"It wasn't that easy. But thankfully, I had a shield: Sato Ijin, the Head of the Textile Guild's son. He wasn't married yet.
"So I lied to my family and told them he was the one I liked. Gradually, they believed me and gave me the chance to get close to him so I could pursue him."
Hearing her words, Uchiha Hikaru had thought Miss Kobayashi's family was rather reasonable. They had not made things difficult for her and had even given her the chance to pursue the one she loved. He smiled and said to her,
"Since your family agreed to let you pursue Sato Ijin from the Textile Association, why didn't you just tell them that the person you liked was me?
"After all, my status is far higher than that son of the Textile Association. I doubt your family would have anything to say against it."
Hearing Uchiha Hikaru say such things so casually, Miss Kobayashi knew that he still had not seen the true gap between them.
What could she do? She had always been an ugly duckling. Uchiha Hikaru, who had always stood high above everyone else, surely could not understand a girl like her, one who had grown up in the mud.
So she smiled, raised her head, and said to Uchiha Hikaru with a smile,
"Hikaru, sometimes you truly don't realize how charming you are. Though my appearance isn't considered bad in this village,
"what truly stands between us isn't our looks, but our status. I'm just an ordinary textile worker, while you are the dream of every girl in the village."
"In fact, the day after you saved me, I told one of my friends who also worked at the Textile Association about it. I told her how much I liked you