Inheriting a Lost Bloodline, My First Task is to have heirs?!

Chapter 135: Chapter 135 - A Free Trial of a Royal Harem

When Aurum has received permission to get in the villa, he immediately looked around the place and noticed that the place was not small at all. He immediately turned his head and looked at me, one of his eyebrows raised as if telling me, ”So you were lying about the place being small”. I immediately laughed and folded my arms in front of my chest then raised one of my eyebrows while locked in a staring contest with Aurum. My face is totally saying, ”So what if I lied? What are you going to do about it?” He was the first to break eye contact as he looked away from my face, he clicked his tongue as he did so and sighed loudly. He then put his focus somewhere else as he immediately chose his own room like he owned the place. His four aides waited for the prince to go inside his room before they burst into feats of laughter and giggles. I turned my head and they immediately tried to keep their laughter in with blushed faces. Xenos then forced to calm himself down and asked in behalf of the four of them respectfully as to which room they will be assigned to. I pointed at four separate rooms nearest the room that Aurum chose since no matter what happens they are still his aides and I am sure they will still attend to all his needs. They seemed to be surprised as to why I am giving them separate rooms each and I simply said that there are so many rooms so why should the four of them squeeze inside one. They simply nodded and started walking to the empty rooms I pointed at earlier. Before letting them enter their own rooms, I called them back and then gave them a copy of the list of classes offered by the academe for the current semester. I can see the blank look on their faces as they took the thick stack of papers from me. I raised my eyebrows and nonchalantly declared, ”I believe your prince has no plans to let me go in this lifetime. In that sense, you better widen your horizons and take classes that you think you will benefit from and will make it easier for you to do your roles in the near future. At that time, you most certainly will be following both my instructions and that of your prick of a master too. I can keep all of you safe in this academe just fine or if you are worried, one of you can stay with the prince when he has classes as his personal guard. The other three can take separate classes they are interested to learn about or something you want to increase your proficiency in, whichever may be applicable. You have to get most out of your stay here since your master seemed to have made a ruckus to his parents and the grandmaster of the academe to let him stay here for at least one semester. Besides not wasting his efforts, I don’t keep useless people, you know?” The four of them all stared at the stack of papers for a few seconds then at me. After realizing what I meant, they all nodded in unison as if receiving a royal order. They look like chicks with their heads bobbing up and down like that. I smirked at them and turned around to go back to my room which is the one nearest Ioannis’.

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At one of the rooms where the four minions, also known as Calix, Helios, Xenos and Yren were assigned to stay at, there was a small meeting being held without their master. They are all currently seated in a circular arrangement on the floor with a stack of papers in the middle. They are all quietly trying to digest the underlying meaning of the instructions they were provided with. Yren, the quietest of the bunch, was the first one to speak. He started the meeting with a question that they all had in common inside of their minds right now, ”Did the princess just indirectly tell us that we will eventually be accepted into her family together with our childish master?” Calix immediately responded, ”If I heard it correctly and my understanding is also correct, it should be that way, right?” Xenos as the most realistic of the bunch said, ”I will only believe so once the princess has married the prince into her family or his highness has been deflowered by her, whichever may come first. If I were you, I won’t keep my hopes up for now.” Helios then answered, ”I agree with what Xenos has said. As of now, what’s important is the task the princess has given us. We should choose classes that we can attend based on our interests and our plans for the future. I don’t want to destroy my chances on having a child just because she deemed me as somebody useless or unworthy. I won’t let me having a petty prince to attend to block me from having a son or a daughter. He’s ranked as a general in the imperial army for crying out loud so he is more than capable of keeping himself safe.” Yren then said, ”What if the prince stops us from taking classes and just wants us to follow him around?” Xenos answered immediately, ”We’ll just need to sell him out.” Calix laughed and said, ”The princess will deal with him.” Helios laughed even louder than Calix, ”Let’s see if our master can even contradict the princess’ instructions.”

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As I entered my room, I immediately put up another barrier around it. From now on, I will set this as my safe space where no one can enter without my permission. If this is how a royal harem is like, similar to the historical books I have read before, either the queen requests one of the consorts or concubines to come to her room or she visits the room of the man she chooses to spend the night and goes their herself. As for me, I definitely don’t have plans on inviting anyone in my room. I find myself wincing when I remembered I have a total of 8 men in the same house. I hope they can at least keep a sense of propriety and just treat each other in a civil manner. I don’t want to be a character in a palace drama.

By lunch time, I went out of the room to drop by Ioannis room. I found him relaxing on his bed while reading a book. He gave me a piece of paper with his chosen classes. I asked him before if he still wants to take in classes or he just wants to stay at home and he simply said, ”I don’t want to die of boredom.” I made him drop the classes that are too strenuous like his physical attack and defense classes as well as the class where he need to practice the use of different weapons. He can keep the ones that improve his magic proficiency though as long as he doesn’t tire himself too much. Surprisingly, he started to take more homely classes like cooking, flower arrangement, sewing and weaving and he took the more advance classes on child care and child education which I will also be taking together with him. I told him it was time for lunch and we can either stay in the villa and prepare something to eat or we can go to the cafeteria to eat. He rolled his eyes as he said, ”I don’t want you to get tired and cook for 8 men plus yourself. Until the time that we have already set the division of chores in this house, we’ll have to eat at the cafeteria.” The main husband said, thy his will be done.

As for the other men, I let Arthur choose more classes than the last semester and I allowed him to take other tasks from the academe when he doesn’t have one so that he can earn more points. He only needs to be with us when either Ioannis or I are in the villa which rarely happens since we spend our time in the library when we do not have classes. We only come home after dinner. It may change in the near future but for now, that’s what we plan to do. Dimitri has the greatest number of classes out of the four of us since he is preparing to become an heir of the southern duchy and has to know the ins and outs of managing the hacienda as well. As for the other five sudden transient tenants in my house, they can do whatever they want with their classes and their time unless they ask my opinion about it, I don’t have any plans to control which classes they should and should not take.

As Ioannis and I came out of his room, we saw Aurum and his four aides as well as Dimitri sitting in the living room. As for Arthur, he stayed standing quite a bit far from them, somewhere nearer the dining area. There was a sudden silence when I heard clearly that they were having quite a heated discussion as I was about to open Ioannis’s bedroom door. I looked around and spoke, ”I know you are discussing something. I don’t care if you do not tell me what it is about but I hate fighting and someone sabotaging another. Trust me. I will kick all of you out. Only Ioannis and Dimitri can cause trouble for me in this house and get away with it. Does everybody understand?” All of them nodded silently. I then said, ”Ioannis, Dimitri, Arthur and I are going to the cafeteria to eat. As for you five, do whatever you want.” I then started walking out of the door with my three men in tow.

After the four of us left the gate and have walked for a few meters, I heard hurried footsteps behind me as the other five that I left in the villa, chose to follow us to the cafeteria. The other students that we passed by could not help but murmur as our group walked past them. They also gave us weird looks like we are doing something scandalous. This academe has found their new favorite topic for gossip again, I suppose. Who can blame them? A woman with an entourage of eight men will definitely be eye-catching. I could only sigh at my predicament. I looked back and saw them looking forward and ignoring each other’s presence. With my crazy mind, I suddenly laughed as I shook my head and turned my attention forward again. Damn. I look like a mother duck with eight ducklings in tow.