
What barged in seamlessly was the Blodwyn Valbenzes Knight, Bellion's younger sister herself.
They are from the same father, but their mother is different. The king had four wives with each of his descendants. Their middle name is part of their mother's name.
Apart from them still blood brothers, actually all the descendants of the king are not really friendly with each other. The mask has a back and front face.
“Wah-wah, I did not realize the presence of my poor and disgusting little sister. What are you doing here, Blodwyn?” Bellion did not welcome him well.
'Getting', when Bellion said that, his face was solemnly wrinkled like people wanted to vomit.
“My freedom to do whatever I want. Regardless, aren't you overreacting with all this?”
Bellion's eyebrows twitch in annoyance, “Don't be so familiar. I never considered you family. Then, just like you, this is my freedom to do anything.”
The two exchanged words, Arcturus only looked while signaling to Mary and Alda not to be rash.
In front of them, however, was the royal family. Arcturus may be able to escape with his background, but Mary and Alda are unlikely to be able to.
“Well, I don't care if I have a relationship with you or not,” Blodwyn sighed. “Are you trying to show off your supporters in this way? Looks like you're childish.”
“Hahaha,” Bellion laughs loudly. “Didn't you need to glaze over?”
“Lantas you don't want to be more mature than this childish woman?” Blodwyn snorted mockingly.
A urat appeared on Bellion's forehead and snorted in annoyance.
“Nothing to talk to you.”
Bellion stared exasperatedly at Blodwyn and his gaze ended at Arcturus. Of course Arcturus looked back at him, he had never felt fear for rulers nor the like.
As soon as Bellion left, the nobles who had circled them also rushed to disperse. As expected they showed hostility to Arcturus.
‘Toh, you will fall soon later.’
After finishing the affairs at the Supper of the Moon, Arcturus will prepare the seed that will drop it.
“You okay? I can't believe you dared to oppose the prince.” Blodwyn smiled wryly and heaved a sigh of relief at the same time.
Arcturus became relaxed immediately. To be honest, he was worried that Bellion was starting violence because he lost his temper. Not afraid of being beaten up, Arcturus was more worried that Bellion was beheaded by Alda.
“Thank you for saving me, Miss Blodwyn. I have a bad habit of not holding back when something happens to my family.”
Blodwyn stared meaningfully before staring at the frozen smiling Evelyn.
“Sorry because Brother Bellion made trouble for you.” Blodwyn patted his forehead, walked towards Evelyn and gathered the Mana in her hands immediately.
Evelyn blurted and was puzzled for some time before realizing Blodwyn was patting her shoulder.
“Ah, Princess? Sorry I was not aware of your presence. And, what exactly happened?”
“No,” said Arcturus. “Kak, you should rest first. You seem to be exhausted and it will ruin your health if it is too imposing.”
“Ah, you may be right, my sister. Sorry, Princess, I need to resign even if you just greeted me. Somehow it feels—”
Blodwyn immediately smiled brightly, “No need to hesitate, miss Evelyn. I'm just surprised to see you who are usually cheerful become silent.”
Evelyn was clearly confused due to Bellion's troublesome hypnotic side effects. The person who is detached from his hypnosis will experience confusion and headaches immediately.
“I'll catch up and tell Young Master Liebert. Alda, Mary, please take my sister to the inn.”
“Understanding, Young Master.”
“Alright— understood. But what about you Arc— Young Master?” Alda talked to some things that were wrong because he was not used to it.
“I'll be fine. Go.”
As soon as Mary and Alda left, Blodwyn started talking.
“Young Master Arcturus—”
Blodwyn smiled wryly, “About your previous words, can I take it seriously?”
Arcturus silently smiled. He had not expected Blodwyn to eat his bait this fast.
“Of course I'm serious. I didn't lock myself up without learning anything.”
Learning may be a less than appropriate reason considering Blodwyn never found what he was looking for. So he was almost desperate.
“Then,” Blodwyn closed his eyes for a while before returning to talk. “Can we meet in a more peaceful place?”
“Of course. Much more relieving if not discuss it in place of many ears.”
****
Crachs!
Bellion slammed the glass in annoyance and clucked.
He was in a room specially prepared for her. Liebert who was standing before the door looked at him worriedly.
“Blodwyn damn, he dared to defy me. Besides, what the fuck is that Religious bastard?!”
Bellion did not expect that all the people from the Religion were not afraid of the royal family.
“That bitch turned down my offer even though it was already within my grasp, even her little brother was as jerk as hell!”
Bellion kept on swearing that it was inappropriate for a prince to do that. Only Liebert was allowed to know the nature of this Bellion.
“Do we need to do something about them, prince? We can make it as if there was an accident or something.” Liebert opened his voice.
“For now do nothing. The Arcturus boy was smart enough to know hypnosis and could even avoid it. Besides her bodyguards are pretty brave to me.”
Bellion recalled clearly how the two maids neither bowed nor trembled at him.
“The old servant was known to Mary. I don't know his real name but it seems he is a former royal intelligence.”
Bellion took a breath, sat down on the chair and poured wine in the other glass.
“Then who is that masked woman?”
Liebert lowered her head, “Sorry. I don't know about her, maybe the woman's the new bodyguard. He could also be Arcturus Religia's personal bodyguard and never leave his territory.”
Bellion recalled his meeting. The masked woman was either brave or indeed stupid for almost raising her fists.
“Yeah, that sucks but leave that aside. What about the boy himself. Do you know anything about him?”
Liebert said that information about Arcturus Religia was limited both internally and externally. All there is to it are some good and bad rumors.
“I heard wind news about him being crazy about women. The reason he was not allowed to go out nor attend any formal event was probably because of that.”
Either true or not, but Liebert was, frankly, interested in Arcturus. They may be the same type of person and can be close friends.
“Rumor cannot guarantee. For now don't do anything about him. Focus on our goal of attracting young nobles to my side and acquiring eastern nobles.”
Liebert nodded in agreement, “Don't worry, prince. Everything will go well. Regarding the export of slaves, it seems that we have not met the quota that the empire needs.”
Bellion took a sip of his wine and began to think. The sale of slaves was a dark business for the royal family that did not support slavery, but turned a blind eye to it.
It would have damaged his image during the campaign if it was revealed he was doing slave-selling business.
“Hmm, deploy third parties to kidnap people.”
“You mean, I have to hire people looking for others who will kidnap slaves?”
“Yes, gather the slaves in the usual warehouse. Don't worry about the pay. You can also take some female slaves.”
Liebert smiled happily. The reason he wanted to be under Bellion's hands was because this one prince had no empathy.