Meeting Charlotte outside the meeting hall turned out to be more difficult than expected.

Unlike the Emperor and Alice, whose relationship was strained and one-sided—where Alice clung to the Emperor almost desperately—Charlotte and the King shared a much healthier father-daughter bond. While it wasn’t as warm as an average family’s relationship, familial affection undeniably existed.

And because of that, the King had likely predicted that Charlotte would try to help me.

To prevent this, he must’ve thought the best course of action was to keep us from meeting altogether.

Of course, such “methods” didn’t work on me. Unless my abilities …