8 days after the explosion – hell/Office

“No way”(prince)

“Sorry sir”(Servant)

“No way no way no way”(Prince)

“It is your duty sir”(Servant)

“but but I delegate, I am not supposed to be doing this!!!!!!!”(prince)

“And it is because you delegate that it is only this much, it should be at least 3 times bigger”(servant)

“but there is no way a normal person can do this, it is inhuman!”(prince)

“It is because this time of crisis increased the normal amount and you have being skipping it for days, increasing to this level”(Servant)

“There is no way I will do this, I will run away first”(Prince)

“I can’t allow that. GUARDS!”(Servants)

20 guards appear out of nowhere and surrounded him and the rest, leaving no chance for the prince to escape. For the looks of it, the servant predicted he would try to run away as soon as he saw IT

“Please, don’t make me do this, I beg you! I will do anything but please not this”(prince) was begging on his knees

“Sorry sir, but it will only get worse with time. You can watch it increase or do something about it”(Servant)

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”(prince)

he was crying on his knees after realising there was no way to escape from hell. His worst fear has come true, he knew this day would come if he stayed as the crow prince and that was the reason he was trying his best to find a replacement. He also was sure this was the reason Rebecca wouldn’t budge on her statement of staying dead to the public, she was to smart to not know what would happen if she become queen.

This was a personal hell any king or person with an important work must do, and it is hell on earth (according to the prince) and the reason he consider his father a fool instead of the wise king like every one call him.

In front of the prince was a mountain of paper work and for the way it looked to the prince, there was no end to it.He knew that if he started reading the papers, it would take a month at least, and the amount would still increase with time, making it an endless loop.

He thought of knocking himself out with some of his favorite powder, but they already saw him wake up someone with the stimulant, so it wouldn’t work. He seriously tought of faking his dead in some way or go all out and escape, but it wouldn’t work right now so he chose to wait for a better opportunity.

In the end he chose to share hell with everyone. he wasn’t the type that act like a true knight and take the burden alone. No, he was more like the type that if he was going to hell, he would drag everyone down to hell with him.

“Fine, but you and everyone else in THIS castle stays to help”(prince)

“wait, what?”(servant) Sweating a little for the first time

“you heard me, bring anyone here that can read or count and all together will start to read this paper work”(prince)

“but we have duty sir, we can’t just leave them”(Servant)trying to get away

“I.DON’T.CARE!”(prince)

“but..”(Servant)

“No but, bring everyone that can read and everyone that can count here so we can start to work, and that includes YOU”(prince)

“But we can’t! I have to manage this castle and so every one else!”(Servant)

“Make the ones that don’t come do the missing share and double the salary of everyone so there is no mutiny or complain for the extra work”(prince)

“but..”(servant)

“If you say but one more time or don’t do what I told you, this paper work will be the least of your problems”(Prince) deadly serious

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The servant understood there was no way out of this one, so he did what the prince order him. While he waited, he order Susan and Aria to start helping with the paper work, but after find it out aria could barely read, he just send her away so she doesn’t get in the way. As for Lina, the prince ask her if she wanted but she said she had more lessons and would come back later(and she did, but she only played with the cat while she watched)

The servant brought around 20 extra people to help and tried to get away but the prince “Insisted” that he stayed to help.

What the prince had them do was simple, they would read the paper work, remember the important parts and then tell the prince what was important and where to sign or write(if it was a report) accordingly. Of course the system wasn’t perfect, and there was a lot of paper work, but it was faster than doing it alone.

Since more than half of them were useless since some could barely read or count, some were to shy and other were really annoying. In the end only the prince, Susan, the servant(that had being forced to stay no matter what he said or did) and 6 more. Sadly since they spend a lot of time in getting use to it and since more paper work kept coming, the amount didn’t reduce much even after working all day

9 days after the explosion – Prince room

At 3 am, the prince tried to make an escape, but when he open the door, he found 2 guards guarding his room door so he reluctantly went back to sleep and had another hell day later

10 days after the explosion – Prince room

This time, the prince waited for one of the guards to go to the bathroom. as soon as one of them went, he put the other one to sleep and make a run for it. Sadly, a maid saw him while he was running to a secret passage and after screaming(everyone in the castle had the order of not letting the prince escape) A guard heard it and managed to catch the prince. In the end he had another hell day

11 days after the explosion – Prince room

4 guards were at the door this time so the old plan wouldn’t work again. Another hell day  was waiting for him

14 days after the explosion – Prince room

The prince waited. He made everyone work over time,refusing to hire extra force for "security" reason meanwhile he took a rest every time he could(like faking tor ead but sleep under the paperwork) so now everyone in the castle was really tired thanks to the extra work with less helping hands.

There were still 4 guards outside,even if they were really tired, so he waited for one of then to go take a break. As soon as one of them left, he open the door and told the other 3 there was a strange noise inside the room, so 2 of them went inside to check it(he even made one of his tools make the noise) while the other remained outside.

The rest was easy.

He prepared his powder in both hand and quickly throw it at each one of their faces. He then went outside and throw the powder at the one outside. He grabbed al the stuff he had already prepare in a bag that included his standard kit of magician robe, glasses, armor money and alchemy stuff and make a run for it. This time he had some powder ready in his hand(he learned this lesson from last time) and went he saw a maid walking around, he simply throw it at her before she could scream.

In the end, he managed to enter his parents chamber and use the secret passage outside. The prince finally manage to escape from paperwork hell.

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