^In the royal palace^
When Liebert the second saw that his loyal servant came back and he had a wound on his head. He got angry and asked immediately from his servant, who dared to attack against someone who works from him.
"Tavon, what happened to you? Who dared to wound you?"
"My highness calm down. It's just a small wound, and I already did care of the culprit and threw him to the jail for five days and that he has pay five silver coins, as a fine."
Tavon said and looked towards Liebert, who calmed down.
"I'm sorry, Tavon, for that I lost my calm now. But I just guess that the townspeople didn't take the news about their new crown princesses that nicely."
Liebert said, and he seemed to age at least ten years when he said that.
Tevon pitied the current king because his rascal son did make a very hard decision for his father, but he answered honestly to Liebert.
"No, my king, there were many rude words about the engagement, and the people got angry, as they lost many relatives and important persons to them in that war. Even when we are allies, they still cannot forget it, and when they heard that, the girl is from the kingdom that caused so much suffering and grieving to them. They didn't take the news happily at all. Then they heard she isn't even noble and is just a daughter of merchant city's city lord. So they started to question even more."
"Why Kevon had to choose her. Even when I said he is free to choose his marriage partner, that is still so sudden, and he is only ten years old still. And I just received news that the royal family of Estrad just adopted Kira and made her an honorary princess.
So now they have a casus belli against us. As if we harm or someone harms Kira, it is the same that you would attack against their royal family directly, and they could demand compensation or start a war against us. And they were so happy to accept the marriage as the Estrad would have been ready to sacrifice their princess or Prince just to get married to our royal family and deepen our alliance.
Now they had just to sacrifice a merchant's daughter to do it, and they just got the empress position that easily. So I guess they are celebrating now as they got the better side of this deal now and can suggest even more agreements between us." Liebert said and aged even more when he said all of that.
"Yes, we are now trapped between our citizen's happiness or another war that could cost many lives again," Tevon added as he knew that Liebert wouldn't punish him and appreciated when he talked straightly.
"I don't know how the girl got that boy to her palms as I just suddenly heard that he accepted the engagement that he made with Estrad's royal family without me. How he dared to do that. And that lucky brat is still on the school what is on a neutral zone, and we cannot just march there and bring him back. But I guess that deal opened more trade routes to us, and Estrad is a powerful ally." Liebert said and already started to think he could start to support his second son and make him a crown Prince.
As he knew that the citizen of his realm wouldn't accept a girl from Estrad as their new Queen, and it could lead to a civil war easily.
But his second son was too young, and Kevon had many backers behind him, especially those who wanted to deepen their relationship with Estrad, and now he even had Estrad's royal family backing him up to a next king of the country.
Didn't that boy know that Estrad was just using him as a puppet now, and when he would ascend to the throne, he just would be a puppet leader mostly? This was the questions Liebert asked from himself now, and Tevon took his leave and left Liebert alone to think.
^In the gates of the market^
"That announcement pissed the townsfolk. But let's not dwell to that thing now and least head to the park near and eat our lunch and then let's start slowly get back home." Levin said and suggested, and Jaana answered immediately to it.
"That is a lovely idea. I like that park, and the flowers are blooming now in there. So it is a perfect place for a family picnic now." Jaana kissed her husband's left cheek, as she didn't even think about going to the park and didn't expect Levin to suggest it at all.
So she was really happy now, as it would be more family time together outside and they could look at all the pretty flowers that were blooming.
"My dear. Now you are going to say something really beautiful, that is your mother's favorite place in the city. I guess you have never seen anything like this? So it will be a surprise to you, my dear." Jaana said to Elvire, who saw how happy her mother was now. And she started to wait for the surprise.