Chapter 64

"Your guess is right, my queen. I intend to have them taught the study of kingship."

Under the table, I gripped Cassion's hand tight.

The study of kingship — a discipline only a king's heir was ever permitted to learn.

The actual content wasn't anything special, really. Just the subjects needed to govern a nation.

The mathematics, history, and foreign languages I'd already been learning were all, technically, part of the study of kingship too.

Same level, same content.

What changed was only the setting where it was taught. And how people looked at whoever was taught it.

Being taught the study of kingship meant, officially, that you were the next king.

To avoid pointless disputes, Petrora had always settled on an heir early and opened a single classroom for that one person alone.

Throughout its long history, there'd never once been an exception.

And now Karman had broken that…