168 Wrapping up

{fantasy world}

-Do the international travel documents go in the foreign folder, or the travel one?" Asked Candid while sorting an enormous pile of paper.

-There should be 2 copies of the document." Answered the prince while sorting his own absurdly big pile of papers into multiple smaller, well-arranged piles. "Just put them on the side for now."

-Okay." Said the boy while moving a few pages to the side, before continuing to sort the rest of his pile into smaller pile that looked much less organized then Âmeless', because of few pages sticking out, but which was in fact much better organized since those pages were used as marker to distinguish the different subcategories with in the broader pile.

Thus the 2 boys continued to sort the thousands of pages one by one into the right folder, for hours on end until someone knocked on the door.

The prince raised his eyebrow before stopping his repetitive motion and looking at the closed door leading to his room.

-Yes?" asked the somewhat curious boy, half not caring, and half wanting to know why anyone would want to disturb him.

The door opened letting in a very handsome butler wearing metallic glasses and a suite made of silver, platinum and steel that made him look very robotic. The man who was in his early 30's bowed deeply to Âmeless before saying: "A visitor wishes to see your highness."

The prince raised another eyebrow, uncertain of who would want to meet him and unsure if he wanted to meet anyone, but still asked who it was just in case it happened to be someone important.

-It is your Ex-fiancé Hellen Tress, your highness.

The boy tried to raise a third eyebrow in curiosity, but was unable due to having only two eyebrows, before making a very confused expression. He had no idea why Helen would want to see him, maybe she wanted to confirm that everything had been settled, or maybe because something went wrong on her end, or maybe she would threaten to, well… he wasn't sure with what Helen could possibly threaten him with now, but no matter, he'll be able to deal with any of her demands

-Let her in." He simply answered before going back to sorting the pile which had shrunk a lot since he started.

-Very well." The metal covered butler bowed again, before elegantly leaving the room and closing the door behind himself.

After a minute or two the long black-haired girl arrived in the prince's room, which was much better organized then she remembered, except for the piles of papers the boys seemed to be sorting.

-What are you doing?" She asked in curious, confused tone

Âmeless sighed while continuing to sort his documents

-Remember when we moved all the documents to another room in secret to keep them safe from your grandfather?

-Yes, it was just this morning." She answered while trying to piece everything together.

-Well, one of the servants must have found them before we could bring them back and somehow made everything fall over before running away. *long sigh* And since we can't let anyone know we put those here we have to sort them back by hand." He explained with a tone so unenthusiastic that it looked like he was actually going to die of boredom

-Uh." Said Helen, partially pitying the two boys before walking closer to the very large desk Candid and Âmeless where shearing.

-So, what do you want anyway?" Asked the prince in a way that showed how suspicious he was of her

-I wanted to… *sigh* I wanted to apologize for how I acted before." She said in a sincere truthful tone that surprised Âmeless quite a bit, as he hadn't expected that in the slightest.

He turned to face her, to better judge her expression and try to see where the trap was, but he only found the face of someone who actively felt guilty, which the prince found even more suspicious as he was convinced that Helen was unable to express that kind of emotion, and would rather die then apologies to him.

-… for real?" He asked with genuine surprise

-What do you mean "for real?", do I not have the right to say sorry?!" she answered while making fun of his question

-Well, I… I never knew you could say sorry.

-Did you think that I was just a heartless monster full of pride and hate?

-And flowers." Taunted the boy while making his usual devilish smile.

But as she started to blush out of embarrassment and anger, and was about to yell at him, the prince continued to talk: "Sorry, sorry, that came out on its own."

-Watch your tongue." She hissed

-Yeah, yeah." He said while laughing slightly before taking a more serious expression "Anyway, as unexpected as they were, I accept your apologies."

-It would have been rude not to apologize back, after you went all the way to my mansion to do just that.

Âmeless acknowledged her answer, but didn't have anything else to say and decided to go back to sorting the papers

In the meantime, Helen looked over Candid's shoulders at the numerous paper he was sorting, before asking him:" would you mind moving a bit to the right?"

-Uhm… no?" he answered somewhat confused over her demand while doing what she asked.

Helen then sat right next to the blond boy on the small space he had just freed on his chair

-Uhm… what are you doing?" He asked with an even more confused expression

-Well, I'm helping you obviously." She said while turning her head uncomfortably close to his while giving a very seducing smile and huge lover eyes.

On the other hand Candid didn't react a single bit, not even moving his head back; he just stayed exactly where he was with a slightly less confused expression.

-Don't you want your own chair?

-No, I like being close to you." She answered, leaning her head forward even more, to the point that anyone would think that they were about to kiss, while pressing her body and breast against him in a very, very seductive, not to say sexual, manner.

To which the boy did actually react by moving a bit more to the right, thinking that she wanted a bit more place. Which was followed by her immediately taking the free space and pressing against him even harder to the point that one might think that they were actively kissing, even if they weren't.

Seeing the scene from the corner of his eye the prince giggled and, unable to resist the urge to taunt her again, said: "Just lost your boyfriend but already seducing another. How loyal of you."

Helen turned to face Âmeless and in a similarly taunting tone said: "It's not like you have anyone who loves you anyway."

He laughed a bit at her taunt, surprising the black-haired girl quite a bit. "You don't know how wro-"

Âmeless stopped in the middle of his sentence and realized he had been so plunged in his plans to break his arranged marriage, regain his father's trust, and reflect back on himself that he had completely, and by completely I do mean completely forgotten about the reason he even came back.

His eyes widened in shock as he jumped up in a panic and shouted: "f*ck"

He ran out of the room throwing his chair and the paper he was holding and dashed through the hallway.

The prince passed by the confused servants, jumped down way too many sets of stairs, before landing in front of a large double door leading to the meeting room his father was currently in.

Without a second thought, he dropped kicked officially in "self-defense" and rolled in the room, bouncing back, pointing his finger at the many high ranked military and civil officers who were all completely dumbfounded and shouted: "All of you are dismissed!"

-W-what?" muttered the very confused minister of agriculture

-Dismissed I said! You can all go back home.

-This is a very imp-

-No, it is not! If you wanted to move crops and food more efficiently you would just stop using f*cking horses and invest in giant lizard! There much more durable, adaptable, resilient, cheaper and take less time to become adults and are overall a bizgillion times better." He shouted in a very condescending tone "Now that I've fixed your nonproblem you all get the f*ck out of here and let me and my father speak of actual problems."

The group of generals and ministers turned to the king who was sited at the opposite end of the table and appeared to only be a bit less dumbfounded then them.

Remord sighed, and while knowing full well that trying to stop his son was futile dismissed the assembly with a simple hand movement.

The crowd, which was being pushed out by Âmeless quickly made their way out of the room leaving the prince and his father alone together.

Remord sighed deeply in regret and disappointment at his son's attitude and said: "Âmeless you can't just barge during a royal meeting and dismiss everyone, even if you the response to the problem at hand, it degrades the royal family image an-

-I know!" shouted the boy in a very apologetic tone "And I'm terribly sorry, but I don't have time!"

Raising his eyebrow, the king looked at the prince with a mix of doute, confusion, and curiosity "What is the matter then?"

-We have 30 hours to get to the spirit forest!

Remord made an even more confused expression and repeated his son's last word as if he wasn't sure he heard them correctly.

Meanwhile Âmeless had already packed all of his father's documents in their appropriate place and was almost pushing his father out of his chair.

-Is it not where the newest disguise disciple is supposed to live?

-Yes, and she wants to marry me really f*cking bad, so we're going there right now!

-Wha-

-Right now!" Shouted the prince pushing his father up and toward the exit door.

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