I didn’t know what kind of experienced he’d gone through before. He might have eaten the skin I’d discarded as a gesture of thriftiness, but it made me feel like he was crazy over me.

The entire dining room suddenly became quiet. The Great Ghost King and the Queen didn’t speak again, and only watched their child. Both of them looked thrilled with excitement, like they were watching their child who had just learned how to walk, taking a step at a time towards them. 

After the Ghost Prince finished the skin, he picked up another potato and began to peel away the skin carefully. Then, he put the peeled potato on my plate.

I blinked and looked at him stiffly. “Thank… thank you…”

Maybe he thought the skin he’d peeled himself...