Chapter 12: Chapter 12: You Really Deserve to Die!
The next day.
After washing up in the therapy room, Louis came out and saw Olivia rolling around the grass with a blank expression on her face.
He didn’t recognize this person.
A little maid following Louis whispered:
"Your Highness Louis, that’s the Second Princess, Her Highness Olivia."
"Ah, so it’s her."
Louis had heard a lot about this Olivia.
After all, the original seemed quite fond of Olivia.
After Beatrice’s death, Louis strangely became the emperor.
At times like this, the usual approach would be to directly eliminate this rightful heir in the legal sense, to prevent others from seizing the opportunity to fiercely attack the legitimacy of Louis’ succession.
But the original stubbornly resisted the pressure from both internal enemies and his own faction, keeping this Second Princess under house arrest in the palace.
He neither killed her nor exiled her.
The specifics of the situation were unclear to Louis because he didn’t inherit the original’s memories, and the diary didn’t record them in detail.
But he felt it was more like "protection."
After all, the original had realized he was being schemed against.
When mentioning the Second Princess, the original still showed quite some affection.
Due to health issues, she seldom left the palace on regular days.
So whenever the original had time, he would come over to tell her stories.
Most memorable was when the original seemed to have gotten into some trouble and was given a break by the princess.
With more time, he visited Olivia more frequently.
And the diary entries from that time went like this.
"July 4th, punished with a week’s rest, planning to practice the Nine Swords for a bit, then go tell Olivia a story."
"July 5th, told a story."
"July 6th, told a story."
"July 7th, made up a story."
"July 8th, Louis oh Louis, how can you be so lazy, you should further improve your Nine Swords skills."
"July 9th, continued making up stories."
A lazy dog is a lazy dog, but it was evident that he was quite happy and the relationship with the Second Princess was indeed quite good.
Yet after Beatrice’s death, all of this became an illusion.
The original once wrote in his diary that the Second Princess Olivia was pure-hearted, dared to love and hate, didn’t seem like a princess, and was too well protected by the royal family.
This kind of personality wasn’t bad.
Louis liked people like that the most, without having to constantly overthink his words.
Thus he looked at Olivia and said:
"Her Highness Olivia, I’ve heard so much about you."
Hearing Louis’ voice, Olivia shivered, jumped up from the ground like a rabbit.
She clapped her hands.
A purification spell was cast, and the stains on her skirt vanished.
She stood there seriously, though looking a bit short because she was so young, and what a girl should have was a bit small, yet her dignified posture was as exquisitely beautiful as Adelina by the water...
Provided that Louis overlooked her earlier wild rolling on the ground.
Olivia took a deep breath: "Prince Louis, I’m the one in charge of your recent prince training course, you can call me Olivia."
She even waved her fist at Louis as if demonstrating:
"Don’t call me Little Olivia, call me Her Highness Olivia."
In her past life, the country was confused by being called Little Olivia repeatedly until it muddled her mind.
Then muddled, they became friends.
In this life, she didn’t intend to be friends with this jerk!
Finding it amusing, Louis smiled and said:
"So, Little Olivia, are you broke? Why are you hugging a piggy bank and crying?"
The little swan paused, took a deep breath, and said:
"Don’t call me Little Olivia!"
"Fine, Olivia, are you broke? Why are you even holding a piggy bank?"
The little swan’s face turned slightly red, all the way to the roots of her hair, and she glared at this annoying guy with both eyes, furiously jumping into the arms of the head maid.
"I just accidentally overspent!!!"
"I really still hate you!"
"Lumi, help me hit him!"
She said, her voice starting to carry a sobbing tone.
Louis scratched his head.
Did he go too far with his teasing?
Though not knowing what was happening, seeing her look so upset, he felt a bit guilty.
After all, just now, he had a sudden urge to punch her face.
Such a lovely little face, if punched, would cry pitifully for a long time!
But in any case, this girl was quite interesting.
Perhaps sensing Louis’s slightly subtle expression, the little swan glared at him angrily.
This person is still as annoying as ever!
"Confused country! You’re laughing at me again!! You’re truly despicable!!!"
Unfortunately, no one heard the pitiful cry of the Second Princess’s heart.
Otherwise...
Otherwise, someone might laugh in front of her for another three to four minutes.
"Death penalty! This guy really deserves the death penalty!"
"No, Olivia, you have to maintain an objective and impartial attitude, or you’ll become just like this bastard."
"Wuuu, but mom’s piggy bank was emptied by half!"
However, she also realized that Louis was really a scoundrel who specialized in touching people’s sore spots!
Hmph, when you embarrass yourself in front of Sister and are stripped of your princely title, I’ll have you put under house arrest!
Ordinarily, you won’t be allowed to leave the palace, and when you do, you’ll be surrounded by guards!
I’ll imprison you for ten years!
Of course, right now, the most important thing to her is to deal with that damn factory manager!
...
October 9, 14450 of the Star Calendar.
The National Waste Disposal Plant was exceedingly quiet.
Because the factory was shut down, a batch of mid-level and senior management was restricted in their actions.
Louis was very pleased.
Today, during training, he received a message from the little maid arranged by Beatrice, saying that after his exercise, the Second Princess in charge of his training course would take him to handle some matters.
According to the little maid, it was to cultivate his ability to adapt to situations when dealing with official affairs.
The diary had written about this, but it seemed to happen two months later in the timeline.
The schedule moved up, Louis interpreted it as a slight change in his status with Beatrice.
After all, it seemed Big Sister valued him more now, so advancing the plan made sense.
However, he didn’t expect that the person in charge of the training plan would be the Second Princess.
Even more unexpected was that the matter to be handled this time was the case of factions within the National Waste Disposal Plant.
What a coincidence, wasn’t it?
Louis had been fretting over what reason to use to gain Beatrice’s and the empire’s higher-ups’ attention.
Unexpectedly, Olivia, this proud little swan, just showed up like this.
Forming factions?
If he didn’t cause a ruckus to expose these shady dealings behind the scenes, it would be beyond unjust.
Well done, Little Swan!
This commotion, I, Louis, am definitely joining in!