A Princess Named Harry

Chapter 36

Kahil had destroyed the room to no return. There was nothing that he hadn't left untouched. He stood over the ruined bed with a look of dissatisfaction. He could hear the servants outside panicking.

"This way, Your Majesty!"

His attending maid led the king to the room along with his butler. As soon as they entered the room, Hubert gasped, "Th-this is . . . "

The king looked around the room. "Kahil, what have you done?" he asked in a shocked and sad voice.

Kahil played innocent and answered, "Whatever do you mean, Father? I haven't done anything."

The king noticed a glass shard by his foot; he knelt down to pick it up. He examined it and realized what it was or what it had been. "Kahil," he called in a concerned tone. "What has led you to do such a thing?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Kahil asked. "It's you, Father! Ever since Mother died, you've acted like a completely different person! You have ignored both me and Kaitlyn! Father, do you even know what has transpired since you decided to stay away from your own children?"

The king gave a tired sigh and said in an indifferent voice, "Even if you are angry with me, doing such a thing just for attention- you have gone too far." he stared down at his son. "Why have you destroyed your mother's room?" He had asked in such a pitiful manner that made it seem like Kahil had only done it to spite his father.

"Why?" Kahil repeated; his voice was shaky. "So that's all you're upset about? Not about what led me to this point or why I have been acting so strangely, but instead, why I chose to mess with Mother's stuff?"

He sighed heavily, "I see; well, if you care so much about the dead, then it was a good thing I destroyed her stuff; now you don't have to worry about keeping it clean because everything it once was is gone now."

He looked up at his father with an unpleasant expression across his face. "It's all gone now."

The king gave his son a sad and concerned look as he said, "Isabelle wasn't just my wife; she was your mother too."

The King's repetitive behavior only fueled Kahil's anger.

"My mother and my father, huh? The two of you never loved your children. You didn't care about them. No, you only loved each other, the husband and the wife. Your love was pure, but to others, it was a wall, especially to your children." Kahil laughed, "But you never realized it did you? It was obvious that you didn't want children; you only did because your job required it. As for Kaitlyn, your second child, she was just a mistake."

The king tried to refute Kahil's words, but he wouldn't let him.

"The king and the queen failed as parents, and as for her being my mother, I said it once, and I'll say it again, there's no way a disgusting witch like her is my mother."

By saying those words, Kahil lit a match in his father's heart. He walked over to him, and without a single word, he struck Kahil across the face. Kahil was surprised; neither he nor Kaitlyn had ever been hit by either of their parents or punished before.

"You can speak badly about me as much as you want, but don't talk about her like that." He had only became angry due to the ill mention of his wife.

Kahil muttered, "So that's how it's going to be." He could feel his cheek burning just as his anger and frustration did.

"Father, have you not been curious? About why I have stopped working so hard, why I'm so adamant about not letting Lady Dane become Kaitlyn's teacher, or even why I am so injured? Do you even care why?"

Kahil had expected a response, but of course, he did not get one.

"Thought so," he laughed.

He didn't want to see or hear his father anymore, so he ran as fast as his small legs could take him.

The room was later cleaned and locked up. The event ended without either side seeing the other or apologizing. The only thing Kahil gained was his own office, which he later made into his room, and the right to deal with noble affairs as well as his own and Kaitlyn's.

By the time Kahil was finally able to properly make the arrangements to banish Margret Dane from the palace, she had already been teaching Kaitlyn for a month. Luckily, she was banished before she had gotten the chance to abuse Kaitlyn. He soon hired a woman who came from a lower noble family but had an excellent reputation.

As many years passed, he fixed more of the issues in the kingdom, but the one thing he didn't fix was his relationship with his father. He didn't want to see him and thought his father felt the same. They were able to go about this way for years, lying to themselves, and pretending that everything was fine.

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Following back to the present day, Kahil was enacting his plan for Harry. He had planned to give her the most difficult training regiment that made even the most skilled knights fall ill or get severely injured.

After watching her practice her sword movements and noticing a few errors she had made, he corrected her and watched again. Although a bit clumsy at first, she quickly got the hang of it. She was truly a prodigy, but prodigy or not, Kahil was certain that she wouldn't last long under his command. He had already decided to make her training a living hell.