Eager to clear up the misunderstanding, Greg immediately began explaining:
"Ellie, have you misunderstood something? She and I haven't gotten back together!"
Ellie stopped and turned around, her amber eyes fixed on him with scrutiny and suspicion. "Then why were you out shopping with her?"
"The only reason she went shopping with me today was to repay a favor."
Greg explained at top speed:
"If we hadn't happened to run into each other at the Academy gates, neither of us would ever have approached the other to talk. How does that count as getting back together?"
He paused, then pressed his case:
"Besides, with my current status, there's no way I could get engaged to her again, okay? I'm just someone who's been exiled by his family, while she's still the Kingdom's First Princess and the Student Council President of Glory Kael Magic Academy. There's far more standing between us now than there was three years ago."
"The only reason we can stand together now is that we've matured and completely let go of our past relationship. I never thought you'd take that to mean I was some scumbag who'd go crawling back to his ex. Sigh..."
As he finished, he even deliberately sighed and put on a wounded expression.
Ellie's expression gradually changed.
The chill in her eyes began fading little by little, replaced by wavering uncertainty.
She tilted her head slightly, as though considering whether his words were believable, before finally asking, "Then... did I misunderstand you, young master?"
"What else could it be?"
Greg immediately turned the tables, folding his arms and putting on a sulky expression that said it was his turn to be angry:
"Now let me ask you: what exactly did I do wrong?"
Ellie fell silent for a moment, then lowered her head,