Eins von Glanzreich/Relationships

## Elder Family Members

### Maria von Glanzreich

Eins is respectful and considerate towards his grandmother, asking about her health at their tea party and cautioning her to take it easy.

### Viktor von Glanzreich

Eins' father. Like his brothers, Eins doesn't seem to care for Viktor's overly affectionate gestures and became good at making up excuses to avoid meeting with him. He acts very formally with him, but also distant. It is currently unknown as to whether or not he knows that Viktor doesn't consider him a suitable heir for the throne.

## Siblings

### In General

Due to a rather large age gap between his siblings and the fact that he lives in his own residence, Eins was never close with them, and in fact they rarely see each other. He doesn't seem to have much affection for them either, as he callously threw away the bouquet they made for him when they finally see him again after months away. He also looks down on his brothers, believing that they are wasting their time chasing the throne as they have too many flaws. Heine even suspects that he is the one behind all of their troubles. Despite this, he does seem to have some concern for them, as he keeps tabs on what they are doing, and even acknowledges their progress.

### Kai von Glanzreich

Eins' first-youngest brother. Eins doesn't think he is suitable for the throne, as he is too timid and unsociable. He challenges him and the rest of his brothers to surpass him in being a suitable candidate for the throne.

### Bruno von Glanzreich

Eins' second-youngest brother. Eins doesn't think he is suitable for the throne, as he is too strict with himself and inflexible. He challenges him and the rest of his brothers to surpass him in being a suitable candidate for the throne. He doesn't seem to be aware of Bruno's feelings of rivalry for him.

### Leonhard von Glanzreich

Eins' third-youngest brother. Out of all of his brothers, he looks down on him the most, as he's the least book-smart of all of them and too immature. He frequently calls him a dunce. However, when they meet again during the tea party, he acknowledges that Leonhard had matured a little bit, as he didn't mope around as he expected him to with all his brothers away. He challenges him and the rest of his younger brothers to surpass him in being a suitable candidate for the throne.

### Licht von Glanzreich

Eins' fourth-youngest brother. Eins doesn't think he is suitable for the throne, as he considers him too frivolous and only preoccupied with amusement. However, his opinion slightly shifted after witnessing Licht working hard as his job as a waiter.

## Others

### Ernst Rosenberg

Ernst and Eins were close childhood friends, so close that Eins spent more time with him than with his own brothers. Even today, Ernst is one of the only people that Eins confides in and shows a more vulnerable side to.

### Paola

In Chapter 76, when Viktor von Glanzreich reveals to his children and Heine Wittgenstein that "my son Eins is to be married!" (much to everyone's shock and happiness), Viktor tells them that Eins's future bride is "the second princess of the Kingdom of Belgian... Princess Paola." Once Paola has arrived and chatted with Eins, Licht von Glanzreich comments on how "they're both son grown-up and grounded- a perfect match!" upon seeing them through the window with Heine. However, at the end of the chapter, Viktor breaks the bad news that "Eins' engagement has been called off".

In Chapter 77, when everyone is shocked by the marriage suddenly being called off, Bruno von Glanzreich asks "If I may... by any chance... have our relations with the Kingdom of Belgian deteriorated... such that the marriage with Princess Charlotte was called off...?" Viktor declines and explains that "After considering their mutual compatibility, we judged it wiser to call off the marriage. Eins has fallen ill... He may have been straining himself for quite some time while the marriage talks proceeded."

In Chapter 93, Eins reveals to everyone that the reason the marriage between him and Paola was cancelled was because he said that "I couldn't stop thinking about Matilda... It would hurt Glanzreich's good name for the first prince to be seen crying. I hid my tears... and ended up rejecting her before she could find out."

### Matilda

In Chapter 93, Eins revealed to everyone (Ernst Rosenberg, the Glanzreich siblings and Heine Wittgenstein) that "I had a fiancée. She was a princess of our neighboring Kingdom, Bavaria. Her name was Matilda." He then explains that "Originally, it was her older sister who was to be my betrothed. When her sister suddenly fell ill, that role fell on Matilda instead..." However, he broke off their engagement with an explanation saying that "Your...love for art is pure and true. I think you ought to follow your passions. I don't want to make you unhappy... We must not be meant to spend our lives together." After Eins ended his relationship with Matilda, he tearfully tells everyone that "...I have not seen her since that day... I heard that she no longer has aristocratic status...But that is all I know..."

According to Viktor von Glanzreich in Chapter 96, he explains that "Eins told me she wasn't suitable for him. He'd only say he'd rejected her unilaterally..."

## References

1. ↑ Manga Chapter 53, page 14
2. ↑ Manga Chapter 36, page
3. ↑ Manga Chapter 54