Fortunately, Uchiha Hiko had not let her efforts go to waste. Now that he had confessed to her, it meant that everything she had done before had not been in vain.
At that thought, she raised her head to look at Uchiha Hiko. At that moment, Uchiha Hiko was looking back at her as well.
He noticed something in her eyes that he could not make out, something he did not understand.
Then Miss Kobayashi smiled. This time, there was no shyness in her smile; it was beautiful and generous, leaving Uchiha Hiko staring blankly.
Then Miss Kobayashi continued.
"That's true. If I told you now, you might have forgotten that we met a long time ago."
Hearing Miss Kobayashi's words, Uchiha Hiko frowned slightly and tried to recall when he might have met her, but he could not.
Ever since coming to this village, he had encountered too many things. And lately, he had barely rested in order to monitor the movements of those outsiders.
So he was not in particularly good condition right now. Especially now, as he tried hard to recall under what circumstances he had met Miss Kobayashi, such careful thought killed far too many brain cells, and his head hurt even more.
Seeing Uchiha Hiko struggling painfully to remember, Miss Kobayashi knew that she was making things difficult for him.
After all, that had been a long time ago, and she had been dressed rather plainly back then.
Miss Kobayashi smiled and continued.
"Actually, you once saved me on the back mountain behind the Weaving Guild. It was getting late at the time.
"I had gone up the mountain to transplant a few flowers, so I stayed late and was harassed by several drunk male workers from the Weaving Guild. You happened to be at