3, Prince

Ramiro I did not lie to his wife, and for the next ten years he did not reveal anything to anyone about the castle that night.

At the baptism presided over by the church, he succeeded a farmer's child and became his adopted son, while the young Zevier was secretly sent by him to the home of his wife's father.

He built a secret castle in his father-in-law's fiefdom, put his wife and children in it, guarded them with five hundred guards, and did not allow Cezever to see anyone else, and Cezavier's daily life was taken care of by thirty personal female officials.

Fortunately, after that night, the powerful, almost crazy magic fluctuations in Cezavier's body gradually faded, and it was no longer so exaggerated, although sometimes his cries could still shatter glass or make toys fly into his hands out of thin air, but they were not as sensational as before, which was good news for Ramiro I.

However, as time passed, Ramiro I began to worry about his son's education, and the little prince grew up day by day, and his body became stronger day by day, and he learned to ride a horse and shoot arrows, and one could top five. However, Ramiro I did not want his son to become a warrior or a knight, he wanted his son to become a king and take power in the future.

He knew the importance of culture and knowledge, but the most famous scholars of the time had some connection with the church.

It may be conservative to say this, but it should be said that the vast majority of scholars believe in God.

And Ramiro I could not directly let the people of the church educate Cizerville, because that would easily expose Cezavier's abilities, although over the years, the young prince had learned to control his strange power and not let it be exposed to the public, but the king's worries were multiplied day by day.

At the age of ten, Ramiro I finally found a barely suitable lecturer for the young prince, Hugo Zachre, a bachelor from the Kingdom of France.

The old man offended the upper echelons of the Church because of his foul and straightforward speech, and was expelled from the University of West Francia, but his temperament was still upright, and he was everywhere counted the Catholic Church's faults, which led to a deterioration in his situation, but his learning was still first-class at the time. So Ramiro I secretly invited him to a secret estate in Aragon to teach the little prince knowledge.

At first, the little prince got along with the scholar Hugo Zachret quite happily, whether it was astronomy, geography, literature, or poetry, he studied it well, and he also turned a blind eye to the strange problems of the old bachelor.

But when Professor Hugo began to teach religious courses, the problem slowly emerged.

On that day, Hugo began to teach Zevier the Bible, after God created the sun, moon, and stars in six days, and man in seven days.

Zevel asked, "Why could God create the sun, moon, stars, and human beings?"

Hugo replied, "Because God is all-knowing and omnipotent, has the power of change, the power of creation, he can create the book of Genesis." ”

So Zevier then asked, "Then why does God have this power, and when does he have it?"

God was born with this ability, from the beginning. ”

Hugo replied.

Zevier then asked, "What was born that day? Is it the greater God, when did it begin and how early, is it the book of Genesis before Genesis?"

Unable to answer, Scholar Hugo was a little embarrassed, and could only prevaricate with the fact that the Bible did not record it.

Later, the Hugo scholar spoke to Cezewell about Paradise Lost, about Adam and Eve being lured by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit and being driven out of the Garden of Eden. So Zevel asked Hugo, "Why can't a man stay in Paradise if he has wisdom?" ”

"Because wisdom leads to greed, to covet the fruit of life in the tree of life, which gives people eternal life, and God does not want them to eat it. ”

"Why doesn't God want them to eat the fruit of life?"

Zevier asked again.

"For if you eat the fruit of life, you will become like God, eternal and omniscient. Hugo replied proudly, admitting that his answer was impeccable.

"Then did God Himself eat the fruit of life and the fruit of wisdom?" asked Zevel again.

Scholar Hugo hesitated, and he said with some uncertainty: "Of course... Should... I guess I've eaten it..."

"Did he regret eating these two fruits, and that's why he was so angry that Adam and Eve had eaten one of them?"

"This..."

Unable to answer, the Hugo scholar was a little upset, and could only prevaricate with the fact that there is no record in the Bible.

Later, Hugo told Zevier the story of Noah's Ark and the Great Flood.

Zevier asked, "Why did God destroy mankind?"

Hugo replied: "Because they have fallen, and their sins are so great that there is no cure for them, and this is the punishment for disobedience of mankind!"

Scholar Hugo said in a threatening tone that he hoped that Zevier would take this as a warning and be obedient, but Zevier was unmoved, and he then asked, "Why did God keep Noah's family again?"

Hugo replied, "Because Noah's family is kind-hearted, believes in God, and follows God's teachings." ”

Zevier then asked, "Does God want humans to be obedient?"

"Of course I hope so!!"

Scholar Hugo said annoyedly.

"Since God is omniscient and omnipotent, why not create humans who were obedient from the beginning?" asked Sizewell, unrelentingly.

Hugo could not answer, and he became more and more unhappy, but he could only answer in a way that the Bible does not record.

Zevier then asked, "Won't the offspring born of the good-hearted Noah's family fall and sin?"

Hugo: "..."

But Zevier asked, "If God is omniscient and omnipotent, and knows the inevitable fall of man, why did God create man in the first place?"

Scholar Hugo could not take it anymore, and he angrily asked Zevier: "Then why do you think God created man?"

Zevier glared at the big innocent eyes: "It's obvious, isn't it, he must be a poor and boring fool." ”

On that day, the restrained and old-fashioned scholar Hugo overturned the table, vomited three liters of blood from coughing, rushed out of the prince's manor, and reported it all to Ramiro I, who was afraid that his son would say something blasphemous, and that his sorcererous side would be exposed to the Hugo scholar, so he quickly found an excuse to dismiss the scholar.

Fortunately, the little prince had passed the stage of enlightenment and could read books on his own, so Ramiro I built him a library in the manor and let him insist on self-study every day.

However, the departure of Maester Hugo was a great blow to Cezeville, and his personality began to become less lively, and he often stayed alone in the corner of the manor.

Another three years passed.

At the age of thirteen, Zevier's body began to develop, and he gradually became somewhat male and female.

Once, the estate was held in the middle of a spring outing.

He saw his maid grinning around a tall guard, courteous to him, and ignoring the other short one, and asked his personal officer, "Why don't they like that short guard?" ”

"Look at that tall guard, he's so handsome. It's me and I'll love him too. ”

The female officer covered her heart and said, and then she felt that something was wrong, so she hurriedly put it in the ear of Si Zevel: "Don't worry, Your Highness, when you grow up, you will be more than a hundred times more handsome than that high guard." ”

But Zevier did not feel much better because of the words of the personal officer, and on the way back, he thought of the short guard on the road, thought of the forced laughter and sullenness he had been in the crowd, and thought that he might become like this in the future, and he was depressed all day.

As a result, early the next morning, both guards became exactly the same height.

This frightened the short guard, for he was already past his developmental age, and so were the people around him, for the guy had grown two heads tall almost in one night.

When the valet reported this strange thing to the king, Ramiro I was terrified, afraid that his son's terrible magic had begun to awaken again, and even more afraid that it would be known to outsiders.

So he drove out all the male guards and personally selected 365 maids of similar height, and asked them to take turns to take care of them 365 days a year, hoping to stop thinking about those messy things.

The method worked, and for a long time, Sizewell did not see anything different, and he was dealing with the same handmaiden.

But one day, the group of maids secretly fighting in the manor was seen by Zevier, and it turned out that one of the 365 maids was ugly because she was inferior in appearance, and was ostracized by her companions, and they tore off her clothes and had fun with it.

When Zevier saw the maid who was secretly crying, he thought that he might one day be ridiculed by others for not being as good as others, and he was depressed all day.

As a result, the next day, the 365 maids who were in charge of taking care of him all became exactly the same, and this incident caused great fear on the same day, more than a dozen maids fainted in the mirror and died on the spot, and three maids chose to commit suicide by jumping into a well.

The desperate valet told King Ramiro I of this terrible event in tears, and when King Ramiro I was having lunch, he almost threw up the wine in his mouth.

So he decreed that all those who took care of Prince Sizevel must wear an identical mask from now on. And let the domestic ceremonial officials go to the manor instead of the 365 maids, and at the same time teach him the most appropriate royal etiquette while taking charge of the prince's daily life.

The method worked, all the ceremonial officers wore masks, and there was no difference in height or appearance between the people Cizerwell saw.

But he himself was getting thinner and thinner.

Because he could no longer see the people around him as they really were, and he couldn't hear their true thoughts, all those who saw him trembled and kept their distance, and he felt extremely lonely.

One day two years later.

The tenants who were in charge of the manor came to the castle to pay the rent.

It just so happened that Zevier took his personal lady to take a walk in the manor and met them.

Sizewell had never seen anyone outside the royal family before, and when he saw the tenants and stewards, he stopped curiously to watch.

He saw the tenants and slaves in ragged clothes, with their backs hunched and carrying grain, and the stewards who wielded whips and stood on the grain and straw piles, and he asked the valet officer, "Who are they?"

The lady replied, "Those are slaves." ”

"What about those?" said the little prince, pointing to the whip.

"Those are stewards, who collect rent. ”

That afternoon, the sun was dazzling, and the little prince stood in the distance, looking at the sweaty slaves and the spittling butlers in the dusty clearing.

The personal officer was afraid that Zevier was thinking about something again, so she quickly pulled him back to the dormitory and served him to sleep in the gentlest way.

Late at night, the female official strictly guarded the sleeping little prince, afraid that something as terrible would happen as before, but that day, nothing happened, the farmer was still a farmer, and the housekeeper was still a housekeeper.

The female officer breathed a sigh of relief.

But a week later, Zevier sneaked out of the manor.

When the valet who had come to prepare dinner for him noticed that the prince was missing from the castle, she was frightened and went mad and mobilized her maids and servants to search for the prince around the manor.

Eventually, after a carpet search, they found West Xavier in a small square in a nearby village.

At this moment, a circus is being performed in the small square of the village, several clowns are spitting fire with their mouths, tigers and bears are jumping from the burning rings of fire, and monkeys are stepping on wheelbarrows and beating gongs and drums.

The farmers gathered around the circus, laughing and laughing.

Zevier also laughed in the crowd, very happy.

The female officer couldn't help but say that she pulled West Zewell out and wanted to take him back, but in the crowd, West Zewell happily asked the personal female officer: "Who are they?"

But this time, the personal lady didn't dare to answer him, because those were forbidden entertainment, and she just wanted Zevel to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible.

But Zevier asked reluctantly, "Who are they?"

The female officer could only reply: "They are a group of jugglers!"

Zevier exclaimed happily: "What a joy, I will become such a person in the future." ”

The frightened valet reported the incident to King Ramiro I.

Ramiro I was furious and executed all those who had performed the trick that night. That wasn't all, he was so afraid that his son would realize what he was capable of, and even more so that he would be interested in those terrible tricks, so he expelled everyone within a twenty-kilometer radius of the manor. He also built a twenty-meter tower on the manor, and locked Zevier on a high tower, so that he could not step down from the tower until he reached adulthood.