How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 140



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Episode 140

“…….”

“…….”

A second silence fell in the bedroom. Evan pinched his cheek to see if it was a dream. It hurt.

Lianus offered his opinion cautiously.

“…Could it be that the Cat Tribe had an infectious agent that we didn’t know about?”

“Myaaaaaaaong……”

Bella, who had been scolded by Evan and turned into a cat, raised her two front paws and cried timidly.

“I’ve never heard of any of the Suin races having such abilities. Above all, you’ve already confirmed that it’s not true.”

“…yes.”

Lianus glanced at Kara, who was sitting there looking a little gloomy. Right after Nihil’s ears grew, Kara had said she wanted cat ears too, and clung to Bella and kissed her repeatedly, but Kara’s ears never grew.

Noah, who thought that Nihil was a fairy, was not very surprised and presented his argument.

“Could it be that he was a cat person from the beginning?”

“…But, Sir Bella doesn’t have ears when she’s in human form…….”

At those words, Bella transformed into a human form, raised her hand, and spoke.

“Juveniles of the Suin tribe often cannot hide their ears and tails!”

“Is that so?”

“Yes! I did that when I was little too!”

Bella looked very angry, as if she knew that she was the cause of this situation.

“Haha… but what excuse should I give to my friend?”

“…….”

Carus’ question once again left Rian speechless. Wasn’t it too shameless to explain it like this: “I was playing a play with a sleeping person and kissed him, and his hair color changed…”

It was actually shameless, but… I wanted to explain the situation in a less shameless way.

“Will Neil be angry?”

“…Are you talking about kissing a sleeping person?”

“I don’t think you’ll get mad if I say it like that…….”

If it were my friend, I would have just said ‘okay’ and let it go, but the problem was that his hair color had changed and he had ears.

If they were originally Cats, then their true identity, which they had been hiding on purpose, was revealed without their permission. If not, then something had happened to Nihil, so neither of these were good signs.

“What if it’s a bad influence on Neil? Can we turn it back to the way it was?”

At that moment, Nihil’s eyelids slowly rose. Everyone was looking at Nihil, so they all rushed in.

Lianus flinched when he saw that the black eyes he usually saw had turned cyan, but he soon pretended as if nothing had happened and called out to Nihil.

“Neil.”

“…Rian.”

“Can you hear me?”

“…huh.”

Although his reaction was a little delayed, perhaps because he was still half asleep, Lianus smiled brightly at the mention of hearing it.

But the moment I was about to open my mouth to say that I was truly fortunate,

“But… I hear something else too.”

“…….”

“…Why?”

Everyone except Kara flinched at those words.

Nihil rolled his eyes slightly and looked around. The wind spirits were passing by in front of his eyes. The chattering was a bonus. Since he had not opened his eyes, this must mean that he had become one with them.

Nihil fiddled with his hair that had turned cyan, then looked at the girl he had never seen before in Karus’ arms. Judging by the spirits swarming around her, she seemed like a suitable candidate.

“It’s you……”

The culprit.

“Huh? Kara didn’t do anything!”

“ha…….”

As Nihil sighed openly while washing his face dry without answering, the heads around him flinched.

“…I shouldn’t have fallen asleep…….”

It was a kind of instinct. A survival instinct to try to survive by blending in with the surroundings.

‘There’s no way you would feed a sleeping person a baby’s blood… … .’

“The Winter Princess became the Spring Princess, and then… Woofwoof!”

Kara was speaking brightly when Karus silenced her.

Nihil touched his forehead. Judging from the mention of the princess, he must have been playing the role of the sleeping princess. He woke up from a good night’s sleep and his body was completely recovered, but his head felt throbbing from the unexpected situation.

Thump, thump-.

“……?”

In the silence, a knocking sound echoed.

Nihil tilted his head to the side to see what was going on. Beside him, something like a cyan, fluffy rope was moving violently, tapping the bed.

“…What is this again….”

“…….”

“…….”

“…A hairy earthworm…?”

As Nihil questioned, the thing that had been swinging wildly on the bed began to move slowly from side to side. Nihil wondered what kind of creature it was and snatched it up with a thud.

And then I realized, this is up to me.

“…….”

Nihil carefully raised his hand and felt for my head in the heavy silence. Something triangular and round was caught in his hand on either side of my head.

Bella rolled her eyes at the sight, noticed it, then quickly transformed into a cat and went under the bed.

Nihil sat there blankly for a while before blurting out a word.

“…I guess I’ll go back.”

Then I pulled the blanket up and covered my head with it and lay down again. I hadn’t had a dream recently, but I hoped it was a dream.

“…….”

“…….”

They were both aware of each other’s attempts to escape reality. In the midst of all this, the tail was twirling around without a second thought until it was caught by its owner and dragged under the blanket.

Evan felt the urge to grab the soft-looking tail, but soon held back and asked quietly.

“…Are you okay?”

“…….”

Nihil didn’t respond and thought about it in his blanket. How should I let this go? To show this to not one, but eight people. It was even more difficult because he had become one with two, not one.

‘The only good thing is that no one seems to think much of it… ‘

But I had no idea how things would change the moment I questioned my existence.

In this case, you have no choice but to either tell someone about yourself and wait for their memories to be erased, or leave until they completely forget you, or continue to act ignorant as if it were not your power…

It would be best to completely erase their memories, but there was no guarantee that all eight would accept having their memories erased like they did when they were puppies. And if even one of them harbored hostility, that hostility would spread to the others.

It took Lianus a while to use the second method. If I leave like this, I’ll cry a lot. Even that memory will be erased later… I didn’t feel like it.

In the end, the only choice was to cry.

Nihil thought for a moment, then got up from his bed, covering himself with the blanket.

“Huh, huh? Neil, where are you?”

“…my room.”

Nihil walked with the blanket over his head, thinking that he should at least return his appearance to its original state. The wind spirit clearly had a conflicting nature, so he could return it by offsetting it. He could just cut off its ears and tail. It would leave a scar, but as time goes by and the fairy tale naturally unfolds, it will disappear as if it had never existed in the first place.

As I thought that, I reached out from under the blanket and tried to turn the doorknob, but Rian ran up to me and grabbed me tightly.

“You, Neil, it was my fault… Don’t go.”

“Rian, I’m not going anywhere. I’m in the room across the street.”

“Oh, I’m sorry I couldn’t protect your chastity… ”

“Where did you hear that……”

Nihil secretly touched his forehead. How did the topic become so blurred? Meanwhile, the little child in Karus’ arms was shouting something like, ‘Kara was wrong, so Kara will take responsibility!’

“No, Neil, Kara is still a baby, I’ll take responsibility for her!”

Lianus quickly added his sincere apology, fearing that Nihil, who loved children, would quickly follow Kara.

This is already the second time after the little one. It is not easy to protect my close friend. I don’t know why there are so many people in the world who are after my close friend.

But to Nihil, both the 7-year-old and the 5-year-old were just lumps of flesh, so Nihil felt a little uneasy.

“Rian, I’m not mad. I’ll be back soon. This is…, actually, the power of a magic tool.”

Nihil muttered anything to soothe Lianus, who was holding onto the blanket tightly. Anything that sounded plausible would do.

“Oh, oh? Is there something like that?”

“…Yeah. This time when we went to Shaton, I was worried that you kept covering one eye, so I made it as a test…, but when it didn’t activate, I thought it had failed. I didn’t know it would activate while you were sleeping.”

“That’s it!”

“I don’t know because I’m sleeping…, but do you know what the activation condition was?”

“Uh…, huh? Th, that’s….”

As Nihil asked, pretending not to know anything, he felt the outside of the blanket become quiet. In the meantime, Kara seemed to be trying to open her mouth again, and all he could hear was the sound of ‘Woooow!’

“I, I, I, I don’t know. I, I’m sorry……”

“…….”

How can someone so incapable of lying?

Nihil decided to just pretend not to know.

“I see. But this is a one-time thing…, so I’ll have to make it again. That…, I used the magic stone without saying anything…, I’m sorry.”

“No, no! You can use as much as you want. I’ll try to get more if I need them. Since the magic stones are managed by the magic tower, I won’t be able to get many though… ”

“Um…, yes, Rian. It shouldn’t be known that I can make magical tools….”

Nihil said that and lifted the blanket and peeked his head out. Then he furrowed his eyebrows and lowered his eyes.

“If it becomes known that an outsider to the Magic Tower created such a magical tool, I will be dragged to the Magic Tower……”

“……!”

“Then…, I can’t be with you anymore….”

“!!!!”

“First, I’ll release the magic tool’s effect and come back. I don’t know if it’ll work… or not.”

Nihil said that and, without waiting for an answer, he covered himself with the blanket again and left the bedroom. As soon as he closed the door, he could hear Rianus’s mouth enthusiastically shutting it from the other side.

He even called out Frederick, who had been hiding in the shadows, and gave a speech urging him to keep the secret.

However, as if the means of intimidation was not very effective, he started shouting, “If you don’t keep the secret…, if you don’t…!” and then started sobbing and appealing to his emotions, saying, “You have to keep the secret….”

‘I guess this will do.’

There was no need to keep secrets. It was enough to just remind him that this situation was not due to his ability, but rather the ‘misactivation of a magic tool’.

‘But I have to show you that I can make real magic tools.’

Nihil sighed secretly at the increasing workload. He went straight to his room and took the magic stone that was stuck in the bathroom, and then he heard the spirits complaining.

(Huh? Huh? I shouldn’t use that?)

(No! No magic!)

(I want to sign a contract with him.)

(I was the first to pick this one!)

“…….”

In order to counteract the wind, I had to first change the magic stone to fire attribute.

(No way, you idiot!)

A spirit grabbed my hair. Spirits flew by before my eyes.

Nihil only fixed his gaze on the magic stone. It was not easy to pretend not to see what he saw and not to hear what he heard. Now that he had become one with the suitable person, he could talk to the spirits and they would not attack him, but instead, he would be annoying and ask to play with him.

After erasing the spell engraved on the magic stone and carving runes symbolizing the sun and fire, he waited for the magic stone’s attribute to change from ‘nothingness’ to ‘fire’.

I heard the spirits complaining, but I ignored them and absorbed the fire attribute magic power little by little. No, it might be more accurate to say ‘accept’ rather than ‘absorb’. After all, assimilation was a natural phenomenon for me.

The heat in my body quickly rose and then subsided. When I opened my eyes, I saw that my hair had returned to its white color.

“after…….”

Nihil ran his hand through his hair. He was tired from suppressing the fairy tale, but he had no time to rest. He had to take care of the ears and tail, too.

I thought it might hurt a lot, but its tail curled up between its legs as if it was scared. It was so unpleasant to see it express its feelings that I grimaced, and its tail swung its tail fiercely in the air as if it were expressing those feelings as well.

“This is annoying.”

I grabbed the fluffy thing that was waving in the air, thinking that I should get rid of the tail before the ears. And the moment I was about to swing the dagger down,

Bam-

“Salt, you still have a long way to go……”

“……!”

“…….”

Silence fell.