[Bonus chapter]

"I will surely go, your majesty. This is something I want to do, since I have a request that I want as a reward." said the man slowly but in a resolute manner when Leo's hands tightened on his nib.

He raised his head with an indifferent look but a cold smile on his face.

"Is that so?" he tilted his head, "then what is it that you want from me?" Let us end the game of cat and rat.

It would be better to know and end the matter once and for all.

"That.. how can I be brazen enough to ask first before I have achieved anything!" he still did not have the confidence and courage to ask Leo.

More than that, he would ask publicly so that Leo would not be able to make any excuses.

Leo understood it well when the smile on his face widened.

"But surprisingly, you are brazen enough to not reply when I have asked you something, marquis. I am impressed." a cold shiver filled the man as goosebumps started to form all over his body.