How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 145



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Episode 145

“Your Majesty, you must concentrate.”

“Teacher, you’re not paying attention either… Hey. There’s a mistake in the spelling over there.”

When Carus pointed out that Lianus was a bit absent-minded, Lianus immediately pointed out Carus’ mistake.

Carus quickly corrected the mistake, walked over to Lianus, crouched down in front of him, and rested his chin on the desk.

“Your Majesty, are you worried about your friend?”

“…What if Madame Sarette harasses Neil?”

Lianus furrowed his eyebrows as he recalled the old woman’s angry voice bursting out of the drawing room. The queen must have sent a mean and picky witch.

“My friend…, you’ll be fine. To be honest, you’re not the type of person to just take it.”

“…That’s true, but….”

“Or should we just take a quick look? If he’s harassing our friend, let’s rescue him!”

“great!”

Rianus jumped up from his seat. Carus quickly picked Rianus up and carried him down to the first floor.

In front of the reception room where Nihil was, several young servants were gathered and giggling.

As Rianus approached, the servants were surprised and tried to say something, but Rianus quickly put his index finger to his lips and pressed himself against the slightly open reception room door.

“Ahem, you have to be careful about how you walk in the palace. Try walking with this book on your head. Every time you drop the book, you’ll get a spanking.”

At the word “whirlwind,” Lianus bristled, but Nihil nodded and began to walk away with the book on his head.

As Nihil walked steadily around the drawing room with the book resting on his head, Madame Sarette’s expression became subtly frowned.

“…Where are you going at such a slow pace! Try walking faster.”

At Madame Cerete’s ridiculous nagging, Lianus suppressed the urge to fling open the drawing room door.

Unlike me, who is narrow-minded, my friend, who is extremely patient, never complained.

Just actively accept that opinion… … ,

Uda dadada-!

Started running.

“……?!”

Nihil literally stuck a book to his head and walked around the living room. Actually, I wondered if it was right to say that he stuck a book to his head… but that was the only way to describe it.

Karus, who had been watching the scene together, whispered carefully.

“…You’re very talented, my friend. You can even stick a book on your head.”

“…….”

“How come it doesn’t fall off?”

“…I know.”

“Hey, you! Can’t you stand there!”

I could hear my wife’s voice. It seemed like it was a waste to worry about my close friend.

“If an old person gets that feverish, he’ll probably collapse from high blood pressure…….”

Lianus snickered at Karus’s worry that wasn’t really worry. She chased after Nihil, and soon collapsed in her seat, panting.

At that sight, Nihil took off the book he was holding on his head, approached her, and held out his hand. It seemed to be a sort of… respect for the elderly.

…maybe not.

The old woman, who was already angry from what had happened, seemed to be even more angry at Nihil’s actions as she tried to pull on Nihil’s hood.

‘Huh, huh? You shouldn’t pull that!’

It would have been a big deal if those fluffy ears had been revealed, so just as Lianus was about to step forward, a loud scream rang out.

“Hey, you cheap thing! Can’t you let this go?”

Nihil grabbed her by the hair.

She struggled to straighten her back as she fought against Nihil, who was much shorter than her. Nihil was clearly just holding onto her hair, but her struggles caused her neat hair to become disheveled in an instant.

Lianus’ mouth opened wide. It wasn’t just him who found the scene impressive; Sir Ernest, who was silently guarding from a step behind, also had his mouth open wide.

“Ugh, what’s that?”

Karus and the servants who were nearby eventually couldn’t hold back their laughter and started to snicker.

In the end, Madame Sarette suffered so much that she ran away with her hair disheveled.

Nihil, who had defeated her by shaking his head excitedly, was very proud and enjoyed the leisure of a victor with the snacks brought by Karus.

“As expected, Neil is amazing!”

Looking at his friend, Rianus thought to himself that he too had a lot to learn.

***

It was almost midnight and Sir Evan had not returned, but Lianus was going to have Sir Ernest leave work because Sir Frederick was there.

However, he had a strong sense of responsibility and insisted on staying until Sir Evan came back even though he was told he could leave work, and in the end, Nihil was unable to take off his hood and cotton cap until late at night.

Of course, since I couldn’t even make a sound, today was a special day and Rianus decided to read me a storybook.

“…The warrior and the princess forgive the lonely witch and become friends and live happily ever after… Huh, huh? Neil, where are you going?”

Nihil suddenly stood up from his seat while listening to the fairy tale. Then he grabbed the hem of Rianus’s pajamas as if telling him to follow him.

“Huh? Follow me?”

As Nihil took the lead and opened the bedroom door, the pitch-black darkness that had settled in the hallway parted slightly.

Nihil glanced back and forth between the hallway and Rianus, then, as if he didn’t want to bother going to get a lantern, he quickly picked Rianus up in his arms.

Lian asked, his feet dangling naturally.

“Neil, where are you going at this hour?”

“…….”

Nihil didn’t answer and just kept walking. As he was going down the stairs, Walter, who was following him, snatched Rianus away and hugged him.

Nihil didn’t care and took the lead, tugging on Walter’s trouser leg as if signaling him to follow.

Even though it was late at night, strangely enough, there were quite a few employees gathered in the lobby on the first floor, each holding a candle in their hand, chatting away.

And in the center of it all, there was a figure crouching on the floor… … ,

“My…, my cat is missing…….”

“…Sir Evan?”

My knight was sitting there looking for a cat.

“Give me my kitten…….”

“……?”

Lianus wondered what the hell was going on, but he first dismissed the servants for the sake of Sir Evan’s social status.

As I got down from Sir Ernest’s arms and approached my knight, a large hand grabbed me and held me in its arms.

The smell of alcohol wafted in the air.

“Uh… Sir Evan?”

“Ugh, my little kitty.”

“…….”

Lianus rolled his eyes. The knight who had been holding him so tightly that it was almost suffocating finally started crying, looking for the cat.

Lianus wanted to quickly appease him, but he was worried that he would run away if he caught a real cat, so he wondered whether he should call Sir Bella and ask her to pretend to be a cat, but then he saw Nihil running off somewhere.

“Huh? Neil? Where are you?”

My friend ran up the stairs as if he was in a hurry despite being called. Since Rianus was held tightly and couldn’t escape Evan’s embrace, he decided to try to calm Evan down for now.

“Sir Evan, are you okay?”

“I’m sorry……”

“No, what’s there to be sorry about? The floor is cold, so let’s go in.”

“Ugh……”

My knight started to cry uncharacteristically, as if he was so sad. At this point, Rianus began to wonder if alcohol was actually a functional beverage that produced tears.

As I was wiping away the tears running down his cheeks and trying to comfort him, Nihil returned and was walking around Sir Evan with a crystal ball that he couldn’t figure out where it came from. He looked a little excited and nervous, but Lianus focused on comforting his knight.

“Sir Evan, let’s go up first.”

At those words, Evan stood up with a start, holding Lianus in his arms. However, he was having trouble controlling his body and kept staggering, so Walter quickly came over and helped him up.

“Sir Evan, it’s dangerous!” “…Captain…?”

“Yeah, why did you drink so much?”

“Ugh- I’m sorry, Captain……”

“Yeah, it must be your first time going out in a while, so you might as well stay out late. I totally understand. But since there are a lot of people listening, why don’t you go in for now?”

His words were true. Although Lianus had managed to repel the servants who had gathered around him due to the commotion, he was unable to completely silence their voices.

“Captain, you know I really respect you, right~?”

“…Thank you for that, but please stand up straight first.”

Walter put one of Evan’s arms around his neck and tried to straighten his heavy body. Even though he was unable to properly hold his own body, he held Lianus tightly with one arm and did not let go.

“It’s the captain… I mean the gold coin….”

“…? What kind of gold coin are you talking about?”

“Is that it?… The one the manager gave me to take the test on…?”

“…ah.”

“50 um… that’s it…, actually I….”

“Sir Evan, that’s enough. When on earth are we talking about enemies? It’s been over five years already.”

“Don’t do it……”

Despite being told that it was okay, Evan continued to mutter that he was sorry. Walter got upset for no reason and slapped Evan on the back. However, only his hand hurt and his large body did not straighten up.

“Evan! If you need more gold, I’ll give you more, so stand up straight! Don’t be so big with a big head!”

“Hehehe-, it’s been five years since you called me that…….”

“Smile because Moore is good!”

“Ever since I became a knight, you’ve been using honorifics and adding ‘Kyung’ to your address without fail, and it’s so frustrating…”

“…Was that disappointing?”

“Yes……”

Walter felt sorry for no reason and bit his lip tightly.

“Okay, let’s go up.” “We can’t just go… We have to catch that damned lynx…”

“…Did you get into a fight with a stray cat outside?”

“You thieving little cat…, how dare you…, our little kitty…!”

“Evan, I’ll catch the thieving cat, so go inside and rest.”

“Ugh, boss, I said, ‘wildcat, wildcat,’ and it really turned into a wildcat….”

“……?”

“Something white and fluffy has appeared!!”

“…I wonder, what are you talking about…….”

Walter shook his head in incomprehensible mutterings.

Evan hugged Lianus tighter, then started to nod off while standing, and eventually collapsed on the ground.

Lianus couldn’t do anything in his arms, so he decided to just hug him.

“Don’t leave that damn cat alone……”

Walter tried to move Evan, who was whining, but it was not easy to climb the stairs with a man taller than himself, especially while carrying a child.

Evan would rather fall asleep than struggle, muttering nonsense about ‘I have to catch a lynx.’

Eventually, even Frederick, who had been hiding in the shadows, came out and struggled, and only then were they able to move Evan to the bedroom. Frederick, who was moving Evan for the second time, grumbled, his shoulders shaking.

“Ha…, Junior’s drunkenness is no joke. Prince, why did you give the knight’s bedroom on the 4th floor…….”

“But… it’s nice to be close… ugh, Sir Evan, your beard is itchy.”

“My kitten…….”

“…Ha, it’s brave of you to return to the palace.”

Frederick shook his head as he watched Evan rubbing his face against Lianus. Then Walter, who was watching Frederick like that, asked in a trembling voice.

“More than that, Kyung-eun… aren’t you His Majesty’s direct escort knight? Why are you here?”

“Yes, that’s right…, I had some circumstances and decided to stay here for two weeks.”

“……?”

Walter tilted his head slightly as if to ask what was going on, but Evan stopped talking about the cat and started yelling.

“Hey! Why don’t you come here?!”

“Hey, Sir Evan, calm down!”

Nihil, who had been hanging around while holding the crystal ball, was eventually caught by the back of the neck.

Nihil struggled to break free from his grasp, but eventually gave up and slammed the crystal ball into Evan’s face.

Evan muttered, his face pressed against the crystal ball.

“I’m going to die, damn it……”

“…….”

For some reason, Lianus had a feeling that Sir Evan would not like that crystal ball very much.