Chapter 156

So Cassian Really Cured You Like This?

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Chapter 156

So Cassian Really Cured You Like This?

Chapter 156

Rattle. Rattle.

Inside the carriage racing toward the count's estate.

"……."

Sophia sat leaning against the velvet seat, wearing the dazed expression she almost never wore,

quietly staring down at her hands.

Her own hands—the ones Cassian had held so desperately.

Sophia's cheeks were flushed so red they looked ready to burst.

Her heartbeat had shown no sign of settling from the entrance of the botanical garden until now, ringing loudly in her ears.

It was caused by excitement,

which was why it felt so strange.

Because normally, she shouldn't have been able to feel the vitality or warmth of excitement right now.

'It's a lie…….'

The terrible chill that had suddenly descended.

That accursed attack that had shackled her entire life, freezing her bones and choking off her breath.

Never once in her life had that fatal attack subsided so completely, as if it were a lie.

Under normal circumstances, at least ten days.

Maybe this time, because she'd forced herself to endure it, a month.

She should have steeled herself to lie in bed for nearly a month, hovering between life and death, unable to move, and recuperating.

But all that preparation had become meaningless.

Her body was more peaceful now than it had ever been.

'So he really is the disciple of Archmage Iris.'

She had long known through Lucius that Cassian was a talent chosen by Iris von Evergarden, the youngest professor at the Imperial Academy.

But that was that, and this was this.

Sophia's illness was a curse that even renowned high priests and celebrated mages had been unable to cure.

Even as the family fortunes declined, her only brother had never spared a single penny when it came to finding someone who could cure Sophia.

And the conclusion they always reached was the same.

The more they investigated, the more clearly one desperate fact emerged: this terrible illness was a fate inseparable from her life's path.

That was why.

To experience a miracle in which the pain of the attack evaporated in an instant without even raising a ripple was something she had never encountered before.

The warm, overwhelming heat that had flowed from his palm.

The sensation of that gentle mana traveling through her veins and throughout her body, forcibly making her heart beat as it froze blue.

Sophia raised her right hand and gently placed it over her left chest.

Thump. Thump.

A regular, vigorous heartbeat.

I'm alive.

Living and breathing very healthily, without any pain.

"Ah……."

Clear moisture welled up in her blue eyes.

Joy and overwhelming emotion. And a blind sense of having been saved by him filled the carriage.

A little later.

Upon arriving at Count Rohanna's estate, the carriage came to a stop.

When the carriage door opened, the first person she saw was Lucius, waiting before the entrance as always.

"Sophia. Did you have a safe trip?"

Lucius approached with a bright smile, immediately trying to assess her complexion.

"Lucy."

"Hm?"

"There's something I want to check urgently."

"……Hm?"

At Sophia's firm voice, Lucius could only nod without knowing why.

* * *

A reception room inside the Rohanna mansion.

"……."

Only silence lingered in the room.

A white-haired priest wearing a monocle repeatedly examined Sophia, channeling holy power first into her forehead and then into her wrist.

As deep furrows formed between his brows, Lucius's lips grew increasingly parched as he stood nearby and watched.

He couldn't tell why,

but the priest's examination, which always took a fixed amount of time, was lasting longer than usual.

"Hoo."

How much time had passed?

At last, the priest finished his examination, withdrew his hand, and cocked his head.

"……Are you certain it was an attack?"

Deep puzzlement colored his voice.

"What do you mean?"

When Lucius asked urgently, the priest fiddled with his monocle and answered.

"Her internal qi and blood are astonishingly stable. There is no trace of the chill having overtaken her; rather, she is in a condition far healthier and more vigorous than usual. I have cared for Lady Sophia's health for several years, but…… such a positive condition has not appeared even once in the past few years."

"……!"

At the priest's certainty, Lucius's gaze turned toward Sophia, who sat demurely on the sofa.

Sophia merely nodded with a faint smile.

Lucius asked one more question, just in case.

"Could there have been a fundamental improvement in her condition?"

Unfortunately, the priest shook his head.

"I examined her thoroughly from every angle to determine that, but unfortunately, it seems closer to a temporary alleviation of the symptoms."

"I see."

"However, I dare say this is something for which we should give thanks to God. The change we see now was by no means something that could have been predicted."

As a priest, he had refrained from casually uttering the word 'miracle,' but he was effectively saying that it was one.

Lucius pulled a thick envelope from inside his coat and carefully handed it to the priest.

"Thank you so much for your concern. Please keep what happened today confidential, as always, Priest."

"……Rest assured. I have no intention of speaking of it."

After gauging the thickness of the envelope with his fingertips, the priest bowed politely and left the reception room.

Click.

The door closed, and the moment only the twins remained in the room,

"Haa……."

The invisible mask on Lucius's face shattered and fell away.

His eyes, always curved into elegant slits, opened wide, and his unsteady breathing came out raggedly.

His face was slightly elated.

No, Lucius knelt before Sophia with his face flushed red from uncontrollable delight.