Chapter 155: Chapter 79.1

“hey. are you still okay?”

she came thoroughly prepared, but that didn’t mean that her fear had disappeared. yernia was suddenly worried that captain felix or herself might go crazy before meeting cassian. she had no idea if she was better off alone not when she didn’t know how to deal with people around her going insane.

“yes, that’s all right.”

“it’s a relief.”

she heard footsteps in the snow and the fog made her feel like she was in another world. as the wind blew, the dry branches shook as if it was about to break.

‘where is cassian?’

she had to find him, but she couldn’t no matter how much she walked. she felt impatient and scared. what if cassian really went wild? yernia witnessed a moment when he couldn’t control his power only once. that time, she was nursing him and he had hurt her by accident. cassian deeply regretted hurting yernia and he never stopped blaming himself. maybe, he was just heartbroken to know that he had hurt a precious friend. he should be alright. she just hoped that his condition wasn’t serious.

‘ please don’t just go on a rampage, cassian.’

“captain felix?”

yernia stopped walking and turned to her side. captain felix, who was obviously following her, disappeared without a trace. despite looking around, she was the only one in this foggy forest.

“captain felix? where are you?”

she believed that she could go through this forest alone, but when the person next to her disappeared, her heart trembled.

“there’s no—— where am i?”

at that moment, she heard a cry, and her feet naturally headed there. yernia’s eyes widened when she found something… or someone.

“sister? why are you here?”

seria sat on the floor crying with her hands wrapped around something she couldn’t see. as soon as she got a little closer, yernia realized that someone else was there as well. ivan, who just grabbed seria by the shoulder, was also crying. the person seria was hugging———

“mom? dad? why is everyone doing that?”

they were her parents. count and countess cilliard. her mother and father lay there, pale and cold.

“yernia. our parents———”

seria, who couldn’t speak, burst into tears. instinctively, she knew the rest of her words. it happened all of a sudden that yernia couldn’t shake off this strange feeling. the sudden death of her parents. seria and ivan’s tears. yernia’s weak legs gave out. she was now seated on the floor, shaking her head. this was absurd.

“why? why?”  yernia stammered.

as seria looked at her while shaking her chin, her tears kept streaming down her face.

“it was an accident. we were on our way to see you. we have been worried about you ever since you got married and now you’re in the war zone. on our way to meet you, the carriage overturned.”

“…….”

“what do i do? what should we do? my parents had an accident because of me.” yernia’s head went blank and the accident seemed unreal. she couldn’t believe it even though she was looking at it with her own eyes.

“no! you’re lying. it’s a lie. it’s not——”

yernia crawled towards them because her legs were too weak. as she touched the floor with her hands, she managed to reach her family but at that moment———-

“you’re a lie.”

a cold voice fell overhead and when she glanced up, cassian was standing there. his gaze looked detached. unfamiliar. it was the first time seeing those eyes so cold and hateful.

“cassian? are you okay?”

yernia forgot about her wailing family and turned over there. before she knew it, she wasn’t crying anymore. but she barely noticed the strange shift.

she felt so dizzy that she was tempted to throw up.

“you’re more brazen than i thought. did you forget what you did?”

“what are you talking about? why are you so far away from me?”

even if she walked closer, her distance from cassian didn’t narrow and he wasn’t moving either.

strange.

“you lied to me, yernia.”

“i don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“you knew that my guide was herena.”

at that moment, yernia’s body stiffened.

“you knew but you didn’t tell me. why did you insist on becoming my guide?”

“…….”

“if i hadn’t found herena, you would have continued acting as my guide. don’t you think so?”

“did you find herena?”

“why? are you trying to bully her for being weak?”

no matter how close she tried to get, cassian would only move farther away but suddenly he approached her. standing in front of yernia, he slowly bent his upper body. his black hair flowed like strings of darkness.

“please don’t bother herena, yernia.” he looked scornfully at yernia. “no matter how hard you try to separate us, we won’t waver.”