I will not become an errand boy!
…… It is not easy to support a woman and a baby…
“A baby is not a children, such a being without benefit is useless and exactly like a curse…truly, the word of Ha.s.san-aniue”
Lying down at the splendid carpet of imperial villa, Shou remember his past live.
Karin-aniue who left the imperial villa since he already at the age of independence, Shou worried about Ha.s.san-aniue who act like he own the whole place.
Saying many bad thing to to Nash who his cousin sister is married to Karin, and making Shou his errand boy since his mother married to Rashindo who is his grandfather enemy’s
Normal, all the prince will eat at the same table, but since Ha.s.san is the oldest he takes the top seat.
But, Rajikk who is younger take the seat near the top chair beside me, the trouble not even over yet.
“It because you turn down my offer.
Offering a ship, There will be no chance like this.
even if you bow your head now, you will only get a small ship at most”
Rajikk who get a ship by Ha.s.san grandfather by accepting his offer trying to make Shou to accept it too.
“Eh~, if i get a ship from Ha.s.san-aniue grandfather, all my life will be your errand boy.
Rajikk-aniue too, you should think it again about the ship”
Hearing that, Rajikk shiver when he think what would happens if he say that he doesn’t need a ship right now
“You really are a fool Shou”
“Since there are no backing for me, i don’t have any bound to anyone.
Nash-aniue and Rajikk-aniue too probably doesn’t have too much confident on either Ha.s.san-aniue or Karin-aniue.
But, i can’t refuse if it something that concerning my mother’s hometown.
I’m went to the island and meet my grandfather, working by catching fish and searching for fruit, and Minister of military affair Zahan won’t be able to effect the merchant anymore it give me a peace of mind.
If i am allowed, i want to life a carefree life on the Mario island.
I wonder why mother left the island.
A emerald sea and a white sand, it’s as if like a island on the heaven….”
As usual, Rajikk doesn’t know whether the youngest child is sharp or dull.
It’s not because he doesn’t fear the minister of military affair Zahan or whether he is being investigate or not, but it’s his lack of ambition that similar like father that make him shocked.
“He may be a dark horse.
Which remind me that HE is father youngest child”
Hearing his elder brother mutter’s, Shou who already finish his martial arts practice flew to the sea with Sanzu.
“Rajikk, where is Shou?”
Ha.s.san who want to make Shou do his errand boy since he can fly with the dragon.
“Oh, He flew with the dragon”
“Useless fellow.
I intend to make him to Celeb island and buy some cheese since it’s still fresh and delicious”
“Celeb island’s cheese huh? a fresh cheese certainly delicious.
It’s good too when you eat it with a fruit…Ow!”
“Dumba.s.s! you can’t eat it like that”
Rubbing his head, Rajikk who want to eat it wonder if he should buy it.
“Your face is showing what you are thinking.
Miya love the Celeb island Cheese after all.
And father too sometime bring it as a present, it’s should be able to make a good impression”
“Ha.s.san-aniue sure is smart”
Ha.s.san is quite please by being praised by Rajikk, But he tough that Miya will see his through about Shou being an errand boy.
there is a benefit from being a good term with Ha.s.san , Rajikk will regret if there is can’t even be nominated as father successor, so he need to stop thinking only what he see.
I cannot but sigh in the lack of liveliness on the grandfather eyes who bet on a loser horse at.
at that time, Shou enjoy bathing in the sea with Sanzu.
While also there is a sea near the imperial villa, but if he is seen playing on the sea but Ha.s.san-aniue he will have to do his errand, so he can only enjoy on the sea a farther away from the Imperial villa.
“This is fun”
“i didn’t know that dragon can swim.
but, you are much slower then when you are flying~”
Shou think that while he doesn’t have any ship, he can somehow menage to get some money.
“Fresh, stuff…only fresh fish comes to my mind.
Un, if we go to Famini island to the south, i’m sure it will be cold…. i wonder if there is an ice?…talking about ice…shaved ice… i’m sure it will make a great profit on the Leyte since it was hot on there”
….. I want to eat strawberry milk..
Shou who has his head full of strawberry milk, rushes Sanzu.
“After we go home to the imperial villa, i want to study the map.
and a nap”
“Sea bathing and a nap is a set.
You should able to sleep in this warm sand.”
“On the imperial villa there is also sands.
Hey, I want to sleep on sand in the Imperial villa”
Saying that to make Sanzu stop pouting, Show hasten his speed.
“Un, There is quite a distance…will the ice melts?”
Before that, It’s impossible for me to carry all this…it’s also useless if you need to bring someone to pick up the ice on Sanzu”
There also a need to pay the person and Shou who is a prince doesn’t have any money.
….i’m sure i AM a prince.
and i can’t even buy something to eat…
If it’s in the Imperial villa, everything being taken care off by the attendant just like when i go to the Rashindo mansion to meet mother, i’m too being taken care by the attendant.
Only when i got the Mario island i was given a bag and a bread, when i go back, grandfather give me some money and foods.
“Isn’t this bad? i didn’t know the market prices even though by the 15 year old i have to be independent ”
Shou is troubled to since there is a need for fund to open an ice shop.
“Oh so this is where you are? i need you to do some errand for me”
…Geh, he is caught by Ha.s.san-aniue when he was thinking inside the library…
Even tough dejectedly, Shou got moneymaking tips from Ha.s.san-aniue.
“Fresh cheese from Celeb island?
I always like it, but i didn’t notice it.
it may be take times to deliver it to the royal palace even using a boat, if i’m using dragon i can do it faster!”
…….the problem is i don’t have any money….
While being used as the errand boy by Ha.s.san-aniue. i feel quite sad since there isn’t any relative that give me some pocket money.
Shou is stubborn when it comes asking help to mother or Rashindo since he will be a bother.
…..Should i sell some furniture on the imperial villa….
But if was caught, Miya will angry at me..
I’m fine being scolded by father, but i don;t want to disappoint Miya who raise me with love, so i will give on selling the furniture.
On that night, Fresh cheese from the celeb island is served with fruit on the Imperial villa.
“This is my treat”
….Without being told, Ha.s.san-aniue favor’s going up…
Eating the fresh cheese with a mango, the taste is so delicious making Shou forget all the bad thing and focus eating”
“This is delicious, Ha.s.san-aniue thanks for the treat”
Unlike Shou with his usual carefree at.i.tude, Nash and Rajikk cannot even enjoy the cheese.
Ha.s.san thinks it’s regrettable because if the youngest child is more lovely he want to hug him.
……..there is n.o.body who likes a dog who doesn’t shake their tail……
Shou’s like Salim-aniue and he is close with Karin-aniue to the point they have hug with each other, but for some reason he always keep his distance with Ha.s.san which me him frustrated.
…..I wonder if i can get a pocket money from Salim-aniue…
To Shou who depended at the idea so much, but turn out to be a fail one.
“It’s too bad, you already come this far but Salim-sama is out for trading”
It said that he won’t be back for about several week, Shou came home with dejected heart.
“even i’m going back to the imperial villa, i will only just be the errand boy by Ha.s.san-aniue.
Should i got to town? i’m still doesn’t know the market price”
Even the attendant is told to go back, they doesn’t leave since it’s bad if something happened.
…… I should have gone out with Sanzu ……
Because i was going to Salim-aniue residence, and since i failed to not make the attendant follow me i click my tongue. well it’s can’t be helped as i walk toward the bazaar.
“There is a lot of people, Be sure to not getting lost”
The attendant stop to indicate this is where the prince can stop, Shou jump off from the horse and go to the fair inside the bazaar.
Sixth prince as he may, but he is still the son of king Aslan, the attendant have to keep watching around in case something happens
“eh~ there is various being sold here”
First time in a bazaar, Shou feel cheerful.
Tableware being sold beside a stall that sell many colorful clothes, the fragrant of food, the smell of spice, all this make Shou so engross with the bazaar while walking relentlessly.
Shou is raised in the royal palace and even though he is just a child, he wear a very splendid clothes and a splendid katana is held on his wrist.
And, He is surrounded by the attendant which is also his guard and this make the bazaar’s attention focus on him
“Look’s delicious~”
Looking at the sheep that being grilled, Shou stopped in front of the stall which located near the bread stall.
“Kid, this is indeed delicious”
Hearing the man’s voice from the stall, Shou ask the price.
“10 chim”
“Eh, let’s see, if 10 chim…1 mach is 100 chim so…”
The shopkeeper is chase away Shou who stand still in front of the shop while he think about the money becuase the shopkeeper think that Shou is being hindrance for his business.
“That’s rude!”
Shou stopped the attendant that getting angry and ask whether there is some money.
“You can’t spend you pocket money for thing like snack!”
Far from snacks, he intend to use his pocket money to start his
“Hey, how much a wage for one person who is the best at his work?”
To become an attendant for the royal palace, first you have to successfully pa.s.s the ident.i.ty and background check, circ.u.mstance like lower or high cla.s.s doesn’t matter.
“I can’t really say specifically since there is a lot of variety of work out there and it’s rude if i answered indiscriminately”
Shou think that the attendant were at a good shape which remind Shou that he really doesn’t know anything.
……Because the shaved ice is fit for the common people, i can’t really sell it very expensive.
But, since there is a need to bring the ice all the way here, at least i have to make it so the ice can turn into quick profit even tough just small profit.
or i could do another thing….
“oh yeah, if it’s Rashindo-sama or Miya-sama they must know how much salary for common person.
Marche little sister Marilyn is was born too recently and i haven’t see her, i should go to Rashindo-sama house”
The attendant feel relieved that Shou intended to go the Rashindo-sama mansion.
Even though Shou who has a lovely face is a good child but they need to keep watching him in case something like abduction or stomachache because of eating too much food which will be a trouble.
“Mother, the other day i went to the Mario island and meet grandfather”
Ruby heard the story where Shou is going to the solitary island where her parent his and ask whether her father is healthy.
“Yes, he is healthy.
Though i suddenly visit him, he is very kind enough and give me a souvenir like the dried fish.
AH, i should bring some to mother next time”
Ruby who grown up eating fish is already tired of it and laugh while saying it’s okay.
“Oh yeah, i should ask mother.
I’m ashamed to say, I do not understand value of the money.
Do you know a common man works, and how much you gain?”
Mother who is a common people may know something but i’m forget that she was raised on an isolated island.
“I don’t really know since I’m never hold much money to begin with.
On the Mario island we still using bartering.
after going to the royal palace, i immediately lives on the Rashindo-sama residence and that’s why I’m never have a money”
“Bartering huh?…truly island that like a heaven.
Why mother doesn’t lives in the royal palace with father”
It’s a good chance to ask how a daughter from the chief of a small island doesn’t want to lives in the inner palace.
“To Shou who lives in the royal palace, Mario island looks like heaven for you isn’t it?
I was born on the small island which is why i was yearning for the outside world.
If i am a man than i can be a sailor but for a woman like me, marrying the neighborhood is the only way for me.
at that time, Aslan-sama come to the Mario island to investigate about the ship wreck nearby.
Father notice that i hate to marry the people from the island, and as for reward helping the investigation he ask Aslan sama to take me along”
Shou amazed how daring his grandfather is and how uneasy for mother to suddenly enter the inner palace.
“Since i intend to leave the royal palace before long, i followed him willingly.
Since a woman first marriage is decided by her parent, at least i want to chose for myself for the second times.
You are entrusted to Miya and i have my reluctant to marry Rashindo since i can’t take a prince out.
To obtain something i have to lose something, and i amble to have and raise Marche and Marilyn myself, I’m till think that what i do to Shou is terrible tough”
Though Shou feel lonely because he doesn’t have a mother beside him but he always loved by Miya and the court lady, and Shou shake his head.
“When mother given birth to me is when you are 16 year old.
and father isn’t coming back home to you so it’s normal to marry people like Rashindo.
And i was cherished by Miya and the court ladies so you can relived since i’m okay”
Comfort by her 8-year old son, Ruby thinks she must express her grat.i.tude for Miya who raised him.
But it’s a bad luck for Shou since he came all the way here but Rashindo is currently away and Hermia is so busy that Ruby holding back to ask for a bit of her time.
In the end, He play with his little brother Marche and see the face of his little sister instead of talking about money.
In the evening Rashindo heard that he just missed each other with Shou since he was going home and feel regret.
“i want to talk about a lot of thing with Shou-sama.
rather than that stupid meeting i shouldn’t even go.
Ruby, the next time Shou-sama is visiting please inform me right away.
Hermia too, even if you busy with your work please leave it and inform me too”
To ruby, even though he just a kid but he is also a prince and worried about him.
“Rashindo-sama, is Shou being a burden if he comes here….”
“Don;t say such a thing.
There is something that i and Hermia want to talk to with Shou-sama.
That person, He may able to easily charm other people.
it’s like King Aslan on that aspect….”
Ruby is worried about what Rashindo just said.
“Is there something bad happening with that child…”
Rashindo, aside being beautiful, he marries Ruby also becuase the mother of a prince who has the compatibility with wind magic but even if like that, he also cherish here becuase she is a woman who have a gentle mind.
“You don’t have to worry about anything.
Youngest child as he is, but he show that he have the most excellent power and ability.
Now, it’s all up to King Aslan what to decide, i don’t think we can say anything at this point.
Even if Shou-sama older brother who will become the successor, he still be loved”
Rashindo hug ruby who still anxious and tell a little lie to calm her down.
Though it’s likely that Prince-Salim or Prince-Salim who will succeed the throne, but he was disgusted by the idea if there any chance that Prince Ha.s.san will succeed the throne.
…..I still think that there s no way that king Aslan will chose Prince Ha.s.san…
Even at today meeting he prefer Karin as the successor rather than Ha.s.san, but the Merchant who angry at the tyrannical behavior of minister of military affair Zahan show rejection.
The voice to recommend the prince Salim never came out during the meeting, Rashindo sighed when he look at the current condition.
I thought that i prefer to became Prince Salim sponsor, but even if he has gentle and honor student personality he is lacking the power to move forward.
….Therefore as insurance i make my daughter to marry Prince Karin.
Though Prince Shou is the highest at the term of power and ability but i wonder why he lack of ambition…
Rashindo who see Ruby sleeping peacefully beside him, though she gave birth to a prince with the compatibility at wind magic, it seem she still regret leaving the Inner palace but he sigh when she married him with the lack of ambition.
However, Rashindo haven’t notice that Shou is determined to fight Ha.s.san way of doing thing.
Shou who just return to the imperial villa, it seem Ha.s.san is criticize Salim way of business.
Though he didn’t know what Nash and Rajikk said, but Shou make a declaration at the Imperial villa with angry face.
“I will not become your errand boy!”
The elder brother’s surprise seeing Shou yelling like that who never even get angry before, Ha.s.san guessed because they are insulting Salim-aniue.
“What with that att.i.tude! even though you’re just someone whose born by a woman form an isolated island it normal for you to be a fool, but don’t you know how to respect the elder!?”
Ha.s.san insult the way of Salim-aniue since he think that his elder brother is doesn’t have the quality to become a merchant, Shou become more aggressive.
Ha.s.san didn’t notice that Shou ambition is slowly grow bigger.
TLN: By the eldritch G.o.d this chapter is f.u.c.king long