章 6: Chapter 5: A Six Year Old Prince Leadership Part 1
After my two brothers left, I was in the room wielding the demon katana.
As I recall, its name was …, Leviathan.
The Water Magic Katana, Leviathan.
I pulled it out of its scabbard and every time I wielded it, it would pull a light blue afterglow.
It's still too heavy for a six year old me to handle, but it's a decent looking sword, so I'll keep it.
Above all, it was a gift from my brother – the Crown Prince.
It's necessary to show him that I'll take good care of it and show my loyalty to him.
However, it's not something that should be carried around in the house as well.
"Anyone."
I decided to call someone and have them put away the magic sword.
".....Hmm? Anyone?"
I wondered why no one came when I called for them.
I am still the 13th Prince and the master of this mansion.
The servants would always come as soon as I called them.
None came to me.
I looked towards the door to see what was going on and saw one of the servant men standing outside the room with a frightened look on his face.
"What's the matter?"
"No, no. Excuse me…."
The man came in hurriedly.
But his face was pale and his body was trembling in small increments.
Clearly, he doesn't look right.
"'What's wrong?"
"Well, the sword…"
"This Katana? Oh."
When he told me, I remembered the time when my older brother brought this to me.
I remember my brother's servant had turned pale at that time as well.
Immediately after realizing that it was the effect of this katana, the man said the cause of it just as I imagined.
"Looking at it, it feels my whole body freezes terribly and it hurts like a needle prick."
"I see, it was really the influence of the magic sword. Well ….I recall what my brother said...…"
I remember what happened when I got it , and put it in the box.
"How's that now?"
"Oh … a little easier …"
"Okay."
"This is a demonic katana, right? As expected of the master, it's incredible that you can touch it and not feel anything."
"That's why the Crown Prince gave it to me. More importantly, can you have it in a box? Then make sure you put it away."
"I understand!"
The man was still a little pale, but still much better than when I called him.
At my command, he lifted the box containing the magic katana and walked out of the room.
In turn, one of the maids stood outside the room and knocked softly.
"Master."
"Hmm? Zoe. You can come in."
One of the maids whose face I remember relatively well is a maid by the name of Zoe.
She's a little short of 20 years old, so she's a relatively common person in the house.
She takes care of my bath every day, so she's one of the maids that I remember somehow.
"What's the matter, is there anything that makes you come here without calling me?"
"Yes, well, I was wondering if I could have some time to myself."
"Yeah?"
I was a commoner in a previous life, and I made a few mistakes right after I was reincarnated, and this was one of them.
The servants "get time off" means "stop", and at first I didn't know that, so I had a misunderstanding or something.
Of course I know now, and I asked her back on that basis.
"Why are you leaving?"
"Well, my parents' farm was washed away in the early spring flood."
"Is that so?"
"Yes, so the house and the farm and everything was swept away, and my parents couldn't eat, so they asked me to go to the brothel to, ….you know, to sell my services and take care of the master."
"All right, that's enough."
I thought about it for a moment.
For the past six years, I've been learning how to behave as a nobleman – and a prince.
In the process, I look for the best solution.
"As I recall, Zoe's mother was the only one in her family who guarded the fields."
"Yes, that was part of the reason–"
"I'll think of something else. Bring your mother to the capital."
"What?"
"Your mother's going to be policing the house… well, the back gate. Ten reens per month."
"Master!?"
Zoe was astonished.
That's just as well, there's no such job as a gatekeeper at the back gate, an appropriate one I just considered.
Ten reens is also the average amount a thirty-something man in the capital can earn in a month.
"I heard there were several vacant houses on the western outskirts of the capital, use one for your family."
"…Thank you Master!"
Zoe was so surprised that it took her almost ten seconds to come to her senses.
When she came to herself, she knelt down, put her head on the ground and thanked me.
"Don't worry about it. Better yet, get your mother out of the woods as soon as possible."
"Yes! Thank you!"
Zoe ran out of the room with great joy.
There are two reasons for this treatment.
One is Zoe, she's being sold to a brothel, and she called the sale "the woman who took care of the prince".
If I let that kind of thing slide, the name of the 13th prince will decline.
If that happened, the other older brothers, or even worse, the Emperor, Father, would reprimand me.
There is one thing called the Honor of a prince.
The other is – my desire for exclusivity.
Now that she is my servant, she's going to be my servant for the rest of her life, no matter what.
The time to stop is when she dies or when I kick her out myself.
I can't stand the idea of my servant quitting for such a few tens of reeks of money and being sold to a brothel.
"…Dylan."
" Yes, sir, I am here."
Immediately after I called for him, a middle-aged man in his late thirties walked in.
He was a man with fine, thread-like eyes and a beard.
He's a man with a position like a butler in the 13th Prince's residence.
"You're fast."
"I was watching the whole thing. But you are very good at what you do, Master Lucas. You were brilliant, sir."
"If you've been listening, then you' re quick to talk. You know the story of the flood?"
"It's Dosso, isn't it?"
"Go out and buy as much land as you can. After the flood, there will be a lot of merchants, who will try to wind up their crippled home, like Zoe's parents' Save them before they do."
….
"What's the matter? You're not looking so surprised."
" I am surprised, sir."
Dylan returned it straight away.
"Lucas-sama, you've heard about the flood for the first time, and despite that, it was a brilliant anticipatory move. And right after listening to the story."
….
"I am amazed at how you were able to do it, sir."
I can't say that I've seen a lot of such things before my reincarnation, indeed.
"No, that was a foolish question. You are the son of His Majesty the Great Emperor, His Royal Highness the 13th Prince. It's not polite to ask 'why' of his qualities."
"So start doing it."
"We'll need about 500,000 reens."
"I'll deliver it. Now go."
" Yes, Lucas-sama…"
"Yeah"
I wondered if there was anything more, and then I noticed that Dylan's eyes were serious.
"Thank you,"
"Yes."
After nodding, Dylan exited the room respectfully.
Oh yeah, I remembered that Dylan was from that area too.
I remembered that after he was gone.
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