⚠i do not own any of the characters mentioned in the story, all credit(+cover art) goes to WMMAP illustrator spoon⚠
⚠this story might contain major spoilers from the official manhwa in the mere future.⚠
•after the princess was unfairly executed by t...
Ijekiel was still a bit nervous about going to the tree, he was constantly worrying what simple mistake he'd probably do that can endanger other people. While keeping his other priorities settled, nothing was scattered and ruined.
Other then that, lucas on the other side was as calm as ever, he didn't even bother about Mr.white and whitey junior complaining to him everyday. Though other then that, he keeps an eye on ijekiel just to make sure he gets enough sleep for the day.
--------------------- Lucas took a walk around the estate, which was unusual since he mainly stayed at the guest room writing, reading, and plays cards all by himself.
"Heh, this place is boring.." He grumbled to himself, "hm?" He turned around and spotted a maid reading a newspaper, while presumably trying to hide it in case she wasn't suppose to read it.
"Hey, you there!" Lucas called walking towards the maid, he startled her then quickly tried to hide the newspaper in her apron, "oh, s-sir Lucas! How can I help you?" She greeted nervously.
Lucas rolled his eyes, "I know you were reading something, whatever your name is. Hand it to me." He commanded, stretching his hand out.
She avoided eye contact with Lucas "Uhm.. I still don't kn-know what you're talking about" She denied once again.
At there Lucas got more irritated with her, "look woman, I'm trying to be as nice as I can.. Please.give.me.the.paper." Lucas now raised his voice. S
he seemed more scared now, but more worried about getting reported, she eventually handed out the newspaper to lucas while avoiding eye contact, then left quickly after.
"Geez finally" Lucas then opened the newspaper and started reading it, shortly while reading the first paragraph he realises that it wasn't a newspaper for the public. .
---------------- Ijekiel noticed that the maids were acting weird all day, he thought it was just because of the gem incident, but that was days ago and the maid already recovered even though she was sent home for a week.
He thought about asking his father, but ijekiel is too iconic for that old man so he decided not too. "Hm, maybe lucas knows something.." He mumbled, then started to walk around the 2nd floor of the mansion.
Although ijekiel was feeling too heavy, he wanted to take a nap but he still has some work to do, besides all the whispering around the estate honestly irritates him. He stopped and rubbed his eyes because it was getting blurry, "ha.. I should really sort my duties for now" He mumbled again feeling exhausted.
"Whoa you look more uglier now, whitey!" Someone poked his forehead, ijekiel shot wide awake and backed behind, startled. Turns out it was just lucas trying to annoy him again.
Ijekiel was relieved, he stroked his hair back and looked at lucas annoyingly, "stop doing that, will you?"
The black haired crossed his hands and looked at him, confused "idk why I would but ok, anyways" Lucas shrugged, "is this place running out of money or something?" Lucas asked looking around.
Ijekiel grew concerned and confused at the same time, ".. No? Why?" Ijekiel asked tilting his head.
Lucas reached under his robe and pulled out a newspaper, he handed it out to ijekiel for him to read it himself.
--------------------- "So that's why i didn't see any maids.. Huh?" Ijekiel paced around the library clutching the newspaper, other then that Lucas was like always, sitting on the chair reading books while secretly judging how misleading the books are.
"Who cares? You're gonna get the throne anyways." Lucas set down the book, "if you mean by marrying 'her' then I'll skip.." Ijekiel responded.
Both Lucas and ijekiel was confused why absolutely no one in the estate inform them about the alpheus residence losing their most biggest underground mine. While Lucas is still a reasonable explanation of why no one told him, ijekiel on the other hand should've known from the start.
"I bet it was all your dad's doing" Lucas broke the silence, ijekiel nodded, "yeah... I should confront him. "
Lucas smirked, "go on, whitey. I'll be here because why not"
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