Chapter 19 I Guarantee the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow As Usual

In the middle of the bedroom, Rangi Hiuberion and the Imperial Princess sat on either side of the long oak table.

Their eyes met on the three sheets of paper on the table, as if the secrets of the entire Cree Empire were hidden between those pages.

It was late at night, and the world outside was as quiet as if it had been forgotten, only this room, isolated from the torrent of time.

The fear that had almost overwhelmed Alexia receded with the disappearance of the Poet of Great Love. She gasped for breath, as if surfacing from the bottom of the sea, and was finally able to control her emotions.

A long time passed.

"I believe your information is accurate, but... who exactly are you?"

The corners of Princess Alexia's eyes were taut, her lips slightly stiff, and her words still couldn't shake off an unspeakable tension.

"I am an ecologist currently working on a research topic about the Blood Clan."

Rangi's eyes were as sharp as knives, and each word was as heavy as if it carried weight.

Although he could join the Ikritt Academy with his Platinum-level card maker status in the future, there was still a long way to go if he wanted to be promoted to principal.

Currently, the position of principal of Ikritt Academy is vacant. Professor Boraao, the dean of the Magic Engineering Academy, has no interest in power. The dean of the Knight Academy is a retired employee. The dean of the Sage Academy, Loren, has to serve concurrently as the high priest of the Goddess of Destiny church and does not have so much time. The dean of the Alchemy Academy is constantly in lawsuits due to copyright disputes involving his newspaper and may be imprisoned at any time.

To take up the position of principal of such a top-notch school, prestige in academia is essential, because the school is not only affiliated with the Hutton Kingdom, but also the official certification and highest-level direct institution of the South Continent Shadow World Management Association and the South Continent Kingdom Joint Council. Along with many powers and conveniences, its requirements are naturally extremely high.

One of the very difficult requirements is to have a paper that is rated as having the highest level of academic value in the South Continent.

Looking at the entire Ikritt Academy, only a few professors meet this condition, which shows how harsh the difficulty is.

So, the most difficult academic research that Rangi can think of at the moment is "On Ecological Balance and Blood Clan Governance."

He is not sure whether this topic will be recognized by the academic community of the Southern Continent at that time.

But doing academic research should be this attitude, wholeheartedly, reaching the pinnacle.

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Alexia had never heard of an ecologist who could govern the Blood Clan.

Hiuberion was secretly glancing at Rangi, her eyelids twitching wildly, feeling that this guy was going to do something big again!

The Northern Continent Stone Tablet expedition planned for the winter vacation has not yet begun, and he is already planning the next step of research on the ecological environment of the Cree Empire!

You really are... if you don't become the principal, no one is worthy of being the principal.

Moreover, even if Hiuberion doesn't want to drag Rangi into the Duke's mystery case, Rangi himself will have to get involved in the very center of the Cree Empire's disputes!

After listening to Rangi's answer, Alexia took it as a joke. She pondered for a moment and asked again:

"What is your relationship with the Blood Clan?"

Alexia tensed up, quite alert.

This young man knows too many secrets.

There are only two possibilities.

Either he is a lackey of the Blood Clan.

Or he is the mortal enemy of the Blood Clan.

First of all, Alexia is certain that Rangi himself cannot be a member of the Blood Clan. The Blood Clan is the easiest race to judge, because they will directly become weak in the sun, and at noon they will even be weakened to only one-tenth of their strength. It is impossible for Rangi to be so lively in the sun like he was all day long.

But Alexia couldn't judge whether Rangi was a Blood Clan dependent!

Compared to believing that he has an overly unreasonable prophetic ability, a more reasonable explanation is that Rangi, who knows the Blood Clan so well, is on the side of the Blood Clan!

"It's okay, you'll know what my relationship with the Blood Clan is tomorrow."

Rangi spread his hands helplessly, as if he understood Princess Alexia's concerns.

Indeed, his source of information cannot be explained.

But it doesn't matter.

The question raised by the imperial princess can be proven to her tonight.

"Tomorrow... even if you know more, what's the point?"

The energy that Princess Alexia had originally mustered seemed to be pulled back to the cruel reality by Rangi's short sentence, and it completely dissipated.

If she met Rangi outside the Shadow World, maybe she would still try to seize this glimmer of hope and struggle to the end.

But in this Shadow World where death is inevitable, it is a foregone conclusion that everyone will die at the hands of the seventh-order Blood Clan Earl.

Even if all the challengers risk their lives, there is no possibility of surviving under the Earl until the arrival of the sixth dawn.

"..."

Rangi's hand tapped lightly on the table, the sound echoing in the quiet room, cutting through the silence of the night.

He seemed to be thinking about something at the moment.

"You're so scared by a mere Blood Clan Earl. If the royal family of the Cree Empire were all like you, no wonder the country would be so easily taken over by others."

Finally, Rangi spoke.

Hiuberion looked at Rangi in surprise from the side.

She had never seen Rangi say such harsh words to a girl.

However.

After hearing Rangi's words, Alexia moved again like a clockwork doll.

She glared at Rangi, her eyes red, as if the most inviolable place in her heart had been touched.

"You... you can say I'm a useless imperial princess... but you're not allowed to insult the Cree Empire!"

Her eyes were filled with tears, which was her last trace of stubbornness.

She had obviously already given up, but she didn't know why, there were some things that she really couldn't let go of.

"Don't you think there's no tomorrow? Then what's the point of arguing?"

Rangi looked at her as if she had restarted and smiled reassuringly.

"I've remembered the crime of insulting the royal family. I won't forget it..."

Alexia kept wiping her tears and was still warning Rangi.

"Then I'll wait for you to sue me. I'll let you see what the Southern Continent Pizza Hut is all about."

Rangi said with a frank smile.

"Then go and kill this Earl first! You're just a guy who's good at talking and boasting."

"Then if I really hunt down this Blood Clan Earl, what will you say?"

"Then do whatever you say, anyway, you can't do it."

"..."

Although in Hiuberion's eyes, Rangi's teasing tone was constantly mocking Princess Alexia, it seemed that it was these words that constantly aroused the stubborn will in Alexia's heart.

Even Alexia herself, who had unknowingly awakened her desire to survive, had not noticed it.

"Okay."

Rangi stood up with a smile, pushed the chair back under the table, and the sound of the wooden chair legs rubbing against the stone floor echoed in the wide room.

Then he and Hiuberion walked towards the door of the bedroom together.

Fighting the Earl tonight does not require the princess to participate in the battle, or rather, to let the people in the real world see that "the princess has never been trusted by all the other challengers, and the matter of blocking the Blood Clan has nothing to do with her."

After all, she still has to go back to the Cree Empire and spend some time with the Blood Clan.

It would be bad if it aroused the Blood Clan's vigilance and suspicion.

Rangi brought the door of the bedroom closer to Alexia.

"Please have a good night's rest, Your Highness. I guarantee that the sun will rise as usual tomorrow."

The door was slowly closed, and through the gradually shrinking crack in the door, his face was gradually covered by the door along with his voice.

Alexia stared blankly at the already locked door and Rangi's disappearing figure.

Even though Rangi's promise before leaving was as ethereal as an impossible lie.

But for some reason, she, who was already about to give up, felt a fire burning in her chest at this moment.

She looked out the window.

When the starlight is very blurry, it seems to indicate that this night will be very long.

If she can really see the sunrise tomorrow.

Then how much worse is the person who can give her this dawn than the sun?

"Save me... no matter what kind of sun you are..."

Alexia murmured as she looked at the cage-like night sky as if she was praying.

(End of this chapter)