Volume 8 Chapter 47: What Does She Have That They Don’t?
<span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400">Volume 8 Chapter 47: What Does She Have That They Don’t?
<span style="font-weight:400">"With your voice alone, you could influence my father." Another addition was that Julius held Keith in high regard. The king may talk badly about the child, but he never stops talking about him. Everyone in the castle knew Julius was fond of him.
<span style="font-weight:400">"My n is to unify all three major families. If we can do this, then the Philosopher Kingdom can''t do anything to us."
<span style="font-weight:400">"So you''re asking me because I''m the grandson of Grand Duke Bradley?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Yes."
<span style="font-weight:400">"I don''t think you have thought this through. If you ask me, what would happen with the Grand Duke Rustchil? If we do join, you will make them enemies." They weren''t exactly on friendly terms.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, you don''t have to worry about this. I know what I can do with the Rustchil family." Oscar''s lips arched upwards as he sipped on his coffee.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"And? What do I get in return?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Simple, I will help you engage with Carolyn."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"What?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"I will have you engaged with Carolyn. I know the two of you have been childhood sweethearts." Oscar had seen how close the two were. The two definitely had feelings with one another.
<span style="font-weight:400">"..." Keith was silent. Oscar got up from his seat, "It seemed that I had sprung this on you. I apologize. But I do hope you think about my offer."
<span style="font-weight:400">Once he left the cafe,
<span style="font-weight:400">"Master, are you sure you should have revealed all this to him?" The cloaked man quickly appeared behind Oscar.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Of course. If I need Keith''s support, then I should disclose this to him." His leader''s words only caused the cloaked man to groan,
<span style="font-weight:400">"But isn''t he too much of a variable?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"However, he''s a variable I need to be king." Not having Keith and having him were too far from one another. Not having him by his side would only make it difficult. And it was next to impossible to end him as well.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Plus, if we get him, the Rustchil will fall in line." The Rustchil definitely owed a giant favor to the boy. After saving them from Rodrick, they wouldn''t repay the favor. Having him would unify everything.
<span style="font-weight:400">"But I''ve already set the stage up." Oscar grinned. The only thing left was the boy''s choice.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"..." Keith was left in silence. But that was when another cup of coffee was ced before him.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Here''s one on the house. I feel like you need it after all of that."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"You heard it?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmm, I used to be an adventurer." Helen had keen senses.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Can I ask for your take on all of this? How much do you think he''s shady?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, he''s 100% shady." No hesitation. From what was being said, this guy was the type of person people shouldn''t associate with.
<span style="font-weight:400">"And there was someone on watch as well." She didn''t say anything about it since the person didn''t do any harm. Hearing he was a prince, that was probably a guard.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"I do think you should heed his words with the Philosopher Kingdom."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Eh?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"I used to live there for some time. Let me just say, the royal family was quite weird." Helen sighed.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I will keep that in mind; thank you."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Here is all the information that we have on Alger." Angelica and Sakura handed over some papers to Alfia.
<span style="font-weight:400">Angelica questioned, "Umm, Alfia, should Scarlet be listening to this?" They were doing something quite secretive.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, she knows about what I asked of you. Also, I will be asking her take on this."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Hmm?" Sakura and Angelica tilted their heads.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"So Alger was considered the front runner of the ss representative of the 4th years."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmm, he''s one of the candidates. The 4th years had quite a few who could be the student representative."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"And he''s also from the well-known Philosopher Kingdom."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"That''s all we have," Angelica and Sakura sighed. That was all the information they had.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Scarlet, what do you have?" Alfia turned to the demondy. Scarlet grinned, "I have the same information, but I did find some things about him dating some girls."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Huh?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Where did you find all of this?" Sakura frowned. Scarlet waved her hand, "Senior Sakura, this information is only gossip. It doesn''t break guidelines."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"…Fine."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Huh? He dated before." This was unusual; a prince dating someone? Unless the kingdom allowed it, then it would be a problem.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Angelica tilted her head, "Huh? He did?" This was news to her. Sakura was the same as she didn''t know about it either.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Where did you get it?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"From a senior." To get information about a 4th year, you would need the information from upperssmen and the seniors before that.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, it seemed that he had a couple of them. But most of them had been quite secretive." Scarletmented.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“…”
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<span style="font-weight:400">"What''s the matter, Alfia?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Quick question, where''s this student right now?" Alfia raised a paper that showed someone in the second year. It was the same year as Angelica and Sakura. She was also a member of the S-ss as well.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Ah, if I remember correctly, she dropped out of ss. We didn''t know why." That girl had mysteriously vanished.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"…" Alfia continued to think long and hard, "What did she look like?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Hmm, she had a nice personality; she had beautiful silver tinum hair as well."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"…Silver hair?" Something clicked for the elf. She turned to Scarlet, "Scarlet, do you have information about the appearances of the other girls." Those girls were older than them.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Yeah, and they all had silver/grey hair too." Scarlet knew what she wanted to ask.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"…Silver hair." They all had something inmon; the current one also had silver hair.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Does he have a thing for silver hair?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Instead of looking at Alger, you should look at Carolyn. What does she have that the others didn''t?" Sakura muttered. Things were bing strange.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Her power!" Alfia realized it! She turned to Angelica and Sakura, "Can you guys search for anything about Carolyn''s power?!" It was one of the strangest things. Carolyn just suddenly using star magic like so? And Alger, just knowing about it?
<span style="font-weight:400">That was not a coincidence!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Alfia, why are you so agitated?" Alfia''s anxious face was saying a lot. The three never saw her like that."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Rather than Alger, his kingdom itself was something we need to watch out for."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Eh?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"I heard about this from my mother one time. A kingdom had an ancient artifact capable of destroying a nation in one blow."
<span style="font-weight:400">"That kingdom." Everyone''s expression turned grave.
<span style="font-weight:400">"…The Philosopher Kingdom"
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