
Rubia stood up straight, her hands began to droop with gurgles forming a patterned magic circle that looked like a faintly carved one, she held it with all her might until sweat flooded her forehead, as the bluish lines and colors on the magic circle increasingly formed and more clearly arrived it disappeared slowly again.
Rubia continued to practice refining her magic circle again and again, continuing to repeat and repeat again, until she knew the day was starting to light up, the sun had just appeared to the surface making the air warm up a little.Again Rubia missed her sleep time.
Rubia washed the sweat on her forehead with a handkerchief, she turned her head towards Ferderick, smiling at Ferderick, who was asleep, leaning his body under a tree, though he was exhausted but insisted on following Rubia's training.
Rubia walked up to him, he crouched down in front of Ferderick, Rubia was silent thinking for a moment, should he wake her up? But Rubia couldn't.
A small black ant walking on Ferderick's face, Rubia reached out her hand about to take the ant so as not to disturb Ferderick's composure, but when his hand had just touched the skin of his face, Ferderick's hand was holding Rubia's hand, slowly he opened his eyes looking at the face that was smiling sweetly in front of him.
"What are you going to do, Your Majesty?" he said in a low voice that was a little hoarse.
"I want to take the little creature that is walking on your face, did you wake up because of me?"
"No, have you finished your training?" his hand rubbed the moving ants on his face.
"Yes, let's go back, you can continue your sleep in the knight's tent" Rubia got up and Ferderick was the same.
"I'm not sleepy"
"I saw you sleep well" he replied grimacingly. Rubia turned her hands down, Ferderick still clasped his wrists.His hands felt very cold.Rubia clasped her hands, and took another one.
Ferderick's eyes were aghast "What are you doing?" his face looked confused as well as embarrassed, his ears reddened.
"Your hand is too cold, I will use magic power to warm your body" as soon as a bluish light appears to shine on the hands of the two of them. "It's warm, isn't it?"
"Yes, this is already warm Your Majesty" he replied as his eyes focused on seeing Rubia's face.
"Good, let's go back" Rubia let go of her hand and turned around and walked.Ferderick still continued to look at his hands feeling affectionate because it had been released. "Am I supposed to say I'm still cold?" mumbled wailing.
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"Hey wasn't our sleep last night too comfortable and peaceful?" said one of the knights who had gathered to enjoy breakfast.
"Yes, you're right after a few months we can't sleep well we finally have a peaceful night" replied a colleague.
"True, until this peace scares me" said another.
"What are you afraid of?Isn't this a good thing"
"Let's know, it's just that I felt like peace before the actual height of the war had not yet begun" Rubia who was walking in suddenly stopped her steps while listening to this speech.
"Hey, your words scare me"
"Yes, it's true that my body feels like it's just goosebumps"
"Already, you guys just eat"
Rubia walked closer to the gathering place of the knights, someone saw Rubia who was approaching, that person immediately stood up.
"Your Highness the Princess" he said with a panicked face, then the people around him woke up.
"Forget the greetings, just eat comfortably" said Rubia who suddenly felt bad because it disturbed the relaxed time of the knights, he returned away and undo his intentions.
Rubia went into her tent, she sat down and thought in silence, Ferderick standing in front of her watching her. "Is there anything that bothers your mind, Your Majesty?" he asked after watching Rubia for quite a while.
"Yes, the knight's words were bothering me"
"What do you mean peace before the actual war?'
"Right, you heard it too"
"Sure, so what's bugging you? If monsters attack us just to finish back as usual, what do you think?"
"All will be well, Your Majesty"
"Yes, I hope so.. Go you can join the other knights, I don't need to be escorted in the tent"
"Are you disturbed by my presence?"
Rubia turned to Ferderick's grim face "Are you sulking?"
"No way" he shifted his eyes.
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Three days passed, as long as the monsters did not show themselves, the knights took the day off casually as if they were having a picnic.
Axel's condition improved as Ferderick kept silent using his extraordinary healing abilities on him, with the reason he had felt unable to bear the attitude of Axel who was impressed to use his wound to attract the attention of Rubia, and it made him very disturbed.
In the morning he found his wound completely healed, he asked the healing priest to examine it, as if a miracle had indeed disappeared, there only left marks from the scratches of monsters that had been completely healed.
Axel felt grateful but on the other hand he also felt affection because he could no longer use his wound to attract the attention of Rubia, but one thing for sure he felt relieved because he could finally re-enact his role as the Chief of the knight army.
Axel came out of his tent after wearing clothes, he walked looking for the existence of Rubia who was not seen around the barracks, then someone told the existence of a place to practice Rubia which is not far from the location of Barak.
Axel smiled looking at Rubia from a distance, but as soon as his smile faded and his steps became doubtful when he saw someone by Rubia's side, they held hands very seriously and focused, he said, in front of them was a magic circle.
Axel was afraid to interfere with his training, but he was disturbed by the hands of the two of them who were sticking, he continued his steps toward the two of them.
"Your Majesty" called out to him, who immediately made Rubia end her training session and take off Ferderick's hand.
"Axel, what's wrong?" tanyanya approaching.
"I just want to see you train because my body has recovered" Ferderick grinned, Axel saw it but he didn't understand why the guy reacted that way, he just felt annoyed with his face.
"So then, you can see it" Rubia nodded.
"But why are you holding hands in practice sessions?" tanyanya hesitated.
"Ahhh, it turned out that all this time I had forgotten something important, Miss Mayer told me that the power from which Ferderick was a refinement of my soul, after I tried it was indeed true, it seemed like I could make a seal as soon as possible" rubia's face looked excited.
"Soul perfecter?" he muttered as his face looked displeased.He had a bad feeling about the other meaning of the word.
"What?"
"Thank God, thank God that in the end we will soon be free from monster attacks"
"Yes you're right, hang on in a minute"
"Then, excuse me to go back to His Majesty's barracks, I have something to do"
"You said you wanted to see my practice?"
"I'll see him next time" he immediately turned around and left with super-fast footsteps.
"What made him rush that?" rubia's murmuring doesn't understand.
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