I'M THE NECROMANCER KING
Chapter 3: The Conspiracy

"So, you're the substitute waitress? Aunt Rose told me yesterday."

Aunt Rose is a good person. She was the servant who nurtured the prince since childhood. He always loved the prince despite his bad behavior.

Marrie who was still a little nervous replied, "Yes, prince."

"Can you help me with something?" mavis

"The prince can say, this servant will help as the Prince wishes if possible."

"Good." Mavis wiped her mouth after finishing the last meal the two maids had prepared.

Then, he began to say the intent of his goal to ask the two brothers for help in seeking information about the queen's current state. Also, he needed a complete map of the kingdom.

"To remind you again, do it in secret."

"Make the task of getting the royal map to me, I'm an expert at this." Sasha raised her hand.

"Okay, for the map I'll leave this section to you. You're Sasha, right?"

"Yes, Prince. You can call me Sasha."

"Alright then, I'll count on you for it. While the information about my mother I left it to your sister Marrie" Mavis said.

Both accepted Mavis' request. After nothing was spoken, the two maids asked the prince's permission to return.

The door closed and the two brothers left the room. Shortly after, Mavis's room door was suddenly knocked again.

"Ma"

Mavis had not finished letting her in, the man went straight into her room.

"Sister!"

The voice of a small child was heard getting closer towards Mavis. The boy kept screaming for his brother.

"Sister, let's play with Seli. It's been a few days since my brother didn't come to Seli's place. Doesn't my sister love Seli?" The boy's face grew ugly and his eyes began to glaze over.

The little boy was named Selia, his sister. Using the memories from the prince's memories, Seli was the only brother close to her. Selia's biological mother is the third concubine who is also a close friend of the queen, the relationship is very good.

"Hey, little lady, this brother always misses you. It's just that I'm punishing this brother, so I can't see you" Mavis said. Her hand stroked the silky hair of Selia who was twitched in two.

"Really?"

Selia climbed into the bed and hugged Mavis' body.

"Sister, then Seli will also be angry at you."

Mavis laughed amusedly at the innocent behavior of her little sister. After all Selia was only six years old, Mavis could still understand her childish attitude.

"Do you know? Your father we're talking about is a king. Aren't you afraid of being punished for antagonizing a king? Isn't that overkill?"

"Father who first forbade sister to see Seli! Dad's overdone!" The boy snorted in annoyance.

"Don't blame me, it's because your brother did something bad before. I deserve it."

Selia shook for a moment, she thought hard to find a way so that her brother could escape the punishment. However, such a thing would be too difficult for a child like him to think about.

Mavis also realized the sincerity of her sister. And he was so happy that he was lucky to still be given a brother who loved him.

"Kak Asta is the most beloved person. Does your sister know that?"

"Most loved, huh? Then, what about your mother?"

"Then the first mother, and the older sister became the second most beloved person!"

Mavis laughed again. "Alright, so I'm just being second." Mavis pretends to be pouting.

"Sister isn't it, being second isn't bad. Brother is still the most dear Seli!"

Mavis keeps making jokes with her sister. It's very exciting chatting with your own siblings compared to friends in his previous life.

Selia is also adorable. The boy was already very beautiful as a child, Mavis could already imagine how big it would look. That beauty will invite hungry wolves to fight over prey. It's Mavis's responsibility in the future to protect her sister.

Mavis held onto both of Selia's shoulders and pushed her slowly to loosen the embrace.

While looking at Mavis's face, the face looks reluctant to part with Mavis.

"I will persuade you to stop punishing you. Seli will help!"

"Yes, it's up to you." Mavis just sat in her heart, then shook her head.

Now the door was closed once more and the room was back in its silence.

Elsewhere, at the residence of Queen Lilian.

The beautiful woman was asleep in a bed and another was holding her white hand expectantly.

That man was King Cornelius. Now the king was wearing casual clothes and taking off his crown, looking like a man in general.

The king's look was so sad. Like a flower that has lost its petals, the king is greatly lost.

"Lilian, if only you knew I was punishing our son ...." The king smiled wryly, then continued, "Perhaps, you will hit me at that very moment."

"I'm sorry, I hope you understand my choice. For his sake, he must know his true nature and change. I hope that punishment will wake him up." Then, the king stroked the queen's orange-colored hair, and she kissed her forehead.

"I miss you so much, get up, Lilian."

The king left the queen's residence, then continued his journey to the meeting room with the royal officials. Today it is scheduled that the king will receive reports from officials about the current developments. Be it about reports from border security, the kingdom's economy, and the export and import relations of goods with neighboring kingdoms.

While heading to the assembly hall, King Cornelius kept asking the king's adviser, his name was Kayle Sool. He was the younger brother of Lilian, a highly intellectual genius from various fields.

"Kayle, report the state of Asta today" said King Cornelius.

"It's the fifteenth day since the prince was sentenced to be in his room. According to my observation, the state of the prince has improved since eight days ago" Kayle said with a happy smile.

"What am I doing this right, Kayle? What if that kid ends up hating me?" The moody king.

"Your Majesty please calm down. As I said before, this punishment will make the prince reflect on his mistake. It's time the prince thought about his future."

"Yes, I hope so" said King Cornelius. The conversation came to a halt as his footsteps began to enter the front region of the meeting hall.

There began to be people lined up and facing the road where the king would walk. Those people were high-ranking officials from various fields. Among them are smart people, he who has the ability in his field, has a connection with the royal family, or he who is good at cursing.

Of the various officials, all leaned forward as the king walked towards his throne. The lion-carved throne chair looks oppressive when the king occupies it.

"Your Majesty. All the officials have been present" said a man who is now in the closest row to the king other than Kayle.

He's Felix Barathon, assistant adviser to the king, Kayle's right-hand man. He was a scribe in meetings attended by the king.

"The supervision department of the royal warehouse, report on the development of the delivery of grain aid to the village of Valey," the king said.

"Your Majesty, for the delivery of grain aid to the village of Valey for this month has been distributed. The wheat shipped has already cut five percent of the kingdom's current warehouse" said Yasin, the head of the kingdom's warehouse supervision department.

"Then, I got a report from the officer who sent the grain to the Valey area, they got a push from some residents there. Among them complained that the grain aid our department had sent was not sufficient for the village, nor did the nobleman who managed the grain in the village sell the wheat at an exorbitant price."

"I hope Your Majesty can consider sending someone from the public surveillance department to investigate the case, or I fear next month it will be much worse and cut off the kingdom's larger storage warehouse."

"Public surveillance department, send some men to keep an eye on the nobles there. If the nobles cheat by hoarding grain, drag the nobleman and bring it before me" said King Cornelius.

"Then, I want to know the report on the fire investigation in Valey village."

"Your Majesty, the officer assigned to investigate the great fire has all disappeared." The high-ranking official from the military department replied with a hint of embarrassment. Name's Fergus.

"How can you?" The king frowned and was angry.

"Sorry for the negligence of the officers of our Military department. His Majesty, however, according to the report of the officer investigating the fire disappeared shortly after entering the forest in the western part of the village of Valey, Anambas forest. According to residents near there, the forest was often inhabited by bandits. I concluded that the officers who disappeared must have something to do with those bandits. The military department has already acted by sending in troops and is on its way to eradicate them."

"Your Majesty, please calm down. If the military department is in trouble with the bandits, our academy can send trained students to help" said a woman who came from the opposite row with Fergus. The woman was named Alice, the vice principal of the Lynford academy.

"More than our department can afford to take care of those bandits" Fergus responded to Alice. He was very upset with the woman because he was always looking for trouble.

"Oh, good." Alice chuckles at Fergus. While on the other hand Fergus hates him to the bone, as well as Alice who hates the man to the ingrained. Fergus in Alice's eyes is a loser who always underestimates a woman's performance.

"You stop! Don't make a fuss! I've warned you a lot, haven't I?" Kayle snapped at the two.