Book 12: Chapter 8
“Onii-sama!!”
“Sorry, sorry, it was indeed my mistake. It was my mistake. Yesterday, Mommy Vyvyan and I went back to get changed and took too long. That’s why we were late… Sorry, sorry. I’m to blame.”
Freya stood in front of me. She was absolutely fuming. She angrily exclaimed, “Yesterday was the first banquet in the Imperial Palace, yet you, the master, was almost two hours late! Onii-sama, what exactly were you doing?! What could you possibly have done with Her Highness for two hours?! What, were you having a secret tryst?!”
I knew that Freya was just using that as a figure of speech, but she still nearly scared me to my knees. Mommy Vyvyan didn’t appear odd whatsoever yesterday. She showed off her grace and majestic aura as the Elven Queen and kept our relationship strictly within the boundaries of mother and son. She acted as though nothing happened prior.
The only thing Mommy Vyvyan was unhappy about was that I couldn’t hold myself back and ended up ripping her evening dress. That was the reason we wasted two hours. After our little tryst, we rushed back to the room to change and then rushed to the venue. Unfortunately, we were still two hours late. Freya nearly exploded when she saw me.
Freya couldn’t go off at me at the venue, since everybody was present, so she had to patiently finish the banquet. After the banquet ended, however, I quickly found an opportunity to slip away, giving Freya no chance to scold me. But nevertheless, I was aware that I had to bear the brunt of it eventually. And it eventually came.
When I woke up, Freya blocked me off at my door and gave me an earful: “Onii-sama, you cannot behave that way!! You are the ruler of the North. You cannot continue being so slack this way now that the Princesses have come! You still must focus primarily on the North. If you start to be lazy, how do you expect the North to develop? Do not tell me you plan to have me work alone, while you stay in the harem flirting around! If that is your plan, then I think Troy City suits you better! You are now the lord of an entire region, not the master of a city! You are now responsible for substantially more things!”
I looked at Freya with a helpless smile as I let her continue to scold me.
“My word, aren’t you senseless.”