Chapter 414 Offer to join (2)
Chapter 414 Offer to join (2)
Once again, I deeply knitted my brows when I heard this.
I looked at the eldest prince with narrowed eyes to see if he was being serious, but he had that calm and careless look like he didn’t care about any of this.
It was as if regardless of what I chose, it wouldn’t affect him at all.
After a pause, I asked, “Are you being serious?”
The eldest prince finally opened his eyes to look at me when he heard this.
He narrowed his eyes slightly to look at me before saying, “I don’t like repeating myself. Since that’s the case, it seems like you have already made your choice.”
He turned to the butler and gave a small nod before saying, “Take care of him.”
The butler gave a nod before there were several armed men that appeared in this room through hidden entrances. All of them had weapons in their hands that they were raising towards me.
At the same time, there was one person with a sack that seemed to be for cleaning up.
I couldn’t help being shocked since I never thought that the eldest prince was such a decisive person.
He was going to kill me just with a few simple words.
But before anyone could do anything, there was someone dressed in servant clothes that came in.
When they saw this, all of the people in this room knitted their brows as they looked at this person.
That person was naturally scared when seeing this, but he still bowed his head as he said in a stammering voice, “Your, your highness. The fourth prince is here.”
As soon as his voice fell, they all knitted their brows even more.
For the first time, the eldest prince lost his calm as he said in a deep voice, “What did you say?”
The servant immediately fell to the ground and lowered his head when he heard this.
He didn’t dare repeat himself at first, but he had no choice when he felt the pressure coming from the eldest prince.
“The fourth, the fourth prince is, is here.”
The eldest prince immediately slammed his fist down on the armrest of the couch before standing up while roaring, “Why is he here?!”
No one said anything since none of them actually had an answer for this.
All of them had shocked looks which made it clear that they never expected things to develop like this either.
The eldest prince looked at the servant who was on the ground and reached his foot up as if he was about to kick him. But before he could send his foot down, there was a knock that came from the door.
Everyone immediately tensed when they heard this knock and looked in the direction of the door.
The door was still open from the servant rushing in, so they were able to see who was standing there.
It was the fourth prince who stood there with a smile on his face and a hand up by the door, which he had used to knock the door earlier.
When they saw the fourth prince standing there, all of them stood there in a daze.
Or at least that was until all of the people who had weapons realized what was happening and immediately put them away. The one with the sack quickly went back into the hidden entrance to the room that he came from and disappeared.
After a long moment of silence, the fourth prince said with a faint smile, “Am I disturbing something here?”
The eldest prince’s expression changed a few times before he revealed a smile of his own and he said, “Fourth brother, of course not. If you told me that you were coming, I would have come to see you.”
The fourth prince just replied, “Well, it was a spur of the moment thing.”
He turned to look at me before saying, “I came here to pick up my friend here, but I didn’t know that you still had business with him.”
In the latter half of his words, the tone of his voice shifted a bit which caused a chill to run down the spines of everyone in this room, including me.
The eldest prince’s smile turned stiff before he said, “No, we don’t have any more business with him.”
The fourth prince gave a nod before turning to me to say, “Then shall we go? Or did you have any other business with my older brother?”
I shook my head and walked over to where the fourth prince was.
As I walked over, I watched the people in the room carefully just in case they tried to make a sudden move. But with the fourth prince here, it wasn’t as if anyone would dare do that.
In fact, they were even feeling pressure from the fourth prince.
It was clear that there was a powerful guard following the fourth prince and if they dared to move, they would be cut down right away.
So of course not a single one of them dared to make a move.
They valued their lives, they wouldn’t throw it away that easily.
After I went to the side of the fourth prince, the fourth prince turned to the eldest prince again and said with a smile, “Eldest brother, since there’s nothing else, I’ll be leaving with my friend now.”
The eldest prince was silent for a bit before he suddenly asked, “Fourth brother, may I ask what business you have with this friend of yours?”
The fourth prince just calmly said, “It’s just some random business, it isn’t anything worth eldest brother’s attention.” But then his eyes turned sharp as he said, “But since he is my friend, I hope that eldest brother won’t have any other matters with him from now on.”
The eldest prince also narrowed his eyes when he heard this.
The two of them just stared at each other in silence for a bit before the eldest prince revealed a smile and said, “Since he is fourth brother’s friend, I won’t make it hard on him.”
The fourth prince gave a nod with a smile before saying, “Then I’ll have to thank eldest brother.”
He swept his gaze across the room and all of the others in that room avoided his gaze.
When his eyes fell on me, he gave a nod before turning to walk out.
I just silently followed behind the fourth prince.
There was nothing that happened at first as we walked away, but then there was a sudden loud sound that came from the room that we just left. It was the sound of something being smashed.
Then following that, there were the sounds of someone cursing in a loud voice.
We couldn’t hear specifically what they were saying, but it was clear that there was hostility in their voice.
But the fourth prince just ignored all of it as he continued walking out of the manor.
It was clearly the eldest prince who was venting his anger after we had left.
The fourth prince led me out of the manor and then over to a carriage parked in front of it.
After we got in the carriage, it headed off in the direction of the residence prepared for the dwarves.
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