“There’s no need for that!! Since it could change the gender through it, maybe the reverse could also be possible.”

“His Highness Princess Claude… Oh, I’m sorry, it’s Princess Claude, isn’t it? You know what? You can’t restore water already spilled, you can’t swallow spit that was already spat out, you can’t unbreak broken glass, and dead people can’t come back to life. There are more things in this world that can change from A to B but can’t change from B back to A.”

“Y-you don’t have to say that! I’ll make sure to get back to my normal self!”

And then Princess Claude walked out of the classroom while shouting such a thing. I wonder if she’ll be able to handle the morning class with such an attitude in front of that scary teacher of swordsmanship…

From the looks of it, she must’ve understood what I’ve told her, so it seems to have worked pretty well.

So, perhaps the shock has made Princess Claude’s mind wander to the next lesson.

However, it is none of my business, and since it has finally become quiet, there is no problem from my point of view, but rather, I have a comfortable space, so I hope she doesn’t come back anytime soon.

After that, in the morning class, Princess Claude was, of course, severely scolded by the swordsmanship teacher.

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“Hehehehe, you did it, leader!”

“Yeah. We won’t be able to stay in the Kingdom or the Empire anyway. Our friends keep getting captured one after another, and it seems even the Kingdom’s top brass got purged. Let’s go to a country that is neither the Kingdom nor the Empire. If we kidnap one last time and sell them to a slave trader before fleeing the country, we would have enough money for our journey in the new land. It’s a gamble, but I’m glad we managed to pull it off.”

Just as I was about to get onto the carriage meant to pick me up from school after spending the day dodging Princess Claude’s annoying advances, my memory suddenly blanked.

And when I came to my senses, I realized that I had just been kidnapped.

I had protested to my parents that they were too overprotective of me since I was no longer a child. If a horse-drawn carriage came to pick me up at school, the chances of getting kidnapped would decrease, which also means a lower chance of meeting you, the Black-Masked One. However, I no longer needed to worry about that anymore.

Considering that you, the Black-Masked One, are connected to me by fate, even without the little trick of having a carriage come to pick me up every day, I could still get kidnapped when the time was right… I understand now, and also I can reconfirm the strength of the power of fate between you and me.