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Once she was able to calm herself down, Noelle soon realized that things weren't really as bad as she felt like they were when she first woke up.
As long as Emilia herself didn't regret doing it with her, even if she had to face some punishment from her family, Noelle would be more than willing to do so.
Anyway, she was a better partner for Emilia than Sam, who would have doomed her into a relationship that could never be made public, and would also ruin their family.
In hindsight, Noelle couldn't help but wonder if things between the two sisters wouldn't even have developed in the way that they had if she had been more accepting of Emilia's date proposal when she first made it.
But things being as they were, there was no use in regretting and thinking about what-ifs.