Roswaal Mansion, reception room.
After quite a bit of commotion, everyone finally arrived in this somewhat luxurious reception room and cleared up all the misunderstandings.
"I am deeply sorry!"
Frederica bowed deeply toward Fang Li, offering her sincerest apology.
"To have treated you, Lady Emilia's knight, as an enemy was truly a terrible failure on my part as a servant!"
Though Frederica's every movement still carried the decisive, mature air about her, she seemed even more concerned about her earlier discourtesy than everyone had expected.
Fang Li could only smile wryly at that.
"You do not need to take it so seriously. Come to think of it, I was not much better myself."
Perhaps because he had returned to this world after so long, his emotions had been somewhat heightened, and Fang Li had indeed acted a little more rashly than usual.
Though he had never met her before, no attacker would likely disguise herself as a maid and stand guard at the very place she intended to attack. Fang Li had been rather hasty to immediately regard Frederica as an enemy.
(Besides, there really did seem to be someone like her in the original story, didn't there?)
A demi-human who had come to serve Roswaal in this mansion ten years ago, before Ram and Rem.
Come to think of it, there did seem to be such a person in the original story.
But Fang Li was not an Esper with perfect memory like Index. He had experienced many worlds he had once considered fantasies and spent several years struggling through the Main God Space. It was impossible for him to remember everything forever, much less view all things from a god's perspective at all times.
Coupled with the way concern had clouded his judgment, that was how such a