Chapter 30
1st person Pov:
This brat! She is definitely boasting. "Well, my answer is the same as before. You deserve the best. I am happy for you." I told her with the most beautiful smile on my face. Well, it's not like it matters. Her talent is Archmage but I cannot exploit it due to her status. So, no reason in trying to bring her to my side. I'll just be polite to her and get this over with.
"But you don't sound happy at all." But then she said that. What the hell is this brat saying? I don't sound happy. I am sure I sound 'sincere' enough. Is there something else at play here? Seeing my confused expression, she did not dilly dally and said, "You see the thing is, ever since my talent is announced, all kinds of people are trying to make me happy. I didn't know if they are lying to me or not. So, I learned a spell, my very first spell. Do you know what that spell is?"
I don't, but I have a feeling I'm not going to like it. Even though I didn't answer, she didn't keep me in much suspense. "Lying detecting spell." Well shit. This is great! "And I'm really hurt." And she continued, "I mean you have been lying to me from the start. I'm really, really hurt." She said with a hurt expression. Hurt my ass. "Well, I wasn't lying about the beautiful part," I said with a confident voice, no longer sounding like a child trying to make her happy. "I was happy to hear that. but then you kept on lying and lying. It really hurt, but don't worry I'm not mad at you." She said with a sly expression on her face. Wasn't her attribute cold? Why is she being like this? Before I could say anymore, I saw Yven making his way toward Sylvia from the corner of my eye.
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3rd person Pov:
At the occasion of a gathering of nobles, Nobles mingle with each other to make contacts. They associate with higher-status nobles and try to climb up the social ladder. Higher-status nobles also look for suitable Lower status nobles to increase their own standing. In a way, these gatherings are held to make factions. At the head of those factions are the duke's houses. These nobles do many pleasing things for the higher-status nobles. Some present delicacies, some use their area specialties, some use artifacts, some use their positions to make things easier for them and some use their children.
Same-faction children often hang together to show who has the most in their group. Such one group belongs to the Heraiz faction. And the head of that faction for today is Yven Heraiz. Yven had come here with his grandfather to make a good impression on the Revstein family. He didn't know why but his grandfather wanted him to befriend Michael von Revstein. Even though he is only four years old, he understands that things are not good between both families and that his grandfather is planning something behind the scenes. He had tried asking him but got no answer in return and just an order to get along with Michael.
Yven was afraid of Andreas, so he tried doing as he was told. At first glance, Michael didn't seem much special to him, so he tried acting a bit haughty with him. But that didn't work out as Michael walked away after a simple greeting. He was his older cousin, yet he had greeted him in such a simple way while he had greeted the other children of Duke houses respectively and had somewhat long conversations.
But what irked him more than anything was that Sierra offered her hand to him and went to a corner to have a private conversation. He remembered that last time on her birthday when he tried talking to her, she didn't even give him a second glance, and right now she was talking to him for a very long time.
This made him angry, but he could not do anything. If he tried to interrupt them right now, Michael may not like it. He didn't care much about Michael's opinion, but he didn't want to anger his grandfather by not listening to his order. He needed an outlet for his anger. He looks around and saw many children from Sylvester and Messiah's factions.
He wanted to mess with them, but he could not do so right now as both Sierra and Steven were here. He didn't mess with them right now as they were not of the status he could away easily after messing with. So, he ignored them and kept looking around and that is when he spotted a lone silver-haired girl in the corner of the room anxiously looking around. As soon as he set his eyes on her, a sinister smile appeared on his face. 'She is still here huh? Good, last time she got away lightly because Sierra was there but now, she is busy. And besides, I won't bully her, just remind her of her place.'
When he had thought up to this point, he started moving towards her. Sylvia, the girl with silver hair, was anxiously looking out for any trouble when she spotted Yven making his way toward her. Her face stiffened at that, and her hands started to tremble. She wanted to get out of there, but she could not as the higher-status noble would take that as an act of disrespect and punish her.
Then, even her mother won't be able to help her from punishment. She just stood there trembling, waiting for the cruelty to happen to her. When Yven finally reached her the first thing he said was, "It's been a long time, Sylvia. How is your father?" with a sinister grin on his face. As soon as Sylvia heard that, she froze in place.
Yven and all his goons laughed at her expression. Yven seeing that continued, "Oh I forgot, he is useless now. And how is your mother? I heard that she got enlisted in the military now. My uncle is also in the military. I will ask him to take gooood care of her." He said all the things a Child of four should not know to say to an innocent child of three. Sylvia's whole body was trembling visibly now, and she looked like she was on the verge of breaking into tears.
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