Chapter 42.2

Gerald hovered around in place.

“What exactly do you need?”

“It would be nice to have a blood sample.”

That was the hardest thing to get. No one can take a blood sample from a burnt corpse.

“I’ll try.” Gerald clenched his teeth with a determined look on his face.

We need to figure out the mechanism so he could treat Louella’s disease as soon as possible. The goal was to stop Louella’s disease when it developed in the end.

For some reason, he felt like he knew what Louella was going to say.

Gerald covered his face with his palm.

After breaking up with Louella, he spent the night looking back on the past. He wanted to figure out what Louella had been trying to say.

Then he suddenly remembered.

‘Don’t you think I’m a woman?’

‘Don’t go, Gerald. Stay with me.’

In his memories, Louella whispered those words in a trembling voice.

Gerald remembered the moments when he had turned away countless times.

In her first life, Louella died from the disease while she was pregnant with a child. Gerald didn’t dare, nor did he want, to repeat that scenario again.

So Gerald chose to completely root out the cause. He tried not to touch Louella at all and restrained himself.

But that became the reason why Gerald came back this time. Actually, it was Gerald who was about to cry.

“Do you mean that if you have a blood sample, you can figure out the mechanism?”

“I’m not too sure, but I can probably do it.”

“Keep your word.” Gerald left the lab again.

Billiers stared anxiously at Gerald’s back.

Gerald was always desperately running after something. He didn’t know what Gerald’s goal was.

When Louella confessed about the Time Paradox, it was Gerald who came to his mind.

Gerald may have walked then turned back time with someone.

However, he did not reveal anything to him. Billiers couldn’t bring it up anyway. It was just his guess.

Billiers did not know what Gerald was going through.

“……Can I come back in, professor?” Flora poked out her head with a smile. “Is it okay?”

“Oh, yes. Come on in, Flora.” Billiers made a rough arrangement of the seats.

Flora had come to see him and told him that she needed someone to help her study. And that she had seen him teach Louella before.

He didn’t do it because he was so talented, and he didn’t think about how it would be seen by others because it was done with a purpose.

‘I think you’re a good teacher. Louella says she understands it all!’

He couldn’t believe that Louella said that. Most of the lessons he had with Louella were done by reading books.

And only in the areas of interest that Louella liked.

Commerce, economics, or medicine.

She didn’t even take a look at what she hated. For example, politics…… History, or war. Things like that.

As for the rest of the time, he would actually spend it discussing Nisephor with her.

But Louella had been busy complimenting him.

Unlike her coy appearance, she was deep and affectionate inside.

Billiers accepted Flora just as she started attending book gatherings. For her, there were some difficulties when it came to understanding some of the books.

It was a request for him to help her in such areas.

Billiers accepted Flora because he thought Louella had praised him.

“Well… it seemed urgent. Is Gerald in a bad mood today?”

Billiers recalled Gerald’s overall mood earlier.

“It looked a little urgent and somewhat strange, but…… Maybe your meetup with him didn’t end up too well?”

“No, it was the same as usual.”

Flora tilted her head.

“Even if I say hello, he doesn’t… He didn’t even accept any casual conversation as usual.”

“……isn’t that the way he normally is?”

“Well. I’ve heard that he’s not usually a sweet person, but…….”

Flora looked confused. In the meantime, Flora’s encounter with Gerald could only be counted on her hands. And when she met with him, Flora was with Louisa.

Louella and Gerald just looked like normal 18-year-olds. They played jokes on each other and complained sometimes. They were irritable at times as well.

But Gerald, who just passed by earlier, gave her the illusion of ice dripping. It seemed like Gerald would turn the place he walked into an ice kingdom.

And with how cold his expression was, she couldn’t even put a word to it.

“It’s very strange, seeing how he can look colder than anyone I knew.”

“Isn’t that the way he always is?” Billiers quizzically asked.

“Oh… Really?”

“Yes, so people don’t even approach within one meter of him. They even think that, if they did, they’d start to freeze to death.”