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Fortunately, there was silence around the hut.

Lelia gently knocked on the door.

After a while, the door opened a crack as if on alert.

"..."

Yesterday, that woman was a priestess.

Perhaps she had already seen the two of them through the window, as she opened the door without showing any sign of surprise. Seeing her attitude, Lelia hurriedly went inside as if she had been asked to come in.

As soon as she saw inside the hut, she was overcome with a strange sense of déjà vu. Her mother's hut that she found as a child in the Imperial Castle. This place had a very similar atmosphere to it.

"Sit down," the priestess said, pointing to the old wooden chair.

Lelia and Oscar sat side by side, and after a while the priestess appeared with a food cart.

"Thank you for saving me yesterday."

"..."

The priestess bowed her head as she thanked them. It seemed that it was because of yesterday that she opened the door gently.

Lelia hesitated and carefully opened her mouth.

"... I have a few questions for you. Would that be okay?"

"... Ask."

"First of all, my face... Please look straight at me."

"..."

The priestess could not raise her head easily. Not knowing what to do, she hesitated, and became nervous as she looked at Lelia.

Lelia looked closely, staring at the priest by herself.

Maybe she cried a lot yesterday as her eyes were red and bloodshot. Her complexion was pale, and she felt sorry for her. Apart from that, in the light and on closer review they looked more alike. Only the clothes were different; the features were the same as those in the portrait.

If her eyes weren't wrong, the woman was clearly her mother.

The same light, green eyes and red hair as her mother in the portrait strengthened her conviction. Suddenly, Lelia's heart began to beat hard. It was time to ask more questions with confidence.

The priestess carefully opened her mouth and spoke. "I don't dare to look directly at the faces of the royal family. I couldn't help it when I was younger."

"What?"

"As I grew up, I didn't know it was him at first. Thank you for saving my life like this."

At the unexpected words, Lelia was puzzled. When she turned her head and looked at Oscar, he crumpled his eyebrows as if he noticed something.

"What...? I don't know what you're talking about."

"Didn't you save me because you remembered me?"

Lelia opened her mouth, feeling like she was the only fool. She thought the priestess lost her memory, yet Lelia was the one being asked if she remembered. Then the priestess smiled slightly and spoke.

"I saw him once when I was a child at a temple. I once changed the clothes of the wounded Crown Prince."

Oh...

She looked at the priestess without even blinking her eyes.

A fragment of her memory that had been deep within her appeared.

It was when she rescued Kalix from the mountains where her arm was about to be cut off. She passed out as soon as she came down the mountain with Griffith and Kalix. When she woke up again, a female priest had changed her clothes.