/
Recalling this, Radis was stunned.
Sweeping a hand over her face, she muttered.
“Why didn’t I think of that until now?”
Before her death, she came into contact with a magic stone, which was at the center of the Underworld Tree.
It was the same with Robert.
Didn’t he also die after coming into contact with the nucleus of a dragon?
“Oh my goodness.”
Pacing around busily in the dark bedroom, Radis urgently organized the thoughts that were popping up in her mind.
“What exactly about a magic stone would make someone go back in time after dying?”
But Radis soon gave up on that thought.
She recalled that Margaret had taken the magic stone from her, practically drooling at the sight of the precious material.
If the only requirement was touching the magic stone, then Margaret should have returned as well.
“What if it’s blood?”
Radis had touched the magic stone with a blood-soaked hand before.
But what about Robert?
He said that he had stabbed his sword into the dragon’s body, and he hit its nucleus—its magic stone.
“If it’s to destroy one
”
However, Radis had only handed the magic stone to Margaret.
“Ha
 I don’t know
”
Radis scrambled her hair.
It was all speculation anyway. The answer remained unknown.
However, Radis could intuitively feel that magic stones were somehow related to how she and Robert came back to life after death.
Then, she heard Yves’s voice from outside the door.
“Radiiiiis!”
As she was wracking her brain for an answer, Radis looked up towards the door.
“Stop making a racket and just go to bed!”
“

”
* * *
Watching the ensuing atrocities of Yves P. Russell, Radis had this thought.
‘He’ll only be like this for a day or two.’
However, even after one day
 two days
 three and four
 Yves P. Russell gave no signs of giving up.
As the moon rose, the shade underneath Yves’s eyes deepened further, but he continued to block Radis from sneaking out.
The first impression he got from Robert seemed to be quite the worst.
Perhaps it’s only natural since House Russell and House Roderick had a long history of bad blood between them.
But this did not break Radis’s firm resolution.
On the night of the full moon, Radis opened the bedroom door and went out.
Firmly planted in an armchair in the drawing room, Yves was reading through a thick book.
Feeling her presence, he turned and looked at her.
“Radis?”
When he saw that Radis was wearing a shirt and pants, not her nightgown, he snapped the book shut with one hand.
“No. You can’t.”
Radis strode towards him and stood tall.
“There’s something I have to do.”
“
Still, you can’t.”
“Why can’t I?”
At her question, Yves didn’t say anything.
In fact, despite suffering for several days, Yves didn’t actually know why he was even doing this.
Because he thought it was too dangerous?
But Radis was not a two or three-year-old child.
Besides that, she was a talented individual who was taught the imperial swordsmanship by a knight of the White Dragon Order.
She could take care of herself as much as she wanted.
Perhaps, was it because of Robert who’s part of House Roderick?
But he had already received several reports containing Robert’s personal information.
House Roderick actively did not acknowledge Robert’s existence.
It was too much to even call him a member of the Roderick family.
Maybe this was what he wanted to say.
‘Don’t go out to see him.’
However, Yves Russell was much too prideful—and at the same time—he was much too cowardly to say such a thing.
Staring up at Radis, Yves turned his head and answered in a self-deprecating tone.
“
It’s a dangerous gamble.”
Walking towards him step by step, Radis looked into his eyes.
She stopped so close in front of him that they could feel each other’s breath.
Thinking that she was too close, Yves was the first to speak.
“Radis
”
She only looked at him without saying a word.
Her black eyes permeated through him so deeply and passionately, and once again, he was faced with the arrogant man and the cowardly man inside of him.
The arrogant man did not want to admit his faults.
He was the one who had the upper hand in their relationship, and his plan with her was steadily progressing down the path to success.
But along the way, his feelings changed.
The arrogant man tried to deny this fact.
On the other hand, the cowardly man was afraid.
He was the one who took advantage of her and her circumstances.
So it was obvious that he couldn’t ask her what she thought of him.
Yves’s lips trembled slightly.
Radis put his hands on his shoulders.
“Yves.”
“

!”
Her lips, uttering his name, looked as fresh and as sweet as a ripe apple.
To the point that he was overcome with the urge to take a bite, to devour the fair flesh and take the sweet juice inside.
“Don’t worry.”
Yves almost blurted this out.
‘You mean, can I kiss you?’
Radis spoke again.
“I’m sorry
 It won’t hurt.”
Radis’s lips drew closer and closer, and she wrapped her arms around his neck.
As he felt a sense of bliss that was pouring down like rain, Yves closed his eyes.
Later though

No matter how hard he’d think about it, Yves wouldn’t be able to figure out why he had fainted at that moment.
Maybe it was because he was so happy, or maybe it was because he got suffocated.