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For as long as Rochester had known Harlan, he had never been able to guess what the man was thinking or planning to do It had always made him feel apprehensive, despite being the sole crown prince of Terra at that time.
Even though he knew that, logically, a lowborn son of the Stonehardt family could never really pose a threat to him, Rochester had always felt like he needed to guard against this man.
That had all changed, however, when Harlan himself volunteered to stay at the ancient academy permanently as a professor. Many of his friends derided the man for being cowardly and abandoning his home country for a life of leisure, but as the heir to the throne, Rochester knew better.
Because he was the only one to whom Harlan confided his real reason for staying at the academy, along with his life goal.
Just like himself, Harlan wanted to see Terrazyme become the undisputed strongest in the continent.
