25. Pollen (3)

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According to Lady Marie, was this what a romantic encounter—or a fateful meeting—was supposed to look like?

Using magic like brainwashing to forcibly lure someone into this place,

then using an inevitable encounter disguised as coincidence to break the ice with an ordinary person.

"How did you get in here?"

…Honestly.

Rather than being a perfect coincidence, it felt very much like a series of practical compromises.

Of course, if the person here had really been an ordinary person, this would've been quite the magical situation.

Say I was loitering in front of a flower shop because of its pretty owner, or just happened to be passing by, and somehow my body got drawn here.

Then it turns out Orca was a witch, with some hidden secret behind the flower shop, and a dreamy, extraordinary encounter blooming in the ordinary life of Man Number One…. Blah, blah, blah…...