Hero's Dead Brother

63. Return

I look around and see a room that reminds me of my life before my mother got rid of me.

A butler looks at me and walks closer as I instinctively flinch. He asks me if I feel alright and calls for a doctor. I get examined and my bandages get changed.

A woman enters my room. I am told that my father tried to kill me and that she will do anything to make him pay for what he did. She then leaves the room in tears because I've been sitting in my bed, not saying anything.

The following days, I am treated like a prince, I am given everything I ask for and all I can think about is how I can meet the person who gave me all this.

That dark person gave me this new life. I keep thinking about him and even try to speak to him in my head. Very soon, I start to see him in my dreams. He appears and gives me orders. How to behave, what to learn. Everything I do in the next years will be dictated by him.

I become the young duke Wilhelm Cathallam. I get closer to Jensen Riger, the son of duke Joy Riger. The man in my dreams told me that duke Joy Riger was one of the closest friends of Leonheart brothers. If I can get closer to his son, I will be able to get closer to my goal.

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The first day I was invited to the Royal Palace, I went with Jensen. The Riger family introduced me to the higher ups.

Those aristocrats made me sick. While they were bathing in money, proudly speaking how fair and beautiful this kingdom is, in the borders of this "perfect kingdom", children were suffering under slavery.

Nothing was fair in this place. Nothing was white and clean. I wanted to punish all this blind people for their foolishness.

"So you are Wilhelm Cathellam. I heard about you from Joy."

A tall woman with silver hair was speaking to me. I knew who she was. The leader of the White Eagles, Caleb Wollmöre.

I finally met you, the first step in my plan.

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