Fortunately, Uchiha Hikaru 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.
Thinking of this, she raised her head and looked at Uchiha Hikaru. At that moment, he was looking back at her.
He noticed something else in her eyes, something he could not quite make out or understand.
Then Miss Kobayashi smiled. This time, there was none of her previous shyness in her smile. It was beautiful and gracious, leaving Uchiha Hikaru staring blankly.
Miss Kobayashi continued:
"That's right. If I told you now, you might have forgotten that we met a long time ago."
Hearing Miss Kobayashi's words, Uchiha Hikaru frowned slightly and tried to recall when he might have met her, but he could not remember.
Ever since arriving in this village, he had encountered far too many things. And lately, he had barely rested while keeping watch on the movements of those outsiders.
So his physical condition was not particularly good either. Now that he was desperately trying to recall under what circumstances he had met Miss Kobayashi, the effort was killing far too many brain cells, making his head hurt even more.
Seeing Uchiha Hikaru painfully struggle to remember, Miss Kobayashi knew she was making things difficult for him.
After all, it had happened a long time ago, and back then, she had dressed rather plainly.
Miss Kobayashi smiled and continued:
"Actually, you once saved me on the Back Mountain behind the Textile Association. It was already quite late then.
I had gone up the mountain to transplant a few flowers and stayed too late. A few drunk male workers from the Textile Association started pestering me. You happened to have business at the Textile Association,