"But, Leoz is not part of it, right?" the Crown Prince said: "I admit what you say doesn't sound like a lie, but you still won't concede Leoz... perhaps concession is not the right word, you don't even want to sell information about Leoz."
"You could understand it that way."
Dialan said:
"We are classmates, friends, we could even have a closer relationship, but not in the way you think as secret lovers—simply put, I am indebted to him, and I wish to repay him, nothing more."
"The way you're drawing lines, someone who didn't know might think you're a corrupt official."
Mistofen teased:
"Prime Minister Dialan, there's no need to be so tense, though the Empire is keen on conquest, it wouldn't trouble a woman."
Dialan said:
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, in the Frost Plated, your words could be charged with gender discrimination."
"Why do you assume my gender?"
The Crown Prince smiled slightly:
