15. The Care

[This Has Taken Quite A Turn From The Premise]

[But Oh Well]

[Let Me Ask]

[What Is Love?]

[Well No One Knows, So Lets Move On]

[How Do You Get A Woman?]

[Well Simple]

[You Have Two Options]

[Be Nice]

[Or]

[Be A Scumbag]

[Well Of Course You Should Always Go For]

[Scumbag]

***

Ryu who just entered an entire white room with a single huge movie screen that had text running through it, has left that room.

Ryu went back to the moment when Lycian was bowing and saying sorry for her actions till now.

After a quite moment with Ryu and just their eyes looking at each other, Licyian realized, he might give her back to Ageis and she will go through helish training again.

"Didn't you get training? And is this how you should act in front of a four year old."

[Side Quest]

[Actually Make Than Have No Time Limit, I Forgot You Were Four]

A quest screen updated once more in front of Ryu, but this time he really didn't care, he looked like he was real into his act as of the moment.

[This World's Suspense of Disbelief is Worse Than That One Christmass Movie]

And messeges from an unknown source also appeared in front of Ryu.

"I'm sorry, Prince, I underestimated you."

Licyian was kneeling on the floor with her head touching the floor.

"Stand up, your face will get ruined."

Said by Ryu at a tone that would seem like he actually cared and like her very much to the point of worrying about her face.

And at that moment Licyian thought that despite his harsh tone, he still pretty much liked her, she could definitely turn this around.

"Don't even think about anything stupid. I don't want my wife's face ruined, its bad for image."

Answered by Ryu, which was totally not what Licyian thought of. She didn't even know how to think of that sentence. She was already overthinking too much, that she didn't know what to do.

[Oh Well, Veing Nice Works Too, It Really Is Just Base On The Person You Are Trying To Go For.]

"Licyian, what is your age?"

"237, Prince!"

"And how did you end up as a slave."

Said by Ryu that sounded like it was an order not even a question.

"I was caught while acting as mercenary mage from the country of Loran."

"So a war mage."

"Yes, Prince."

"And why is an elf at the country of Leron acting as a mercenary."

"..."

Licyian was quiet like she was uncomfortable about the information, but Ryu had enough of it. He was not going to let her keep quiet anout anything. Actually, she just wasn't allowed to.

"Did it sound like a question to you."

Ryu emitted killing intent that was far scarier than what Licyian could have ever thought of. While learning with Ageis she did know that the 36th Princw was not like any other. But with that killing intent, all she could ask was 'Is he even a child?'

And with that amount of killing intent, Licyian just had no choice. If Ryu didn't stop, magic was the only way, but sadly Ageis blocked her magic so she had none of it. Simply meaning, she would die.

"I am a half elf!"

"And so what?"

"My mother was a slave, I was born as a child if a slave and thrown away!"

Licyian was telling her story with her eyes closed. With just the start of her story about her birth, it was already enough to take anyone's pity. And it was obvious why she found it uncomfotable to talk about such topic.

"..."

"And why are you stopping?"

Licyian's face was turning red and her heart beat was racing. It seemed like her past was quite traumatic.

"After being thrown away, I was left alone in the streets with nothing to eat or even take care of me."

"My mother died giving birth to me, not because of some birthing problem but because she gave all her mana for me to survive."

"And with that I was able to live a couple years just alying on the floor not being able to move or eat."

"I was an animal on the streets. A dead one at that."

"At the point when the mana was starting to run out, I was already 13 years old. I went for the best place for me to go, and that was the adventurers guild."

"I have been an adventurer for more than 200 years because of that."

"..."

Licyian stopped as she finished her story.

"Don't even try skipping."

"-Life in the guild was hard as I still had nothing, and earning money was hard when I had to hide the fact I was an elf or else I would be raped and sold as a slave."

"But I worked hard and made it work, even after some starving weeks, when I was able to improve on magic, I was able to rise up on the ranks and could earn money steadily."

"Years passed and the guild is where I got my rude personality from."

"That was just how the guild was, I had to adapt after countless years or I would have just been trashed."

"Then I got a quest that a friend invited me to, and that was the war."

"After losing I was captured and found out that I was an elf."

"And before I knew it I was being sold off."

"..."

Licyian was done. And her life was truly something. It was the definition of life itself, it was the hardships of living, and the ugliness of the world.

Licyian sat on the floor and then Ryu stood up.

"Stand up, did I tell you to sit."

Licyian stood immediately, with her face still red and her heart beating at a rapid rate. It wasn't shown on her tone, but her body was shaking the entire time she was telling her story.

"200 years is supposed to be a young age for an elf..."

"Y-"

"But you have been through a lot, Licyian."

"..."

"Stand high, I am not going to kill you."

"..."

"I just didn't want a bratty wife."

Ryu smiled and he walked off towards the door. As he slowly walked his serious tone and personality was changing back.

It was a bitter taste to him, for acting like someone he wasn't. But in truth all of it was part of the plan to "seduce" her, as what he learned in the black room.

"Oh and don't tell anyone what happened here! I'm just a normal child, and you are too. Right?"

"Yes."

Licyian's past was something even the King didn't know. All they knew was that she knew magic and was an elf.

"Rest well for now..."

Ryu left the room and there, his mother, sister and the maids stood. Though of course it wasn't because they were listening in. Ryu had a barrier just in case anything has happened.

"I had fun playing!"

"Is she sleeping?"

"Yep!"

Ryu at the start of the morning had breakfast with his mother and sister and then headed to his scheduled classes.

While walking to them, Ryu realized more about the mortal world. He had lived in a world of Gods, where war, rape, or any type of heinous things never happened.

He realized that this workd was just not as simple as the world of Gods, it never was nor it ever will.

Just hearing Licykan's story of the outside world, he realized just how privilaged he truly was.

Living a lavished life with absurd talent with absolutely no problem. When if you just think about it, while he was having a wonderful time, people die just from the simple reason of starvation.

And by hearing Licyian's priblem about the constant danger of being raped just for the sole reason of being an elf.

And that happening at such a young age.

Ryu realized what the human world truly was. Inside a secluded place, a place for royalty. The place were lavish things are normal. A place with loving parents and a loving sibling. A place with maids and butlers to help duties.

That place sounds like heaven. The perfect place for anyone. And life there could be called, as something he already said. "Amazing."

But in reality outside the walls of nobility. In the actual real world. Outside of richness, and in the place of the common people. Life was not something that can be called amazing.

Life... was simply disgusting...

***

Inside the Princes room, left with herself, thinking of her past. It was truly surprising. A past she has never told anyone, she just blurted forcfully in front of a child.

And in the end, she gained what she really just wanted. Something she saw in his eyes and tone.

She was relieved and happy. She thought that maybe it was time to stop acting like a mercenary and live her life to the fullest. Maybe the start was being a good person and acting what her age was supposed to really be.

And the only thing she could say.

"It was geniune pity... it was just that... it was that, that could change me..."