She Belongs To The Devil

Nigel folded his arms and kept on staring at the hopeless romantic in front of him. And then he finally asked, "You realize that that is not my decision to make, right? You cannot court Adeline and hope to get married to her just because I allow it. It has to be Adeline's own decision."

Up until now, Fenris was laughing and joking around. But right now, he looked very serious. "Yes, I know that. What I meant by that was that Adeline really loves and respects you. So if you put in good words about me then she might at least consider me as her suitable suitor."

Nigel didn't know what to say in response. Normally he would respond to these kinds of request from Fenris by giving insults to him. But at the moment, he saw some change in Fenris. Maybe it was because of how serious he looked or maybe he really liked Adeline after all.

Nigel would have loved to slam the door on Fenris's face but he didn't want to be too rude to his cousin. So he finally said, "Alright, if you really like her that much then I will try to bring it up to Adeline. But I will consider it only if you behave properly. It is totally up to her if she accepts your proposal or not. If she says no, then stop pestering her."

"Thank you so much brother!" Fenris hugged Nigel tightly. He was feeling over the moon as if it was Adeline who had agreed to consider his proposal.

"Okay, leave me alone for now. Come to pick me up later. I want to lie down for a while." Nigel broke off from the hug and walked towards the large bed in the middle of the room.

Fenris smiled brightly and shouted as he left, "Thank you for your blessings, brother."

And Nigel shouted back in a voice that was loud enough to be heard outside of the room, "I have not given you any kind of blessings. Don't over exaggerate my words." Nigel could not help but yell at that fool of a brother of his.

And without even taking off his shoes, he literally jumped on the bouncy bed and lay down flat. And he moaned because of the comfort, "Ahhhhh! The bed is really soft and large."

He bounced his back on the soft mattress and compared it with the small and stiff bed at the inn, "Yes, I definitely cannot live like a commoner even for a day. The soft beds at the Palace simply won't allow me to do that. I love soft and huge beds." And then he started to roll over like a small kid.

His fun was interrupted by a knock on the door. A maid spoke in a soft voice, "Your Highness, your bath is ready. Will you please follow me? I will show you to the bath house."

"Okay." Nigel got up from the bed very reluctantly and followed the maid.

The maid showed the Prince to the bath house and left him.

The maids had prepared a lukewarm herbal water for his bath. And they had also set aside a cloth that looked like a training uniform. Nigel glanced at the uniform and shook his head, "Not again! Why do I have to wear the uniforms even at my age? I already wore it for most of my life. Boring!"

After complaining about the dress, he took off his Royal attire and then got inside the bathtub. "Nice! At least the water is really soothing."

Nigel enjoyed his bath for quite some time and then got out of the water. He changed into his boring uniform and returned back to his room. When he got inside the room, hot food was already waiting for him. He was able to smell the delicious aroma from afar. He had not had 'proper' food since yesterday so he immediately sat down and began to enjoy the divine food.

He finished everything that was on the table in no time. And then he went to a corner of the room where a comfortable chair was kept, and sat down happily. After the long, boring, and tedious journey, even the normal things like bed, bath, and food were making him feel really content.

Nigel was staring at the beautiful scenery that was visible from his window. He could see the Palace's rain forest close enough.

Till now, he thought that he had failed to understand the true purpose of the rain forest around the Palace. It was not there just for the decoration. It was there to keep the Palace and its secrets hidden from the outer world. And he also guessed that it would be where his training would take place.

As his stomach was full and as he was sitting comfortably, he fell asleep on the chair in no time. Though he didn't feel tired from the journey, he had not gotten enough sleep the last night, which also made him fall asleep at this hour in the day.

But he did not get to sleep even for 15 minutes. Fenris came to his room and shouted to wake him up, "Nigel, are you sleeping?"

Nigel hummed and kept on sleeping as though he had an off day.

Fenris shook Nigel by his shoulder and yelled again, "Wake up! Wake up! You have a training to attend to. You cannot slack off like this. Come on, open your eyes already!"

Nigel flung his eyes open and then glared at Fenris. "Do you have to be so annoying all the time? I am already awake so stop shouting. In fact I was not even sleeping, I was just deep in my thoughts."

Fenris face-palmed himself and laughed very loudly. "Whatever you want to call it, brother… sleeping, thinking, blinking, whatever… Now let's go."

"Let's go." Nigel got up from the cozy chair and stretched his body while yawning. He rubbed his eyes and then began to follow Fenris.

As he had suspected earlier, Fenris was leading him closer and closer to the rain forest. After walking for about 20 minutes, they finally reached to the training ground. It was made in the middle of the rain forest by clearing some trees and bushes. This training ground was way too smaller than that of Wyverndale.. But then again, the King of Aberdeen didn't have two dozen children to give training to.