Chapter 50
“Huh? Why were you suspicious of me all of a sudden?”
“Ever since you infused me with your divine power, my body hasn’t hurt.”
“...What?”
“It was a faint divine power, so you must’ve been a wretch... but it really did feel like it calmed my mana overload.”
My eyes widened. That was something I hadn’t considered at all.
So that’s why Zahid was perfectly fine when he first arrived at the Count’s estate!
I stared at him in shock as he slowly continued.
“But after about a day, the pain started coming back little by little.”
Right, Zahid’s condition had sharply declined in Julian’s room yesterday.
Only now did I understand what he had meant by those strange words he said back then.
“No... I still can’t trust you yet.”
I also remembered how he’d looked at me so desperately.