Chapter 134

"Your Highness."

"Yes."

"His Highness Cassion."

"Right."

"His Highness Cassion Lichte Petrora."

"Diana, it's really me. Stop checking."

Cassion had appeared right in front of me. Since he could use magic, it wasn't exactly shocking that he'd made his way from Nobel to Tiaran.

What shocked me was how he looked. Cassion had grown far taller than me. He looked completely different from the last time I'd seen him. He'd grown a full fist's width taller, and real muscle had filled out his frame.

"You're really thirteen, Your Highness?"

"Yes. And you're fifteen now, Diana."

Just what had the monsters been feeding Cassion? It had only been a little while since I last saw him — well, "a little while" stretched to over a full year, technically — but his growth was far beyond ordinary.

"I've changed a lot, haven't I?"

Sensing that my reaction had come across negatively, Cassion…