Amused by different thoughts

"No, I am not." 

The two who were at the side, Tristan and Louis looked at each other before looking back at the three people in front of them.

'Did brother forget that we are still here?' the young prince thought and could not hide the grimace that showed on his face.

Perhaps Caliber did that on purpose to make Alec stare at them, but Alec did not look like he was bothered by it, he glanced at Tristan whose eyebrows were furrowed while staring at the two princes.

He was observing the knight of how he would interpret the scene, it would cause Chance big trouble if he reported it to King Cadell. 

"Your Highness," Tristan muttered, referring to the little Canopus prince, while not putting his gaze away from the two. "Your brother..." his forehead creased even more and squinted his eyes, thinking hard.

Louis waited for the knight to continue his words, but he has an idea of what he was thinking about. 'What would a knight of Antares think about this sight?' he thought and looked at the two who were holding their faces. 'Chance, are you not in danger?' 

As Tristan squinted, Louis and Alec stared at him to see his reaction. His lips parted and he turned to the prince to continue what he was going to ask.

"...is your brother sick?" 

Alec shut his eyes and averted his gaze back to a straight direction, realizing that there was nothing to worry about. Louis looked at him with a bored expression and let out an audible sigh.

'What an idiot.' they both thought.

Louis ignored the question and Tristan scratched his head, confused. 'Is he making His Highness, Charles, check his temperature?' he thought and looked up with his fingers on his chin. 'Ah, I have no idea anymore, this task of His Majesty is confusing.'

'It is not confusing, you are just stupid.' Louis said inside his mind when he predicted what Tristan was obviously thinking about. 

Meanwhile, Chance was staring at Caliber in awe, as his hand was placed on his cheek, 'Oh my god, my hand is sweating. It'll make his cheeks wet.' he said inside his head in panic.

'Damn my sweaty hands!' he yelled internally, very embarrassed.

'What does he mean he's not okay? From what I know, he wasn't involved in the fight.' Chance thought. He was trying to pull his hand but it looked as if he did not do anything because his hand did not even move away from Caliber's cheek.

He could not think of a reason why Caliber was acting this way but then he thought of something. 'Is he not okay because of the problem he mentioned?' he thought. Chance knew that it was no lie, he could see his expression clearly earlier and he knows that it is indeed troubling him.

"If only you could tell me..." he whispered while staring at the man who was holding his hand. 

"Tell you what?"

Chance gulped when he realized that he said it aloud instead of thinking. "It is nothing." he said looking away, 'If only you could tell me what your problem was...' he continued inside his mind.

The face that he made back in the room was something he has never seen before. What has caused him to be so troubled to make that kind of dejected face? For some reason, it made him curious as to what his problem was about.

'Why do I need to know anyway?'

Caliber was pleased to see that Chance was not resisting or taking his hand away from him. He was somehow expecting to be kicked or something. But then he knows that Charles has changed, still, maybe he did not change at all. Maybe they have been starting to get close.

Caliber who was still busy thinking, surprised when he felt another hand on his face. The other three who were around also looked. 

He raised his head, who was looking down as he thought and saw Chance looking at him with a worried face.

"Caliber," 

Chance called him and took a step forward that got Caliber in a daze, he moved his two thumbs on his face, "I know you are not all right and something is troubling you." 

"By the time that you finally want to tell me," He removed his hand on his face and the other grabbed Caliber's hand that it was holding. He put his hand down and looked up to him, "I am here."

The Canopus prince had the sudden urge to hug him but he knows he will be bothered by it since there are other people. 'If it was not for that girl, I would not be this troubled.' he thought. He smiled, "I apologize for making you worry." 

Chance just smiled back but somehow, he was not happy. Even he does not know why.

"Charles." Alec muttered behind him.

He grabbed Chance and moved him a bit backwards, away from Caliber. Caliber looked at Alec seriously, thinking that he was interrupting them. The knight took a step forward, making Chance be behind him.

As he got near Caliber, he looked at him blankly and whispered, "Best if you do not get close too often." it was a warning, but Caliber, of course, has no idea what kind of warning it was.

He took it like Alec was being possessive over his master, which was an idea he did not like.

Caliber remembered the times where Chance would call his knight by name, they were closer than a normal Master-Servant relationship. 'Could they really have...' he could not continue his thoughts as he would not like it.

Alec was observing the Canopus prince's face and noticed the change of expression. "I do not know what you are thinking about, but stay away for now." he said in a serious tone.

"This is for the sake of our prince." he said at the end in a low voice and turned around.

The knight touched Chance's back as a sign that they should return to the palace. 

"Oh," muttered Chance. He turned and bowed to the little prince, "I shall do my duties starting tomorrow. I shall take my leave for now, Cole." he said as a goodbye. 

Louis did not react badly to it, he just stood there and nodded, agreeing to make his personal servant leave. Normally, the master would be the one to decide when to dismiss the servant but the servant himself just said that he would be going and the master just agreed.

While walking towards the little door to exit the little prince's place, Chance looked back and saw Caliber looking at him. 'I hope his problem will get solved soon.' he thought, but of course, it would be better if he solved it with his help. Unfortunately, it looks like he would not tell him.

The two left and Tristan suddenly remembered that he should come with them. He waved at the young prince but Louis did not wave back. The three of them left to come back to the palace.

'For the sake of our prince? What does that mean?' he asked, a bit frustrated that he has no idea what he was trying to say. 

Louis was staring at his brother, amused by the expression he was making. He just kept quiet to continue picking up things in secret. What more interesting things could possibly happen, he thought. His side of Leonidas is showing as he continues to be amused.

Caliber tried to shake off his thoughts, he was not like it before, how could he suspect the two to have a relationship of more than master-servant. 'But then, it is possible.' he thought again.

Is it suspicion or jealousy? It may be both.

A misunderstanding, Alec did that for a different reason. Though Caliber thought that it was because Alec likes Chance. That he wants him to stay away from his master because they have something more than a normal relationship that a prince and a knight has. 

While Chance was feeling down because he wanted to know the problem that Caliber was having after he came back from Antares. It was all right for him because he could wait until Caliber could tell him what it was. 

But still, he was hoping that he could help Caliber.

The only ones who know what Caliber was trying to do was the highest servants of Canopus, the aides of royalty, Sherin and Niro.

Although the spider and the hawk knew that he was searching for a girl, they also do not know who it was. Especially Niro who was curious about the identity of the girl he was looking for, if only they were not interrupted by those guys in Antares, he could have known because it looked like Caliber was going to tell them.

All of them have different thoughts inside their mind.

In the top of one of the towers of the Canopus palace, where the little prince's place can be seen. A girl taking a bite of her bread was sitting on the edge. With her legs hanging down, playing with it by moving her feet up and down.

She giggled and looked down at them with a smile. "They are trying so hard, how cute."

She rested her chin on his palm, having fun watching them.

"I will be enjoying this for a while."