"Please, let's welcome His Majesty the Emperor, Nord Mesteltien, Her Majesty the Empress, Lilia Mesteltien and the crown prince Ron Mesteltien."
The emperor and the empress entered the hall at the same time, followed by a group of guards and a blue-haired boy my age, he was the crown prince Ron Mesteltien.
As soon as they entered, the hall fell silent. Every noble in the hall looked towards the emperor and the empress and bowed slightly, showing their respects to the ruler of the nation.
The emperor nodded back with an indifferent expression. Then, he walked towards my father at the main table with dignified steps.
The emperor was a middle-aged rogue looking man in his 30s with blonde hair and blue eyes while Empress Lilia was a beautiful woman with long blue hair till her waist and crystal clear blue eyes, she looked very youthful despite being a mother of two children close to my age. She wore a beautiful silver circlet on her head, symbolizing her status as queen of the Arcadian Empire, and a beautiful blue dress.
There was also a blue-haired and blue eye youth of the same age as me following them he was the crown prince of Arcadian Empire Ron Mesteltien.
Then the Emperor raised a cup of wine towards my father. "My friend Claus, I hope you don't mind our intrusion on your beloved son birthday today"
"Of course not you are welcome your Majesty" My father politely said towards the emperor with a smile.
...hehe beloved son my ass everyone knows he hates me the most.
Emperor then looks toward the crowd and raised a cup calmly." Everyone doesn't need to mind me here, continue today's celebration as usual".
After he spoke those words all the nobels stopped looking toward the emperor and empress and continued the celebration though everyone was curious why the emperor is here, there is no way he has just come here to celebrate my birthday today.
Ron Mesteltien the crown prince moved towards my brother Bryan without bothering me not that I care about him though.
I also moved my gaze away from him and moved towards Lina.
Lena was wearing a beautiful blue one-piece dress which was perfectly matching with her eyes and jet black hair. My big sister has an elegant temperament completely different to the youthful temperament of Freya.
I look towards Lena who was in front of me and smiled slightly. " You are looking very beautiful sister".
Lena stared at me with a lost expression.
I smiled wryly and coughed slightly. Lena quickly reacted and blushed after realizing her blunder.
"You are very handsome as well brother". She said shyly trying to hide her embarrassment.
We chatted for a while about daily stuff and I asked Lena about the imperial institute as she is a 2nd-year student. Soon Freya joined in as well.
I look towards Lena with a troubled expression and asked," Big sis, do you have any idea why the emperor has come today?".
"Nope, but we can be sure it is not going to bring us nothing good".
"I just hope he doesn't create much trouble"
"It's not like we have a choice". Lena said with a low voice which can be only heard by me.
"Haha...Right we don't have a choice"
...Though now things are a little different sister I have recovered my power and can easily destroy the whole empire.
I continued chatting with Lena and Freya in between few nobles come to chat with Lena but they were soon disappointed after only getting few perfunctory responses. Slowly the Banquet was coming towards its end.
Huh...I moved my gaze towards Freya and was surprised to see her frowning expression on her delicate face. "Hey, Freya what happened ".
I was surprised a little because Freya has a very cheerful personality it's rare for her to see her like that.
She look towards me and shook her head slightly." It's nothing, big bro".
There is no way it's nothing. I followed her sight to find Ron looking toward us and smiling slightly, I nodded to him briefly before moving my gaze towards Bryan who was enthusiastically chatting with him.
Ron is looking here it's pretty normal after all there are two beauties around me which makes us very noticeable as well.
It seems like Bryan also noticed me he sneered towards me before whispering something to Ron.
I observed him briefly before looking somewhere else, then I found Empress Lilia who was chatting with my stepmom, to be frank, both are very beautiful and are of the same age still The Empress carries an elegant demeanour around her in comparison while my stepmother carries a mature aura around her instead.
"Everyone listen here! I have an announcement to make today". A majestic voice of the emperor resounded in the hall.
Everyone stopped whatever they were doing and looked towards the emperor. So here starts the show, well Ron is also there along with my father that's a surprise.
I glanced briefly in the hall to only find Bryan who was looking towards me in a mocking smile.
Emperor glanced at everyone before looking towards us and continuing, "I announce that from today onwards the second daughter of Earl Claus Quentin, Freya Quentin will be officially engaged to my eldest son Ron Mesteltien the Crown Prince."
"As for the Ceremonies it will be held at later date."
There was a brief silence in the hall.
*Pah!* *Pah* *Pah*
Slowly the silence was broken by the loud sound of applauding. I frowned slightly and looked towards Freya to only see her pale face at the same time Lena looked towards me anxiously.
hehe, so that's your plan Bryan well it may work against someone else but not me if worse come to worse I can just kill Emperor easily.
...However, later I realized, Freya was just a pawn of a bigger game.
I smiled slightly towards Lena to reassure her before putting my hand around Freya's shoulder.
Freya was surprised by a sudden touch. She looked towards the source of the hand only to find me smiling towards her gently, a little colour returned on her pale face.
"Don't worry Freya everything will be fine".
Lena also looked towards her and spoke gently," Right Freya you don't have to do anything which you don't like."
Lena and I spend another few minutes reassuring Freya.
Finally, the banquet come to an end crowd slowly dispersed followed by Emperor.
Freya got taken away by Father and only I was standing alone with Lena who was looking towards me nervously.
I smiled softly and gave her a brief kiss on the forehead." Don't worry I have a way."
"But...father also literally exiled you it's too much today was supposed to be your birthday how did everything turn out like this". Lena spoke towards me unable to hide slight anger in her tone.
...Right today's day was sure a complete mess.
I walk towards her, put my arms around her waist and gave her a tight hug, she was slightly surprised but did not reject me.
I slowly loosened my arms around her waist before looking deeply into her eyes. " are you worried about me?."
Lena lowered her head and closed her eyes. I could see a trace of hesitation in her face, so I wrapped my arms around her waist and kissed her forehead. "What are you worried about? I am here no matter what happens we can face it together."
Hearing that, Lena looked straight into my eyes. All the doubts faded at that moment, replaced by a steel-like determination.
"You are right, we will face it together." Lena nodded.
...she sure is amusing sometimes.
I curved my lips up and smirked. Then, I kissed her lips.
The next second, Lina kicked me out.