Chapter 32 Oh no, he can't be in love with me, right?

Chapter 32 Oh no, he can't be in love with me, right?

Duke Levi glared at Victor and left without saying a word.

As for Victor,

From beginning to end, he didn't want to explain anything.

Helping Duke Levi was just a convenient act. Although he did need the power of the duke's family to do something, there was no need to tell these words to Duke Levi.

Victor had a better candidate.

He waited outside the city gate for a while and soon saw Gwen running over quickly.

Gwen was in a hurry as if chasing someone. After seeing Victor, she stopped.

"I've been waiting for you."

He seemed to know that Gwen would definitely come to him and said to Gwen who had arrived.

But Gwen didn't have a good expression for Victor.

"Don't you have anything to explain to me?"

Victor saw that there were many mages who had not left yet and were looking at them.

"Later."

Victor indicated to Gwen that they were in a crowded and complicated place now. Some things were better told to her in private.

Gwen received his hint and nodded.

"Get on my carriage."

"Okay."

Gwen didn't think much and agreed.

The two walked side by side. When they reached the carriage, Victor extended a hand to Gwen.

Gwen didn't understand what it meant and was stunned for a moment.

Seeing her like this, Victor shook his head and explained, "When inviting a woman, this is a necessary basic etiquette."

"Troublesome etiquette."

Gwen complained and didn't even notice the strange gazes from around. She put her hand on Victor's.

Under Victor's lead, the two got on the carriage together. The carriage door closed and the carriage quickly drove away.

Victor looked out the window. The various complex expressions on the faces of those people satisfied him greatly.

Then, he covered the curtain.

Presumably after this meeting, the public opinion tomorrow will have a new direction.

He turned his head and looked at Gwen again.

But Gwen was the first to take out a bag from her waist.

"This is what you want."

She handed the bag to Victor. Victor was a bit puzzled but still took it.

When he opened it, there were various red crystals of different shapes inside.

He suddenly remembered the reason he had told Gwen before.

Victor was a bit surprised. He didn't expect Gwen to still remember these things.

He really needed this kind of thing to make some relatively special magic items, but these were just incidental.

When leaving the volcano, he was a bit sorry that he didn't collect some, but it didn't matter anymore.

Unexpectedly, Gwen actually collected some for him.

A warm feeling rose in Victor's heart. But he was never such a sentimental person. He put the bag into the player's backpack.

"Thank you."

Gwen looked at Victor with a hint of amusement and her tone was somewhat sarcastic.

"Unexpectedly, you can still say thank you."

"Then it's time for your explanation."

Victor nodded and said:

"I've already finished speaking in front of the emperor."

"You were also present. You should know if what I said is true."

Gwen suddenly said coldly to him:

"You should understand that this is not what I want to ask."

She and Victor had grown up together. If Victor was so kind-hearted that he wanted to stop the volcanic eruption to save everyone.

Gwen definitely didn't believe it.

Victor had shown his cold-blooded side since he was a child.

If necessary choices had to be made, even if it meant sacrificing the people of a town, he would choose to obtain his own benefits.

"What's your purpose in triggering the volcanic eruption?"

"Purpose..."

Victor thought for a while. Why did he plan to follow when he heard the news that Gwen was going to the volcano?

Obviously he could go there by himself later.

Without the following of the knight regiment, perhaps Victor could finish all this more secretly.

By the time the royal capital found out, everything would have ended long ago.

It wouldn't cause such a big sensation either and even involve all the third-level mages in the royal capital in this mess.

But...

"Perhaps it's because of you."

"Because of me?"

Gwen was suddenly stunned and even her sense of justice trembled a bit.

Under the surveillance of her sense of justice, Gwen could see that Victor was obviously not lying.

That is to say, he really had this thought.

'Wait a minute. If it's because of me...'

He went to the crater of the volcano alone just to challenge the monster in the volcano.

And it turned out to be for her?

Gwen couldn't figure it out. Did Victor think she would encounter any danger?

'That Victor would actually think like this...?'

Gwen put one hand on her chest and clearly felt that the frequency of her heart beating had accelerated a lot.

Even if she was emotionally dull, she had some guesses in her heart.

Could it be that Victor likes her?

Otherwise, how could all this be explained!

Hearing that she was going to such a dangerous place as the volcano, he came in the middle of the night just to go with her.

Staying in the same room and fulfilling so many of her unreasonable requests.

To prevent danger on the volcano, he went to suppress the monster under the volcano in advance by himself.

"This, this..."

Gwen's rationality told herself that she shouldn't think like this. Victor couldn't like her.

He was clearly such a selfish person....

But her sense of justice would never be wrong.

'If he really likes me, then what should I do?'

Gwen's heart was a bit chaotic.

As for Victor, he was still thinking there.

'Well... it's really because of her.'

On the one hand, Victor really wanted to fight the furnace monster in his heart and wanted to test how long it would take him to defeat the opponent now.

On the other hand, Gwen was on a mission and would be away from the royal capital for a long time.

This was a very dangerous thing for him.

If Gwen was still within the territory of the royal capital, then he could still learn about Gwen's movements through Lya.

But if Gwen went to the volcano.

Who could imagine what kind of opportunities she would encounter?

Victor boldly guessed a little. Maybe Gwen suddenly fell off a cliff, woke up the sleeping furnace monster, and then fought with the lava monster and obtained part of its power.

This is not impossible.

Since Gwen in the game survived until the end, then, without his influence, Gwen's mission this time would definitely not go wrong.

To avoid his own death ending, he had to suppress Gwen as much as possible.

At least he could be at ease only if Gwen was always acting under his nose.

So it was not just talk that Victor chose to insist on going to the volcano with her because of Gwen and defeated Groudon in advance.

The two had different thoughts. Victor didn't know what Gwen was thinking, but such an explanation should convince Gwen.

After all, he really thought so.

"Do you have any other questions?"

"No... Wait, where have you been these days?"

Gwen suddenly asked.

These were the questions she wanted to know the most.

In these days, because of Victor's disappearance, almost everyone thought that Victor had fled out of fear of punishment. Some even spread rumors that he had already died in the volcano.

During the days when he was missing, the situation of the Clevenner family was also very bad.

They were attacked by competitors in business. The mansion was blocked by many people every day who threw various things into the courtyard.

It can be imagined how much Victor was hated. Even after his 'death', there were still a bunch of people who came to take revenge on him.

It was hard for Lya to hold on for so long alone.

"I was injured and found a place to heal."

Victor explained.

Strictly speaking, this sentence is also not a lie. The three-day and three-night battle with Groudon really made him injured.

Although the injury was not serious, it was indeed a reasonable reason as a healing reason.

Moreover, after the battle, he was really in a coma for three days and three nights.

As long as it was in line with the truth, Gwen's sense of justice would not judge it as a lie.

"That monster... Is it so strong?"

Gwen couldn't imagine that with Victor's strength, he was injured so seriously.

Needing so many days to recover, obviously that monster is so strong that it is outrageous.

At this time, she suddenly remembered what the old woman in Sanchel Town had said:

In the volcano, a volcano god is sealed.

This kind of legendary story may not necessarily be used as evidence, but since that kind of thing can be called a god, its strength is naturally not to be underestimated.

Victor closed his eyes and used magic to create a sense of imagery for Gwen.

Red magic energy began to swirl around Gwen.

Gwen felt that the surrounding scenes were changing rapidly and the sky suddenly darkened.

"It is very strong."

Synchronizing his feelings to Gwen.

The temperature in the carriage compartment suddenly rose. At this moment, Gwen seemed to see that monster as if she was there.

Flames soared into the sky, like a demon god descending.

Victor dispelled the magic. Gwen was a bit dazed.

Victor actually defeated such a thing for her...

"...I have no more questions."

Gwen was unable to speak.

"Then, I'll take you home."

Victor activated a magic. Now the first-level magic was as easy as sprinkling water in his hands.

A green magic energy flew out from his fingertips and wrapped around the wheel.

The carriage turned around and drove towards Gwen's home.

This is the benefit of being a mage.

Sitting in the carriage, you don't even need a coachman to drive.

After that, the two were silent.

Soon they arrived at Gwen's mansion. Victor watched Gwen get off the carriage.

"By the way."

Before leaving, Victor called out to Gwen.

"Thank you for covering up for me in front of His Majesty."

Gwen turned back and just wanted to say something.

But the carriage had already turned and left.

She watched Victor leave in a daze and stood at the door with a complicated mood.

When the maids saw Gwen getting off the carriage of the Clevenner family, they couldn't help being a bit surprised and whispered:

"Didn't the young lady hate Victor the most?"

"This time she actually came back in Victor's carriage?"

"Could it be that..."

They talked more and more enthusiastically. When they talked about the crucial point, their cheeks even turned red.

They didn't notice at all that there was a sound of footsteps coming from behind.

'What are you talking about? If there's something good, why don't you talk about it with me?'

The maids looked back and saw a smiling woman coming out of the house and quickly lowered their heads.

"Sorry, Miss."

The woman still had that smile on her face when she came out and said:

"Mmm, don't be distracted during working hours."

"Okay, I'm going to welcome my sister whom I haven't seen for a long time."