Yu didn't think he could eat any more today, but Yurine dragged him to the dining hall and fed him lunch herself. Then they went down to the library and did some research in the big library first, and when they realized that they would not find what they were looking for there, they went to the small library.

“Why do you think Cecilus wanted to kill Rie?”

“Yu, I've been thinking but I can't find a reason. We've only met that brat twice.”

According to Yurine, Cecilus was fifteen years old. Even if fifteen meant new adult in this world, Yu still saw him as a child and couldn't get used to him planning a murder. He may have been a madman, but what drove him to it?

“It's actually not surprising... Adolescents can be more dangerous than I think. I remember when I was in high school and they really are a breed that shouldn't be dismissed as children.”

According to Yurine, the first time they met him was when Rie and Duke Vermilia were talking, and after that they only saw him once, at a ball to celebrate the New Year. They never saw each other after the ball.

“I feel like he has a really ridiculous reason. I can't stop thinking about it, especially when I hear things said about him.”

Yu had thought the murder might have been planned by the king, religion or whatever Rie wanted to kill, but why would a child do such a thing?

“I also want to avenge my mother,” Yurine said.

“I know. After you went back in time?”

“No, I mean, yes, we will punish those responsible then, but we have to punish them now. We will kill them.”

What would this conversation look like to an outsider? An adult and a small child talking together about killing a fifteen-year-old. Yu was uncomfortable planning to kill a fifteen-year-old, but he was also certain that Cecilus deserved to die in this situation.

“Wait a minute, how old was Sharley?”

He never asked his age, had he killed a child?

“And we will not go back in time, we will rewind time.”

He wanted to ask what the difference was, but he had no intention of starting a new argument. Taking Yurine's words at face value, he continued to wander through the shelves.

“My hypothesis is that Sorrow and Joy have different properties. I think Joy can block light and wind spells, while Sorrow can block dark magic.”

“Are you saying that because I can cast spells when the joy is gone?”

“Yes, I'm glad I have a smart girl by my side.”

Yurine smiled at the praise and grabbed Yu's hand in both of hers as he looked at the titles of the books on the shelves, searching for something useful.

“Salery told me about something called the Great Blessing. He said Rie is after something called the Quasar Blessing. Do you have any idea about that?”

“The Three Great Blessings are the most powerful Blessings that exist. The Andromeda, Soe and Quasar Blessings. The Andromeda Blessing belongs to the Pontifex, the leader of the Zodianists. The whereabouts of the other two are unknown. After that come the Star Blessings, Yu, what you call the signs of the zodiac...” Yurine was proud that she remembered a piece of information that Yu had casually mentioned. “Then there are the Lesser Blessings, like the Orion Blessing.”

“What do you get when you add them all up?”

If they were created by a god, perhaps the person who collected these blessings could also become a god or something close to it. Even though the idea of becoming a god was just a dream, it excited Yu.

“Yu, we're going to the Mora now, right?”

“Yes,” Yu smiled arrogantly. “Before that, we should send letters to the men there and tell them to hide their sisters because I'm coming, especially that bastard Cecilus.”

“Because if we don't take precautions, the whole country could flood when they see me, I'm so handsome.”

Yu's arrogant smile was broken by Yurine pinching his leg.

“Ouw... I didn't think you'd get violent with me again.”

“Don't get cocky, I need to turn you into a good person for a good cause.”

“Hmm... I'm a bad person? Well, I can't deny that either...”

Yu gathered on a table all the books he believed would contain the tiniest scraps of information about the concept of time, different dimensions, forgotten spells, adventurers' notes, gods, and so on.

“You told me there is a way to rewind time, tell me how we do it.”

“How do we do it? Well... I thought you could find this part...”

Yu froze and looked at Yurine. Her mouth was open but no words were coming out.

“I was joking,” Yurine said, seeing Yu freeze. It hadn't been as funny as she had planned. “I know there's a place called Nekoverine, and that by entering it, my mother's master rewound time.”

“What exactly did she tell you?”

“My mother's master told her when she was a child. Her master Natalia was also a witch and forty years ago she rewound time with someone to save the world.”

“Who is this someone?”

“I don't know, but he was in the War of Heroes. He was in the army of the goddess Rhea.”

“Do you know how they did it?”

“There is a place called Nekoverine, even the gods don't know about it and can't see what happens there, it is a region separate from the universe.”

*The story was told in the past tense, making it less believable, but Yu had chosen to believe Yurine, and he would.

“And you don't know where this place is...”

“I don't know.”

With Rie and her master dead, how could they find a place unknown even to the gods? Nor could they find the person with whom Natalia had wrapped time forty years ago.

“Whatever god, being, thing is hearing my thoughts... I demand that I use every chance I have left this week to find a way out, just so you know.”

After saying his prayers, he put the last book he planned to study on the table.

“Yu, I believe the story my mother told me, you should believe me too.”

“I believe you, Yurine.”

He took one last look at the pile of books on the table and walked towards the exit of the room.

"Yu, where are you going?"

“I'm going to the toilet.”

“Yu, I'll continue to investigate.”

“Okay.”

“Yu, come quickly.”

Yu laughed this time. He pointed his fist at her, gave him a thumbs up and left the room.

---

♪ I love Yu I love Yu ♪

♪ Do Yu love me yes I do ♪

“I can't get this song out of my head.”

Muttering, he entered the toilet and looked for a cabin where he could do his business.

“Uh... Are all the cabins closed?”

Yu had to do his business at the urinal. Ten urinals were lined up along the wall and Yu went to the furthest corner he could get to, as he always did in such situations. At the last of the urinals he began to pee.

As Yu was doing his work, a man he did not know entered the restroom. From his robes it was clear that he was one of the students of this school. He came right up to Yu and he started to pee too.

"What's wrong with this dude?"

All the urinals were empty except the one Yu was using, and Yu had chosen to do his business in the corner so no one would come near him. Still, the man next to him was peeing directly next to him without any distance.

“The son of a bitch comes to me with such confidence that it's like we pee together every day.”

That's why he didn't like urinals. Whenever Yu had to use them, someone would come right up to him and pee.

As they both continued to pee, the man turned his head and looked at Yu's face.

“Are you Yu Valarfin?”

“Yes.”

“You're a handsome man.”

Yu didn't say anything, he just turned around and kept peeing. When Yu didn't speak, the man next to him spoke again.

“They say you caught the Redchapel Killer.”

“We did something.”

“I see.”

Although the man arrived after Yu, he finished before him, pulled up his pants, washed his hands and left the restroom. Yu couldn't help complaining as he washed his hands after him.

“What was that about?”

To enter the small library, he had to go through the big library first. Inside the big library, there were too many people. Yu felt comfortable because there were only two of them in the small library, but suddenly he felt uneasy among so many strangers.

He was used to crowds and liked the way people, especially girls, looked at him, but most of the looks he felt when he was here were envy.

“Mr. Valarfin.”

When his name was whispered in his ear, he was about to let out a high-pitched scream, but stopped himself at the last moment for fear that his charisma would be scratched.

“I'm sorry I scared you.”

“I am not scared, Lylphia, don't be ridiculous.”

He thought the faggot from earlier was following him. He had to watch his back while he was here.

“Come,” Lylphia said and took Yu by the hand and dragged him to the back of the library, between the shelves. They had come to a remote corner where no one could see them.

“Oh shit... What the fuck? No way, right here? Hahaha... When you find someone like me, of course you don't want to miss- No! No, no, no, no... I can't... I mean, I could... You see, Lylphia is against my principles. Okay, she's cute and all, but she's got a bad chest to height ratio... I can't... I won't do it, yes, I won't do it... I have a daughter, I have to be a good father, yes... My determination is at the highest level and I reject Lylphia.”

Even though Yu had convinced himself that Lylphia would make him an inappropriate offer and rejected her before she made it, Lylphia had a very different topic to discuss.

“I tried to find something about your illness.”

“Ah...” Yu was surprised and Lylphia looked at him to see what had happened. “It's nothing, go on.”

“I didn't find much, but here are some books about disorders of the brain. There's a list of all the diseases that have ever been seen and recipes for medicines, you might find them useful.”

“Thank you, Lylphia, I was looking for something like that.”

“You're welcome.”

This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

After a quick chat with Lylphia, he entered the small library. Everyone was envious that someone like Yu, who appeared out of nowhere, could just walk in.

“Yu, you idiot. I told you to come quickly.”

“I apologize.”

“Okay, I forgive you this time.”

Yurine ran to him when he arrived and took his hand again.

“You're going to have your hands full from now on.” Maron Martin was sitting at one of the tables reading a book. As far as Yu could see, medical books were stacked on the table. “But I didn't know you were so uncomfortable being around me. All I did was sit quietly in my corner.”

Maron's table was not even close to the one Yu had chosen, he had indeed moved to a far corner.

“Sorry to interrupt, but if you don't mind me asking, why did you want access to this place?”

Maron looked at Yu and took a deep breath.

“Did you notice the ring on my finger?”

“Yes.”

Yu looked almost every person up and down and examined what they were wearing, as long as it didn't bother his eyes. Maron wore a wedding ring on the ring finger of his left hand.

“As you understand, I am married and I love my wife, but things have not been going well for the last six months. Don't get me wrong, she loves me as I love my wife and we are both happy to be together. We were happily married until six months ago, but suddenly she got a difficult illness. She can't even get out of bed because of the disease. I have tried everything to cure her, but I have always failed, and you cannot imagine how much it hurts me, Mr. Valarfin, not being able to help her. My last hope was this library, but Salery wouldn't let me in here. Perhaps if he had, my wife would never have suffered so much and I would have already found a way to cure her.”

He had thought that Maron's only goal was to gain power, and now he saw that he had been wrong.

“I hope you cure your wife as soon as possible.”

He felt really sorry for her and wanted her well-being. Yu realized today that many things happen because of love.

Salery assisted in the murder because he loved his family, Sony kidnapped Nana because he loved her, Sharley went mad because he loved her, and Maron wanted access to the library because he loved his wife.

“And I help Yurine because I love her.” A bittersweet smile appeared on his lips. “Everything happens because of a man’s love for a girl.”

Yu wondered if Rie's death was also for love.

He sat down at the table to read the books he had bought and began to make notes in his diary as he read the first book. Meanwhile Yurine was sitting on his lap, reading the pages he was reading.

---

A few hours later, when Maron left, Yurine got up from Yu's lap and walked to the shelves and disappeared for a few seconds. When she came back a few seconds later, she was holding a book.

“Yu, I didn't want to show this when that guy is here.”

Yurine put the book in front of Yu and opened it, there were some folded papers inside.

“Yu, it looks like your writing, so I thought you could read it. Yu, can you read it?”

Yu picked up the papers and lined them up, the words written in the Latin alphabet.

“How can this be?”

Yu couldn't hide his surprise, Yurine started jumping in her seat and shouted excitedly.

“Yu! Yu! Can you read?”

Yurine sat back on Yu's lap and looked at the paper in Yu's hand as Yu began to read.

“Even though I don't want people to hear this story, it somehow bothers me that no one knows it. To ease my conscience, I put these words on paper and write them in my own language so that only people like me, and not everyone else, can read them. I must warn the reader; these are words that contain what lies behind this world, our world, and every world that exists. You may think that everything that happens is meaningless and you may fall into emptiness, read it knowing this.”

When Yu finished reading what was written on the paper, he and Yurine were looking at each other.

“##### #####, Yu Valarfin.”

“Yurine, Rie was a pretty girl.”

***

A few days later Sivina woke up. Yurine was in the bathroom and Yu was bored reading a book when he found out that Sivina had woken up. So he thought it would be good to talk to them and arrange the work that he and Yurine had agreed on earlier.

“I hope I'm not disturbing you,” Yu knocked on the door, even though it was open.

“No, come please.”

Sivina invited him. Although she was awake, she found it difficult to move her body, so Ana helped her to eat. According to the doctors, her body would soon be back in shape.

“Welcome back, Raul. We haven't spoken since you arrived, have we?”

Although he checked on Sivina every day, he hadn't spoken to Raul, who had arrived two days ago. Yu saw no problem in talking to him, but Raul avoided talking to him, just like now.

Yu turned his face back to Sivina rather than deal with his demeanor.

“You should get out of bed as soon as possible, I am sure the people of Rechapel are waiting for you to show their gratitude.”

Sivina had done what no one else had been able to do for years, and by killing the Red Chappel Killer, she had finally put an end to a time when people went to bed in fear. This was certainly an achievement to be celebrated.

“I didn't do it alone, we did it because of you.”

“I know, you're welcome,” he said, sitting on Sivina's bed, at her feet.

“Ana, how are you?”

“I'm glad Sivina is awake.”

“There's something I'm curious about, Ana.” He was going to talk about the wind spell that hit him the night they fought. “Was it you who cast the wind spell that came out of the tunnel that night?”

“Yes.”

“I almost died, I saw the wind coming towards me and I said oh my God.”

Yu said this with a laugh, but Ana felt embarrassed and apologized, thinking she had made a mistake.

“No, no, no. You don't need to apologize because if you hadn't sent the spell I would have been dead for sure. Your spell saved our lives, mine and Yurine's. Thank you, Ana.”

“I-I'm glad it worked out.”

Ana now had a sweet smile on her face.

“I don't want to belabor the point, I have a proposal for you. Are you looking for a job?”

Sivina and Ana looked at each other for a while, they had already forgotten Raul's presence when he reminded himself in an irritating tone.

“You said that after this was over, everyone would go their own way!”

“What's this reaction?” Yu looked at Raul and smiled. “Couldn't I have changed my mind?”

Raul clenched his fists. Yu couldn't understand why he was angry with him.

“Uh... Actually, I understand. He's jealous. He's scared.”

“Raul, let Mr. Valarfin speak.”

After Sivina's words, Raul sat down on a chair and Yu began to explain.

“I'm looking for people to serve the Cardinal of Virgo, you can rest easy about the salary and you won't have to pay for food and lodging.”

They were both surprised, they never expected to get such a job offer from Yu. They still didn't even know who Yu was in the first place.

“I think serving the Cardinal of Virgo is a much more suitable job for a knight than adventuring. Ana can also be knighted by Her Eminence, isn't that the start of a great career?”

“But I've never heard of such a person, who do you mean by that?” Ana asked.

“Who else, the daughter of the previous cardinal, of course! Yurine!”

Yu smiled and opened his arms.

“I'll be honest, the Cathedral and the Cardinalate of Virgo are not very important, as you would have heard if they were. But that's just for now, I'm looking for trusted comrades to make this world a better place. Together with you we can strengthen the cathedral and change the Mora.”

Yu kept smiling, waiting for their answer.

“I don't think that’s right. We'll only get in trouble. Sivina, we're fine.”

He hadn't even asked Raul, but Raul had interrupted their conversation again.

“For me... I mean, Sivina was only adventuring because I wanted her to, right?”

Sivina didn't refuse Ana, who started talking without paying any attention to Raul.

“Yes, I knew that,” Ana said, smiling politely. “I think Sivina wants it as a knight. If she wants it, it's fine with me.” Sivina hadn't even spoken yet, but Ana had decided she wanted it.

“But...”

Yu turned to Raul this time, he couldn't stand it anymore when he interrupted him every now and then.

“I'm not asking you a question, Raul. I'm talking to Sivina and Ana.”

“But!”

“Raul!” Ana shouted and shushed him. “You and Satoshi were always trying to make decisions for us, why? We can make our own decisions.”

After this answer Raul fell silent for good and Yu looked at Sivina for the final answer. Her sea green eyes were really beautiful.

“I... We still have a lot to talk about, but I'll take it.”

“Good. We'll come with Yurine at lunch to discuss the details.”

He left Sivina's room with a satisfied smile on his face.

He believed they had proven themselves in their mission. They were also true to Yu's word. With them, Yu and Yurine's dream could come true.

“Now... How many floors up was he?”

Last night he met Maron Martin again in the small library. Maron had seen the medical books he was reading and asked him why, and Yu had told him a little about his brain problem.

“Maron Martin is a good guy...”

Maron had told him to contact the head physician of the academy.

Yu went up to the fourth floor of the East Tower and entered through a large door. It opened into a corridor and inside there was a similar smell to what Yu called the hospital smell.

“Head physician... Head physician...”

He wandered along the corridor, looking at the names on the doors, but he couldn't see the name of the head physician he was looking for.

“Have I come to the wrong place?”

“Yes.”

Yu turned around at the sound. A tall, handsome man with yellow eyes was smiling at him.

“The doctors' offices are here, but mine is one floor up.” The man continued to smile as he held out his hand to Yu. “Head physician Noteos.”

“Yu Valarfin.”

The head physician took him by the shoulders and forced him to walk with him. He looked to be in his thirties, Yu had thought he would meet someone older.

“Mr. Martin sent me,” Yu said as Noteos led him into his room. “He asked me to see you about an illness I have.”

“Hmm... What kind of disease?”

The head doctor sat in his chair and Yu sat in the chair he pointed to.

“Where I come from, it's called epilepsy. How can I explain...” Yu wanted to explain it in the terms of his world, but he knew the man in front of him would not understand, so he looked for another way to explain it. “Something happens in my brain and I have seizures, my body shakes, I lose consciousness. There is nothing wrong with me except the seizures.”

The head doctor nodded and took notes on a piece of paper about what Yu had said.

“Symptoms I've encountered before.”

“But...” Yu added. “Lately it's more than that. I've been hearing voices before the seizures, I don't know how to describe it. There's something different about the seizures I've been having since I came to Rolderhelm. My daughter used to help me get through them easily at first with her healing magic, but she's finding it harder and harder to do that, and I've been passing out completely and waking up long after the seizure.”

At first, the head doctor listened to him with a smile, but when Yu continued, the smile was quickly wiped off his face. When their eyes met, Yu felt his heart speed up.

“These voices... What are they saying?”

“They always say the same thing; I am sorry.”

Once he had heard different word but he can’t remember it.

“Let's have a look,” Noteos said and stood up and came to Yu.

As Yu watched, Noteos raised his hands and brought them above Yu's head. Yu began to tremble as a green light came out of Noteos' hands.

“Calm down.”

Yu felt a stabbing pain in his brain. It was as if he had suddenly bitten into an ice cream and swallowed it, but it was stronger than that. Noteos continued to cast his spell with a serious expression as Yu's body convulsed.

When he finished, he stepped back and looked at Yu's face. He was still sullen. He swallowed and went back to his seat.

“You have Blessings, right?” Noteos asked.

Surprised by the sudden discovery of his secret, Yu mumbled. “Y-yes…” He looked at him worriedly.

“This is not easy to say, but… I'm sorry, young man.”

“What happened?”

Noteos lowered his eyes to the floor at first, but when he gathered his courage, he thought it would be better to say eye to eye, so he raised his head and looked directly into Yu's amethyst-colored eyes.

“A disorder whose exact nature my generation has yet to discover... I'm afraid you won't have a long life ahead of you.”

Yu's shoulders slumped, his amethyst-colored eyes expressionless except for fear and worry.

“What do you mean?”

“You will live five years at most, probably less. Unfortunately, there is no cure for this disease.”

“D-don't joke! This... Millions of people have epilepsy!”

“I'm sorry, but I don't know what the illness you're talking about is. We've had the kind of crisis you describe before and all the cases were the same. I'm sorry. All I can do is give you medication to prevent you from having a seizure, but that won't change the fate that awaits you.”

“I... I promised...”

He had promised Yurine. How could he fulfill his promise if he was going to die in a few years?

When Noteos saw Yu's tears, he looked away and said the same word again, "I'm sorry."

After the physician's notes, he left his office, went down a few floors, not knowing where to go, walked thoughtfully and entered a dimly lit corridor where no one could hear him. There was only a wall at the end of the corridor. He banged his fist, then his forehead against it.

Could a nineteen-year-old be told that he’ll die before he turned twenty-five? He had clearly been told. It had never been so hard to think about what to do.

“What did I expect to happen after killing so many people?”

All his happiness was taken from him in a few words. His blossoming hopes, his excitement, his promise... Why did the world have to take something back from him for every time he smiled? Why did he have to feel sad after every moment of happiness?

His fingers tingled as the blood trickled down his forehead, down his nose, between his lips and down his chin onto his clothes. Sudden anger drove him to hit something again, to open his palm and arrest the innocent ground.

“Can it be achieved in five years? Five... What's my plan?” Interestingly, he wasn't crying. “Can I survive? If time rewinds, I have five more years. Five years to find a solution. I don't want to die, I want to live.”

The tears flowed as he confessed that he wanted to live.

The corridor was dark, lit only by the light from the window at the head of the corridor because no one was using it.

“I should apologize,” he thought. “To Sharley's mother. Even if I can't admit my guilt...”

He could have cleared his conscience. What explanation would he give Yurine for the blood? He felt he was being watched. He trembled.

***

Salery was still in his cell. He waited with no idea what would happen to him and his son.

“Why? Why did all this happen to me?”

His life was going great until a year ago. He came from a good family, his wife was still alive and he was proud of his son.

But with the death of his wife, everything had fallen apart. His perfect life had suddenly turned upside down and he entered the worst months of his life.

“Damn... Vermilia... and Bishory... And the Academy... Damn everything...”

Most of all he cursed the world for not giving him what he wanted. Why was it so hard for him to live a happy life for the rest of his life and pass away as a happy old man?

He still felt the pain of torture. And the two punches Yu Valarfin had thrown in his face had hurt his pride far more than the torture.

“Hmm? What are you thinking about?”

The sound of harsh footsteps came from far away from his cell, but he could hear it clearly in his mind. Shadows covered the floor of the corridor where his cell was located and he could see no one around.

“Danger.”

That was the first thing he thought when he heard the voice. Danger was etched into every fiber of the man's frighteningly gentle voice.

“Hmm... Salery von Bishory... A jealous man who hits on another man's wife... A bad person... Uh-huh... Uh-huh!”

He was giggling like a child, and his voice was digging fear into the deepest part of Salery's heart.

Finally, the owner of the voice arrived in front of Salery's cell. Fear was the only thing Salery felt.

The owner of the voice was tall. His hair was darker than black and his eyes were yellow as bright as the sun. The male being who owned the voice was undoubtedly handsome, but the fear Salery felt prevented him from sympathizing with him.

The owner of the voice walked through the bars of the cell and stood in front of the crucified Salery. When he first saw him, he had a smile as sharp as a knife, but now it was gone, replaced by a frown.

Fear, fear, fear.

The only thing Salery felt was fear. He couldn't even question why they were here alone, he didn't even know how he had gotten in here.

“You remind me why I don't like people. The other things you do are typical human behavior, but touching my property...”

Salery was so frightened that he couldn't even move his eyelids. The unknown aura he gave off caused him to freeze.

“Do you know how hard it is to raise one of them? Of course you don't... And yet you meddle in things you don't know, human.” There was such disgust, such hatred over the word human that Salery had never seen anyone in his life experience an emotion so strongly.

The man put his hand to Salery's cheek. The moment the man's hand touched his cheek, Salery felt a pain throughout his body that was far worse than the torture he had suffered.

If he were being tortured right now he would be crying and screaming, but he could do none of that. What he was experiencing was not torture, it was hell.

He felt his whole body burning and disintegrating at the same time. His internal organs were being ripped out, his bones were breaking, he couldn't breathe. Despite all this, he was still alive.

“There's really no point in torturing you, but I need to show my anger. I'm going to have a little fun with you tonight for stealing a few years from me, even if it's nothing compared to hundreds of years.”

There was only one thing Salery could think of.

“The devil...”

The man's yellow eyes turned red, he had heard the word Salery had been running through his mind.

“As much as you.”