"Oh, that's great coffee, did you make it? I'm surprised that it isn't poisoned"
"Why do you think I would poison it, your Highness?"
"Maybe you should see how you are looking at me to understand. I always believed that my eyes were scary until I saw yours! "
I was sitting in my room alone with the kingdom's youngest prince. Drinking coffee while staring daggers at him.
He had pale white skin, silver hair that barely reached his shoulder, piercing dark crimson eyes, as if they were made of blood and the pointed ears that show his identity as an elf .
He was wearing a white, elegant, high-collared coat with detailed silver embroidery across the chest and shoulders. Giving the appearance of royalty.
The elves that came with him are sitting with my family in the living room, they are discussing the usual things like every other nobles we met which my grandmother would refuse.
One of the prince guards suggested that we sit together until they are done. So here we are now.
He chuckled. "Man, you don't have to worry, I won't take your sister. That's just a show so I can tell my mother that I tried. Even if your family wanted to accept, my butler Alfred will make sure they refuse somehow. Why would I get engaged to a girl I don't even know ? "
I sighed in relief, I thought I would face one of the situations where the genius sister get kidnapped.
"Thank you, your highn—"
He cut me off. "Motherfucker! Stop saying your Highness with that look in your face, it makes me uncomfortable."
I opened my mouth, but no words came out .
'Did he just curse me? '
I knew about his personality from the novel, but to curse me inside my house ? And what did he mean about my look ?
"Just call me Zephyr for now. We are the same age anyway. We will meet in the academy if you awaken your mana."
My eyes lightened when I heard him say the same age. That meant I had a chance to participate in the plot later .
'Good, finally some hope!'
Feeling bored and ignoring the prince, I took a cookies jar that I was hiding below the bed and started eating.
"Hey, what is this ?" Zephyr said, pointing at the cookie in my hand .
The cookies didn't exist in this world. The Eldorians weren't experts in making food, so I understood his confusion.
I handed him one." Here, try one. You will like it ."
He smelled it at first, then took a bite.
"Holy!" His eyes widened before swallowing the cookie and asking,"Where did you buy this from ?
He gave me the same gluttony look as Aria, then I got an idea .
I tilted my head. "Buy ? I created it myself. I call it Cookie" I claimed the invention of the cookies without shame.
'That's my first stolen invention as a reincarnator, hehehe. '
"Then give me the recipe"
"Huh? Why would I do this ? How would I make a business later if I shared the recipe?"
He opened his palm."Okay, give me this thing in your hand then."
"Sure, if you pay the right price of course."
He crossed his arms, leaning back in the chair ." Sure! Just say the number and Alfred wi—"
"Not money. We are too rich already."
"What do you want then ?"
"Nothing much. Let's just share our numbers. I have no friends and thought having a prince as my first friend looks nice."
He stared at me with confusion for a moment, then his eyes landed on the jar.
"Fine, I accept. Now give me that thing."
"It's cookies."
"Yeah, whatever."
With that, I finally formed a connection with the first main character I saw using some cheap cookies.
'He is also one of the strongest. Nice start.'
"So , what do you do when you are bored ?" Zephyr suddenly asked while eating, his eyes filled with curiosity.
"Hmmm, I train, speak with my sister, read books with her or cook " I thought for a moment then added.
"Hey Zephyr, do you want to taste something better than the cookies?"
His eyes sparkled." Better than this ?"
I grinned "follow me to the kitchen, I will show you the pizza! ".
I made a pizza immediately and made him taste it. After the first bite, he swallowed it like a black hole!
"I need more! How did you create those things?"
"I just created it, nothing much"
'I just stole it, nothing much'
I showed Zephyr the house—ignoring his demands—then returned to my room .
"Hey Raylin, are you interested in becoming my personal cook? I mean, if you didn't awaken any core."
I wanted to say no, but then I really considered his offer.
I wasn't overconfident to think that I would definitely awaken my aura or mana.
I answered him. "We can talk about that if I didn't awaken anything."
He nodded."sure buddy."
Suddenly an arrogant smile appeared in his face. "You may not know but I awakened my core 3 weeks ago. "
"You have already awakened!!?" I said in shock , my eyes wide open in disbelief .
Zephyr's smile widened "heh , your sister sister may look genius, but compared to me that's nothing. "
"Tch, showing off."
"What ? Are your jealous?"
"Shut up!"
We spent some time speaking before Zephyr's guards came to take him .
As expected, they couldn't make any contract with my family. One of them winked at us while saying this.
'He should be Alfred.'
I waved to Zephyr, and he promised to visit us again someday to eat something, though my family gave me strange looks—not expecting the kingdom prince to be my first friend.
'that was unexpected event, but that's good, I got the protagonist rival as an ally before even the academy start! '
From what I knew from the free chapters, Zephyr was a young master character that refused to admit defeat to the protagonist .
He was a genius that awakened his core from a young age—though i didn't expect it to be that young—he had perfect mana control and he wasn't a stupid pervert young master, he just hated to be defeated by a human, he was a racist man that believed that the elves were the best race .
But what made him really stand against Arthur was his affinity, Arthur had a unique SolarAffinity which was a perfect combination of fire and light affinities.
Meanwhile Zephyr had a unique Eclipse Affinity, the only real counter of solar affinity, an eclipse that could cover the sun .
Yeah, somehow, they both were born in the same year and ended in the same class. What a coincidence .
But that didn't matter, what mattered was that we were friends now, that meant that even if I didn't awaken, I would still be able to affect the plot using him, but even if i awakened, there was a problem.
'my mom still isn't allowing me to train with weapons '
I decided to go speak with her again. I told her some bullshit about how Zephyr was training from a young age with the usual determined look that always worked .
Fortunately after half an hour she finally accepted, and Aria was coming with me to make sure that I don't hurt myself or something.
"So, I can finally see the training area. You don't know how long I've waited for this moment."
"Yeah , just don't be too shocked when you see it "
I followed her to the house basement, there was an elevator there , after staying on it for 3 whole minutes, we finally reached the training area .
Once the elevator door opened , I couldn't close my eyes from the amazement .