Cale gently smiled at the prince and started to think.
'Don’t know. I don’t know.'
The Black Dragon kept on dragging on about asking why a dragon would ever use its magic for such a useless man and how he would never do such a thing, but Cale tried his best to not listen.
- Hmm? His pupils are also dyed. This weakling is plotting something. Weak human, be careful.
‘If you stop talking, I think I'll be fine.’
- Hmm? This person is not weak. Weak human, be extra careful. You will die.
‘Shit.’
Cale was frightened of this Black Dragon, that was explaining useless things, for the first time. At the same time, Cale's mind began to think quickly.
The prince's mother was not the queen. She was a concubine, and she originally was a servant, one of the citizens who worked in the royal family. The third prince's mother was the current queen. The crown prince’s mother is said to have had a questionable death when the crown prince was young.
Cale started to naturally think about the true identity of the crown prince’s mother.
The prince was known to be average, but the dragon was saying that he is not weak. In the novel, even Choi Han judged the crown prince to be normal, so what was he hiding? And how did the dragon find out?
'... No. Whether he hides it or not, it is not my business. '
Cale did not listen to the murmuring black dragon. Something must have been really interesting, as the Black Dragon continued to talk about the crown prince.
"... Mister Cale seems to be a bit like me."
The crown prince was saying something, but Cale was too busy thinking about things, so he just casually responded.
“Your majesty, such statement is the biggest honour of my life.”
The crown prince let go of Cale’s hand as if he was nervous. Cale did not notice the nervousness, and stepped back without a word, moving behind Eric. It was easy to use Eric as a shield when things got complicated.
The crown prince observed Cale with curiosity, before turning his gaze over to Eric.
Eric started to speak with the crown prince once again.
Cale watched him and started to think.
‘There is a reason.’
There was a reason the crown prince was wary of the second and third princes. There was also a reason as to why the king’s favour suddenly went to the third prince. He was able to guess it all. Maybe that's why he gives that golden plague to Eve. He's afraid that Eve is a spy from the second or third princes.
‘Is he not his son? Or is there a different secret to his birth?’
Cale’s mind went to a drama that Kim Rok Soo saw while working at a restaurant after graduating high school.
The crown prince, Alberu Crossman, was naturally the main character.
Cale reaffirmed himself once more.
‘Be still.’
He would be still from here on. He decided to not find out about anything else.
Cale thoroughly kept that promise. He did not drink any alcohol today, and that led to the nobles from other regions, who had never met him previously, approaching him to talk. Cale looked to Eric every time, and Eric got to work.
After this happened a couple of times, Cale quietly mumbled to himself.
“Oh. This is pretty nice.”
Gilbert and Amiru flinched after hearing that quiet murmuring and started to talk to each other using their eyes.
‘Isn’t this weird?’
‘Right?’
The two of them slightly moved away from Eric and Cale. However, Cale looked toward young lady Amiru, and Amiru stopped moving backward after making eye contact with Cale.
“By the way, young lady Amiru.”
“Yes?”
“I heard the shoreline of your territory is extremely beautiful. Is it true?”
“Of course. The cliffs overlooking the coast are very beautiful.”
‘Beautiful my ass.’
Cale thought about the cliff and about how it would be extremely difficult to earn the ‘Sound of the Wind.’ In the novel, the ‘Sound of the Wind,’ was an ancient power that a member of the non-mage faction in the Whipper Kingdom ended up finding.
Although it might be strange that a person from the Whipper Kingdom ended up with an ancient power in the Roan Kingdom, there was a long story behind that as well.
Anyways, that power originally went to a mage slayer, an extremely brutal fool who appears near the second half of the civil war. He was already strong enough that he didn’t put it to much use.
‘The magic tower will fall soon.’
After the civil war, a new magic tower would be built on the site of the fallen magic tower, and Rosalyn will end up being in charge of that new magic tower.
‘Choi Han, the mage slayer, and the Empire’s crown prince.’
These three people are the ones who appear as the heroes for all of the incidents in the middle of the Western continent. The novel also discussed how the Queen of the Western continent’s Southern Jungle ended up getting involved with the matter of unifying the South as well.
Putting the secret organization that Choi Han constantly runs into aside, this continent will break its 200-year long peace to start fighting for power.
Cale looked toward Eric, who was dealing with everything for him and looked at the clock. The feast would be over soon. Of course, the nobles were waiting for the conversation time that would happen after the meal.
‘None of my business.’
It was none of Cale’s business.
“Young master Gilbert, I should be able to leave after the meal is over, right?”
Gilbert looked toward Cale, who was leisurely eating fruit like he was out on a picnic, and nodded his head.
“Yes. We plan to meet with the crown prince after the meal, but you probably don’t plan to go with us, right?”
“Right. What good will I do there? The three of you are more informed about the investment information.”
Gilbert’s expression changed at Cale’s words. He seemed to be a bit surprised.
“...You read the document.”
“A bit.”
Cale casually responded, before looking back at the crown prince, who stood up from his seat. He was about to announce the end of the meal. Cale did not find out the real reason behind today’s gathering, but he was not disappointed about it. Not knowing meant there was no chance of him getting caught up in it.
But Cale started to frown after hearing the crown prince’s words.
“It was a pleasure to share this dinner with all of you tonight. I have prepared a simple wine party for those who may be interested, so please enjoy yourselves. Ah, I have also prepared a spot for all of you at the birthday celebration that is coming up.”
The crown prince Alberu said all of this with a rather pleasant expression.
“I hope that you will all be there to share in the joys of the day.”
‘Sigh.’
Cale held back his sigh. Although Alberu was saying he hoped they would all be there, it was pretty much forcing them to be there.
‘...I guess I’ll be in the plaza when the bombs go off.’
Although it was to be expected, Cale did not like it very much.
“Then let us conclude this dinner.”
Cale stood up from his seat. The majority wanted to go to the wine party with the crown prince and the second and third princes, but those who were not approved to meet with the crown prince could not go, even if they wanted to do so.
Cale peeked toward the wheelchair that was moving past him. Taylor passed by him and Cage, who was pushing Taylor’s wheelchair, followed directly afterwards and whispered in a quiet voice that only Cale could hear.
“See you later, our little brother.”
‘I said I didn’t want to be their little brother.’
Cale’s gaze clearly showed his feelings, but Cage just pretended to not understand and headed toward the crown prince, while pretending to be a good and pure priestess.
“Young master Cale, let me walk you out.”
-To be continued...-