Chapter 31 - Low-key OR and his name is… (1)
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A feast for the announcement of the new heir…
Why did no one tell me this?
I'm relieved!
It has nothing to do with me!
-Moar! Hey! Moar!
I was so deep in my thoughts that brain.exe stopped responding.
The actions I did when spacing out were visibly mechanical as it seems that I'm not at the entrance anymore.
-Hmm?
-Are you fine?
Before me is one of the princes candidates for the succession.
Something is not right: his look is worried and full of goodwill!
-Drink a bit of wine, that'll help you to clear your mind.
It's plain to see: candidate + wine = poison!
I create another cup and put half of the wine in it. I give him that cup.
-Go on, drink first!
Knowing that he was totally seen through, his expression changes from warm and amicable to cold and he quickly leaves my part of the room.
I put the cups on a table to free my hands, and start scratching my nonexistent beard like the 8 years old sage I am.
Ha ha ha! Keikaku doori!
I hear behind me the sound of a body falling!
The time it takes me to turn around, a second body falls.
These are two naive candidates who drank the cups I put down.
Anyway, seeing how they openly drank from a random cup on a table, they were going to die anyway, so it's kind of a blessing for them to die in such a non-painful way.
Oh, it may be more painful than I thought.
In the end, they were spasming, akin to fishes out of the water, under the effect of the poison for almost 30 minutes!
Except for this, the event is pretty boring, so in order to get time to feel faster, I eat a pack of home-made dried salty pistachio.
These are mages, and they're able to hold on for quite long without breathing.
Right when they are about to die, I use my addiction law to manipulate the poison. This poison can be considered as a d**g, so it's okay.
I save them at the last moment.
I take them as subordinates under contract, and I don't take no for an answer. They owe me their life and as such should dedicate it to me.
Once this matter is settled, I ask some things my "step-brothers"/slaves, I, of course, asked first about their status, so I could be sure of how to use them.
Yes, they almost died because of me, so what?
What I asked after this was pretty basic questions to get some information about the situation.
So I learn some interesting things:
-This feast was organized by the emperor because master is now the first in the succession line.
Eh?
Wait…
I have a higher status than him, by being a friend of his master. Wasn't the emperor supposed to be like flying in a rage? Or try to get rid of me discreetly? I expected everything but that! It looks like he's KIND! He was the only survivor of the precedent succession war, wasn't he? He shouldn't be kind if he survived! Or maybe there wasn't much of a succession war in his generation? Was he an only child?
There must be something fishy!
After thinking about it for a while... Yes, it was in hundredths of a second but it's not my fault if my brain is too powerful! Einstein compared to me is a little s**t!
Cough! Hmm, so I was saying, he must want to try and obtain my favor to get closer to the Hippie and Dolfy… Yes! Dolfy! My friend Adolf! I found him a little nickname, it's Dolfy!
But well let's go back to what I really am thinking…
I WANTED TO BE LOW-KEY!!!!!
- Writer
