Inside a small hut in the forest, a blonde girl had a frown on her face. Like a nagging woman, she asked the man, “Ah. Hey, you did not eat your food again.”

“…” The man did not bother giving the girl an answer. In fact, he did not even look at her.

“Hey, look here. Are you a being that can live without eating?”

The man continued to ignore the girl, who was Illyna de Pallan.

It was but a coincidence when Illyna had found the fatally wounded man inside the dense and thick forest. She had been very surprised to see another being inside this forest toward the end of her closed-door training. After all, this forest was only open to the members of the Imperial Family.

For someone like her, who had not met anyone in a long time and had only been wielding her sword all alone, she found the man to be a slightly welcome guest.

Closed-door training was usually done in caves, and Illyna did begin her own training in that way. However, after undergoing a series of several processes, she began to use the entire forest as her training grounds. That was how she had found the man who had been on the verge of dying.

After that, she had taken the man to the small hut that she was living in, treated his injuries, and had even provided him with food.

The man hadn’t been able to properly get up at first, but after a few days he had recovered to the point of being able to open his eyes and speak.

“I can’t believe that you’re skipping your meals when you were just in a very...