Chapter 21: That Man from the Ballroom

A moment of silence followed. Lise slowly removed her hands from her face. She had firmly prepared herself for the terrible sight she might see. But what was going on? The standoff between the Loraine noble and the ruffian was exactly the same as before. Had time stopped? If not for the wind that suddenly swept up, creating a whirlwind that swept up the pile of fallen leaves on the ground, she really would have thought so. Time hadn't stopped, and the standoff wasn't completely identical…