As the four men entered the house, Jack noticed the prince was grinding his teeth.

"So now that we are alone and ready to discuss about why we are here i would like to proceed with the reason of our venu. As I said earlier I am Théophilius, the king send me to meet you jack. He wanted to see you before you trial. You see something hapened at the capital. Your father disapeared , he refused the order of the king ans left a letter for him inside his barrack. Wat was inside that letter was read in public court against the kings wishes."

"Mr Theophilius was it? I honnestly fail to see what does it have to do with me. I am my own man and i'm not related to this incident. As for the accusation against my father, He would never flee or refuse a just order. And as far as i know It's not his fault the letter was read in public court against the king wishes is it? "

The bearded guy let out a soft chuckle " well you could think that however you would be wrong. You see the letter was carved with a powerfull enchantement, when placed in proximity to the royal throne it was supposed to open itsel and deliver the message inside. It would be okay if it was just that, but what we failed to anticipate was the second hidden enchantment broadcasting the booming voice of your father across the entire castle and even outside of it, roaring insult at the king, it is said that the flowery language used by him made even the gard posted outside blush. He then started to denounce acts of horror commited by the previous prime minister that was using the name of the king. Apparently from what i heard, the last order from king was about killing an entire vilage of forest elf based outside our border in order to gather an expensive ressource from their land. Your father refused as it was against his knight code and when the king anounced he was to be arrested, he vanished and only those two letters were found. the second one has your name on it."

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Arthur was standing in front of the window and talked with a somber voice "I told you years ago, that fucking minister was downright evil, no wonder the ruler of this kingdom turned stupid a his contact. Destroying this village would have been an act of war. What did he expect? For me and arthur to save his ass again? did he realy tought the boy's father would accept such job?"

"No one in their right mind would ask such a thing to the leader of the honorable golden gard" said the prince "that is the reason why we beleve the king to be under some sort of influence. we even tought for a moment that it was a doppleganger sitting on that throne ".

"I see, and while his father desapeared you expect the boy to act has a scapegoat to verify your claim? to act has an hostage so that Arthur is less inclined to take action against the kingdom so that you could deal with the mastermind beyond the scene? well that's not happening. he is more talented than you and you couldn't stop it even if you tried; Furthermore he is a true knight. he did not finish the quest assigned to him but was deemed worthy to partake in it. You will let that man do his job and go on your merry way"

"Or else what?" said the prince clerly stil annoyed at the man.

the big man turned around with a bright smile on his face " in the cliff barony we are always in need of help especialy during the harvest. Try me boy, and you wil be sure to work your ass off in my vignard until next summer. Prince or not, i have my means"

I could not help myself to interupt them "can I see the second letter in my name?"