Chapter 549 - Continuing Winter? (8) - Alex's POV

I ran out of the room when I saw Rika about to jump from the fourth floor. She didn't have any mana with her, we had sealed everything. She was going to die as I helplessly watched her fall down towards the hard-marbled floors. Luke desperately chased after her, trying to grab her leg to pull her back to our floor. However, we couldn't get closer to her, blinded by a bright light filling the entire mansion. Once the light had disappeared, we couldn't find any traces of Rika. Luke's legs collapsed from despair, hearing no impact of her fall, vanishing like she had never existed here.

"I can help you search for Rika," I tried to comfort him.

"She planned this," Luke recalled her jumping off her bed.

"You can confine her afterwards," I pointed out she was likely alive.

"Is she always like this?" Charles was stunned..

"That's why the windows and doors are spelled so she can't open them," I explained.

Most times, the main subject on Rika's mind was escaping from the mansion or her room. She never considered that Luke was keeping her here to keep her safe. Rika was the target of almost everything, getting kidnapped around three times within this year. She was also so reckless, always trying to throw her life away. Luke wouldn't have to confine her to this extent if she listened to him more.

"The amusement park?" Charles recalled her excuse.

"Rika does actually want to go to an amusement park, but we can't take her there. She doesn't deserve to go there. She was practicing jumping down the entire time," I always thought her actions were a little suspicious.

"I didn't know," he pitied Luke.

Noticing Luke's marble flickering, I gestured to him to take a look. When Luke opened his marble, we discovered a message had come from Cillian. Opening the message, there was a link to a post on the school forum. On the site, a grand post with a live stream video underneath was raging with attention. Once Luke tapped to play the video from the start, all of us couldn't take our eyes off the screen.

Luke was beginning to burn with anger as he watched her use every spell from her notebook. She had intentionally jumped out of the fourth floor to teleport to fight her stalker. Rika was mostly quiet for the past two months because she was planning for this day. I knew that Charles was wondering where she could have gotten the mana to carry out the fight. I could feel the seal I placed on her remaining when I searched for it. While she shouldn't have the ability to consecutively pull out the spells that she was using even with the seals removed.

I was inside her body before. I could approximate how much she roughly possessed. Inside the video, it appeared like she didn't have the limit that I had previously felt. It was similar to her fight with her stalker before we had arrived at this mansion. What was Rika hiding from us? She was always trying to hide something from me and Luke. The people who cared and wanted the best for her.

"I'm going to get Rika back," Luke determined.

"How are you going to get there?" Charles pointed out the school was almost destroyed from their fight.

"I'm going to use the teleportation gate," Luke started to walk to the first floor.

"I'll come with you," I couldn't let my cousin put himself into danger alone.

"I'll also join," Charles followed us.

This was how we entered the school grounds, almost burnt down and slippery from the ice. Most students were evacuating, the protective barrier of the school down. Although there were some students watching the fight in awe, they were mostly extreme fans of Rika. Luke's face hardened when we listened to their conversation, finding no place to be safe to Rika other than our mansions. Trying to hide our disgust towards them while discovering the reason for the low-quality service and food.

"Really, what was that restaurant doing? We gave them the money to have Rika eat our homemade cooking and they failed," a familiar girl complained.

"At least the Roselia family didn't figure out. I paid all the chefs and waiters to stay silent. And we got to talk to her in person," her friend tried to cheer her up.

"We paid the salons with a grand amount of money to stall Rika so we could take more pictures, but the first place failed," a person joined in.

"However, we succeeded at the next one, paying more money to one of the staff members to cut more of her hair so we could pass it to the others," another person revealed.

Before I could get angry at them, my eyes widened when I found Rika about to crash into the ground. A loud sound filled my ears, the entire ground trembling as Rika slammed against the uneven land, creating a huge crater with her. No human being could survive that crash with the massive force behind it. I slowly turned to Luke, finding furious tears streaming down his face.