Chapter: 420

The duke was more surprised than Lyndon.

“I have already obtained permission from His Majesty the Emperor.”

Of course, it was before I got proposed to at the ball.

“I am sorry, Lady Astelle. You cannot leave this mansion without His Majesty’s permission. I am really sorry.”

“What if I want to go out for a while?”

“You can go out as much as you want. But the knights will accompany you.”

“……”

I was about to leave the capital tomorrow, insisting that I have permission.

Considering that they even came at me straight away like this, I don’t think they would let me go so easily.

However, I didn’t know that I would be locked up in the mansion and monitored.

Astelle barely suppressed the rising anger.

“Am I imprisoned?”

I can not leave the mansion and return home, and I must be monitored by knights to go outside.

It was certainly confinement.

“Oh, it can’t be. We will protect Lady Astelle to the end. You can meet your family as much as you want. This is not confinement at all.”

Lyndon hurriedly denied it, but there was a deep sense of guilt in his innocent eyes.

He also seemed to agree with the word ‘imprisoned’ in his heart.

“Then I will place the knights and leave.”

Lyndon quickly saluted the three of them, then turned around and went outside.

Even after the door was closed, there was a heavy silence for a moment.

The emperor sent knights to protect Astelle. This was obviously his intention to make Astelle his empress.

In the past, she had spent close to ten years as the crown prince’s fiancee, but she had never been protected by the Imperial Knights.

The Duke and Fritz, as well as Astelle, were speechless.

Although Kaizen personally proposed at the ballroom, Astelle had no idea that he would want to marry her so strongly, though.

“Accept the proposal.”