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Ge Da is a loyal bodyguard. Ten years ago, since he followed Prince George, he was ready to dedicate all his loyalty in this life to His Royal Highness.

It is a pity that His Royal Highness did not inherit the wisdom and wisdom of his father Alfonso VIII. This is acknowledged by many people, and even Geda cannot deny this.

Of course, this is not to say that Prince George is a hopeless dude, but that his character is a little weaker than his father's, and as an heir to an empire, this is fatal enough.

But even so, Ge Da never thought of betraying his master. In his opinion, although His Royal Highness has various shortcomings, overall, he is much better than those ignorant dudes in the imperial capital. It's just that because of his young age, it is inevitable that his concentration is not enough and he is easily shaken.

This defect became more obvious after the death of Her Royal Highness Princess Althea. Goda was very worried about this, and he tried to use the power of His Majesty the Emperor or His Majesty the Queen to influence His Highness the Prince to cheer him up.

But Geda was soon disappointed.

Because at this time, His Majesty has a new mistress named Lily Peiji beside His Majesty—His Majesty has always had many lovers, but there has never been one who can be brought out by him at the banquet and publicly acknowledged her status, Lily Pei Ji obviously did it, and what followed was Her Majesty's fall from favor, as well as rumors flying all over the sky, the contents of these rumors were enough to make Geda gnash his teeth.

Those hateful people who spread rumors actually said that the queen will be deposed soon, and the emperor, the child in the womb of the new favorite, is the real heir to the empire. What's more, they cited Prince George as cowardly and incompetent. Take the example of Naifu to fully demonstrate that the emperor never had any expectations for the prince, so he let him go and did not strictly control him.

Ge Da was extremely angry, but at the same time he was very powerless. With his meager strength, there was no way to clarify such rumors. His Majesty the Emperor also allowed such rumors to spread and did not take any measures to stop them. All this seems to be more confirmed. veracity of the rumors.

As the center of the rumor storm, it is impossible for Prince George to be ignorant. His spirit is getting more and more depressed, and his appetite is getting smaller and smaller. Ge Da saw it, heartbroken and anxious. He tried to persuade His Royal Highness, but because of His eloquence is not good, so the effect is minimal.

At this time, the careful Ge Da discovered the change of His Royal Highness.

It was when His Majesty the Emperor ordered him to visit the Garter Empire. His Excellency Chris, the Regent of the Garter Empire, had a brief meeting with His Highness the Prince. Goda had no way of knowing the content of the meeting, but after the meeting, he found that the Prince His Highness sat alone in the room all afternoon without going anywhere.

"Your Highness, are you feeling unwell? Please let me invite a mage to treat you!" Ge Da still remembered asking him that.

But His Royal Highness asked him an irrelevant question: "Ge Da, do you think the attitude of my father towards me is very different from before?"

For this question, Ge Da found it difficult to answer. If he told the truth, he was worried that he would hurt the other party's heart. If he didn't tell the truth, seeing the earnest expression of the other party looking at him earnestly, Ge Da really couldn't tell any lies.

"Your Highness, I think His Majesty may want to sharpen you..." Ge Da held back these words with difficulty, so fake that even he wanted to despise himself.

"I don't want to listen to these perfunctory words! Geda, after Orthea's death, you are the person I trust the most. I don't want you to come to perfunctory me too! Tell me, do you think the father is very disrespectful to me now? good?"

Ge Da sighed: "If you talk about the past, I can be sure that although His Majesty was very strict with you in the past, he was after all for your own good, but now..."

He didn't finish the sentence, but Prince George caught on right away.

The young prince looked depressed and murmured: "They are right, they are right..."

"Your Highness? Your Highness?" Seeing him like this, Ge Da became even more worried.

"I'm fine." Prince George came back to his senses, as if he had made some decision, "Gorda, I want to do one thing, you have to help me, now I can only trust you."

Seeing that he spoke very solemnly, Ge Da also knelt down and solemnly swore: "I am willing to swear with my life that I will be loyal to you forever, and only to you alone! No matter what you ask, I will do my best to do it." Do it, even at the cost of my life!"

Prince George looked very touched, he helped Goda up with his own hands: "Thank you, Goda! I know I have many shortcomings, and the nobles of the entire empire say that I am incompetent behind my back, but only you, only you are always by my side I will never leave by my side, even if it is to live up to your trust, I must cheer up!"

"Your Highness!" Ge Da finally burst into tears. He had a feeling that this His Highness, who had never grown up, seemed to have grown up overnight.

Much to the surprise of Geda, what Prince George asked him to do was neither to assassinate the emperor, nor to do something dangerous. Although in that case, Geda would also do it without hesitation, but he also It would be very disappointing, but now, Prince George just asked him to invite His Majesty's favorite opera troupe to hold an opera within one day, and at the same time invite the famous nobles of the empire.

This task was very weird, and Ge Da found it difficult to complete, but since His Royal Highness had ordered it, he must try his best to do it.

Of course, His Highness the Prince himself did not stand idly by. He seemed to attach great importance to this matter. Not only did he enter the palace to invite His Majesty the Emperor to visit, he even went to the homes of some great nobles to distribute invitations in person.

Regarding Prince George's whim decision, the nobles in the imperial capital all said that it was because His Royal Highness was unwilling to have his position taken away by an unborn child, so he was planning to fight back against His Majesty's mistress by showing off.

But gossip is all gossip, everyone still gave Prince George a lot of face, especially after hearing that His Majesty the Emperor would also attend, basically all the nobles who received the invitation letter arrived, and the Imperial Royal Theater was full of thousands of people. The building has a separate private room, which is designed as an open balcony, facing the center of the stage, with an excellent location. If you want to do something private, you only need to draw the curtains on both sides so that no one can peep The emperor's privacy was gone.

Until the moment when the opera started, the singer sang loudly on the stage, and Ge Da didn't even think about what Prince George wanted to do. If it was like what the nobles said, His Royal Highness just wanted to prove himself by showing off. If there is a sense of presence, then how could His Majesty agree to attend?

Thinking of this, Ge Da couldn't help looking at Prince George next to him. They were not with His Majesty the Emperor, but were sitting on the seats on the first floor. Ge Da was surprised to find that His Majesty was in a trance, his eyes wandered, and he could see He didn't put his mind on performing on the stage at all, his hands even tightly grasped the handle of the chair, making no secret of his inner tension.

"Your Highness?" Ge Da asked in a low voice, looking at His Royal Highness with concern.

"...I'm fine." Faced with his concern, Prince George reluctantly touched the corner of his mouth to comfort him, and his fingers relaxed a little, but his expression was still tense.

Fortunately, everyone was attracted by the singer on stage, except for Ge Da, no one noticed his strangeness.

As expected, I am still too immature, His Royal Highness thought.He tried to keep his attention on the stage, resisting the desire to look back.

However, he didn't need to turn his head to know that the curtain of the private room on the second floor had been tightly drawn, as if it had been closed shortly after His Majesty's arrival. Of course, no one dared to ask the emperor why he came here if he didn't watch the opera.

Interested people even noticed that Alfonso VIII came here with his most beloved mistress. Maybe His Majesty the Emperor wanted to have something different in the opera house on a whim, which is also understandable. of.

Those sanctimonious nobles smiled knowingly at each other, and there was even a tacit obscenity in the smiles.

Time passed by, Prince George had never felt so difficult like now, no matter how moving the singing on the stage, all he could hear was his own heartbeat.

He knew that what he was experiencing now was likely to become the biggest change in the history of the empire, so he held his breath and remained motionless, maintaining the same posture since he came in.

Until a shrill scream sounded.

Prince George was shocked, and almost immediately, he wanted to turn his head to look at the situation behind him, but found that because he kept the same posture for too long, he suddenly couldn't bear the excessive movement, which caused his neck to make a clicking sound.

The singing on the stage came to an abrupt end, and everyone looked at the source of the screams on the second floor with the same sympathy.

The scarlet curtain was torn off, and everyone could clearly see that Alfonso VIII staggered towards the railing of the balcony, but because the castration was too violent, the balcony couldn't bear his weight and collapsed, and the other party followed. The second floor fell down.

To be correct, that is not Alfonso VIII, but just a monster wearing the emperor's costume.

The nobles who had attended Yannick's self-defense even recognized it, it was clearly a monster!

The astonishment finally turned into panic, screams came and went, no matter men or women, everyone tried their best to make as much noise as they could from their throats and then scattered and fled.

When he saw the figure of Pope Vascherich on the balcony on the second floor, Prince George finally mustered up his courage and shouted: "His Majesty the Emperor has turned into a monster, come and catch him!"