I Became an Outcast in the Academy

4. Healing (4)

So Arietta opened her eyes.

“… What.”

My body is very refreshing. As usual, there was no pain as if magical energy was running rampant inside the body, nor the sensation of something bubbling up.

A refreshing feeling that only happens once or twice a year.

However, Arrieta, who opened her eyes slightly and secretly looked around, immediately noticed what had happened while she was unconscious and smiled wryly.

‘… Again, you committed it.’

The interior of the palace where Arietta was staying was literally a mess.

To the absurd level, I wondered if a violent storm had swept through this place once.

And that wasn’t entirely wrong in any sense.

Because Arietta knew all too well what would happen if her mana ran out of control and she herself lost consciousness.

She probably thinks that her own body is so refreshed because she lost her mind again and indiscriminately spewed out her inner mana.

How many other wizards and priests would have attacked her to subdue herself… She didn’t even want to imagine it.

‘If only I knew this would happen… I’d rather not wake up from the dream.’

It’s a bit embarrassing, but just before that, she had been having a very pleasant dream.

She had a dream of a caring man who didn’t think of herself as a monster like this and whispered that it would be okay to live longer and that he would become her own strength.

But there’s no way a man like that really exists in the world.

Even if she has diarrhea, her arrogance will quickly run out if you see her, who knows that at some point the magic within her body will run amok and drive the people around her to death.

So let’s leave the dream as just a good dream.

No matter how sweet a dream is, in the end it is a lie. Dreams never… Because it can’t be real.

Just when Arietta sighed quietly and tried to get up from her seat, she suddenly realized.

She knew that she was now in someone else’s arms.

“… Are you awake, Princess?”

“Oh, Mom!”

Arrieta, who realized that she was being held in the arms of a stranger at the sound of her voice for the first time in her life, was startled.

But for a moment, Arrieta remembered that she remembered hearing that voice somewhere.

When was it? It must have been sometime in the not-too-distant future…

“Arrieta? Are you awake, Arietta?”

“… Sister?”

Blinking her eyes and turning her head, there was Cartesia looking at her with her eyes that said she was really worried.

“Thank God… I’m really glad… I’m so glad you woke up safely… “

At the end of her own mana runaway, this is not the first time she has lost her temper again and hurt those around her, and this is also the first time she has regained her sanity after her runaway. It wasn’t

But Cartesia, why is she now, she is really happy to the point of tearing up like that?

How long will it take to see Cartesia, who doesn’t show her pitying eyes toward her as usual?

… No, come to think of it, that wasn’t the only strange thing.

Even though it was like this, Arrieta was still a member of the royal family.

That’s also a princess in a high and solemn position, one of the top five in the empire.

However, it is strange that a stranger is hugging Arietta, and it is even more strange that Cartesia does not stop her even though she is watching the scene.

And that was then.

“… Ah.”

After putting up with the shame and taking a look at the man, Arrieta realized it too late.

The man hugging her was in a really messed up state.

No, beyond just being in a mess, this man was in a state of serious injuries all over his body that made it strange that he was even alive.

There were scars all over his body, as if he had been stabbed by a sharp spear, and his right hand in particular was in a terrible state with his bones completely twisted to the point of being visible.

And seeing him like that, Arrieta came to a realization.

Nothing but the fact that I was the culprit who hurt this person so much.

“… That hurt. No way-“

“Yes, it is. Thanks to… I almost died several times trying to subdue Your Highness. In fact, even now, I feel like I am on the verge of dying.”

Sian replied with a wry smile. He didn’t bother to deny Arrieta’s words. He didn’t even feel the need to.

“However, it is not your fault. And now you don’t have to hurt anyone. Because Your Highness’ Nightmare… It’s over as of today.”

“… Yes?”

At those words, Arrieta stared blankly at Xian.

Even though he’s meeting someone for the first time in his life today, Arrieta doesn’t feel that he’s a stranger at all. Rather, I feel something similar to trust towards him.

As if… A strange feeling that he and himself are connected by something invisible.

Even though he had an injury that seemed like he would die any moment, he was smiling at Arrieta as if he was considerate of himself.

Pounding.

Looking at his face like that, for some reason, Arrieta’s heart pounded. For some unknown reason, she couldn’t take her eyes off the man’s face.

“… Is my nightmare over?”

“Yes.”

As Arrieta stammered and asked that question, he quietly nodded his head.

For a moment, Arrieta came to mind. She knew that she had heard something like this from someone else at some point.

It’s nothing else, in the dream I just had.

‘Dream… Wasn’t it?’

Could it be that these were not dreams, but things that actually happened in real life?

The image of him risking his life for himself who is running out of control because he can’t control his magic power.

He also told me without any hesitation that he could live for himself who cried out that he was not worth living.

To myself who cried out that he couldn’t survive unless a miracle happened, all I whispered to him that I would be your miracle-

Actually, it wasn’t a dream, but a reality.

“Now, Your Highness, you don’t have to fear yourself. Not to lose consciousness or run out of mana while asleep, or to hurt someone else with runaway mana… It’s just something that will never happen in the future.”

“…..”

For a moment, Arrieta was at a loss for words.

She wants to open her mouth and say her words towards her Xian… She didn’t know what to say.

“I promise you. That Your Highness no longer has to live in a cage like this. Her Highness can now leave this cage and see the wider world, and she no longer has to suffer because of her own power.”

At the words of her cyan, Arrieta examines the magic within her own body.

The magical power Arietta possessed was very quiet and quiet, unlike her usual.

Her magical powers, which always got out of her control, roared around her and swayed like they were about to destroy everything… It was moving and controlled according to Arrieta’s will, as if it had never been like that.

“… Ahhh… “

I realized it instinctively. She said that she was able to breathe in this place and enjoy this joy… The fact that he was in front of her because he helped her.

Her heart leaps. Until now, no one had ever spoken to her like her cyan.

There were countless people who boasted that she would protect herself until the end, but… There was no one who told her that she would save her, who had given up everything in her heart.

But he told me that. And, it broke the reality surrounding me and even really saved me.

It’s like… It’s like a miracle. Just like what he said to himself before she lost consciousness.

Ah, yes. I couldn’t say it, but you are like a miracle to me.

“Your Highness will be much happier in the future. You deserve that too. So no more… Do not cry. I hate to see my friend’s little sister crying.”

Her cyan managed to lift her hand and wipe her eyes of Arietta, but eventually Arietta, unable to hold on, burst into tears in his arms.

At the end of her long winter, Arrieta weeps endlessly at the relief that she has met her tooth, a milestone in her life.

And Cartesia, who had been silently watching the scene until now, thought to herself.

It must be the greatest luck given to me that I met the person you are and became a friend.

And I’m really glad that I like you very much.

That’s why always… I promise once again that I will only like you in this world.

Yes, always.

And forever.