Late at night.
Peggy stayed in the room next to the alchemy workshop, opened the locked drawer, and took out her diary.
It recorded all her thought processes, from the first extraordinary gathering, her confusion about the future and life, the fear of becoming a Blood Clan member, conversations with new companions and their impressions, and...
Her feelings for Aske.
From the initial wariness and exploitation to the gradual sense of tacit understanding, then trust and dependence, developing into an occasionally distant closeness, until she could confirm the feelings in her heart.
An entire year had just filled an entire diary.
There were so many things she actually didn't have the courage to say to the Squad Leader, only daring to secretly write them in her diary. Looking back at it on subsequent days, the Blood Clan girl would still feel shy and blush, but even more so, sweet fantasies and thoughts prevailed.
On the last page of the diary, she wrote this: