The Arrogance and Baseness of the Past

For a moment, Christina was deliriously thrilled--

Damn, is being a major figure's pawn really this exhilarating?

Even Albert Lore, the "Future Star of Stibium," had to bow and salute her!

...Although in reality, he was definitely saluting Alice. But it still felt amazing!

At that moment, however, her body began moving on its own.

"Ah, yes. I remember you..."

"Christina" suddenly realized, nodded, and said bluntly, "You're that girl who was chosen to attend someone's bedchamber but talked so much that, before anything could happen, someone happily bought you outright, aren't you?"

...What? Christina felt as if she'd just heard some huge gossip. Along with Aurora, she quietly pricked up her ears to listen.

"Yes. I presume you must be Miss Aleister's spirit follower," Albert said without the slightest embarrassment. Instead, he puffed out his chest and held his head high with pride. "The person who chatted with me back then was the greatest alchemist in the world, Bashir Valentine!"

"I truly wanted to spend more time with him... It was just that the ritual ended far too soon. If possible, I even wanted to spend a hundred years in that ritual! Discussing alchemy, witnessing the 'Land Partition War,' then the founding of Stibium, and personally seeing that great man off as he passed away... Compared to such a miracle, I wouldn't have minded becoming a girl or even a Blood Slave!"

"...I've heard you talk about that."

Aurora suddenly understood. "But you never told me that you met Valentine I after becoming a girl..."

"That was only natural," Albert said, shaking his head. "If it hadn't been in such a setting, with such an identity, how could someone like me—who hadn't even reached the Fourth Level at the time—have had the chance to meet That Lord...?"

Christina gradually