False Hero

"Do you know the specialty of the Ormr family? I am talking about their eyes."

"You are talking about their purple indigo eyes, right? They are pretty beautiful, but I never had a chance to take a closer look at them"

I leaned forward toward her, "Then you have the chance now."

I purposefully made my eyes shine brighter in the shade of purple indigo. Looking at my eyes, she showed obvious signs of being in awe.

"Let's just say that I am not from the Hoffmann family, under such cases, I will use the name of my mom's side After my mom is an Ormr."

Even though I said that I still proceeded to write my name as Grey Hoffmann, then wrote other basic information. before I was going to walk away from the line after filling in my information. 

The lady on the counter stopped as she said, "You------ you have beautiful eyes, but please refrain yourself from pretending to be of any royal family since it won't end well."

I let out a sigh, as I couldn't help but laugh a little. 

I mean, I do not blame her since the marriage of my mom and dad was secret. Most of their life was secret, so it's obvious that none of the civilians know about my existence and it's fine. Well, in some cases it's better since I can move freely.

Ah, by the way, on the list I was filling, I saw Ulrich's name and there were many names that I recognized. But for some reason, I couldn't see Rudi's name, maybe I missed it or there is just another list.

Idiot A came to me, he had a confused look on his face, "Didn't we win direct admission to this academy, where is ur pass."

I looked at Aetna before hesitantly saying "I lost it."

"That's unfortunate, but it doesn't matter since you will get selected anyway."

The selection will be tomorrow and there will be three rounds for the selection in the academy. The only important rounds are the first two and the last, the round is only for grading you into a class. But since I already know what class I will be, it doesn't matter to me.

"Let's go Aetna before we run into someone else," I said as I grabbed Aetna's hand.

Even though, she should be used to me holding her hands. She was still taken back by me holding her hand.

I teleported back to Grandma Lozen's house and back to my room. I will spend the night here before teleporting there back in the morning.

Eventually, time passed and it was time for dinner, so as usual, I went to have dinner. Walking down the stairs I went to the dinner table with Aetna.

As I was walking through the house, I was getting various confused looks from the maids of the house. But for Aunt Sofia it was a usual sight, looking at me she smiled,

"Young Master, you are back!! Came for the dinner?"

"Yes, I am pretty hungry."

"Oh, that's good, we have prepared the dinner, go and sit on the dinner table, I will serve the dinner."

I walked ahead, but Aetna stayed to talk with Aunt Sofia, 

"Miss Aetna, how was the academy." Asked Aunt Sofia.

"It was pretty good, but interaction with people was exhausting." Said Aetna and well, that's something I relate with.

"My job as maid involves interaction with people, but I totally can understand how exhausting interacting with people is."

Damn, they are having some nice conversation, I should have stopped there and talked with them..

After some minutes, everyone was seated at the dinner table as they were having their food silently. 

"Grey, do you want the throne?"

It was a question, I knew that he will ask me one day. But I didn't know that he would ask this question at such a random time. But, well my answer is pretty clear.

I stabbed the piece of meat with my fork as I answered with a simple "yes".

Dad stopped chewing his food, all of his attention shifted towards me as he asked "what is your reasoning?"

"My reasoning? How do I put it------ when I was little, my world was only limited till you, mom, Grandma, Eira, Sylphy, and Emilia. My world was only limited till this very house that we are eating in." 

Pouring the curry over the rice, I continued, "For the kid me, this house ----- my world, I was willing to do anything to protect my world, my family. I was ready to fight anything and everything ----- since I loved you all very much ---- I was happy with you all."

Suddenly the dining had a heavy atmosphere, all of them looked at me with absolute silence. But dad had a gentle smile on his face, he seemed to look really happy.

I continued, "but after that day----- that day when mom died, my world changed. I would be lying if I said that revenge was not in my mind for the first few years, every day I thought of ways of killing people who were the reason for Mom's death. 

It's not like I have forgotten anything, I will find them to kill them. But the flame of revenge doesn't burn as brightly as it used to burn. As years passed by, I met people who supported me, they were the people I dearly loved. Well, some died by my own hands."

I couldn't help but chuckle after saying that.

"I met Aetna, Rai, Ulrich, Rudi, and Annie. Suddenly I realized that there were more people that I wanted to protect no matter what. As my life went on in Goldberg city, I met more and more people. 

A Grandma took who us in her house, she provided us with food and shelter. She was an awesome woman. A middle-aged old man named mark, well he absolutely hated when I called old man, an aunt who takes care of us like her own kids. Many good friends, brothers and ----"

I touched my lips as I remembered my first kiss, I couldn't help but smile. 

"Even after that I kept meeting more and more people, people who I admire and I want them to be happy and safe. I don't want them or their loved ones to get hurt. If in case in future something happens to them and I couldn't be able to do anything, then I will never be able to forgive myself. I am going to sit on the throne and protect my people, I will destroy any god or human or anything that tries to hurt my people. I will build my empire for that."

After saying that, I took stabbed the meat with my fork. Stuffing it in my mouth, I looked up. Dad hasn't even eaten a single bite yet.

Dad looked at me for a good second, before he let out a laugh. Resuming his dinner, he spoke "Part of you is very much like me and Alice, but then there are parts of you which are totally different me and Alice. It's a good thing, I am glad that you are your own person. I kind of wish that Alice was here to see what kind of person his son has grown up to be.

I still remember the time, when you used to say that you just wanted to live a peaceful life and didn't want to learn neither any kind of fighting or neither did you want to join heroes party members."

Dad took a bite of his food before continuing "You wanted to travel around the world and meet different kinds of people. You did kind of realize that dream when you saw different kind of people and their life. You found a new purpose, you couldn't overlook the struggle in those people's life. 

there is a saying that my father used to say, People who see something in this world that others fail to see are the ones that are fit to be the king that will lead everyone. I can't teach you how to be a king, since I am just a fighter. But my dad is someone that can teach you how to be a king.

My dad------ the previous king of Frey nation is someone that has brought peace to the ongoing waring nation. The nations were at war with each other for centuries, but he is one of those people, who achieved the current state of peace between nations and he is said to be among the greatest king that Frey nations have ever had.

I can't meet him for some reason, but I want you to go and meet him. You don't have to meet him now, but in one month after you are selected in the academy, go and meet him. He is kind of a harsh person, but with him, you will know what's it like to be the king. Well, my old man will also be in the seventh sky when he will see that one of his grandsons has come to learn something from him. 

But, yeah he is kind of ---------- you will know when you meet him."