"I've just made fun of myself, laid bare before the very eyes of the one whose attention I sought to elude... This is a spell I've just invented! I shall promptly erase your memory!"
"Wait, my lady!"
FLAP!
"It was my fault, indeed. I found myself caught in a self-inflicted jest—that the chance I had to express my feelings for you first has been taken away...! By none other than the very girl I lo—"
"Lies!!!"
"I am the Apostle of the Goddess, it is physically impossible for me to lie! I had a crush on you first!"
"You are not, I am first!"
"This is a terrible misunderstanding! It's because we're still a bit too young that my father said I can't send a marriage request yet!"
"What?!"
"Therefore, I beg of you, my lady..."
'I love you.'
"...Please don't erase my memory."
***
"Some have entered the sacred bond of matrimony even in their tender years of ten," Ava whispered the night their engagement party concluded.
