Chapter 182 - The Magic Academy - Part 1

It seemed as if her uncle was obsessed with her. Whatever she did, why did he have to meddle in that?

It's her choice, her life, so she was free to make her own decisions!

Rowan seemed to deny that free will, it was as if he wanted her to do whatever he wanted.

Well, it did seem like that, but in reality, he cared for her a lot!

Emilia knew that, since she had lived twice, she knew about the personalities of the people.

That was why she behaved well in front of her uncle, needless to say, he thought about her well-being always!

Rowan had married Milia when he was just eighteen. Well, as happy as it sounded, it ain't that good.

Although both of them were happy about their marriage, it was a pity that war had broken out at the same time.

It was the duty of the royals to take part in the war in order to protect their country and in that process, Rowan was injured at the wrong place!

Needless to say, it was too late even for the healing magic to work, of course, no one used advanced healing magic that could heal any and all injuries.

Whatever it may be, his wife still gave birth to a girl, probably because he had spent a night with her a week before the war had started.

However, the girl died soon in the war, of course, in the hands of the assassins.

He blamed himself for his lack of desire to protect the castle and relax his mind of not providing enough guards!

Regardless, it couldn't be undone now. He thought about passing those thoughts when he heard the news about his brother giving birth to a daughter.

It was none other than Emilia, when he met her, he could see his own daughter's face in her due to which he became attached to her almost immediately.

And since then, instead of spending more time in his own kingdom which he was given by his and Elendo's father, he spent time while playing with Emilia and teaching her many things!

He considered her every feeling and all good things!

And when he heard the news about Rex being a total wuss and useless, he didn't want her to go with him. 

Now after hearing her say this, he was angry even more. Though he tried to control it, his eyes had turned red because of the increase in blood pressure!

Regardless, the bottom line was that he was against Emilia engaging Rex.

Rex observed everything that happened there while standing on the stairs, well, he hadn't gone up completely yet!

He heard everything that Emilia said.

'Like really...?'

'She wants to marry an old guy like me?', was what Rex said to himself.

He then walked back to his room and lied on the bed.

"Hmm..."

"Well, I don't think I can marry her at all...", was what Rex said to himself.

"..."

"Ya..."

"It's better if I get engaged with her..."

"That way, I can refrain from marrying her by breaking off the engagement at any moment."

"Also, other girls won't be after me if the news was to be revealed that we are engaged.", was what he said in a low voice.

He not even once considered her feelings, in fact, all he thought about was himself.

That was pretty mean, it was as if he was a different person.

It was probably because he didn't want to marry a small girl like her.

After half an hour, Elina and Alex entered Rex's room, after knocking that is.

"Son, listen to me..."

And then after that, both Alex and Elina started to tell him about what Emilia said.

They did want to hear his opinion regarding the engagement which Seria declared on her own at the dining table, but in the end, they wanted him to get engaged!

'None will want to marry him because of the rumor...'

'So it's best to get engaged with Emilia, she is such a good girl...'

'Who would have expected that he would get such a gem?', was what Alex kept on thinking!

'No matter what, I have to convince him.', after saying this to himself, Alex started telling Rex to agree to the engagement.

'Well, that escalated pretty quickly.', Rex was surprised to see that the engagement was already declared so suddenly.

Alex and Elina continued to tell him to agree to that thinking that he wouldn't agree to something like that.

But then again, he was ready from the start due to which he wanted to accept almost immediately when they brought the topic up.

However, they didn't even give him a chance to speak.

"Dad listen to me...", and when he would say this, Alex would just ask him to stop and listen!

"I don't want to listen to any excuses or reasons.", was what he would say every time.

"Dad!"

"I'm ready to get engaged!", was what Rex said after raising his voice.

Alex was still busy making him agree when suddenly he heard that. Right after hearing that, Alex hugged him as if he was proud.

For the first time perhaps he was proud of his son, in any case, the hug lasted way too long.

In any case, since he agreed, both Alex and Elina left the room with haste and went to inform Seria and Elendo.

While all of them were happy, Elendo seemed a bit dissatisfied, but he was somewhat alright with this because he trusted Alex and wanted Emilia to be happy.

Milia was also happy, but the only one with a rotten heart with a happy mask on his face was Rowan.

No matter what happened, he didn't want Rex to be matched with Emilia.

In fact, he wanted someone much smarter and caring to be her husband or to be her pair.

All were waiting for Elina and Alex to be back and report about Rex's decision.

After hearing that, all of them got dispersed, of course, Seria and Elina went to the garden while Alex and Elendo went to the rooftop to discuss some things.

Emilia went back to her room and was with Milia chatting about engagement and what not?

The only one who was unhappy was scheming something was Rowan. He was still sitting in the same spot as when he was eating dinner.

'I have to do something that would that would make that bastard give a negative image!', was what he thought.

Rex, who was lying in his room, thought about taking a walk around the mansion.

It was night time so the cool breeze would give him enough time to cool off, also, it would feel refreshing due to which he thought about walking out of the mansion.

He could actually jump out of the window, but the guards could have ended up spotting that, due to which he just walked down the stairs.

In any case, when he was on the stairs, he spotted Rowan making an evil face.

'Huh...?'

His eyes started to glow in golden light when he spotted a blackish-purple aura being emitted from Rowan.

"..."

'Why is he giving off a devilish aura?', he asked himself.

'He is up to no good...', Rex thought and then started to walk towards Rowan instead of walking outside the mansion.

Rowan was lost in his own world as he was scheming. He didn't notice Rex walking his way.

In a moment, Rex was now standing in front of him and was staring at him.

Rowan finally noticed Rex but he didn't stop making the weird evil face.

His blood vessels on his face were clearly visible, it was as if he was quite angry.

"Are you perhaps thinking something evil?", was what Rex asked.

And the moment he did, Rowan was surprised. Of course, he was planning something that was wrong, but he never thought that Rex would guess it!

"You..."

"Get the fu*k out of here...", was what Rowan said.

He gave no respect to him at all which ticked Rex off.

"This is the third time...", Rex said in a low voice while a shadow covered his eyes.

"What?", Rowan didn't give a sh*t about what Rex said.

"I said this was the third time you angered me, you bastard!", Rex raised his voice a bit while his eyes were glowing with deep red light.

He spoke in such a manner that only Rowan could hear it and no one else!

"..."

To be continued...