Roy, Aditya, and Rin sat together inside the former Prime Minister's carriage. For the first few minutes, none of them spoke as the carriage slowly made its way through the Capital toward the Imperial Royal Palace.
The atmosphere inside the carriage was unusually quiet.
Aditya did not know where to begin. There were many things he could have said, yet strangely, he could not find the right words. He had always held immense respect for the old man sitting opposite him. Roy had served the Celestial Dragon Empire for countless years and had also been one of the few people who genuinely cared about Aditya when he was still the Crown Prince.
"You have changed a lot." Roy eventually broke the silence. Although they were currently pretending to be distant relatives, those words were not directed toward Aditya's false identity.
Roy was speaking to Aditya, the former Crown Prince whom he had watched grow up with his own eyes.
