Elsewhere, at the Silver and Tin Palace.
After reading the newspaper, Isabel also breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness..."
Although she had known from the very beginning that Iver had only faked his death and disappeared this time, seeing so many members of Noble Red mobilized still inevitably made her anxious for Iver.
After all, Mr. Iver was just a frail, powerless priest who could only get around in a wheelchair...
Could something have really happened?
She had been worrying like this every day, checking the newspaper first thing every morning. Isabel, who normally had no habit of reading newspapers at all, had bought a huge pile of them over the past few days.
--She just hadn't dared let Yulia see them.
Fortunately, Yulia's attention was easily diverted.
Isabel had simply told Yulia to follow the Court Alchemist and study alchemy, and just like that, she was gone.
Apparently, Yulia had become so absorbed in alchemy practice over the past few days that she had reached the point of forgetting to eat and sleep.
She had truly forgotten to eat and sleep, to the point of frightening that old man. He had come to Isabel several times to tell her that Yulia simply wasn't sleeping. No matter what he said, she wouldn't listen. After lying down for only three or four hours, she would crawl out of bed and continue studying. Whenever she felt tired, she would simply drink Energy Potion in place of sleep, completely ignoring the side effects it caused.
Only when Isabel personally persuaded her could she coax Yulia to sleep.
She even had to hold Yulia while she slept, to stop her from getting up in the middle of the night to read again.
Isabel simply couldn't understand why Yulia was studying so hard... She