Volume 9 Chapter 13: Her Focus Is Solely On You Now
<span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400">Volume 9 Chapter 13: Her Focus Is Solely On You Now
<span style="font-weight:400">The following day, Keith woke up from his sleep. When he did so, he saw the snowball on his bed. He was not alone; there was a cute creature on his head as well.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Cuu," Ruby had been sleeping quite soundly on Mir''s body. Did Mir make his body bigger? The snowball was bigger than the times he had made himself out to be. Mir had be a good older brother for the baby. He had been watching over Ruby as much as possible.
<span style="font-weight:400">And it wasn''t him either; Aria and Fira also did the same. A lot of the animals dotted on the baby.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Po," Mir slowly woke up and licked Keith''s face.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I know. It''s the best thing to wake up in your own bed." Nothing could beat something like that. But as he got up,
<span style="font-weight:400">"Cuu." "Sorry for waking you up."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Cuuu!" Ruby quickly jumped on his face. But that was when he grabbed him by the scruff of its small neck. The baby loved to hug his face.
<span style="font-weight:400">He saw May by the door, "Young Master, I''ve prepared you a change of clothes."
<span style="font-weight:400">"May, you really don''t need to do this. You should be resting more." May probably have a lot of work to do. But she shook her head, "I''m your maid before everything else. I don''t want to give that up!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"..." Keithughed, "I''m really home."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Indeed you are," May chuckled. Keith had changed into hisbat gear as he walked to the barracks. That was when he saw Eric doing some push-ups on the ground.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Good morning, Brother."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Morning, you''re up early," The only two people awake right now were the two.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''ve been waking up like this for quite some time now." His body had been set to wake up at this time.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Then let''s go for a jog," "Mmhmm."
<span style="font-weight:400">The two started to jog around the barracks.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"How''s your semester at the academy?" This was the first time they spoke with one another about his academics. Even at Carolyn''s birthday, they were saying happy things.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Pretty good. I''ve met several people there."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Indeed you have. But remember to try your best to stay away from trouble." This wasn''t a warning but more of a concern for his little brother.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I don''t think I can." Trouble? Somehow, trouble always came to him left and right. It wasn''t like he asked it to be there.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Haha. But try to contain it more. Father and Mother were stunned about the duel you had against Todd Mills. The other things piling up didn''t help the situation." Everyone''s soul left their body when they saw the letter.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I acted rashly on that." Keith groaned. Of course, they would hear about it. Every time he had trouble or caused trouble, William and Sophia would hear about it.
<span style="font-weight:400">Eric added, "But you don''t need to worry about anything."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Hmm?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Cause all the trouble you like, the family got your back," Eric grinned.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Uh," "Don''t worry so much. You can raze hell in the academy. Just know that your big brother supports you." Eric rubbed his head as he said this.
<span style="font-weight:400">"..."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"… I''m not a little kid."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Haha, you''re always a little kid in my eyes," Ericughed. But then his expression turned serious, "But on a serious note, there is one thing I have to warn you."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Hmm?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"…Stop picking up girls."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Eh?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"The number of girls you know of made me have a heart attack." Eric couldn''t believe it. The girls Keith knew were alldies with high standings, which made him gag. And he could tell some were quite interested in him.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Also, it doesn''t help that we have a princess and the daughter of a grand duke here as well." When William told them about it, they were left speechless.
<span style="font-weight:400">"It just kinda happened." With him being in S-ss, of course, he would make friends with them.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Are you sure?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">“…”
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<span style="font-weight:400">"What''s with the silence?" Now it was time for Eric to groan, "You''re just like Alvin."
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Huh?"
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Alvin was such an idiot to these things. He definitely got that from father." William and Alvin were quite oblivious to these situations. And it seemed his younger brother caught it as well.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Alvin was really like that?" Actually, Alvin talked about Hazel as if she were a friend. But that couldn''t be said about the girl herself.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, he''s the worst." Eric groaned, "The number of girls he yed by mistake was ungodly. And it didn''t help that he was also teaching, which caused the numbers to skyrocket." Being his brother, he had seen all of it.
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<span style="font-weight:400">"What made it worse was how they were extremely obsessed with him. Some girls tried to enter our roomte at night." Eric''s expression turned dark as if he recalled something horrible.
<span style="font-weight:400">"...Was Hazel one of them?" From the crazed look in her eyes, he felt she was one of those people.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, no. She''s actually one of the good ones." Eric shook, "Although she did follow Alvin around like a puppy." It was sort of a weird sight to see.
<span style="font-weight:400">"That''s good." Hazel got another plus in his mind.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Indeed. She''s one of the few I''m rooting for."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Wait a minute, what about you? You''re handsome as well," Eric got his looks from William. So, shouldn''t he have a couple of suitors or something?
<span style="font-weight:400">"I rejected all of them."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Huh? Did you not like anyone?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"No, I don''t."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Wait a minute...Do you have someone you like?" From the way he was acting, it seemed likely!
<span style="font-weight:400">"....I''m pretty sure she had forgotten about me." Eric sighed.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Come on! You''ve got to try! Mother is pretty worried about you!" Sophia was trying her best to get the two married. It was pretty worrisome that they didn''t have a fiancee yet.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m not interested right now in love. The only thing right now is to focus on my sword." His only lover was the sword.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Then you''re going to face Mother''s wrath."
<span style="font-weight:400">"...What?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"You understand that now that she knows about Hazel, her focus would be solely on you, right?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"...There''s Derek."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Umm, he''s not really in the mix because he''s younger than you." Derek had time.
<span style="font-weight:400">"..."