"Yes, Your Highness. You are still as spirited as ever. This is Charlotte," Maximilian I introduced.
Charlotte greeted Prince Constantin. "Your Highness, hello! Thank you to the Hechingen Royal Family for all your help."
"Hahaha, there is no need for such formalities between family. It was what that boy Ernst ought to have done," Constantin said with a laugh.
Constantin and Maximilian I and his wife exchanged pleasantries for a while, after which East African officials came forward one after another to pay their respects.
"Grandfather Constantin!" A young officer gave Constantin a standard military salute.
"You are?"
"Hechingen Military Academy, second cohort, Class Six—Hans Zhang. I am currently the Supreme Military Commander of Dar es Salaam city in the Hechingen East African Royal Territory. I met you back then, Grandfather Constantin. You even spoke with us," Hans Zhang said.
Hans Zhang had been one of the commanders who had directed the campaign against Zanzibar alongside Felix. Felix had later been transferred elsewhere, while Hans Zhang had become the military officer in charge of Dar es Salaam city.
"So that was it! Good, this was how a soldier ought to look!" Constantin said.
Once he learned that Hans Zhang was a graduate of Hechingen Military Academy, Constantin was no longer surprised that he called him Grandfather.
Back when Ernst founded Hechingen Military Academy, Constantin had spent far more time there than Ernst had. After all, Ernst had many affairs to attend to and was often rushing all over Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The students of Hechingen Military Academy were all half-grown children, and all of them were orphans, so Constantin had them call him Grandfather Constantin.
After chatting for a while, Constantin dismissed everyone. Having just disembarked, he was still somewhat tired.
"Your Highness, I will have to trouble