Keith woke up the next morning and saw Alia hanging out in his room. Miya was cheerfully making clay dolls with her and Keith silently sat up from the bed.
"Oh you're up." Alia said as she pointed at the door behind her, "Clara went out to buy a few sweets."
"Got it." Keith nodded and stood up before heading to the bathroom.
Just as he was about to open the door, he heard Alia speak.
"Um... can we talk for a bit? After you're done with your bathing and stuff I an."
"It's fine, you can tell now. It's not gonna take hours right?"
"Of course not..." Alia replied and steeled her heart before speaking, "Uhhh I just wanted to ask if you're fine with coming with to my ho. I want to introduce you to my mother."
Keith silently stared at her for a few second and slowly nodded, "Sure. Your step brother should also be there right?"
"Huh? Oh..."
Alia recalled the conversation she had with Adam and as she saw Keith walk into the bathroom, she got a weird feeling. A feeling that gave her goosebumps.
She had never seen Keith look so determined and angry until now and even though she did not really like her step brother much, she felt like sothing really bad might happen.
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A few hours later, in the afternoon.
Keith walked into the palace alone since there was no need for his team to join him for this eting. Mathew simply wanted him to et his sister Leora and had never ntioned wanting the others involved.
One of the servants guided Keith to the sa room where he had first t Mathew but there was a slight change in the room.
The table wasn't long like the last ti he ca here. Instead, he was a round table with a diater of approximately two ters.
Fresh fruits, biscuits, cookies and a tea set was placed at the center of the table and unlike before, there was actually soone already waiting for him.
He looked at the silver haired lady who was staring at him and gave her a slight bow, "You must be Leora Kazak, the fourth princess."
Leora nodded and took a sip from the cup she was holding, "Indeed, I am Leora. It's a pleasure to et you, Inquisitor."
"Keith Zenister. I'm pleased to make your acquaintance."
"Please have a seat. My brother will join us soon."
Keith gave her a curt nod and sat down on one of the two empty chairs. Leora took another sip of tea and silently stared at him.
"If there's sothing you'd like to say, I hope you say it princess." Keith said as he was unable to handle the awkward atmosphere, which made Leora chuckle.
"Well, I was just wondering what was so special about you, that's all. You have the looks, and I've also heard about the grand things you did yesterday but, that's not enough to get my youngest sister on your side right?
On top of that, it really is hard to believe that soone actually publicly humiliated soone from the royal family."
Keith said nothing and silently stared at her. Or at least that was how it looked to Leora but he was taking a look at his system screen instead. Continue reading on empire
'Hmm, he's not angry about it so why did she even bring it up?' he thought before nodding.
"All I did was to tell Silvia that you had taken Mathew's side and she imdiately jumped in to work as our spy. As for the prince... let's just say that I have a personal grudge against him."
Leora raised her eyebrow, showing that she was curious, "Is that so? Would you mind telling about this personal grudge of yours?"
"Alia is a dear friend of mine. You should have a rough understanding of the rest."
The princess nodded, "I see, I see. She's really lucky to have soone like you as her friend. I'm very jealous."
"Princess, can we get to the main topic please? Mathew said that there were important matters to discuss."
"Oh, but we'll have to wait for him to join us first." she said and as if on cue, the door opened and Mathew walked in.
He looked at the two of them who were waiting for him and nodded before joining them at the table.
"I hope that the two of you have learned a bit of each other by now." he said and continued, "Anyways, I wanted both of you to et so that we can make plans to crush the others effectively."
Keith nodded and glanced at Leora before speaking, "Got it. Tell your plan first and then I'll share my thoughts."
"I have none... but I do have so really important information. Father has received information about the war. Actually, it's more like he was ordered to start a war against the Baroma Kingdom.
There is a high chance of the succession wars getting integrated into the actual war between our empire and Baroma kingdom. Father will most probably make an announcent in a few days.
This ans that the ones who have high military strength will have an advantage this ti and finances are probably the second factor. With Leora on our side, we have the power to boast about finances but we have nothing to help us when it cos to military strength.
Marcus has his team of royal knights, Zander has a secret team of assassins and on top of that, he also has the support of multiple nobles. These two will have a huge advantage thanks to that.
I've been thinking for hours but I really am unable to co up with an idea that I can be confident in."
Mathew then sighed before looking at Keith, "Oh and, Marcus is the first prince."
"I am willing to put in everything I have, Mathew. We can hire the independent rcenaries to work for us." Leora said but Mathew shook his head.
"They are not reliable. Did you really think that I did not consider that option?"
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