After getting back I went up to my room to change my clothes, this day was really exhausting and I let my temper to rule me. If I wanted to avoid those people I need to act kindly, if that woman wanted to be the pathetic one the be so it, but I won't do it. I need to gain some allies so I can live peacefully in here.
Damn, I forgot. I just crossed and quarreled with Noraya, as far as I knew the crown prince already met her and was already in love with her by this time.
In no time there will be someone from the palace will request my audience, and the crown prince will probably scold me for hurting his beloved Noraya.
I'll just sit here and wait for me to be summoned to the crown prince's palace.
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Helion has now arrived at the border where he and his men will help to fight monster, why of all the sudden the monster was attacking right now.
"Your highness," The duke greets as soon as he saw me.
"Duke," I said as I greet him back with respect as he was my master.
"What are you doing here, your highness," The duke asked me a question since he knew that I should be in the capital now as per the emperors order for me to find someone to marry.
"I heard that you were still not here and the knights were struggling on suppressing the monster," I said as I looked around and saw many knights were already wounded.
The Northern border is duke Solaris territory, or should I say his late wife's family territory. The duke's wife also came from a powerful family but it seems like his late wife's family has a curse that every generation they will only had one child and it is always a daughter.
That's why even though the two were married the late duchess never give up her rights as the head of her family and now it will be passed to her very own daughter.
"I'm here now your highness and the matter in my house has already been solved," the duke said as he was looking at him coldly.
Helion looks at the duke as he was weighing his words, he know that the duke was always independent and doesn't need or ask for any help if he can handle the situation.
"No, I insist on helping since I was already here," Helion as he meet the duke eye to eye.
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The duke just nodded, and think it's better for the prince to stay here to aid him, as he saw his knight some of them were already tired and bruised.
He was a little anxious when he was on his way here as he knew that his daughter was still not okay, and he just left her there when they were having some breakfast.
The duke looked back again at the crown prince who was now making his way to the wounded knights with his own men.
He knew that the emperor was eager to find him wife and that is why he was a little bit worried to let the crown prince stays and aid him to fight the monster.
Arthur knew how the emperor cherishes his son as the cursed on their family that some of the child of the royal family died because of low mana, which made the late empress a little bit depressed way back then for losing children at stillbirth.
Arthur just shook his head to concentrate on the current situation.
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Acantha was still waiting for the letter from the crown prince as she was expecting but nothing came that night.
It is now morning and she was taking her bath with some maids bathing her.
"Dellia, have you heard from one of the knights that the crown prince went to the Northern border?" She hear one of the maid who was preparing her towel talk to the other maid who was busy preparing for her clothes outside the bathroom.
"Yes, I heard from Diego that the crown prince himself went there to aid the duke," She heard from the maid who she learned the name as Dellia.
Northern border? isn't it where the late duchess territory is? she knew that the duke's wife also came from a very powerful family who held the north. That's why no one in the kingdom dares to go against the duke as he was holding both houses until Acantha's coming of age.
Acantha will be the one who will owns but she was too busy to chasing the crown prince than owning it, but later on Noraya will claim it as she will claim that her father Count Abellarde was the bastard child of Acantha's grandfather's cousin.
That's when public opinions started to divide, some says it must be on Acantha's as she was the direct descendant , some said it should be for Noraya, which later one was given to Noraya as the prince will bargain to marry Acantha to give up the Northern land to Noraya which is absurd if I were Acantha I won't trade it for anything.
But knowing how Acantha loves the prince and her little stupidity, she gives up on her birthright and convince her father give the land to Noraya no matter how he oppose but the duke doesn't have a say on it as it was her mother's family who own it and base on the law, if one family gives up his or her right the relatives can claim it which makes everything worse.
On that scary barren land lays a magical forest with many fairies who resides, and the mine which was full of mana stones. There is also one of the magical beasts that resides there and no one can awake it even Noraya herself.
Acantha discovers all of this when she was running from the knights as she was sentenced to death as people accuse her and her father for being a traitor who was trying to kill the crown prince's love.
She runs and her father told her to hide in the magical forest of the north which she didn't know that it exist when she gives the land to Noraya. She was shot by the knights arrow which has some poison on it and when she gets to the magical forest she saw that lies on the very corner of the forest which was protect with some strong magic she saw the white beasts lies there, and when she came near on it the beasts opens its eyes, but Acantha already lose her life, and the beast just gone just like a wind. and the magical forest dies. Which made all the animals and plants dies there that Noraya decided to leave it alone as she marries the prince and they live happily ever after.
It only meant one thing, Acantha was the key to awaken the beasts, there's actually some stories that Acantha's mom can use some powers without the the help of the stones
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
She gets back to her senses when she heard some knocks on her door.
"My lady there's some letter for you from the palace," Mildred said as she handed me the letter which contains the crown princes symbol.
Damn, I thought I won't be receiving any letters since I waited yesterday and nothing came.
Lady Acantha,
I heard what you did to my fiancée the last time when you were both at jewelry shop in the town, I heard from some reliable people that you humiliated her in front of many people,
I hope to meet you when I get back from aiding your father to fight the monsters here at the Northern border, and I hope you have a good explanation why my kind fiancée felt depressed which affected her health because of you.
- Helion Alaric Drakos
What kind of letter is this? is this really the prince who sent it ? this letter sounds so childish of him.
And what depressed? I should be the one to be depressed as it was his lover who humiliated me and my father's honor.
"And there is also another letter from Lady Noraya for you," Mildred said as she handed me another letter with the emblem of Abellarde County.
I read the letter and all I could do was to frown as her letter contains on how she forgives me and how she didn't meant the crown prince to know about what happened that day.
This two! why can't they just leave me alone? and why are their letters arrive at the same time? is it just a coincidence?
I am getting headaches because of their letter, one was a demand letter, the other one was a letter of forgiveness which is I should be the one to give her my forgiveness since she was the one who offends me not the other way round.
And why would the prince believe some random people? is that stupid? I thought he was only stupid in novel as he just do what Acantha says.
I throw their letters on the table and went to my bed and buried my face in the pillow. they are really a pain my neck.