Nox quickly calmed down. I glanced at him briefly and pulled on the vine tied around my waist. The vine stretched tautly over the pit. It seemed sturdy enough to carry several people without issue.

“Miss Cherry! You’ve come to save us!”

A man who appeared to be a resident of Brunel Village recognized me and approached with a joyful greeting. As I returned his greeting, I noticed someone behind him who stood out, clearly out of place among the crowd.

A man in a kingdom soldier’s uniform, with silver hair and sunburnt skin.@@novelbin@@

‘Ah, that idiot.’

The one who had been dragged helplessly into the pit by a monster, impersonating a Graydon royal guard.

The man’s eyes locked with mine, narrowing as if he couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

“So it really is... Cherry Sinclair.”

He muttered, apparently recognizing my face.

‘Well, anyone even slightly involved in high society would know my face.’

Even those outside high society—anyone in the capital who read newspapers—would have seen my face at least once.

“Looks like you’re hurt. What’s wrong with your leg?”

“A tree branch got stuck in it when I was dragged here by the monster. The doctor gave me some first aid.”

It wasn’t the man, Kellyan, who answered my question, but someone else. Only then did I notice the bloodied branch lying on the ground.

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