How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 174



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Episode 174

“Why are you crying so much?”

“Peek?”

“Woof woof, try it.”

“Pok, pok.”

“Woof, woof, that’s what I said.”

“Boom boom!”

After washing up and returning from swordsmanship training, Nihil came face to face with Evan I teaching Evan II how to bark.

“…….”

Nihil quietly stepped back and brought the video footage. He’ll have to show it to the captain later after receiving money from him.

“Okay, follow me. Woof woof.”

“Peek, pee-pee!”

“That’s not it. It’s just woof, woof.”

“Pooooooook?”

“I said it was a dog……”

“Big……”

Nihil, who was watching, couldn’t help but laugh at the puppy’s self-introduction.

“……?!”

Only then did Evan notice Nihil’s presence and he quickly turned around.

“this person……!”

Nihil smirked as he watched Evan’s face turn bright red.

“You said you weren’t my child, but you’re teaching him well.”

“Eww!”

Bam-!

“What, why! What’s going on!”

At the sound of the puppy’s howl, wet seaweed ran out of the bathroom, dripping water.

“Sir Evan! Why are you pulling out your hair? Did Neil tease you again?”

“No, I didn’t.”

“Neil, I told you not to tease me so much. I’ve been seeing Evan’s hair here and there lately. What if he goes bald when he’s still young? There’s no cure for it.”

“That’s because the puppy is shedding its fur. It’s spring.”

“Uh… is that so?”

Evan, momentarily speechless by the naturally flowing conversation, opened his mouth wide and then glanced down at his feet.

A pile of light gray hair was visible on the white rug.

“…….”

Evan just squatted down and started picking at his hair.

I must reflect on myself for shedding so much that our prince noticed it.

“Oh dear, you can’t put that back on.”

“Don’t stick it!”

Evan, feeling upset, irritably tossed the hair he had picked up into Nihil’s face.

Nihil blew away the gray-brown fur that was falling in front of his eyes and looked out the window.

Something was coming.

“Huh……”

“What’s wrong, Neil?”

“Yeah, it’s nothing. I have a cold, so let’s dry my hair quickly.”

“huh!”

When the moist seaweed became soft, the maid Perry came.

“Your Majesty, His Majesty has sent a carriage.”

Nihil sneered as he looked at the letter being handed to him. It was a reddish-brown seal, a letter from the queen.

“You’re doing something stupid.”

Perry’s pupils dilated slightly at the cool tone.

“…Should I send it back?”

Nihil chuckled as he looked at Perry, who was watching him closely, and threw the letter into the fireplace.

“Okay. Lian, I’ll be back for a bit.”

“Are you going alone?”

“Yeah. You have class.”

“but…….”

“No ding-ding.”

After speaking firmly, Nihil took out a few items from the pocket he always carried and put them in another pocket.

A bunch of random things thrown in without any meaning, like jewels, beads, fairy tales or dried flowers.

The things that our little seaweed had made with its small hands were put into the safe.

“Rian, I will put my treasures here. Take good care of them.”

“huh!”

Lianus answered cheerfully, as if it wasn’t strange that Nihil was opening his safe without permission.

“Then I’ll be off……”

Nihil rose from his seat and picked up the crude paper bird that Lianus had folded, its tail feathers looking as if they had been cut off.

“Rian, can you give me this sparrow?”

“That’s a canary!”

“…I see. I was mistaken.”

It was a bit short and round for a canary, but it nodded without saying anything when its owner said so.

“You can take it!”

“Yeah. Thanks.”

After confirming that ownership had been clearly transferred, Nihil held the paper bird in both hands.

And then he secretly wounded her and fed her blood, putting it in his mouth and breathing deeply into it.

For a moment, the air stirred and Nihil’s eyes turned white and then returned.

Nihil furrowed his eyebrows slightly in a subtle discomfort as if something was being taken away from him, then carefully placed the paper bird on the table.

“Huh!? Ow, move!”

The paper bird that had received Nihil’s breath waddled like a newborn and approached Lianus.

Lianus didn’t know what to do, but when Evan II approached him curiously, he quickly reached out his hand and carefully picked up the paper bird.

“Robbie, no! That’s not for eating.”

“Beep!”

Even though Evan II cried as if it was unfair, Lianus shouted, “Even a baby can’t do that!” and held the paper bird.

The paper bird slid up onto Lianus’ head and settled down among his fluffy curls.

“Rian, while I’m gone, take care of the bird. Don’t give it anything to drink or eat.”

“What happens if I give it to you?”

“If you give it to me, I’ll try to eat it even if I can’t. Since it’s paper, it’ll be a problem if it gets dirty or wet. If it does get wet, dry it well so that it doesn’t tear. Well, if it’s a little wrinkled, just straighten it out and it’ll be fine.”

“Yeah. Are you sure you’re okay?”

Nihil reassured Lianus, stroking his head.

“Don’t worry. If anything really happens, I’ll blow it all up.”

“Yeah! Blow them all away!”

Lianus secretly wished that the queen’s palace would explode.

***

Thud, thud, thud.

“…I didn’t mean to, but I still got in trouble…….”

Gulp, gulp. Gulp. Wow-

“…I want to apologize…….”

Ugh, ugh, ugh… … .

“…Stop eating!”

“……!”

When Helia couldn’t hold it in anymore and screamed, the little boy who was about to pick up a macaron with chocolate mousse on the corner of his mouth flinched and raised his head.

Helia felt skeptical at his expressionless yet innocent actions.

No matter how much I thought about it, this didn’t seem right. I guess I should look into the pharmacist side.

The wizard brought the little one because he thought he was more suspicious, but he was just a possessed beggar.

“…? Why are you bringing that up again?”

Then the little boy took a pouch out of his bosom and held it out to me. It seemed as if he was saying, “Don’t nag me, I’ll give it to you.”

‘Can the Second Prince really communicate with something like this…?’

“Oh, Master, let me wipe your hands.”

I was just staring blankly in disbelief, when the little girl tried to lick the cream off my hand but was stopped by the maid.

The little girl went one step further and brought the maid’s hand to her cheek as if asking her to wipe the dirt off her face, and smiled bashfully.

‘… I, I, I want… … .’

I couldn’t tell if he was smart or stupid.

“Stop it, go away.”

Helia, who could not stand to see the maid touching the child’s cheek while reminding him of her face, dismissed all the servants, leaving only one maid.

“Since it seems like we won’t be able to communicate properly anyway, just hurry up and check.”

As he spoke, as if sighing, the wizard chuckled and took out a crystal ball the size of his head.

“Okay, put your hand here.”

The wizard took the child’s hand and placed it on top of him. The child twitched his hand, but did not resist and remained quiet.

“hmm……?”

But after waiting for a long time and seeing no change, the wizard felt something was wrong and tilted his head to the side.

“Why is that?”

“…Is it broken?”

“…….”

The wizard lifted the crystal ball and examined it, then placed his hand over it. The crystal ball immediately began to glow, proving that it was not broken.

“It works fine……”

“…Are you not human after all?”

“I don’t know… but any living thing would not react like this.”

“…Then, it really is a doll…….”

Helia recalled one of the ridiculous rumors that had been circulating around the palace of Wernus, but the wizard immediately shook his head and denied it.

“That’s even more ridiculous. If it’s a doll, it should have the power to move it.”

“Then what on earth is this kid?”

“Something similar has happened before.”

“what……?”

“That’s what Prince 2 said. It’s very similar to the feeling of not being able to hold mana.”

At those words, one of Helia’s eyebrows rose slightly.

“So, this thing is under the same curse?”

“Haha, I’m not sure if it’s a curse or not…….”

The wizard stopped talking and gently swept the child’s eyes. The white eyelashes tickled his fingers.

“It’s clear that this is pretty trash.”

***

Lianus turned his head out the window to see the sunset.

When I checked with the queen’s palace, they said that Baedong had already returned a long time ago. They said that all the snacks that had been prepared had been eaten.

“…Maybe the snacks we shared together were not enough?”

Nihil didn’t seem to enjoy sweets that much, but I guess I was mistaken.

“Oh, I should have asked you to find out what kind of snacks you enjoyed.”

Evan’s expression became subtle at those words.

“…Aren’t you worried?”

“well…….”

The paper bird that Nihil had left behind was too peaceful to worry about. The paper bird, which he had named ‘Kani’, was now playing around in my hair like a nest.

When other servants came, he was really smart to pretend to be a normal piece of paper. Instead, he ended up being a strange person who put a paper bird on his head… … .

Anyway, if something had happened to my friend, wouldn’t Kani have told me?

“Sir Evan.”

“Yes, Prince.”

“I don’t think this is the time to be worrying about Neil.”

“……?”

“If the Queen’s Palace really explodes, how will we clean it up?”

Lianus asked seriously, but Evan’s expression became increasingly subtle.

“If it’s revealed that Neil was the one who set it off, things will be difficult.”

“…I guess so…….”

“Then let’s go and pick her up secretly.”

“…yes.”

***

Nihil crouched down on the iron bars that resembled a birdcage and thought.

‘If possible, I would like to be kidnapped to the queen’s palace.’

I thought my child secretly wanted the queen’s palace to burst, so I was willing to grant her wish. Of course, I would have to apologize to her father who would have to clean up the mess.

Moreover, there may be someone named ‘Aryl’ ​​in the queen’s palace.

‘I never thought I’d end up at the Magic Tower.’

At first, I thought it was just a wizard’s laboratory, but there were too many sounds and magical powers to be sure.

“Hehehehehe~”

Nihil glanced at the humming wizard, then scanned his surroundings. There were many eyeballs all around him.

It wasn’t a metaphor. It was literally a chemically treated eyeball floating in a glass bottle.

“Come on, kid. I’ll pull it out for you so it doesn’t hurt.”

“…….”

“They’re going to just pluck out your eyes and send you to the palace. Do you want to see your friend?”

“…….”

“Ah, if you gouge out your eyes, you won’t be able to see. Well… that’s none of my business.”

The wizard muttered to himself as if he didn’t want an answer, then came over holding something. It seemed to be a tool for gouging out eyes.

“Ahhh, what beautiful eyes they are.”

A hand came through the bars and stroked my face. His expression was so ecstatic that it almost looked like he was crying, which was very strange.

“You’re really quiet. Don’t worry, I’ll keep your eyes safe. I’ll preserve them, which look like a miniature version of the universe, for eternity.”

The wizard said that, then felt sorry for my appearance and said he would give me artificial eyes.

Nihil opened his eyes and gave them to the wizard as he reached out to pluck them out.

The black pupils began to turn white like paint spreading, and mana began to appear.

‘There are several magic tools called ‘Matap’ in the tower.’

“…What is this!”

While I was wondering how to get rid of the magic stones and magic tools, the wizard saw that my eye color had changed and grabbed my face.

“Your eye color changed!”

On that flagship, Nihil showed off his eyes by changing their colors as if he was trying to avoid eye contact with things from other dimensions.

“If you do this…, if you do this, you won’t be able to pull it out!”

How can this be? If I pull them out, they’re fixed to one color? I want them all!

Nihil pursed his lips as he looked at the wizard’s face, which was a mixture of joy and despair. In any case, if my eyes were not transplanted to a living thing, they would soon fall apart if I pulled them out.

Even if it is transplanted, it becomes assimilated and changes to the original eye color of that person, so it is virtually meaningless.

“I’m sorry, kid. I can’t send you back. Is there any way I can change your eyes to be different?”

It seemed that the wizard wanted to keep himself by his side and watch the eyeball transformation show instead of gouging out his eyes.

“Okay, I’ll let you go when you’re 15. Your eyes will get blurry as you get older anyway.”

“…….”

“Ah, you won’t be lonely. It may be difficult right now, but if the Second Prince fails the exam to become the Crown Prince and is exiled, then those beautiful odd eyes will also be…”

Uduk, uduk-.

At that moment, the wizard’s fingers caught by Nihil were strangely bent.

“Uh, uh…?”

“Ah…, I couldn’t help but stop talking about my child….”

The wizard, who was slow to judge the situation, made a stupid sound and then screamed in the excruciating pain that came later.

“Ahhh! Let go of this!”

Bang, bang, bang-.

The wizard struggled to free his hands from the bars, causing them to shake violently.

Nihil didn’t let go of his hand and gave it another squeeze.

Between the banging of iron bars, there was a faint sound of bones crunching. It was fortunate that there was no child.

“Eww, aww, aaaah!”

The panicked wizard lifted Nihil into the iron bars and slammed them against the wall. Nihil clenched his jaw from the strong impact and squeezed his body through the cracking iron bars.

The wizard crawled on the floor, clutching his now free fingers. His eyes were bloodshot, but his gaze was filled with questions.

“What the heck is this…?!”

Pfft-!

“Ugh!”

As the wizard was about to open his mouth, Nihil kicked him in the face and opened his mouth first.

“You only answer the questions that are asked.”

Cold eyes looked down at the wizard.

“Your worth is only that.”