Cat Ears

Marquis Nasturtium came to Sakura.

The House of Marquis Nasturtium was the home of Melissa, the Grand Mage who had been involved in all sorts of things in the royal capital.

That wasn't all—the marquis was the son and Melissa the granddaughter of the old lady from the tool shop who had helped me in Astrantia.

When she was young, apparently, the old lady attended a school in the royal capital, where she fell in love with a noble.

It would have been nice if that had ended happily, but when a child was born, the difference in their status became a major problem, and she was forced to separate from him.

In the end, she was given hush money, and her baby was taken away from her.

It was a cruel story, but it was also the sort of thing that could happen.

"So, when Melissa returned to the royal capital, did she go around asking the people involved at the time?"

"Yes. Almost everyone connected to the House of Nasturtium who was involved in taking my father away from my grandmother has passed away, so they all told me what happened."

"I hear the old lady was famous at school."...