“……”

The head priest looked at her with blank eyes. Wondering if he was badly hurt, she examined the back of his head.

Hmm, there’s a bump but no blood.

She asked while worriedly caressing his soft face.

“Is there anywhere uncomfortable?”

“……That’s not it, what did you just greet me with?”

“Greet? Ah, it’s me. Raviel’s first love.”

She swept her hair back over her shoulder and cupped her chin to emphasize her face.

Based on her memory and what the head priest had said, his first love was her.

Just as her first love was him.

But how could he forget such a beauty as his first love?

Of course, she had also forgotten a beauty like the head priest, but that was because of the accident.

Staring at her blankly while blinking, he muttered.

“Shailyn…… is my first love?”

“Yes, I also just remembered when I fell and hit my head on the floor. I lost my memory from a carriage accident when I was young.”

Unlike what Carl had said, it had been effective even for old memories.

She glanced at the head priest who was still confused and asked carefully.

“Raviel, don’t you remember?”

“……No.”

“Then would you like to fall once more?”

No, it’s a bit awkward if only I remembered. If you’re the male lead, you should remember it together with me!

She spoke almost accusingly to the head priest who had an unusually bewildered face.

“We hid my mom’s keepsake here together. And this is a place you told me about.”

“I did……? No, well…… it does seem like that……”

“I called you brother when I was young. You also promised to come get me!”

You even said let’s run away somewhere far and live together!

No matter how much you were a teenage boy then, it’s troublesome if you make excuses like this, sir.

“Say more…… say more. I feel like I’m about to remember something……”

The head priest frowned while holding his forehead.

She actively cooperated to revive his memory.

“When we first met, you discovered me crying alone after I fell while wandering around the temple and helped me. After that, I followed you around and bothered you.”

“Right, that’s right……”

“When I asked to be friends, you asked how old I was. Then like an old-fashioned person, you said we couldn’t be friends because you were older and told me to call you brother.”

“……What’s an old-fashioned person?”

“Ah, sorry. Just skip that part. Anyway, there was also a time when you were crying because training was too hard, and I comforted you.”

She practically grabbed the head priest’s shoulders and shook him while rattling off words.

He blinked slowly. His purple eyes were unfocused as if searching through memories.

The head priest with hazy eyes asked like someone possessed by something.

“What’s…… your name?”

“My name is Shailyn Sharofe.”

She answered cheerfully like when she first met him. Hoping he would remember.

“Ah……”

The head priest, contorting his face greatly, suffered while pressing his forehead.

“Ugh, my head……”

With those words, the head priest’s body slowly fell backward.

“Ra, Raviel? You didn’t just faint, did you? Snap out of it!”

What am I supposed to do if you faint here?!

She desperately shook him who had lost consciousness lying on her lap again, but unfortunately, he never opened his eyes again…….

In the end, she dug up the keepsake by herself and even dragged the unconscious head priest up.

“Huff, gasp……”

Thud.

She practically threw the head priest down on the floor and also collapsed sprawled out.

No matter how pretty and thin, a man is still a man so he’s d*mn heavy…….

Moving an unconscious adult male made her whole body soaked with sweat and even her arms trembling.

‘When did the sun rise……’

The sunlight streaming down seemed quite strong, like morning rather than dawn.

A system window popped up in front of her exhausted eyes.

【Mission Clear!

Congratulations! You finally found your mother’s last keepsake!

As a reward, Head Priest Raviel’s favorability has risen to 100.

You can confirm more accurately when he wakes up later~♪♬♩】

Right, if I suffered this much, the favorability should hit 100.

I was going to leave him behind but gritted my teeth and brought him out.

She raised her body that wouldn’t move properly and called over a passing priest.

“I came to pray at dawn and discovered Head Priest Raviel collapsed. Could you help me?”

“Gasp, yes! I understand!”

She made up a plausible excuse and completely handed the head priest over to him.

And when she returned to the count’s residence…….

“Where are you coming back from?”

A bondservant scarier than the grim reaper was waiting for her while emanating a murderous aura.

“Ca, Carl……”

“You snuck out at night without a word and are just now returning?”

“No, that’s not it—”

“Didn’t I tell you to take me anywhere you go? Because it’s dangerous.”

She hung her head feeling like a pathetic husband who said he’d come home early from a company dinner but snuck in secretly in the morning.

Carl shot at her with what seemed like a choked voice seeing her like that.

“Do you know I searched this entire area after finding out you were gone? Did you think about how other people would feel when they discovered a cold, empty room in the morning?”

“I’m, I’m sorry……”

Even with two mouths, she had nothing to say.

But if the head priest hadn’t fainted, she would have gotten out quickly and returned.

Since she couldn’t make such an excuse, she stayed quiet like a criminal, and Carl irritably ruffled his own hair.

“Tell me what you were doing.”

“……I went to find mom’s keepsake with Raviel. I couldn’t take you because we had to secretly infiltrate the temple. Sorry.”

“Ha……”

Letting out an incredulous sigh, he covered his eyes and tilted his head back.

His expression clearly showed he was suppressing anger, so she stayed quiet. After a moment, Carl asked in a much calmer voice.

“Are you hurt anywhere? If you lie, I really won’t stay still.”

“I’m not hurt! I’m completely fine!”

She spread both arms and spun around once. Look, bondservant!

Your master is healthy!

Carl, sweeping over her with sharp eyes and finishing his check, left the room without a word.

‘Is he very angry……?’

Geez, it’s because the head priest told me to leave Carl behind for no reason.

Come to think of it, if Carl had been there, I wouldn’t have had to struggle to move him!

She felt wronged alone and came out after bathing with Mandy’s assistance.

With her refreshed body, the first thing she did was open the keepsake box.

‘What could be inside?’

She had thought there were no more of mom’s keepsakes left in the world.

Getting a keepsake hidden like a surprise gift made her heart flutter a little.

When she carefully opened the box, inside were an old notebook, handkerchief, and lace gloves.

She stroked the handkerchief and gloves with tender hands, then picked up the notebook.

‘What’s this? A diary?’

When she untied the band around the notebook cover and opened it, a letter tucked inside fell out.

Despite nearly 20 years passing, it wasn’t badly damaged, so the paper must have been very expensive.

She checked nervously, wondering if it was a letter mom left for her.

「To Diane.

Hello, Diane.

I heard the news that you got married. I should have congratulated you earlier, but I’m also pregnant and busy, so I’m only contacting you now.

I have something to ask of you – could you possibly do it for me?

It’s nothing else, but I’d like you to keep what I’m sending without anyone knowing.

Sorry for the dangerous request.

But you’re the only friend I could entrust with something like this. I’m thinking of taking it later to present to Her Majesty the Empress.

Please always take care of your health, and I hope you have a safe delivery too.

Let’s meet with our families when we have time. It seems like our children will be friends of the same age.

Take care until then.

Sent by Cathy」

Who is Cathy? Is she mom’s friend?

‘But what did she entrust that makes it a dangerous request? She seems like a noblewoman with a child my age……’

Feeling disappointed that the letter sender wasn’t mom and the recipient wasn’t her either, she roughly looked through the notebook.

Almost every page was filled with people’s names.

What is this.

Since she couldn’t figure out the identity of either the letter or notebook, she put them back in the box.

She’d have to go back and show them to Lord Diart.

‘Now that the mission is over, I can finally go to the capital.’

At this time, she had no idea what was happening in the capital and just stretched contentedly.

While thinking of the welcome faces she would soon reunite with.