Time Healer Ceres

Tap, tap.

“...Huh?”

An Academy classroom.

Princess Nailia, who had been sitting absentmindedly while staring out the window, flinched at the hand tapping on her desk and quickly turned her head.

“We have to go to the auditorium for the next class.”

It was Ceres. At her words, Princess Nailia let out a faint sigh.

The afternoon classes were already almost over. Yet she could not remember a single thing about what classes she had attended today.

“Are you all right?”

“It’s just.......”

At Ceres’s question, an even deeper sigh than before escaped Princess Nailia’s lips.

“There’s still no news.”

By now, rumors had spread everywhere about Prince Alex, who had disappeared that day with Veilks, the man who had attempted to assassinate the Emperor. There was no one who did not know about it.

It had been that shocking an incident. The person who had taken away the man who attempted to assassinate the Emperor was none other than an Imperial Prince.

Princess Nailia had also been unable to focus on anything else since that day. She could not stop worrying about Prince Alex, whose whereabouts remained completely unknown.

“We won’t know exactly what happened until we meet him in person.”

All sorts of speculation were currently running rampant. That Prince Alex had dreamed of rebellion and conspired with Veilks, and so on... It was causing quite an uproar.

But Princess Nailia could not believe any of it.

He was certainly the kind of person who always kept his thoughts to himself, making it impossible to tell what was going through his head, but he wasn’t the kind of person who would go that far off the rails, was he?

“What in the world is he doing out there? Haah... Seriously, he’s always had a knack for making people worry about him ever since we were young.......”

Pat.

Princess Nailia, who had been speaking in a slightly grumbling tone, could not finish what she was saying.

She froze at the light pat of Ceres’s hand against her shoulder.

When she raised her head, she found Ceres looking at her with the same calm gaze as always.

“.......”

There had not even been any gentle words of comfort, yet that small gesture made Princess Nailia’s eyes slowly redden.

Everyone was condemning her older brother.

They were calling him an accomplice to the attempted assassination of the Emperor. In such a situation, she could not even openly express her concern for him.

That light, comforting touch, as though Ceres understood exactly how she felt, was enough to make emotion surge up inside Princess Nailia.

“Oh my, there are a lot of outside visitors today.”

“Right? What’s with that procession of carriages?”

Just then, the students by the windows began murmuring.

“It’s that day today.”

“That day?”

“Parent consultations for the middle school division.”

“Ah, right. They always hold them around this time.”

“Parent consultations?”

“Yeah, this is around the time they do career counseling for the middle school division. They invite the parents and......?”

The female student, who had absentmindedly answered the voice coming from behind her, suddenly froze.

Wait, who am I talking to right now?

Puzzled, she turned around and found Ceres standing there, having approached at some point without her noticing, staring out the window with a deep frown.

“...I didn’t hear anything about this.”

If it was the middle school division, Antonian was in it too.

‘Antonian, you little brat. Why didn’t you tell me?’

She was currently his only guardian.

He was always treating his sister as though she weren’t quite right in the head. Was that why he had decided not to tell her this time either?

Ceres seriously contemplated just how she should punish the brat.

“Huh? That carriage is.......”

“Right? Why is he here?”

Just then, the people standing by the window began murmuring again.

Wondering what was going on, Ceres looked outside as well, and her eyes widened slightly.

A carriage was leisurely making its way toward the Academy’s middle school building.

And the family crest engraved on that carriage was extremely familiar.

‘Mister?’

***

“Ah, my parents are here.”

“Ah, damn it. This is embarrassing. I told them not to come.”

“Pfft, you’re so dead when you get home today. They’re going to find out about all those failing grades you’ve been hiding. If they kick you out, come to my place. I’ll at least feed you.”

“Shut up.”

The entire middle school building was noisy.

Exclamations and complaints constantly burst from the mouths of students who had spotted their parents arriving.

“.......”

Watching his classmates, Antonian merely sat in his seat with an indifferent expression.

He had not told anyone at home about today’s career counseling.

‘I can decide my own future.’

He had considered telling his sister, but decided against it. She had seemed extremely busy lately.

Not only did she have the shop to deal with, but these days it seemed like the palace was summoning her practically every other day.

‘Because she owns a Tamer Relic.’

Well, it wasn’t difficult to understand.

If anything, it had been stranger before, when she owned a Tamer Relic yet lounged around at home with nothing to do.

Wouldn’t it be more concerning if she had nothing to do when incidents were breaking out everywhere like they were these days?

“Antonian.”

“Yeah?”

A short while later, one of his classmates entered the classroom and called for him.

“The professor wants you.”

“Me?”

Antonian’s eyes widened at those words.

Weren’t all the students being summoned by the professor today the ones whose parents had come?

He had already told them that no one, including his sister, would be attending his career counseling today.

“What for?”

“What do you mean, what for? Career counseling.”

At his friend’s response, as though wondering why he was asking something so obvious, Antonian tilted his head even farther to the side.

Did the professor need him for something else?

Filled with confusion, Antonian headed toward the designated consultation room.

“Huh?”

A short while later, when Antonian reached the area near the consultation room, his steps came to an abrupt halt.

Far more people than he had expected were gathered outside it.

People who appeared to be the students’ parents—and nobles at that—completely filled the area.

‘What are they doing?’

They could simply come when their names were called one by one, so he could not understand why they had gathered there and were peering into the consultation room.

And they weren’t even students. They were the parents.

“Excuse me, let me through.”

Antonian’s face reddened slightly from the embarrassment of squeezing through the crowd while countless eyes turned toward him.

But there was nothing he could do about it. He had to get past them to enter the consultation room.

Click.

Antonian opened the door as quickly as he could and stepped inside.

“Professor, you called for....... Huh?”

Antonian’s eyes gradually widened as he greeted the professor.

An utterly unexpected person was sitting across from his homeroom professor.

‘Th-The Duke?’

A man whose cold gaze and expression utterly devoid of emotion were particularly striking.

It was the Duke of Schweiz.

‘Why is he here?’

Antonian stared blankly at him, even forgetting to offer a greeting.

No matter how hard he racked his brain, he could not imagine any reason for the Duke to be here.

“Antonian! Come over here and sit down.”

Antonian could only be bewildered when his homeroom professor welcomed him with an unusually gentle smile and even sparkling eyes.

There had always been a trace of contempt in the professor’s eyes whenever he looked at Antonian, the son of a baronial family that was practically no different from commoners.

One could say there was a very obvious difference between the way he treated Antonian and the children of high-ranking nobles.

‘Though he has gotten a lot better lately.’

Ever since it became known that his sister Ceres was the owner of a Tamer Relic, the professor’s attitude had changed somewhat.

Not only had he stopped openly discriminating against Antonian, but the contempt in his gaze had also weakened considerably.

‘Still, he’s never looked at me this affectionately before.’

For some reason, that gaze sent a chill down Antonian’s spine, and he unconsciously rubbed his arms.

Scrape.

“.......”

When the Duke of Schweiz silently pulled out the chair beside him, indicating that Antonian should sit there, Antonian once again stared blankly at him.

“You should have told me sooner that the Duke of Schweiz would be coming as your guardian.”

“...Pardon?”

...Guardian?

Who?

The Duke?

‘Gasp!’

Antonian’s mouth fell open.

No, why is Mister Duke my guardian?

With the dukes frequently visiting their home, Antonian had naturally become familiar with their faces, spoken with them, and developed a certain degree of familiarity with them.

However, unlike the other two dukes, who constantly looked after them with friendly, cheerful manners, the Duke of Schweiz was still difficult for Antonian to deal with.

He hardly spoke, and he never showed any expression.

It was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

‘I’ve never even spoken with him alone.’

His sister seemed completely unafraid of the Duke of Schweiz and treated him casually, but Antonian could never do the same.

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