Erland chuckled
???: "Quite the little heartbreaker, hm?-"
"S-Shut up!! I-It's not that s-simple-"
"Well...my stepmother won't pay for a dress-a-and I-I don't have the money to get one-m-most of my earnings from work go directly into her account....a-and even if I did have the money-I-I have other, better things to use it on-a-and it'd have to hide all my metal parts and-and what if the partygoers realized I was a cyborg? I-If they realized their prince had brought a cyborg to the ball-i-it'd cause a national uproar...a-and I don't want to do that to Kai....not with everything else that's going on....."
She nodded
"Of course I do....especially with Queen Levana coming-"
The doctor's whole body tensed up at hearing that
???: "When."
"...T-Tomorrow-"
???: "You need to leave. Quickly. You can't be here when she arrives-"
"What-what does this have to do with me!?"
He started shooing her out the door
???: "We have your blood samples, we can do without you for now. Just stay away from the palace until she's gone, understand?"
"N-No, I don't!!"