1st person Pov:
What is he doing here? He shouldn't be here. It's my morning session time. He can't be here. Wait a minute. He wasn't home for the last month. Carla slept with me during that time. Since I'm born, Carla sleeps with me every night. Then why wasn't she here last night? Don't tell me. Not only does he have her as her wife now he is also having my sleep time with her. This stealing bastard. No wonder they both seem so vibrant this morning. They had a lovely night. Calm down, calm down, I can't do anything about this anyway. But this bastard sure is lucky. He's having the full course while I'm stuck with breasts only.
Anyway, now is not the time for this. I need to test this skill's effectiveness right now. I'm sure Carla felt something last night. "….. feel anything." Oh no, I was so immersed in cursing him that I didn't hear their conversation.
"But how could this be? I felt it last night. I even double-checked to make sure. Are you sure you checked correctly?" I heard Carla asking joseph about something. They must be talking about my mana signatures. Since the skill is active, I don't think that they can feel anything. That's good.
"Oh, come on. I know I'm a swordsman and my mana sensitivity is not as good as yours. But still, if he had a mana heart or even mana, I would have felt it. There is nothing. See for yourself." Joseph replied to Carla in turn. At that point, Carla turned her head towards me. She smiled and just kept staring at me. I would have thought that she was admiring my cuteness, but I could feel energy fluctuations around me. She must be using mana to sense any mana in me. But after a few moments, a puzzled look appeared on her face and she uttered in a low voice, "But how is this possible? I just felt it yesterday."
"Maybe you were tired," Joseph answered her dilemma and continued, "With all the things going on with your family and the things in your territory, you have been working hard enough so I think your mind was just playing games."
"Maybe you're right. The problems in my territory are keeping me awake most of the time. And my father isn't making it any easier for me." I heard Carla say in return. Affairs of her territory? Her father causing trouble for her? I haven't heard anything about this. Are Carla and her father not on good terms? I will add it to my list of tasks to check it out and help her out as soon as I will be able to.
"I told you that I can deal with all those problems for you. Just say it and the Heriaz family won't be able to do anything to cause trouble for you. I will make sure of that." Joseph looked at Carla and said to her while lovingly holding her hand. Haa… look at this bastard. Not wasting any chance to win some merit from Carla. Just you wait, soon enough I will be old enough to solve her problems.
"Kingdom laws state that you can't do anything rash. If you do, it will give my father a reason to extort our family. He might even go as far as declaring war against us. He is doing all this to rile you up. He knows you will do something stupid, and he will use that as an excuse to exercise kingdom laws and harm our family." Carla said some pretty disturbing things to Joseph's comforting. Are things this bad? Why is my maternal grandfather is going his far? There is surely something that I do not know.
"So what? When have we Revsteins ever been afraid of the kingdom or its laws? We do what we want. I will gladly accept war with them and make sure they kneel on the ground and apologize for the trouble they have caused you." Came Joseph's reply to Carla's worries. He's not just acting tough. I can feel it. There is murderous intent behind his words. He really isn't afraid of going to war. But what puzzles me is why are things like this. If I remember correctly Carla came from another duke's house in this kingdom. Which means her family's status is the same as the Revstein family. But in power terms, the Revstein family is even stronger than the royal family, the rulers of this kingdom. So how are they able to create trouble for a member of the Revstein family and not face any consequences?
I can think of a few factors even without any information about the situation. Carla said something about the Kingdom's laws. But I doubt they are able to stop Joseph or Noah from doing something. That means the amount of trouble is not worth doing something. He must be causing small-scale troubles for the Kingdom to overlook. He must be anticipating Joseph to do something stupid like attacking them so he can exaggerate whatever Joseph does and use it as a pretext for compensation of some kind. War is not an option for him. Going to war would be pure stupidity as Revsteins are capable of burning them to the ground. So, unless he has support from a power that is even stronger than Noah or utilizes a weak link, he will go for the compensation part only. Yeah, that must…. Hmmm…. Wait a minute. A Weak link? What is the weakest link of the Revstein family right now? No, what is the weakness of Carla right now? Isn't that me?
Daughter. Grandson. Part of the family. Compensation? Crap.
[You have figured out the situation accurately with too less information. Wisdom stat is increased by 1]
The effects of my wisdom hitting the 5-mark increase was what kept me calm even after these worrisome revelations of circumstances.
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