Surprising News

"You need to be careful, you are only 5 years old so people will try to kill you when they find out of your stats. The academy will also provide you with housing and security." The principle said after explaining how stats work.

"I am grateful sir principle." I answered while bowing my head in respect.

"You don't need to be too formal, you can just call me principle" The principle told me.

"Yes principle. I will take my leave now." I told principle and left.

*Whack~*

When I opened my door, I accidently hit someone.

"Ow!"

I looked at who I hit. It was the princess.

"What are you doing here princess?" I asked the princess.

"Don't call me princess. Call me Isabella!" She told me while she pouted her face.

I patted her head and told her, "Yes, I understand Isabella."

Her faced suddenly turned into a tomato. I thought she was sick so I put my hand on her head to check the temperature. She then turned more red.

She instantly ran away after I checked for her temperature.

"She did not even answer my question." I shouted in my mind.

I went back to the class. When I opened the giant door, I was greeted with my classmates whispering and Miss Adair suddenly hugged me.

"You are awesome! You sure are the legendary hero's son!" She shouted while hugging me.

"Please stop miss Adair! You are chocking me!" I shouted in agony.

"Oh yes sorry." Miss Adair then released me.

I quickly went to my seat to avoid unnecessary injuries. When I was about to sit down, I looked at Isabella but she avoided my eye contact. I then sit down and went back to resting.

"Is there a Sir Henry Balmond here?" A woman with cat ears wearing a kind of office dress shouted.

"Yes there is!" A random student shouted.

"Sir Henry Balmond, the king would like to see you." The office cat woman said.

Isabella started shaking me to wake me up.

"Ah, what is happening!" I woke up in shock.

"Henry Balmond, my father wants to meet you." Isabella told me.

"The king!" I was shocked that the king wanted to meet me.

I quickly went to the office cat ears lady.

"Princess, the king also asked you to come together with sir Balmond." The office cat ears lady said.

"My father does?!" Isabella shouted with a surprised reaction.

Me and Isabella went to the castle. When we arrived, we were greeted with armored knight escorting us towards the throne room. When I looked at Isabella, she did not seem faze. She just came without any complain.

"Sir Henry and Princess Isabella have arrived!" A man shouted and the door suddenly opened.

Me ad Isabella went inside and we both knee down.

"You may stand." The king said.

We both stood up instantly and I was losing my balance because it was my first time meeting a king. When I looked up, I saw an extremely handsome man with white hair on the throne. There was also a beautiful and busty woman with gray hair and blue eyes sitting beside the king. When I looked at the queen, she smiled and waved at me. I was suddenly confused to what am I here for.

"Everyone expect Sir Balmond and Isabella. Leave!" The king shouted and every one other than me and the princess went outside.

"What is the king going to discussed about?!" I whispered nervously.

Suddenly, the king hugged Isabella. I was in shocked. A moment ago, he was a dignified person but now his personality totally turned around.

"Stop it dad, you are embarrassing me in front of Sir Henry!" Isabella shouted with a cute voice.

"Did you just call sir Balmond, Sir Henry?" The king asked Isabella.

Isabella instantly turned red and she stopped talking. The king then suddenly squeezed my hand.

"Isabella help!" I shouted.

"Oh, you guys are calling each other by the other's first name. Huh!" The King shouted in front of me.

I was just quietly hurting from the king's squeeze.

"Your majesty, please let's talk about the main topic." The queen suddenly started talking from behind.

"Sorry, okay I want to discuss with you about is that you will be taking my daughter's hand in marriage." The king said.

"Marriage!" Me and Isabella shouted.

"Yes, because you are to be the very first 3 digit stats paladin and in a month you will be the youngest paladin." The queen explained from behind.

"She is correct we need you to join the royal family to secure a more peaceful kingdom." The king stated.

"But you must not do anything to her. You must not touch her!" The king grabbed my hand and started shouting.

"Dad, stop embarrassing me!" Isabella screamed.

The king then let go of my hands and told us that the official announcement for your engagement and that you are to be crowned triple digit paladin will be in a month. He also told us to be prepared for the future.

We were then dismissed. We returned back to the academy. While we were returning, I asked Isabella why she did not reject our engagement. She instantly got mad and she started running away from me.

"You, dense stupid head!" She shouted while running away from me.

I was left confused as to why she was angry. I just slowly walk to our class. When I open the door, I saw the principle and miss Adair waiting in the class. The principle slowly came near me and he put his hand on my shoulder.

"You luckily boy, you are now engaged to the princess." The principle shouted while rubbing my head.

I was confused as to how he knows about our engagement just moments after it came out.

"Stop joking around! We need to talk to Henry about his new home!" Miss Adair told the principle after hitting his head.

"Henry. The academy won't be providing you with housing anymore, the king has accepted to give you a house and knights to look guard your household. Oh and by the way, the princess will be living with you but in a different room." The principle told me.

"What!" Me and Isabella was surprised. But our faces suddenly turned red after looking at each other.

"Good to be young." The principle shouted.