Shayna was still holding onto me.Even after the battlefield had fallen silent and the surviving guards gathered around us, her arms remained wrapped around my body as if she was afraid I would disappear the moment she let go.I let out a slow breath and gently told Shayna to let go, but instead of loosening her grip, she held onto me even tighter, leaving me with nothing but a helpless sigh.The surrounding guards exchanged uneasy glances. Their hands stayed close to their weapons, and I could feel the tension in the air growing heavier with every second.One of the guards finally stepped forward, his eyes filled with wariness as he looked at Shayna clinging to me, and in a cautious voice, he asked, "State your name."I turned toward him, preparing to answer.Before I could answer, Shayna suddenly raised her head and declared, "He is my knight," her calm voice carrying an authority that instantly changed the atmosphere around us.The

Late evening had settled over the palace, and the cool night wind drifted through the open balcony, gently stirring the curtains as the faint rustling of trees echoed in the distance.The room was bathed in the soft glow of a few crystal lamps, their light reflecting against the polished marble walls and casting quiet shadows across the floor, creating a peaceful atmosphere that felt almost too perfect to be real.Only a few minutes earlier, a royal guard had come to deliver a message that left her strangely restless. Her personal knight, Emil, had requested a private audience as his reward, with no attendants or anyone else present, only the two of them alone.Shayna DeRose stood alone before the mirror, quietly staring at her reflection, yet the moment she remembered those words, her heart began beating faster for a reason she could not understand.She took a slow breath and brushed a strand of blonde hair behind her ear. She looked down at the nightgown she had chosen and hesitated

The fake Shayna was smiling.Not the shy smile I knew from the real world, the one that usually appeared for only a second before she looked away, but a bright, unguarded smile that made her look genuinely happy.As she walked a few steps ahead of me through the palace corridor, the warm light of the crystal lamps caught in her golden eyes, and for a moment she looked like a girl who had finally received the one thing she had secretly wished for all her life.To her, we had already chosen a world where the palace, the sky, and every fading memory would disappear until nothing remained except the two of us, together forever where no one could ever take me away from her again.We stepped out of the room together, and the moment our feet touched the palace corridor, a strange stillness spread through the air as if the world itself had noticed our decision.The servants stopped blinking, their smiles frozen beneath the dim evening lanterns as they stared at us with eyes that no longer loo

The classroom exploded before anyone could react. A violent shockwave tore through the shattered homeroom, sending broken desks and chunks of stone flying as wind screamed through the room.Emil vanished.For a single heartbeat, he had been standing at the center of the battlefield, crimson light burning in his eyes. Then the floor beneath him cracked, and a blood-red streak shot across the room, moving far too fast for ordinary sight to follow.His target was Shayna.Shayna didn't flinch, only meeting his charge with a warm, familiar smile as she opened her arms to him and softly said, "Welcome back, Emil.""WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING, SHAYNA?!" Pavel shouted as he moved first, his voice cutting through the chaos.The impact rocked the entire classroom, the walls groaning from the force as dust and fragments of stone rained from above.Pavel was thrown several meters backward, his boots scraping violently across the stone floor as h

A full week had passed since the incident in the first-year Class S classroom, and Eilram Magic Academy had already returned to normal. Students went about their lessons as usual, completely unaware of what had truly happened behind those walls.To everyone else, it was just another ordinary week. Whatever had happened inside the classroom remained buried behind Eilram's walls, while the rest of the academy carried on as if nothing had happened.Headmaster Morvain had ordered everyone who witnessed the incident to remain silent. The Class S students knew what they had seen, as did the instructors who had been directly involved, but not a word was spoken about the Calamity or what had happened to Emil.Even Emil's own sister, Cassandra Remington, had no idea what had happened.The entire battle had lasted less than an hour, and thanks to Morvain's unique skill, most of the damage and evidence had been contained within the dungeon, leaving the classroom itself looking almost normal afte