Volume 4: Chapter 10: (Patreon)

Volume 4: Chapter 10:

Keith tilted his head, "Why do you need to apologize about Todd?" He was surprised. Why did the girl have to apologize for Todd?

"Don't you know?" Krystal frowned.

"Todd Mills is under my family's control."

"They are?" Keith blinked when he heard that.

"You don't know?" Krystal's frown turned even darker.

Keith scratched his head, "I really don't know much about it." He was pretty much out of the loop with political stuff like this.

"Don't you know about the different noble families?"

"Of course, I know household names and such. I'm not that stupid," Keith commented with a proud expression.

"But you don't understand the structure, right?" Krystal gave him a strange look.

Stab. Keith looked down when he heard that. That was a yes.

"You got me there,"

"Huh?" Krystal grabbed her head, "You should ask the princess about this later on,"

"Okay. But can't you tell me some things?" From how she talked, it seemed Krystal knew a lot more about this than him.

"Fine. But this is the only time," Krystal sighed,

"You understand that the royal family has the most power in our kingdom, right?"

"Yeah," Julius was the king after all. Krystal followed,

"And after that are the grand dukes. That would be your grandparent's family and my family." Grand Duke Rustchil and Grand Duke Bradley.

"The Grand Duke each watches their territory. That also includes monitoring the nobles there as well. We're supposed to be the ones watching over them. So, for something like this to happen was an oversight."

I see. Keith got it now. "It's fine. You did nothing wrong. This was all Count Mills's problem and not yours," It wasn't her family's fault. This was because Count Mills caused all the problems.

"I still want to apologize for all the trouble he caused."

"It's alright. Also, do you want to hang out more often?" Keith asked. Talking with Krystal was fun.

Krystal shook her head, "This will be the only time we will talk to one another."

"Hmm?"

"The two of us are oil and water,"

"Eh?" Keith tilted his head. Krystal didn't say anything as she walked away from Keith. She only wanted to talk with him about the Count Mills incident.

There was no point in talking with him any longer.

Keith scratched his head. Water and oil? What did she mean about this? He took a deep sigh. He couldn't dwell on it as he knew nothing about it.

I need to look around. Keith didn't forget about looking through the city. He was going to find something that could spark some inspiration.

...

While Keith continued to search around the city, looking for inspiration, he didn't know Carolyn and the rest were at the manor.

"Thank you everyone for coming here," Carolyn stated. She was the one who called them here. While Keith was out, she asked the rest to meet up with her.

"Why did you call us here? And shouldn't we include Keith in this?" Jack questioned.

"Eh, he doesn't need to know." Carolyn shrugged.

"What do you need us for?"

"I want to ask if any beastmen got out of line in your class?" This was something she had to talk with them about. When that was said, the others nodded their heads,

"It's happening in our class. The beastmen have been acting out of line these last few days," Sarah sighed. It was surprising.

"What about your class, Arlo?"

"It's the same thing in my class. The beastmen are going crazy as well."

"So it wasn't only our class," Carolyn sighed when she heard that. It was happening to all classes.

"Why are they acting like this?" Jack frowned. It was odd that something like that had happened. Gabriel thought about it,

"I guess it had to do something with Herrick," Herrick was the prince of the beastmen. The others would follow his lead.

"What's wrong with him?" Carolyn shook his head, confused as to why they were doing this. The others didn't say anything either. They were confused as to why he was doing this.

"Wait, does Keith know about this?" Sarah questioned.

Carolyn shook her head, "That guy doesn't know a thing about it. He was spacing out throughout the entire class,"

Keith was too focused on his cart to care about how Herrick acted out in the class.

"Also, I'm afraid that Keith would make things even worse," Carolyn muttered. She knew how Keith operated. That was why she didn't call him here. There was a higher chance of him causing more problems.

"..." The others said nothing. But they thought about it.

Yeah, he might actually cause everything to be worse.