Chapter 22: Calamity
Somehow, against all odds, Julies Evans won.
He’d stood toe-to-toe with a knight he believed was Aleck—and he won.
But as the dust settled and the last spark of mana flickered out, the real shock hit him harder than any blade.
The helmet rolled off.
Not Aleck.
Alice Draken.
His favorite character. The key figure whose fate was supposed to spiral into tragedy. The cold, elusive noble who was never supposed to appear here—let alone wear a knight’s armor and challenge him directly.
The girl whose story, according to everything he knew, wasn’t supposed to begin for weeks.
And yet, here she was.
From the moment Julies collapsed, fate itself shifted.
His future... rewritten.