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Yuri Mariya, who had been about to fetch a broom, froze completely when she saw two people slowly making their way up from the stone steps.
More precisely, she had frozen only after seeing one of them.
The newcomers were Ena and Toma Amakasu.
The man and woman leisurely climbed the long stone staircase, which would have left an ordinary person exhausted by the time they reached the top, without even breathing heavily, and arrived before the shrine.
The moment he saw Yuri Mariya standing there in a daze, Toma Amakasu greeted her in a frivolous manner.
"Hello, Miss Yuri."
"Yo, Yuri." Ena greeted her in a familiar tone.
"It's been a while. Seeing that you're doing well really puts me at ease."
"E-Ena?" Yuri Mariya finally came to her senses and cried out in surprise.
"Y-You're here?"
Clearly, Yuri Mariya and the girl called Ena knew one another, and were even quite close.
"What? Yuri, hadn't you heard?" Ena asked with a somewhat surprised expression.
"I heard the King was here with Yuri, so Ena thought Yuri would definitely know that the King was looking for attendants."
"Attendants?" Yuri Mariya paused, then immediately understood.
"In other words, Ena was sent by the Committee to serve as Mr. Noah's attendant?"
"Oh?" Toma Amakasu raised a brow, and a mischievous smile suddenly appeared on his face.
"Mr. Noah?"
"Yuri actually calls the King by his name?" Ena was similarly surprised, but then she seemed to understand.
"Right, Mr. Amakasu mentioned it on the way here too. Yuri was