While they were having their breakfast, they were being questioned by Lucia, who had joined them as soon as she heard about the incident.

It didn't take long to realize that Lucia was not happy about the city guards showing up at her inn and dragging the guests to the police station.

And it was most likely not because she was worried about Yu and Yurine being disturbed, but because she didn't want rumors to spread that criminals were living in her inn.

If such rumors spread, Lucia's name would be tarnished, the reputation of her other businesses would suffer, and she would lose money.

Yet she did not seem to be completely angry with Yu and Yurine. On the contrary, she took the matter much more calmly than Yu had expected.

“I can't say it's a light offense, especially when it's a child.”

“Please don't talk to me like I am holding Yurine against her will. Yurine is with me of her own free will, I have no power to detain her. You could even say that Yurine is the one who detained me. If anyone should be arrested, it should be her.”

“I'm being arrested? What do you mean I'm with arrest? What's coming out of your mouth!”

“You forced me to come with you, if I remember correctly...”

“I didn't force you, I gave you a choice and asked you to take responsibility.”

“If the second option is to die, that's forcing it, but anyway, I'm glad we're together.”

“Hmph, you must be.”

Yurine proudly stabbed her fork into the cheese in front of her, like stabbing an enemy in the chest. This scene made both Yu and Lucia smile.

“Anyway...” he said again. “If there's a crime, it's Sharley's false report. He even attempted to kidnap a child, that's a crime too.”

“I want to say I hope he gets a good punishment, it's not good that he involved my place, but I don't think he'll get anything but a fine. After all, he's the nephew of someone important.”

“Nepotism here too? Surprising, disappointing...” Like Lucia, he rested his chin on his hand in exasperation. “At least I'd like not to meet him again.”

As far as anyone who saw him could tell, Sharley was not healthy and, as Yurine said, he was out of his mind. Either way, he was a troublemaker and he was convinced that Yu was holding Yurine against her will.

At worst, Sharley could try to kill Yu and kidnap Yurine, all the while thinking that he was doing what he believed was absolutely right.

“You can go to the court and ask for a protection order,” Lucia suggested.

“Could we do something like that?”

“Yes, I've had it done for myself before.”

The truth is that even if he could do such a thing, he wouldn't. He was directly involved in an illegal business and did not want to inadvertently expose his own guilt.

“At least I'm going to go to court. I don't want a lunatic attacking my place and jeopardizing the safety of my guests.”

“Instead of kicking us out of the place, you protect the place, you are a kind elf with hundred percent customer satisfaction.”

“I hope this is a lesson to Yurine, don't mess with troublemakers again and give Mr. Valarfin hard times.”

“It wasn't me who infected that disgusting life form, that brazen bastard stuck to us like a leech and wouldn't leave even after I told him I didn't want him. I'm going to kick his ass when this is over.”

“Does she mean turn back time?”

She probably meant to drive Sharley away for good after she saved her mother.

“Hmm...” Yu put his left hand to his chin in thought. “Maybe Sharley didn't go crazy afterwards, he's always like that. Maybe that's why Rie didn't make an effort to save him at Sigma Tower, because she didn't like him. I'm curious about the backstory.”

Sharley may have had an obsessive side before, and it must have come to the fore after the burning of his body.

“Before I forget, I have a letter for you.” Lucia took a letter out of her pocket, it had a swan emblem on it. “Someone from Swann Postal brought it early this morning and left it for you.”

Yu opened the letter and read it, it was an invitation from Marino to a match in the arena and there was a ticket in the letter.

“Now that I think of it, swann is also an English word.”

He didn't know why he hadn't noticed it before, he had missed a very obvious detail in front of his eyes.

“What is it?” Yurine asked.

“Mr. Swann invites us to the match at noon. He'll be there, we'll meet at the arena.”

Yu folded the letter and put it in his inside pocket.

“Weren't we planning to go anyway?”

“Yes.”

He wanted to watch the first game where the letters would be distributed. It would also be the first time he would see an arena game.

“But before that, we must go to the guild and talk to Sivina. She needs to know we can't come to Redchapel.”

“If you are going to the guild, you can come with me. I will go there now.”

“That would be nice.”

***

The Adventurers' Guild was even quieter today than on other days.

Yu wouldn't have called it crowded the two times he had been here, but today there were even fewer people than the first two times.

“Good morning, Mr. Valarfin.”

As soon as Lucie, who was behind the counter, noticed him, she came to him with quick steps. A small, sweet smile had settled on her face.

“Good morning.”

Lucie rocked from side to side, leaning her heels together. She didn't seem jealous of her sister compared to the other times she had seen her with Yu.

“No good morning to me?” said Lucia, taking her sister's arm. “Or to Yurine?”

“Good morning to you too.”

“It was the most insincere good morning I've ever had.”

As Yurine voiced her discomfort, Yu looked around, his eyes searching for Sivina. He saw her eating breakfast at a table at the far end of the guild.

She was all alone because her friends were not here. Yu felt sorry for her, he felt guilty for separating her from her friends.

Lucie came over to greet her, but she didn't seem to be able to speak, and Lucia didn't have anything to say. Yu pushed Yurine off her shoulder and went to Sivina's table.

“Bon appetit.”

“Thank you.”

Yu sat down at the table. Yurine followed him, and Lucia and Lucie joined them.

“You're all well and good, but what was the need for this?”

At any other time he wouldn't have minded having Lucia and Lucie with him, but when it came to business, he didn't want to be around other people.

“Do you have any plans for today?” Sivina asked.

“I thought we should investigate the killer's first murder while we still have time, and then Yurine and I have been invited somewhere and we are going there.”

“Hmm? Where are you going?” Lucie snuggled up to Yu. Yu could smell her floral scent.

“To see the arena game.”

“Mr. Valarfin! Are you gambling?”

Yu sighed when Lucie gripped his arm tightly. He didn't deny that he enjoyed the attention, but being pinched was taking the edge off.

“I'm not gambling,” Yu said. Although the letter business could be seen as a form of gambling, he didn't think he was lying. “Where did this come from all of a sudden? I don't understand. My business partner invited us to see the play, that's all.”

“No gambling?”

“No.”

Lucie brought her face close enough to Yu's to feel his breath and looked into his eyes. Her cheeks were flushed as she did so.

“It will only break your heart.”

He could understand Lucie's feelings, if Yu was a girl, he would like himself too. But that didn't change the fact that in the end Yu couldn't be with her and would break her heart.

“Stupid.”

Yu felt sorry for Lucie, but being a pervert, he didn't mind being close enough to feel her breath, so he stayed still when Lucie approached him, and when Yu's stillness became abnormally long, Yurine grabbed him by the hair and pulled him back.

“Uhm...”

Sivina was bored. After finishing the last bites of her breakfast, she cleared her throat and drew Yu's attention to her.

“I wanted to talk about the killer's first murder. I had all the time in the world when I was here yesterday and I got bored and decided to look into it.”

“This will speed things up, what did you find?”

“The man who was killed was a friend of Thomas Chember. I don't know how accurate it is to use the word friend, given their age difference, but he was something like that, and there is no trace of his involvement. He only testified against the Berry family, as Mathilda said.”

Yu put his left hand to his chin again. He tapped the table with the fingers of his other hand.

“Are you sure there are no traces?”

“Yes, I'm sure.”

“Got it, thanks.”

Sivina kept quiet and waited. There was nothing more to say about the murder, so Yu was silent too.

He drummed his fingers on the table, waiting for a signal to start a conversation.

“Ah... Yes, I was going to forget why we came here.” Yu looked at Sivina with an embarrassed face. “We might have gotten into a bit of trouble yesterday.”

“What kind of... trouble?”

“We were in the police station...”

“WHAT?”

Lucie jumped to her feet, banging her hands on the table. Then she grabbed Yu with both hands.

“Mr. Valarfin! What are you-”

She hadn't finished her sentence when she realized that people were staring at her, her long ears reddened to the tips and she sat down as her sister pulled her back.

Yu sighed more deeply and waited until people took their eyes off them.

“Yes... Ah... That's it, we ended up at the police station.”

“I hope it's nothing important.” Sivina pulled her chair a little further into the table and approached Yu.

“We were given a false report by an adversary. He thought I was holding Yurine against her will. When the guards came and tried to take me away, my beloved hero stood firm to protect me.”

“I don't like this conversation.” Yurine folded her arms across her chest and grimaced.

Yu met her unpleasant expression with a small smile and continued talking.

“Of course I didn't detain Yurine, we were released because of my innocence, but because Yurine’s harsh treatment to the guards, they said they will send us to court. We are forbidden to leave the city until the court's decision is made.”

Entry and exit to and from the city was strictly controlled by the city guard and officials and there was no room for compromise. For anyone to sneak into the city or escape was a troublesome and dangerous business.

Maybe they could get out of court with a small fine, but if they were caught trying to sneak out of the city, they would be in much bigger trouble. So they would obey the law and not try to escape the city.

“We were supposed to go back tomorrow, I thought we could even go back today because I did it fast. So we can't?”

“Yurine and I won't be able to go back, but I want you to. There are some things that need to be done there.”

The plan was to bait Sivina, as he had mentioned earlier, and he didn't want to be seen in front of Lucie and Lucia as someone who would bait his friend without blinking an eye.

“But maybe if they see me like that, I mean... if Lucie sees me like that... will her feelings for me change?”

To give the idea a chance, he began to explain, burying in his heart the pain he would feel at the loss of his reputation in the eyes of the people.

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“I want you to rent two houses. The houses should be in view of each other, facing each other if possible. The houses will be our base of operations. The four of you will stay together until Yurine and I arrive. Make sure you lock the house tightly and always have one of you on watch, never miss a shift.”

“Are we trying to lure the killer into those houses?”

“Yes, and it must happen within our control, we must not be caught off guard.”

If the killer came and hunted all three of them in turn, their work would be stretched beyond their plans and Maron's mission would be difficult to accomplish.

“When we come, half of us will be in one house and the other half in the other. Both sides will always watch each other's door.”

So that if the killer broke into someone's house, others would recognize it and intervene immediately.

“Assuming, of course, that he is coming in through the front door, I'd better tell you that.”

He didn't want to die for a simple mistake. He motioned with his finger for Sivina to come closer. Sivina reached out and brought her face close to Yu's and Yu did the same. In this position it looked like they were going to kiss, but Yu whispered in her ear, not on her lips.

“Leave three places in the house where you can get in and out, a door, a window to watch, and a weak spot, a trap, where the killer can enter.”

It was better to say it in a whisper, he was not going to risk it somehow getting to the killer ears.

They both backed away and sat back in their chairs, Yu rubbed his chin some more and continued.

“We need to do a nice publicity stunt for you too. Let's call some painters before noon today and have them paint you on the walls of Redchapel and write cool words on them. I want you to become a symbol in the fight against the killer, so we can provoke him even more.”

“W-Wait a minute,” Lucia interjected, holding out the index finger of her right hand to Yu. “Are you using Sivina as bait?”

“N-no?”

“What do you mean no?” Lucie grabbed Yu by the shoulders and shook him. She had been making physical contact with him a lot today. “You're basically use your friend as bait!”

“Yeah! Think I'm a bad person and get cold to me... It fucking hurts me to say that. I don't know if it's possible for someone to dislike me? I don't know... Here, try not to like me, I'm a bad boy.”

Trying to alienate a person had bothered him more than he had ever imagined. Never before could he have imagined that one day he would do something like this.

“No big deal.” Lucia grabbed her sister's shoulder. “This is normal for adventurers.”

“I agree, I have no problem with that.” Sivina had accepted Yu's selfish plan.

“Yes, serving my cause is the highest honor she can achieve.” Yurine also stood on the chair and hit her chest with her hand.

Lucie bit her lip. Yu wasn't sure if she was doing it to seduce him, but she looked incredibly sexy in the process.

“I think I overreacted, you are right. Besides, Mr. Valarfin must know something, I know he's not the type to sacrifice his friend for nothing. He even took precautions for Sivina's safety.”

“When the fuck did I become like this in your eyes?!”

Lucie's innocent smile tore a deep wound in Yu's heart.

“Let's not get married by mistake...”

“Anyway, back to the point. I'm almost certain this will work. I think the killer will know it's a trap and will come at us anyway. And if you ask me how I know that, let's just say I have a feeling.”

It wasn't just a feeling, in fact, it was the result of an analysis of his past life, of the people he had met in the real world and in the virtual environment, which he could not explain in words. Some people liked to beat their rivals at their rivals' games.

“Tell Lylphia I told her to send the bill for these to the Wizarding Academy, we may not be able to afford them, but even if we can, let Maron pay for them, we don't care.”

“Okay.”

“Finally, can you tell Lylphia to contact Maron Martin? Maybe with his help they can let us to go Redchapel.”

“Can such a thing be done?”

“I'm not sure but,” Lucia interrupted them. “He's the second headmaster of the entire Wizarding Academy, if he vouches, something might happen.”

“That's what I thought.”

Maybe a letter mentioning that they were working for him would have been enough to lift the ban.

“So can I go today?” Sivina asked, trying to hide her excitement at being reunited with her friends. “I forgot how boring it is to be alone.”

“Yes, you can go.”

“Yay.” She breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. Yu found it sweet that she was so attached to her friends.

“So can you come with us now? We should look for painters to paint on the walls. Do you know anyone?”

“I'm interested in art!” Lucie jumped in. “I can introduce you to someone.”

“Fine, lead the way then.”

***

"They wanted a lot of money."

They were going to have Lylphia invoice him, but the two painters they had hired said they couldn't start work until they received advance payment from Yu.

“Well at least they'll get the real money from the academy."

After they had found the painters, they had wandered around the Hull Quarter until the time of the matches. Now they were going to the arena.

“I feel weak today.”

“It is possible to make your fatigue go away with a healing spell, but it will be short-lived and then the fatigue will hit you even harder. I'm not sure I can cure mental fatigue.”

Yurine was walking on the sidewalk again, and Yu grabbed her and pulled her to him.

“You soothed my mind during my seizures.”

“This was unexpected even for me. It was when you said that I could do it with my healing magic.”

“Ah... I feel like I'm living on luck.”

The word ‘feel’ was inadequate when he thought about everything he had been through. He had survived both the First World and the Second World by sheer luck.

“Take some medicine,” Yurine said. She tugged at Yu's clothes.

“I'm glad you're worried about me, but it's not about the money, I guess.” He still had the money that a person in Rolderhelm would have to work for about a year to earn. “I'm just disgusted.”

He was unaware of how medicines in this world would affect his body, and what he knew about the conditions and materials in which medicines were produced in the Middle Ages put him off using medicines in this world.

“What do you mean?”

“I saw a video on YouTube that said that in the Middle Ages apothecaries used disgusting substances to make medicine.”

“Rat feces or something-”

“I don't need to hear the rest, thank you.”

He didn't know how the medicines in his world were made, and they could be made from ingredients he thought were disgusting, and he wouldn't be surprised if they were.

But he had no problem using those medicines because he knew that the materials he considered disgusting in his world would be processed with modern technology.

“Of course, not all medicines are made with such ridiculous ingredients. There are herbal things, my mother used to make them.”

“Hmm... I don't know, we'll see later.”

“If you are sick, you should take medicine.”

Yu smiled, he could tell Yurine's concern was like medicine.

“You're really worried about me, aren't you?”

“Wha... Wha! Don't talk nonsense!”

Yurine stepped on Yu's foot. If she wanted to, she could have hurt Yu to the point of tears with the mana in her body, but she only reacted lightly.

“Yurine, I love you.”

There had been three people he had ever loved. The first two were his older sisters and the third was Yurine.

“Is it a coincidence that I have some kind of family connection with all of them?”

Yu was never shy about expressing his love to his sisters, and he had no problem doing it in front of other people. He was someone who kept his negative feelings bottled up, but he was also someone who was not afraid to express his beautiful feelings.

The cloud above them briefly moved out of the sun, and Yurine did not react, just stood still, until another cloud covered the sun again.

“This is the most ‘fatherly’ moment I've ever felt.”

He hadn't noticed the sounds of the people around them until that moment, and when Yurine started walking, he realized for the first time the noise and the crowd that was the cause of the noise.

Yurine continued walking next to Yu without saying anything. Yu would have liked to at least get a reaction, because silence was one of the worst answers to hear.

He would think for a long time what Yurine's silence meant. Was she silent because she didn't want to love him? Or was it because she was ashamed? Maybe it was just confusion, but Yu's mind was in the hands of the first option.

Even if he thought Yurine loved him in some way, he couldn't shake the suspicion.

After walking a little further, they entered a more crowded square, where there was an arena where matches were being played.

“Too bad it only has one door, it's a paradise for pickpockets.”

Yu carried the money pouch in his inside breast pocket as a precaution, so he wasn't worried about it being stolen, but in this environment he might lose Yurine, so he grabbed her wrist.

He would have preferred to hold her hand, but he believed it would be healthier for Yurine to take the first step.

“I wonder where Marino is waiting for us? I hope we're not the first, I don't like waiting.”

“I want to sit somewhere too.”

“Do you want me to carry you on my shoulder?”

Yurine thought, then said, “No,” her cheeks puffing out.

“That breaks my heart. It would have been a nice father-daughter activity.”

“You're getting too caught up in this.”

Yu took the letter Marino had sent him out of his pocket. The letter said something about seats. As soon as he opened the letter, he found what he wanted, there were two seat numbers. Even though it was a single ticket, Yurine was included in the child quota.

“Let's go inside and wait,” he said as he saw three people in the crowd at the entrance to the arena.

Marino Swann and his two little girls were waiting at the entrance. When Marino noticed him, he waved his hand in the air.

“Look, he brought his daughters with him. You can be good and be friends now.”

“What do you think I am? I am a supreme being. Do you think I will play games like little children? How foolish you are.”

Yu squeezed Yurine's cheek in response to her arrogant words. He wanted her to play games.

“Welcome, Mr. Valarfin. Let's go inside.”

Marino's both hands were busy holding his daughters' hands, so he didn't reach out. Watching them walk behind them made him jealous.

More than half of the arena was empty because one of the teams in the match was the Sea Monsters, who were certain to lose. In a match like this, people could not find the excitement they were looking for.

They took their seats in the front rows. Yu was relieved that there were no people sitting around them, and he hoped that no one would come until the match started.

“I saw you looking a little bored today,” Marino said. He was respectful to Yu, as always. “Are you all right?”

On any other day, he would have dodged the question by saying he was fine.

But today he decided to make a change and let off steam for a change.

“I'm not. Yesterday some guy turned us in, so we had to go to the police station and on top of that we got a curfew. It's going to be a problem because I have to go out of town.”

“What did you do?”

“I kidnapped my own daughter.”

Marino greeted this with a laugh. “You kidnapped your own daughter?” He opened his mouth to find something to say, but no words came out.

“It's nothing but a false tip from an adversary. That's not the real reason why we were banned from the city, because it turned out to be false. The real reason is a small quarrel between us and the guards, that's why we ended up in court.”

“I hope you get through this without any problems. I will be happy to help you during the trial if you want.”

“Thank you.”

He still didn't want to be dependent on him, he didn't want to be dependent on anyone. Yu Valarfin wanted to be a person who could do everything himself.

“But I'm not like that, I'm a bad person who is always dependent on others.”

As the teams came out onto the pitch, the players greeted the spectators. The Vesthelm Storm greeted their own fans with a smile, while the Sea Monsters didn't have many spectators to greet.

“Their morale drops as soon as they start the game, it's difficult.”

The team Yu had hoped to win, the Sea Monsters, wore red wooden armor over a blue outfit. The Vesthelm Storm wore beige wooden armor over a white outfit.

“At least I have a deal with the Vesthelm Storm, I'll get money out of it eventually.”

This so-called Arena Game had different styles of gameplay. Sometimes there were fourteen players on each team, but in this game there were seven players on each team.

Players had a helmet on their head and a plate strapped to the helmet, and they earned points by breaking their opponents' plates.

Team captains had four plates and other players had three. As soon as the plates on their heads were broken, they had the right to return to the game as many times as they had the right, for which they had to return to their own flag area to get a new plate.

If a player lost all his plate appearances, he was out of the game, but that didn't mean he was out for the rest of the game.

In the game, if a player broke an opposing team player's plate, he was entitled to an extra plate, which he could give to the player who was out of the game.

Of course, this was not easy to do. After breaking a plate, he had to go to the other team's flag area, get a new plate and take it to his friend waiting in his flag area.

The game ended when all players of the opposing team were left without a plate or when the time set by the hourglass expired.

The game's scoring system could also be confusing. If all the players of one team lost their plates on the field, they were not allowed to buy new plates, even though they were entitled to them, and were defeated.

If the game ended with time and not in this way, points were written to the teams for the number of plates broken and the juries announced their own scores. The team with the highest score won.

“No, I am centuries ahead, I am centuries ahead! I carry the knowledge and cultural accumulation of the twenty-first century. Instead of benefiting from my knowledge, they make me languish in police stations! If my brain doesn't migrate, who will? They don't know the value, the worth of me!”

“You're going to talk during the game?” Yurine tugged Yu's arm and gestured for him to shut up. “Watch the game.”

“I'm watching, I'm keeping an eye on it.”

The first referee raised the flags in both hands, lowered the red and yellow flags and the game started.

One person from each team stayed behind to protect the flag area. Because if a player from the opposing team broke a plate, he had to enter his opponent's flag area to take the plate he had won to his own flag area. That is the point.

There would be players in flag areas to prevent entry into that area. If the opposing player managed to enter the other team's flag area, he would gain immunity there.

The beginning of the match was calm. Both teams were lightly clashing swords and probing each other, neither team trying to apply pressure yet.

Then, when no one expected it, the captain of the Vesthelm Storm pushed the opponent in front of him with his shield, sending him crashing to the ground. While his main opponent was on the ground, he jumped on another opponent who was fighting his teammate a few steps away from him. Before the Sea Monsters player had a chance to defend himself, he was hit in the head with a wooden sword and lost his plate.

The player who had lost his plate had two chances left, so he started to run towards his own flag zone to get a new plate and continue the game, but his first opponent ran faster than him and got ahead of him.

Meanwhile, Patrick Lorren, who was watching the game on the Sea Monsters' flag field, was cursing.

“They try to end the game quickly by breaking all the opponent's plates,” Marino said.

According to the rules, players without plates could not attack, they could only defend, but during this defense they had the chance to break the other player's plate.

The Vesthelm Storm player took the risk and stood in front of his opponent and started attacking him to prevent him from getting a new plate.

The aim of his attack was to push him back and stall him until the other teammates had broken the plates of all the opponent's players.

The Sea Monsters player was in a difficult situation, if he accidentally made a move that the referees would call offensive, he would be fouled and out of the game.

Knowing this, the Vesthelm Storm player was bolder and kept up the pressure on his opponent. As his opponent tried to step forward, he pushed him with his shield, constantly blocking him.

While his opponent was pushing him back with bold moves, the Sea Monsters player was desperately waiting for a moment to break the plate over his opponent's head, sometimes preventing himself from attacking at the last moment.

One of the referees was there to raise his flag if a Sea Monsters player made a wrong move.

In another corner of the arena, another Vesthelm Storm player had managed to break his own opponent's plate. He, too, was trying to prevent his plate-less opponent from going to the flag zone.

As the Sea Monsters fell behind, the Vesthelm Storm made another attack. The team's owner brought in a player who was waiting in the flag zone and he again broke an opponent's plate.

“Mr. Lorren seems very angry.”

Patrick Lorren's face was red with anger, kicking the ground in the flag area and screaming obscenities.

“How pity, I really wanted the Sea Monsters to win.”

***

“Holy shit, I wish I'd asked for something else.”

Not going to lie, they got the Sea Monsters on the first half, but Sea Monsters attacked in the second half of the game and turned the game. With the time running out, the jury vote was taken and Sea Monsters won by a small margin.

“Even I didn't expect them to win, so well done.”

Because they had won the jury vote by a small margin, Patrick Lorren would have thought that they had won thanks to Ryuta Yong, but in fact they had won the game by their own hard work.

“They played well, no lie, they deserved it, but of course my bet was off.”

“Man, you're in debt and you're still gambling? Don't get involved in such things again.”

“I'm sorry, that was the last time and I've learned my lesson. I'll never play again.”

After the match they left the arena and went to a park. Marino's daughters were trying to play games with Yurine, but Yurine ignored them and sat quietly next to Yu.

“Anyway, it was nice spending time with you. I have some business to take care of now, see you later, Mr. Valarfin.”

“See you later.”

Marino got up from the table and soon disappeared among the people.

“It's a good thing those niggers are gone.”

“Yurine, you shouldn’t speak like that. At least don’t say such things against children.” Here nobody cares the racism against Ethalotians or Qrathians, but it makes Yu uncomfortable. “I feel like somebody gonna write twitter about how bad I am… But yeah, isn't it? We're finally alone together, just like you wanted.”

“Silly!”

Yurine stood up and faced Yu.

“What are we going to do here? I want to find that bastard's son right now and take revenge.”

“Revenge, huh?”

Yu thought their goal was just to rewind time, was revenge going to be involved?

“Of course it will. And is it my responsibility to take revenge?” Yurine was much stronger than he was, but she was still a child and could not go it alone. “So, is it revenge or justice?”

If, as he predicted, it went all the way to the Peloponnese, there could be a long list of revenge.

“What are you thinking? What did you expect?”

“There is nothing I think.”

He didn't want to talk about revenge. He didn't want to make promises he couldn't keep.

He got up from the table, left the park with Yurine and headed for another place in the Hull Quarter, the library.

The Middle Ages were generally boring and he had a lot of free time, which he usually spent in the public library.

“Revenge or justice? Or fixing it? Do I even have the right to justice?”

He continued to think as the clouds were opening and closing in front of the sun.

“Who killed Rie? It was...” He didn't want to throw away the burden on his conscience by calling it grief, but it was clear that he was not the only one to blame. “It was none other than me. I killed her, just like I killed the others. Satoshi died because of me, how could I escape that guilt? So was Camaeron. Worst of all... even my sisters...”

His low mood due to fatigue made him think about things he didn't want to think about.

“Thoughts that come to me out of the blue... How can I turn back time? Shouldn't I take revenge on myself first? Everything seems to be falling apart.”

He didn't know what to do or what to do. He just kept walking.

After all, Yu Valarfin was just walking.