# 348
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Engineering words were spit out from the mouth of Xian, who insisted that Asuka could not be heard even if he died. Asuka frowned.
“Hey, you hid it too. “I didn’t know you were Rodrile either.”
“Honestly, even if I hid it, I would know it if I did some research on spirit wizards. You completely hid it, right?
In return, I am brought to the imperial palace without any rat or bird knowing, and I am in a crisis with no idea what will happen. “Can you guarantee my personal safety?”
If there had been a choice in that situation, there would have been more things that could have been done than in a situation where magic could not be used.
It was Sian who regretted following him for no reason.
Asuka threw up her hands and confessed.
“…I can’t guarantee my personal safety, so how can I guarantee your personal safety?”
“Shameless bastard!”
Helmut’s situation was interesting anyway, but Asuka’s situation was not.
Asuka scratched her head and finally blurted out something.
“Anyway, I was born with royal blood.”
“No way.”
Xian’s eyes widened. Asuka made a disgusted expression.
“You might want to ask me if I’m the prince, but I’m not.”
Xian narrowed his eyes.
“Then the crown prince?”
“No!”
Asuka screamed. He hesitated for a moment and then scratched his nose.
“Do you have to listen to it?”
“Okay, tell me. “I won’t be able to hide it anymore.”
“Actually, I…”
And so the story about the secret of Asuka’s birth suddenly unfolded.
It was an unfamiliar story for Xian to hear and an unfamiliar story for Asuka to say.
Emperor of the Deus Empire. If you are the ruler of the only empire on the continent, the weight of that position is not light.
The current emperor came to the throne about 8 years ago when Asuka and Xian were children.
Although there was no overt competition or successor war, the process was uneven.
There were many desperate struggles beneath the surface, and the current emperor also had to go through many near-death crises.
The person who had his back at all times was the current Emperor’s only half-brother, the current Archduke Farnese.
The current emperor’s time as crown prince showed signs of being difficult from the beginning.
The former Empress, whose health suffered greatly after giving birth to Archduke Farnese, died young, and the new Empress gave birth to a prince not long after.
The former empress’s family was a prestigious noble family in the empire, but the family of the empress who became the second empress was a marquis family, one of the most powerful families in the empire.
The indifferent emperor designated the crown prince, who had shown outstanding qualities as a monarch since childhood, as his successor, but that was all.
He did not protect his two sons who lost their mother at an early age. Anyone who becomes emperor must show that he or she is worthy of the position.
Because of that, the position of crown prince was always a thorny path, and he had to protect his younger brother in the meantime.
The younger brother grew up to become the crown prince’s dependable right-hand man.
Archduke Farnese was currently the closest person to the emperor and was the only person who could sit alone with the emperor and directly influence his decisions.
“So you are the son of the great Archduke Farnese? “Imperial bloodline?”
“…okay.”
Asuka’s face was still frowning as she answered. Like you want to separate yourself from that fact.
Although he did not openly sacrifice the heads of those who opposed him on the execution platform, the current emperor also underwent purges before and after ascending to the throne.
Many members of the royal family who sided with the 3rd prince lost their titles and property and were exiled or deprived of their status.
Because of this, there were very few members of the royal family in the current Deus Empire.
Considering the fact that the current emperor has only two princes and one princess, this also means that Asuka is a high-ranking heir to the throne.
Xian, who had thought up to that point, was shocked and spoke as if he had realized something.
“Are you saying you too can become the emperor of the empire?”
Perfect! Asuka’s punishment followed immediately. Asuka hit the back of Xian’s head and immediately covered his mouth.
“Hey, if you go around talking like that.”
Eup!
Xian nodded as if he understood. There is no guarantee that no one will be listening to what they say.
Because Xian has lost his magic, he cannot confirm it.
“It hurts so bad.”
“I don’t want to hit a weak guy like you. “Be careful with your mouth.”
Normally, I would have kept my mouth shut due to the situation, but I thought calmly that it must have passed on to Asuka.
The situation was so confusing and shocking.
“But that doesn’t make sense. “How did the son of Archduke Farnese grow up to be a commoner?”
Asuka insisted that she was a commoner, saying she was raised as a commoner.
If he were the son of Archduke Farnese, shouldn’t he have grown up in the imperial palace or at least in a mansion in the archipelago?
According to popular fiction, if he were the secret son of an emperor or crown prince, he would have been raised as a commoner, but in the case of Archduke Farnese, he is still somewhat removed from political strife.
It may be a weakness, but isn’t it unusual to keep it hidden?
“Because I wasn’t born to an officially married couple. “My name was officially registered in the imperial register when I was ten years old.”
“then?”
“I didn’t know I was of imperial lineage either. For a very long time. I just grew up normal. As for how that happened….”
Asuka’s story followed. He also wanted to tell someone someday.
About his eventful story. It was quite natural that that person became my closest friend.
Xian listened to Asuka’s story in silence.
“I was born and raised in a small town in the northern part of the empire. It’s a small town far from the city. “My mother raised me there alone.”
My mother was an elegant and beautiful woman, unusual for a village girl.
Her mother’s father, Asuka’s grandfather, was a knight, so he could be said to be a nobleman.
He was only a one-generation nobleman, and after his grandfather retired, it became difficult to even call him a nobleman.
Sian quietly complained.
“You say you’re a commoner?”
“So, my grandfather is a knight and my mother is a commoner. Even though she’s the daughter of a retired knight, she’s not particularly treated as a noble person, right? “If we put it that way, isn’t Rodil the royal family of Green Cana?”
“That’s right.”
Asuka continued speaking as Xian nodded.
Anyway, because of that, her grandmother taught her mother strictly, and her mother grew up to be a dignified and bright girl, not typical of a village girl.
The story of how such a mother met her father, Archduke Farnese, could be called fate.
“It seems that my father, who was the second prince, visited the northern part of the empire for some important business at the time. They say that was a great help to His Majesty the Crown Prince. Then, he was chased by an assassin sent by the late Empress. He killed the assassin, but he was hit by an arrow in his back and fell unconscious on his horse. “The horse kept moving with my father on it, and then my grandfather, who was out hunting, and my mother, who followed him, happened to find my father.”
My father didn’t look like an ordinary person, and his sword and clothes were luxurious. I could tell right away that this was something unusual.
But how can you leave a dying person alone?
They moved my father to their own home and treated him in secret.
My grandfather, who was a knight, had expensive magic potions on hand, and that was how my father saved his life.
The first thing that caught my father’s eyes after he was brought back to life after death was a beautiful and bright woman.
Moreover, if the woman saved his life and took good care of him, it would be natural to be attracted to him.
My father, who was obedient to my mother and exuded an inexplicable dignity, exuded a charm that was comparable to that of the village youth I had ever seen.
The two quickly fell in love, and the father had an informal wedding with the mother there.
Not long after the wedding, Asuka was born. My father was worried.
How could the royal bloodline grow in such a small town?
Asuka was his legitimate child since he had sworn an oath of engagement in the name of God.
However, if you take her to a system where there is a war over the succession rights of a woman with no power, you cannot know when or how she will die.
Her father swore in the name of the royal family that he would formally take her and Asuka away after everything was stable.
Since he couldn’t stay there forever without reporting his life or death, he had to leave the village and leave his pregnant mother behind.
That doesn’t mean that my father didn’t look at their hats at all.
A few times a year, Asuka saw a man called her father who visited her secretly.
He searched for them very carefully and with very few attendants, so Asuka did not know that her father was a member of the royal family.
This is because the entire family hid the fact from Asuka out of fear that young Asuka might leak out.
Asuka thought of her father as just a rich merchant or something like that.
He was simply dissatisfied with the fact that his father was leaving his mother like a widow.
Anyway, Asuka’s childhood was full of fun. Because life in the village was free and happy.
But finally the day came. The day when the current emperor ascends to the throne and the second prince ascends to the throne of Farnese and officially welcomes his hidden wife and child.
The father, wearing luxurious clothes that they had never seen before, spoke to them with a smile.
‘Now we are together.’
Surrounded by numerous knights and soldiers, Asuka boarded the carriage with her tearful mother.
In this way, Asuka achieved a rapid rise in social status at the age of only ten. It was a rise in status that I never wanted.
A boy who was playing freely in a small town was suddenly locked in a prison without bars.
Delicious food, good bedrooms, nothing could compare to the freedom Asuka was deprived of.
The numerous educations and oppressive life one must receive as a member of the royal family.
Her father was strict, so was her tutor, and her mother was unable to take care of Asuka because she was unable to accept her changed life.
It all seemed like a disaster to Asuka.
Xian concluded simply.
“So you’re crooked.”
“My father was unnecessarily responsible.”
Asuka grumbled.
