CH 15

Belfry rummaged through a stack of papers and held them out to the Crown Prince.

‘Half a year ago, after his fall, the prince missed all but three banquets, while the last banquet he attended was the day the princess’s engagement was announced. He had made the audacity of breaking the princess’s engagement by lying down in his position, and sending a letter to Heineken while the Balvenie caravan1 was passing by.’

The Crown Prince’s green eyes flashed and glowed. At the same time, the scent vibrated from the marble he was holding. Of course, Belfry couldn’t smell it.

Belfry’s brow crumpled again as Adrian suddenly jumped up from his seat.

“Where are you going?”

“To see the prince.”

Lightly ignoring Belfry, who was nagging, Adrian headed straight to the outer castle.

〈Oppa, do you have a voucher? 〉

〈What voucher? 〉

〈Don’t you know that? Gift vouchers. 〉

〈Why, you want to buy a book?〉

〈A volume of a book.〉

〈What book?〉

〈Ah, you don’t have to know!〉

〈Don’t say I don’t have to know, just tell me right away. 〉

If Carl Lindbergh dies, and Leia Lindbergh isn’t the female protagonist, then tell me who is the real partner of the Crown Prince!

I shouted, but Jeon Jae-young in my dream only laughed without saying a word.

Then she gave me a pile of chestnuts and jujubes. As I accepted it and stood there in a daze, Jae-young disappeared and Marco appeared.

He said, ‘Prince! You’re too greedy. Your clothes are getting dirty, so please give that to me,’ leaving me with one chestnut and one jujube behind. Due to that, I was so sad that the fruit that had been tightly grasped in my arms disappeared.

As soon as I woke up, I slapped both of my cheeks.

“Oh dear, why are you sweating so much?”

The woman sitting across from me and holding a teacup with graceful movements held out a handkerchief.

The handkerchief smelled good.

I couldn’t sleep any more because of my dream that was so wild.

Feeling the fist-sized chestnut and the jujube that still seemed to linger on my hands, I rubbed my palms against my pants.

Eventually, I found the only person with whom I could confide in this situation and get help.

“I just had some nightmares.”

Fortunately, Leia didn’t ask what the dream was.

“It’s because it’s hard to suddenly do something you’ve never done before.” (Leia)

She pushed a slice of steamed pound cake toward me while saying so.

“I heard the Crown Prince often visits you?”

“Cough, cough, cough.”

A pound cake suddenly caught in my throat because of Leia, who suddenly brought up Adrian.

Leia clicked her tongue and filled a glass with water.

“Sister, I heard something strange from the Crown Prince yesterday.”

“What is it?”

Ah, I tried to say it, but it seems I was still hesitant about saying it with my own mouth.

Half a year of running around convinced me that Leia is the female protagonist.

It was a time when I couldn’t find a way to attract Heineken because I was in a situation where I couldn’t do anything and my feet were tied up.

I was a guy who didn’t even take the CSAT2, and I tried to use my brain for the first time in a while, so I got cramps every day.

Didn’t they say that there was always a way out?

So I used the caravan that crossed the magic circle to Heineken.

The head of the merchants, who came in three or four times a year to trade magic stones and luxury items inscribed with magic, was the Grand Duke of Balvenie, who still uses the surname Heineken.

Of course, the Grand Duke did not personally drive the wagon himself.

I decided to trust his loyal adjutant.

Under the pretext of disposing of the embarrassingly nude “handsome statue” that adorned the prince’s room and replacing it with something else, the adjutant was brought into the room, and in the meantime, Marco, who had a quick hand, ‘put the letter’ into his sleeve.

Apart from being nervous as if my heart was going to explode, the nobles and royalty were all focused on what they brought with them, so it wasn’t a difficult task.

When the top merchants left and the Crown Prince of Heineken came to pick us up just two days later, I really thought the goddess of luck blessed the two main characters.

Now all I have to do is support the main characters and let them interact and fall in love with each other.

“What about yesterday? Don’t hesitate and tell me quickly.”

As I was lost in thought, Leia urged me.

“H-he said I-I will be carrying his successor3.”

The princess frowned as I spoke slowly.

“I didn’t expect Crown Prince Adrian to be like that.”

“He was just joking, right?”

Looking at Leia with a ray of hope, she frowned and clicked her tongue.

“To propose to a child who hasn’t even had his first estrus yet. Even if it’s a joke, it lacks sincerity. Even so, it is a matter of proposing to the prince of a country, so the law and proper etiquette must be observed. It would be better to refuse it for now.”

Leia’s eyes were burning with intensity as if saying that there’s a limit to a joke, and I couldn’t follow what she was talking about.

“I’m the one who is making the request, so it’s a bit difficult for me to refuse that.”

Ah, that’s not it.

“That’s not the problem, it’s because I’m a biological man,” I added, and Leia looked at me like an alien.

“You’re a biological man, but you’re also a biological Omega. Your estrus is a bit late, but you must have smelled the Crown Prince’s intense Alpha scent, didn’t you?”

“Alpha scent?”

Is it the smell that comes out every time the Crown Prince appears?

“I heard that if a great Alpha is constantly by your side, even a Beta can become an Omega. I wonder why his foster brother, Belfry, is still a Beta.”

“Does that smell make you a woman?”

I just thought that he smelled good.

“You, don’t tell me.”

With her jaw trembling and at a loss for words, Leia covered her mouth in surprise.

“You said your memories come and go, did you also forget that you were an Omega?”

Déjà vu.

In front of Leia, who spoke the same lines as Marco, I gave up on understanding it.

“…… Can you please explain what Omega, Alpha and Beta are?”

I couldn’t keep up with the unfamiliar words and the unexpected development of the novel.

“Oh my god!”

Along with Leia’s muttering of anxiousness, her maid, who rarely faltered, dropped the sugar tongs.

Adrian stopped going to the prince and hurriedly changed his steps to the Emperor’s office.

Although he mostly does as he pleases, he could not escape the orders of Emperor Glenn, who also does as he pleases.

The Emperor’s office was at the very center of this huge castle.

Both pillars were huge magic stones and were engraved with magic that has been handed down since ancient times. Therefore, no one knew what magic would be triggered in the event of a crisis.

“Oh, Adrian. Come on in.”

The Emperor, who was conversing with Duke Hendrick near the table, greeted the approaching Crown Prince. Although they were father and son, they each had different tasks, and the Emperor was too busy to meet unless he made an appointment. However, the two did not keep each other in check as other Alphas did.

It was because Adrian’s mother, Tereza, and Glenn, were imprinted at a very young age and were still intertwined in deep love to this day. So just because his son was an Alpha, it didn’t make him feel like a competitor.

“The reason you don’t even show yourself these days is because of Prince Carl, right?”

The young father playfully squinted his eyes and lightly tapped Adrian on the shoulder.

“Nothing is sure yet, Your Majesty.”

Although the Crown Prince had a sly expression on his face, Glenn only laughed.

“Look at this guy. I had seen him grow up, but he had become quite a different person. Though I didn’t want you to do it, it happened. So, I hope you keep doing it well until you succeed.”

The embarrassed Crown Prince changed the subject with a cough.

“What were you two doing?”

“We wanted to check the situation in Lindbergh and figure out what to do in the future.”

The Duke, who looked exactly like Belfry, pointed the map on the table to Adrian.

It was a ten-millionth scale map that looked like a translucent board at a glance.

The core of the map was to see how things changed in real time according to the situation on the continent, but since it was difficult to input formulas into magic stones smaller than a grain of rice, the base placed under the map was processed into a thin magic stone resembling a crystal and engraved the formula there, which took a total of two years to complete.

Heineken sends spies to each country and collects information. Only those who have inherited the blood of Heineken can read the information.

As the Crown Prince moved his hand, a spy working as a guard at Lindbergh informed him that the Chancellor’s soldiers were moving into the castle little by little.

“Now that we’re moving, Kitchener has backed down a lot.”

It had been a week since the prince crossed over to Heineken.

And it had also been a week since the sporadic riots.

The fake riot initially created by the Crown Prince to get the Lindbergh siblings out soon became the spark of a real riot.

Small groups were formed everywhere, mainly young people, and when they gathered, they scratched the walls of the nobles.

Lindbergh’s nobles all had soldiers, but what they overlooked was that both soldiers and guards were people of the kingdom.

The nobles, who devoted all their energies to laziness, would not have expected that they would be afraid of their dogs, so of course they were in a hurry to lock the castle gates in confusion.

The Emperor touched his chin and asked the Crown Prince.

“What are the prince’s thoughts?”

“He said that what he wanted was political intervention from Heineken.”

“Even if that gives us an opportunity to legally control Lindbergh?”

“Yes, he strangely trusts Heineken. He even referred to Lindbergh’s royalty and nobility as ‘rotten to the core’.”

At that, the expressions of the Duke of Hendrick and Emperor Glenn changed.

“It was the peril where their patriotism was almost eradicated. Therefore we did not stay still either.”

At the Emperor’s murmur, Duke Hendrick nodded his head in agreement.