Why did a butcher's son suddenly appear?
"How many people were involved when you hit the Prince?"
Lann looked helplessly at the nervous Alia.
"That wasn't my fault! Geoffrey was too much!"
"I'm friends with Mika, and we were playing with sticks by the river. Then he came over and for some reason demanded Mika duel him. He had a real sword! Mika was so scared he froze and begged him to take back his order, but Geoffrey said refusing would be disrespecting the Prince. He even slashed Mika's face with the sword."
"If I didn't hit him, Mika might've been killed on the spot!"
Alia had quite a knack for storytelling, vividly portraying a prince who was arrogant to the point of insanity.
Lann listened with his eyes twitching.
A duel demanding bloodshed between a prince with a real sword and a commoner with a stick?
Is there something wrong with that Prince? Is he a sadist?
