Chapter 239: Can I...?

"I don't want to talk to you,'' Esme distanced herself from the man as they walked out of the castle. 

''But I very much want to,'' Aleister casually said, following the woman as she led him to the sea. 

''If you want to see the sea, then you can go ahead by yourself. There,'' Esme pointed her finger towards the sea. 

The argument in the courtroom was still unresolved. And something else that demanded her attention was the lost look on her friend's face in the courtroom earlier.

Luciana looked somewhat sad and Esme did not know why but she was going to make sure to know about it before she went to sleep.

Luciana took a reluctant Leo with herself and here she was, following the King's order to show his guest around. 

If Esme believed in silly things like fate, then she might have claimed that Aleister and her were fated given how their paths kept intertwining with each other. 

But she was better than that.