Chapter 19

## Princes, Take Up the Brush!

**Princes, Take Up the Brush!** is the nineteenth chapter of the Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine manga.

## Plot

The princes are already gathering in the hall waiting for Heine and they wonder what will be the lesson today. Heine then comes in but they are surprised to see a realistic portrait of **tall** Heine. The real Heine then shows up from behind the portrait and asks if the princes liked art.

Heine reveals that today's group lesson will be art. Leonhard question the point of studying art and Heine replies that the royal family and art are inseparable. Art can be used as a symbol of status for a monarch can be used in diplomacy as well, Glanzreich royal family also have been supporting artists and painters for generations. The princes still showing that they are not interested in art, Heine then reveals that he invited a special guest: Adele.

Heine then requested the princes to draw a portrait of Adele. Adele is overjoyed, but his brothers are hesitant because their lack of art skills. Expecting their reaction, Heine then offers a prize: Adele will pick the best portrait and that portrait will be displayed in the National Art Museum for a week. Hearing that, they become more motivated. Leonhard wants his parents to praise him, Kai wants to use this as an opportunity to meet new people, Licht wants the girls to be charmed at him, and Bruno obviously wants Heine to praise him. Heine gives them 3 hours to finish their portraits, and he begins the timer.

Heine looks at Leonhard's work, initially he seems to understand the basic of arts but his results says otherwise. Heine tells him to carry on. Bruno then asks Heine for advice, but Heine is creeped out after seeing his painting: a creepy face with huge scary eyes. Heine comments that it looks cursed but turns out Bruno wanted to draw realistic and accurate depiction of the eye's inner canthus as seen in his medical book. Heine then gives him some advice but Leonhard then comes, asking Heine to give them an example. Heine looks hesitant as if he's hiding something and tells Leonhard to refer to the court painter's painting he gave earlier. Heine then looks at Kai's work and he's impressed that Kai is already starting to colour his portrait. But to his surprise, his painting looks more like a bird with four legs. Heine is sure that it's not Adele, and Kai reveals he is drawing Shadow instead of Adele. But it is still surprising Heine because the painting looks nothing like Shadow, but Heine let him be because Kai seems to be enjoying it.

Heine then is looking forward to what monstrosity Licht has created. Licht painted a sexy girl with big breast, angering Heine who tried to destroy the painting. Heine scolds Licht for drawing such an obscene portrait at the age of 14 but Licht reveals that it was just a practice and he already drawn Adele's portrait. Licht's drawing is the best out of all of them and Licht reveals that during his sick days, he used to doodle a lot. Leonhard is sad because his painting is nothing compared to Licht's. Heine convinced him to finish the painting but Leonhard feels unmotivated already and he feels embarrassed to be bad at things. Heine then decided to draw Adele himself to cheer him up. Adele is happy and Bruno can't wait to see what masterpiece his master would create. Surprisingly, Heine's drawing is a lot more **worse** than Leonhard.

Heine shivers in embarrassment while Leonhard's laughing at him. Bruno in his disbelief, are in denial and thinks that Heine is simply drawing a abstract art with hidden meanings. Heine reveals that he is bad at art and he was also bad at everything in the beginning, just like them. Leonhard is reminded with Heine's advice that he can't expect to be a model student overnight after not putting an effort to study in years. Leonhard regained his confidence and now looking forward to finish his painting. Everyone then also finishing up their painting and 3 hours has passed. Heine tells them the time is up. Heine then show the painting to Adele, out of all of them only Licht's painting looks good. The brothers apologized to Adele for ruining her portrait, but Adele says that they're lovely. She commented that Kai's looks colourful, Bruno's detailed, Leonhard's looks cute, and Licht's so good. She says that she loves all of them.

They are relieved that Adele loves their painting. Heine then asks Adele which painting would she choose to be displayed in the museum. Adele points to **Heine's painting**, Heine tries to dissuades Adele from picking his drawing but she said that she's happy that Heine is drawing for her. Heine slumps in embarrassment and declare his career as the royal tutor is "over". Few days later, Heine's painting is displayed in the museum. The art critics are praising Heine's painting and trying to find the meaning of his painting merely because they are afraid to be regarded as fools if they can't understand the work of a royal tutor. Bruno is happy that Heine's painting is getting such "praise" and great reviews. Heine comments that the world of art is indeed complex.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Licht von Glanzreich
* Leonhard von Glanzreich
* Bruno von Glanzreich
* Kai von Glanzreich
* Heine Wittgenstein
* Adele von Glanzreich
* Shadow