The Nerd Next Door Turned Out To Be The Magic Tower Master - Chapter 35

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Episode 35

That the “Saint” had nearly drowned in the Great Temple’s lake—the public was pouring out accusations and suspicion, theorizing that perhaps God himself had rejected her existence, suggesting she was no true saint at all.
They’d hailed her and cheered her as though she were genuine only moments before. Watching public opinion flip as readily as a hand turning over left her not even angry, just bewildered.
Beneath the sensational headline lay sentences like “Has the Relief Festival, struck by God’s Wrath, truly remained safe?”
‘God’s Wrath.’
Was raising the middle finger really the problem? Or was it all the irreverent thoughts she’d been harboring?
Cecilia set the newspaper down with a soft sound, her still-chilled arms wrapped around herself as she curled inward.
No. This wasn’t God’s Wrath, nor punishment for a false saint.
Someone had simply tried to kill her.
The realization hit her like a splash of cold water, her mind turning crystalline with dread.
Perhaps she’d known it all along, if only dimly.
That an impossibly small object had shattered the solid Glass Window, that the fragments had scattered directly above her head, that it had been Sena who’d encountered the vicious thug capable of killing someone with ease—and that it had all happened right before her eyes.
It couldn’t have been mere coincidence or an unavoidable accident.
She’d simply chosen to escape, unwilling to be entangled in something complicated.
But this incident was beyond ignoring.
‘Fine. I’ll face it now.’
Cecilia lay back down, her mind cooling as though she’d been doused in ice water again.
“I’d like to rest for a while.”
“I should call your physician at once—no, never mind. Don’t worry about anything. Just get proper rest.”
She feigned the need for quiet and sent the Marquis and Nox away.
When she affected deep distress at the article, Melanie—who’d been watching closely—excused herself as well.
Only when she was truly alone did Cecilia struggle to lift her body, which felt as heavy as water-logged cotton. She made her way unsteadily to the Study, adjoining her Bedroom.
She went directly to the bookshelf and collapsed onto the floor, then pulled books out haphazardly from the lower shelf.
Just as she’d hidden it before, a dark blue Diary lay deep within the bookshelf.
Cecilia opened it without hesitation.
The first page held only the diary owner’s name; the second, the reason she’d begun writing; and the third, which she was reading for the first time.
The date was approximately two years ago.

A cute intruder met in the Garden, she read.
‘It couldn’t be.’
The story felt oddly familiar. She quickly turned the page.

Meow.
Charles made a small sound then, brushing against her leg.
Cecilia stroked his warm, soft fur in silence, then lowered her hand toward the Necklace hidden in his coat.
On the golden metal lay a single small leaf, finely engraved.
“So you weren’t Charles at all. You were Charles all along.”
A bittersweet smile crossed Cecilia’s face as she turned the page again.

Cecilia thought of the girl isolated in this vast Mansion, who ought to have fulfilled her duties as a Saint-in-waiting. Confined for only a few months and already this suffocating—how much more suffocated must ‘Cecilia’ have been across a lifetime?
Perhaps that emotion was the reason she began keeping this diary. The thought was a futile speculation, but it crossed her mind.

…A dream of dying.
Could it be connected to the threat ‘Cecilia’ is facing right now?
She picked up her pace as she read through the diary.

The diary entries grew increasingly frantic and dark.
And the moment she turned to the next page, a chill ran down her spine.

On the page with no date written, the paper was covered in rough, frantic scrawling—letters torn and gouged into the surface, blackening the page.

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