"Well! I didn't know she loved me at the time. I thought that surely no one as amazing as me could. I almost... Ehehee, well, as one clear genius to another, I almost went a little too far and did something disastrous, but fortunately I was strong enough to distill the potion successfully. So it all worked out, haha!"

Plague Knight nods thoughtfully, and then lets out a melancholy sigh. "Of course, then not even a month later, I found myself here. So perhaps it didn't work out so well after all."