Was it jealousy, or anger?
Hartless studied Faker—or rather, "Hephaestion"—standing at the edge of the rooftop, her expression shifting unpredictably. A trace of amusement flashed through his eyes.
Hephaestion was one of the most famous among Conqueror King Iskandar's many retainers.
As a confidant, he was unquestionably first among them. After all, the two had studied together at Mieza Academy, received instruction from the great scholar Aristotle together, laid flowers at Patroclus's tomb together, and had even married two of Darius III's daughters in the end.
The two had always been inseparable, the closest of companions and the friends most loyal to each other.
But in truth, Hephaestion was not a single person, but a pair of siblings.
The one who had appeared publicly as a man was the older brother.
The one before him was actually Hephaestion's twin younger sister, as well as the body double responsible for guarding King Iskandar.
Legend said that these twin siblings had been raised by Alexander's bewitching mother, Olympias, as Alexander's right- and left-hand aides. The brother, Hephaestion, conquered on the front lines as a general, while the sister moved behind the scenes as an unnamed body double.
Back when Mystery had not yet fully faded, magecraft posed a great threat to rulers. Names and physical characteristics could both become mediums for curse-killing. Thus, Alexander's fake body double had no name, and her features differed greatly from the real man's. The image of Alexander the Great passed down through the world was actually her appearance when she stood in the public eye: black hair, gold-and-silver mystic eyes, and a short stature by male standards—all the result of her manipulation of information. She had indeed appeared publicly as his proxy. To resist curse-killing magecraft, she herself was also an exceptionally powerful Age of Gods