Chapter 57 - Adrihna, the High Elf

  Adrihna Akonium:

  Nearly three months have passed since I began teag the two Evenhart children, heirs to their parents' territory. It’s been a good period, where I could rest my mind away from the tedious paperwork at the Academy. Private tut is something I enjoy; I could say it’s my favorite hobby after reading.

  I thought that being a professor at the best Magic Academy of the three kingdoms might make my life a little less dull, and it was the perfect excuse to escape the responsibilities of aristocracy, pushing the b stuff onto my brother. Even though my father preferred me for the role, I never liked putting on those formal clothes, attending parties, and talking about useless things like business figures.

  I even mao escape the responsibility of getting married.

  I despise those noble responsibilities. If I could, I would lock myself in a room and spend 20 years reading books, not leaving until I was tired of it... actually, I did that once... during an adolest crisis.

  In the past eight years, I’ve returo teag, but now at the Academy of Apsalon. Fortunately, my mentor and old friend is the director there, and she uood my quirks, so it was easy for me to get a position that suited my style. I also had to fulfill some tasks for the annoying cil of the High Elves, and I was surprised when the king assigned me the mission of finding his lost lihanks to my diplomatic role ihree kingdoms, as a renowned private tutor, I had a small amount of political power that allowed me to make moves and access cssified dots without raising suspi.

  I found the little lost and starving fox-girl in a vilge in the middle of nowhere. I had a copy of the lione bearing the blood signature of the High Elf King who had married the daughter of the Founding Emperor. Sihe Archduke’s lineage died with him, the only way to firm if there were any lost desdants of the royal family was to use the king’s lione. I was surprised when I found a rare golden fox, who, on top of everything, ied the Element of Light when her Mana Gem awakened.

  It was fortuhat she was with me when it happened...

  Kinue’s existence was a true treasure, worth it after the tury I spent privately tut the children of nobles from all the kingdoms. I took her as my apprentid decided to raise that girl to be the greatest mage of the Light element. She has all the qualities of her demi-human rad access a rare bestial form. Kinue brought back the joy I had in unlog the magical potential of young mages.

  The High Elf cil didn’t know what to do with the heir to the royal lineage being a demi-human, and I assured them that if they didn’t accept her, I would adopt and raise her myself... that was enough to shut them up. They couldn’t let a royal family heir be adopted by another family. They reized her as an heir sihe lione never lies, and when she’s older, I’ll expihing to her.

  The king, queen, and I have ehat she remains safe and hidden until the right time es for her lio be revealed.

  There was just one small problem... I only reached Kinue four years ago because I followed the records of the Teresia Kingdom that led me to the Kingdom of Renesia, but retly, about three years ago, another record was added, linking the existence of two heirs to Kinue’s family tree. It seems that ao the Evenhart duchy went uered for five years. When he was finally added to the records of the kingdoms... he was automatically lio the family tree, eg him to the fugitive High Elf from the king’s family.

  Nathan Evenhart and his mother have no idea of the chaos unfolding within the royal family of the Elven Kingdom. The royal lineage now includes not just oive of another race, but three. The worst part is that they are desdants of a High Elf from the royal family, which pces them in an even higher position than my father, especially because the two new additions are human. Humans are entirely patible with Elves for reprodu, and having a royal High Elf heir who is human and capable of reprodug has put that boy in serious trouble.

  High Elves prefer to reproduly within their species, but the entire Elven Kingdom is poputed by on elves. There's an intense petition among the noble families of the on elves to try and marry the boy. Nathan Evenhart is enormously privileged. He belongs to the Elven royal family, possesses great magical potential due to being a desdant of a High Elf, and unlike Kinue, who is a demi-human, the boy is fully patible for reprodu with Elves because he is human. Poor Nathan; he will have many ed issues to deal with in the ing years.

  Nathan Evenhart and his mother are the only ones patible with the Elves due to being human, and we won’t burden Lady Katherih this responsibility, especially after losing her husband. We didn’t want to overwhelm her with the weight of politiobility. So, all the iance of the Archduke, along with his political position and influence, was bestowed upon Nathan Evenhart. The two girls are members of the royal family, but the boy is not only a royal member; he holds a political position within it.

  At the age of eight, Nathan Evenhart is one of the most powerful people ihree kingdoms... and he doesn’t even know it.

  I’ve been tasked with looking after the family and maintaining tact with him. The king wao send a small army of 100 elves to protect them around the clock, but I had to vince him it wasn’t necessary sihe boy es from a family of high-ranking nobles in the Kingdom of Teresia, and they are safe.

  Thankfully, he listeo me... I avoided a diplomatit, and no one even gratuted me for it.

  I was assigo be his tutor, keeping a distance while monit the boy's growth until the right time for him to be sent to Apsalon. When Nathan Evenhart is sent to the ral zone of that city, he will be old enough to uand his responsibilities and will also be protected by the diplomatic immunity of that pce.

  Unfortunately, the fh Elf royal broke some ws as he was from the royal family, and there are diplomatic agreements preventing them from engaging with people from other kingdoms. Such as could be sidered attempts at union and might threaten the existence of the third kingdom if the other two uo prevent this, there are a series of ws prohibiting high-ranking nobles from marrying people from other kingdoms, and that High Elf vioted these rules. Nathan will o stay iy of Apsalon while we hahe diplomatic work to resolve his political situation.

  Perhaps that’s why the Elf abandoned everything and fled with the human. The two of them just wao live a peaceful life together, far from all these responsibilities.

  Ironically, the book I was reading was about a couple from tw families who couldn’t marry. To be together, they abandoned everything and fled.

  Who would have thought I’d live to see this happen in real life, involving a royal High Elf no less...

  I let out a small ugh, and the boy looks at me.

  "Another romanovel?" he asks me.

  "Absolutely... and this one even crossed borders..." I say, pretending to go back to reading.

  Should I tell his family that even the current Elven king is sidering marrying him to the princess of the Elven Kingdom?

  I g the boy, who’s trying again to catch the energy of the thunder with his hands.

  I'll keep quiet about this for now...

  I sigh.

  Who would have thought that the human family I’ve had a long-standing friendship with would be the one I o find to reuh the royal family...

  I try to put these thoughts aside and foy book, but I ’t.

  This boy is going to be a handful... but it’s been a while since I had this much fun. You and I, Nathan Evenhart, will have many political issues to sort out iure.