Chapter 28 (1/2)

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At the sudden appearance of the Grand Duke, all of the servants reacted as though they were about to raise the alarm.

“Your Highness! Before His Majesty grants you an audience, you can't just burst into the audience chamber!”

“Hm?”

The Grand Duke slowly and leisurely tilted his head and inhaled and exhaled the cloudy white smoke and moved his red lips slightly.

“Your Majesty, this Aidan requests the audience with the Protector of the Nation's Light. Of course, you'd accept my request.”

Which nation's etiquette is it to enter first then inform later!?!

That f.u.c.king ruffian…….

The footman who stood guard in front of the audience chamber swallowed the curses he couldn't let out of his mouth and made a tearful face. Julian looked at him with wide eyes as though he couldn't quite believe it.

“Brother?”

Grand Duke Aidan Valentine. The Emperor's one and only brother. The only person within the Empire who could be candid with the Emperor without fear of punishment.

“It has been a long time since we've met.”

Aidan roughly moved up the hairs that poked his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth.

The two people who had inherited the Emperor's blood looked so similar to the point of twins, not brothers, during their childhood. As a result of the similar looks, when they stood next to each other, their hair color — the only point of difference — contrasted even more and thus were nicknamed 'Black and White'.

The 'White Prince' always worked hard and upheld an upright and clean private life and the Royal Palace's embarra.s.sment, the 'Black Prince', who went around like a ruffian doing things that were difficult to place on one's tongue.

Because the two were so similar, their actions which laid on the extreme ends of the spectrum, couldn't help but be compared to each other. Until the White Prince, who had been the Second Prince, pa.s.sed the First Prince, the Black Prince, and ascended the throne.

After the previous Emperor had retired, Julian completely filled the empty s.p.a.ce of the late Emperor and was widely accepted. This was the rumor that was known throughout the entire continent.