THE KIDNAPPING INCIDENT

[A few minutes before Kiho Nam barged into Nikolai Moon's office…]

KIHO, who was busy signing documents that he needed to send to the Moonchester Kingdom, was a bit surprised when the tip of his pen broke.

It felt ominous for some reason.

"What's wrong, Your Highness?" Asher Forrester, his secretary, asked lazily while plopped down on the sofa in the lounge area of his office. "What did the poor pen do? That's pretty expensive, isn't it?"

Asher Forrester was weak for a knight.

But Kiho didn't really need a protector, so he just asked Asher Forrester to be his secretary since he needed one.

[And there's another reason why His Majesty assigned Asher to me.]

"I don't care that it's expensive," Kiho said, looking at the fountain pen with sad eyes. "But this is a gift from Tilly. I shouldn't have used it…"