"Look like I don't have to waste my energy on dealing with this female lead and I don't get OOC warning too" she thanked the prince and inwardly giving him thumbs up.
One by one, the officials came started cramping the Prince with their gifts or sometimes pushing their daughters to perform in order to climb the stairs to heaven.
The Prince was getting more and more impatient and then after the dance performance was over, she turned to Rie and nonchalantly said, "Duke Rhys, I must thank for your hard work to make such remarkable preparations."
Rie was not someone who does not know how to love herself so she also stood up from her seat saluting in respect and humble said, "The Prince thinks too highly of this official." However, she did not deny his praises.
Prince seems to have particularly been aware of a narcissist cat-like attitude and did not expose her words but rather continued naively, "I wonder if the Duke forgot about this Prince's gift?"
The people were suddenly astonished. Some felt like the Duke had offended his highness and were both sad and worried. Sad because if Duke will be removed they will directly be exposed to their higher-ups and happy because they might carter favours from the royal house.
Meanwhile, Luis, who was next to him controlled his mouth and from teaching. He was wondering that why the used to be cold Prince is acting like a spoiled wife. Sigh, it is hard to understand the Royals.
Rie, indifferent to any of the theories that were popping out from the system who quite thought the same as Luis, annoyed her to death.
She rose from her seat and stood in the middle.
Under the nightly lighten banquet hall, which was decorated with shimmers and glimmers like stars, she stood like a Moon in his eyes.
He watched her with a heated gaze as she knelt on one knee greeting the King and the Prince saying, "Your Majesty, The King, This Duke has not many accomplishments or power or any such requirements so pardon me for my humble gift." Saying this she gazed at the servant to bring a long wooden box.
"Here, please accept this humble one," She said offering the box with a worshipping and devoted gaze.
The prince, without hesitation, opened the box, looked at, and paused turning to look at her with a confused gaze. He felt a bit disappointed but knowing the unusual way of thinking of a certain Duke he patiently waited for her to speak.
"What is the meaning of this Duke Rhys?" An angry voice interrupted the moment. Rie looked at the direction came from, only to find a middle-aged man, similar to the King but has very loathsome eyes. Loathsome because they are kind-of-similar to Eryk but they were filled with greed, endless greed that was noticeable or maybe to her it was apparent. It was none other than David Stefan.
"Dad, what happened? is everything fine? Why did you have angry at the Duke?" A childish voice sounded that belonged to the obvious ID; Drake Stefan.
Taking a deep breath as if trying to suppress his rage he pointed at Rie and said loudly, "What do you mean by this disrespectful act of yours, Duke Rhys? What do you mean by giving an empty scabbard to his highness, the Prince?"
At the end of his words, everyone present was practically drilling a hole in her with their eyes. She immediately kneeled on one leg and calmly said, "Don't get me, wrong Prince, before hearing me out."
Stefan wanted to speak but a look from the King stopped him whereas Eryk asked her to speak.
"Gifting a sword would be shaming his Highness skill. His Highness the Prince, himself is an impeccable sword so this one can only give a scabbard to the highness which will hold and protect the sword for the Prince, just like this one, wants to be the scabbard for the Prince." She was still on her on a knee and was starting to tremble but nonetheless in spite looking down she had her back, ramrod straight like a proud bamboo.
Her words silenced the faint murmurs and the Uncle and cousin duo felt their face burn up with embarrassment.
Suddenly the Prince laughed, yes laughed! The stoic, aloof and frozen face cracked. Rie was shortly mesmerized at the dimple his right cheek while his husky short laughter makes both the man and women deadly tipsy.
"Good, very good Duke Rhys, I liked this gift and your unique thoughts, so this prince will definitely accept it." He said happily, but to others, this was commensurate to seeing revenants.
First of all the stone man smiled and secondly, he openly declared that the Duke is one of the Prince's people, not that they didn't know, but to acknowledge it openly... they turned to see their King's face which was surprisingly chill as if either he didn't take it seriously or he already knew it beforehand. Nonetheless, they have subconsciously the Duke became an important position matching the Prince.
Meanwhile, the faces of David Stefan and his son was dark to the extreme.
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Ding~ Goodwill increased to 55... 56... 57.
"Well do I get any rewards?"
[Oh thank god you reminded me. You have successfully enabled Spin-O-Stocks.]
"What is that?"
[It is like a lucky draw where you lose nothing. you have to spin to get a tool useful for the next world or maybe you might get some points.]
"Really! then let's use it." She excitedly replied.
[No you cannot use it now. It only works before starting a mission so right now it's unusable]
"Then why did you say so? Wasting my time tch-" She annoyedly drank her tea but her expression did not falter on the outside a bit.
[Because you asked me] \*_*/
"Not my fault!"
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