Chapter 187

Foreign element. Cleaning. The kingdom.

Words that meant nothing if taken plainly.

If Bishop had been an ordinary Frozen noble and not a spy, he might have tilted his head in genuine confusion.

But he was a spy — and the words aimed at him made him quickly slip his trembling hands behind his back.

"Ha ha. Gone through a great deal, you say — what do you mean by—"

"He might run. Put the restraint cuffs on him and take him down to the Academy's basement."

"Yes, sir."

"D-Duke? Duke Krost. What is the meaning of this?!"

He had thought — when Din and Olivia and their families were taken while he himself was told to rest in the reception room — that he had been spared, that it was some kind of mistake.

It turned out it had been a strategy to make him drop his guard.

Without…