How the Regressor Loves the Reincarnated

23. The Last Apostle (2)

1.

After stretching and giving a big yawn, he looked straight ahead. Perhaps because I was still in a daze, my body reacted violently as I tried to get up to start the day.

“Ah… Write.”

Morning has arrived, but rather than being relieved, the strange situation has rather piled up. It was because of a lot of sleepless nights thanks to the ominous nightmare.

Apart from that, the content didn’t have much of a realistic feel. Adele dying in my arms is so unpleasant that I don’t even want to imagine it, but the possibility of that happening in reality was not very high.

In the entire empire, including Adele, there are only four beings called sword masters. Unlike magicians, it’s hard to say that the gap between those who have reached the level of master among warriors and those who haven’t is simply extreme.

There is literally an insurmountable wall between the Master and the Expert.

Those called masters are not called transcendentalists for nothing. Moreover, in the second round, Adele, who had even glimpsed the state beyond that master, loses her life after being defeated by someone?

It was actually not easy to picture such a situation in my head. It felt like the content of my nightmare was directly contradicting it, but it happened against my will.

After a few minutes of struggle, I was able to manage to drag my body, which had refused to accept my will with all my might, out of bed. Normally, it would have been time to go down to breakfast, but my body was so tired that it was quite late.

After taking a bath and washing my face, I put on comfortable clothes and moved to the banquet hall in the castle. Before entering the banquet hall, he did not forget to hide the dark circles under his eyes with magic.

She regretted that she hadn’t mastered swordsmanship, which can sometimes be said to be a man’s romance, but her brain, which had become accustomed to the convenience of her magic, would quickly dismiss such thoughts.

“Hmm?”

There was one passenger at the long table at the far end of the banquet hall. Surprisingly, she isn’t a morning person, but a pink-haired beauty sitting on the right side of the seat of honor and eating bite-sized pieces of toast with her eyes wide open.

Tell me what to do. She was, of course, none other than Adele, our regressor.

To be honest, seeing Adele’s face from this early morning made her eyes feel better. As long as she had to sit at a long table alone until she came, she was very lonely at each mealtime.

But now I had someone I could have a simple conversation with, so I wasn’t lonely at all. Even that was until today.

“Good morning, Adele.”

Since she was eating alone, she didn’t bother occupying the seat of honor for her, but rather greeted her by sitting across from Adele.

“Yes, good morning Luke too…”

Adele greeted her with a husky voice that was a bit different from her usual beauty, perhaps because her throat was subtly locked in the morning. In her drowsy state, her short words and her voice harmonized, and unlike her usual joke, when she called her noona, the feeling of her real sister came out in that short greeting.

What is the voice…

“You must be very tired. Did you have a bad bed?”

“Ah…”

As if to stop talking to me, Adele secretly glared at me, and I burst out laughing.

After she told her maid that she had worked hard for serving my portion of the meal, she was lightly eating a spoonful of soup.

“I’m sorry. I’m usually a bit out of my mind in the morning…”

Certainly, she did not feel the usual liveliness in Adele. Actually, since Adele is also a knight, I was thinking of an image where she wakes up early in the morning and trains. If nothing else, there was a strong feeling that she was definitely cute in the early morning.

“I’m fine, so tell me when you wake up.”

Adele nods her head as she responds by waving her hand and continues her meal in silence. I also stopped caring about her and started eating her breakfast in front of her.

After the meal continued in such a quiet atmosphere for a while.

“Whoa… Are you really going to be okay without me? It’s difficult to think that what he looked like when he sparred with me yesterday was Aquarius’ true skill. Even though his authority is more like a kind of disaster rather than for human combat, he is so good at handling authority that he was almost matched with the Master in human combat.”

The power of the 11th Apostle Aquarius, the Great Flood. Adele said that if Julius did everything in his power to cause a flood, it could completely wipe out an area the size of our dukedom.

“So you have insurance?”

She replied as I raised my right hand to her. In the center of the golden ring on the middle finger of her right hand, there was a green magic stone made by condensing my magic power.

“…”

Adele looking down at her own hands without saying a word to her. On the middle finger of her right hand, there was a ring identical to the one I was wearing.

“If ever a situation arises that requires Adele to come, this is it. And…”

Whether I should say this or not, I thought a little bit by myself before going to sleep yesterday. And my conclusion is that there is no advantage to hiding something from Adele.

“Julius told me yesterday when Adele was teaching her knights. Please don’t forget my duty…”

“…Who is it?”

Adele asked, frowning.

“I don’t know what his intention was when he said that to me, and I don’t know what his role was. One thing is certain. That Julius expects something from me, and the odds of threatening my life before that happen are low.”

Adele, still unable to erase the expression of reluctance from her face, replied with a sigh.

“Haa… I really can’t live. Why are people so clueless? Is your life a joke?”

No. Rather than replying, it would be more accurate to say that she started to lose her temper.

“In this episode, I promised that I would never have to shoulder all the burdens by myself. But what is it?”

Overwhelmed by the atmosphere, even when she tried to answer, her mouth didn’t come off as if it had been glued together.

“Ah… Seriously, why did I agree to such a stupid plan…”

Adele, who had put down the spoon and pressed her temples, stood up and glared at me once more. Only then did I open my mouth belatedly.

“Adele…”

“I don’t want to hear any more…! I, I now…”

Adele, who was about to say something more, finally shut her mouth and shook her head. As I was about to get up, she noticed it like a ghost and raised her hand to tell me not to get up.

“I remember the time of departure, so see you then.”

After saying that, Adele hurriedly turned around and left the banquet hall. Just before she disappeared, she said in a small voice that was barely audible, she said ‘I’m sorry’.

Adele, as she said, did not appear again until her departure time was over.

2.

As I left the banquet hall and headed for the room given to me, my mind was in a complete mess. Even if he didn’t, he was worried about Luke, who would be exposed defenselessly in front of an apostle alone, but in the midst of that, Aquarius seemed to expect something from Luke again.

My head is complicated. Variable. Variable. And again variable. It felt like my head was about to explode.

However, I had no intention of being frightened and trembling at the fact that there was a variable like before.

I was just worried about Luke’s safety, but I was prepared to attack and destroy quite a few variables head on.

“Really, what kind of idiot is that…? His life is at stake, so what if I’m late for something? Uh… I’m really going to explode!”

Even though I was complaining like that, I let out a sigh of relief at the situation where I was angry at Luke and left as it was.

Still, the worst was averted.

If she couldn’t stand it on the spot and said the words she originally intended, there would be no turning back.

Rather than confessing like self-destructing by saying things like ‘I can’t do without you anymore…’, the current situation was a hundred times better.

If you hit an accident that can’t be rectified, you won’t be able to rectify it at all. It’s still a situation that can be rectified somehow, so it should be fine.

…Maybe.

To be honest, I couldn’t help but feel angry. Anyone who sees Luke risking his life with an insurance that is not even perfect, in other words, will not stop anyone from getting blood pressure up.

That doesn’t mean I did anything good to get angry at Luke like that and run away, though.

“Huh… Thinking about it again makes me angry…?”

Thinking about it, I think I did a good job. Isn’t it a sin to treat one’s own life as the life of a fly, while arbitrarily setting it in the depths of my heart?

Basically, I wanted you to consider the fact that his situation, which has not yet fully blossomed even his great talent, is different from me, who has basically undergone two regressions and has matured incapacitatedly.

I couldn’t express how grateful I was for his willingness to help me in any way, but it’s not like it wasn’t.

I don’t even have to go to the romantic relationship I had with him, even Luke as a simple friend is a good person to me.

I hated him to death because of me. I didn’t have the confidence to handle the guilt of Luke’s death because of me.

Unlike me, who may have another chance since he has already returned to the past twice, isn’t it the end for Luke if he dies?

And even if I was given another chance and went back to the past, there was no guarantee that the Luke at that point would be the Luke of this round.

Just in case, that idiot who isn’t the current Luke…

Ugh, just imagining it is so horrifying that it gives me goosebumps.

“Miss Adele…?”

Perhaps I arrived at the room where I had stayed for the past two days before I knew it, and ran into Loggia in front of the door.

“Ah… Good morning, Loggia.”

“…You don’t look good. Did you ever quarrel with Prince Isvant?”

I smiled lightly and greeted him, but Loggia, who was looking at me suspiciously, narrowed his eyes and asked.

“Haa, I can’t hide anything from Loggia.”

Maybe Loggia already knew that I had returned to the past, but he just pretended not to know.

“Don’t worry too much because it was all just a small argument.”

However, Loggia’s interrogation continued. She really couldn’t have been more of a fierce maid.

“Did Prince Isvant do something wrong?”

“…Loggia, why are you asking that?”

“There was an order from the head of the family to report it if Prince Isvant did anything bad to the lady.”

That’s right. I thought it was a fatherly order.

“If I had to argue right and wrong, it would be me who did the wrong thing…”

Thinking back, it was really childish to come out so angry on the spot, but Luke should learn to value his own life a little more.

“Aha. Um… This is a bit presumptuous, but when you’re in a relationship, it’s better to apologize right away if you’ve done something wrong.”

A bitter look lingered on Loggia’s face as she gave her advice.

“Because it is better to bend her pride for a moment than to live with regret for the rest of her life.”

“…Yes. Thanks for the advice, Loggia. I’ll make sure to listen.”

Maybe that’s why.

As soon as I ran into Luke right before going to war, I grabbed his hand and dragged him to the courtyard where I admired the flower beds on the first day.

Before he could say anything, he spontaneously snuggled into his arms, buried his head in his neck as if spoiled, and handed him an apology that he couldn’t have heard properly.

“…I’m sorry.”

Instead of hearing an answer, I felt Luke hesitantly wrap his arms around me, hugging me tight.

“…I’m really ugly, right? Get angry at will, and apologize at will.”

“But what should I do? Do you think you might die? It feels like someone set a fire in my heart.”

“Just this once. From now on, I will never follow such a reckless plan. All right?”

I was pouring out my heart like that.

“I’m sorry too. From now on, I promise to value my life more.”

With that apology, even the little bit of resentment disappeared as if it was washed away.

I wondered if it was only because of this that I wouldn’t be able to show my anger properly to this person in the future. That would be too. Even if Luke hugs me and whispers an apology in my ear, the anger goes away, so how can I keep getting angry without it?

After such an eternity of moments, we had no choice but to fall with our faces blushing. I had to leave to follow Luke’s stupid plan.

Still, the fact that Luke was blushing because of me seemed to shed some light on my future love life.

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So I couldn’t stand it and committed it.

“…Adele?”

Leaving behind Luke, who was staring at me with his hands on his cheeks with a blank expression, I headed out of the castle maintaining a quick pace. It was to hide the bright red face.

Then, when I glanced back, I saw Luke, who was still standing there, mesmerized. The bewildered expression on his face was breathtakingly cute.

“…What are you doing if you can’t come sooner?”

Perhaps there was a faint smile of satisfaction on my lips when I said that.