This BL Novel Is Ruined Now - Chapter 231
Chapter 231
Translator: Yonnee
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“The magic circle requires several conditions to be activated, but that’s… impossible in this era.”
As soon as Reina finished speaking, Paul abruptly pulled her towards him.
“What do you know?”
Her lips quivered slightly at his chilly response. She seemed to know something but was struggling with how to explain it.
Paul immediately regretted his impulsive reaction. He had been too hasty out of desperation.
‘I shouldn’t press her.’
He softened his voice, which had been almost threatening.
“I’m sorry. I was anxious. Can you explain it in detail, if that’s okay with you?”
“……”
Reina’s shoulders relaxed a bit at his gentler tone.
“I’ll tell you. But there’s a condition.”
“A condition?”
“Yes.”
Paul was ready to agree to whatever she asked. But what she said next was completely unexpected.
“From now on, don’t put on that fake expression or tone with me.”
“…What?”
Reina sighed deeply and flopped down into a chair.
“I’d rather you interrogate me with that scary face you had at first, instead of that kind of reaction you put on in front of the council or other people from the nine households.”
“……”
How many times had it been? Just today alone, thanks to Reina, his mind felt blank.
Honestly, he had expected her to suggest some frivolous joke or realize her marginal position in the Chantra family and ask for some level of assistance.
But to ask him not to be fake in front of her.
Stunned and unable to respond, he stood there looking foolish, and Reina brushed back her hair as she added,
“Think about it. We just became friends, and then you show me a face you’d show to a stranger you never talk to. How would that feel?”
“……”
“Threaten me. Get angry. Don’t treat me with a façade like you did just now.”
“…I’m sorry. I won’t do that anymore.”
A genuine apology, unlike before.
Did she sense the sincerity in it? Reina relaxed her expression and approached him.
“Then, it’s a promise. Got it?”
As she held out her finger, Paul hooked his pinky with hers, and a bright smile returned.
“Now, the closest person to me is you, and the closest person to you is me. We have to be the most honest with each other because we are friends who are more honest than anyone else in the world.”
Was it because he truly agreed with Reina’s words at that moment, or because he was eagerly responding to get hints about reincarnating ‘Ailee’?
Even Paul wasn’t sure.
But seeing Reina not pointing out his ‘fake expression’, perhaps he too had shown his sincerity.
“Yeah. I got it.”
Right. In a world where everyone was an enemy, where everyone was an outsider, he wanted to create his side. The desperation to share the pain of loss that had exceeded his limits. Reina drew out those true feelings he had kept hidden in a tightly-shut box.
“Anyway, I don’t really know much about that reincarnation method I mentioned earlier.”
Reina’s statement snapped Paul back to reality, shocking him briefly.
‘I actually forgot for a moment…’
From the moment he woke up to the moment he fell asleep since his younger sister died, not a moment passed in his stream of consciousness without ‘Ailee Bohr’ being included.
“How…”
It seemed like he had discovered something incredibly shocking as Paul slowly stroked his lips.
“What’s wrong?”
The woman in front of him had utterly scattered his thoughts.
But that wasn’t what mattered.
“…Nothing.”
Ailee Bohr.
Yes. She was his only ‘family’ and the driving force behind his will to live. His first and only priority, at all times, was to save that child—Ailee.
“So you’re saying that my magic circle isn’t wrong, but there’s something preventing it from activating?”
“Yes. There’s a god called ‘Kalima’.”
“Kalima? I’ve never heard of such a god.”
“Me neither. That’s why I couldn’t find any more detailed information.”
It was a series of hard-to-believe pieces of information. However, her interpretation was the only plausible explanation.
And the magic circle he had created was indeed from ‘Kalimagero’…
‘…Wait. Kalima?’
To call it a coincidence with the Book of the End: Kalimagero seemed far too similar.
Paul glanced at Reina’s face.
She didn’t know that this magic circle was from the Book of the End: Kalimagero secretly held by his mother.
‘So she couldn’t have made the connection to Kalimagero.’
But just the fragmented hints were not enough to confirm the big picture of ‘Ailee’s reincarnation’.
“Reina. Where did you get that information?”
“I received a prophecy.”
“A prophecy?”
“Yes.”
Was she talking about the kind of prophecy given to saints and prophets?
‘Is that even possible in this era?’
In an age where magic and divine power continued to decrease? Besides, Reina didn’t even have divine power, let alone magic…
“Ah.”
Thinking about it, the fact that she found this secret space itself meant she was no ordinary person.
‘Now that I think about it… I haven’t asked Reina anything.’
He had never asked what abilities she had, what she thought about being friends, or anything about her.
As he reached that thought, strangely, he found he couldn’t speak.
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