The next day Hans woke up with much sore and bruises, walking hurts as he got ready for the day and headed down to the dining room for breakfast. Of course everyone is already there except for their Father the King, the chatting continuous on without a bat of an eye in his direction as he headed to sit next to Elisa who is as always coughing away, stopping after a while to greet her brother a good morning but made an shock expression when she saw the bruise lip, "Oh my goodness, Hans. Whatever happened to you last night?"

"Yes, what happened to you Hans do tell us." Linus the eleventh prince interrupted before Hans could answer, his tone sound nothing of concern but more of a nosy housewife whose only joining the conversation for the sake of gossiping.

At first Hans glared at Linus but it didn't took long before he gave Victor's direction a very brief side glance before he answered Elisa with a simple, "I fell onto the hard castle floor… there was a puddle."

"Really now, then perhaps we should have all the castle floor checked and cleaned, don't you think so Klaus my brother?" and it was Victor who spoke up, speaking as if they're all having a serious meeting involving poor castle maintenance that needs to be seen to immediately. "And who better to do all that than Hans, don't you think so Klaus?"

The oldest brother and crown prince, Klaus Westergard looked up from his many scrolls of paper work regarding their kingdom to look between Victor and Hans all the way at the end of the long dining table, "I suppose Hans could be the one to see through this matter, since he is the one who got tripped over… "

Hans wanted to protest as it is a lot of work checking all the castle floor, not to mentioned he has to clean and fix all of them if any were damaged. But yet again he was interrupted, this time by the twins, Damien and Derek, seventh and eighth prince of the kingdom, who spoke in such unison you would think the room has an echo, "At least it's better than shoving manure…"

"Or being shoved into the manure, hahaha…" Andrew the sixth prince added which caused the whole room to be filled with laughter from all twelve brothers, Elisa of course was not pleased and was about to speak up for Hans when their Father the King stepped in, causing all laughter to cease as they all stood up to greet their Father and only sat back down once he had settled at the head of the table.

"So… What is it that cause so much amusement to our family this morning?" he asked but before Elisa could speak up for Hans, Nicklaus the third prince has already spoken up, "We were talking about how glorious this morning is and how admirable it is for Hans to volunteer to inspect the castle walls after his little accident."

With eyebrows raised the King looked in Hans direction, making it impossible for him to hide his lip from him. He watches as his Father's gaze went from curious confusion to just… stern frowning before he speaks again, "I see… well then. Better be checking this castle's walls than trying to checkmate an ally countries' queen…" that made the princes almost burst out laughing at their Father's little comment. Not being able to contain anymore of their nonsense Hans stood up and just walked away, making it even harder for the brothers to contain their composure while Elisa makes a 'I don't believe this is my family' kind of face.

As Hans walked down the steps and towards the old garden all their insults and voices ring in his ears, making his blood boil and in rage he shout and kicked at everything. The poor grass, mostly the poor grass and then a bit of the old garden wall which made him stop and goes, "OW!" and bend down to nurse his toes when he noticed the gleam of gold. Reaching his hands through the cracks he retrieved the golden apple, and if there used to be any doubt in his heart to use it, well… not anymore.