no good.”
Iliana tut-tutted.
“They’re not a flirt. It’s just that my close friend also likes that person.”
“Ooooh! Love triangle! Love triangle! I love this sort of thing!”
Iliana, greatly excited, grabbed Celia and shook her.
Celia smacked Iliana on the head.
“Don’t react like that in front of the person involved, and if you’re going to counsel, counsel seriously!”
“Ugh!”
Celia sighed, looking at Iliana rubbing her head in pain, and asked.
“Did you fight with your friend because of that?”
“No. That friend doesn’t know I like that person.”
“Hmm. That’s troublesome.”
“In that situation, that friend declared in front of everyone. That she likes that person……”
“Wow! Wow! So passionate! Like Luna!”
Iliana jumped up and down.
Seeing that, Lisina gave a wry smile.
‘It’s about Luna.’
“But it’s a big problem. Aren’t you afraid that man will be taken away?”
“……But actually, he and I are married on paper.”
“Eek?”
“And yet she declared she likes him?”
Seeing the two startled, Lisina said.
“My friend doesn’t know. That guy doesn’t know either. It was a secret marriage.”
“If you didn’t know who your friend liked, you probably wouldn’t know about the marriage either. Speaking of which… did you use your family’s power to do it secretly?”
“……Well, something like that.”
“……”
Celia’s mouth opened wide.
Iliana was completely excited.
“That’s how much you like that man!”
“Yes. He’s more precious to me than my life. However, I regret deceiving him and getting married a little.”
“Why?”
“I feel sorry for my friend, and I worry it might become a chain for him. He doesn’t know anything about it in the first place.”
At the time, she just wanted to leave proof.
Proof that she loved Kyle.
And she needed sweet dreams, imagining a peaceful world.
‘A future living with Kyle… In a sense, it was my dream.’
She wanted to save the world she loved.
That was Lisina’s fundamental wish.
But there was no wish for herself.
That’s why she deceived Kyle and entered into a marriage contract.
It was her pure desire.
A desire to have Kyle… a slightly ugly desire.
Perhaps that desire saved Lisina until the very last moment.
“Does that man… not know that you or your friend liked him?”
At Iliana’s question, Lisina asked with surprise.
“How did you know?”
“Hmph, this great detective Iliana figures it out instantly! It’s like a gut feeling!”
Iliana, wearing a proud expression, said.
“That friend who likes the same person is also precious to you, right?”
“Yes. That friend is also more precious to me than my life.”
Not just Kyle and Luna.
Arion and Deweno were also friends more precious than her life.
‘Perhaps it was the same for everyone.’
“Then! Nullify that marriage immediately! And declare it boldly! That you like that man!”
Iliana clenched her fist.
“If you feel regret in any way! Fight for love fair and square!”
“……”
“Show your true self!”
Luna never told Kyle she liked him until the end because of her pride and stubbornness.
However, Luna never hid her feelings.
She always showed her feelings for Kyle.
Until Kyle first told her he liked her.
‘It’s just that he was an idiot and didn’t realize it.’
Compared to Luna, how was she?
She hid her heart, determined to show a perfect image as the King of Wisdom.
Yet, she subtly revealed her feelings.
Hoping Kyle would realize it.
And then she got angry at Kyle for not realizing it.
‘…Maybe I was the idiot.’
Lisina burst into self-deprecating laughter.
‘Yes. I don’t need to be the King of Wisdom anymore.’
She was merely a lingering spiritual entity who died long ago.
‘I’m learning a lot from the children.’
Lisina looked at Celia and Iliana.
How much she had dreamed of a peaceful world where they talked about such things with bright faces.
Lisina smiled faintly.
“Thank you for the counseling. I feel much better now.”
“This is resolved!”
Iliana said with a triumphant expression.
“Kuh~ Great! I was right, wasn’t I? With this, one problem is solved!”
“Hmph!”
The door opened, and Karl and Eliza appeared.
Seeing that, Celia and Iliana jumped up from their seats.
Karl and Eliza also flinched and took a combat stance.
“An alliance between the magic and summoner departments? They really must have found it difficult to win against our knight department alone, huh?”
Celia provocatively smiled, and Eliza smiled coldly.
“Don’t make me laugh, Celia Zerdinger.”
It wasn’t just Karl and Eliza who appeared at the perfect timing.
“We barely shook them off.”
“It wasn’t easy because they were seniors.”
Chelsea and Avad appeared on the railing of the stairs connected to the lounge.
And then they found the four people confronting each other.
“Ah! Karl! Why are you sticking so close to Eliza!”
Chelsea pointed, and Avad smiled.
“Betrayal?”
“Haha.”
Karl chuckled awkwardly.
Eliza snorted and sneered.
“We merely formed a temporary alliance out of necessity.”
As the six people glared at each other with fierce hostility.
“Hoo hoo hoo! Hoo hoo hoo!”
Lisina burst into laughter.
“Everyone is so energetic. That guy won’t be bored either.”
Seeing that, Eliza tilted her head.
“Who?”
When everyone else also tilted their heads.
‘Huh? This voice…?’
Chelsea, who had spoken with Lisina before, froze.
“Lis… Lord Lisina?”
“Huh?”
“What?”
“Huh? What nonsense is this?”
All eyes turned to Chelsea.
“Ah, no. This is definitely Lord Lisina’s voice……”
Just then, the clouds that had covered the sky cleared, and the moonlight that entered illuminated the interior of the building.
Along with it, Lisina’s face was also faintly revealed.
Everyone’s faces hardened.
“It’s a fake, right?”
Celia muttered unconsciously, and Lisina smiled and stood up.
Lisina floated up, approached Celia and Iliana, and ruffled their hair.
“Thanks for the counseling.”
Winking one eye, Lisina flew straight up and disappeared through the ceiling.
Along with that, Chelsea ran to Iliana.
“What did you counsel about? What did you counsel about!”
To Chelsea’s urgent question, Iliana’s mouth opened and closed.
“R-relationship counseling?”
“What?”
“Lord Lisina… likes the same person as Lord Luna……”
At those words, everyone froze.
The person Luna liked.
That was…
“Lord Lisina also likes Lord Kyle?”
Everyone let out a scream of astonishment.
***
Leo, walking down the hallway, widened his eyes at Lisina, who appeared before him.
Lisina looked at Leo with a slightly displeased expression and snorted.
At that, Leo smiled and extended his hand.
Lisina looked at Leo’s outstretched hand askew.
It was the opposite of 5000 years ago.
Back then, Lisina was the one who extended her hand first, and Kyle accepted it with a very crooked face.
“Don’t you have anything you want to say to me?”
Seeing Lisina asking somewhat petulantly, Leo said.
“I missed you.”
“……”
Leo’s honest words.
Hearing them, a bright smile spread across Lisina’s face.
And she reached out and took Leo’s hand.
Whoosh-!
Along with it, a bright light burst forth.
Lisina’s body, in its spiritual entity state, took form.
Finally, Lisina, who had returned to her appearance in life, slowly descended to the floor with her eyes closed.
Thump-
Lisina, who landed, opened her eyes.
Leo, looking at Lisina caressing her regained body, said with a slightly displeased expression.
“By the way, you tricked me about one thing, didn’t you?”
“What?”
“Don’t play dumb. You tricked me into signing a marriage contract.”
“Ah, that? You knew?”
Lisina chuckled.
Seeing Lisina like that, Leo scowled.
“You knew? Is that what you’re going to say right now…”
“Let’s get a divorce.”
“What?”
Seeing Leo’s momentarily stunned expression, Lisina said.
“Let’s get a divorce.”
“……”
At her utterly confident words, Leo was simply speechless.
***
“Done!”
“……Will this be satisfactory?”
“Yes! They will surely be satisfied.”
Mel and En looked at the welcome and wedding celebration party for Lisina with proud faces.
Though small in scale, it couldn’t have been grander.
“Now, let’s go fetch Lord Lisina and Lord Leo!”
“Yes!”
The two dragons, with happy faces, went to find the hero of the beginning and the king of wisdom.
Without knowing what story would unfold between the two.