Chapter 48 Epilogue

Chapter 48 Epilogue

The first school building of the elementary school.

While bathing in the sunlight that shone through the window, I was resting my chin in my hand as I propped my elbow up on my desk.

how did things end up like this?

It didnt make sense no matter how I thought about it.

My underling Wallace was crying to me,

Liam, increase my allowance already! Give me anything, please!

Kurt looked at Wallace in amazement,

Well I guess Wallace is the same as usual.

Shut up you! I thought Id be able to spend my vacation in luxury at Liams mansion, but I was put through hell by Serena instead! Asking for a bit more money should be fine at this point!

Serena wasnt at fault for constantly getting mad at him, just looking at Wallace I could tell he was that bad.

I now understood why as a prince he was called a person who could be considered neither poison nor medicine.

Less than a nuisance, he was more like an unnecessary piece of luggage you had to carry around.

It was a miscalculation for me to take such a luggage as my underling, but the more pressing problem right now was

Darling, where do you want to eat lunch today? Do you want to go to the cafeteria?

Rosetta, who I initially thought was a woman of steel was actually a heroine.

I was disappointed with how easily her cheeks flushed at the sight of me.

However, I realised that itd be too troublesome to abandon her now.

If she betrayed me, Id show her no mercy, but until then well, I guess I could take care of her.

I feel like buying bread from the school store today.

Bread? Leave it to me, Ill buy the most popular brand of bread for you.

Who told her to buy bread?

In the first place, was it really okay to have a young noble lady act as a bread shuttle?

Dont worry about it, Wallace will buy them.

When I said that, Wallace flipped the blue hair he was so proud of,

Its hopeless. Dont you know how crazy the crowds get during lunch? Its impossible for me to get the popular bread.

For the former prince to confidently declare that he couldnt even buy bread was a disappointing sight.

Kurt turned a frosty look towards him,

You really are useless, Wallace.

Well what else am I supposed to say? Besides, dont you think Liam is the weird one for making former royalty act as a bread shuttle?

I repeated my order,

Wallace, buy us bread.

Liam, give me a break here. The battle for bread during lunch time is too ruthless for me.

He was lying straight to my face,

Youre lying. When I went it wasnt crowded at all.

Everyone lined up and bought their food in an orderly fashion.

A true reminder that this school was specifically built for the nobility.

But Kurt shook his head,

Thats only because you were there, Liam.

He started saying something incomprehensible.

In anycase, Rosetta looked troubled, so I decided to give up on the bread,

Forget it, lets just eat at the cafeteria.

The cafeteria. Leave it to me, Ill make sure to secure us the best seats!

Like I said, why are you acting like a maid, volunteering to do all these errands?

It was kind of fun watching her do so, but I wasnt pleased with how happily she was willing to take the initiative.

Securing us seats is fine, but you dont need to declare it so loudly.

O-of course. Yes, youre absolutely right

Looking at Rosetta, youd think I did something bad to her.

Wallace called out to me,

Liam, I want to have dessert too.

You can just drink water.

Wasnt this different from the school life I thought Id have?

The imperial capital.

There, the prime minister had gathered multiple officials.

Assembled here were those who had been assigned to monitor the Claudia house for millenia.

These people had always kept the Claudia house under watch from generation to generation, and were now making frustrated expressions.

The prime minister was smiling,

Thank you so much for the loyal work youve done so far. Well now prepare new stations for you.

But they didnt seem satisfied with that,

Minister! I cant accept changing things now, please give us the order to monitor the Banfield house!

Yes! We must keep the orders of his late Majesty alive!

Lets make sure to keep Count Banfield under supervision!

If they were deprived of the work theyve done for many years and suddenly asked to do something new, of course theyd be troubled.

He completely understood their feelings,

I see. Then lets have all of you die here.

prime minister?

A lot of knights had high expectations for the Banfield house, which had recently rose to power.

There were many who wanted to join the new up-starts.

However, considering his position of a Count, the number of knights gathered was still insufficient.

More were sure to converge there in the future but whether theyd be able to work together was another matter.

Liams order of knights were still in a state of assembling themselves.

Since they were only held together by their high loyalty, many problems had arisen.

Above all else, there wasnt anyone there who could rally together such powerful individuals.

Tia and Marie were potential candidates, but neither of them was willing to cooperate with the other.

You mangy mutt, Lord Liam doesnt need someone like you. Ill put you down.

When Tia said so, Marie replied,

A minced-meat bitch like you is unnecessary for Lord Liams ambitions. Ill prove it so.

They recognised each other as nothing but enemies.

The first building of the elementary school.

Twelve Knights of the Round Table isnt that cool?

It was Wallace who said such a thing.

Kurt turned to him with cold eyes.

There you go again. What did you come up with this time, Wallace?

No, you see, its a title bestowed to select knights of particular talent. I read about it in a book from the inner palace, dont you think thats cool?

Isnt that from some comic?

Apparently such a knight group was from a comic series.

Twelve capable knights of talent and strength.

The king bestowed the title on the knights, giving them privileges and status.

We were talking about this behind the school building.

Itd be troublesome finding twelve individuals that fit the criteria.

Kurt followed up on my comment,

Liam, dont take him seriously. Wallaces idea is mostly based off of fiction, and in the first place, it should be easy for you to find twelve of such people.

Huh?

No, just think about it. There are bound to be innumerable knights back in your territory, you can just choose twelve from there.

But what about the criteria to choose

Itd depend on their qualifications, but Im pretty sure your knights would clear them.

In that case, Ill immediatel

No, there are many problems with handing out special treatment. In the first place, the twelve knights Wallace was talking about were the enemies in that story.

I looked at Wallace, and he turned away from me.

Apparently, it was the truth.

However, I didnt hate such things.

It takes guts to join the path of evil.

For serious-based evil lords like Kurt, its only natural hed see it as inefficient despite all the flair, werent they just a gathering of villains?

Theyd be like the four heavenly kings to a demon lord. It was that kind of feeling.

I wanted that kind of knight order.

Recently, I couldnt help but feel like I havent been active as an evil lord lately.

Well, I was stuck in elementary school, so it couldnt be helped.

A round table of twelve knights

Wallace raised his head at my mutters,

Liam, Im going to be the one to establish the Knights of the Round Table, so dont steal my idea!

Wallace was saying something immature, but I couldnt care less.

I guess even he came up with good ideas every once in a while.

As I thought so, Kurt looked at us in amazement,

Liam is being corrupted by Wallace.

Wallace turned to Kurt,

Hey dont you treat me a bit too harshly?

As us three men continued our conversation, Rosetta approached us while waving her hand.

Darling! There you are!

Watching the heroine running over with a smile, I fell into thought.

A beaming smile.

Fluttering hair slightly curled into ringlets.

A swaying chest.

Her cute way of running there was nothing about Rosetta thatd make you think I used to call her a woman of steel.

how did this happen?

Darling, what happened?! Is there something wrong?! Are you not feeling well?! Lets immediately go to the infirmar

No, its nothing.

Rosetta seemed to be genuinely worried about me.

If this was all a ruse and she was just trying to trick me then I might still be able to have some fun with this.

However, it didnt seem that way at all.

Where did the Rosetta with the spirit of steel disappear to?

just how did this happen?