Chapter 780 (1/2)

Chapter 780: Edith’s Little Game

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“Sister, are you… going to some place far away?” Cole Kant’s voice could be heard from behind Edith.

She continued sorting out her clothes without turning her head back to her brother. “Not very far away. I’ll just hang around somewhere in the Western Region.”

He came to her side and asked again, “How long will it take?”

“I don’t know.”

Cole started to look at the clothes piled on his sister’s bed. “You didn’t pick any formal dress, girdle or your favorite corset… Aren’t you going to visit some nobles or attend banquets?”

Edith gave him a quick glance. “You’ve got stronger observation power now, but you don’t always have to tell the others everything you notice.”

The boy winced at once and said, “You were the one who taught me how to improve my observation ability.”

“Now I’ll teach you another thing. When you’re talking to a woman, remember to remain graceful all the time and choose your words carefully, understand?”

“But you’re my sister…”

“If I wasn’t, you would suffer a lot.”

Cole shuddered and said, “I, I see.”

“Good.” Edith shrugged. “How do you feel working in City Hall?”

“It’s alright… Just like you instructed, I’ve never revealed my identity as a noble. All I do there is just writing and recording, which are easy for me. But I really don’t understand…” He hesitated. “Why didn’t you put me in your department?”

Since Cole Kant had watched the artillery drill, he had given up the idea of returning to the City of Evernight. He and Edith had also moved from the Foreign Affairs Building to a spacious house near the lord’s castle. Now they were official residents of Neverwinter. As a noble who had received a traditional education, Cole had found a job easily in City Hall. Including the hundred or so scholars and servants from the Northern Region, Edith managed to gain a certain status there.

These people would not stay here forever, but she knew that His Majesty would never reject more people from the Northern Region coming to learn the new system. The young king was thirsty for talents, and now the Northern Region was the only one that was willingly providing him with talented people. As long as her father kept on sending new people here, she would always keep her status in the new system of the king.

Edith smiled and answered Cole, “Because it’s not necessary and it may cause us troubles. The City Hall Director always keeps an eye on me. If I put you in my department and he manages to find out your mistakes, I’ll be faced with a dilemma. If we ruin the Kant family’s reputation, it’ll influence His Majesty’s opinion of me.” She paused for a moment and continued. “Even if we don’t get along with each other, the others will still think of us as a whole as we share a common surname. So no matter what you do in the future, you’ve got to remember you represent the whole family, not just yourself.”

The boy looked down with a contemplative expression on his face. Edith did not know how much he could understand, but she had said all there was to be said about this matter. Even when the feudal aristocratic order was totally replaced by Roland’s new system, their family reputation would still have a long-term influence on them and might even draw more attention to them in the short run.

Their common surname had replaced their noble identities to become the most important thing for them now, just like the way the moon became the brightest thing in the sky after the sunset.

After quite a long while, he nodded and said, “I’ll be careful.”

Their father had said that Cole was timid, irresolute and weak, therefore not a suitable heir for the Kant Family. He was worried that this son would not be strong enough to lead his knights to guard the domain as a lord, and if it was wartime, his style would easily put him in an invidious position.

Edith knew another point that the duke had never mentioned.

Cole Kant took after his father in personality.

If Timothy had never planned to ally with some less powerful noble in the Northern Region to break the existing order there, the Kant family would not have been able to get where they were today.