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He explains it in the new chapter where he states that he cares for him because he needs him so basically he doesn’t need him as a human being or more as a weapon on the battlefield so as long as he’s alive that’s all he cares about so he cares that he is alive enough to use his skills on the battlefield which is very sickening and disgusting of this old man
The prince should be the one on the frontlines throwing people around not the duke. The king claims to care about the duke, but if he really did he wouldn't have sent him to the battle field his whole life.
Say whatever you want about it ruining the princes mind, but look at him now. Just a push and the fl with be in a private cell for him.