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26

This Bastard is Too Competent
Chapter 26 - The Price of A Life

The Duke’s office.

Karan looked at his father sitting in the office with his forehead furrowed.

“Father, are you really okay with this?”

Karan was referring to the fact that Ian went to the training hall with the Second Prince.

At the words of his son, the Duke stamped the document as if it was foolish to ask.

“Did you get attached to him already?”

The Duke replied without looking at Karan. It was a very cold voice.

On the contrary, Karan scrunched his brows in repulsion. It couldn’t have been possible.

“At this rate, there will definitely be a problem with the legitimation ceremony. If there is something wrong with the Seventh Prince’s body, His Majesty will be furious.”

“It doesn’t matter. His Majesty won’t care anyway.”

“What?”

The Duke spoke in an emotionless voice.

“I said he wouldn’t mind.”

“No way. Still, he’s his own child.”

“Child? He is the kind of person who deems it a waste of his blood if his children are weak. Moreover, someone like the Seventh Prince who comes from a humble origin and has not received a proper education. Do you think His Majesty would care? It will be a miracle if he shows up at the ceremony.”

Karan couldn’t make out his father’s words.

“Are you saying he won’t show up at the ceremony?”

“Isn’t that obvious? If you know, stop talking. I still have a lot of work to do.”

Ian’s legitimation ceremony had been decided by a letter from the royal family a long while ago.

Instead of the king, the legitimation ceremony of the Seventh Prince would be entrusted to the archbishop.

It wasn’t only that.

Privately and simply, only attended by a small number of distinguished guests and related people. It would probably be a modest occasion that was too ambiguous to even call it a legitimation ceremony.

‘Well, unfortunately, that’s how far he will go.’

From the king’s point of view, the serf boy could never have been welcomed.

Garcia of Gold had invested in this unprofitable work even while being laughed at by Lavaltor, but he had no other choice now that he had already lost the First Prince.

Karan looked completely unconvinced.

“Even though he arranged the legitimation ceremony like that, in the end, the king gave in to the request to wait and see the education from the Second Prince…”