Thinking this I said,
"Braska I was taught many things since childhood but one thing stayed with me, 'You can change anything in your life, but you can never change your neighbors' and now you just think if I ever betrayed you. Won't you have your subjects wage war against my Empire? Now don't deny my words I know very well that you will not let my Empire be. You will keep doing something or the other and you should think about this yourself, if that happens how much loss will I suffer? Will I be able to bear all that? And even if was able to bear it, then for how many years will I be able to do so?..."
I don't know whether my long speech or my truth was useful but Braska agreed to take my help,
"I agree, if you manage to cure my clan's vice leader and give me information about that person involved in all this, then I will support you, in addition to his I have a condition
'Condition?' I thought just a condition. What can he ask me? At the most I am asked to sign a contract and what more can he ask? Which I will easily sign and the deal will be over.
Thinking this, I nodded my head and started drinking water slowly.
"I want you to marry our girl to guarantee this deal and this is my only condition in exchange for my unconditional support"
I was so shocked that the water did not go down my throat and I threw it up, It was his luck that it did not fall on his face.
I cleared my throat and said, "you may have said something wrong or I may have heard something wrong hahaha my ears might not be wor...."
He said, interrupting me in between, "Listen up Prince I can't trust your kingdom. For so many years your kingdom has treated our people like beggars. They have not even given us the status of humans. They keep insulting us every now and then and you probably know that the health of the vice leader is a state secret. Some people within clan don't even know this, But you know this and you came from so far to help us.
This may seem strange to anyone. Despite all that is happening, you are still asking us to trust you. I are sorry, this cannot happen. But I am trying to trust you. I don't know how much you know about us, but I can tell you that relationships are very important in our clan because trust is built on relationships in our clan. That is why I am saying this 'marry any girl in our clan'. If you are thinking that our clan people are unable to help you even after recieving so much from you then you are not wrong in thinking like this. But yes, if you marry any of our girls then all my people will think that the prince of such a big Empire is marrying our daughter and she will stay at a high rank in that Empire, Then our people will be ready to do anything for you and your people will also respect our people in future."
All his words were going over my mind I was not able to understand anything nor I was in a condition to think about . That's why I said, "Tomorrow morning we will first fix the vice leader and then we will talk about this."
Braska didn't mind it and got up from his seat and said, "yes, you think about it, we will talk tomorrow morning."
As soon as he left I fell on the bed, In my head, Prince was talking at the top of his voice. He could not contain his anger at all, "How dare he? He is just a leader of a small tribe and he's thinking that he'll be able to have a relationship with me and you were listening to him so quietly. You would have let me out just for a moment and I swear I would have torn him to pieces right then and there. He just wants to deceive us, he has no intention of taking our help.."
Things was talking too much nonsense. But this time I also agreed with him somewhere. I also said in some anger,
'do you think I am enjoying all this. If he had not proposed me this deal, maybe I would have proposed something similar myself, Because helping someone become the head of a county and helping someone become the Emporer of an Empire are very different.The second thing would have cost many lives compared to the first. That's why I thought that I should present a deal to him beforehand, so that he can trust me and stand with me. But when he put this condition before me, I don't know why I but I was furious, I might have burnt this entire clan in my anger. If I don't get a cigarette right now, I might end up doing something regrettable.'
Prince listened to me and said, "why do you need cigarettes, you just have to kill them all and finish them off. Whoever tries to open his mouth in front of you, should not be left alive. You have to kill them. Listen to me, Chris just give hand over this body once, I can put an end to all this."
I was out of my mind because of anger. So I just ignored Prince's words. And started searching everywhere starting from my storage ring to the bagpack I carried, but I couldn't find even a single cigarette. I called Prince and said, "You don't have a single cigarette."
And Prince said, "why would I have a cigarette ? I don't smoke?"
I said again, "if you didn't smoke, you could have told me so, at least I wouldn't have taken so long searching for it."
Prince taunted me saying "So who told you to ignore me, if you had not ignored me then I would have told you."
I was not in the mood to fight with the Prince right now. I needed a cigarette as soon as possible, so I came out of the assigned room and started looking around. I did not see any one at first. But soon I heard someone calling me,
"Adolf, what are you doing here, don't you sleep?"