Chapter 31

"He wants us together," said Thomas coldly.
"What"s the matter,..." He almost called him my uncle, but for some reason he saw that he was not worthy, He knew him and never told him that he was his nephew.
He would come to teach his two brothers Eric and Irene, who did not support him with his onion and left him aside despite being his nephew.
He learned recently and soon understood that that Master had known him from the beginning, His aunt was...
Replace the word when he brings this up and completes..
"Master..." He thought that formality was more appropriate in their distant relationship.
"I heard from your father that you knew so much about the world of strange hominids, and I really didn't know exactly what I knew."
"And yet?"
"I wanted to know what you want to do now?"
"What do you have to do with what I want to do?"
Nicholas was silent for a little while receiving Carl 's bad manners, while Thomas expressed his displeasure with his son's behavior..
Thomas wanted to scold his son, but he fell silent at a signal from Nicholas.
"It will shock you, but since today I have appointed you a teacher, and we have studied for this day here and at this hour and in the presence of your father."
Carl was surprised, and an expression of happiness appeared that he could not hide, He always wished for a teacher like his brothers who would teach them many things in their lives, Now he forgot that he was his uncle who decided to hate him!
He felt like he was the king of what they had! He's starting to get interested, maybe! Their palace came out of it and became the only one in it! Their teacher became a teacher as well!
He stood subconsciously and showed respect, placing his hand on his chest and lowering his head slightly.
"Take care of me please"
Thomas was surprised that he didn't expect Carl to get along with this decision so quickly!
"As your new student, I will introduce myself, please."
Thomas raised an eyebrow, Carl's dealings with Nicholas suddenly changed!
"Then introduce yourself," Nicholas said calmly, watching Carl 's actions.
"Smith's eldest son, I am sixteen,
"It's not enough for me to know what I don't know about you, just as Rex has officially become your older brother, go on..."
He was surprised that Nicholas already knew this, He nodded in agreement and then turned his head around looking for something to say.
"Thomas Smith's favorite child, sir." He raised his eyebrows with a faint smile as he looked straight at Nicholas as Thomas furrowed his eyebrows.
"How did you know this, my favorite?" Nicholas wondered while Carl smiled confidently.
"That's what I want so that's how it will be," he replied with a smile, as if it were that simple and easy.
"Well, then, I'll wait for your father to tell me that if it happens, I'll take it that one of your goals is over."
Carl smiled excitedly, part of the interest he was looking at check.
His father asked him in his office to guide him as a professor! Yes, it is a gift.
"So..." Nicholas turned to Thomas and a shiver ran through Carl's body from the air he sensed when their eyes met.
It's so obvious their bad relationship seems even worse than what his father and Rex had! Their silent quarrel seemed even more frightening.
"I'd rather be left alone, I understand from your son that he will not be comfortable with a third party, I will tell you what you may need."
Carl was surprised by this, he was really nervous about his father's presence and that he wouldn't talk anymore but... how did he know that?
"You have it," Thomas replied coldly.
At last they are in an office, Thomas walks steadily while Carl looks around.
It's a prettier place than Eren and Eric were when they were kids
It's where they became when I moved because of X
The place where if their parents had not separated, they would have been in it..!
Books covered the entire library, and a table with three chairs was near the window, which opened to show the beautiful garden of the palace.
Nicholas sat down and Carl hurriedly sat across from him and looked at him silently.
A few moments passed before Carl opened the conversation.
"Are you still a teacher to Erin and Eric?"
"A teacher does not leave his children until he is sure that they have achieved what he is aiming for," he said calmly
"You mean you'll leave my education when I win my father's love?"
"It's not what you're aiming for, but what I'm aiming for, so you can't know when until I tell you."
Carl was silent for a while, then looked at Nicholas, who was quietly turning the pages of his book.
"I don't wait for your permission, we will be a teacher and student until we die."
Nicholas looked up to see Carl's seriousness and insistence on what he had just said.
"what!"
"Then, call me Carl, your dad has plans he doesn't tell."
Carl began to focus here. Nicholas seemed serious, and he nodded, waiting for the conversation to continue.
And Rex has plans he doesn't say, either.
Carl was surprised, as he must have begun to discover his father's plans, but he did not believe that Rex had more plans than just protecting him to make him happy and it was over..!
Long ago in the history of an unknown world, the Nameless lived as quietly as men do, between commerce, work, and study, but they differed from us by simple things, including their various powers, their wings to soar, and one eye shining red, until the day they were astonished that a man shone His other eye also became stronger,
He was a man outside the law and difficult to understand, and was not at all cooperative, he did not say at first how the other eye radiated,
After much effort and cooperation, they managed to imprison him, torture him, and force him to speak.
At that time, they discovered the contract that occurs between them and humans, and that man who was not executed was the first to contract,
Then it became a forbidden law between them, but there were some rebellions and the punishment for them was death...
Much information has been collected about contracting, Until he started studying with them while forbidding them to do so...
Until he came as a ruler who erased this law and left to the Division the freedom to choose between contracting and not, so they began to appear in our world clearly, This ruler was Rex's father,
Nicholas fell silent and looked at the new student, surprised that Nicholas knew all this information! He knows the history of a whole other world!
He looked toward the book, perhaps a book that came from another world.
Carl was silent, feeling that he was an open book for his new teacher!
"How do you know all this, Master?"
Carl was surprised, and his eyes widened in astonishment, Is the strained relationship between Thomas and Nicholas caused by or Thomas killing Nicholas' friend?
Carl flipped this possibility in his head but fell silent.
"And for your father, too, the three of us."
Carl was astonished by this, His father and Rex's father are friends? How did these three end up?
"So my dad knows a lot about it."
"Yeah, try contracting."
"what!!?" Carl was astonished by the truth he was now telling, His father tried contracting!
"Professor, between my father and Rex... who am I with?"
"With what you see right, Carl, you should know the answer... I won't help you with it."
Carl became silent and started thinking in his mind.
"My dear diary, I knew that my parents and Rex's father were somehow close
They mingled a lot.. as I mingled with Rex now..
They were under contract, but the contract was not completed, as his father died before the contract could be completed.
I don't know how far their relationship has gone, What was going on in the past?
Did they stay together until his death or did something happen?
My teacher and I have not yet talked about the subject and he began to teach me some things that might help me make a decision without outside interference.
What do I think I'm doing right?
I don't let anyone change my beliefs and behaviors that I see as correct.
If I find out that what I am doing is wrong, and I am convinced of this, then I have the opportunity to seek the help of the conduct of a right-minded person."
After the lesson, Nicholas closed his book and took off his glasses, quietly seeing Carl.
"We'll stop here Carl ,
"May I ask a teacher?"
"Say"
Despite the bad relationship between you and my father, why did you choose his children to teach them?
He put his hand on Carl's head and said as he looked at him calmly.
"Do I call this loyalty?"
"Call it what you want" he left and walked outside and came across Thomas across from him, and they exchanged cold looks.
Thomas entered and looked at his son, still sitting in his place on the bench, with some papers in front of him, looking frantically.
Thomas walked towards him quietly, looking straight at him.
"Carl"
Carl noticed his father's presence and raised his face to see him directly beside him and stepped back a little.
"what?" Carl asked cautiously.
"How was your lesson?"
Carl felt that this was not what his father wanted to ask about, He ignored it and turned the conversation around.
"Your relationship with him seems strained, why?"
"I don't think you're concerned, kid," he replied calmly.
"And also how did your relationship with Rex"s father end up killing him?"
"You ask what comes to your mind straight away."
"Okay, that might be annoying, but not with a son and his father."
Thomas pulled out a chair and sat directly across from Carl and raised three fingers.
"Learn three things from me, Carl first, don't trust Rex, second, don't relate to your parents who neglected you too - continued coldly - and that includes your father too,
"Dad, there's something you want to do but you're hesitating...or I should say hold yourself back, Dad you don't act like you or your character... Dad you keep a lot... There's something hiding behind these calm looks" He looked straight into Thomas' eyes..
"Dad...when we got into the car together and went to see my mother...it was the most beautiful day I've ever had...and when I left and those expressions from which the deadlock I made by kissing your cheek Ka..."
Silence when Thomas stood silent..
"Let's make a deal, Dad."
Thomas sighed and looked at him as if to ask him to talk.
"Only one thing, I will not ask of you more... Only one thing. Believe me in it... A word or deed or anything... You are not my father, my father resides within you... Show me only one thing."
"And in return?"
Carl was silent, He wants something in return that will convince his father.
"Why don't you order it yourself?"
"Don't trust Brix..."
"Is saying I"ll handle him with caution suffice, Dad?"
"Are you really going to treat him with caution?"
"Why so much do you not want him to become a ruler?"
"Let him be a ruler, it does not matter, I now speak of your trust in him."
"Well, I'll really be careful, in the end he's just a clumsy servant who's neither polite nor good...and does his job only for his own good... In short, don't worry it's not as if I really trusted him."
Thomas sighed in relief.
"And now?"
"Stop"
Carl stopped and looked at each other for a moment.
"What, father? Is there something wrong? He told me something that my father kept from me."
"I will," he said quietly, and a few more moments passed, and Carl looked at Thomas's mouth.
He wants to tell him anything! At least he says I used to beat you because of a convincing reason and he is like that.. Or he says I did not protect you when you were young and I neglected you for that convincing matter..
But he did not hear anything, but was surprised that he hugged him tightly and buried him in his chest, preventing him from looking at him.
Carl's beats palpitated, not knowing if he is happy or is he afraid of his father's strange behavior?
"Carl, I'll just tell you one sentence."
Carl focused with him wanting to understand..
I didn't sacrifice myself to protect everyone.
Carl furrowed his eyebrows while Thomas completed.
I sacrificed everyone to protect you.
Carl was surprised and tried to move his head to see his father's expression, but his father stopped him..
"I leave you in the custody of Nicholas Albert, Carl, farewell."
Then he let go and immediately repelled and left silently while Carl looked at where Thomas had just gone out, speechless after what had just happened.
"He was not protecting them because of the troubles they had because of me, Was he protecting me? did not? And from what?"