“The punishment for Janice Sharofe will entirely follow your wishes…… But if you have no objections, we plan to file charges against that household on behalf of our family.”

The duke’s eyes flashed coldly from behind his thin silver-rimmed glasses.

Though it seemed I could comfortably leave it to him, I shook my head.

“I want to resolve it myself.”

“……If that’s your intention, I understand. I’ll leave the documents containing the investigation results for now.”

The duke placed the document envelope he had brought on the bedside table.

After seeing him off, I thought calmly.

‘I’ll deal with Janice after I recover a bit more.’

In a way, the most important male lead problem remained……

As I was deep in thought, I heard a knock at my ears.

“Miss, it’s Mandy. Letters came for you, so I brought them.”

“Thank you, Mandy.”

I narrowed my eyes after checking the senders of the two letters she handed me.

Tower Master Chester.

Head Priest Raviel.

‘How coincidental that it’s these two people.’

Actually, two days ago, I received important information from the system window.

【Fifth Mission Clear!

As a reward, we will reveal your second destined partner.

It is

♥Head Priest Raviel♥

※ Raviel’s current favorability is 40. (The lowest score among the male leads)】

I had been displeased that the most off-putting man among all the blond handsome men I’d met so far was announced as a male lead.

‘So now the revealed male leads are the crown prince, head priest, and tower master?’

The system window unexpectedly responded to my muttered words.

— Ding!

【Correct!ദ്ദി ᵔ∇ᵔ )】

【Congratulations! You have now found all your male leads♥】

Huh? Suddenly?

Only then did I learn that I had only three male leads.

It seemed like there had been dozens of blond men I’d flirted with so far.

【Since you have found all the male leads, favorability is now unlocked.

You can freely check the male leads’ favorability, so work hard~!

※Current favorability of each character

Linus: 68

Chester: 75

Raviel: 40】

Wow, why is the tower master’s so high?

Is it because I took care of him diligently when he was Goldie……?

Anyway, I had a task.

Meeting the tower master and head priest who were revealed as male leads respectively to hear explanations or clarifications about that day’s events.

Since I had fainted from fatigue and shock, I hadn’t properly heard why the tower master had transformed into Goldie or what the head priest’s strange power was.

Especially regarding the head priest…… Since Theo’s body wasn’t found in the collapsed building debris, the story about him was buried, so I was even more curious.

In the midst of this, letters asking to meet came from both of them.

‘Should I meet the tower master first?’

I wanted to postpone the head priest a bit since I felt I should deal with him when I was in better condition.

I sent a reply to the tower master first. Then he came to find me the very next day.

“It’s embarrassing to meet you while sitting on the bed again.”

“It’s not.”

The tower master, who had somehow pulled his hood down to his chin, sat hesitantly.

I bent my waist to check his face inside the robe.

“What……”

“I was wondering why you’re covering your face. Are you hurt somewhere?”

“……No.”

“Then why won’t you show me your face? You’re completely handsome in cat form.”

The tower master who flinched at those words dropped his head with a thud. Then he apologized to me in a trembling voice.

“I’m sorry for deceiving you in cat form all this time. But I absolutely didn’t do it on purpose either. Please…… just don’t misunderstand me as a pervert.”

I looked at his drooping shoulders pitifully and replied.

“I don’t have that misunderstanding. Thinking about it, Goldie consistently tried to escape. You were trying to get away, but I was the one who caught and held you.”

He knew he was a person, not a cat, so he was trying to flee.

But I, who knew nothing, hugged Goldie tightly saying I would raise him.

For the tower master, it must have been extremely troublesome.

“But was transforming into Goldie the power of magic?”

He who slightly raised his head shook it left and right.

“That’s a curse. Once a month irregularly, I transform into a cat and must spend anywhere from five days at the shortest to two weeks at the longest.”

He said that even on the day I visited the Magic Tower, he had suddenly transformed into a cat while returning after finishing external schedules and hastily disappeared.

His fever had also risen sharply, perhaps due to overwork.

“Only Jeron knows about my curse. So I tried to search quietly, but when I didn’t appear for ten days, they got anxious and switched to searching publicly.”

“From the vice tower master’s perspective, that would be understandable. Moreover, the cat form is completely like an adorable baby.”

“A baby……”

The tower master’s neck visible under the robe turned red as if flustered.

“But it’s a bit disappointing. Losing my cute baby cat.”

I thought I was getting a cat, but it was completely out of the question.

“Oh dear, what will I do whenever I miss Goldie from now on……”

It was when I was muttering softly with regret for the baby cat that turned out not to even exist.

The tower master hesitantly took off his hood and revealed his face.

Ash-mixed blond hair and mysterious blue-green eyes, cheeks tinged with a subtle blush.

“If…… you want, please tell me. I’ll show you.”

“The tower master?”

“……Goldie, I mean.”

I blinked and opened my mouth after understanding his words half a beat late.

Amazing, that’s a cat benefit.

The tower master awkwardly brushed the back of his head and said.

“Instead, please keep my curse absolutely secret. Please never tell anyone else. I’ll ask your knight as well.”

“I understand, don’t worry. Next time you transform into Goldie, please contact me. Um…… when you’re a cat, is it okay to pet you?”

I have no other thoughts and purely just want to touch the cat!

Perhaps my sincerity got through, as the tower master nodded slightly. Then he suddenly asked as if curious.

“But weren’t you very shocked that I was Goldie?”

“Honestly, I was tremendously surprised.”

I even had a dream of feeding Goldie at night after returning and watching him transform into the tower master before my eyes.

“But there was something even more shocking than that, and I thought you would be more embarrassed than me, tower master.”

That’s why he came today with his hood pulled down low.

The tower master whose shoulders flinched asked back.

“Why do you think I would be more embarrassed than you?”

“Well, that’s because I bathed you, fed you, put you to sleep…… and even gave you kisses?”

And I got hit by kitty punches too.

Moreover, while I did all this unknowingly, the tower master received it all while knowing everything, so how embarrassed must he have been.

Indeed, the tower master whose face turned bright red at my words stood up abruptly.

“I suddenly have urgent business, so I’ll be going now.”

“Oh my, really? What a shame. See you again next time, tower master.”

I waved my hand gently and then shouted at his back.

“Goodbye, Goldie!”

“……!”

The tower master who was opening the door to leave stumbled and swayed.

He barely managed to steady himself from almost falling, then was startled at seeing something and quickly left.

“That guy didn’t do something strange again, did he?”

Carl who entered as if switching places with the tower master wrinkled his eyebrows and asked.

“Hey, what strange thing would the tower master do?”

“He pretended to be a cat, transformed, and rolled around in his owner’s arms.”

“When you summarize it like that, he really seems like a strange person. Carl, did you forget that the tower master saved us?”

“I remember, that’s why I’m keeping the cat thing secret too.”

Carl sat down heavily in the chair and replied crookedly.

I grabbed him and earnestly pleaded.

“You must keep that secret in the future too. Then the tower master said he’d allow me to pet him when he becomes Goldie.”

“Hah, really…… Do you like cats that much?”

Carl, who let out a hollow laugh as if dumbfounded, straightened his posture and suddenly added a question.

“What about me?”

“What?”

“Don’t I also somewhat…… resemble a cat?”

At those words, I crossed my arms and seriously observed him.

His firm yet sharp jawline, deep-set eyes, handsome and strong facial features.

If I had to compare him to an animal, Carl wasn’t a cat but a wolf. Weighty yet sharp.

“If anything, you’re closer to a puppy?”

Since wolves are canines.

“……”

“But I like puppies too.”

When I ruffled his black hair that had gone silent, only then did Carl’s lips slowly curve up.

Watching him like that, I suddenly thought.

‘Cute.’