805 Not Understanding Others Hearts (1/2)

”Karwenz, you're cutting class again? You're dead for sure this time. Kelly is really angry.”

The past was always rather nostalgic for me.

Even now, I still remembered how Karwenz had never been a good student.

The Mist Kingdom wasn't very wealthy back then. However, the royals' homework was even more intense because of it. Civilization, politics, economics, diplomacy, and endless homework on such topics. I always felt such a headache about the workload. To make things worse, Karwenz only cared about playing around.

Karwenz had thick skin and wasn't afraid of getting a beating. Besides, the royal tutors wouldn't dare to hit him too hard since he was a prince. It was quite normal that he often cut class. I was the one who had to bring him back every time.

No matter if he was on the roof of the royal palace, or in a corner of the barracks, or even in the garden of some noble's daughter, I would always be able to find him really quickly, as if I knew where he was… By the way, wasn't it quite early for him to already be a womanizer at that age?

”Ha, only her words are harsh. I can easily get through everything by acting slightly pitiful and pretending to be cute.”

I felt rather helpless. Perhaps this was why Karwenz was always so well liked despite being so naughty.

Whenever noble daughters passed by, they would always squeeze Karwenz's face and joke around with him while even letting him touch their bodies. But if the same noble daughters saw me, they would always respectfully curtsy to me and then run away quite swiftly.

”Even though we have the same face, why is there such a difference in treatment? I also want to act cute so that I can touch their bodies... Ahem, I mean get along well with my citizens.”

However, reality was quite cruel. Karwenz became a famous playboy, and got to enjoy life while causing trouble all the time. Meanwhile, I only had boring knights and even more boring politicians around me.

Even though I clearly worked far harder and was so much more serious in my studies, and my grades were good, maybe it was due to my adult mind and not wanting to pretend to act cute that I wasn't as good at making connections with others.

Even now, I still recalled how when I told Karwenz this, that he looked at me sympathetically for quite a while, and then said...

”No, it's just that our future King Roland doesn't understand others' hearts at all.”

At that time, I intended on using a ”fist of brotherly love” to properly teach him what understanding others' hearts was all about. I then discovered that I wasn't actually able to beat him in a fight, so I then used the tactic of telling Kelly, ”Karwenz says that he won't be punished as long as he acts pitiful, and is even laughing about how easy you are to fool.” That was my way of teaching Karwenz how sly adults could be.

However, even now I still recalled what Karwenz told me afterwards. This was something that he had only said once.

”Roland, your way of thinking resembles exquisite gears, filled with wondrous calculations and set mechanisms, treating each person's limits and efforts as a definite on paper. Although it's all quite logical, it really makes me feel uncomfortable. As a ruler, calculating so much doesn't actually have that much meaning. The entire country will be yours in the future. All you need to do is satisfy others at certain times. You'll have the best food and clothing, and you can order others to do what you want because of their beliefs.”

This was his advice to me as my younger brother. Although I listened to his advice and tried to change myself, an adult's personality really wasn't that easy to change.

Still, this caused me to change my opinion somewhat regarding Karwenz.

He wasn't brainless. He was simply too lazy to use his brain most of the time. With an older brother to deal with the responsibilities for him, he was more than happy to shamelessly act as a carefree second prince. Perhaps acting like such a character was also actually the most peaceful way for the royalty, so that ambitious political schemers wouldn't be able to find anything to help them make trouble.

Of course, habits would be quite difficult to change. Karwenz indeed became rather brainless after not using his brain for quite a long while.

However, he would often have flashes of inspiration at critical moments. He would always see the critical point regarding the situation. Sometimes, I would ask for his opinion as well, and make fun of his instinct for being like that of a wild creature's. Yet, he would always respond with the same mysterious sentence.

”That's because I understand others' hearts, but you don't.”

I would then prank him using various methods without giving him any way to vent, as another lesson to teach him how vicious human hearts could be.

However, it seemed that I was the one who was on the losing end this time.

”That damned Karwenz, I fell into his trap.”

Human nature was about satisfying others' desires? I felt that was only sophistry. However, Karwenz's really simple scheme that used his understanding of others' hearts had managed to shake the entire world.

Sophocles was the God of Evolution, so he desired evolution. Thus, Karwenz gave him evolution.