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Flowers were actually quite an inconvenient gift.
Since I couldn’t put it in my pocket, I carried the single flower around. Charlotte, seeing me like that, told me to just throw it away. I couldn’t tell if it was because it looked awkward, or for some other reason.
So, I really did throw the pansy she gave me away, into the other flowers.
Charlotte seemed a bit taken aback.
“Wow… you really threw it away.”
“… You told me to.”
“Still, you said even trash from me would be a gift.”
“I was just prioritizing the princess’s command to throw it away!”
“… You’re really something. Why are you like this?”
“Are you upset? If you are, I can pick it up and carry it around again.”
“Listen, Reinhart. The moment you threw it away after being told to, it was already over.”
“I guess I made a mistake.”
“At times like this, can you just learn to say nothing? Now I hate myself more for telling you to throw it away and then complaining when you actually do.”
“…”
“You can at least say ‘yes’!”
“Yes, ma’am.”
Charlotte shook her head as if she were tired.
In reality, there was a different reason for why I had thrown the flower away, but I didn’t mention it, just as Charlotte couldn’t tell me why she had given me the pansy.
Thanks to the Cognitive Dissonance spell, no passersby recognized Charlotte.
I had only met Charlotte at the beginning of the year, yet it felt like a distant memory.
The girl who was dying in a prison cell…
I hadn’t known who Charlotte was, and it turned out she was a princess, which was troublesome, but it ultimately allowed me to reach the capital.
‘If I hadn’t met Charlotte, would I have been able to escape the Demon King’s Castle safely?
‘If I hadn’t come to the capital, what would have happened to me?’
Hypotheticals were meaningless, but thinking about what might have happened if things had gone differently left me feeling lost.
I had a vague feeling that I would have either lived as a nobody, or wandered the wilderness until I died.
All of this had begun when I met Charlotte in that prison cell.
Charlotte...
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