The next day early in the morning the twins decided to sneak out of their room and explore the palace to look around. They opened their door to check if guards were outside their room door "No one is out here?" Nesuto tells Neshia as she was confused. "Are we not that important to guard?" Neshia asked her twin brother.
Nesuto glanced at his twin sister "I guess not but oh well, who cares." Nesuto told them as they walked out of their room. Neshia smiled either way "At least we can finally be alone and play without anyone watching us." Neshia tells her brother.
The two found their way outside now "Don't you think it was too easy for us to leave our room and the inside of the castle to come outside. I can understand seeing no guards next to our room but to see no guards at all in the palace is weird." Nesuto told Neshia as she finally noticed "Your right." She says to her twin brother.
"Man, why is there a sudden meeting." A man whined as another man scoffed "Why else, it's about those illegitimate children." The other man answered him. "Why didn't the emperor just leave them to die."
Nesuto and Neshia both hid behind a tree as they listened to those three noblemen talk badly about them. "Did you just insult the imperial family?" A cold voice spoke making the noblemen flinched as they turned to see a teenage boy with blonde hair and green eyes. "CROWN PRINCE!!"
They shouted as they went on the ground bowing their heads. "NO!! WE DIDN'T INSULT THE ROYAL FAMILY!!" The man shouted as the crown prince looked emotionless, the other man was trembling. "Crown Prince Ezra, we would never insult his majesty, you or the other two princes." He tells Ezra.
The twins gripped their clothes as they looked down at the ground "So they would still insult us even if were in the imperial family..." Nesuto thought to himself. "We're just a disgrace to them and unwanted children in their eyes." Neshia tells Nesuto through her mind.
Ezra glanced at the tree that the twins were hiding behind; he then looks back to the trembling noblemen. "I see so it's alright to insult our two new members of the royal family." Ezra asked them as they flinched "No we did not mean it like that!"
Ezra looks at the guards behind him "Throw them into the dungeon for insulting Prince Nesuto and Princess Neshia." He ordered them "Yes!" The guards grabbed them. "NO! WE'RE SORRY!!" The three noblemen begged for forgiveness.
What just happened? Did the crown prince just stand up for us and called us by our names...? I don't know what to say but for now I won't speak so he doesn't know we're here. Neshia must be happy to hear our half older brother stand up for us.
Neshia covered her mouth as she felt happy to know that the crown prince Ezra stood up for her and Nesuto. 'I feel like thanking him but we might end up getting into trouble.' Neshia thought to herself.
"Are you two alright?"
Both Nesuto and Neshia jumped as they just noticed Ezra right behind them. "AHHHHH!" They both screamed as they ran back to their room right away. Ezra looked at where they ran to.
Something on the floor caught his eyes "Isn't that..." Ezra mumbles as he picked up the cloth and headed to the twin's room.
Neshia and Nesuto panted heavily as they were both out of breath. "D-Do you think he's mad at us for running away...?" Neshia asked her twin as Nesuto didn't know what to say to her.
"Where did you two go and who did you make mad."
A older woman voice made them jump as they turned to see that it was the head maid of the castle Elizabeth. "W-We wanted to go outside and walk..." Neshia tells Elizabeth as she glared at them.
"How did you leave with all those guards and maids outside of your room." Elizabeth asked them in a demanding tone. Nesuto averted his eyes "Well we didn't see any guards or maids outside our rooms." Nesuto told Elizabeth the truth.
Elizabeth was about to speak until someone else spoke up "Maybe they weren't doing their jobs, Elizabeth." They turned to see that it was once again the crown prince Ezra. "Hello Crown Prince Ezra, what can I help you with." Elizabeth bowed as she asked politely.
'Her tone changed with the Crown Prince.' Nesuto thought to himself but Neshia was able to hear it. 'It's probably because he's a pure blood royal and we're just illegitimate children to them.' Neshia responded to Nesuto.
Elizabeth looked at the twins "Please greet the Crown Prince properly you two." Elizabeth ordered the twins as they flinched. "...Yes..." Neshia quietly says "We're sorry..." Nesuto finished his sister sentence.
The twins bowed "G-Greeting Crown Prince..." Nesuto and Neshia both greeted him at the same time. Elizabeth nodded in approval for the greeting they did in a proper way.
"We will start your lessons immediately children." Elizabeth tells the twins as she turned to them, they nodded at Elizabeth. Ezra glanced at them as he sighed, he couldn't stand seeing this anymore.
Ezra snapped his fingers as the kids were surrounded by a force field. Ezra looked at the head maid "Elizabeth why are they starting their lessons this early?" The Crown Prince asked her with a demanding tone. Elizabeth felt fear as she gave Ezra the twins schedule.
Elizabeth flinched as she saw him crumble the paper of the twins schedule "The emperor gave me his permission to schedule their daily studies..." She told the Crown Prince "Make it less so they can at least sleep in and have more break times to themselves." Ezra ordered them.
Nesuto and Neshia couldn't hear them at all "Do you think their talking about us?" Neshia asked her twin, Nesuto nodded "I think so and I think it's mostly about our schedule too." Nesuto guessed.
That's my guess of why our half brother would put this force field around us to prevent us from listening to their conversation. I wonder if we did something wrong or did Miss Elizabeth do something wrong?
Ezra waited for her reply "I'm sorry but I'm to follow the emperor orders." Elizabeth apologize to him. Ezra sighed as he glanced at the kids "Then please explain Nesuto and Neshia obeying your every order and why they seem scared of you? Do explain." Ezra ordered her.
Elizabeth now looked pale as she didn't know what to say. The other maids and servants also looked pale, they were all nervous from the Crown Prince question.
The Twins looked confused at why everyone looked pale and nervous now. "I wonder if the Crown Prince asked them something that got them to react like that?" Neshia asked through her mind, Nesuto shrugged his shoulders.
"Well are you going to answer me?" Ezra asked Elizabeth with a dark aura surrounding him and a glare. Elizabeth looked down to the ground "I'm sorry but I can't answer you as I'm to only listen to his majesty orders." She tells Ezra.
Ezra sighed at this "Very well." The Crown Prince snapped his fingers to have the force field come down. Ezra went on his knees and gave the cloth to Neshia "You dropped this, Neshia." He tells her.
"T-Thank y-you." Neshia thanked him as she felt warm probably because Ezra was the only one that was nice to them, he looked at the twins with a small smile. "I been wanting to meet you two. Call me Ezra or big brother, it's nice to finally meet you Nesuto and Neshia." Ezra greeted the twins.
The twins didn't realized tears were streaming down their cheeks, it surprised Ezra. He patted their heads "If you two ever need anything than you can call for me." Ezra tells them as he stood up "I must go now, I'll stop by again Nesuto, Neshia."
The twins wiped their tears away as they nodded "T-Thank you big b-brother." Both Neshia and Nesuto stuttered a thank you. Elizabeth was about to scold them until Ezra smiled at them "Your welcome."
With that Ezra left, once out the door he looked serious as he headed to the emperor Ares office. Ezra knocked on the door "Father, it's me Ezra. May I come in." Ezra requested from his father "Come in."
Ezra entered the room, Ares set his pen down as he looked up at his eldest son. "What can I help you with Ezra?" Ares asked him. Ezra gave him a crumbled up paper "Elizabeth have been making the twins study non-stop without any breaks or any playtime for themselves." Ezra told the emperor.
Ares looked at the schedule, he burned the paper up. "I see so I was lied to by her." He mumbled to himself as Ezra couldn't hear him, he looked confused. "I will handle this Ezra." Ares told his eldest son.
Ezra nodded "Nesuto and Neshia seem like very good children, I can tell they been through a lot." He told his father, Ares nodded "Yes I been told they have had a rough time since they were born." Ares tells Ezra.
Hearing that made Ezra feel anger "I won't allow them to feel that suffering ever again." Ares nodded in agreement with Ezra. "You may go now." Ares tells his son.
Ezra nodded and left his father office, Ares called a servant to call for Elizabeth and the twins.
To be continued