How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 107



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Episode 107

My son’s friend not only spat out the chocolate, but also started rinsing his mouth with water. It was something he had done out of consideration, but Sedes felt a little embarrassed and grumbled for no reason.

“…Wasn’t it that tasteless?”

“…….”

Nihil was about to say something, but then he drank the cold water again. His stomach felt hot.

“Cough… I’m a little weak to alcohol.”

Nihil didn’t show it on the outside, but he was a little taken aback by the alcohol seeping out of the cracks in the chocolate. He had only gotten drunk on a few sips of beer the day before yesterday.

‘I thought I smelled alcohol coming from somewhere.’

I thought it was just a kind of perfume and let it go since there was no way a king or prime minister would drink alcohol and work from the morning, but I was too complacent.

“Oh my god, this is a praline with alcohol in it!”

At the mention of alcohol, Abel tried chocolate and his face grimaced. I wondered why there was chocolate for children in the living room, and sure enough, it wasn’t chocolate for children to begin with.

“Sedi, what if you give praline to the kid!”

Abel nagged at Sedes and patted Nihil’s back, who was slightly groaning. Sedes said he really didn’t know and pushed the chocolate aside.

“…It wasn’t intentional.”

“…….”

“You must have used expensive alcohol, so you won’t have a hangover…….”

“Seddie! That’s what you’re talking about!”

Sedes slightly lowered his eyes at Abel’s nagging. In fact, he had given the same chocolate to the second prince earlier, but he kept his mouth shut because he didn’t know how the two people in front of him would react if he told them that fact.

‘… The second prince… will it be okay?’

It should be okay… … .

On the other hand, Nihil, who couldn’t read Sedes’ mind, calmly drank another glass of cold water to soothe his burning stomach. And he admired the efforts of the father who personally prepared the snack for the child, so he decided to explain it to him in a little more detail.

“The mana circuit must be emptied and the condition must be restored before treatment can be carried out. It would be better to reduce the workload a bit.”

Abel laughed heartily and scolded Sethes at the suggestion to cut down on work.

“Look, Sadie. I told you to let the little one do a little work.”

“But what can I do, I’m busy.”

“Let’s just use the plan the prince brought us this morning with a few modifications. Honestly, it was fine. My workload will be reduced and the prince will like it. It’s killing two birds with one stone. Right?”

“that…….”

“Okay, that’s enough of the story. Little one, would you please look at this book?”

“…….”

Abel cut off Sedes’s words and placed the heavy, ancient book on Nihil’s thigh. Nihil stared at the book in front of him and carefully turned the pages.

What I thought was an old book was actually not an old book. It had been flipped through so many times that the cover and corners were worn and worn, but the inside pages were relatively clean.

Abel continued his explanation.

“This is my notebook where I copied all the magic circles that have been passed down in the Magic Tower.”

“Where on earth is that notebook…….”

Sedes was about to quibble, but quickly shut his mouth at the intense glare of his close friend. Nihil flipped through a thick book that he claimed was a notebook, picked up the entire book, flipped through it, and tilted his head.

“Are you sure you copied it correctly?”

“Yes. It matches exactly with the ancient books that have been passed down from the Magic Tower for nearly 500 years.”

“Most of the information that has come out since the Cheonma War is inaccurate, so don’t trust it too much even if it’s old. The people at that time lost all records and civilization, so it’s probably just a patchwork of information.”

“Oh, that’s not wrong, but… what do you think?”

Nihil glanced through the notebook and snorted.

“It’s extremely inefficient. And you don’t memorize magic circles like this. Why do you separate water magic and ice magic? They’re essentially the same. Ice magic is also a type of water magic. You just need to lower the temperature of water magic. And is there really a need to create ice to attack? It’s more efficient to just throw rolling chunks of iron.”

“Well, but there are times when you want to freeze your opponent, like a monster that needs to be caught alive.”

“Don’t categorize magic like that. The ice binding magic depicted here doesn’t create water separately and freeze it. It simply lowers the temperature to freeze moisture in the human body or the air.”

“I see. That’s true….”

“Compare ice binding magic to warmth magic.”

Abel quickly looked for the warming magic circle at Nihil’s words. The warming magic circle was classified as a life magic rather than an attack magic, so it was almost finished.

Abel opened his eyes wide and flipped through the pages of his notebook to compare the two magic circles. Surprisingly, the two magic circles were so similar that he wondered why he had not noticed them before.

“idiot.”

“ha ha ha…….”

Abel just laughed as if he had lost his mind despite Nihil’s sharp criticism. Sedes was a little worried about this, so he waved his hand in front of Abel’s eyes.

“Abel, are you okay?”

“Sedi, this is… a revolution.”

“Is that so?”

Sedes, who didn’t even care about the ‘Ma’ in magic, answered indifferently. Nihil watched the excited Abel for a moment and then pulled on Sedes’s clothes.

“Why are you doing that?”

As Sedes lowered his body slightly, Nihil nodded at the dumbfounded Abel and quietly opened his mouth.

“Fill the mana restraint. If it gets any worse, I won’t be able to treat it.”

“Is treatment… possible?”

“Of course it’s not free.”

“Of course I have to pay for the treatment. But is that mana circuit the reason you’re stuck in the 3rd circle?”

“The Prime Minister has 3 circles, but he has 6 circles of mana. If he uses Sirentea, his mana will be close to 7 circles. If he consumes it without treatment… he might explode.”

“……?”

It’s going to explode? What? That guy who’s losing his mind right now?

Sedes looked at his friend who was muttering something to himself while looking into the empty space. While he was talking about how he might explode next to him, Abel suddenly snickered and burst into laughter, wondering what he was thinking.

“……First, I need to put him in restraints so he doesn’t do anything useless.”

Sedes, frowning at his friend’s strange behavior, took out a blunt object in the form of a book that he claimed was a notebook.

It might be useless since the copied magic circle would have already been memorized, but I thought I should prevent him from using magic until the so-called ‘treatment’ was done.

“Abel, take off the soundproofing magic. And I will fill the mana restraint as the child said, so please understand.”

“Hey, before you put the restraints back on, can I try using the spell one more time? Um, I don’t know why this vase is here, but I used a heat spell and an ice binding spell… Hey, why is this warm? No, is it a little hot?”

Abel tilted his head as he looked at the vase that was faintly steaming. Sedes did not want him to use magic anymore, so he quickly emptied the water in the vase and took out the stone. However, he was startled by the remaining heat of the stone and dropped it.

Nihil carefully wrapped the stone rolling towards him in a handkerchief, put it in his bosom, and put his hood up.

“Are you going?”

Nod.

The business was over and it was almost lunchtime so I had to hurry back to Rianus. I had to feed the baby on time.

“I have one more question.”

Nihil tilted his head slightly as Sedes grabbed him again.

“anything.”

“Did you help the prince with his homework?”

“I only helped him research and organize the data. He did it himself, so he can be proud.”

“…I see.”

Sedes smiled faintly and gave a low-level potion to his special son and called the man on guard to provide him with escort.

And before anyone could look away, he grabbed Abel by the back of his neck, who was still dripping with regret, and dragged him into the office.

Nihil glanced at the back of the head of the parents who seemed quite satisfied with the result, then followed the guard and walked briskly.

You’ll probably run into Prince 1 on your way. You’ll be so curious about what kind of guy that friend who caused the division is.

‘Should I check the baby snake’s color?’

***

Laurence de Harpens was in good spirits for the first time in a long time.

I went to see His Majesty in the morning to greet Him and found Lianus being scolded.

Although the situation was such that His Majesty only showed his face to me and sent me away, Lawrence was very satisfied with the mere fact that Lianus was being scolded.

I heard that Rianus had gone out to a dangerous place in secret, and it seems that the new guy he was seeing was the one who had seduced him.

‘You said you had a friend, but then you caused an accident right away.’

Lawrence tried to act as a gentle yet strong prince as usual, barely holding back the corners of his mouth from going up into a grin. Then, during a break, one of his knights approached him and spoke to him.

“Your Majesty, the second prince’s concubine has been summoned.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. I heard that His Majesty scolded him harshly and then His Excellency the Prime Minister noticed and dismissed all the servants. The atmosphere is so tense that I might be kicked out.”

“That’s really too bad. He’s the first friend my brother ever made…”

Lawrence said that, his eyebrows furrowing slightly as if he really felt sorry, but the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

As class was ending, news came that the second prince’s companion, who was thought to have returned, had just left the reception room.

Lawrence was curious about what kind of guy that guy was, so he decided to quickly chase after him. Since he would never see him again if he was kicked out, it wouldn’t hurt to take a look.

Because there were so many eyes watching, I had to walk slowly to maintain a straight posture, so I had to run a bit where there were no servants, but I was not too late because I could see a small figure in the distance.

The gloomy appearance of him, hunched over and with his hood pulled down tightly, suited Lianus, nicknamed the Swamp Prince.

‘They’re meeting each other.’

Maybe he wanted to feel superior by bringing in a child who was less capable than him.

Baedong was about the same height as Rianus. He was taller than his peers, and Rianus was much smaller than his peers, so he might have been younger than Rianus.

Lawrence took a deep breath, which had become ragged from running a little, and calmly approached the child.

The guard next to him recognized him and bowed his head in greeting.

“1 Prince, what brings you here?”

“I came here to say hello since I saw my younger brother’s carriage, but my younger brother… doesn’t seem to be there.”

Lawrence pretended to look around, even though he knew full well that Lianus was not there. Then he saw a child who looked a hand shorter than him and tilted his head slightly and asked.

“But this child…?”

“Oh, this child is the second prince’s concubine. Little one, he is the first prince. I should say hello to him.”

The guard introduced him instead, but the child cowered at Lawrence’s appearance and hid behind the guard. Lawrence’s attendant scolded him for being rude, but the child did not come out from behind the guard’s cloak.

“I, I, I guess I didn’t receive proper education since I just entered the palace.”

The guard tried to cover up the cowering child, making excuses instead. But Lawrence’s attendant, who was more offended by this behavior, became angry.

“You should receive education first before entering the palace. What on earth are you thinking, making me wander around the palace?”

“Calm down, Confucius. He is still young. And it is not right for Your Majesty to invite a child to the palace.”

“How could you pick up something that has no basis!”

“Confucius, the child is listening.”

“That’s right, Benjamin. What’s wrong with filling in each other’s shortcomings?”

Lawrence intervened and broke up their fight. As the guard came to his senses and bowed his head and took a step back, Lawrence smiled gently and approached the still cowering child, reaching out to him.

match-!

And with a loud noise, Lawrence’s hand was thrown out.