Chapter 1

**Chapter 1** is the first chapter where the current Crown Prince, Lucas Emmanuel Habsburg throws a party to celebrate the opening of a new mine in the Capital Region.

## Characters

*Characters are listed in order of appearance*

* Lucas Emmanuel Habsburg
* Louise Isaline Nizel
* Valter Moriarty
* LeBlaine Freyja Habsburg
* Elio Desmond Habsburg
* Theodore Ditrien Habsburg
* Aloysius Adélard Habsburg
* Lutz Eleanore Laurent
* Vayne Ashley Laurent
* Hannah Josephine Campbell
* Evelynne Rochelle Habsburg
* Lilianna Valerian Laurent
* Alvero Ivander Laurent
* Felix Luther Laurent
* Azriel Ellworth Rusterford
* Ernest Adler Rodriguez
* Katharina Ghislaine Nizel
* Kalstein Romario Delamy
* Andrew Granville Spencer

## Before: Crown Prince Royal Party

Louise knocked on the tall door in front of her.

One tap.

Two taps. And still no answer.

"Your Highness, all the guests have come to the palace ballroom. Are you still not finished?"

Lucas from behind the door made small talk, then replied to Louise, "Ah, just a moment. Please wait a moment."

After five minutes had passed, he came out with his wife, "Has Elio arrived?"

When Lucas came out with his wife, Marcellyn, Louise immediately bowed as a greeting.

"Greetings to the New Sun of the Empire and the New Moon of the Empire."

After that, he corrected his standing position. Louise continued, "His Highness Elio is still in his room with the maids, Your Highness."

Lucas took his wife and stopped for a moment. Now the two children are nowhere to be seen, perhaps they are still getting ready. "Then, Valter, please pick up LeBlaine later." Lucas looked at Louise, "Please pick up Elio, I'll wait behind the hall door."

"Yes, Your Highness.", Valter bowed in respect, after receiving orders, he went to Princess LeBlaine's chamber to pick up the Princess from the couple Lucas and Marcellyn.

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After arriving, he knocked on LeBlaine's door three times, "Your Highness Princess Leblaine, His Highness Lucas is waiting for you at the hall door."

LeBlaine, who heard this, immediately jumped down from his chair and walked quickly towards the door. Several maids who had been fixing her crowns immediately panicked and followed her.

Her tiny head appeared between the open doors.

"Really? Is Big Brother Elio there too?" LeBlaine asked with a blue glow in her eyes.

"Greetings to the Second Born Star of the Empire, Royal Princess LeBlaine", Valter bowed respectfully when LeBlaine appeared from behind the door, "While I was still there, His Highness Prince Elio was still not visible", Valter paused before continuing the words, "Your Highness doesn't need to worry, His Highness Prince Elio may now have caught up with His Highness Lucas. If Your Highness is ready, we will go after His Highness Lucas."

LeBlaine responded to Valter's greeting by crossing her legs slightly and then doing a curtsy.

One small hand smoothed the crown on her head and smiled at her maids.

"I've finished and will follow Sir Valter," she said then walked ahead.

Valter bowed respectfully then invited LeBlaine to go, "Come, Your Highness LeBlaine, the event will start soon." After that, Valter followed LeBlaine from behind. Princess LeBlaine was always bright as usual, as if the sun was shining during the day.

LeBlaine looked around. Several times she responded to greetings given by people she passed.

"Big brother Elio!" she called.

LeBlaine immediately took a longer step towards her older brother who stopped when he heard her call.

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On the other side, Louise bowed respectfully before leaving the crown prince and his wife.

"Yes, Your Highness. I will do as your command."

A long hallway with a red and gold carpet became the base for him as he headed towards Prince Elio's room. Several maids and butlers walked around carrying food and drinks. Occasionally, Louise returned greetings to several people she passed until she didn't realize that she had arrived at Prince Elio who had come out of his room accompanied by several maids who were standing neatly behind him.

"Greetings to the First Born Star of the Empire, Royal Prince Elio," he greeted kindly.

"Greetings, Lou." Elio said with a smile, "Has LeBlaine arrived yet?" Elio spread a warm smile every time he spoke, and what was clear for now was that he was like that.

Louise returned Elio's smile in a friendly manner.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, Royal Princess LeBlaine is being picked up by Sir Valter. We'd better immediately follow His Highness Lucas because soon the event will start," he said.

Elio nodded, "Okay. Then, let's go to meet Father. They must have been waiting a long time.", he answered with a smile, then walked towards the hall door.

"Of course, Your Highness," he replied.

Louise then walked following Elio to the place where Crown Prince Lucas and his wife were waiting.

The road follows the palace corridor, the floor of which is covered with red carpet. Today the weather was nice, sunlight penetrated the corridor, making the place bright without candles.

Near the hall door, Lucas and Marcellyn were standing waiting for their two children to arrive.

"Greetings to Father, and Mother", Elio bowed respectfully to greet Lucas and Marcellyn.

After a short greeting, he heard his sister's voice from the corridor, "Don't run, Blaine. You'll trip."

LeBlaine obeyed her brother's words. This time she walked more slowly. A smile spread across her little face when she saw her father and mother standing near her older brother.

"Father, mother, hello!" she greeted with a smile as warm as the sunlight shining on Euclase Palace this afternoon.

"Hello, Elio, LeBlaine," Lucas replied while stroking the heads of his two children, "How are you? Are you ready to go into the hall?"

LeBlaine nodded happily.

"Of course fine, Father."

LeBlaine then turned around to show the light blue dress she was wearing. "Never been this good, hehe."

Lucas and Marcellyn looked at each other and laughed when they saw their little daughter as bright as usual, "Okay, if you're in a good mood."

Elio looked up at the window where sunlight was coming in, then nodded, "Good, like the weather today", he answered with a smile.

Lucas stretched out his hand towards his two children, "The event is about to start, are you ready?"

Elio smiled happily when he saw LeBlaine that happy. Every day he strengthens his determination to maintain his sister's smile forever. His smile made her little heart happy every day.

LeBlaine nodded cheerfully. Her tiny hand held the hand of her older brother who had been silent all this time.

"Looks like there will be a lot of people," she muttered a little.

"Yeah", Elio glancing briefly at the hall door which was slightly open, the sound of people talking could be clearly heard because the corridor was quite quiet, "Is LeBlaine nervous?"

LeBlaine shook her head slowly.

"No. Because big brother is here."

Between the voices of those people, Blaine honestly wondered, did she recognize any of them?

Elio fell silent embarrassed because of his younger sister's answer. He could only reach out her hand, inviting her to walk together into the hall, "Come on, come in?"

Lucas feels that now is the time to go in, because if he delays any longer, he will be late for the event. Is it true that the host is late coming in?

"Okay, then let's go in." Lucas took Marcellyn and walked towards the open door. This harmonious family was greeted with a summons from the knights standing on both sides of the door, announcing that Lucas and his family had entered the hall, and the event would soon begin.

## Crown Prince Royal Party

As he expected, all the nobles certainly took the time to attend this party. Of course they wanted to at least be remembered by the Crown Prince as loyal nobles, making Theodore snort.

As he made his entrance, with his three children and the other children as well, people began to stand side by side. The noblewomen started to cover their mouths with their fans to murmur some nonsense. Theodore was already immune to it.

"I thought the Duke Habsburg hated his brother but it seems not? If so then why are they attending this party?"

is one of the nonsense that caught his attention.

"What a bunch of filthy-mouthed worms."

Aloysius scoffed at his father's words about the nobles. It is true that their family rarely appears at social gatherings, let alone at the Crown Prince's one. So it was no surprise that their family were scorned.

"Father, you must've forgotten that you always rejected the party invitation. Of course, they would be surprised to see you attend this one."

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Usually Lutz rarely goes to noble parties considering that he often travels outside the Azeroth Empire's main region and mostly transfers his work to his first child, Alvero. But especially today, he couldn't possibly miss an important event like now, right? Especially those who invite their own nephew. Coincidentally, Lutz was able to spend time accompanying his only daughter shopping and at the same time picking up Vayne from the port.

With a glass of wine in his hand, Lutz chatted with several nobles who greeted him. Today he came with Vayne and Lilianna, his children had gone elsewhere. Considering Vayne's character, he would definitely take his little sister to a place where there weren't many nobles.

After having fun chatting, it felt like this father of four children had forgotten something.

'I've been here but I haven't found the other two. Could it be that Alvero and Felix are late? Felix could be tolerated because he said he wanted to go home first. But Al?'

Lutz shook his head

"Don't tell me he's still busy with a pile of assignments? What a hassle~"

Crown Prince's party, whatever the name, it's still called a party—and Vayne doesn't like it. He goes along with his father and siblings, but doesn't want to go to the party alone. Luckily he was an academy student, so Vayne only came home during summer and winter holidays. A great way to avoid any royal party invitations.

Vayne and her sister were sitting on the edge, a place provided if they wanted to rest. He sighed as he looked at the people in his line of sight.

"Gossip, rumours, they can't get enough of gossiping about people," he muttered, seeing the Grand Duke of Esterling's family enter the party hall.

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As a Viscountess and also someone who has raised princes in the palace, of course the invitation from Crown Prince Lucas is one that she must attend. It is also in social activities like this where Hannah can see how much the children she accompanied have grown. From where she was standing, Hannah could see the Grand Duke Habsburg and Grand Duke Laurent who had recently arrived. As he had expected, people would definitely discuss how eccentric the Warlord of the Azeroth Empire was.

Hannah sighed behind her fan, hoping that this time no new gossip would emerge about Prince Esterling again.

Evelynne, or as she prefers to call herself simply Eve, chose to separate herself from her father and older siblings. His golden yellow beads stared at the silver strands not far from where he was standing. Lifting her dress slightly, she slipped between the nobles.

"Uncle, hello!" he greeted Grand Duke Lutz who was sipping wine from his glass.

Oh of course, as a lady, Eve doesn't forget her manners of doing curtsy as a greeting. Although of course a greeting like that didn't fit into his father's dictionary of manners.

Several nobles who had invited Lutz to chat said goodbye, leaving him alone. It's tiring to chat, but that's what socializing is like, right?

"Hm?" From a distance, Lutz saw one of Theo's children sneaking among the nobles. The child didn't realize that Lutz had been following her movements. When greeted, Lutz greeted her back. Like an uncle greeting his niece— Lutz should have been considered the grandfather of the royalty family line.

"Eve! You're already big, aren't you? You feel like you're knee-high. But you're just polite as a lady." The reply was friendly, smiling to see that a child as small as Eve was like a little lady who knew manners. It's just why did she call him uncle?

"You're not with Theo?" Lutz matches Eve's height, aka bends slightly.

Eve smiled broadly, full of pride. Finally, someone admitted that she had become a lady. Even though her older siblings weren't like that.

"Hehe of course uncle! Because Eve is already big."

Then she glanced at the direction where her father was standing. It seemed her father was already aware that she was missing. Eve wanted to laugh seeing him confused looking for her.

"I was with him earlier but not when he came here. But it looks like Daddy will be here, hihi."

"hm hm~ Eve has grown up~!" Because he was so excited, Lutz even stroked the top of Eve's head, feeling like he wanted to ruffle her hair because he was so excited. But hold on, it could be serious if Theo beats him up on the spot.

"Eve, do you want to go with uncle? At the end, there are Uncle's children, Vayne and Lily. Let's run away before Theo gets here!"

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A prince's hall is no joke, it is very large and can accommodate hundreds to thousands of people.

The hall room is neatly arranged, each place has provided dishes which are served by the maid there.

After being welcomed by everyone, Lucas sat on his throne chair with his wife, "Welcome to everyone who spares their time to attend this party. It is my pleasure to be able to hold this party to celebrate the new opening of the diamond mine in Capital Region", Lucas was silent for a moment while looking for the figure of someone he wanted to meet, "Then we shall cut all the formalities and please enjoy yourself at this party", he continued with a smile.

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Lilianna ate the dessert her brother gave her, sitting together while watching people enjoying themselves talking and gossiping.

Lily fed the pudding into her mouth, chewing slowly before swallowing it. She glanced at her brother Vayne in confusion.

"Is brother Vayne okay? Brother doesn't seem to like going to parties."

Hearing his sister ask, Vayne shifted his gaze from the front to his sister. His hand rose and stroked the top of her head.

"Brother prefers here, it's quieter than the crowd in front. Lily doesn't like it? Do you want to take me to Dad's place?"

Lily immediately took her brother's hand which was above her head. Nanny and the maids had taken great pains to tidy up her hair, she didn't want her hair to be messy. Lily shook her head, answering

"Lily just wants to stay here and accompany her brother."

A few moments later her brother's hand left her head, Lily smoothed the top of her head with her hand.

"I didn't see Brother Alvero and Brother Felix. Didn't they come to the party?"

The mood that was originally good suddenly turned bad again. Vayne snorted in annoyance as he folded his arms in front of his chest. Those two older brothers just make their little sister worry, don't they?

"You bastard Brothers, the party has started but they haven't shown up yet. Just watch out," he muttered as if in a whisper.

"They'll be here in a moment. Lily just wait."

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After passing many obstacles, they finally arrived at the Crown Prince's Palace. Alvero got out of the train feeling proud, he had the benefit of persuading the train driver to speed up.

Felix came out behind Alvero, shaking his head at his brother's behaviour.

"That's enough to be proud of. The driver didn't event need to be persuaded, he also already went fast."

Alvero glanced at his little brother for a moment, then looked away to hide his embarrassment. Just realized that they were outside.

"Let's go! Let's not make Father and our younger siblings wait."

Alvero went first, followed by Felix, laughing softly.

One of the doormen opened the door for them, calling out their names.

"Marquess of Wamerton, Alvero Ivander Laurent and Marquess of Persbury, Felix Luther Laurent have arrived!" The exclamation from the guard made the nobles inside the banquet hall look at these two young nobles. They may be late, but you could say they're not too late. Just look outside, there are still lots of trains waiting in line.

Alvero walked past the nobles, intending to look for his father or younger siblings. Several ladies from a distance seemed to be holding back their hysterics.

"Look! Ah, what am I seeing? There's an angel coming to the party!"

"I feel like I'm going to faint."

"Isn't that the lord of the Laurent Family, Lord Alvero Laurent?! Ahh~ finally I can see him at this party!"

"Handsome~~"

And various kinds of hysterical ladies from afar. Yes, Alvero is indeed famous.

Felix felt sorry for being in the same room as his brother, just look at the fanatics - no, the fans.

"Uwaa~ I shouldn't have come with you. Do something with them."