BODYGUARD || YOONMIN

[9] Silver

"You're..... a lord?" Jimin questioned meekly, dumbing down his intelligence slightly to appear less intimidating, a tactic he found useful when he wanted to gain information from people.

Clearly this was someone to get close to, as he may hold many secrets that Jimin could glean by simply being friendly with the boy.

"Ummm, yeah. I kind of have to be here. It's formal or whatever. My older brother Ten would be here because he's the oldest unwed, but he's an officer in the army, so he's too busy or something," Jaemin offered, his shoulders relaxing, a smile peeking out slightly as he spoke, his voice soothing and deeper than Jimin expected.

"Oh, so you don't want to be here then huh? Were you forced too?" Jimin questioned, sinking into a chair while the younger followed suit, a strange emotion painting across his face as Jimin asked, "Do you not have a good relationship with Prince Jeno?"

He seemed to blush a little, but it could have just been the flickering candle as Jaemin quickly blurted, "No, no, Jeno and I ar- I mean..." the young boy quickly adjusted his panicked tone, resorting to a much more robotic response, "Prince Jeno is a friend to the Na family, and I am here as a great honor."

Jimin fought his instinct to raise his eyebrows at Jaemin's slip of the tongue, referring to the Prince in question by only his first name.

Interesting, Jimin's inner monologue continued, the fact that he would usually refer to him as simply Jeno suggests that the two are close, perhaps even friends and not simply diplomatic allies.

"Oh, of course! The only reason that I am here is because our only Prince was recently engaged....."

"I heard that story!!" Jaemin interrupted, visibly attempting to hide his swooning as he clutched his hands together, "He fell in love with a painter right? That's very romantic that he would give up political gain like that. Must have been some artist, huh?"

Even more interesting, he knows quite a bit about the situation at hand, judging from his knowledge of the engagement. Someone at the palace must speak to him often...

"Yes, the future Prince Jungkook is a wonderful partner. They are due to be married in less than half a year-"

"I know!! My friends from the Kim Kingdom keep me updated-"

Friends from the Kim Kingdom??

Suddenly, Jimin realized why the name "Na" sounded so familiar.

While the Park family owned the territory that enclosed the diamond mines on the Kim side, there was another family on the Anti side, one that was giving up the mines in order for this treaty to go through.