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Two days later, Raphine went to Hwangseong with her mother, not alone.

'I'm not going to paint today.'

Today, I was planning to visit Zerkan and play with them.

Originally, I was going to come with Adrian and Violet, but they were busy being educated by the same teacher.

'I came with my mother today, so even the emperor cannot come to fight a couple.'

Raphine, you're a child, so it's okay to let it go for a while, but you can't show the Duchess how the Emperor and the couple fight.

"Then I will go to Zerkan's brother. I miss my brother!"

At Raphine's words, the Empress smiled and beckoned to the maid.

Sophia also had a conversation with Raphine before coming to the Imperial Palace, so she said, "Go." and waved his hand tenderly.

Raphine took the handmaiden's hand and headed to the West Palace where the Crown Prince was staying.

And looking at the large statue of the first emperor standing in front of him, he greeted himself inside.

'Mister Hi.'

At first I was terrified to see this statue, but not anymore.

It was because I got used to it as I came here quite often.

When I entered the building with the maid, the courtiers who had been contacted in advance led me to the drawing room.

"Your Majesty the Crown Prince will be training. You may have to wait a bit. Are you okay?"

At the servant's words, the Empress's handmaiden had expected it in advance, but she had a troubled expression on her face.

Raphine said while holding the maid's hand tightly.

"I'm OK. I will wait."

"all right."

Raphine entered the drawing room and sat down on a soft sofa. Soon the servant brought the tea, and the maid skillfully brewed the tea.

Raphine said as she eagerly ate the dessert.

"I want to watch the Crown Prince take classes. Can't we be quiet and look at it from afar?"

"Oh, do you miss the Crown Prince like that?"

Raphine nodded at the maid's words.

The maid who smiled, saying it was cute, then nodded her head. It was a look with an unknown will.

The maid took Raphine's hand and asked the servants to arrive in front of the library.

'You're teaching in the library. Because there are many books to refer to.'

Raphine said as she let go of the maid's hand.

"I will go in alone. Sister, please watch the net."

"Oh, I see. miss. cheer up!"

The maid gave her unidentified support and encouraged Raphine.

Confused, Raphine entered the library. Then he crept towards the center where the sun was shining. Then suddenly, the steps stopped.

"What the hell are you talking about!"

An old man's voice was heard. Raphine narrowed her eyes and went through the bookshelf and hid herself.

Then, the gears moved to a place where the central desk was clearly visible.

"How much, how disappointing, Your Majesty! You just can't solve this one problem...!"

As he poked his head out, an old man, who looked as bubbly as his voice had predicted, was voicing his enthusiasm.

It was surprising to see such a loud voice coming out of such a skinny, skewered body.

The old man with thick glasses must have been Zerkan's education teacher.

'I knew this was going to happen.'

Like Adrian and Violet, at that age, the nobles gradually attached tutors to educate their children.

Not to mention Zerkan. As the Crown Prince, he gave me the best teacher.

'It's a problem because it's an education teacher sent by the empress.'

In the original work, the empress and the empress were in a riot to keep each other's children in check.

In particular, there was a big problem in choosing an education teacher. This is because the situation in which teachers were selected was progressing like a confrontational structure.

The emperor got very angry and suggested that they send each other a teacher.

It seems that they thought that doing so would solve the problem.

'Well, it was resolved on the surface.'

Sending a bad teacher outright would make a difference, so the two of them were very worried.

And the empress wept and sent a good teacher to eat mustard.

It was that grandfather.

'It was said that he was a scholar who compiled the history books of the empire for a long time.'

However, he said that he was such a timid and stubborn person that he had fought loudly even with the previous emperor.

'The Empress tried to send that education teacher to her own hands and died from stomach ache....'

Contrary to expectations, he succeeded in destroying Zerkan.

'In the original story, it was said that Zerkan met a strict education teacher and developed obsessive compulsive disorder, but....'

Now that I see, it was that old man who was one of the culprits that ruined Zerkan's personality, not just obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Hearing what he said quietly, I was amazed.

At the end of each word, the old man repeated these words.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor, how disappointed you must be."

"The nobles are more cunning and smarter than your majesty. Tension, tension again."

"Right now, I am retaining the throne, but I do not know when the second prince will take this position."

"It's only at this level.... Whoa...."

He sighed as well.

A line was drawn on Raphine's forehead.

'That grandfather, you keep saying things that increase Zerkan's anxiety.'

At the end of every word, it was only about hitting and hitting Zerkan again and again.

Even if sometimes complimented.

"Hmm, this is pretty cool. But that's not enough. It's never quite satisfactory."

It wasn't a compliment like this.

Raphine clenched her fists.

Aristocratic children who started education at that age spend almost half of their day with their teachers.

Education teachers teach everything from etiquette to history.

The author is the prince's education teacher, and he will probably teach cesarean studies, as well as various economics, politics, and cultural history.

'We will be together for a long time.'

It would be great to know what caused Zerkan to develop depression symptoms at that age.

'Parents fight every day, and the education teacher who spends the longest time only talks like that....'

If he had been Zerkan, he would have destroyed this country himself someday.

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Zerkan listened to Baron Lengchist repeating the same words like a parrot, and looked down at the paper on which the letters were written.

At one time, when I heard such a sound, my anger simmered inside me.

I was going to tell my mother to change teachers.

'But if that were the case....'

The Empress must have sighed again and expressed disappointment.

If you cut a teacher who seems to have no problem on the surface, it would be like getting a pod by the empress.

So I endured it, and now it doesn't matter.

It didn't affect anything like the bullshit of an old man who would die at my hands anyway.

I thought so.

However, whenever a voice came out of the old man's mouth, "How disappointing your Majesty will be," the heart that had been firmly committed to it broke.

The pain was as if a thin iron skewer was stabbing a secretly hidden wound.

At the same time, a huge weight that I couldn't handle was added to my heart one by one.

'Yes, I have to endure. You must not disappoint your mother.'

In Zerkan's eyes, the current mother was on the edge of a cliff.

'If I fall, my father will hate my mother even more.'

If that happened, the mother would be sad, and the woman would almost laugh at her by pointing a finger at her.

'You have to be strong.'

But every time I made that promise, I used to feel weaker.

A weak heart aroused suspicion.

'Can I?'

The words his father once said while urging him rang in his ears like hallucinations.

"Can you really succeed me? You sound like a badass! How can you still be called the Crown Prince of the Empire!"

Every time he made a small mistake, the emperor was so pushy.

"If you don't become emperor, you will be useless. You always have to be nervous and whip yourself! Only then can you survive. Do you understand?>

The emperor grabbed the younger Zerkan by the shoulders and shouted.

Young Zerkan nodded and thought.

Yes, you have to be emperor.

If I don't become emperor, neither my father nor my mother will leave me.

If you don't want to be alone, you have to do it well. Only then....

That was the moment.

"Grandpa is noisy!"

A young girl's cry suddenly rang out in the library where the old man's hoarse voice was heard.

Zerkan, who was engulfed in thought, turned his head in surprise.

"Whoever makes a lot of noise in the library should be punished!"

Raphine ran over, grabbed Baron Lengchist's beard and began to pull as hard as he could.

"Hey, what...! To this sacred training ground! Aww! aww! Let go of this, where the fuck is that sissy entering the library! Who are you.... Alas!"

"The racist idiot should be punished!"

Raphine pulled the beard as hard as she could and carried the weight. It was tempting to pull them all out.