When Aurum has received permission to get in the villa, he imdiately looked around the place and noticed that the place was not small at all. He imdiately turned his head and looked at , one of his eyebrows raised as if telling , "So you were lying about the place being small". I imdiately laughed and folded my arms in front of my chest then raised one of my eyebrows while locked in a staring contest with Aurum. My face is totally saying, "So what if I lied? What are you going to do about it?" He was the first to break eye contact as he looked away from my face, he clicked his tongue as he did so and sighed loudly. He then put his focus sowhere else as he imdiately chose his own room like he owned the place. His four aides waited for the prince to go inside his room before they burst into feats of laughter and giggles. I turned my head and they imdiately tried to keep their laughter in with blushed faces. Xenos then forced to calm himself down and asked in behalf of the four of them respectfully as to which room they will be assigned to. I pointed at four separate rooms nearest the room that Aurum chose since no matter what happens they are still his aides and I am sure they will still attend to all his needs. They seed to be surprised as to why I am giving them separate rooms each and I simply said that there are so many rooms so why should the four of them squeeze inside one. They simply nodded and started walking to the empty rooms I pointed at earlier. Before letting them enter their own rooms, I called them back and then gave them a copy of the list of classes offered by the acade for the current sester. I can see the blank look on their faces as they took the thick stack of papers from . I raised my eyebrows and nonchalantly declared, "I believe your prince has no plans to let go in this lifeti. In that sense, you better widen your horizons and take classes that you think you will benefit from and will make it easier for you to do your roles in the near future. At that ti, you most certainly will be following both my instructions and that of your prick of a master too. I can keep all of you safe in this acade just fine or if you are worried, one of you can stay with the prince when he has classes as his personal guard. The other three can take separate classes they are interested to learn about or sothing you want to increase your proficiency in, whichever may be applicable. You have to get most out of your stay here since your master seed to have made a ruckus to his parents and the grandmaster of the acade to let him stay here for at least one sester. Besides not wasting his efforts, I don't keep useless people, you know?" The four of them all stared at the stack of papers for a few seconds then at . After realizing what I ant, they all nodded in unison as if receiving a royal order. They look like chicks with their heads bobbing up and down like that. I smirked at them and turned around to go back to my room which is the one nearest Ioannis'.
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At one of the rooms where the four minions, also known as Calix, Helios, Xenos and Yren were assigned to stay at, there was a small eting being held without their master. They are all currently seated in a circular arrangent on the floor with a stack of papers in the middle. They are all quietly trying to digest the underlying aning of the instructions they were provided with. Yren, the quietest of the bunch, was the first one to speak. He started the eting with a question that they all had in common inside of their minds right now, "Did the princess just indirectly tell us that we will eventually be accepted into her family together with our childish master?" Calix imdiately responded, "If I heard it correctly and my understanding is also correct, it should be that way, right?" Xenos as the most realistic of the bunch said, "I will only believe so once the princess has married the prince into her family or his highness has been deflowered by her, whichever may co first. If I were you, I won't keep my hopes up for now." Helios then answered, "I agree with what Xenos has said. As of now, what's important is the task the princess has given us. We should choose classes that we can attend based on our interests and our plans for the future. I don't want to destroy my chances on having a child just because she deed as sobody useless or unworthy. I won't let having a petty prince to attend to block from having a son or a daughter. He's ranked as a general in the imperial army for crying out loud so he is more than capable of keeping himself safe." Yren then said, "What if the prince stops us from taking classes and just wants us to follow him around?" Xenos answered imdiately, "We'll just need to sell him out." Calix laughed and said, "The princess will deal with him." Helios laughed even louder than Calix, "Let's see if our master can even contradict the princess' instructions."
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As I entered my room, I imdiately put up another barrier around it. From now on, I will set this as my safe space where no one can enter without my permission. If this is how a royal harem is like, similar to the historical books I have read before, either the queen requests one of the consorts or concubines to co to her room or she visits the room of the man she chooses to spend the night and goes their herself. As for , I definitely don't have plans on inviting anyone in my room. I find myself wincing when I rembered I have a total of 8 n in the sa house. I hope they can at least keep a sense of propriety and just treat each other in a civil manner. I don't want to be a character in a palace drama.
By lunch ti, I went out of the room to drop by Ioannis room. I found him relaxing on his bed while reading a book. He gave a piece of paper with his chosen classes. I asked him before if he still wants to take in classes or he just wants to stay at ho and he simply said, "I don't want to die of boredom." I made him drop the classes that are too strenuous like his physical attack and defense classes as well as the class where he need to practice the use of different weapons. He can keep the ones that improve his magic proficiency though as long as he doesn't tire himself too much. Surprisingly, he started to take more holy classes like cooking, flower arrangent, sewing and weaving and he took the more advance classes on child care and child education which I will also be taking together with him. I told him it was ti for lunch and we can either stay in the villa and prepare sothing to eat or we can go to the cafeteria to eat. He rolled his eyes as he said, "I don't want you to get tired and cook for 8 n plus yourself. Until the ti that we have already set the division of chores in this house, we'll have to eat at the cafeteria." The main husband said, thy his will be done.
As for the other n, I let Arthur choose more classes than the last sester and I allowed him to take other tasks from the acade when he doesn't have one so that he can earn more points. He only needs to be with us when either Ioannis or I are in the villa which rarely happens since we spend our ti in the library when we do not have classes. We only co ho after dinner. It may change in the near future but for now, that's what we plan to do. Dimitri has the greatest number of classes out of the four of us since he is preparing to beco an heir of the southern duchy and has to know the ins and outs of managing the hacienda as well. As for the other five sudden transient tenants in my house, they can do whatever they want with their classes and their ti unless they ask my opinion about it, I don't have any plans to control which classes they should and should not take.
As Ioannis and I ca out of his room, we saw Aurum and his four aides as well as Dimitri sitting in the living room. As for Arthur, he stayed standing quite a bit far from them, sowhere nearer the dining area. There was a sudden silence when I heard clearly that they were having quite a heated discussion as I was about to open Ioannis's bedroom door. I looked around and spoke, "I know you are discussing sothing. I don't care if you do not tell what it is about but I hate fighting and soone sabotaging another. Trust . I will kick all of you out. Only Ioannis and Dimitri can cause trouble for in this house and get away with it. Does everybody understand?" All of them nodded silently. I then said, "Ioannis, Dimitri, Arthur and I are going to the cafeteria to eat. As for you five, do whatever you want." I then started walking out of the door with my three n in tow.
After the four of us left the gate and have walked for a few ters, I heard hurried footsteps behind as the other five that I left in the villa, chose to follow us to the cafeteria. The other students that we passed by could not help but murmur as our group walked past them. They also gave us weird looks like we are doing sothing scandalous. This acade has found their new favorite topic for gossip again, I suppose. Who can bla them? A woman with an entourage of eight n will definitely be eye-catching. I could only sigh at my predicant. I looked back and saw them looking forward and ignoring each other's presence. With my crazy mind, I suddenly laughed as I shook my head and turned my attention forward again. Damn. I look like a mother duck with eight ducklings in tow.
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