Before dawn broke, Hina was already at her desk. Her head felt clear from having cried the night before. It was strange to say, but she really did feel that way. Spread across the desk were copies of the forged love letters. The two sheets that Marianne had posted around the academy. It had taken some effort to obtain them, but now they were in her hands. (Alright. As a game player who's completed every route, let me think about this seriously.) She stared intently. The handwriting. The paper quality. The ink color. And——the wax seal. The crest of the De Croire Duchy was pressed into it. On red wax, a five-petaled rose and crossed sword——that crest. Vanessa's family seal. (……Wait.) Hina tilted her head. How many times had she seen Vanessa use a wax seal in the game? She'd seen it in every route. So she knew——the De Croire family's sealing wax tools were kept under strict lock in a desk drawer in the administrative building's study. A drawer Hina hadn't opened even once since he