The narrator tells us that he's accepted into the elite school for nobles. He's worried that his parents will be upset if they find out about his family's connection to the Crusades, so he'll do his best to keep up appearances with the other students until graduation. One day, he runs into a girl named Mystia, who he thinks is "in poor health" because she doesn't seem to have the energy to climb a mountain. He asks his parents why she's hanging out with the girl, and they tell him it's because her fiance is already hiking up the mountain with another girl. The narrator asks if the girl's fiance is trying to trick him into telling the truth about his engagement to her, or if he just wants to hide his engagement so that she won't know about it. He also asks why the girl didn't invite him to eat lunch with her, and she says that she'd rather be alone with him than have to talk about his fiancee with him. She also says that the girl may have special things, but that someone "spilled her secret" with her papers. She hopes that you choose the girl carefully, because the world she lives in is different from the world you live in. Finally, she asks her parents if they've learned everyone else's names yet. They say that they haven't, so she pulls out a number and moves to the next seat.