The Next Day

The next morning, Naofumi woke up with a headache.

"Ugr... my head..."

Then his hand touched something slender. Looking aside, he found a naked woman sleeping beside him. He jumped out of the bed and made a scream.

Malty pretended that she had just woken up: "Morning, Naofumi-san."

"What are you doing on my bed?"

"Oh, don't you remember? You were so rough with me last night. I don't expect you to be such a beast on the bed."

"Eh... do you mean what I'm thinking?"

Malty tossed the blanket aside, revealing red spots on the bedsheets: "You are the one who claimed my purity."

Naofumi's brain worked hard, but he didn't find anything to say.

Malty continued: "Don't worry, I won't blame you. But the problem is that my virginity is quite precious.

Actually, I'm Malty S. Melromarc, the first Princess of Melromarc."

Naofumi gathered all his courage and said: "I will bear the responsibility."

"Thank you, but it won't be that simple. I need to go back to convince my father the King to let us get married. In the meantime, I cannot accompany you. Are you fine with training alone by yourself?"

"Don't worry about me. Please take care of yourself."

Malty went back to the palace humming. It's just a night but she already missed her royal room. The inn's bed was so narrow, the bedsheets were like sandpaper, and the entire room had a faint foul smell. She swore that she would never spend another night at that inn ever again.

Once returning to her room, the first thing she did was throw herself on her bed, which had the smell of rose and was equipped with the softest cushion.

Then she found something hard under her pillow.

"What is this?"

It was a crystal shard that gave a purple glow. It looked like nothing she had ever seen before.

She brought the shard and asked the oldest scholar in the royal library. After searching in a lot of old books, he finally found the answer:

"Princess, this is a Wishing Stone. Legends say it can make any wish of the person who holds it come true."

"But I don't feel any magic power come from this."

"Because this is an already-used one. The Wishing Stone originally had a golden color. After fulfilling the wish of its master, it becomes this color and can no longer be used."

Malty walked out of the library, her heart beating hard in her chest.

So that's how I can travel back to the past. This time I won't waste my second chance! I'll pay back all the humiliations I have received!