“They are not going to randomly drop us from the sky again, are they?” Eugene couldn’t stop his mouth from blurting out this thought.

“Unlikely.” Ciel shook her head while straightening up the collar of her uniform. “If you were going alone, maybe, but you are coming with me. They won’t just drop us from the sky.”

“What do you have to do with anything?”

“Do you have any idea how much the knights and the elders in the Black Lion Castle adore me?” Ciel proudly puffed out her chest and bragged. While doing so, she glanced at Mer, who was only sticking out her face from the cloak.

‘A cunning familiar indeed.’ Ciel grumbled in her thought.

It had been a week since she had come back to the main house, and Ciel could feel how much things had changed after she had left the main house for good. Previously, the servants and the knights used to call Ciel ‘my lady,’ and put her on a pedestal, but now, Mer was the one treated that way instead.

‘I know it can’t be helped.’

She thought that it was inevitable, since she had left the main house for good a long time ago. If she were to be honest, she was also aware of how unreasonable it was to wish that everyone treated her the same way as they did when she was young. She was an adult now.

“Do you need to follow him?” Signard asked from behind. Of course, he was asking Mer, who was inside Eugene’s cloak.

Signard remembered Sienna’s childhood, which made him hold Mer very, very dear. She was the same as Sienna when she was a child, just like Signard remembered.

Regardless of how he cherished Mer, Signard wasn’t good at expressing himself. He couldn’t openly dote on her, much less hug her like Ancilla did.

Instead, he sometimes came up to Mer and handed her a couple of flowers when she walked across the forest. They were the flowers that Sienna liked since she was a child. Although the flowers weren’t supposed to bloom in this kind of weather, they beautifully blossomed in the forest protected...