I remember a promise we made some time ago.
It was not that old a memory. At most, only a little over a year had passed since then. Even so, that day sometimes felt like something from the distant past.
Probably because so much had happened.
From the moment I received the Love Letter From the Future, I had been forced to face all manner of trials without even a moment to catch my breath. There had hardly been a single occasion when my life had not been in danger.
Then, one day, I met a girl.
She was an intelligent and noble woman. So much so that calling her an Imperial flower who never revealed the slightest weakness would not have been an exaggeration.
At first, various misunderstandings drove a wedge between us. But in the end, we came to understand each other’s circumstances, and as proof of that understanding, we made a promise.
That someday, we would go together to meet her mother.
The deposed Empress who had nearly strangled the girl to death when she was young.
That was also why I had searched through a mountain…