How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 164



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Episode 164

“It was common to be made to wait for hours before class, and it was not uncommon to have tea spilled on you or your skirt ripped. But…, after listening to other teachers, I realized that this only happened to me.”

How could you treat this old man so badly? The old woman said this, continuing to shed tears.

“Oh my goodness, ma’am. How upset you must be…….”

The queen became very upset, then came down from the stage and comforted her herself.

“I’m sorry. I made a needless request and caused you trouble.”

“No… no. How can Your Majesty apologize for my lack of ability? I am simply ashamed for not being able to properly carry out the duties assigned to me.”

Some people looked at the old lady with pity at the disgusting performance. The attendants were also seen whispering among themselves.

‘I guess I’m going to start something really extreme.’

As Sedes opened his eyes and looked at her, his son’s friend moved.

The boy took a piece of paper out of his bosom and handed it to Madame Sarette.

“……?”

I looked at her suspiciously, wondering if she had written a letter of apology, but the faces of Madame Sarette and the queen hardened as they read it.

‘What on earth is it about… … .’

Sedes also became curious and looked closely, and saw the curious young Marquis approaching him from behind and craning his neck.

That must be the spirit of youth.

“Phew…!”

But after checking the contents, the author started to laugh out loud, even covering his mouth.

“…What is it?”

Finally, unable to contain his curiosity, he asked, and after mumbling for a while, Karus took a deep breath and answered with difficulty.

“Hey, what’s the… bill?”

“……?”

“Three broken teacups, a broken table, a vase, a stained leather sofa and a torn robe… five torn robes? Oh, and you will especially waive the laundry fee! What a merciful bill this is!”

“…….”

Nihil confidently extended his hand towards Sarette.

Give me the money.

“Whoa, whaaa, whaaa!”

Carus laughed so hard he almost rolled on the floor.

“Friend, you really live up to your nickname! Oh, did you know that we have the same nickname? I’m so honored!”

Nihil’s eyebrows rose at those words. He couldn’t agree. He had acted within the bounds of common sense. He was definitely not a idiot like Karus.

“Friend, would you like some pocket money?”

But I didn’t refuse the gold coins that were offered to me. The more money the better.

Karus laughed again as he quickly received the gold coin.

Nihil ignored him and put the gold coins in his bosom. Gold coins as allowance for children? He must have been generous as a nobleman.

“…Marquise Francesca, please keep your dignity.”

The queen pointed to Karus, and looked down at Nihil. Her red eyes glowed ominously, but Nihil ignored it and reached out to the old woman again.

Because allowance is allowance and compensation is compensation.

“…Why should I pay for what you ruined?”

She looked flustered and couldn’t meet his eyes properly. She probably didn’t think she would come out like this. There was no prince in the class, and since the child couldn’t speak, she probably thought she couldn’t refute him.

“Please pay me back immediately, ma’am.”

As Karus smirked, Sarette’s face distorted.

“Marquise Francesca, why are you taking the child’s side so often? Surely you are not possessed?”

“You’re crazy. Then why aren’t you crazy, Madam?”

How cute! Karus lifted Nihil up and rubbed his face against it.

The young marquis had a peculiar behavior even on a regular basis, so everyone just stared at him with squinted eyes, but no one tried to stop him.

Nihil pushed away Karus’s face, which was being thrust at him, and used sign language to convey to the father, “I would like to apologize, so I will move for a moment.” However, his eyes were filled with doubt, as if he did not understand.

“I want to apologize to my wife. Well, I’m embarrassed, so I want to be alone with her.”

Sedes nodded as Karus conveyed the meaning on his behalf.

“Yes. If there is a misunderstanding, it would be best to resolve it through dialogue.”

As soon as permission was given, the boy grabbed Madame Sarette’s sleeve and pulled hard. The lady looked embarrassed, but she couldn’t stand the gaze of others and eventually followed him.

Clank, the door closed.

“I’m glad that I can see the growth of the princes like this.”

Sedes stared at the door for a moment, then focused his attention on organizing the mess.

Time passed quickly as we thanked the teachers for their hard work and talked about our future academic plans.

‘I think it wouldn’t be strange to disband at this point.’

“Well then, that’s it……”

I was trying to leave the meeting naturally before we could talk about my son’s friend any more.

“Gyaaaahhhhh-!”

A shrill scream was heard from the hallway.

***

“That kid, when I didn’t do what he wanted, he suddenly started breaking glass and started harming himself!”

At those words, the murmuring grew louder.

“When I tried to stop him, he started swinging a shard of glass and threatening me!”

Now, look! Madame Sarette cried out, holding up her bruised palm.

“You won’t believe me! He never acted like this in front of other teachers. But look at that scary child, bleeding profusely but with no change in expression. How can you call that a human child? He must be a devil… He must be a devil!”

At that moment, an administrator opened his mouth and put on his glasses. He was a representative from among the teachers teaching finance.

“They say that if a child is born with a brain abnormality, they do not hesitate to commit cruel acts. They do not realize that it is wrong. Such children have a low level of empathy and are known to be particularly smart.”

As he said that, he continued speaking while pushing Nihil’s evaluation report into his hand.

“If you look, you can see that his grades are very good even though he has not been educated for very long.”

“There may be some educational background.”

Sedes defended his son’s friend, but he also wondered why he had to be like this.

There must have been something prepared, but my son’s friend just quietly watched the situation unfold.

When my second son saw his friend get hurt, he cried at first and then started jumping up and down, but after I told him something, he started to quietly stick close to his friend.

“Of course that’s possible. But given the lack of emotion, it doesn’t seem ordinary.”

“I don’t agree with the statement that he lacks emotions.”

Lianus, who had been quiet, pouts and responds grumpily.

“My best friend is quite emotional, although he doesn’t get angry easily.”

In particular, it’s a problem because I empathize with other people’s pain too well.

Rianus grumbled and hid behind Nihil again. Then he saw Nihil’s hand, which was round and wrapped in bandages, and his face became sad again.

“It’s strange that the second prince is defending that child like that. That demon must have possessed the prince through evil means.”

“Huh, if I had that kind of ability, I would have even bewitched my wife. It wouldn’t have been like this.”

“…Second Prince, why do you keep interrupting when the adults are talking?”

Queen Helia opened her mouth in a whisper as she watched Lianus interjecting and talking back.

“This is for the second prince. Behave well.”

“If I don’t defend my friend, who will? Madame Sarette is a liar.”

“A liar? Hasn’t that child’s violence and hypocrisy already been captured on video?”

“I could barely hear the sound.”

“…Second Prince, I sent you personally.”

At those words, Rian finally got upset and shouted.

“Aren’t you the one whom His Majesty personally sent to harass my friend?”

“Watch your tongue, Prince! Where on earth did you raise your voice from?”

The queen raised her voice in response and bit her lips as if in pain.

“Madame Sarette is the nanny who raised me.”

“……!”

Even Rianus couldn’t help but be surprised at those words. How could he possibly send a nanny to me? What on earth was his intention?

“I felt so bad for you growing up without a nanny, so I sent my beloved one away, but I never thought you would come back like this.”

“…….”

Lianus was so dumbfounded that he was speechless.

“Just as the second prince cherishes his son, I cherish my person too. Respect him properly.”

Helia said this and then elegantly spun around and opened her mouth to face Sedes.

“Your Majesty, Madame Sarette is an educated woman of both intelligence and dignity.”

“…What do you want to say?”

“No matter what, would you send someone to harass that little child?”

“…Can you take responsibility for those words?”

The queen’s eyebrows twitched slightly at the question of ‘responsibility’, but she soon smiled and answered.

“Yes, that’s right. So…….”

“and…….”

As she continued speaking, she heard someone sigh softly.

Helia turned around to reprimand the outrageous thing, but strangely enough, everyone was looking at Baedong.

“……!”

Baedong, who had been expressionless, was playing with the second prince, who was smiling brightly and had pouty lips.

He already had an eye-catching appearance, but when he smiled, I couldn’t look away.

Helia also stared blankly at the sight and then suddenly shouted.

“What are you doing now!”

When I shouted, Baedong looked up in surprise.

“Aren’t you getting scolded right now? No matter how much I educate you, there’s no progress!”

At those words, Baedong seemed to notice her for a moment, then took out his pocket and approached her.

“…Are you unemployed?”

Baedong searched through his pockets for a while and then took out something. It was a small jewel.

“……?”

When Helia refused to accept the jewel because she couldn’t figure out his intentions, Baedong tilted his head and searched his pockets again.

But, as he couldn’t find what he was looking for, he sat down on the seat and turned over his pockets.

The things in my pockets came pouring out.

A pressed, somewhat messy bookmark, a rough and tangled bracelet, a glass bottle with a dented flower in it, an origami cat, shiny rocks, jewels of various colors, a gold coin that was supposedly received from the Marquise de Francesca earlier, etc.

The boy put some of them back in and looked up at the queen as if offering her to choose.

“What the heck is this…!”

“stop.”

Sedes raised his hand to stop the queen and pointed to the boy rolling past her.

“Bring that.”

It was a modification.

***

-So what are you trying to say? Do you want to complain about the injustice?

-… … .

-Do you think anyone will believe you no matter how much you say no?

Oh, I can’t even say that. She snorted as she said that, then tore up the bill the child had written himself.

-Living in a palace makes you feel like you’ve achieved something, but that doesn’t mean your lowly blood will go anywhere… That’s… …?

The proud woman closed her mouth when the child took something out of his pocket and held it out to her.

The child pointed once at the glass marbles and once at the torn bill.

Sarette’s face hardened for a moment. But soon she smiled and snatched the glass marble from the child’s hand, throwing it with all her might to the floor.

There was a sharp sound of glass breaking, and some of the pieces flew around.

Okay.

The child looked up, staring at the shards of glass crushed by her shoes. Sarette looked down at her, grinning as if she found it extremely funny.

-Oh, it’s broken. You should have taken good care of something so valuable.

-… … .

-I don’t know how you managed to get hold of the precious video sphere, but… What should I do now? There’s nothing left to prove your innocence.

-… … .

-They say he’s the second prince’s best friend, but he’s just as stupid. Well, it’s probably more fun when people of the same level play together.

There was a sarcastic voice, but the child just picked up the glass shards with a slightly sad expression.

And then,

A shoe slammed into the hand of the child who was picking up the glass.