Excited about the food that wasing, I paused to recall what Rene had just said, my shoulders tensing up as I shuddered.


    Wait... what did he just say? He thought I had changed, but there are still parts of me that haven''t?


    He just casually dropped a line that coulde straight from a childhood friend romance without a second thought!


    Rene... don’t you have more of a talent for being a host than being a prince?


    If this world were a gender-reversed one, he''d probably be called the nation''s beauty!? Is this what they mean by a man with a maic allure?!


    Ugh. If I were watching this from behind a screen, I could enjoy it with pure thoughts, but being the one on the receiving end of that line gives me chills down my spine!


    ...Forget the food. Maybe I should just run away. My instincts are telling me I’m about to scream at any moment.


    But no. I’ll hold on for just a little longer. If I think about it, that line is actually what I was hoping for.


    I’m just going to think of it as me trying to please my superior. If I imagine a forty-year-old manager saying something like that, I think I can make it through.


    “Ugh.”


    Imagining that made it even worse. My stomach turned, and I felt sick.


    “If you’re going to openly gag like that, I’m hurt too.”


    “...Don’t mind me. I meant to hurt you with it.”@@novelbin@@


    “You’re still just as picky as before.”


    Thinking back to the conversation we had at the Patran Festival and the things he was saying now, it was clear that Lucy had once been quite close to Rene.


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