"So the memory weighing on you, Lady Bianka... was about Mr. Siegfried?"
Seeing Bianka beside her looking somewhat troubled, Rita suddenly reached out and took her hand. Then, when Bianka looked at her, Rita suddenly smiled.
"Come to think of it, in my current memories! Lady Bianka seemed to have said she would take me, Rita, to meet... 'my' father—that is, Mr. Siegfried!"
As Bianka looked at her, Rita blinked her beautiful wine-red eyes and smilingly said something rather easy to misunderstand.
This truly was a memory from Spina Astera. Bianka had indeed said that to her.
Even in those memories, Rita had told Lady Bianka that she would always stay by her side...
"We? Cough... That probably referred to my younger sister and me! Not..."
Not taking Rita to meet her parents!
Bianka naturally had the relevant memories as well, but that clearly was not what it meant. Rita had deliberately led her astray.
Still, the real Bianka had indeed said she would take Rita with her to save Siegfried from that place.
After Rita's deliberate remark, Bianka no longer dwelled on what had troubled her moments ago. Whether she accepted it or not, the real Bianka had already accepted Siegfried—her father...
Even though, in other people's eyes, it would have been perfectly natural for Bianka not to accept him.
Seeing that Bianka no longer wore that troubled expression, Rita merely smiled faintly. She had said that on purpose, just to dispel Bianka's conflicted thoughts.
And the results proved that it was effective.
Bianka was no longer agonizing over it...
It was then that Rita turned over and lay flat on her back... Looking at the starry sky beyond the window, she seemed to think of something and spoke to Bianka.
"Lady Bianka, we can keep a kitten now.