Chapter 34: Crown Prince Alondre (3). How to Commit to a Role
Calastia, the capital of the Eizern Empire.
Inside the Golden Cloud Palace, where the crown prince resided, hundreds of personnel bustled about—and lately, they all seemed to be suffering from the same bizarre affliction.
Its name: “It’s all my fault” Syndrome.
“As His Highness’s personal physician, I failed to protect his health! This old man no longer deserves to live!”
“Disease stems from an unclean environment. This is all my fault as the head maid. I will return all my titles and property to the Golden Cloud Palace and live out the rest of my life as a hermit—please, grant me permission!”
“Ah! If only my sword had reached true mastery, I could have cut down even the illness tormenting His Highness! And yet I call myself both his guard and his martial instructor? I’m more useless than the kitchen knife the old cook uses!”
Watching this spectacle, the archdemon could only say:
“...What is wrong with these people?”
Lucidra was genuinely creeped out.
People get sick. It happens. But this level of overreaction? Really?
Even more absurd was the crown prince’s response.
Cough, cough. “A ruler bears all responsibility. If you are guilty, then I am guiltier still. Let us speak no more of this.”