Playboy [Part 9]
“Our fief people are tight-lipped. Right, Mr. Harold?”
However, Harold, who was nad by George to support his statent, greatly lost his composure before the prince and Arthur.
“Hey? Don’t you ‘Mr. Harold’ !”
Harold faintly guessed from their appearance that they were nobles who sucked at disguise, but he never expected they would be a prince and a child from the Four Great Ducal Houses…
Harold glared at George reproachfully before making the children line up neatly.
“Look here, you guys! This is the [vassal bow]. I will do it first, so rember it now. Do it at once!”
Harold did a perfect [vassal bow] to Prince Edward, who hid his black hair with a hat. The children imitated Harold and bowed, but as it was their first ti doing it, their bows were a little clumsy.
“I deeply apologize, Your Highness. I haven’t taught these guys… ahem, these children [vassal bow]… I beg your leniency for our discourtesy.”
If they neglected [vassal bow] before the Royal Family, they could receive a death sentence in the worst case. The lives of slum orphans with no backing could easily be disposed of.
“No, don’t mind it. It’s my fault for dressing like this.”
Edward allowed them to stand up straight with an awkward face upon hearing Harold’s apology. Edward wanted to say that [vassal bow] was not necessary for private spaces, but if he told them that, he couldn’t guarantee their lives when they t other mbers of the Royal Family by so chance.
Because so royals believed in royal supremacy, like his father’s older brother, who attempted a coup d’etat.
“Mr. Harold, was it? If anything, I think it’s more intriguing that soone who isn’t a noble can do a [vassal bow] with such accuracy. Don’t you think so?”
Arthur was surprised at the refined gesture of Harold’s bow that could put aristocrats to sha.
“Our Big Brother knows everything, you knowww?”
“He’s also knowledgeable about nobles, after all~”
The children happily boasted after seeing Harold get praised.
“Hey, don’t say unnecessary things! Ah… I’m like this now, but there was a ti when I used to draw portraits of aristocrats for matchmaking purposes….”
Harold mumbled an excuse with his eyes darting around. As one could have guessed from a man who chose to settle in the slums, he might have had so questionable past.
“Hmm… In the Royal Capital full of nobles, it might be better to learn etiquette first before reading and writing. Emma and William are busy going through the docunts on Over, so I guess I should try asking Mother and Grandmother to be the etiquette teacher…”
Judging from the Commoner District people’s reactions to Arthur and the prince who dressed like [green and rich noble young masters coming without an escort to carry out crooked sches] and the matter with Harold’s injuries when the three siblings first visited the slums, George concluded that nobles brought more misfortune around here than thugs.
If the children learned the bare minimum of etiquette, they could avoid offending nobles out of ignorance.
Emma said she wanted to build an educational institution, sothing like the commoner version of the academy, in the slums. But George thought it would a good idea to build the institution larger than planned. He visualized the slums’ map and made a rough blueprint in his mind.
As George had experience and knowledge as a construction foreman in his past life, he undertook the challenge of repairing the slums, but it seed like the scale of the construction would be larger than he thought.
Even so, doing this was much better than reading the piles of docunts on Over (so of which were in the Ancient Imperial language).
As George was imrsed in his own thoughts, he heard lively voices from behind him.
“Huhhh? It’s George-samaaa.”
“It’s George-samaaa!”
“Woww. George-samaaa, good afternoon〜”
It seed the girls just returned to the slums after finishing their work at the tailor shop. They ran happily towards George upon seeing him.
“Heyyy. Welco backk. Have you been in the tailor shop since morning?”
The girls were so eager to chat with George that they were still holding the fabric they brought back to dye with Harold’s special paint and forgot to put it away first.
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