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Silvio Ricci. Both Endings Bonus. The path to favoritism. Part 1

Our days.

I've always been longing. Never in my life have I been able to quench that longing/tryst.

Drinking large quantities of alcohol and one-night stands serve only as a temporary distraction. How could this be cured? I thought long and hard about this method. I couldn't find a way.

Until I met this sweet and sassy woman.

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Main Flashback. 3 years ago.

Prince Valerio is missing. Silvio looks at his other brother, Emidio.

(This guy... Did he set something up?)

Valerio has gotten involved with some dangerous business, and Emidio is acting suspiciously.

(Damn, I thought Emidio wouldn't catch him...)

King Alfio, their father, forms a search squad.

(Are you forming a search squad already?)

If Silvio or Emidio were missing, King Alfio would not even look for them.

The king asks his eldest sons about their involvement in Valerio's disappearance.

Emidio: I know nothing. What about you brother?

Silvio does not know either.

The King of Benitoite: ...There is no lie in these words, is there?

The King looked with a murderous gaze, like an enemy, not at the suspicious Emidio, but at his eldest son.

Silvio: Ha, you doubt me?

The King has already concluded.

(You're wrong, you old bastard.)

Emidio: But the one who is most pleased with Valerio's disappearance is my brother, right?

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Flashback in flashback:

It is a "celebration" of the death of Silvio and Emidio's mother, the queen, and a welcome to a new wife, Lydia.

Only Emidio, is sad about his mother.

Emidio: You are so good, Valerio.

Valerio: What do you mean?

Emidio: I don't even have to tell you, do I? It's just the way you wanted it to be.

Emidio: Aren't you happy, right?

Valerio: If I look happy, brother, you should have your eyes checked.

Silvio tells them to shut up. Emidio looks for support from his older brother, but finds none.

Emidio: You killed my mother, Valerio.

Silvio doesn't believe it. Their mother committed suicide. Realizing that Alfio might find out that she wanted to send him to Lydia, she chose death.

This is what Valerio, the man who learned the truth about the queen, said.

Silvio doesn't think this is a bad thing. Rather... if Valerio had not done it, he would have done it himself.

Emidio is outraged. Why protect their little brother?

Silvio: Valerio, you look sullen too. I get mad looking at you.

Valerio: So you wouldn't be sad if I smiled?

Silvio: ... Ah, still damn cheeky and refreshing.

Emidio: Brother, you are ridiculous. Valerio, I am not as kind as our brother.

Flashback in flashback is over.

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Main Flashback. 3 years ago.

From that day on, Emidio became gloomy/spooky with Valerio.

The king wants to "talk" with Silvio alone. He doesn't mind. However...

Silvio: If you don't have time, don't waste it, go find Valerio.

King: Don't worry.

When the king winked, the royal guards waiting in the throne room surrounded the elder prince.

( ....The incompetent old geezer.)

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Main Flashback. 3 years ago.

Castle Prison.

Carlo, the squire and the prince's assistant came to the prison.

Carlo: ...Are you all right?

Silvio: Is that what "all right" looks like to you?

Carlo: Sorry! I'll take care of you right away.

The prince's body hurts. There's blood in his mouth.

Instead of interrogation, there was torture.

(It's more like he was trying to nail me than get information out of me.)

Helping the prince to remove his clothes, Carlo frowns. There is not a living thing on Silvio.

There are wounds and bruises all over his body. His clothes are stained with blood.

Carlo: .... Terrible.

Silvio: Not really. ....Even when I was a kid, I was beaten very badly in secret.

The king beat him. For his "bullying" of Valerio. But just remembering his miserable childhood, when he had no money and could not even buy love, makes Silvio sick.

Carlo: ...Why does the King hate Prince Silvio? For there is no proof!

Having smeared his wounds with the already familiar motion, for he has often been wounded during his maritime adventures, Silvio answers his assistant's question.

Silvio: It's common, isn't it?

Carlo: I don't understand, because the prince is a good man.

Silvio: Ha, dumbass. I don't think so.

Silvio: You're the only one who treats me like a "good person".

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Carlo is the prince's assistant and squire. They met ten years ago, when Silvio came to inspect the shipyard. Carlo was given out by other workers, and the prince protected him. Carlo has a brilliant mind. He is a scientist, an informer, an agent, etc.

Silvio often bullied Rio. And their father remembers it.

Silvio: Because I took away everything that was important to him.

But Emidio was even angrier.

Carlo asks about the reason for Valerio's hatred.

As a child, Valerio was loved by everyone, his father loved him, he had a loving mother.

Valerio's birth was a blessing to the Benitoites.

No one liked Silvio because of his character and the fact that he had no free time. His mother forced him to study.

It was all for the sake of her son's ascension to the throne... The king hated such an ambitious wife. And Silvio did not understand how such an evil woman could give birth to him.

But the prince did not say all this to his squire.

"Hated it, and that's all," was the prince's answer.

Carlo: But you get along now, don't you?

Silvio: ....Get along?

Silvio: ...We don't get along. I just don't have anything else to take from him.

Silvio: If he can do/get something important, I'll take it from him again.

Perhaps in the past the prince has done bad things because of hatred. Until there was a turning point.

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Flashback in flashback:

Little Silvio couldn't figure out where his mother sometimes went in the middle of the night. One day he followed.

She had a meeting with a mercenary. He gave her some poison from Jade.

This poison does not kill. In some countries it is used for torture.

It turned out that the queen was quite chatty.

1. She does not want to kill her husband's mistress. If Lydia suffers, so does the king.

2. The queen will frighten and torment the minion until she gets bored, and as soon as she gets bored of this "toy", she will break her. Faster the queen will kill the son of the king's mistress.

3. Zhe does not care about adultery. Silvio's mother hates her husband.

4. She already had a lover, but her engagement to the king ruined everything.

Silvio would listen no more and ran away.

For the first time he knew his mother's true face.

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A few days later.

Ch. 21. Romantic Route

Lydia, the king's favorite and Rio's mother, was poisoned.

Valerio: Why doesn't anyone try to help!

Silvio can't look his little brother in the eye.

Mother: It's not that they don't want to help, it's that they don't know how to help.

Silvio can hardly contain himself, watching Rio scream in panic, and seeing how calm his mother and brother are.

Valerio: ....You're not...

Valerio: You're not human... No.

That evening.

Silvio felt guilty, he decides to talk to his mother. He tells her that he saw her with the mercenary.

She laughed.

The prince did not know at the time that people would call it crazy.

Mother: Silvio, you better think about becoming king. ...I can imagine the man's face. Do you want me to tell you something nice?

She, usually stern, gives her son a gentle hug.

Mother: You may not be the king's son. But this is a secret between you and me, okay?

No one and nothing could confirm or deny it.

Fortunately, he inherited the blue eyes that are the hallmark of Benitoite royalty, so no one could say that Silvio was an illegitimate child.

The queen convinced herself of this.

"The mother is a beast. And... born from the womb of such a woman, I too am a beast, and even my royal status, where a rich life without love is guaranteed, may be in jeopardy. This fact made my young heart tremble and instilled fear. I hate Valerio."

He hates, the king who is attached to his youngest son.

But.... He doesn't want to be like his mother.

Some time later.

Valerio is crying. Silvio has taken something from his brother again. He tries to teach his brother through violence to be strong so that he can stand up for himself.

Silvio: I don't have the strength to protect you from those bastards.

Flashback in flashback is over.

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Main Flashback. 3 years ago.

Castle Prison

The ointment begins to work. Carlo wants to go to get the doctor, but the prince won't let him.

He needs clean clothes and a carriage. Silvio will look for Valerio. He hopes to find his brother before Emidio does.

If he is alive, of course.

Carlo: And if you don't find him?

Silvio: Then I will erase all traces of Valerio's life.

Carlo wonders, how can you do this? By bribery and changing documents, answers the prince.

Silvio does this so that Emidio does not find Valerio. It is good if he is found quickly, but if not...If he is injured. Silvio believes in his brother's strength, but wants to back him up.

Silvio: If there is money, a lot of things are possible.

The business he started with pocket money was a great success, and he put the money he earned into his next business.

Repeating this, he started making money as a child and before he knew it, he was the youngest millionaire ever.

With the money, he bribed a couple of people.

These people were looking out for Emidio, looking for Valerio, and trying to fix problems.

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Flashback in flashback.

The prince's money has attracted some women.

Woman 1: Silvio, is there anything I can do in your room tonight?

Woman 2: No, tonight I am Silvio's partner.

Woman 3: The third woman offered some good wine.

Silvio panics. People used to avoid him, try to mingle with friendly Emidio and Valerio.

Flashback in flashback is over.

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Main Flashback. 3 years ago.

Castle Prison

"I learned that a man no one loves can be loved by anyone if he has money".

"Money isn't everything,' is the nonsense of wimps who don't know how to make money."

The hatred for Valerio had subsided, but not longing. Rather, it was the money that made things worse.

Silvio and Carlo are about to leave prison.

Silvio: ...Take care, Valerio.

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Three years passed

Silvio found Valerio in an unexpected place.

But along with relief came longing.

Main Flashback is over.

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