Feeling cheeky might write a light novel where the FL confesses right before the big battle at the end of the first arc, only for it to be revealed in the next arc that the ML didn't hear her confession
I remember this video making the rounds when the queen died, and it always tickled me how freaked out some people were by this even though the lady clearly just said "that death is irreversible, and the fact that's she's traveled--". She, whoever she is, was talking about explaining death to a child.