Jesse Venetiaan/Relationships

## Riester Empire

### Aurélie Boutier

Ever since she saw his reaction to hearing the fates that would befall his own assasins—Synkie and Peter—Aurélie thought of Jesse as a kind child. She reminds Jesse of a professor he had in college.

### Élisabeth Moutet

During their first encounter, Jesse felt rather uneasy meeting Élisabeth, since she was the best friend of QNW's male lead who he wanted to avoid at all cost. On the other hand, Élisabeth finds it amusing that Jesse tries to memorise the names of all the attendants and workers of the palace, when most people wouldn't even bother.

### Ganael Callamard

Ganael often brings Jesse books and magazines to read. During their first official meeting, Ganael even expresses that, upon hearing of Jesse coming to the Empire, he immediately went to his father to ask if he could enter Juliette Palace to serve Jesse.

Ganael thinks of Jesse as *"someone in a high position who is generous to the attendants and respectful even to the gardeners."*

Meanwhile, Jesse finds it a little awkward to be served by someone so young, so he makes sure to frequently share his snacks with Ganael and the other young attendants during their group tea times.

### Benjamin Girardin

Benjamin doesn't care about the fact that Jesse is from another kingdom or that he came to the Empire as a diplomatic hostage. His only concern and task is to serve him to the best of my abilities.

Benjamin is a devote follower of the Almighty God and as his attendant, and has the conviction to become a martyr for Jesse (mostly notably expressing this during the time Jesse was being suspected for the theft of a Divine Item from the Temple of Vigilance.) He was critical at first, however, about whether or not Jesse was possibly hiding anything from him, because as an attendant, Benjamin's duties also included protecting Jesse, though it would've been hard for him to do so if Jesse was hiding things from him. Though after seeing Jesse use a Holy Domain and make a promise through a Divine Oracle to be a priest responsible of their faith and who wouldn't do anything that might possibly put the young attendants in danger, Benjamin becomes immensely relieved and his disposition was the most gentle it had ever been in the one week they were together.

They are rather friendly towards each other, with Jesse inviting Benjamin (along with all the other children attendants like Ganael and the Bellang twins) to a group tea time, though Benjamin is hesitant, seeing as their ranks and positions are so different. Jesse manages to convince him that it's alright, however, under the excuse that he did the same thing back in the Holy Kingdom, and if anyone opposed it, they could always just transfer palaces to work at. In the end, Jesse managed to earn that group tea time.

## Venetiaan Royal Family

### Werner Venetiaan

Unlike the two princesses who were born from relationships between the Queen and the Prince Consort, Prince Jesse was a bastard born from the Queen’s sincere love affair with a commoner priest. Because of this, Werner—as the official husband of the Queen and father to the crown princess—saw Jesse as a thorn in his side, and even sent assassins to try to kill him after pushing for Jesse to be sent to the Empire as a diplomatic hostage. This was done to secure his loving daughter, crown princess Elise's position.

Werner's disliking of Jesse isn't a secret to the attendants of the Royal palace, getting mad simply by hearing anything positive about Jesse—this is especially so whenever someone even subtly alludes to Jesse being popular (to which he takes as an offense, thinking about how Jesse might be more well-liked than him). Werner also doesn't hesitate to attack Jesse's bastard and commoner origins by calling him a "dirty bastard child."

### Cornelisse Venetiaan

Cornelisse adores her older brother. Before Jesse left to the Riester Empire, he told her that he would come back if she slept for 100 nights, unbeknown to the fact that her father sent Jesse there under the guise as serving as a diplomatic hostage, with the actual intent of later killing him off by sending assassins.

After a long while of not hearing a word from her older brother, Cornelisse was excited to unexpectedly catch wind of Jesse's "adventures," as she called them, in the Riester Empire, happily ranting to her father about how she heard from the rumours about how Jesse *"rode a griffin the size of a mountain! [and how he] then awakened the Imperial Prince-nim and young lady with kisses……"*.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 7
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 5
3. ↑ Chapter 3
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 4
5. ↑ Chapter 9
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Chapter 59