How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 147



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Episode 147

Evan gently soothed and lifted Lianus from the bed, who was squirming.

“Your Majesty, you must wake up now. You must go to swordsmanship class.”

“I don’t want to go……”

“…Does anything hurt?”

“No… I just… I don’t want to go.”

Lianus lifted his head slightly and buried his face in the pillow again. He had forgotten about it, but then he remembered that he had lost to his brother in swordsmanship class the day before yesterday.

Normally, I wouldn’t have cared, but when I thought about my close friend who nodded without a moment’s hesitation when asked if I had eaten, I suddenly didn’t want to go.

Meanwhile, my close friend was sleeping soundly next to me.

‘Neil is an idiot… … .’

“Your Majesty, has something happened to you?”

Evan was puzzled, as Lianus had never shown any intention of skipping class like this before, and he gently tried to appease his master. Perhaps something had happened during fencing class the day he went out.

“…No. Nothing happened…….”

“Just tell me. Maybe I can help you.”

At those words, the cute kitten’s head rose. The kitten pulled the teddy bear Pupu next to it and hugged it tightly before opening its mouth little by little.

“Yeah… Even Sir Evan saw it and ate it…?”

“What are you saying…?”

“…My…, swordsmanship….”

“…! What kind of kid said something like that! Could it be that the Duke said that?!”

Evan looked furious as if he was about to challenge the Duke, the only master in the kingdom, to a duel at any moment.

“I’ll ask right now…!”

“No… the Duke didn’t say anything.”

In the first place, the Duke didn’t even look at it properly…

Lianus felt even more depressed and hugged Pupu tightly. Then he saw Popo alone. Since Nihil didn’t sleep with Popo in his arms, he thought he should hug him instead, so he brought Popo along.

“Then, surely it was that little snake, no, the first prince who did it?!”

“…Huh? No, no. Actually, Neil….”

“Hey you little punk! Why don’t you get up right now!!”

Evan, realizing that the cause of the kitten’s depression was the sleeping lynx right next to him, grabbed Nihil by the collar and shook him.

“Ah, Sir Evan, don’t do that! Neil just nods…!”

“Wake up, you sleepyhead!”

The kitten next to him tried to stop him, but the puppy, whose eyes had already rolled away, didn’t hear him.

After shaking him a few more times, his white eyebrows furrowed slightly and arrogant eyes appeared. The guy crossed his arms and tilted his head arrogantly, even though he was dangling in the air with his collar held.

“What is it?”

“You, you, did you tell our prince that you ate a lot of glucagon?”

“When did I.”

The wildcat pretended not to notice, glanced at his watch, and asked our little kitten, who was holding Pupu and Popo tightly.

“Rian, aren’t you going to swordsmanship class?”

“…Not really…, I don’t want to go.”

“Yeah. Good idea.”

“……!”

At the cat’s cold answer, our kitten’s face distorted as if it was about to cry at any moment. But it was so heartbreaking to see it holding back its tears, as if it didn’t want to cry.

“What are you talking about?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Why, why are you telling me not to go!”

“That Duke didn’t even teach me anything.”

“Of course, that’s true, but…!”

“It’s a waste of time. How can you neglect something like that and call it a class? Are you even thinking of anything? It would be better for you to teach it yourself.”

“……!”

Evan’s eyes widened, but soon his expression sank.

“…How can I claim to be the prince’s teacher….”

Even if a commoner like me were to teach the prince, his reputation would only fall further. Furthermore, since I had not undergone formal training like the apprentice knights, but had entered the knighthood only through force, I could have easily taught the prince incorrect knowledge of swordsmanship.

Nihil glanced at Evan, who looked slightly depressed, then twisted his body slightly and jumped out of his hands.

“Rian, let’s go watch the knights train.”

“Sniff…, huh…?”

Lianus, who had been wiping tears from Popo’s large ears, raised his head in bewilderment.

“Get ready.”

“……?”

***

Lianus was led by his best friend to the knights’ training grounds. However, his best friend was wrapped tightly in robes to hide his ears and tail, and he didn’t even make a sound, so in the end, he was the one who had to do something.

“Your Majesty, what is the matter?”

While everyone else was wary of his ‘curse’ and did not approach him, only Sir Ernest approached me and spoke to me. Rianus hesitated, not knowing what to say, and then simply repeated what his friend had said.

“…Can I observe the training of the Knights?”

“You can observe the swordsmanship class right now… no, you can observe it. We’ll arrange a seat for you soon.”

Walter quickly changed the subject, thinking that the young Second Prince was disheartened by his defeat to the First Prince in the previous duel.

“Ah, I see. I just want you to think of me as someone who doesn’t exist and train with me.”

“…Then…, I understand. Make yourself comfortable and go.”

Walter gathered the knights, leaving behind a slightly sullen looking Lianus. After a short break, the knights began their morning training.

Although some of the knights showed signs of discomfort, the prince held his friend’s hand tightly, took a seat in a corner, and just watched silently before leaving.

However, as the prince’s visit, which was expected to end that day, continued the next day and the day after, discontent erupted among some of the knights.

Because of the piling up work, he finished the early morning training briefly and returned to individual training. As expected, some of his subordinates came to question him, but Walter appeased them and sent them away.

“Chief, why does the Second Prince keep coming?”

“…Haa…, Vice-Captain, are you like this too?”

Walter grimaced when even the vice-captain he trusted came out like this.

“Why on earth are you trying to ostracize the young prince? There is no such thing as a curse. Even if there is, seeing as Sir Evan is fine, isn’t it clear that it is not a curse that can be passed on to others?”

“It’s not a curse, it’s just that the gaze is burdensome! At least let me know why you came!”

“What’s so burdensome about just sitting there and leaving?”

“I don’t know, Captain!”

Aaron felt frustrated for no reason and started hitting his chest.

To be honest, I didn’t think much of it on the first day of my observation. No, I was observing, but rather, the ones being observed were the prince and his party. Perhaps it wasn’t just me, but the other knights were also keeping an eye on the prince and his party.

They must have been curious about the ‘Curse of Mana’ that they had only heard about, and they must have been curious about the prince’s intentions in skipping his swordsmanship lessons to observe the knights’ training, but they were also quite curious about the group.

Isn’t it curious to know what kind of person a certain Torai Chin-woo, who is so seriously pretty that he has to cover his face, or the youngest knight who is known for being a commoner and notorious for being shameless, is?

But from the second day onwards, it was different. Aaron shivered as he recalled the prince’s persistent gaze, as if he was looking at prey. He glared at him without blinking, with his expression completely blank, and it gave him goosebumps.

I couldn’t let my guard down throughout the training because of that gaze that never left my face, even when I was drinking water or taking a short break.

“Did you do something wrong to the prince?”

“That’s what I’m asking! What did I do wrong that you’re looking at me like that?”

“He’s such a kind person, if I tell him it’s burdensome, he’ll probably hold back. He’s been through no major incidents so far…….”

“Yeah, I’m cursed! What do I do!!”

“…You came…?”

What does this mean…?

“…….”

“…….”

Walter and Aaron stared blankly at each other for a moment, then left and went outside.

The knights, who should have been training individually, were surrounding the little prince whose arms barely reached his thighs.

The prince grumbled as he heard something, then screamed.

“You, you’re going to move the curse!”

***

“Yaaaaaaah-!”

Evan muttered as he watched the back of the terrifying beast of a kitten chasing the knights, raising both hands in the air to remove the curse.

“…You taught me something really good.”

“Kuhuhuhu……!”

“Don’t laugh, you damn cat.”

But even as Evan spoke, he had to keep his mouth shut to keep himself from laughing. The knights being chased by a kid who only reached up to his thighs. Maybe it was because of their pride, but they couldn’t run far and only backed away or changed direction, but the fact that they felt that hand was threatening was very funny.

While watching the kitten fight back instead of being discouraged, Evan was thinking, ‘I wish my kitten, who is not only cute but also has great learning ability, could chase after me as cutely as that,’ when he saw one of the knights being chased tripping our kitten’s foot.

Chin, chin, chin-.

‘That kid… …!’

At the moment when Evan, who had his eyes rolled back, jumped out at the knight who had crossed the kitten’s legs and was about to shake off all the thorns,

puck-!

“100 million……!”

The first cat to jump out kicked the knight’s shin with all its might.

“Sniff, Neil…….”

The lynx quickly picked up the kitten, who was shedding tears, with one arm and tried to comfort it, while he slapped the knight’s face, who was groaning in pain. It didn’t look like it was in pain at all, but it was a hand movement that made him very angry.

“This, this damn brat…!”

The knight swung his hand wildly, but the cat dodged his touch with ease and ran back to Evan, holding the kitten in his arms.

Evan immediately tried to pick up the kitten, but for some reason the cat didn’t hand the kitten over and gestured towards the center of the arena.

“…? what.”

“…….”

“whatever……?”

Evan raised an eyebrow and tilted his head to the side, not understanding the meaning of the nod.

The wildcat also seemed frustrated that he couldn’t understand, so he lifted the cotton thread slightly and opened his mouth.

‘Relax.’

Evan’s eyes widened at those words.

“Can I move now?”

Nod nod.

As Nihil nodded slightly, the dog quickly started to pick a fight with the knight who had tripped him up.

“You’re still childish even at your age, Adolf.”

“This damn brat…!”

“You’re going to get hit by a kid and then whine. Even if a kid hits you, it doesn’t matter how much it hurts.”

Evan pursed his lips as he spoke. He was secretly excited that he could finally have a proper sparring match, but the lynx grabbed the hem of his clothes again.

“…why?”

Dori dori.

“…? You said I can move!?”

Dori dori dori.

Why did you give it to me and then take it away?!