Iver waved a hand lightly in front of Lily, interrupting her gaze.
Only then did Lily suddenly snap out of it. "Hmm...? What happened to me?"
"Nothing."
Mycroft considerately explained from the side, "You were just spacing out for a little while. Miss Lily must be too busy with work normally and not getting enough rest."
The implication was that he had seen nothing.
Iver followed the opening Mycroft had given him. "Indeed. I happen not to be going out the next two days either. Why don't you take two days off and get some rest?"
But Iver had confirmed one fact in his heart—Lily had gained adaptability to the Path of Love.
This book was not even a Grimoire, yet Lily's attention had been completely drawn in by its cover.
That showed that Lily's adaptability to the Path of Love was quite strong.
...Strange. When did this change happen?
When Iver had let her freely choose a Grimoire before, she had chosen the Silken Grimoire. That at least showed that the path she was most compatible with at the time was the Path of Adaptation.
An answer surfaced in Iver's mind.
It should have begun on the day Minister Drost died.
After that day, Lily's temperament had clearly changed.
Most notably, the softness that had once made her prefer suffering in silence rather than argue with anyone had disappeared. As her inferiority complex gradually transformed into confidence, Lily had clearly become calmer and more composed.
Whenever she encountered trouble or a difficult choice before, she would instinctively seek Iver's help. She had been afraid to make decisions, always worried that she might cause some kind of problem, so she would hand the choice over to Iver. But these past few days, she had come to him for advice far