Changing The Course of Fate

Chapter 28 - The Boy With a Small Guitar

A/N: The cover is La vie en rose by Harrison Reade on YouTube!

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Pier was walking in the Royal Palace's spacious garden. He wanted to inhale fresh air after being confined with the group of nobles during the gathering they had at the Crown Prince's study.

'Organize a search group, you say?' Pier chuckled at the memory he had from the meeting that ended earlier.

'How could knocking on every house as a means of searching for the anti-royalty faction be of benefit for them?' The reason behind Pier's constant chuckles as he took a stroll in the garden was due to the plan that the nobles have come up with after Pier announced his non-alignment with their plans for the opposing faction.

It did not make any sense for Pier. How can publicly announcing the search for the anti-royalty faction help with the issue? The group had been present in the kingdom for literally centuries as well and of course, the past generations have already done the same search operations as a means of capturing them.

'They could simply hear the news of the search group and flee to another place.' He shrugged his shoulders after chuckling a few more times. He found it really funny.

He was amazed by Elena's confidence in suggesting the plan.

'Of course, she's the future queen everybody is looking up to. Her suggestions are like commands unto the other nobles.' Pier gave a lopsided grin at how things are going in his environment.

As he walked into the extravagant garden, warm sunlight doused his frame and gave warmth to his senses. The fresh wind produced by the uncountable plants and trees entered his body. His hair and his clothes fluttered along with the gusts of wind.

Pier liked the scenario. It was calm without any nobles in sight.

It was then that the leaves in a certain direction rustled.

'Huh?' He looked at the origin of the sound that he heard. It came from behind a set of bushes in the garden's corners. Pier took slow steps as he was curious about the constant rustling he heard from behind the thick bushes.

'That's why a lot of people die in movies because of their curiosity. Maybe I'll die too?' The unnecessary joke inside his head made him smile all of a sudden as he approached the bush.

His careful steps were pretty much soundless at this point as he tried not to make any noise. Once he reached the place of the rustling, he peeked from above and was surprised to see someone leaning over the set of plants.

"What are you doing here?"

"AAH!" The boy behind the bushes screamed after being surprised by Pier's sudden question. Pier laughed at the expression the young boy gave as he fully revealed himself from peeking over the bush.

"Oh, i-it's you, young master!" It was the young servant that Pier had talked to before going inside the Royal Palace and attending the gathering. The servant took deep breaths to calm himself from the shock he got after Pier's unexpected appearance.

"It is indeed me. What is a young boy like you doing here in the royal garden all alone?" It was punishable for servants not assigned in the garden to even step foot in the place because it would be a disgrace to the royal family if servants were to simply wander around the garden and high-class nobles or other royalties would see them loitering around.

After realizing who the person the young servant was facing, he immediately became pale and his body felt cold. Of course, it would be. Who wouldn't shiver and get scared after being discovered by a high-ranking noble that he was sneaking around the palace's garden and he's not even a servant assigned in the area?