章 1179: Reunion (3)

I didn't get to finish as both the Merman King and the former crown prince looked at me with narrowed eyes.

It seemed that both of them wanted me to stop, so I could only awkwardly close my mouth and sit down.

It wasn't really my place to say anything since it seemed like it was a family issue, but I was the reason that this happened in the first place.

In my mind, all I could do was blame Aquaron for throwing this task to me.

The awkward silence lingered in the air for a while before the Merman King broke it once more by asking one simple word.

"Why?"

There were so many different emotions behind this word that it was hard to describe it with just one word. It was hard to describe them even with an entire paragraph, that was just how much was behind that one word.

"Did you listen?"

That was the former crown prince's response to this question.