"And conserve your mana. Why have you been using a skill this whole time?"

Rohan said this with a smile, but Clara, who had been holding Shion, could feel the frantic pounding of her heart—thump! thump!—as if it were about to burst.

She knew because they were pressed tightly together.

Shion hadn’t used any mana at all.

‘N-no way… Shion unnie…?’

Clara lifted her head from Shion’s embrace, pushing aside the chest blocking her view.

And when she saw Shion’s face—

She knew instantly.

That wasn’t a skill.

It was the face of someone unmistakably, utterly in love.

The kind you’d find in a romance manga or anime.

"..."

Clara’s thoughts came to a grinding halt.

Her mind went completely blank.

She was happy—relieved, even—that Shion had broken free from her despair and was now experiencing true freedom.@@novelbin@@

But this situation itself—this sudden shift—was suffocating.

She had always expected this moment to come… someday.

But now, had she really gained an opponent so overwhelming that even the slightest hope of victory was nonexistent?

And then, a thought surfaced in Clara’s mind.

A book she had once read at Flower Lycoris Bookstore.

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