When Elishia urged him with ‘we,’ the corners of his eyes softened. Illeon followed her, taking in the fluttering golden hair and the hem of her dress.

(This is a time separator.)

After Illeon had left, Elishia’s head was aching with complex thoughts.

“What a strange feeling. What was that earlier?”

The words that had slipped from her mouth when she was with him were nagging at her heart.

「Not remembering might not necessarily be a bad thing.」

It seemed sincere.

「Thanks to that, you can start everything anew. Because you can’t remember.」

「Mightn’t there be something regrettable among the things you’ve forgotten?」

「I don’t know. If there was something regrettable, I wouldn’t have forgotten it.」

Elishia Uter’s sincerity.

“Sigh.”

Elishia sighed, placing both hands on her chest.

Thump, thump.

She seemed to feel the sound of her heart beating softly beneath her palm.

“Did Elishia… perhaps know what was going to happen to her?”

Had she been a priestess, she might have had some special power.

“But why did Elishia become a priestess?”

In this world, priestesses spent their lives in celibacy and devotion.

A priestess who knows the passphrase and comes to the temple on her own when the time comes, who can hear the voices of the five Gods and Oder, the priestess.

But building up enough divine power to truly communicate with the gods was another matter, as most remained trainee priestesses and few became high priestesses.

Even as a trainee priestess, she would not marry if she had an enemy in Hadyunsha. However, there was also a much freer side, unbound by discipline, and if she wanted to quit being a priestess, she could leave Hadyunsha with some support.

Before returning to the Duke’s residence after being affected by the waves, she had learned this fact during her few days in Hadyunsha.

“But priestesses don’t marry, do they?”

The ambiguous original content was not well understood. How could she, a priestess, become the crown prince’s fiancée? Moreover, she even had a child.

“Could it be now? Right now?”

Suddenly, goosebumps appeared on her arm. Illeon has just regained his sight. And Carina wants to win Illeon’s heart. They have even passed the point of a fateful encounter at Café Cardinal.

Now, if she were to die a terrible death tied to Saviel as in the original work, would she become the glue that firmly binds Illeon and Carina when they get together later?

Elishia rubbed her goosebumped arms with her cold fingertips and shivered.

“No. I absolutely hate that. I’ve survived so desperately so far.”

Just to go back to her original world.

Suddenly, she felt her head clear.

“What have I been worrying about?”

Her heart had been so troubled and complex because of Illeon, but as she returned to the position of a reader outside the book, she felt clear.

“Illeon said he was looking for Carina.”

It seemed that the reason he danced with her three times at the debutante ball was to provoke her jealousy.
And Carina also hoped for things to go well with Elleon.

The noise of the world stopped, and it seemed that Elleon was left alone. Ah, Alicia, who should be supporting Carina’s love, wondered why she felt this way, blaming it on the cringing expression.

“Anyway, if they get along, they’ll love each other as originally written, and I’ll be able to return to the original world.”

If she could somehow avoid becoming the victim of a love square before that.

Suddenly, the complicated ideas that had been a headache seemed to have been relieved all at once.

“Then what was the reason you’ve been looking for me?”

You wouldn’t know that I’m Lona.

“Did you really come to drink tea?”

Was the taste of the tea I brewed in the palace so impressive?

Perhaps she felt Lona’s touch, who brewed tea for her every day.

Alicia’s question could be answered unexpectedly from an unexpected place.

“Miss Alicia. A guest has arrived.”

“For me?”

Elleon had already left today. Lorie smiled as Alicia widened her eyes.

“Ah, miss. You’re so adorable. The guest is a very pretty lady. It’s Lady Carina of the Harrington family.”

“What? Carina?”

Alicia jumped up without knowing.

“Is, is there any problem?”

“No, no. Will you guide her to the reception room?”

The relieved young maid nodded quickly.

“Oh dear, miss. I was startled, thinking you had made a big mistake. I’ve already guided her.”

“Thank you.”

Feeling unnecessarily sorry, Alicia sent a gentle smile to Lorie and headed to the reception room.

“Hello, Lady Alicia.”

A woman with silver hair, sitting gracefully like a picture, got up as she saw Alicia.

“Hello, Lady Carina. Please have a seat.”

The two ladies, sitting face to face, remained silent for a moment. Having just had tea with Elleon, the sight of the dessert in front of her made her appetite fall.

“Umm…….”

“But…….”

They both started almost simultaneously. Carina gave an awkward smile and gestured for Alicia to speak first.

“Please, you go first.”

“No, what I wanted to ask was why you came.”

“Ah.”

Carina fell silent for a moment, fumbling with her teacup.

‘What could it be?’

She should have nothing to say to me. The two were not close enough for that. After a while, as if she had made a big decision, Carina lifted her head.

“I heard that the Duke of Clevante has been visiting the duke’s house every day recently.”

“That’s right.”

Something suddenly flashed through Alicia’s mind at that moment.

‘Ah, could it be.’

I didn’t know why Elleon was coming every day, or why he was coming to the duke’s house to see me.

“Um, could Lady Alicia possibly help me?”

Carina’s green eyes sparkled.

“To help me get closer to His Grace the Duke.”

So Elleon said at the ball that there was a girl he was looking for, and that he had found half of her. And although he ran into Carina at Café Cardinal, it would be hard to approach her right away. Elleon had no dating experience after all.

‘Did Elleon also want to ask me to bridge the gap between him and Carina?’

Her thoughts reached that point.

As Alicia did not immediately agree, Carina looked at her and asked.

“Is it too much to ask?”