Chapter: 181

“What?”

Astelle looked at him with a puzzled look and answered again, “I will attend the ball as Your Majesty ordered.”

“Are you going to the ball?”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Kaizen frowned and looked carefully at Astelle.

It was a gaze full of suspicion.

“Are you really going to the ball?”

He repeated the same question over and over as if he couldn’t believe what he had heard.

At this point, Astelle was also confused.

‘If anyone sees it, it will look like I’m insisting to go when he tells me not to.’

I just said that I would go because he asked me to come.

I don’t know what kind of reaction it was.

“Why are you doing this, Your Majesty? You just told me to attend, didn’t you?”

“Ah……yes, I did.”

Kaizen turned his gaze away, blurring his words.

He seemed to be very confused.

We grew up together since we were about 10 years old, but it’s the first time I’ve seen this man make such a bewildered expression, Astelle thought.

‘Was he so surprised that I was going to the ball?’

It was Kaizen who invited Astelle first.

Astelle silently looked up at Kaizen who was bewildered.

“I’m sorry, Your Majesty. If you invited me just out of courtesy, I won’t attend the ball if that’s what you want.”

“I didn’t mean that.”

At that moment, the confusion disappears from his sculptural face.

Instead, familiar irritation and anger were revealed.

“Do you think I’m going to do such a pretense to you? If you don’t want to come, tell me not to come. Why did you……”