After several examinations, the physician diagnosed her with ‘slight malnutrition, but otherwise healthy.’

Surrounded by everyone’s shock and fearful gazes, Gloria remained calm like the eye of a storm.

After obediently submitting to the examination, she said to him:

“Thank you, doctor.”

The physician’s expression became even more serious, and adjusting his glasses, he added to the Count:

“Since something unnatural has occurred, I expect there’s been mental strain as well. It seems to be a temporary phenomenon resulting from that. Let’s observe the situation a bit longer. For now, it would be best for her to rest today.”

“We shall do that.”

Chris, with a serious face, gently stroked Gloria’s forehead.

“Rest well today, Gloria. Be sure to tell me if anything happens.”

“Brother.”

However, Gloria, the person in question, had no leisure to sleep peacefully.

“Do I have a personal maid?”

At that, Chris looked at Bella, and Bella looked at a maid standing in the corner with an ashen face, trembling. As everyone’s eyes turned to her, she gradually stepped forward.

“I-I-I am, Miss.”

“Ah.”

Gloria tilted her head slightly to check the maid’s face, then spoke to Chris again.

“Resting is good, but I want to recover my memories as soon as possible. I’ll ask this girl for what I need.”

She could still feel people hesitating whenever she spoke normally. However, Chris soon left, telling her to do as she wished and leaving the maid in the room.

Once they were alone, the maid began to tremble pitifully.

“M-Miss. I’m truly sorry. I… I should have insisted until the end that you not wear those earrings……”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“……Pardon?”

“Oh, should I not use honorifics? Um, what’s your name? I mean, your name?”

“What? Oh, I, I am Dona, Miss.”

“Dona, I see. I’m sorry. I don’t have any memories right now. So, Dona, did I usually treat you this way?”

“Well…… I……”

Dona eventually squeezed her eyes shut. Her impatient mistress greatly disliked stuttering. By now, a shrill scolding would have been more than expected.

However, the response that came back was still gentle and unbelievably kind.

“Are you feeling unwell? Why are you trembling so much?”

Dona now felt like she would rather faint.

Being left alone with a person who had come back to life was frightening enough, but to be treated so kindly on top of that intensified her fear.

It felt like if she relaxed and let her guard down here, her mistress would immediately revert to her fierce self as if nothing had happened.

That was the pitiful instinct of Dona, who had been Gloria’s lady’s maid for a long time.

“No, Miss. That is, what I mean is, yes. You always spoke down to me. It’s preposterous for you to use honorifics with someone like me.”

Meanwhile, Gloria nodded with satisfaction, finally getting some useful information from Dona’s lips.

“I want to get better quickly since so many people are worried about me. So I’d like you to help me.”

“O-Of course. Anything I can do.”

“Then……”

Gloria hesitated for a moment. She was trying to figure out which novel’s world she was in. The name Gloria and the Payton family didn’t immediately bring any specific work to mind.

Having read countless romance fantasy novels, it was possible she simply couldn’t recall it even if she had heard of it before.

So Gloria considered what crucial information she could extract from Dona.

Information that would immediately reveal this novel’s identity. Something like the name of a person that even a noble household’s maid would know as common knowledge, yet unmistakable when heard.

“Do you happen to know the name of this country’s Duke? Or the King would be fine too. Ah, it could even be an Emperor.”

In romance fantasy novels, the imperial family, royal family, and ducal families were absolutely essential elements. Whether an empire or kingdom, there would certainly be dukes.

But contrary to her expectation of a quick answer, Dona’s face turned even paler.

“Dona?”

“Ah, Miss. Why are you asking such things? Could it be…… you remember something?”

“Huh?”

Gloria narrowed her eyes and tilted her head at this puzzling response. Frightened again, Dona squeezed her eyes shut and slowly began to answer the question.

“N-no. I mean, um…… th-the individuals who have received the title of Duke in this kingdom are Duke Benastein, who is the blood relative of the former Queen, the current Queen’s mother, and Duke Deviers, who is the former King’s nephew.”

“……Deviers?”

Gloria jumped to her feet.

‘That Jack Deviers from «A Midsummer Night and Isabel»?’

That was none other than the novel she had finished reading right before her death.

She had been among the readers who weren’t satisfied with the marriage ending of the female and male leads, but she had made peace with it thinking, ‘As long as my daughter born from my wallet is happy, that’s fine.’ That very work.

Gloria quickly hid the smile spreading across her face.

“……Then.”

She hastily searched for her next question. Now that she knew the novel, the next thing was to determine the timeline. In the final chapter, the two had held a grand wedding.

And simultaneously, Jack was set to inherit the title of Duke. If she could understand the situation of the Deviers family, she could also guess the timing.

“Is that person married?”

“Miss…… w-why are you asking such a question?”

But Dona had been acting strangely all along. The excessively trembling maid now sat down at her feet with tears welling up in her eyes.

“What’s wrong? Why are you like this? Hm? Dona.”

It was frustrating that she wouldn’t just answer when all she had to do was respond. Gloria got off the bed, sat down facing her, and grabbed Dona’s shoulders.

“Answer me. I asked if he’s married? Or at least tell me the name of the head of the family.”

After repeated urging, Dona finally spoke with a voice mixed with tears.

“……Duke Jack Deviers married Lady Isabel Howard three years ago.”

‘That’s right!’

When the female protagonist’s name she knew appeared, Gloria inwardly clenched her fist in triumph and released Dona. Then she tried to ask another appropriate question to avoid raising strange suspicions.

However, Dona’s subsequent words, delivered without even taking a breath, left Gloria frozen in place.

“B-but I don’t think so. The person Duke Jack Deviers truly loves is you, Miss.”

“……What?”

“So please stop testing me now, Miss. It’s too…… too frightening.”

Dona prostrated herself flat on the floor and held her breath.

Thus, this pitiful maid didn’t see the blood draining from her mistress’s face.

And Gloria. She finally understood what situation she had awakened to.

It was half a day after her transmigration.

Gloria whispered softly to Dona.

“Who loves whom?”

Terrified, Dona continued speaking as if brainwashed, even while tears streamed down her face.

“S-still, the person who best suits the position beside the Duke is you, Miss. Not Isabel. That’s why he came looking for you every night, longing for you.”

When she said that much, Dona seemed to realize her mistake and checked her mistress’s complexion. But she immediately bowed her head again. This was because the Miss who had been widening her eyes and tilting her head in confusion had somehow reverted to her former sharp gaze and fierce expression.

She thought the inevitable had finally happened.

“What kind of insane nonsense is that.”

Dona couldn’t tell where things had gone wrong. So she randomly repeated apologies. Nevertheless, her mistress’s expression hardly changed.

Gloria, who had jumped up and was staring into space, staggered on the spot.

“M-Miss!”

When Dona exclaimed in alarm and tried to support her, she stopped the maid.

“I’m fine.”

Gloria first sent the noisily crying maid out of the bedroom. There was a mountain of information she needed to obtain, but it didn’t seem like anything would register in her head right now.

Left alone, Gloria quietly organized her thoughts.

She needed to stay calm, especially at a time like this.

The content of the novel, «A Midsummer Night and Isabel», was a typical classic love story.