How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 112



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Episode 112

“Are you okay?”

“huh.”

“…I don’t think so.”

“huh.”

A cold sweat ran down Evan’s back. The cat wasn’t angry. It just seemed a little strange.

“First of all…, go to sleep. If anything happens to the prince, I’ll wake you up.”

Evan decided to put the lynx to sleep for now, hoping it would be okay when it woke up.

It’s clear that I haven’t been able to rest properly recently, so my head is a bit weird.

As time passed quickly and the prince became calm, Evan lifted Nihil and laid him down next to the prince.

But the guy didn’t think much and started teasing the prince by poking his cheek. So I had no choice but to hug him again…

“Shakyamuni……”

“huh.”

“Byakgya Jamotaetta.”

“huh.”

Evan sighed as Nihil played with his hands, fiddling with his face and pulling at his hair. No matter what he asked, the only answers he got were ‘yes’ and ‘why’.

Evan felt like crying as he watched Nihil stretch his cheeks and just respond reflexively.

Why on earth is she acting like this! Does she get crazy when she receives something called ‘fruit’? Or is it a talisman? It can’t be a permanent side effect, right?

Whatever the cause, I hope you can just get some sleep before all my cheek fat grows out!

When I put him down on the bed, he slowly crawled next to the prince and put his hand on his cheek, so I couldn’t put him down. I thought about leaving him in my room, but I thought it would be too much to worry about leaving him alone in that cold and desolate room.

Evan’s cheeks and scalp began to feel numb, so he began searching the room for something else to put in Nihil’s hands.

At first, he was given a cube made of dice. Since each line could rotate 360 ​​degrees, he played with it for a long time, spinning it. Since there was no sign of matching the colors, Evan sighed in relief, thinking that he could take a break for a while.

But it was always his own snout that was the problem.

“So when are you going to match them all to the same color? Match at least one side.”

I told him that sarcastically. But I shouldn’t have said it. The reason he couldn’t solve the cube was because I didn’t know that he was just playing around with it.

Nihil, who realized too late how to play with it, matched all the colors on all sides in just a few seconds and handed the cube to Evan.

Evan shuffled the cube he had been handed and handed it back to Nihil. However, no matter how hard he shuffled it, the cube was put back together in a matter of seconds and returned to his hand.

“……Salt, should we do something else instead of this?”

“huh.”

Evan, who had been shuffling the cubes endlessly, decided that he couldn’t do it anymore, so he threw the cubes down and started walking around the room again looking for toys while holding Nihil. There were several strategic board games like chess, but he didn’t know how to play them, so he skipped them.

Almond something or other 2-year-old sleeping with his belly turned over in front of him… no, there was a puppy so I thought about giving it to him to hold, but seeing Nihil tormenting his cheek and hair at the same time as snatching the cube away from him, I quickly passed over it because I thought I would have to witness animal abuse if I did wrong.

‘… No, isn’t that already animal abuse?’

The guy always called himself ‘Puppy’, so it was already like abusing the puppy. The puppy was now in danger of losing all his hair and his cheeks sagging.

“Hey, don’t bully the dog.”

“…….”

Nihil, who was about to pull out his hair, stopped his actions and stared blankly at Evan, pretending to be serious.

This made it clear that the guy really did recognize himself as a ‘dog’.

The cat, not wanting to bother the puppy, went down from Evan’s arms and picked up the cube that Evan had thrown away. He then continued to repeat the process of putting the cube together and reshuffling it.

Evan felt a sense of relief that he was free from Nihil, but as he watched Nihil repeat the same actions for dozens of minutes, he began to feel worried.

It was already well past midnight, so it was eerie and pitiful to see him alone in a dark room with only one candle lit, solving the cube. Furthermore, perhaps because he did not want to bother ‘Puppy’, he did not come near to him or bother him anymore.

“Hey, you little squirrel.”

“……huh.”

Perhaps because I was so focused on the cube, my answers were now coming out slowly.

“You go to sleep now. It’s too late. Look, it’s past 1 o’clock.”

“…….”

“A good cat goes to bed early. Even considering that you’re not a good cat, shouldn’t you be in bed by midnight?”

“…….”

“A wildcat?”

When there was no response to his joke, Evan cautiously called Nihil again. After a long while, a muffled ‘yes’ was finally heard. Then, the snow-white head that had been standing upright slumped forward, and the cube in his hand fell to the floor with a clatter.

“You, you why are you doing that…….”

Evan, who reflexively supported Nihil’s head, quickly checked Nihil’s condition. The slightly unfocused guy raised his hand again and began stroking Evan’s cheek as soon as he saw him.

In the meantime, my hair was grabbed again, but my hands were so weak that it didn’t seem like the hair would be pulled out.

“……?”

Evan opened his mouth cautiously, thinking, “Surely not.”

“Are you sleepy…?”

Knock knock. Knock knock.

There was no answer, and only the sleepy eyes slowly closed and opened repeatedly.

Evan laughed in vain because it was so absurd.

“No, if you’re sleepy, go to sleep!”

“…….”

“Surely not, you’re not a newborn… Are you trying to infiltrate the veterinary clinic…?”

If this was a sleepwalking, it wouldn’t be good. Of course, it’s fortunate that it wasn’t a side effect of receiving the ‘fruit’ instead, but if the bullying up until now was simply due to sleepwalking, isn’t it too unfair?

This way, I couldn’t get revenge for the plucked hair.

“First of all…, grow up.”

As Evan said that, he tried to lay Nihil down on the bed. But for some reason, Nihil held on to Evan’s clothes tightly and wouldn’t let go.

“Hey, hey, your clothes are stretching.”

“……no.”

“I don’t know what that means. Grow up quickly.”

“no.”

“This is driving me crazy.”

“huh.”

“…….”

What the heck. Are you just going crazy? Surely I’m not going to have to fight with this guy like this all night?

“Why aren’t you sleeping?”

“…….”

“Just say what you really want to say.”

“…….”

“Grow up, please!”

“later.”

“Later, when.”

“……1 o’clock, 27 minutes.”

1:27? What is this specific time?

Evan quickly looked at his watch. It was exactly 1:07, so there were still twenty minutes left.

“Are you sleeping at 27 minutes?”

“……huh.”

“ha…….”

Evan had no choice but to be a toy for the remaining twenty minutes. His half-curly hair had become a new nest from all the playing with it. It was so fluffy that a bird could mistake it for a nest and fly in.

Even while he was tormenting himself like that, the guy dozed off several times, and it was so pitiful that he kept waking up.

“Salt cat, it’s time. Go to sleep now.”

Evan put Nihil on the bed as soon as the 27 minutes were up. But as soon as he laid down, he got up again and tried to touch the prince, so Evan slapped the back of his hand.

“You said you were sleeping. Stop bothering the prince and go to sleep quickly.”

Nihil looked at the back of my hand, which was slightly red, and then at Evan’s face, then turned his head back to Rianus, kissed his nose, and fell asleep.

Evan, who was caught in the act of a surprise kiss, stood there dumbfounded until he realized what was happening and his face distorted.

“…Damn, you son of a bitch.”

***

Shit, shit.

Rianus woke up and thought, is it dawn or evening? He couldn’t remember clearly, but he had taken a nap shortly after his violin lesson, so it was most likely evening. But why did it feel like dawn?

Lianus wasn’t hungry, but he got up because he felt the need to prepare dinner for his friend, who was sleeping soundly right next to him.

It was a sad thing to say to Nihil, but whenever I saw him sleeping, I always felt the urge to wake him up. It was because I felt like he would fall asleep forever if I didn’t wake him up.

As Lianus stirred, a large figure rose from the sofa. It was Evan, who had been napping.

“Sir Evan.”

“Have you coughed, Your Majesty?”

“Yeah, but why is your hair like that?”

Lianus asked tremblingly, looking at Evan’s head that was turned into a magpie’s nest. Evan glared at Nihil, who was sleeping soundly, then said it was nothing and banged the hot stone on the kettle to warm it up.

Next to the kettle, there was a tool that seemed to be intended to make it easier to heat it up, with hot stones attached to the ends of tongs, but it looked a bit sloppy with them attached crookedly and haphazardly, and he wanted to try to heat it up himself without the help of a tool, so he made this attempt.

But after laughing at the flimsy-looking tool for a moment, Evan realized that Nihil was amazing and had no choice but to borrow the tool’s power, leaving him with only a hurt heart.

The kettle quickly became steaming hot.

“The hot seat is comfortable.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

Rianus stared blankly at the boiling tea and then asked Evan.

“Sir Evan, what time is it now?”

“It’s only 5 o’clock. You can sleep a little longer.”

“dinner……?”

“No. It’s dawn.”

“How much did I sleep?”

“You slept for about 13 hours. Don’t you remember waking up in the middle of the night, eating dinner, and taking your medicine?”

“Uh… I don’t remember.”

Evan continued talking as he got out of the car.

“Your fever has been going up and down all night. Even if you’re not sick, your condition probably isn’t very good.”

“okay?”

Lianus accepted the cup of tea Evan handed him and placed his hand on his forehead. He himself could not tell if he had a fever. So he just sipped the tea, but it tasted strange, so he furrowed one eyebrow.

“Sir Evan, is this a medicine?”

“Huh? No, it’s just regular black tea.”

“…….”

“Why are you doing that?”

“…Next time, I’ll take care of us.”

Lianus thought, My knights are really strong and cool, but they really can’t get off the car.

“…Is it serious?”

Evan muttered, looking embarrassed, “The cat just drank it.” Now that he thought about it, he was a guy who would just eat coal cookies, so there was no way he would taste bad after drinking a little badly brewed tea.

“What about the morning swordsmanship class?”

“Hmm……”

Normally, Lianus would have said he would go to class without hesitation, but he soon shook his head at the thought that Nihil might still be receiving his ‘subject’.

“I’m going to skip swordsmanship lessons. I’m not sick, so I’m not sure what my physical condition is.”

“Good idea. Are you going to have your afternoon classes as usual?”

“Yeah. Do that.”

“Well then, I’ll leave for a moment. Should I call the servants?”

“No. It’s okay. Go. While you’re at it…, um, take care of your hair…”

“……yes.”

Evan left the room, awkwardly pressing his disheveled hair with his palm.

Lianus drank all the not-so-tasty black tea and fell back down next to Nihil. His friend was also sleeping soundly, so he thought about sleeping more, but he was wide awake, perhaps because he had slept too much.

Lianus poked Nihil’s cheek, touched his pure white hair and eyelashes, and examined his palm where the wound had healed cleanly. Then, when he heard a squeaking sound from somewhere, he turned his head and saw ‘Robert Louis de Armond II’ crying.