"Hey, Dad, can you please tell me more about the royal family's secret? Like, the reason some of them are considered eccentric?"
"E-eh? Why, it's god's gift to them, of course! God blessed them with superior abilities so that they could rule the country well," Dad spouted out the same story as usual.
It made sense, so I usually would stop at that since he didn't seem like telling me about it. But now is different.
"Pretty pleaseeeeee?"
I can't wait any more to find it out by myself, so I can only look at Dad with eyes full of pleading.
"Uuuuh.......," Dad hesitated.
Yosh, it worked!
"I won't tell anyone, Dad!"
"Oh, me, too, Dad!" Alt-nii also joined my pestering.
"T-then, fine... But I don't really know the details about it...," Dad finally surrendered.
Apparently, King Titus didn't divulge any details about the royal family's gift to Dad and his close aides, too. He only told them the gist of it. So, Dad could only tell me about it, thinking that it'd be fine to tell me and Alt-nii. After all, we were also close to the royal family's children.
As I suspected, it was part of the royal family's [Oracle]—and their Oracle is called [Insight]. It's said that [Insight] is the symbol of the next ruler and is used to determine which royal family children have the chance to inherit the throne. Not everyone will have [Insight]. And [Insight] guarantees superior abilities in many things, from cognitive aspect, psychological aspect, to magic aspect. It's said that the [Insight] holders seem to mentally mature at a faster rate, hence, some adults couldn't bring themselves to love and treat the children with [Insight] like they would to a normal child.
So, it comes with its own benefits and disadvantages...
"Therefore, Lyra, Alt, I hope you can be good friends with Luca. I'm sure he has it hard sometimes, as children his age wouldn't really like it to be with him, based on what Titus told me about his childhood," Dad said.
"No problem, Dad!" I sincerely answered.
Well, if that's the case... accelerated mental maturation, huh? No wonder we can be friends and even develop rivalries, despite my mental age.
...if Luca is considered "normal" that way because of his [Insight], then what about me? ...I probably should act more childish and do that more often...?
"Eh, Dad, Dad! Based on your words... Leticia doesn't inherit [Insight]...?" I suddenly realized something based on Dad's previous sentence and then added, "but she's only two!"
If Leticia is proven to inherit [Insight] as well, she'd have the chance to inherit the throne! Wouldn't that bring competition among her and Luca?
Dad seemed to understand what I implied, and then he proceeded to explain that if the eldest child was deemed to inherit a strong [Insight], then the royal family would quickly decide them as the successor to avoid future disputes due to them delaying things. Furthermore, usually there will only be one child to inherit a strong [Insight] in a generation.
It doesn't close the possibility that a stronger [Insight] holder will be born, but chances are quite low.
As for Leticia... She really doesn't inherit [Insight], judging from her behavior as a toddler. Dad said that [Insight] holders and non-holders would show differences from early in their lives.
And that concludes Dad's superficial knowledge on the royal family's secret.
The real nature of [Insight] is still unknown to us, though.
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