Chapter 23

༺ The First Letter (23) ༻

Celine returned at night.

After sleeping in the dormitory all day, she seemed to have immediately rushed to me when she heard the news that I had regained consciousness. Her attire was a mess.

Naturally, her white nape caught my eyes, but I coughed in vain and turned my gaze away.

She was like a friend to me. I mustn’t have any bad intentions, otherwise Leto and Celine would be disappointed with me.

However, whether or not she knew my feelings, Celine started crying when she saw me awake. Tears were flowing down her cheeks.

She immediately ran and hugged me as if she was throwing herself in my arms. I accidentally hugged Celine’s slender body.

I was about to scream, but I managed to hold it in.

Celine’s physical abilities were beyond me. It was natural since she had more mana. As she ran with all her might and hugged me, it felt like my body, which had been in constant pain, was creaking even more.

But when I saw Celine sobbing and burying her face in my chest, I didn’t feel like blaming her.

I just stroked the back of her head and comforted her until she stopped crying.

“Sob, Sob, Ian oppa. Sob… … .”

“Yes, yes. You must have been shocked… I’m fine.”

Celine was also overreacting. In the academy, I didn’t have to worry about most injuries. A high-ranking priest dispatched from the Holy Kingdom was always on standby in the temple, and the Saintess was attending the academy as a third-year student.

Any serious injury would not even leave any sequelae as long as it was treated in a timely manner. Even for me, who was admitted with all sorts of injuries, in the end, didn’t I regain consciousness without any after-effects?

But it wasn’t that I didn’t understand Celine’s feelings.