I still remember that day, the day my third little brother was born. My father is sitting right next to me and we are waiting for the doctor to come out from the royal chamber, there are people around us, maids, nobles, diplomats, soldiers. All of them anxious including my father because my mother was a sickly woman.This was her fourth childbirth, two of my little brothers died because of a flu outbreak in the country, everyone hoped this little baby wouldn''t die like that.


    And so the door opened with the doctor coming out with the baby on his arms. Everyone''s faces turn bright, my father stands up with a happy smile on his face but the doctor isn''t smiling. "The Queen died during birth." Their faces turn white, my father stands in shock looking at my little brother, he picks up my little brother and starts to cry. "Your mother is dead, two of your big brothers are dead, your grandfather and your grandmother are dead, you only have me and your big brother Arthur. Therefore I shall name you, Deristian. The Hero who saved our family many years ago"


    At that time, I didn''t even know how to be sad at my mother''s death because I was only seven at the time but I knew how to be happy at my little brother''s birth…..


    [Ten Years Later]


    I woke up, I noticed the maid I slept with last night, she is naked and she is smiling after she slept with the great crown prince, me.


    I get out of the sheets, I have no clothes on so I turn to the naked maid. "I will be going in the bath, prepare my clothes and wear your clothes too." Just like every morning, I go to the bathroom but not only to bathe but to look at myself through the mirror as well, I take a bath and walk to the big mirror in my bathroom.


    A Handsome man with beautiful golden hair and beautiful blue eyes, I slick my hair back with my hand and now that handsome man has a slick back hair, I get out of the bath naked, I see the naked maid not so naked and my clothes on the bed. "Should I help, your majesty ?" "No, thanks, I can wear these clothes myself.


    I wear the clothes and go to another big mirror in my room, the bathroom mirror is for after having a bath and this one is for dressing.


    I see a handsome man with slick back beautiful golden hair and beautiful blue eyes, now wearing a blue prince outfit with golden epaulets, a golden belt, golden buttons and black pants. I notice few things are missing, my crown and my medals, I keep those under my bed so nobody could steal them. I pick up the red chest under my bed and open it, I wear my simple golden crown and wear my three medals on my chest, all of these medals have a different meaning but they look alike.


    After checking out everything I go outside, I have classes today but I am excited for the music lesson, because I love my music teacher, she is a beautiful woman with long white hair and blue eyes just like mine, she always wears a beautiful red dress and a red butterfly clasp, she is a cold woman with high discipline but I know she is really kind inside, I want to marry her but there is a problem, she is an old woman with the age of sixty-one but I will marry her when I become the king, I don''t care what anyone says.


    I walk to the music room, I see the maids looking at me with admiration, I give them a wink and they blush just like always, I am really a handsome man. I know I have a high ego but there is a reason to that because I was the oldest and the only child before my little brother was born, I was quite pampered by everyone, even after his birth I was great at anything a perfect big brother, a perfect son, a perfect prince.


    I hear a piano sound from afar. "Such a beautiful melody," I thought to myself, only my love would play a beautiful melody like this. I don''t want to miss her playing and so I started to run to the music room, I arrive at the hallway but it Is full of people, everyone is looking inside the music room with amazed eyes, I know my love''s playing is beautiful but something is wrong, when people see me they make a way for me, I enter the room and I see my father standing right next to the piano and I see my love''s red butterfly through the gaps of the piano and I walk to it with a big smile on my face only to see…


    My love and my little brother sitting in the chair, my love is looking at my little brother with amazed and surprised eyes, her hands aren''t playing the piano instead my little brother''s hands are playing the piano.


    I am shocked, but my father turns to me with sparkling eyes and yells. "HE IS A GENIUS!" My brother and my love turn to me upon hearing my father, my little brother has a big smile on his face. "Big Brother! Look I can play the piano."I pat my little brother''s head with a proud smile as his big brother, and then he starts to play again but I notice he isn''t wearing any gloves and this is forbidden because my love forbid anyone from touching her piano without gloves, I hold up my little brother''s hand in an instant and yell "DON’T TOUCH THAT WITHOUT WEARING GLOVES!"


    Everyone looks at me, and my little brother looks at me with tearful eyes. "Big brother, you are hurting me" and after that my love hits my hand with her hand causing my hands to let go, I am shocked and then she yells at me with all of her might. "IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO THOSE HANDS WE WILL LOSE A GENIUS, ARTHUR! THINK ABOUT YOUR ACTIONS BEFORE ACTING!"


    My father touches my shoulder, I turn to him only to see a punch coming at my face, he hits me with all of his might, I fell to the floor my crown falls off my head. He yells "GET OUT ARTHUR!" I am so shocked that I grab my crown and run to my room.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.


    I start to cry when I arrive at my room, my heart is broken, it was the first my father and my love got angry at me, I cry for thirty minutes and then I make a plan. "If they care about his genius hands that much, I will take them." I know that my little brother should be having a sword classes at the moment so I go to the yard, I see my little brother practicing with a wooden sword.


    I arrive at the yard, he looks sad but when he sees me his face brighten ups and he runs to me. "Big brother! Are you here to watch me ?" I laugh and pat his head. "No, but how about having a match with big brother ?" His eyes start to sparkle again. "YES!" He yells and runs to get a wooden sword for me.


    I give my prince coat, my crown and my medals to his teacher, I pull my sleeves and we stand ready, I am going to injure his hands in an accident, and so the teacher yells. "Start!"


    As soon as he says start, my little brother starts to move, he is really fast for a kid in his age and all of a sudden he gets the first strike, I block it but I makes me lose my stand, I fall into the grass but because of my bigger body I manage to stand up easily and attack him, I notice he is using wind magic to boost his speed, nobody said anything about banning magic so I use my wind magic to make him fall, he falls down and he loses his sword, I aim for his right hand but then I feel a sharp pain in my right hand causing me to drop my sword, I see his left hand covered in wind.


    I notice that my right hand is so hurt that it can''t move, I don''t want to lose this battle so I laugh. "Haha! You are amazing, I never thought that you would use your wind magic to boost your speed and turn your left hand into a stone like hand." He smiles and comes to me. "Pat my head, Big brother!" I pat his head with my left hand and then I pick up my things and leave, that day I put my right hand in my pocket because I couldn''t feel it.


    Next day I woke up with a sharp pain on my right hand, I was able to move it but the pain was unbearable, and that day was special because I had a duel with my cousin Roselina, she a beautiful woman with long golden hair and red eyes, the cause of the duel was an argument, she wanted to join the knights but women weren''t allowed in the knights and she was more suited to be a diplomat and I denied her request to join the knights and she challenged me to a duel, and now we were going to duel.


    My right hand was still hurting so I was going to use my left hand, it was less efficient but I was trained for this and I was confident that I would beat her, I arrived at the horse stadium in the knight barracks, we used this place for training horses and this was an unofficial duel place, nobody liked it because it smelled like horse shit but it was a tradition.


    I arrived at the stadium last, I saw her, with a ponytail and an iron armor, she looked at me and yelled. "Come on!" I was already wearing my armor and my sword, and so we were both ready to fight but there was one more thing talk about. "Wooden, blunt or real ?" She answered without thinking. "You choose." I laughed at her admiration, I was expecting her to yell "Real" but she gave me the choice. "Blunt, I don''t want to hurt you Roselina." I dropped my real sword on the sand, and the knights watching us from the stadium threw us two blunt swords.


    Both of us put the blunt weapons in our sword sheaths, we were going to pull those when the fight started and so one knight from the stadium yelled. "Start!" I reached out for my sword but when I touched the handle I noticed that my sword sheath was on my right side and so I touched it with my right hand, this caused me delay but I pulled it with my left, she took advantage and rushed me, I blocked it and then she hit my left leg with her right leg.


    I fell on the sand, she aimed for my hand, just like I did to Deristian, I rolled left and she missed. I stood up and charged at her and just like there was a body difference because of this she started to use the sword two-handed, she hit me with her right leg, I blocked it but it pushed me back and I saw her jumping


    She wanted to get a clear hit but I was unable to block it because I couldn''t use my right hand, her two hands overpowered my left hand and I took a hit to the head, I threw her off my body and stood up, everything was spinning, I was hardly keeping balance, she saw this as an opportunity and started to swing her sword at me, every time I blocked her hit I was being pushed back and then the last hit was here, she hit me and I fell into the shit pile. I was almost getting up and then I felt the blunt head of the sword on my neck.


    "Give up, I won." She looked at me with a smug look on her face, I looked at the stadium, everyone was looking at me like I was some loser, I wanted to get up but I was humiliated enough. "I give up, you can join the Knights." She offered her hand to me, unconsciously I used my right hand and when she pulled me up, she realized something wrong with my right hand. "Y-Your right hand is broken." Everyone was surprised, a crown prince sustaining an injury like this was a death penalty, all of them were panicking and she yelled. "GET A FUCKING DOCTOR HERE."


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    Almost every important person, my father, my little brother, my love and my cousin were there, the doctor examined my hand, he used many things to fix my hand but none of them worked, he turned to my father and said. "Crown prince''s right hand is gone, he will be never able to move his right hand." Everyone was surprised, normally losing a right hand was normal for kings, they lived and nothing changed but in our kingdom, a crown prince losing his dominant hand would mean losing his crown heir status.


    There was a silence and my little brother started to cry, he started to hit my cousin Roselina. "You broke his hand, why did you" She couldn''t say anything, she looked at me and bowed to me with crying eyes. "I-I am sorry, you can cut my right hand." She offered her right hand to me, the real cause of the injury was my little brother but I didn''t want him to suffer so I said. "Cut your right hand."


    She pulled her sword and almost swung it down, but then my father stopped it with his bare hands. "No, it was a dueling accident." My clothes were standing next to me, he picked up my three medals and my crown, he gave my head knight medal and my bravery medal to her and he gave my little brother my crown and my crown heir medal. "I promote you to the head knight and my little son, Deristian now you are the crown prince." I was outraged but I couldn''t bring myself to say any words, everyone was looking at the great me with such pitiful eyes, and that was the beginning of my downfall.