The next morning.
I woke up like usual and looked down on the bandages tightly wrapped around my hands.
Once I had got up and had a bath I started getting dressed in causal clothes and Luna entered my room.
"You're finally back on your feet I see." She casually said.
"Mhm."
She didn't reply to my hum as she walked over to my side.
We both exited the room together and went to get breakfast.
"How's everything going?" I asked as we strolled through the hall similarly decorated to the one I destroyed.
"Good, Lachlan is running everything great, he says that he wants to stabilize the business and hire more workers before expanding. I don't think we need to help him at all in the future. Also, Selena's business is going to shit. Apparently when she started to lose a large amount of market share and everyone including the nobles on Julian's side started switching over to get on queen consort Harper's good side, she lost her shit and had a breakdown. Well, I'm sure that after so many people came forward calling her a whore that she already had a lot on her plate. Anyway, she didn't respond well at all, especially to the fact that everyone lost trust in her when she started selling faulty goods. After she froze up and didn't do anything her business nearly went under, but a few days ago the Duke, her father, removed her from the company and took over himself, they started making a slight comeback, but I have a feeling you don't care because you already got her kicked out of her position and got her father pissed at her."
I nodded along. "Yeah, that's perfect, honestly I never expected it to go so well, I mean I don't think I could have asked for a better result. Also, once again, sorry for forcing you to talk to Claude in my steed, but we needed the information on her business to make sure it went well."
She lightly elbowed me in the side. "Don't worry, we're partners aren't we? I don't expect you to do everything on your own. I'm actually pretty fucking amazing, you can rely on me for anything."
I stared at her for a moment.
"Holy shit, it's huge!" I commented.
She looked at me with hopeful eyes. "Do you finally see how curvy I am? I told you I'm not a child!"
"No, I meant your fucking ego. What the fuck are you thinking about?"
She held her mouth open for a moment before shaking her head.
"Like YOUR one to talk."
"Hmm? What's wrong with me? I'm perfect."
"I swear to god… " She grumbled.
"Well, I'm probably better than a god. What does that shitty goddess do for the church? Even the 'holy power' is just a type of magic anyone can learn. It's just that you can only use either holy magic or other types of magic, you can't do both. So then, how exactly could a perfect being such as I be compared to that shitty goddess?" I placed one hand on my chest and held the other in the air as I proclaimed my own greatness jokingly.
"Oh yeah? Mr. perfect? I can give you 10 reasons you're not perfect off the top of my head." She said as she rolled her eyes.
"Oh really?" I asked, intrigued.
She closed in on me and smiled, grabbing my arms and bringing them in between us. She held up one of my bandaged hands and started counting on my fingers.
"One, two, three, four, five…"
She dropped that hand and grabbed the other, continuing on.
"… Six, seven, eight, ni-"
I ripped my hand away. "Yeah, yeah, I get it."
She giggled. "Hehehe, whatever you say Mr. perfect."
I smiled. I always enjoyed these moments with her. It would be great if we could have a peaceful breakfast together, just joking around.
We rounded the corner and she quickly stepped closer to me, narrowly avoiding someone.
They had very obviously not attempted to move out of the way as they were so surprised they didn't bump into Luna, they face planted.
My little brother Julian was now lying face first on the floor. Ah, why did I have to say anything about enjoying my time with Luna, perhaps that shitty goddess I cussed out earlier was repaying the favour?
"Y-y-you! Who do you think you arrrrrrrr…" He trailed off and froze mid sentence as he turned around to look at us.
I waved my hand in front of his face. "Yo? Julian? You good?"
He was practically drooling. "AH? AH! Y-yeah!"
He hastily stood back up and pat down his clothes. He walked over to the window and used his reflection to slick back his red hair. After like 30 seconds he seemed satisfied and walked back over to us.
Luna leaned in.
"I know you told me he was an idiot, but does he seriously have no situational awareness?" She whispered.
I shook my head.
"None, no one would ever correct a prince who's mother would execute them on royal authority if they pissed her off. But, don't worry, the dumber he is, the better a puppet he will be. Just don't do anything to harm him and let him take over as king in my steed, alright?" I told her, then decided to lead by example.
"How have you been this last week?" I asked, I hadn't seen him since he came to make fun of me for getting injured.
He didn't even acknowledge me.
"What is your name?" He brazenly asked Luna.
She looked shocked.
"Uh, me?" She asked as she pointed at herself.
"Of course you. Who else here would be worthy of my attention?" He flaunted and flicked his head back in a stylish manner.
I caught his eyes creeping down Luna's figure and ogling her body.
"Ummm. My boss? The prince? I think he is much more worthy than a humble peasant such as myself." She pointed to me.
I could see a deep seeded disgust and rage in her eyes as she no doubt noticed his gaze as well.
He begrudgingly turned to my direction for the first time.
"Oh right, what are you even doing out of bed? I heard you got crippled by a intruder? Shouldn't a idiot who only knows how to fight be able to fend off one little intruder." He mocked.
"An." Luna whispered from my side.
I bit my lip to suppress my laugh.
"I was healed due to the love and prayers everyone offered to the goddess for me." I said with a shit eating grin on my face.
"I-is that so?" He hesitantly replied.
Royalty is supposed to worship the goddess, even Julian wouldn't disrespect her. Well, not that I follow this degenerate mindless tradition, I mean she's a shitty goddess. She's supposed to be the goddess of light so she just hates demons for no reason. Just because they aren't human.
Her gospel is basically, 'oh no, they have horns! I know what to do! GENOCIDE'. Like yeahhh, sure, I can't see a SINGLE logical fallacy in that testament. Especially for a goddess of light and BENEVOLENCE!
Well, yeah, she's a stupid goddess. I can't fathom why people worship her, they don't even get anything special for it.