The third prince, Bruno. Sixteen years old.
From a young age, he has been lauded as a genius with a brilliant mind.
This prince possesses an extraordinary intellect.
He has presented many papers, and is a burgeoning young scholar
in the fields of sociology and philosophy.
I do not have time to deal with you.
Enter.
The Prince Interviews
Welcome, Royal Tutor.
Have a seat.
What an immaculate room.
My last interview was an uphill battle.
Will this prince agree to take my test?
So? What do you want me to do?
I'd like you to take a competency test.
Understood.
That went disturbingly smoothly.
Here. I've finished it.
And too quickly.
With all due respect, I should like to put your abilities to the test as well.
To the test?
To assess the caliber of a royal tutor who hasn't gone to university.
All of our tutors thus far have been less intelligent than I.
I ask that you leave this post immediately if you prove to be no different.
I would do well to be cautious as I build trust with him, given his intelligence.
I should decline his test.
Also, I'm concerned.
I never imagined the new royal tutor would be this small.
Small!
I accept your challenge. Have at me!
You must be relatively learned for the palace to employ you at all.
Our duel of the minds will be through chess.
One can see their opponent's level of intelligence,
thought process, and personality all through their moves on the chessboard.
I've never lost a match.
I hope you're prepared for a challenge.
Just the way I like it.
I-Impossible...
Checkmate.
How did I lose?
This ended up like this, and this like this, and that...
Are you quite satisfied?
Then I should be on my—
Next! On to the next test!
What? You have more? Laze.
Laze
Don't relax yet. Are you serious about this?
Could this tutor be an exception?
No, it's too soon to say.
I'll test him with less conventional means.
It seems Prince Bruno is something of a pain.
I challenge you to mental arithmetic.
I've finished.
What?!
You could have written in random numbers.
It's all correct!
A royal tutor must also have knowledge of music.
What?!
A royal tutor must also have luck.
I challenge you to a game of cards.
A royal straight flush.
This goes beyond brilliance.
What is going on here?
What will the next challenge be?
A five-tier tower while I was thinking? How easy is this for you?
My papers have been praised by scholars the world over. How can I be...
No, keep it together. Be proud of your intelligence!
You won't lose to anyone in pure academic knowledge.
Pardon me, but you've been speaking your thoughts aloud.
Next, I'll have you take a test I created myself.
I need only finish this?
One hundred difficult questions covering the fields of
mathematics, chemistry, history, geography and more.
What's more, I wrote them in five random languages.
Even you will have a hard time with—
I've finished.
It's all correct.
By the way, I found one misspelling
in the language of Fonsein in question fifty-seven.
I marked it in red for you.
Are you quite all right?
It's no use.
I have no hope of besting him.
His raw ability is overwhelming.
He can even draw out powerful luck.
Is this what a true genius is like?
From a young age, I was highly competitive.
Academics, culture, even music...
I threw myself at it all to distinguish myself, and yet...
What do I have to show for it...?
Oh? Is this Your Highness's writing?
Y-Yes...
May I read it?
Do whatever you want.
I see. Regarding the Kingdom of Granzreich's basic principles as a modern nation...
You even mention the effects of the recent construction
of a ring road on the public consciousness...
Excellent.
You can tell which point I poured my efforts into?
Indeed. This is a truly level-headed perspective... That of a scholar, not a royal.
But this sentence could be misinterpreted as blaming
the banks for the economic crisis thirty years ago.
You might wish to compose it carefully to be more delicate.
You're right.
It's a minor part, but it lacks subtlety...
Also, regarding your account of harmony among the commoners,
perhaps the public operettas at Karl Theater also proved helpful?
I-I hadn't considered that.
While it might be outside your field to a degree,
taking the arts into consideration will broaden your viewpoint.
Incredible. I can't believe there's someone who understands
my writing so well, and can give me such useful advice.
This is... This is...
Master!
Master?
Please let me call you my master!
Um, I am the royal tutor...
Forgive me. I got too excited.
Master, you are the person most deserving of respect in my life.
Your Highness, please lift your head.
Master Master Master Master
I admit my complete defeat.
I look forward to your guidance,
Master!
A strange kind of attachment...
Prince Bruno said he was testing me,
but perhaps he was only looking for someone he could truly see as a teacher.
Master!
But... Master?
You still have much to learn.
Put your back into it, Bruno!
Yes, Master!
It sounds like an apprenticeship.
While I am glad to have your respect, "Master" is too embarrassing.
Please call me "Professor," as I am the royal tutor.
Forgive me. You're quite right.
Then I will consider you my master in my heart, but call you Professor.
Please stray away from "Master."
But "Master" feels more correct.
If I were to express my heartfelt enthusiasm to study under you as X,
and the nuances of the word "professor" as Y,
Excuse me, but you've lost me.
this is this and that is that and...
Please, Master—
Bruni!
Licht! How many times have I told you to knock on my door three times?
What's the big deal? We're brothers.
Professor, is your interview all done?
Yes.
Huh?
I will see you in the reception hall at four o'clock.
As it is our first time,
I will only begin your lesson if I am able to gather you all together.
Only if we all assemble there?
Yes. His Majesty the King instructed me to give all four of you equal attention.
Okay. Bruni, I'm taking the professor.
I'm not done speaking with Master!
Run away!
Master!
Not the most comfortable position, yet I'm a tad thankful.
He certainly is a pain.
The fifth prince, Licht. Fourteen years old.
He has handsome features, a cheerful personality,
and deep intimacy with royals from other nations.
He often visits the city in secret and is popular with the people, particularly women.
Or so my research would lead me to believe.
You can come into my room, Professor!
I should lecture him on how to carry a tutor.
Everybody! I brought the professor!
Everybody?
This is the child professor you were talking about?
He's so cute. I want to pet him.
Child? Well, sometimes being mistaken for a child isn't so bad.
He's so cute!
Oh, dear. What was I going to lecture him for?
Sorry about that. When I mentioned you, they all begged to see you.
Who are these young women?
They're my friends.
Just friends?
If you're going to say such sad things, maybe we'll go back to the city.
You're my super special friends, of course.
Don't go. Dote on me more.
I'll dote on you so much, Prince.
I see.
The research notes about him often visiting the city...
Meant that he often went there to flirt with women.
I would like to meet with Prince Licht privately.
Would you please give us a moment?
Heine darling, that's so cold.
Heine darling?
Sorry. Pretty please?
If you want us to, Your Highness.
See you later!
Okay!
He's surprisingly cooperative.
I apologize for interrupting your fun.
No biggie.
I wanted to catch you alone to ask some questions of my own, too.
C-Could he mean...
Professor, you look like a kid, but you're fully grown, right?
So what's going on down there?
Hey! Professor!
How is it okay for a teacher to kick a student?!
It was an educational measure.
What's your problem? It was innocent curiosity.
Boo! Boo!
How was that innocent?
Anyway, could you take this competency test? Here.
Huh? Are you being mean all of a sudden?
I'm a prince, remember?
A competency test, huh? Do I have to?
What a bother.
Bother... bother... bother...
Say, do you ladies know the answer to this question?
Which one?
Let me see.
Your competency is not a group effort. Do it yourself.
You're so hard to please. Fine, fine, I'll be serious.
How patronizing.
Oh, yeah. Did you talk to Leo and Bruni? Aren't they loons?
Leo's, like, stupid strong.
Oh, you have to hear this.
We had this important dinner party, right? So guess what Leo did.
He tried so hard to wrap his head around some complicated paper
Bruni was talking about that he got a fever.
Ahem. Please stop chatting and take your test.
But it's already done. Yay!
My word.
Once you began, you finished it in no time at all.
Yup! People are always telling me I can do anything if I try.
Then it would behoove you to try seriously from the start.
I would honestly like to get my wasted time back.
Scolded...
Now, I have another prince to see.
Ah! Not so fast! I've got a question.
What is it? I will not answer your earlier question.
Uh, I do wanna ask that... But no.
So like, seriously, Professor...
Who are you?
What do you mean?
Like, all the other royal tutors were famous people with titles like Professor So-and-so.
You have to be in order to get called to the palace.
But Heine Wittgenstein? Never heard of him.
So did you get the post through Father personally...?
A sharp, searching gaze...
Well, not that I know the names of any professors.
Oh, sorry. I'm sure you're some famous scholar who won some award or something.
My bad. I don't care about that stuff, so I wouldn't know.
Prince? Is your talk done yet?
What's the matter? You look all serious.
It is nothing.
We were having a serious talk. Right, Professor?
It was about this and that... His adult problems.
You need a lesson.
Owie!
Squee!
Now then, I will see you at four o'clock in the reception hall.
We'll only have lessons if all four of us show up, right?
What happens if we don't?
I'm a busy guy, after all!
Excuse me.
Bye-bye, Heine darling!
If I let my guard down because he is the youngest prince,
he may pull the rug out from under me.
Prince Licht is not to be taken lightly.
Excuse me. I'm here to change the sheets.
Now, to collect myself. Only Prince Kai remains.
The second prince of Granzreich. Kai, seventeen years old.
A boy of few words who rarely appears in public.
After a violent episode at military academy, he was suspended.
He is famous for his violent temper.
Is Prince Kai in his room?
Huh?! Um, His Highness left a moment ago.
Do you know which way His Highness went?
I'm sorry. I don't know.
If I may ask, what kind of person is Prince Kai?
Huh?
Any details will do. What sorts of things does His Highness talk about?
I-I don't know. I'm afraid I could never make conversation with Prince Kai.
Excuse me!
It seems he is quite feared.
This is a pickle...
Only one more hour until my appointment with the princes.
I need to find Prince Kai quickly.
I must hurry.
Punctuality is the first step to building trust.
Hmm?
Oh? Is that the palace dog?
Please return my file, doggie.
A dead body in the palace courtyard?
No. This boy is sleeping.
I've found Prince Kai, the most dangerous of the princes.
Get... lo...
He told me to get lost, didn't he?
It would seem he is hostile toward me.
How shall I handle him?
Soft. Soft...
Rub
Oops.
Rub
Oops? Did he mean to grab the dog?
New... teacher...
So he already considers me his teacher.
Perhaps I needn't be cautious.
Good day. An afternoon nap, Your Highness?
I like it here.
It is rather tranquil.
Shadow.
Pardon?
Shadow's a good dog.
I take it Shadow is this dog's name?
I play here with Shadow all the time.
A stark difference from my research.
Then why does he have such a notorious reputation?
Professor. That cloud...
looks like an apple.
Q-Quite.
Were you glaring at me, just now?
Your Highness, are you ever assumed to be glaring when you aren't,
due to your naturally sharp eyes?
All the time.
As I suspected. You do not correct the mixup?
I've always looked like this. And I'm not a good talker.
After a bad first impression, getting along won't happen.
Prince...
By the by, why are you touching my hands?
Soft.
Soft?
I like soft things.
Your hands are soft...
Shadow's soft, too.
Professor and Shadow... soft...
Now I'm being compared to a dog's paws...
Professor.
Is that test for me?
Ah, yes. Please complete this.
Like this, he does not look like a prince anyone would be afraid of.
Get... lo...
Prof... along...
Professor... Hope we'll get along...
I see now that you didn't glare at me,
and are not hostile toward me either, Prince Kai.
Shadow! Shadow!
There you are!
Don't run off, you silly thing.
I believe she is...
This is our little sister.
Say hello to the new teacher.
How do you do? I'm Adele.
It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Princess Adele.
I am the royal tutor, Heine.
Adele's a good girl.
And Shadow?
Shadow's a good dog.
His gaze is actually very gentle.
Princess!
Princess?
They're calling for you.
Okay! See you again, Professor Heine.
Professor.
Yes?
I like you.
You're the first teacher to talk to me... makes me happy.
Prince Kai...
Professor... my brothers and I... are in your care.
And I in yours.
Please be in the reception hall at four.
Today's lesson will begin only if all four of you are assembled.
He's asleep.
Prince Kai...
He was as mature and gentle as one would expect from a second prince.
I wrongly assumed he would be the most trouble.
Second-hand information is unreliable.
Let this be a lesson to me!
Instead of judging others based on rumors and gossip articles,
I must look and feel for myself.
You cannot know anyone without coming face-to-face with them.
I must start over from scratch.
Shadow's a good dog. Pet, pet.
You really love petting things, Kai.
Cuddles are important.
Next time, "You Don't Need to Accept Me."
You Don't Need to Accept Me
Next Time:
Bruno's a good boy, too. Can I pat you?
Why are you patting me, too?!