Chapter 50 (1/2)

The Reincarnated Princess’s Negotiation

In the end, I canceled o out with my eyes all red and puffy One look and anyone could tell I had been crying Sir Leonhard conjured a wet towel from somewhere, and I placed it over my eyes as I quietly returned to the palace

That very saht

“What a surprise,” said the man reclined on the luxurious sofa The hand that had been turning the pages of the docu His doll-like face was, contrary to his words, as expressionless as ever After scrutinizing me from head to toe, his attention reverted to his docuht you would avoid my presence for a while My expectations are off”

His eyes followed the words on the paper, a dry sound coes with each flip

I’nored it I must not care

As someone who spent her previous life in a country where e the situation is i more than to turn on my heels and say, I’ll co time, of which what little remained was limited I convinced htened my back

“I humbly request a favor, father”

The es

“A request?” he said in a chilly voice

Nothing in his expression was different, except for the instant change in his demeanor It made my hair stand on end, and honestly, I was scared

“You have a ‘request’ for me?”

What does a little girl who has yet to show any results intend to ask for? I sensed a fearsome voice say

I’ him quite on point

I wanted to run away Ito happen It would solve nothing, and I’ain

I forced the cramped muscles in my face to smile

“Yes, father”

I even nodded with a dash of cheek He gave me a pointed stare, and I alht blue eyes After a little staring contest, he looked down and sighed With a careless hand, he tossed aside the documents and they slid on the marble table It took er he was pointing at the opposite end was telling me to sit

The chane-colored sofa was extremely comfortable to sit on I enjoyed hoasn’t too soft, unlike the one I had in my room Immediately, I went to the heart of the question

“Father, the other day you said you would give me a bird”

“Ahh, so I did”

“In exchange for the return of that bird, I would like to ask for a level of freedom in movement”

One of his eyebroent up

“Do youyou haven’t even received yet as a bargaining chip?”

I hesitated

Yeah, the bird hasn’t flown into my hands yet, but I couldn’t write him a rain check, so what choice did I have?

“Do you not have so with it before you even see it?” he asked

I obediently nodded in response

To be honest, receiving a bird was troublesome An actual bird in my room was out of the question since I kept Nero with me A metaphorical bird would even be too much for me to handle with my inexperienced hands

I can’t iine someone like myself in control of the birds that fly around the world acting as father’s eyes

No matter how beautiful the feathers of the bird, no matter how excellent the spy, I didn’t have it in iven to someone who couldn’t appreciate its worth, it would be happier at father’s side

I honestly told him what I felt “I deem the bird is of use to you, father I do not believe I ahtly

Chin rested on his hand, elbow propped on the aruid movements turned into an art forh I did sit up straighter when he gave ed me

“I see,” he said

That’s it? I wondered, duly ask if I had chickened out, so his response was rather anticlimactic

“Are you not disappointed?” I asked him