“It’s another invention completed by my friend. With this, you don’t need to take the documents out to show their contents to others.”

Hearing my words, the crown prince could only stare intently at the device containing his image.

Then he returned the device to me and shook his head.

“Still, no. What if you fall from such a height? Rather, if you tell me what to look for, I could…”

Hearing that, I felt annoyed and turned away from him, walking toward the terrace.

I leaned against the terrace railing, looked back at him, and then threw myself off the terrace.

Startled by my action, the crown prince rushed over and threw himself off the terrace as well.

Thus, I was able to safely reach the garden in Detrian’s arms.

“Are you crazy…!”

“If you’re so worried, you can just save me when I fall, like you did just now.”

The crown prince looked at me, breathing heavily as if angry, then picked me up and flew back to my room’s terrace.

Without saying a word, he put me inside my room and climbed onto the railing as if to disappear.

I hurriedly grabbed the hem of his cloak.

“Hey……”

“Did you think that would convince me? Unless you’re insane, how could someone who doesn’t even know proper landing techniques think of jumping from this height, trusting only me?”

At his words, I shrank back, feeling intimidated.

I know it was a reckless method.

But as I listened to him, I began to feel increasingly indignant.

“So, just leave it to me. I don’t want to make you do such dangerous things……”

In the end, I snapped at his words.

“If it’s dangerous for me, isn’t it dangerous for you too?”

Detrian’s shoulders flinched at my words.

“Why do I always have to leave dangerous things to you? Do you think I don’t worry about you? Why do you always pretend to worry about me while taking on all the dangerous tasks by yourself?”

My voice trembled slightly as I spoke.

Noticing this, Detrian seemed startled as he climbed down from the railing and carefully cupped my cheek with his hand.

But I coldly pushed his hand away.

…I really need to fix this personality of mine.

I don’t know how I managed to hide this personality in my previous life.

“…Rowenloa, are you crying?”

I quickly raised my head at his words.

“Who’s crying!”

Seeing my face, Detrian seemed relieved that I wasn’t crying.

“You told me yourself that it’s hard to deceive others and hide your identity while doing activities. Why would I make you do something you hate!”

“That’s… because I hate it more when you do things I hate……”

“I can do it too!”

At my outburst, Detrian sighed as if there was no helping it.

“Look, Rowenloa. Let’s talk about this next time. Anyway, today……”

“Forget it. Don’t come around for a while. Go home safely.”

I left Detrian standing on the terrace as I went back into the room, closed the window, and drew the curtains so that the terrace outside couldn’t be seen.

His silhouette, which had been wavering beyond the curtain, didn’t move for a long time, but eventually disappeared.

Lying on the bed, I thought for a long time.

…Why was I so angry?

Why did I feel so worried and angry when Detrian volunteered to do difficult and dangerous tasks instead of me?

Why was I so certain that if I fell off the terrace, Detrian would save me?

After pondering all night, one conclusion that shouldn’t have come to mind emerged,

“…Do I like Detrian?”

…What did I just say?

Realizing the meaning of the sentence I had just uttered, I began slapping my lips with my palm.

It was absurd.

Detrian Crescent is the crown prince of the Gellions Empire.

Liking such a crown prince was absurd and should not happen.

“Our crown prince already has a chosen partner.”

The empress’s words previously flashed through my mind.

I fell asleep with a heart full of complicated feelings.

* * *

How many days had passed?

Detrian hadn’t shown himself to me even once during that time.

Feeling somewhat resentful toward him, I was kicking small pebbles lying around in the garden.

“Miss!”

Just then, Mylene came running toward me with something in her hand.

“A letter has arrived from someone named Camilla Felicia!”

A smile bloomed on my face at those words.

“Teacher Camilla wrote a letter to me?”

When I opened and read the letter, there was very welcome news written inside.

[Dear Miss Rowenloa,

Spring has arrived, bringing flower scents wafting through the rooms.

While enjoying the fragrance, I suddenly thought of you and decided to write this letter.

I have recently had the good fortune to work in the education department within the imperial palace.

I plan to reside in the palace most of the time, so if you happen to visit the palace, please contact me.

I would like to borrow some of your time to share tea together.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Camilla Felicia.]

After reading Teacher Camilla’s letter, I immediately asked Mylene to write a reply and send it to the Felicia family.

The letter stated that I would likely be visiting the imperial palace soon and would like to have tea with her then.

It was as I had expected.

In my previous life, Teacher Camilla also entered the education department during this period.

And a few months later, after an unfortunate accident, Viscount Felicia, who was Teacher Camilla’s father and the head of the Felicia family, passed away, and Teacher Camilla was appointed as the next viscount of the family.

However, there were many strange aspects to the former Viscount Felicia’s death, and to uncover the truth behind his death, Teacher Camilla worked tirelessly to rise to the position of Minister of Education.

And I intend to gift Teacher Camilla with an additional achievement that didn’t exist in my previous life.

To help her reach the position of Minister of Education more quickly.

For that, I desperately needed the documents that Leila had reportedly received from Belsanne.

“Sigh… Should I really try climbing walls to get into Leila’s room.”

I had been sitting at my desk late into the night with a candle lit, scribbling something on paper as I tried to figure out how to get my hands on the documents.

But I was really just scribbling.

I couldn’t think of any viable method.

So, as absurd as it seemed, I thought my only option was to climb the walls to enter Leila’s room, and I threw open the curtains to gauge the distance between her room and mine.

“Ah……”

Something suddenly sprang up from below, and there appeared Detrian, wrapped in a black cloak, right before my eyes.

“…It’s been a while.”

I unconsciously waved my hand at his greeting.

“Were you planning to jump down again today…?”

At his words, I carefully released my hand that had been gripping the curtain aggressively.

He let out a small chuckle.

“Here.”

What he handed me was a cloak similar to his own.

“Put it on. I’ll teach you.”

From the cloak he offered and his words, I immediately understood his meaning.

I smiled brightly at him and put on the cloak.

As I struggled uder the cloak, which was larger and thicker than I expected, he came down from the railing where he had been standing and adjusted my appearance.

Suddenly realizing how close we had become, I was so flustered that I unconsciously stepped back.

“…Do I like Detrian?”

Remembering the nonsense I had blurted out before, my face turned red.

“Your face is red…. Did you catch a cold from the sudden chill?”

I quickly shook my head at his words.

“Let’s go.”

Detrian nodded and then took me into his arms.

“What, what are you doing?”

“We can’t train here. First, we need to get away from this mansion.”

With that, he held me and dropped from the terrace with a whoosh.

Unlike when I had fallen by myself, I couldn’t help but grimace at the sensation of rapidly descending.

The crown prince smiled mischievously at my expression.

“You’ll have to fall by yourself soon, but you’re already making that face. What are you going to do?”

Hearing his words, I had no choice but to harden my expression.

Fall by myself…?

I asked the crown prince to help me practice because I didn’t want to fall, but what was he saying?

The next words from the crown prince’s mouth were enough to plunge me into despair.

“The first thing you need to do to fly higher is practice falling.”

He took me to a forest dense with trees.

I looked at the crown prince with an expression that showed I didn’t understand why he had brought me here.

“First… let’s start from a low height.”

Then Detrian left me alone on a tall tree and went down to the base of the tree by himself.

As I looked at him with bewildered eyes, he shouted up at me,

“Jump down!”

What is he saying!

I shook my head desperately.

“I’ve already placed a protective spell on the ground so you won’t get hurt when you fall! So jump down. This is where we start!”

As Detrian said, when he stomped the ground once with his foot, a transparent wave swept gently across the ground, proving that a spell had been cast.

Even so… to me, it felt like diving into the ground with my bare body.

“If you can’t overcome this, you can’t do anything. Then I’ll go get those documents instead of you. Didn’t you say you didn’t want me to do dangerous things?”

Hearing those words, I nodded.

Then, taking a deep breath, I stepped one foot into the void.