Chapter 1684: Chapter 34: Prince

The maid was peeling an apple, slicing it into small pieces, and after fixing toothpicks with little flags on them, she placed it before Boss Luo.

Hmm… It seems that there isn’t a share for Prince Reiaz under current circumstances.

Lying on the hospital bed, with his entire body wrapped in gauze making movement difficult, Prince Reiaz looked at the apple pieces in the fruit platter and couldn’t help but swallow a mouthful of saliva—he knew it was because his body lacked certain nutrients found in apples.

“…In other words, you felt a continuous signal of rebellion being released by your body, which then made it difficult to control during the race, right?”

“Y-Yes, that’s correct.” Prince Reiaz concealed nothing about his condition on the racetrack, “Especially after seeing that giant black sphere, the signals became increasingly intense.”

He shook his head, lowered it, and looked at his hands with a bitter smile, “I almost caused countless casualties.”

Recollecting the incident, Prince Reiaz quickly asked, “What exactly happened afterwards… why am I in the hospital, and where’s my Asla? How is it now, is the damage severe?!”

“The Asla White Kirin is currently temporarily reclaimed by the Kingdom Government, and it seems quite serious,” Boss Luo slowly said at this point, “As for what happened… I believe there will soon be someone more suitable to inform you.”

“Someone more… suitable?” Prince Reiaz couldn’t help but be taken aback.

“They’ve arrived,” Boss Luo said calmly.

As if to validate the authenticity of these words, the door to the hospital room opened once more. A girl in a silver robe, flanked by several gendarme team members as guardians, entered gracefully.

“You are…” Prince Reiaz couldn’t help but open his mouth.

The girl in the silver robe, after inspecting the room, declared directly, “So you are all here, excellent… Now that this fellow is awake, come with me to the imperial palace. Louis wants to see you… especially you, young man!”

After speaking, the silver-robed girl, Liuge, swiftly exited the room, leaving a few gendarme team members standing—yet their gaze clearly conveyed: Please get up.

“What is going on…” Prince Reiaz looked to his big brother and sister for help.

The maid smiled slightly at this moment, “It seems like they are the ones who brought you to the hospital.”

Prince Reiaz was taken aback, “??”

Luo Qiu stood up at this point and smiled, “Then let’s go, I haven’t toured the imperial palace yet.”

…

A figure was hidden on the balcony of a shop facing the back door of the Kingdom Government’s First People’s Hospital. She lay low, peeking through the railing with a tool for long-distance observation.

At the moment when Prince Reiaz was seen seated in a wheelchair, being pushed by a member of the gendarme team, this figure appeared visibly agitated—but she quickly suppressed her impulse and chose to silently observe the developments.

Later, Prince Reiaz got onto the royal family’s exclusive giant Flywheel towards the imperial palace… She waited until this royal family’s giant Flywheel vanished from the street before she slowly let out a sigh.

“Reiaz…”

She uncovered a large black cloth used for concealment, hurried downstairs… a moment later, she rode a Flywheel used for deliveries by the shop, quietly departed.

The shop closed its doors, all entrances were shut… Inside, the shop owner and clerks were tied up on the shelves, their mouths gagged, unconscious on the floor.

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Though there were no Aristocrats in the Undersea City, only an Emperor… As an ordinary boy living unremarkably in the Undersea City for fifteen years, the last time Prince Reiaz passed by the imperial palace in the Undersea City was during a school-organized tour two years ago.

Moreover, that tour merely circled around the outer walls of the imperial palace.

Entering the imperial palace, this was something Prince Reiaz had never imagined—let alone that today, he would enter the imperial palace in such a manner.

He had no time to gaze at the scenery outside the windows of the giant Flywheel—because it sped swiftly, and beside him, the demeanor of the gendarme team members flanking him was consistently serious.

Quickly after, Prince Reiaz grew even tenser.

Without pausing, the silver-robed girl escorted him all the way to the Emperor’s office, and personally pushed his wheelchair before His Majesty the Emperor.

Compared to when they encountered on the World Snake track, Louis XXXIX was now even paler… even coughing.

Seeing His Majesty the Emperor coughing seemingly painfully, the girl Liuge quickly moved to retrieve a small bottle… But the Emperor shook his head, murmuring, “Too much of it isn’t good for the body.”

The girl silently put the bottle away.

Louis XXXIX exhaled at this moment and only after a while, gazed directly at Prince Reiaz… expressionless.

Prince Reiaz felt somewhat flustered under His Majesty the Emperor’s gaze, instinctively evading the line of sight… His Majesty then smiled and said, “Hello, Reiaz.”

“You know my name?” Prince Reiaz couldn’t help but be astounded and immediately realized, “Right… I participated in the competition, so finding out my name is easy.”

Unexpectedly, His Majesty the Emperor said then, “No, I know your name, not merely because you participated in this competition… I have known your name since the moment of your birth.”

Prince Reiaz opened his mouth.

His Majesty the Emperor glanced at the silent Liuge beside him… The girl quietly opened a drawer, took out a palm-sized remote, calmly said, “Look behind you.”

Prince Reiaz struggled to turn the wheelchair, only to see the wall behind the study start to rotate, revealing a gigantic Magic Energy Glamour screen… divided into sixteen frames.

Prince Reiaz looked on in horror, seeing that the sixteen frames on the screen depicted his past—from his babbling stage to joining the elementary department, followed by the junior department… leaving virtually no trace!

Even how many foolish things he did over the years, how many awards he received—even that night when he walked into the Happy Domain club with Mr. Wolf, was recorded on this Magic Energy Glamour screen!

The Emperor said he knew Prince Reiaz’s name since birth… This statement clearly wasn’t a lie.

At the instant, Prince Reiaz felt cold in both hands and feet… There was no incident more terrifying—everything from birth to now, in these fifteen years, had been under someone else’s scrutiny.

Secrets?

None… and even if there were, they’ve been recorded down, now presented once more before him in this straightforward and crude manner via Magic Energy Glamour.

“Even for the Royal Palace Government, there is no right to violate a citizen’s privacy!” Prince Reiaz’s panic turned into overwhelming anger.

Louis XXXIX slowly said, “Well, Reiaz, don’t you want to know why we’ve been observing your growth all this time?”

“For… for what?!”

His Majesty the Emperor pointed, again to the shimmering screen… Reiaz instinctively looked again, and found that the image on the screen had disappeared, replaced by another scene.

“This is… my father?!”

On the screen now playing, it seemed to be events from many years ago—Reiaz looked closely, in this footage his father, Dr. Joash, appeared so very young.

He had only seen such a young father in his parents’ wedding photos.

In the footage, Dr. Joash was in a room with many infants—each infant was isolated in a transparent box, with an infusion tube inserted at the back of each infant’s neck and spine…

“This is the Sixth Institute of Magic Energy Research; of course, you can also call it the Kingdom Medical Research Institute.” His Majesty the Emperor said calmly, “Your father, Dr. Joash, has been a clinical trial director at the medical institute for the past twenty years.”

“This is my dad…” Reiaz seemed incredulous, but faced with the footage, he had no choice but to accept this reality, “What is he doing?!”

In the footage, Dr. Joash quietly approached a sleeping infant… it was clear Dr. Joash was very nervous, glancing outside from time to time.

Suddenly, Dr. Joash seemed to make a decision, as he took out a syringe from his coat—the syringe contained a pale green liquid.

At this moment, Dr. Joash inserted the syringe into the sleeping infant’s original infusion tube, slowly injecting the pale blue liquid into it.

The pale blue liquid traveled along the infusion tube, bit by bit, entering the infant’s body within the transparent box.

“Stop… stop—!” Reiaz instinctively shouted, his lips pale, voice trembling, “What is this… what exactly is this? What is my father going to do to this child!”

“Rest assured, your father did not intend to harm the child.” His Majesty the Emperor chuckled, “He only intended to bestow something special on this child… So, what do you think the liquid in the syringe is?”

“What is it!” Reiaz cried out.

“It’s blood.” His Majesty the Emperor said slowly, “And it’s my blood… the royal blood of the Undersea City.”

Reiaz was startled.

Then Louis XXXIX suddenly used a small knife to gently rip his wrist open, causing a streak of blue blood to flow from the wound.

Reiaz’s eyes widened… his intuition told him that the blue blood flowing from His Majesty the Emperor was the same substance as the liquid in his father’s syringe!

But… but why?

“Now do you believe?” Louis sighed, the blue blood at his wrist wound beginning to flow back in, and the wound healed instantly, “Oh, yes, this is a unique trait of the royal family… called super growth ability. Actually, you have super growth too, just that the concentration of royal blood in you isn’t high, so the effect isn’t as pronounced.”

“Me?” Reiaz opened his mouth.

“This infant, isn’t it you?” Louis XXXIX smiled slightly, “Alright, fifteen years ago, because of your father’s selfishness, he created you… now, in this Undersea City, apart from me and Liuge, you are the third person with royal blood here. So, from now on, you are the first in line for the throne of the Undersea City.”

“I… I?!”

His words about Louis XXXIX were like an unreal dream to Reiaz.

He couldn’t react, thinking he had heard wrong… perhaps.

He wanted to ask something, the doubts in his heart weren’t much clarified by the Emperor’s words; instead, more questions sprang up instantly.

“Wait, this is impossible, how could I…”

“Alright, no need to say more.” His Majesty the Emperor waved his hand, “From today on, you’ll live in the imperial palace, and there will be teachers to teach you how to become a qualified heir… Reiaz, today I’m a bit tired, the conversation ends here, Liuge will arrange a place for you to stay.”

“No, wait, I… I…”

The boy’s voice swallowed back into his stomach, for the silver-robed maiden had quickly approached him… her shadow slowly covered Reiaz’s face.

Those eyes reminded Reiaz of the sea monster depicted in textbooks.

“Well then, Your Royal Highness Prince Reiaz, please follow me.” The maiden said.

…

Outside the imperial palace, in the sky, a huge, nearly transparent octahedron still hung high… it remained motionless, just hanging there.

Boss Luo now withdrew his gaze.

After today’s imperial palace events, he and the maid were arranged elsewhere—a rather elegant room for discussion.

They had been waiting here for nearly an hour and a half… outside the door, only two guards from the imperial palace stood.

After a while, the door to the discussion room slowly opened.

Luo Qiu once again saw the Emperor of the Undersea City, Louis XXXIX—dressed in imperial attire, Louis XXXIX was naturally different from when he was selling ice cream on the street.

However, at this moment His Majesty the Emperor held a small insulating box in his hands.

Following His Majesty the Emperor in was the girl Liuge.

Louis XXXIX chuckled softly, “Sorry, some matters took time to handle, hope you both don’t mind.”

“It doesn’t matter; we were the ones intruding.”

“Here, taste this.” His Majesty the Emperor now sat down, opened the insulating box, “This is something I made in my spare time, try the taste.”

The insulating box contained a small tub of ice cream… vanilla-flavored.

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PS: As usual