“Sieghart.”
“Long time no see, Father. …Brother as well.”
Immediately after returning, I asked for an audience.
I assumed that I had to wait for several days, but it seems that Brother was currently talking with Father, so the permission was given earlier.
I was still tired from the trip, but this was better done as soon as possible.
I decided to go and now I was meeting both of them in the King’s office.
Blonde hair and purple eyes.
My father and elder brother had very similar colors.
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—Slyzzu.
Ls xyvvla bso usw zssj yv kv, Jasvbla oyp vbl sdl obs oyp pwrrsple vs cl vbl nasod rakdnl.
Jwv obu eke vbkp nsdqzknv snnwa?
“… Fkltbyav.”
Mbl sdl obs nyzzle xu dyxl oyp dsdl svbla vbyd xu lzela casvbla.
Gqvla R vbswtbv ycswv kv, kv oyp vbl qkapv vkxl R bye xlv bkx kd rlapsd yde blyae bkx nyzz xu dyxl.
Mbyv oyp fwpv bso kpszyvle ol olal, yzvbswtb ol olal nzspl yp y akhyz obs nsxrlvle qsa vbl vbasdl.
“Brother, this is the first time we talk to each other. Since I was little, I wanted to talk to you at least once, but it had not been possible.”
It was not a lie. Since I knew that I had an elder brother, I wanted to meet him. However, at that time, I was told coldly by the maid that I could not meet the first prince and then retreated together with Lily.
As I said so, my elder brother widened his eyes.
And Father who sat beside him wrinkled between his eyebrows.
“Don’t you know… that I invited you to tea parties several times before?”
“Ha…? What do you mean?”
“You said you wanted to meet me, but why did you never come?”
“I don’t know what you are talking about. I have never been to any tea party. We were always spending our time in that detached villa. During that time, I had never received any letter from Brother nor Father. We also never received any reply of our letters from both of you.”
I said so as a response to Brother’s statements.
No matter how many letters we write, we never receive a reply.
Not even Mother’s letter.
That’s why the three of us always had a tea party together.
I remembered my mother laughed happily, but also looked lonely.
Someday, we stopped writing the letter.
Because I noticed that although we continued hoping, it would only end in betrayal.
And I focused on the strange world that Lily told me and worked hard to make it come true.
“… Elise, she didn’t bear a grudge against me…? I heard she became close with the knight who visited regularly.”
Father asked about Mother with a painful expression.
“With a knight? I don’t know what you are talking about, but Mother always waits for Father to come. It is impossible that she was being unfaithful. … Even now, I think she is still waiting.”
As I answered Father’s question, the wrinkles between his eyebrows were getting deeper.
I had never heard that Mother was being unfaithful with a knight. In contrast, Mother said that the King had lost interest in herself.
From the conversation just now, I rethought both Brother’s and Father’s expressions, and I became puzzled.
—There is something wrong.
Nothing was connected in our conversation just now.
Our brother was inviting us to the tea parties, and Father didn’t forget about Mother.
But the news that was given to us in the detached villa was always the sad reality.
“Your elder brother hates you who are more excellent than him.”
“The king doesn’t do anything because he doesn’t love you.”
Who was saying those words to us?
I couldn’t remember the face. Those words had been imprinted since I was little.
“… We are deceived.”
The one who said so and then made a big sigh was Father.
He stood up from his seat and then moved to the reception in front of the office and sat on the sofa.
“Richard, Sieghart, come here.”
When we were called, we sat on the sofa that was meant for three people in front of our father. I took a glance at my elder brother who was not similar to me as we had different mothers, and he looked very mature although he was only two years older than me.
“… Sieghart, no, Sieg. Tell me about what had happened until now. Start from the time when the three of you stopped coming here.”
“… I understand.”
Encouraged by Father, I started talking.
About Mother, my sister, and me. We living with a limited number of servants.
The day when I was poisoned, and my trusted knight’s banishment.
About the unknown people who told us about Father’s and Brother’s antagonism.
I didn’t tell them about Lily’s secret, but besides that, I told them all of it. That included the assassination attempt on the way back at the inn which was secured by our own people, where a local thug invaded my room and aimed for my life.
“… And because of that, I was tired of being targeted for the succession of the throne, so I think it is better to urgently make me the subject of the state.”
It was the words that I promised Anna to tell both Father and Brother.
After talking about all of it, silence fell into the room.
Both of them had been silent and they looked like they didn’t know anything.
But it was already too late. Although they did know about it now, they couldn’t change what happened in the past.
“Sieghart… I didn’t know anything… but I had been jealous of you… since I heard that you are an excellent prince. But believe me. I have never tried to harm you to get into the throne. That plan… I had never given such an order.”
Brother’s voice quivered as he looked straight at me.
Ah, it is a beautiful purple color. As I looked at his beautiful eyes, I knew that he was the one who was suitable for the throne.
And I felt a little bit relieved when I knew that Brother was not involved in the assassination.
“Father, what do you think about it?”
As Brother asked the question, my father who was pondering something looked towards us.
It felt like the last time I saw Father was when Lily was born.
“… Before, there was someone who asked for a hand of marriage to Lily. Ah, if I’m not mistaken, he was also the one who told me that Elise was closed with a knight… I thought that he was my friend and I trusted him, but…”
When Father squinted and said so, suddenly, the door of the office was knocked loudly as it was going to be broken.
“Your Majesty! Excuse me! I heard that the second prince was asking for an audience, but I think we should reject—-!”
The man who had dark blonde hair with some gray hair behind and wore silver-rimmed glasses to show his coldness entered the King’s office loudly and then widened his eyes when he found me.
“Prime Minister. So it was you who is trying to take control over the royal family. How dare you deceive me until now…!”
Father’s voice towards that man was trembling with anger.
And I remembered. It was this person. He often came to our villa, making a sad face, and told Mother that there was no contact from the King, complimenting that I was better than my brother, always saying things that would drive extra hatred.
However, I recently knew that he was actually coming from the first prince’s fraction.
“Your Majesty, what are you saying? I didn’t know what that prince told you, but my loyalty towards the royal family is absolute.”
The expressionless man said so, but he took a step back.
The fact that he was pushing his son to be Lily’s husband meant that he was not only planning to erase me and make the first prince be the future king, but also to drop my elder brother from the throne, support Lily as a queen, and make his son a consort of her.
And then, he would dominate the puppet government he created— So those were his plot.
“… Sieg. I’m sorry for not noticing until now. Partly, it was because I was stubborn. From now on, let’s become siblings. You, Lily, and I.”
While Father was letting out his rage towards the prime minister after he stood up, my elder brother who sat beside me called me by my nickname and showed his smile.
good ending for neighbour kingdom plot