Even my father, the Emperor, was bewildered. It's like if he dedicates this to someone, that person is probably doomed.
And now it was certainly for the Duke. But my father and mother including me were questioning 'where is he coming from?'
We can expect a commoner to drain himself in the rain because their life is not that easy like ours.
But for someone like himself, it would be a pretty unusual sight to see, cause we could just order or command someone to do our half jobs.
The servants started arranging the table, they did their work quietly, even his brother was standing there without uttering a word. I wanted to end this silence.
I stood up and called his brother out.
"Why don't you come and settle down?" He glanced at me and answered, "It is because my brother is not here yet," The workers were quite satisfied with his answer. It seems that Seth has more loyal servants, whereas, the Imperial servants only like to gossip about us.
Seth entered the hall, followed by the Butler.
He wore casual clothes which unusually looked elegant, and flawlessly suitable with his looks.
"You did a great job," He complimented the servants and smiled, and they happily replied, "Thank you, Young Master!"
Then he ordered a few of the servants to move out. He took his seat, also followed by his brother.
"While the dinner is been made, why don't we chat?" He advised, to which my mother replies, "Yeah sure why not," I think both Seth and my mother are the same, they both are clever.
"Sure, we should, but I have a question what business were you doing right before we came?" My father is shameless. I sighed.
"Oh, about that," His brother spoke before him, but he was cut off by Seth.
"Just taking care of some slave traders," His brother looked at him with 'What? You told me to do so, and now you are changing the plan, huh?' face.
"Oh my, where did you find them?" My mother was also astonished by his straightforwardness.
"Some servants were gossiping about it, so I looked into one, as one should," If he would have said it in another tone, we would have been embarrassingly speechless, cause we are from upper status, and we couldn't do it as he did, but he said it in such a tone that we would not be ashamed.
Is this why people are loyal to him? I can tell that because even in my palace, they speak only good of him, even my manager.
"That's great! I wish you two were friends," My mother tried to change the topic, and was referring to me and him.
He fell silent as one would, and me too, like who could be friends with the other person, while they are constantly compared? And in addition to that, we are of the same age.
Then, my mother spoke again, "By the way, you two will be joining the Academy at the same time, right?" That's right, we both will be joining the Academy at the age of 12.
And it's compulsory for all the noble children, some commoners also enter the Academy with the help of a scholarship.
"Oh, I forgot, I had to join the Academy soon, I will soon be 12, huh? Time sure flies fast," He spoke in so much mature way, we all were in awe. I heard that he took care of everything when he was just 5?
"What do you think about the whole Academy thing?" My mother sure got excited.
"I think it would be pretty nice and if it is possible, I would be able to make new friends," He smiled.