"What do you mean?"
"...I will tell you about that when the time comes," Adrian muttered. "Let me explain the reason for my actions that day."
"...Um..." Though curious, she chose to believe in her brother and nodded.
"Honestly, I was scared at that time. Because I didn't have any affinity, the plans I prepared crumbled. The plan to free you, remember? But your master's appearance and them taking you as her disciple changed everything but it also gave me an idea. An idea to fully free you from all those chains is known as arranged marriage or family responsibility."
"That's why I expelled you from the family and annulled the engagement between you and the crown prince, Aurelius at that moment. I thought I set you free but I now think it might have been unnecessary to annul the engagement between you and Aurelius... You like him, don't you?"
