The Silent King's

Introductions

Ezra Cornellius Rafeld, that's my name. Everyone will know who my family is if they hear my name. Although I have the Rafeld clan which is the highest clan in Sobraska, I have never felt happiness because of my name. Even I felt all the burdens were placed on me when I used that name. I'm 16 now, and soon I'll be out of high school. I don't live in the palace. After my parents divorced, my mother got custody of me and changed my name to Alexander Cornellius Anre. The goal is for people not to recognize who I really am. Even so, I have known about myself since I was 5 years old. 

Since childhood I lived a normal life, lived a childhood like children in general, which distinguishes probably only from my father's family. I can't always be with my father, I only meet him for 2 days a week and that happens if my father has free time to be with me. It was an agreement between my father and my mother to raise me together after they divorced. Although in reality, most of my time was spent together with my mother in a small house.

I do not live in the Palace like most other nobles. They only monitor my activities from a distance but, the royal family still considers me as the next king candidate. This led to them always treating me like a prince and vice versa I had to learn a lot about the royal protocol so much to obey and run in order to meet everyone's expectations. I am indeed tasked to meet the expectations of everyone, especially the royal family. Every holiday, I have a royal protocol practice schedule along with a senior palace house secretary named Starni Amil. I don't know why he's called Starni, because it should be so beautiful to see in the night sky, but this one star is so different. He's so cold, he's tough, he's tough, and there's still a lot of things I don't like about him. Mr. Starni had been working as the Household Secretary of the Palace for 32 years. I believe he has taught dozens of members of the royal family, including me. 

"Mr Hallo. Starni," I exclaimed, imitating the style of speech of a prince in the video I was watching. 

"Sir, you should pay more attention to your body position when talking, eyes should focus on seeing the person you are facing, instead of glancing around!" His words were so monohok and sounded mocking.

"Remember the 'body language' in Manner chapter 12" he added.

I took a deep breath when I faced Mr. This starni. Having just been 10 minutes with him, I felt a dozen hours with him. I still clearly remember the nagging earlier, I got it when I first got Manner's lesson. During my scheduled visit, I spent more time studying 'Manner' with Mr. Starni compared to hanging out with my father or my other family.

I rarely visit the Palace, instead of the palace I spend more time in the Royal Villa when the schedule is a visit, the reason is very simple 'for my safety', he said', because indeed the Royal Villa is rarely known by people compared to the Palace. I became a prince only on Saturdays and Sundays. After that, I lived my normal life as a student without the frills of the prince. Since my mother and father separated in 2006, my mother has always taken me around the city. It aims to disguise my existence, so that I can undergo activities without having to worry that something bad will happen. In 2010, my mother and I settled in Tamarin, a small town on the outskirts of the Sobraska capital, Dekker City. I went to Tamarxal High School. There was no one who knew my true identity, not even my closest friend, Antoni Marsal. This is a royal protocol that I have to do in order to be able to calmly live as Alexander instead of Ezra. I have to be as smart as possible to put both my names in their place, be it Alex or Ezra.

"ALEXI!" my mother's voice sounded in my ear. 

"Alex wakes up, Toni's been waiting for you said you wanted baseball practice, right?"

My entire body consciousness system was suddenly activated. "Geez ma, why are you being told!"

I don't remember, today was a very important day. Today my school is off because it is celebrating the 123rd anniversary of Tamarin. However, despite this day off, Antoni and I are the new members of the baseball team and will be holding a practice routine today. I'm really freaked out right now, considering who my baseball coach is, I'm sure it's a few seconds late and I'm done. I immediately got out of bed to wash my face, brush my teeth and change my clothes. In just 10 minutes I can finish it all. I snatched all the equipment I was going to use while running towards the dining table.

"Well Mom, I'll tell you later, yes" I said as I picked up and ate a piece of bread that was already on the dinner table.

"Well, be careful in the way of Sweet Heart and don't forget to drink and eat yes, love you."

"Love you too," I replied as I closed the door and confirmed my socks. I rushed to meet Antoni who was waiting in front of the house.

"Look at the game to start in 20 minutes, and I'm sure we'll be up to 15 minutes while we have to be on the pitch in 10 minutes," toni scolded me when she saw me out of the house, justifying the shoes and mouth full of bread. I kept quiet and would not answer because if I dared to answer, he would get angry. I just smiled at Toni's wrinkled face from now on.