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“Gasp…gasp…gasp…”

Zeros running towards somewhere in a hurry.

Unlike the upperclassmen who still had three more days to take their exams, he was only a freshman and had just finished all his final exams with the magic exam he had just taken.

But, at this moment.

There was absolutely no trace of the composure that had been present on Zeros’ face.

What I feel from him at this moment is impatience and desperation.

With such a series of emotions in his mind, Zeros was desperately crossing the schoolyard and heading towards the place he had heard about beforehand.

‘Oh my god, how… how could this happen? At a time like this.’

Zeros, who would normally be in charge of escorting Katlena at her wedding.

However, in this case, Katlena let her go for a while because it was exam time, and Zeros accepted it because, although he didn’t really need to study for the exam, Katlena was giving him time to study on his own instead of himself.

And Zeros really had no idea that it would lead to this result.

‘Please, you must be safe… At least, Lady Katlena, please…’

Zeros finally arrived at the ward, praying fervently for the safety of his master and the woman he loved.

Immediately after that, he began to hear a familiar voice in his ears.

“Zeros!”

“! Se.. Senel!”

Senel called out to him urgently. Zeros immediately walked through the crowd to where she was and asked her with urgency.

“Uh.. What happened? The princess.. Lady Katlena..”

“That..That..”

Senel’s expression darkens and he trails off in response to Zeros’ question.

At this, Zeros began to feel his heart sink for a moment. Then he spoke to Senel in a trembling voice.

“Ah.. No.. Right? That.. That can’t be. Katlena-sama.. How could Katlena-sama..”

“… ”

Senel doesn’t say anything more to Zeros’ words.

Instead, she slowly pointed somewhere with her finger without saying anything, and Zeros’ gaze slowly turned in that direction.

“Seo.. No way.. No way..”

All he could see was Katlena lying on the chair, seemingly asleep.

The sight of her lying down with her swollen, closed eyes.

Seeing this, Zeros trembled in despair and cautiously approached her.

“Ka..Kattle..Lena..”

She doesn’t even react to her own voice.

At this, Zeros felt tears welling up in his eyes for a moment and held onto Katlena’s hand tightly.

“Sob..sob..uh..why..why..why did Katlena-nam do this..why on earth did she make that choice. Why on earth would someone like Katlena-nim..why.”

Zeros begins to shed tears in pain that feels like his heart is going to fall apart.

At this moment, he had no regard for the noisy atmosphere around him or the gazes of the people around him.

The only emotions he felt in his heart were regret for not being able to protect his master… and guilt for having handled this incident so complacently.

‘It’s because of me… It’s because of me… If only I had been a little more proactive in this matter. If only I had told Elios or Senel about it at that time…’

So, with tears streaming down his face, filled with deep regret, Zeros lowered his head and spoke in a voice filled with pain.

“I’m sorry.. I’m sorry, Katlena.. Because of me.. Because of me, Katlena is like this..”

Zeros apologizes to her with all his heart, even though she can’t hear him.

at that time..

“..ugh..”

“?!”

A small voice is heard the next moment.

Although it was a very familiar voice to Zeros, at this moment, it sounded like the voice of an angel to Zeros.

“No way…Ka..Kattle..Lena..nim?”

Zeros calls her with a trembling voice, feeling hopeful, even though he thinks that it can’t be true.

And.. listening to his voice like that,

Katlena slowly began to open her eyes.

“Huh?..Zero…S?”

“Katlena!!”

The next moment, Zeros starts to shed tears while hugging Katlena’s body.

At the same time, a deep look of bewilderment began to appear on Katlena’s face.

“Why… Why are you like that, Zero? What is this all of a sudden…”

Although it wasn’t a big problem since the opponent was Zeros, Katlena couldn’t decide for a moment how to react to the unhesitating display of affection in this crowded place.

And after a while, just after she had calmed down her confused mind a little, Katlena spoke to Zeros in an urgent voice.

“Hey… Calm down for a bit. What the hell happened to make you do this?”

Zeros barely suppresses his emotions at Katlena’s words.

Then he wiped away the tears still forming in his eyes and spoke to her in a trembling voice.

“That..That..I heard that Katlena took that medicine and collapsed..”

“Medicine?.. No way.. Are you talking about that nectar medicine? I didn’t take that? ”

“… Yes?”

Katlena speaks with a blank expression.

The moment he heard those words, Zeros showed his blank expression again and spoke to her in a trembling voice.

“But… But. You were definitely lying down just a moment ago?”

“Ah.. That’s true, I was also quite shocked when I saw my friends collapse. I must have cried like crazy for a while before falling asleep.”

“Ha. But it was definitely Senel-nim just now.”

With those words, only then did Zeros look back.

and…

“Pfft!”

There was Senel, looking at the current situation, finally bursting out into laughter.

“Sister!”

“Ahahaha, sorry, sorry.. No, I just told Zeros to hurry up and come here because Katlena and I are in the ward, but this guy came running in with such a dramatic reaction. Katlena also happened to be fast asleep. I thought it would be fun, so I played around with it a little.”

“Ugh..”

“…”

If you think about it, there’s no way someone who took the wrong medicine and collapsed would be laid down on a chair like this, especially not an ordinary person like a princess.

Zeros began to blush as he realized that he had been completely fooled, and Katlena began to think that her sister’s ability to play pranks in this situation was truly remarkable in some ways.

‘Seriously… Even if the world were to end tomorrow, I’m sure that older sister would still be smiling and joking around…’

*

Catlena, who saw her friends taking medicine without hesitation, let her guard down and finally decided to take the medicine.

But at that moment, suddenly, Katlena began to realize that one fact was flashing through her mind.

‘Huh? Wait a minute… Now that I think about it, there wasn’t any medicine like this until I was on the verge of death.’

A potion that increases your magical power, allowing you to use magic better.

If the efficacy of this drug were true, a drug with the same effect should have been commercialized to some extent by the time it was more than 10 years ago.

However, in Katlena’s memory, there was no medicine called Nectar in the first place, and there was no medicine that increased magical power.

That meant that… whether the drug’s efficacy was false or its side effects were serious, it ultimately failed to be commercialized for whatever reason, and in that regard, Katlena came to the conclusion that taking it was not a very good choice.

‘Even if I can see the effect temporarily right now, it won’t be of much help to me right now. What I want is not temporary strength, but permanent strength. I want to create a foundation to go up one level higher than I am now, not to go up once and then come down.’

From the beginning, Cattlena’s immediate goal was not the test right in front of her, so her premise was different from that of her other friends who had already taken the medicine.

Thanks to that, she was able to resist the temptation at the last minute. Unfortunately, her friends took the drug anyway, and as a result, they all got good grades on their final exams, but immediately after, all three of them suffered sudden seizures and fell into a coma.

And, Katlena, who was watching that scene, shed tears in deep shock and told Senel about the scene she had seen and the information about the nectar she had in her possession. Immediately after that, due to the unexpected shock and the fatigue from the end of the test, she fell asleep while waiting for Zeros.

And as a result, Katlena ended up becoming the object of Senel’s hobby.