My Dear Duke(BL)
Chapter 52: Back To The Familiar Mansion

Chapter 52: Back To The Familiar Mansion

"W-what?! We are going back?! What about the festival? What’s happening?"

When Felix informed Asher that they have to head back, he had a lot of questions.

Actually, Felix himself also had a lot of questions. Because, this came out of nowhere.

The emperor’s death was caused by natural causes. That’s what they were informed.

The emperor had been in good health lately from what Felix observed and this death made Felix feel suspicious but he didnt think about it anymore.

He definitely didn’t see this coming while they were here though.

When the granduke himself knocked on his door and informed him of the tragic news, Felix himself felt very surprised. It just felt wrong. That old man was doing very well. What could he say? People could die at any time.

After all the guests were informed, the festival was cancelled and they were asked to leave.

Since everyone was there, they should have given their blessings and last goodbye to the emperor.

But for whatever the reason, they didn’t want any of the guests to accompany them or intervene in this matter.

At the same time, they didn’t bother to give the guests a proper reason as to why they were strictly asking them to leave which made them feel insulted.

’It’s their matter.’

Felix told Asher about the sudden death of the emperor and that’s why they were leaving. It was devastating to hear something so sad could happen while they were preparing for a joyful event there.

"Okay duke."

Asher packed up their things as soon as possible because the grand duke asked Felix to keep everything ready to leave when the carriages came.

All of the guests were leaving at once, not waiting anymore.

It was because they were basically ordered to leave back as the festival wouldn’t be continuing despite such a big thing suddenly occurring and people needing a clarification.

Some were curious to know about the next emperor and even tried to meet the third prince, but all they got were some harsh rejections for interactions.

Every guest felt threatened and pressured by this whole thing so most of them were displeased while some did not simply care.

Some guests even said they were getting chased away like some stray dogs as if they didnt put in a lot of effort to attend this special event but only to get chased away like this now.

Felix felt it was a little fair what those people say because then North Archen royals should have been more considerate.

Well, for what reason do they even need to complain now? So everyone kept their opinions among themselves.

But this is definitely going to put a strain between other empires and the North Archen.

As for Felix, he was not offended but felt this was unfair. They shouldn’t be treating guests poorly, in a threatning manner like this.

And, from all of this this, Felix realised the person currently handling the situation from North Archen might be the next emperor, and...He definitely wouldn’t be a friendly one...

Felix and his group had already gotten on the ship and were on their way back home.

Things did process really fast as if the ships were already waiting to sail with the guests that got chased away. It made Felix even more suspicious if this was planned beforehand as every guest got to leave that morning since all the ships were available for every destination.

’I should just forget about this. At least I don’t have to see that pervert anymore.’

"Asher, do you feel okay?"

Felix got rid of his thoughts and turned to look at Asher who had a big frown.

"I am fine."

Asher said but he made a disgusted face and Felix could see he was not fine at all.

"Sigh...here."

Felix grabbed that same pill bottle from before and tossed it to Asher, at least to get rid of the headaches. If there is a next time for them to go abroad, bringing Asher might need to be thought twice. He won’t do well on a ship with these sick feelings.

Asher got the bed just like before because the duke insisted the sick person deserve the bed. Asher stubbornly tried to reason with the duke despite feeling horrible. But soon got shut down by him as he ordered Asher to rest on the bed and forget the idea of sleeping on the ground until they arrived at their last destination.

"It’s a pity we couldn’t experience the main purpose of our trip."

Felix said and Asher looked at him, sighed. Was the duke upset?

"Is the duke sad about that?"

Asher asked and the duke silently stared at him for a while before shaking his head.

"No, I thought we just wasted time and energy going on this trip. And look at you."

"Who knew the emperor would suddenly encounter such an incident?"

Asher talked to the duke casually and after some more exchanged words, Asher went to sleep so he could forget this discomfort.

Going back felt like it took more time than when they left before. Asher was constantly awakened by the discomfort and sick feeling. All that time, the duke would be outside or just sitting on the chair at the cabin, staring at him which made him meet the duke’s eyes as soon as he woke up.

But the duke didn’t seem to care and acted very normally like he never watched him sleep. It made Asher feel something but he couldn’t figure out if it was a fear or an excitement of getting attention.

’I hope I won’t drool like a dirty animal when he looks at me. I don’t want him to get disgusted with me.’

Asher fell back asleep easily and was sometimes woken up to give meds or food. Yeah, the duke was basically taking care of him throughout their way back to the port.

When they finally got off the ship, Asher couldn’t describe the happiness.

He was very excited to go on a ship before. But not anymore. Now he knew it wasn’t that good.

He didn’t want to go on a ship again and get this annoying sick feeling again.

Asher was still not feeling exactly fine even though they were out of the ship and on the carriage. He felt slightly dizzy and all he needed was a good sleep in the familiar place.

As soon as they got off in front of the familiar mansion, Asher got permission to go straight to his room in the servants’ house to take a rest because he was having a terrible bodyache.

Felix allowed him to leave and entered the mansion alone as Asher ran to his room.

"Duke?! Why are you here?!"

Felix straightly went to his office and saw Bill working on the documents. As soon as he saw the duke, he surprisingly jumped up and came toward him to get the bag he was carrying.

"Something happened. So all the guests left early."

Felix said and asked Bill to keep up what he was doing before leaving to his bedroom. He also needed a good sleep. He didn’t really sleep when they were on the ship because Asher slept his way through the whole journey. Felix didn’t want to ask a sick person for the bed, but at the same time he wasn’t used to the floor so he endured his sleepiness.

Now he is finally back, it’s time to adjust back to his usual life from then on.

’I am so sleepy. I will look at the work when I wake up.’