Chapter 72

"Lily."

The Grand Duke, who had been lost in thought for a while, called me.

I quickly approached as if I had been waiting.

Soon he met my eyes and continued.

"It's about that article from a few days ago."

So it really was because of that!

Even though he had told me it was nothing, it seemed that wasn't actually the case.

No, it might truly be nothing to him, but the position of his father, the Emperor, would have been different.

'What do I do, he must have been scolded a lot!'

Half worried and half anxious, I gulped.

Could it be that the Grand Duke is using that article as an excuse to—!

"I was thinking—what if we actually made it 'true'?"

"……Pardon?"

I asked back reflexively.

I was quite flustered by a development completely different from my expectations.

But the Grand Duke paid no mind and…