Volume 8 Chapter 47: What Does She Have That They Don’t?

"With your voice alone, you could influence my father." Another addition was that Julius held Keith in high regard. The king may talk badly about the child, but he never stops talking about him. Everyone in the castle knew Julius was fond of him.

"My plan is to unify all three major families. If we can do this, then the Philosopher Kingdom can't do anything to us."

"So you're asking me because I'm the grandson of Grand Duke Bradley?"

"Yes."

"I don't think you have thought this through. If you ask me, what would happen with the Grand Duke Rustchil? If we do join, you will make them enemies." They weren't exactly on friendly terms.

"Oh, you don't have to worry about this. I know what I can do with the Rustchil family." Oscar's lips arched upwards as he sipped on his coffee.

"And? What do I get in return?"

"Simple, I will help you engage with Carolyn."

"What?"

"I will have you engaged with Carolyn. I know the two of you have been childhood sweethearts." Oscar had seen how close the two were. The two definitely had feelings with one another.

"..." Keith was silent. Oscar got up from his seat, "It seemed that I had sprung this on you. I apologize. But I do hope you think about my offer."

Once he left the cafe,

"Master, are you sure you should have revealed all this to him?" The cloaked man quickly appeared behind Oscar.

"Of course. If I need Keith's support, then I should disclose this to him." His leader's words only caused the cloaked man to groan,

"But isn't he too much of a variable?"

"However, he's a variable I need to be king." Not having Keith and having him were too far from one another. Not having him by his side would only make it difficult. And it was next to impossible to end him as well.

"Plus, if we get him, the Rustchil will fall in line." The Rustchil definitely owed a giant favor to the boy. After saving them from Rodrick, they wouldn't repay the favor. Having him would unify everything.

"But I've already set the stage up." Oscar grinned. The only thing left was the boy's choice.

...

"..." Keith was left in silence. But that was when another cup of coffee was placed before him.

"Here's one on the house. I feel like you need it after all of that."

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"You heard it?"

"Mmhmm, I used to be an adventurer." Helen had keen senses.

"Can I ask for your take on all of this? How much do you think he's shady?"

"Oh, he's 100% shady." No hesitation. From what was being said, this guy was the type of person people shouldn't associate with.

"And there was someone on watch as well." She didn't say anything about it since the person didn't do any harm. Hearing he was a prince, that was probably a guard.

"..."

"I do think you should heed his words with the Philosopher Kingdom."

"Eh?"

"I used to live there for some time. Let me just say, the royal family was quite weird." Helen sighed.

"I will keep that in mind; thank you."

...

"Here is all the information that we have on Alger." Angelica and Sakura handed over some papers to Alfia.

Angelica questioned, "Umm, Alfia, should Scarlet be listening to this?" They were doing something quite secretive.

"Oh, she knows about what I asked of you. Also, I will be asking her take on this."

"Hmm?" Sakura and Angelica tilted their heads.

"So Alger was considered the front runner of the class representative of the 4th years."

"Mmhmm, he's one of the candidates. The 4th years had quite a few who could become the student representative."

"And he's also from the well-known Philosopher Kingdom."

"That's all we have," Angelica and Sakura sighed. That was all the information they had.

"Scarlet, what do you have?" Alfia turned to the demon lady. Scarlet grinned, "I have the same information, but I did find some things about him dating some girls."

"Huh?"

"Where did you find all of this?" Sakura frowned. Scarlet waved her hand, "Senior Sakura, this information is only gossip. It doesn't break guidelines."

"…Fine."

"Huh? He dated before." This was unusual; a prince dating someone? Unless the kingdom allowed it, then it would be a problem.

Angelica tilted her head, "Huh? He did?" This was news to her. Sakura was the same as she didn't know about it either.

"Where did you get it?"

"From a senior." To get information about a 4th year, you would need the information from upperclassmen and the seniors before that.

"Oh, it seemed that he had a couple of them. But most of them had been quite secretive." Scarlet commented.

“…”

"What's the matter, Alfia?"

"Quick question, where's this student right now?" Alfia raised a paper that showed someone in the second year. It was the same year as Angelica and Sakura. She was also a member of the S-class as well.

"Ah, if I remember correctly, she dropped out of class. We didn't know why." That girl had mysteriously vanished.

"…" Alfia continued to think long and hard, "What did she look like?"

"Hmm, she had a nice personality; she had beautiful silver platinum hair as well."

"…Silver hair?" Something clicked for the elf. She turned to Scarlet, "Scarlet, do you have information about the appearances of the other girls." Those girls were older than them.

"Yeah, and they all had silver/grey hair too." Scarlet knew what she wanted to ask.

"…Silver hair." They all had something in common; the current one also had silver hair.

"Does he have a thing for silver hair?"

"Instead of looking at Alger, you should look at Carolyn. What does she have that the others didn't?" Sakura muttered. Things were becoming strange.

"Her power!" Alfia realized it! She turned to Angelica and Sakura, "Can you guys search for anything about Carolyn's power?!" It was one of the strangest things. Carolyn just suddenly using star magic like so? And Alger, just knowing about it?

That was not a coincidence!

"Alfia, why are you so agitated?" Alfia's anxious face was saying a lot. The three never saw her like that."

"Rather than Alger, his kingdom itself was something we need to watch out for."

"Eh?"

"I heard about this from my mother one time. A kingdom had an ancient artifact capable of destroying a nation in one blow."

"That kingdom." Everyone's expression turned grave.

"…The Philosopher Kingdom"