He had thought that whenever he ran into that girl, he would return the handkerchief to her.
But before he could meet that girl again, he witnessed a group ganging up on someone.
How could Uchiha Hikaru, whose sense of justice was overflowing, simply stand by and watch a large group of drunken men bully a defenseless young woman?
With that thought, Uchiha Hikaru said nothing more and pulled out his kunai, knocking the entire group down one by one.
Afterward, he had even used that handkerchief to bandage the injured girl's wounds. It had been rather dark that day, and he had not been able to see much.
So Uchiha Hikaru had not noticed that the person he saved was actually the exceedingly beautiful Miss Kobayashi standing before him.
Uchiha Hikaru smiled faintly and said to Miss Kobayashi,
"Sorry, Yui. Whenever I went to the Textile Association, I always ran into trouble, and I actually saved quite a lot of female textile workers.
"And it was fairly dark when I saved you, so I'd mostly forgotten about it."
Even though Uchiha Hikaru lightly glossed over the scene of how he had saved her, Miss Kobayashi could never forget it.
That had been the beginning of her love for Uchiha Hikaru. Her eyes glistened with tears as she smiled and said to him,
"That's enough, Hikaru. As long as you can remember me, I'm already more than satisfied. And I know you've always been chivalrous and righteous. You usually wouldn't take such small matters to heart. It was precisely that side of you that made me fall in love with you."
Hearing Miss Kobayashi's words, Uchiha Hikaru was deeply moved. He reached out, and Miss Kobayashi naturally buried her face in his arms before speaking in a muffled voice,
"Actually,