How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 116



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Episode 116

The servants who had gathered, each holding something in their arms, began to speak one by one.

“I brought a book for you to use for pressing.”

“I’ll install the sunshade!”

“Your Majesty, how about drawing a picture?”

“I brought some dessert in case you want to eat it later!”

“I brought cards and board games!”

“Your Majesty! How about the blocks?”

“This is Pupu, the teddy bear that the prince likes!”

“We also have a play set!”

“The weather is nice. How about playing the violin outside?”

The garden became bustling in an instant.

Lianus stared blankly at the servants who had gathered around him and looked slightly excited.

He didn’t even realize he had this many toys. That’s because he hadn’t touched them before Nihil came. Sometimes he just played basic strategy games like chess by himself.

Lianus was about to ask his friend if there was anything he wanted to play with, but then remembered that Nihil never opened his mouth in front of them, and tried to dismiss the servants.

“Your Majesty, do you like dolls?”

Then a maid squatted down in front of Nihil and held out a white rabbit doll.

“I prepared this because I remembered you carrying a prince teddy bear around.”

Nihil took the white rabbit doll and stared at it for a moment before turning his eyes to the maid.

“I sewed it myself, so it’s a little rough, but…….”

It was then that Nihil’s hand went up.

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The maid’s head turned slightly, and a heavy silence descended on the noisy garden. Everyone froze in place at Nihil’s unexpected actions.

The maid who had been slapped asked in a trembling voice, perhaps because of the shock.

“Why, why are you like that……”

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Before she could finish speaking, the maid’s head turned slightly to the other side again.

Rianus grabbed the hem of Nihil’s clothes with trembling hands, feeling so unfamiliar with the sight of Nihil touching someone. Nihil’s head turned to Rianus at that small, timid movement.

Rianus lifted Nihil’s hood slightly to check his eyes. White eyes, not black ones, were staring at Rianus calmly.

‘The eyes when looking at mana… … ‘

Lianus regained his composure. My friend must have seen something and done something like this. Above all, Nihil was so calm that it was hard to believe he had just slapped someone in the face.

“Should I fire you?”

Lianus didn’t ask Nihil why he hit the maid. There must have been a good reason. And above all, it didn’t seem to hurt that much. If Nihil had really hit her hard, the maid’s mouth would have burst open.

The maid flinched at the thoughtless words of dismissal and then looked at Rian with an expression full of betrayal.

“Wow, Prince……”

The maid called out desperately with a face that looked like she was about to cry at any moment, but Lianus did not even look at her and just waited for his friend’s answer.

Nihil glanced at the maid, shook his head, and took something out of his bosom.

It was a dagger.

“But what are you trying to do?”

Evan picked up Nihil, feeling a little nervous when he saw the dagger. He picked up the boy to protect him, not the maid. He didn’t know how the other person would react when they saw the dagger.

Nihil was picked up without warning, but he remained quiet, as if he had no intention of stabbing anyone.

The maid bowed her head to the floor with a trembling voice and apologized again and again.

Nihil poked Evan’s cheek with the hilt of the dagger as if to tell him to put it down. But Evan, who was not particularly impressed, shook his head. Then Nihil started to press Evan’s face with the stuffed rabbit.

“Oh, be quiet.”

Evan, who had received about thirty-seven kisses from the rabbit doll, became nervous and grabbed Nihil’s cheeks with one hand. Then, a reaction appeared from below.

“Don’t bother Neil!”

“Your Majesty, I am the one being bullied…”

“That’s… okay.”

“…….”

“Sir Evan, put Neil down.”

“I don’t know what this guy can do with a stick.”

“If you were going to do something, you would have done it already.”

That was right. If it was him, he could break free from my arms at any moment and kill one or two people with his dagger. The reason he didn’t force himself out of my arms and instead kissed the stuffed rabbit was to show that he was harmless.

Finally, Evan sighed and put Nihil down.

Nihil, who got down from Evan’s arms, lifted the hood slightly with the tip of his dagger, grabbed the maid’s chin, and met her eyes.

“……?”

The maid looked at Nihil as if she was entranced, a little bewildered. She was so intently observing his face that she didn’t realize it until Nihil pulled out his dagger and held it to her neck.

The maid lowered her trembling eyes and looked at the dagger thrust at her neck. The other servants who were watching were surprised and tried to divert Nihil’s attention elsewhere.

“Your Majesty, please put down your sword for now……”

“Yes, that’s right. Your Majesty, if you don’t like the rabbit doll….”

“After all, a doll is a teddy bear!”

“There are lots of other toys here! How about stacking blocks? Aren’t they colorful and pretty?”

“Master, Pupu is crying because he’s scared. Woof~”

“…….”

Nihil glanced at Pupu, who was crying ‘Ueeung’ for a moment, because it was so ridiculous, and then stared quietly into the maid’s trembling eyes. Then he carefully lowered his sword.

Just as the servants were about to sigh in relief at the sight, the direction of the dagger changed and a new hostage was taken.

“……?”

The servants’ faces were filled with doubt. The new hostage, the rabbit doll, drooped its long, pitiful ears in Nihil’s hands. Everyone wondered what was going on, but only the maid was terrified and her face turned pale.

“Now, just a moment, Your Majesty! If you don’t like it, then fix it, no, I will fix it! Please don’t bother the rabbit doll!”

Despite the maid’s earnest request, Nihil threatened even more strongly, crushing the rabbit doll’s face. The maid watched the crushed rabbit doll, worried that it would break.

“Oh, my lord, you should hit me in the face instead!”

The maid knelt down and began to beg, not even realizing that her tone had changed. Nihil stared at her and then opened his mouth toward Rianus.

‘Rian, hand over the servants.’

Lianus nodded to Nihil’s request and opened his mouth to face the servants who were blankly watching the hostage situation while each holding a toy in their arms.

“Everyone, leave this maid behind. If you need anything else, I will call you back.”

“What about the toys?”

“For now…, leave it behind.”

‘Neil might want to play with something over there!’

As the servants all retreated and disappeared from sight, Nihil spoke to the still kneeling maid.

“Who do you belong to?”

“……!”

The maid froze at the sudden question. Evan immediately drew his sword and held the blade to the neck of the kneeling maid.

Nihil opened his mouth again quietly.

“He asked who I belong to.”

The maid broke out in a cold sweat as she looked at the sword with a golden aura shimmering on the back of her neck. Evan also kept his guard up, thinking that the maid might change and attack at any moment.

The maid opened her mouth with difficulty, lowering her head further as she looked down at Nihil, who was quietly looking down at her.

“……Your Majesty’s…, Your Majesty’s affiliated company.”

“…….”

Nihil’s face crumpled. Evan also put away his sword with a subtle expression, but he remained on guard without putting it back in its sheath.

The maid took a deep breath, as if finally she could breathe again. But the next question made her feel as if she was suffocating again.

“Your master told you to test me like this?”

“Huh? Oh, no, that’s not it! It’s a test! It’s, it’s my own opinion! All my fellow knights said they saw you, so I, I was really curious! I’m sorry!”

The maid hit her head against the ground with all her might. Her forehead was slightly torn and blood was showing, but Nihil still maintained a blank expression and opened his mouth coldly.

“What is your relationship with that maid?”

“She’s my, my sister……”

“Your sister will be punished for your petty curiosity.”

“yes?!”

The maid, pale with shock, crawled to her knees and grabbed Nihil’s trouser leg, beginning to plead.

“No, my lord! My, my sister did nothing wrong! Please punish me, please!!”

“I will leave it up to your master to decide what to do with you. Go to your master and tell him everything.”

“I, I begged you while crying! My sister is absolutely innocent. I never intended to harm the prince or the young master! Please, please forgive me!”

“Go back.”

“Your Majesty! Please, please……”

“Do you want to go back after tearing to pieces the rabbit doll your sister made in front of your sister?”

“Ah, no, no. I’m going back now…, ugh!”

Boo-wook, cheol-pu-deok.

The maid, who was about to jump up, stepped on her own skirt and fell back to the ground. The long torn hem of her skirt looked very pitiful.

“…….”

“…….”

Evan’s pride was hurt by the fact that the knight in front of him was stronger than him. Rianus, who was watching, also let out a small sigh.

“……Release the magic and show it to your master in its original state.”

“……yes.”

The maid got up from her seat in a hurry. She tried to brush the dirt off her skirt, but perhaps because she was told to leave it as is, she bowed and disappeared with the dirt still on her.

“…I didn’t mean to tell you to get covered in dirt.”

“…….”

“…….”

Evan put his sword back into its scabbard, his heart full of emptiness.

Only the sound of clicking echoed through the silence.

***

“…….”

Sedes could not understand why his shadow knight was kneeling in his study, wearing a dirty, tattered maid’s uniform.

It was a very funny sight, but the knight’s expression was so serious that I couldn’t even laugh.

“……sorry.”

“Explain….”

“sorry!”

“So what did I do wrong….”

“I’m sorry!!!”

The knight in the maid’s uniform banged his forehead on the floor, making such a loud noise that it seemed as if the office was reverberating.

“My lord, I am the one who did wrong, so I will receive whatever punishment I have to, but please save my sister!”

“……So, if you explain the situation, I will help you.”

“I am…….”

The shadow knight in the maid’s uniform began to explain the situation in detail. She recited every single word of her conversation with Nihil without missing a single word.

“……So please help me so that my sister doesn’t get punished.”

“In short, are you saying that the kid snuck in because he was curious, got caught, and got in trouble?”

“yes.”

“ha…….”

Should I hit you?