Chapter 09-So Annoying

Everyone turned their heads to the entrance. Gavinus appearance made everyone's face stiffened, and that is something to be expected. It's rare for the fifth prince to attend banquets unless the imperial family hosted it.

The prince was with his butler. Lixon remembered that orange-haired teenager because he was one of his favorite characters in his novel. The competent two-faced assistant of Gavinus, Aries Lambert.

The young man came from a fallen viscount family from a small kingdom. When Gavinus once traveled to their neighboring empire, he encountered Aries and discovered his talent.

The two princes followed Duke Xander to the VVIP area.

Lixon can't help but sigh.

'Even though they wanted to kill each other, they can still smile and pretend to be close siblings. What a family.'

He almost placed his hand on his forehead.

'Ah, right, I forgot. I made it that way.'

Lixon saw that the area where they were headed needed to pass through their tables since Damien was among the important guest of the Duke.

'I'm just an insignificant encounter to this prince. So he will pay no attention to me, right?' Lixon tried to convince himself.

He pretended to be busy with food, praying that they would silently ignore him. But this was bound to be impossible when he noticed that Prince Gavinus paused, turned towards him, and smiled when the group was about to pass their table.

'S***!' Lixon almost cursed.

"It's good to see you again, sir Lixon." Gavinus greeted him with a gentle gaze.

'This little-'

When the guests heard his greeting, everyone turned their attention to Lixon. He even noticed that some of them started to murmur. The first prince, Bryan, looked at him with some curiosity.

Gavinus, aside from his being cunning and vicious, is known to have very few acquaintances. Not unless he deemed you valuable or placed you of great importance. At least, that's how Lixon made him be. So now he doesn't have a choice but to stand and greet this brat.

The young man returned his smile as if he was genuinely happy to see the prince.

"Greetings, prince Gavinus. It's good to see you as well."

'Hurry up, do your thing and leave me alone.' He wanted to add.

"Seems like sir Damien is very busy because he sent you here."

"Younger imperial brother, this person is?" It was prince Bryan who suddenly interrupted their conversation.

"Oh, let me introduce you. This gentleman here is sir Lixon Rayver. He is the trusted person of sir Damien."

'What nonsense is he talking about?' Lixon silently rolled his eyes.

When Bryan heard the name Damien, his face immediately changed, which did not skip Lixon's eyes.

Prince Bryan then smiled amiably towards him.

"It's great to make you an acquaintance. My name is Bryan Udeville, the first prince of the Udeville empire." He extended his hands towards him, which he grabbed and lightly shook.

"My name is Lixon Rayver. It's my honor, your highness."

After these small greetings, they continued to walk to their table and settled. The banquet proceeded smoothly. But Lixon could feel some heated stares directed toward him.

'This is not good. My intuition is telling me, It will now become annoying from here on.'

Sigh.

'This is one of the reasons why I don't want to get entangled with the royal family.'

When he heard the Duke announced that they could start socializing, Lixon immediately stood from his seat and made his way to the back garden.

"Phew." Lixon exhaled, "This is tiring."

He stood there for almost five minutes before he heard the familiar voice of a female.

"We meet again, Mr. Fraudster."

'Here we go again.'

He turned to find Madison Saintinne in her beautiful green gown staring at him with a cold face.

"What do you want?" He asked with some indifference.

She crossed her arms and raised her brows, "I'm a bit astonished that you were able to attend this kind of banquet. Are you here to con someone?"

"If I knew that I would meet you, I would think twice before coming here." He replied with some annoyance.

"What did you say!?"

"You heard me already, so don't let me repeat myself." After saying this, he walked past her.

"Stop right there!" She shouted.

But who is she to stop him? He was too exhausted. This is why they said that introverts could quickly get tired from too much crowd.

"Hey!"

He turned again with some irritation.

"Why do you keep on approaching me? Do you like me that much?" Lixon asked.

Madison's eyes widened, and her face turned red from anger when she heard this.

"Who would like someone like you?!"

Lixon shrugged his shoulder, "Not sure because I'm good looking?"

He was actually getting a goosebump when he heard himself say this. The young man noticed that the lady in front of him was gritting her teeth.

Sigh.

"I'm kidding." He lightly shook his head before continuing, "If you don't have an important reason to approach me, let's stay away from each other, shall we? Oh, and if you are still suspicious about me...."

He pulled out something from his inner pocket and showed it to Madison.

It was the medallion given to him by the head guardian.

"That...Why do you have that?" She asked with a widened eye.

He put it back before answering her, "Why don't you ask your grandfather. He gave it to me, saying that I could use it when something annoying happened. Just like now."

He observed that she was taken aback for a while, but he was too lazy to bother. So instead, he started to walk again. He was about to return to the banquet area when he saw a group of male nobles approaching their side. He stopped on his track, and he felt someone bumped from his back.

"Why did you stop?" It was Madison with her irritated voice.

"Look who we have here?" It was a black-haired youth around fifteen years old. He first looked at Madison and respectfully bowed, "Greetings, Lady Madison Saintinne."

The other nobles did the same. But, this time, they all looked to the young man in front of them.

"Your name was Lixon Rayver, right?" The black-haired youth asked again.

Lixon tried to remember who this person was. He might be one of the side characters that he tended to forget after they were done with their purpose.

"You are?"

"Oh, my name is Michael Fritz, and I am the first son of Marquis Leonel. Please to meet you." He extended his hand.

Lixon was about to grab it when Michael pulled it back. "Ah, I forgot that you are not a noble. My father told me that I should be careful when shaking hands with other people, especially if they are not aristocrats."

The other nobles from behind held their laugh when they saw this. Lixon gently smiled while thinking.

'Where did this jerk came from?'