Chapter 43
The aide who had just finished cleaning up the broken teacup hurriedly rushed in.
Normally, maids would handle things like this, but because of security concerns, no maids had been brought in today.
I spoke politely.
“Thank you for remembering the old promise. But that was really just a childish, thoughtless answer from my younger days.”
The sound of the aide cleaning up the teacup shards rang out unnecessarily loudly.
Kiaros furrowed his brow. Then he asked in a low voice,
“......What?”
Hmm?
I thought he would naturally say something like, ‘I see. Then is there anything else you want?’
But Kiaros really looked like he didn’t understand.
For the first time, there was a crack in that solid, unshakable figure.
“.......”