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"I'm sorry I didn't find you today."

"Dear Theodore...... No, even if I don't find it soon, I'll make sure I do."

"Right. You must be tired today. Good luck."

"Yes, thank you, Master Theodore,"

After all, I couldn't find the entrance today.

But I plan to go to the woods tomorrow and the day after. So even though I couldn't find it today, I inspire myself that it's still coming.

I'll be taking care of the Milicier Lords again for a while on this trip, but as well as last time, I'm doing really well for the Miliciers.

More importantly, there is a place in the corner of this Lordship Hall where you can see stars with glazed windows and ceilings.

There's a relaxing sofa there, and before you go to bed, you'll feel at ease.

It is located at the edge of the room lined up, so I guess it is ready for visitors.

Slowly sipping tea again today at the place, Master Theodore held a bottle and a glass of wine in his hand and came.

"If you don't mind, would you like to join us? Master Theodore wanted to see the stars, didn't he?

"Did you find out?"

"If you look at wine and glasses, anyone can see the point"

"Well, sweeten to your words"

In my words Master Theodore sits on the couch across the street, pours wine into the glass and brings his nose closer to the glass to enjoy the fragrance, sipping.

Releasing his mouth from the glass and placing it on the table, Lady Theodore laughed and looked at me jiggly in the usual floating manner.

"Fine. I'll answer anything you want."

"Huh? Did I say anything?

"No, I've heard something since we met today, because I've been doing so"

I accidentally put my hands on my lips to Master Theodore's words.

As an aristocratic warrant lady, I'm going to try not to get too much out of my face about what I normally think, but Master Theodore seemed to have spotted me lightly.

But I'm sure the words of Master Theodore, who said he would answer anything, are true.

If so, maybe it's a good chance to hear what I've been wondering lately.

After wandering his gaze about what to ask, he slowly opens his mouth.

"Your Highness introduced me to Theodore for the first time, didn't she?"

"Why?"

"No...... I was wondering if it was something I'd forgotten."

My words must have been surprising to Master Theodore.

The hand holding the wine glass shook slightly.

When Theodore returns the glass straight to the table, he puts his hand on his chin and gives a slight gesture of contemplation.

- Could I have asked the wrong question?

To the awkwardness of silence, he hastily tried to elucidate, "Oh, but it's okay. I'm sorry to hear something strange," said Lady Theodore, looking at this one with her mouth raised.

"Fine."

"Huh?"

I promised you I'd answer anything.

Master Theodore sits back deep on the couch and prefaces, "Right."

"The answer to my earlier question...... the first time Miss Rachel and I met was not after you and Louis got engaged. I'll see you before then."

I was engaged to Your Highness when I was fourteen.

Shortly after that, I thought it was the first time I had been introduced as a close friend of His Highness... no?

So where did we meet?

I guess he had no memory at all and floated a confusing color.

Master Theodore smiles and shakes his neck sideways at my appearance.

"I can't help but think Miss Rachel has forgotten. You were still young."

"... Um, where did I meet you"

"That's my house. Your late aunt and my grandmother were close. When I was a kid, you used to come to the Camus sometimes."

Speaking of which......

I remember visiting some mansion a lot with my grandmother who died when I was eight.

I didn't know that was Camus Marquis Mansion......

Sure, he would have had a long story about his grandmothers and looked bored.

I remember being allowed to walk freely in the garden and often playing in the garden.

That's right.

Speaking of which, something I'd forgotten before, I was playing with someone there.

I'm so angry, I have no idea who I was playing with, what kind of talk I had, etc.

"I seem to remember slightly..."

"You've always been a pretty girl.... Yes, you once said confidently that you would teach me magic."

"No! Do that to Master Theodore!?

There's going to be a fire coming out of my face just thinking about it.

I teach magic to Theodore, a genius magician. What a great thing. If there's a hole, I guess wanting to get in is exactly what it's like right now.

But Master Theodore stared at the night sky with a gentle face as he missed something.

"He told me a lot more, but you want to hear it?

"... No, I'll stop it"

I am curious as to what kind of involvement I have had with Dear Theodore in the past, but my mind is unlikely to endure any more.

Lady Theodore smiled softly and quietly when she looked sideways at me like that in one hand of the wine glass.

"It was a rough time for me back then, but I was poisoned by your words."

"Rebellion period...... or something?

"Yeah, well, at that time of year. I haven't seen him since, and you didn't seem to remember him when he introduced me as Louis' fiancée, so I thought I wouldn't have to tell him..."

Listening to Master Theodore and recalling the past, I do feel that he cared very dearly when His Highness introduced me to Master Theodore.

But I thought that was Master Theodore's personality, perhaps because of past events.

And knowing I don't remember, maybe I dared to distance myself.

Still, the atmosphere of Master Theodore, the fact that there was a time in the past when he was also close from words and deeds, might have been incredible if he hadn't dreamed of what happened in those woods.

Yes, in that forest.

That Master Theodore rushed first.

And what you said then.

"Did I and Lady Theodore make any promises then?

The question that was in my head went straight into my mouth with the potpourri.

"Why?"

Lady Theodore looked at me slightly, looked surprised, and asked.

On that face, he seemed to be smiling but trying to take sincerity out of my words.

"I made some promises to someone... because I had dreams like that..."

Precisely what I actually saw with this eye in the woods earlier, but I can't say there.

So let it be a dream.

"Right. Me and Miss Rachel made one promise at a young age."

"What promise is that?"

Again, in the past I had made some promises with Master Theodore......

That means... that thing... that was really happening?

After my death, the fact that Master Theodore ran away, and then defeated all the thieves.

Probably the fact that it actually happened.

Nevertheless, when I think of how desperate Dear Theodore was at that time, I may have been very close to Dear Theodore at a very young age.

Otherwise, would Lady Theodore, who deals with things calmly while always floating, be disturbed like that?

"It's..."

"Is that...?

Dear Theodore, who mysteriously opens his mouth to the question he asks about the memory he doesn't remember.

I ride myself forward unexpectedly, just waiting for Lady Theodore's words.

"Secret."

"Huh?"

Eat a shoulder watermark like Theodore, who puts his index finger on his lip and laughs niggardly.

But Lady Theodore had no problem with me like that, and when I held the glass placed on the table, I drank the rest of it.

"No matter how much, Miss Rachel, you can't keep your promises to yourself."

"Yep!

"Come on, it's early tomorrow. Go back to your room and get some rest."

"What about Master Theodore?

"I am, see. I'm gonna go to bed after this booze."

As if to get rid of me, who also tried to pack, Lady Theodore put up a wine bottle that had one third left when she forced the conversation to end.

But if you look at this, it would mean that Master Theodore is not willing to talk any more.

Besides, considering we leave again early tomorrow and walk all day, I guess Lord Theodore's advice is right.

I rethink that and honestly get up off the nodding couch saying yes.

Look back again before exiting and speak to Master Theodore.

"Good night, then"

"Oh, good night. Sweet dreams."

Master Theodore never looked back.

But he conveyed to me the good night's words in a gentle and serene voice with his hands raised upwards and a hiccup.