CH 33.1

“Cassion, His Majesty asked you a question.”

Julia urged Cassion to answer. It was Julia’s first words to Cassion who came to the dinner.

The nobles blinked at each other and exchanged looks.

‘He is really the abandoned prince. It’s totally different from when she is treating Prince Dyson.’

‘Just differently? She didn’t even talk to him until His Majesty asked him a question. I don’t know if she even noticed him.’

‘Look at the clothes. They look ready-made, don’t they? He didn’t even know what he was doing today, did he?’

‘Tsk, he should have secured his standing.’

‘There’s no standing for him anyway. It’s not even for consideration.’

Julia felt much better when she saw the acrimonious eyes of the nobles. So Julia decided to show some generosity.

“I heard you were sick.”

She made excuses for Cassion.

“Wouldn’t attending this dinner be too much for your health?”

He even made an excuse for Cassion to leave.

It was a kind of suggestion to leave when she was still generous. It was a threat to Cassion and Diana.

However, Cassion did not leave and sat firmly and locked his gaze.

“It’s true that I’m not feeling well, but it’s not to the point where I can’t come out to my only brother’s birthday dinner. Congratulations, brother.”

“What? Congratulations?”

Suddenly there was a loud noise. Dyson clenched the tablecloth with anger on his face.

Carmine frowned at the frivolous behavior, but it was invisible to Dyson.

Dyson felt a great sense of being fooled by Cassion because he couldn’t even walk when Dyson went to see him, and then he appeared at his birthday dinner.

For better or worse, Cassion stole the attention he deserved and brought a cute girl next to him.

The cute and lovely girl who was supposed to fall in love with Dyson.

However, the girl was not looking at Dyson, but only looking at Cassion.

‘I heard she is the daughter of the Irenberg family.’

Dyson thought how he was much cooler, and that he was going to be king.

Yet, whenever Dyson sometimes made eye contact with her, the girl jerked her head away.

Dyson’s status as a prince and handsome face were easy for anyone to like him.

But Diana’s hostility must be because Cassion said bad things about him.

Dyson was upset with Cassion one way or another and raised his voice.

“Dyson, isn’t it a good day?”

Julia exhorted in a soft tone. Carmine was watching Dyson.

“You didn’t have to come and congratulate me in person since you weren’t feeling well. Thank you anyway.”

Dyson grudged his thanks.

“But what about the present?”

Dyson looked at Cassion’s empty hands and asked. Cassion’s face flushed with embarrassment.

Dyson laughed.

‘There’s no way Cassion knows that he needs to prepare a gift. But the nobles who don’t know about it will find Cassion strange for not preparing my birthday present.’

Dyson thought he had given Cassion a proper intimidation. But it was just Dyson’s great imagination.

“He could have something he could give you.”

It was Diana who answered Dyson’s question.

When Diana, who had been quiet all this time, opened her mouth, Carmine looked at her interestingly.

“But unfortunately,”

Diana frowned her eyebrows and continued with a look of real sadness.

“Your Highness Cassion has no personal allowance.”

Huh, the nobles gasped.

“There’s no personal allowance?”

“Did I hear it wrong?”

The nobles spoke with their voices down, but the room was so quiet that everyone could hear the murmur.

The nobles, who belatedly noticed, quickly closed their mouths.

‘It’s understandable.’

Diana thought to herself.

The King’s children receive personal allowance from the royal family upon birth. Personal allowance, which was supposed to be paid in a certain amount every month, used by them to pave their way for politics.

Even if Cassion didn’t get it as he was at his mother’s private residence, it became an issue that he didn’t get it after he returned to the palace.

“And I couldn’t afford to spend my parents’ inheritance carelessly, so I couldn’t find a gift that would suit His Highness. Your Majesty, will you forgive us for our rudeness?”

Diana looked at Carmine with a pitiful expression.

The nobles were shaken when they saw drooping eyebrows and tears filled the round eyes.

‘Oh, that’s too bad. Is the issue of the succession of the Irenberg family still unresolved?’

‘Didn’t Count Corcos say he became her guardian?’

‘He did say he would be her guardian. Now that I see it, I don’t think Count Corcos will be able to do it.’

In Diana’s short words, the nobles quickly saw through the situation.

Julia and Count Corcos’ lips twitched. It looked like they were about to explode.

Diana was the one who actually dropped the bombshell and finally had to endure the gaze of questioning.

Diana’s expression was so calm.

‘Julia wouldn’t be able to pick up the pieces with this.’

Diana was only telling the truth, so she didn’t sound like she was taking sides. She’d rather Julia pick on her about this.

‘She might get angry if I bothered her with nonsense.’