Chapter: 39
“This is a gift from His Majesty the Emperor to Lady Astelle.”
Of course, there will be no one except the emperor to send something like this to Astelle.
It wasn’t surprising at all.
“I don’t need it. Take it back.”
“……?”
Astelle repeated her refusal once again to the embarrassing servant.
“Thank you, but please tell His Majesty that I can’t get anything like this.”
“His…… His Majesty invited Lady Astelle to dinner, and it is His Majesty’s command for you to change into one of these clothes and attend the dinner.”
‘This is the invitation I hate to go to.’
Astelle politely bent her knees and bowed her head.
“It’s an honor, but I can’t leave my seat because I need to take care of the child.”
Then she stood up again, looking straight at the servant, and ended her words.
“Please tell His Majesty like this.”
The servant stood blankly.
Surely he never thought he would be rejected in this way.
He stuttered and asked, “Oh, to say that you take care of a child……”
“I have to watch the child’s diet because he is still young.”
“If you just leave him to the maids……”
“It hasn’t been a day since I’ve been here, and I just asked for the maids to change, and the new maids haven’t come yet. I don’t have time to explain the child’s diet or habits to someone I do not know.”
Hearing the reasons that Astelle listed, again and again, the servant lost his words.
In front of the adolescent servant who couldn’t speak properly because he was so bewildered, Astelle refused firmly.
“Thank you for inviting me, but I can’t dare to attend His Majesty’s dinner table because the child is still young and hasn’t learned enough manners.”
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“There is a report.”
Kaizen who was looking at the documents, raised his head as soon as he heard Vellian’s voice.