I was prepared for his retort and immediately answered. "No I don't. He'll try his best to kill me. Of course. That's a given, but I can escape cause I know things he doesn't and if I use my brain a bit more, I can make sure he doesn't live a peaceful life either, but that's not the issue now. The issue is counter me without seriously answering my questions. Then I might seriously consider giving up the throne. Then I can just run away somewhere and live. But what about you? Will you be able to kill your pride and live in some sewer like some rat?"
I could feel it. Prince was really angry with me. I knew he was serious for the throne. Because according to novel, he ended up doing a rebellion to claim a throne all for himself. Experiencing it first hand wasn't on my wishlist so I wanted him to answer me seriously, ButI guess my words pricked his pride and I, in a way was expecting him to react in some way which I couldn't handle but, to my surprise. He was calm....quite calm and to be honest this calmness was much scarier....
I waited for a while but his reply never came.It was as if he's gone so I had my best to get him over the topic and said
"Look prince I have nothing against you and you know this too, if you want to suclaim your throne answer my question because I can pull enough strings to ensure my survival. I know you're a political analysist and I really need your help this time for our future plans, because the previous time you made plans they were impulsive and failed miserably I am not criticizing you rather pointing out what exactly the future holds for us if you decide to follow the same old path so, I suggest working with me 'one who knows the future' because I can offer you an undeniable advantage and help you attain the throne against all odds. I suggest you to think before uttering those words."
This time prince answered me seriously, As if the earlier banter was was just an illusion, "Well, let me think if you want a serious answer. Then I would mark a few points, first, you ensured that our ally is on our side, then you struck a deal with that half-fairy girl so she provides us with enough financial support and then you found a new ally by reaching out to the barbarians thus, ensuring a constant military support."
I was impressed by Prince and complimented him,
"Impressive. So what is this all mean? What does my every move indicate"
"Well, I'm not quite sure. What do you want to hear from me? But from my point of view as I can see that you are, distributing our strengths. Unlike previously, where most of my strength came from Wellesley this time you have diversified it."
"You are such a genius, I didn't know you had it in you but yeah your guess was impressive and as you just said that's what I was doing.There's a saying don't keep all your eggs in one basket they might break, so I was just distributing my eggs so that my enemy doesn't get wink about it and by chance even if one was to break, I would still have the other ones to back me up"
I was complimenting Prince in every way possible to calm him down,
But his reaction with lukewarm, and he calmly said, "Okay, I serve the same thing. So now what's are we going to do"
I was faintly disappointed with his lack of enthusiasm but still continued "Now it's not my turn to plan, it's yours. I did everything I could consolidated our strength, roping in new allies who could support us through thick and thin.
Now it's your time, what will you do to ensure we are surviving in this race for throne?"
Prince paused for a few moments before guessing my thoughts and said,
"You want me to break our opponents wings while we make ours sturdy"
"Yes, to be precise. I want you to help me to do something? Which is devastating as well as acts an diversion. As you know, we're not in palace these days and your brother is not one to let us be. He's going to be something or the other to know where we are or what we are doing. So before he gets a wink about us doing some ugly business I want you to distract his attention. Whatever you say, I'll do but I want you to help me do something that would distract him and he won't have enough time to put his efforts on tracking us."
Prince thought for a few seconds before answering my question, "well if you want to do something big and distracting can then I suggest you target the administration department"
" Administrative department, but what can it even have"
I asked not particularly understanding his idea about using administrative department to our advantage when that was under first Prince's stronghold,
"A lot, Christopher You are new to this world, so let me tell you something interesting. In this world , there are many races including humans but among humans people are divided into two classes; Nobility and commoners and History serves as a proof that when there are two classes , there are bound to be disputes, and often one class ends up getting an upper hand and the other gets dominated. So here nobility has the upper hand and they tend to treat commoners as secondary class citizens. We don't accept anyone beneath us to enter the royal palace. Except those with ability like Wellesley. As you know she is a magician being able to use mana is something marvellous and only few among a thousand could do that So only the magical department and the knight department are eligible to recruit people from the commoner background and people with magical abilities are mostly from the commoner background, Magic users being rare so we tend to recruit everyone who has the ability to use it to keep it running and because of that the people from the magical department are more accepting towards the commonrs but it is not the case with other departments."