The phrase “I’m going crazy” must have been created for situations like this, right?

With little time left for the mission deadline, I had barely completed the antidote, but a crisis arose because the tower master, who had become a true cat, wouldn’t drink the medicine.

Jeron, Mandy, and I all joined forces to coax and cajole Goldie, but.

“Kyaong!”

Crash!

Goldie amazingly detected the medicine secretly sprinkled in his food and threw the bowl with his tiny front paws.

“Wh, what should we do?”

Jeron looked at me, unable to do this or that. In the end, I declared resolutely.

“We have to force his mouth open and make him drink it. Hold Goldie down.”

“Ah, understood.”

“Nyaang!”

But the quick-witted Goldie suddenly started running away when Jeron approached.

“Catch Goldie!”

“Someone catch that cat!”

“Ah! Goldie!”

A chase scene unfolded just like the day I first brought the tower master.

Back then, Carl was there so we could capture Goldie alive, but now he was recuperating in the servants’ quarters.

Moreover, with my injured ankle making it impossible to move properly, Jeron and Mandy desperately chased Goldie.

“Kyaak!”

“Ugh!”

Screams echoed throughout the mansion, and the sounds of things breaking and falling could be heard constantly.

And after a full hour passed, the two people returned with Goldie captured, looking completely battered.

“Nyaaaaaong!”

As soon as he was brought back, Goldie fled to a corner, arched his back like a bow, flattened his ears back, and cried sharply.

I left the two exhausted people behind and slowly approached Goldie, pleading.

“Goldie, this isn’t something to hurt you. Rather, it’s medicine to heal you. Please, let’s take this, okay?”

“Kyahak!”

“Please, I’m begging you, Goldie. I really miss the tower master so much……”

I stopped at an appropriate distance and put the medicine down on the floor.

It was the last remaining portion after Goldie had knocked over countless plates.

“Help your sister meet the tower master again. My baby kitten, I’m asking you like this.”

I sat down on the floor as if kneeling and pulled out my secret weapon from behind.

It was the toy Goldie liked. Goldie’s eyes sparkled when he saw the feathered stick.

The child who had lowered his guard slowly approached me. I played with Goldie using the toy until he was exhausted and collapsed.

While Goldie’s attention was distracted, I naturally held out the bowl containing the medicine.

‘Please……!’

Goldie, who seemed thirsty and was looking for water, tilted his head toward the medicine.

Lick.

Watching the child stick out his tiny tongue and start drinking the medicine, we silently exclaimed in amazement.

It worked! Finally it worked!

When Goldie finally stepped back, the plate was completely empty.

“Oh my, my baby. You did very well. I’m so proud I could die, really.”

I scratched his tiny head and neck and smiled brightly. Jeron, whose legs had given out from relief, sat down behind me in emotion.

“You said the curse would be broken within 12 hours of taking the antidote, so now all that’s left is waiting.”

“……Sniff, that’s right. I’d like to thank you in advance, Miss. Thank you so much for helping.”

“Not at all. We help each other and live.”

“……You’re truly as generous as an angel. Then, I’ll ask you to take good care of the tower master until the end.”

Jeron left after greeting me with a face full of goodwill.

I decided to take care of Goldie until the end in case the curse wasn’t broken. It worked out well for me too.

I wanted to see with my own eyes the tower master’s curse being broken.

‘It’s five in the afternoon now, so he should return to his original form by five in the morning, right?’

I exercised extreme patience and endured the slowly passing time.

When night came, Goldie jumped onto the bed next to me.

“Why, do you want to sleep with sister?”

“Nyaang.”

“Alright, fine. This might be Goldie’s last night anyway.”

I readily lifted the blanket so Goldie could come in.

Feeling the warmth from his small body and his purring breath, I also fell asleep.

***

Chester opened his eyes to the faint sound of birds from outside the window.

His head throbbed as if he had drunk heavily the night before.

“Ugh……”

As he held his forehead and tried to sit up, he soon discovered Shailyn lying next to him and froze.

Since Shailyn was sleeping turned toward him, her disheveled silver hair and peacefully sleeping face were visible very close up.

Dense and long eyelashes, a small and straight nose, red and plump lips.

‘Why am I in the same bed as Lady Sharofe……’

At that moment, memories of the days he lived as Goldie flashed through his mind like lightning.

Although he had no human reason at the time, unfortunately the memories of living as a cat hadn’t disappeared either.

‘What kind of trouble did I cause……! Jeron, you should have taken care of me instead!’

As he suffered while clutching his head, he soon recalled what Shailyn had said to him when he was Goldie.

‘I’ll definitely make an antidote for you. If you can’t return as the tower master, I’ll raise you.’

‘Hah…… I miss the tower master.’

‘Help your sister meet the tower master again. My baby kitten, I’m asking you like this.’

Chester, who became the sole survivor of the village after the heretics’ attack, had no family.

So it had been a really long time since he received such sincere worry and longing.

‘Why are my eyes suddenly getting hot?’

As he pressed down on his churning chest and looked down at Shailyn….

Her eyelashes fluttered once, then her closed eyelids opened, revealing clear and vivid blue eyes like a lake.

“……!”

When their gazes suddenly met, Chester’s body froze.

“……Tower master.”

Shailyn called him in a voice still drowsy with sleep. Chester, who came to his senses with a start, hurriedly explained.

“Lady Sharofe, please don’t misunderstand. I was about to get up right away—”

“Have you returned?”

But what was important to Shailyn was whether the antidote had worked properly and the curse was broken.

Chester nodded in bewilderment.

“Yes, that’s right….”

“My goodness!”

Shailyn, who had been blinking drowsily, opened her eyes wide and sat up abruptly.

She felt Chester’s face to confirm that this situation was not a dream or illusion.

“Thank goodness! I was so worried thinking I’d never see the tower master again!”

Watching Shailyn rejoice like a child, Chester remembered her making the antidote with Jeron.

“……Didn’t you make the antidote for me, Miss?”

“Oh, do you remember when you were a cat?”

“Yes. Even my conversation with Jeron……”

“That’s right. The book you saw was missing the 150-year-old magic stone, wasn’t it? I found out that fact and perfectly supplemented it.”

Instead of being modest, Shailyn chose to show off a little.

She thought that since she had even gotten Carl injured to break Chester’s curse, even though he was the male lead, she could boast this much.

But Shailyn, who put both hands on her waist with a proud face, just looked lovely in Chester’s eyes.

“Thank you. Thanks to you, I was able to escape from the curse that had tormented me terribly for so long.”

Chester got down from the bed and turned toward her, then knelt on one knee and carefully took Shailyn’s hand.

“Miss, you saved me.”

“Oh my, not to that extent……”

In truth, she had no choice but to perform the mission because the system ordered it.

Shailyn hesitated with a guilty conscience, but Chester had no way of knowing that.

Feeling his heart beating faster than usual, he opened his mouth.

“From when I first met you injured in a dark alley, my heart raced whenever I saw you.”

“……”

“I don’t know how to dare define these feelings of mine, but there’s no doubt that you’ve become a precious person in my life, Miss.”

Chester, who was clumsy with emotions, didn’t directly confess that he liked her, but Shailyn understood his words well enough.

At the same time, a system window appeared before her eyes.

— Ding!

【Congratulations! By clearing the mission, male lead ‘Chester’s’ affection has reached 100.

You’ve succeeded in conquering your first male lead!

We’ll guide you on the new mission that has occurred accordingly soon♡】