At once, she felt her head being squeezed between something soft.
It was as warm as returning to her mother's embrace...
No!
Gudako immediately sprang up and turned around—Queen Sheba was lying on her bed?
"Cough, cough, Master, sorry. I didn't even notice you coming in," Sheba said somewhat sheepishly, sitting duck-legged on Gudako's bed.
"Why did you suddenly get onto my bed?" Gudako looked at Sheba in confusion.
If she remembered correctly, Sheba had had a partner before. But who had that partner been again? In any case, she wouldn't be like Black Saber and sneak into her room at night.
"I just... um, smelled a familiar presence in Master's room," Sheba said sadly. "Perhaps that connection was also why I came to Chaldea."
A man sat by the bed, seemingly eating strawberry cake, but what had he looked like?
She didn't know.
She couldn't remember.
All she remembered was that he had truly existed, and so had those feelings of being moved.
She had remembered so much before, yet now she had already forgotten quite a lot.
"Master, could you tell me about him? Just a little would be enough."
Queen Sheba suddenly spoke, a hint of anticipation in her eyes.
"Before I came here, he liked to slack off around here and eat fatty, high-calorie food every day. Yet he never gained weight. But ever since I arrived, he has hardly rested at all."
She had forgotten most of what she remembered, but even so, Gudako could still say quite a bit.
Queen Sheba listened quietly, neither moving nor interrupting Gudako.
As long as it was about that person, it seemed she would never tire of listening, no matter how long it took.
Two hours passed in the blink of an eye.
The scheduled departure time had