How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 175



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Episode 175

“Ugh, Your Majesty……”

“Hey, don’t cry and tell me.”

Sedes waved his hand as he looked at his second son, who had come to visit early in the morning and was crying.

I was very happy that my son came to me and depended on me, but I was also at a loss as to what to do.

“Ugh, my friend, huhuhu, my friend won’t come back…!”

Lianus was very upset. He thought it was a little late, but he thought that when he woke up, his best friend would be by his side, but all he found was Pupu and Popo.

“Ugh, even ah, it didn’t explode…!”

“…….”

What on earth didn’t explode…?

Sedes couldn’t understand what his second son was talking about. But it probably meant that his son’s friend had gone somewhere and wasn’t coming back.

I heard that the queen called you yesterday.

I thought it passed without much fuss since I hadn’t heard any news, but I guess I wasn’t.

Sedes had just recently been nagged at to empathize with what the other person was saying, so he decided to give it a try.

“…Yes, Ruth. Well…, that must be disappointing. …But…….”

I thought that since I had sympathized, it might be okay, so I turned my gaze to Lianus’ head.

There was something there that really bothered me.

“Can I ask you something?”

Sedes glanced at the paper bird that was picking at the feathers… no, paper, from its lush green curls.

What on earth is that?

“…Huh?”

But perhaps because it was a difficult question, my son stopped crying and started thinking deeply about something.

Then, as if he had made up his mind, he closed his eyes tightly and pushed his face in.

“……?”

Sedes stared blankly at the chubby cheek shoved in front of him, then burst into laughter at the gaze asking him what he was doing instead of biting it.

“Big, no, that…, on top of my head…, groan…!”

When Sedes covered his mouth and burst out laughing, Rianus realized that he had misunderstood what he said and his face turned bright red.

“Your Majesty…, I am serious….”

And last time you asked me that and then bit my cheek… … Rianus mumbled an excuse.

“Umm, groan…, kekeum, I’m sorry. So what’s that paper bird?”

“Whew, this is, I, I made it, my friend gave it to me.”

“……?”

The one who made it was my son, but the one who gave it to my son’s friend? What kind of relationship is this?

Sedes looked at Evan. An explanation was needed.

“…the guy breathed life into the paper bird the prince made. He said he would return this afternoon as a regular paper bird.”

“…Abel, can magic do something like this?”

At Evan’s explanation, Sedes looked back at his friend as if scolding him, asking why he couldn’t do something like this.

Abel, who had used magic for soundproofing, was wondering how he could get scolded less by Nihil, and when asked, he glanced at the paper bird and shrugged his shoulders.

“I think it might be a different realm. It seems like the paper bird isn’t being directly controlled by Neil, but rather moves of its own will….”

“It’s not magic?”

“Yes. In the first place, Neil said he wouldn’t be able to use magic for a while.”

“Sniff, what does that mean, Your Excellency?”

Lianus let go of the cloak of Sedes that he was holding tightly and walked towards Abel.

Sedes almost burst into laughter again because of the tear stains on his cloak that resembled eyes, nose, and mouth, but he barely managed to silence them with a cough.

“Oh, I asked Neil to show me some magic, but he said that his body is broken and he is having a hard time right now. I guess there must be some circumstances. Have you heard anything, Your Majesty?”

“Sniff, no……”

Lianus doesn’t ask about Nihil, because he might leave if he finds out too much.

“A friend of mine once moved a slave seal. Was that a difficult spell?”

“You mean just moving the location?”

“yes.”

“It requires delicate control, but it hardly uses mana. A slave seal is like a kind of contract, and in that case, you can think of it as a little bit of the seal stamped on the contract. Of course, it is impossible to transfer it to someone else.”

“…….”

Lianus decided not to ask any more questions.

“Ruth, your friend is all right. The paper bird is so peaceful.”

Sedes got up from his seat and quickly picked up Lianus, who was clinging to Abel, and sat him on his lap. But with Abi right next to him, it’s not like he’s clinging to someone else.

“yes…….”

Lianus fell into her arms, looking slightly sullen.

Sedes patted Lianus and then tapped the paper bird that was rubbing its face against his dark green head.

He was staring at my finger as if he was contemplating whether or not to peck it.

“Your Majesty, what if Kani returns to normal but his friend doesn’t return?”

“…Kani is a new paper name.”

Evan commented on what Lianus said.

Sedes stared at the paper bird nesting on his son’s head. The bird looked back at him impudently and tried to croak down from Lianus’ head.

“Kani, I told you not to come down.”

Lianus raised the paper bird back over his head.

“…? Why won’t you let me come down?”

“Kani keeps trying to wipe my tears even though he’s a paper bird, so I can’t let him come down.”

As he spoke, Lianus carefully wiped away any remaining tears, then carefully held Kani in his arms so as not to crush her.

I had a strong feeling that the paper bird shouldn’t be damaged.

dripping-!

Just then a slightly loud knock was heard.

“Your Majesty, this is Walter Ernest.”

“Come in, Commander of the Knights.”

I wanted to be comfortable with my son and didn’t want to bring it up if possible, but it seemed like an urgent matter.

Walter opened the door a little hastily and came in. He opened his eyes slightly when he saw Evan in the office, then quickly submitted his report.

“They say that around 11 o’clock last night, the central branch of Matap collapsed.”

“……!”

“According to reports coming in, there are no noticeable casualties yet, but the ground floor has completely collapsed and search operations are underway in the basement.”

***

“Sir Evan! We have to go first!”

Lianus mounted his horse and tapped the saddle for Evan to hurry up. If he went by carriage, he would be behind the knights.

“…What if it’s not that guy?”

“No! I’m sure!”

Lianus heard it clearly. It was the sound that Canny had whispered as soon as Sir Ernest had reported.

-Rian, I don’t know the way. Come pick me up.

After telling him that, Kani turned into an ordinary paper bird, as if he had let out all the breath he had been given.

“I said I didn’t know the way. If I were in the Queen’s Palace, I wouldn’t have said something like that! I was definitely kidnapped by the Magic Tower!”

“Are you saying that the paper bird really spoke?”

The paper bird never chirped. Evan simply assumed that it couldn’t sing because it was paper.

If you could have told me, why didn’t you do it before?

But it was credible. It wasn’t ‘Save me.’ It was ‘Come get me.’ It was an undeniable message, so typical of him.

Evan nodded his head. Yeah, if that’s what our prince is like, then that’s what it must be like.

But there was one more, very big problem: although Evan was a knight, he didn’t have much experience riding a horse.

How many times had he, a commoner, ever ridden an expensive horse? Furthermore, after becoming a royal knight, he soon became the prince’s bodyguard, so he had no opportunity to ride a horse.

It’s not that I can’t ride it. But it’s very dangerous to take the little prince with me. If I’m not careful and the prince gets hurt, it’ll be a big problem.

“It’s okay, Sir Evan! I can ride a horse too!”

“…You’ve only ever ridden a horse…….”

Purrung-

As Evan sighed and shook his head, Evan’s horse, which hadn’t even been given a name, muttered in discontent.

The prince claims to know how to ride a horse, but that’s not true. The prince doesn’t hold the reins when he rides a horse!

‘Elizabeth, go over there, over there, and back like this!’

When the prince shouts brightly, the horse knows how to turn the course.

This was one of the unexplained mysteries of the Palace of Wernus, but since Lady Natura had apparently ridden in this manner in her lifetime, the servants thought it was simply some genetic force at work.

“The horse is smart, so if you ask him simply, he will go on his way!”

“…That’s not usually the case……”

Moreover, in order to overtake the knights, they had to speed up, but there was no way that the prince, who had only ever ridden a pony, could maintain that speed.

“It won’t work.”

Evan picked up Lianus, who was mounted on a horse, and held him in his arms. The horse looked at him discontentedly, but he ignored it and raised his mana.

“I will take care of it myself.”

A dog may not be faster than a horse, but if he can jump over a straight line, he’ll be able to do it.

***

The wizard lay face down on the floor, barely able to move his grotesquely twisted fingers.

‘Uh, I have to get out of here somehow… …!’

The little boy who had broken my fingers and ankles with his tremendous strength was now wandering around my lab.

He was mainly browsing through old books, and judging from the way he was flipping through the pages, it was clear that he was looking for something, even if he wasn’t reading it.

The wizard was a child… no, just something unidentifiable in the form of a child, drawing a teleportation magic circle somewhere else in the blink of an eye.

You don’t have to go far. Just, just get out of this room. Wizards are extremely individualistic, so they’ll be indifferent if you ask them for help, but if you ask them to capture an unknown creature, they’ll turn on the light and rush in.

The wizard breathed mana into the barely completed magic circle.

‘Okay… …!?’

But the joy was short-lived, and Mana was in vain.

‘Did I draw the magic circle wrong?’

The wizard raised his head slightly and glanced at the boy. Fortunately, his mind was still focused on the ancient book.

‘Again… you can draw it again.’

The wizard checked the magic circle again, holding his breath, thinking that if he was caught, his neck might be broken instead of his fingers or ankles.

However, I couldn’t find the problem, and even after several attempts, the mana did not gather and just kept scattering.

‘What the hell is the problem!’

Teleportation magic required a lot of mana and was not used often, but the wizard became impatient because he had never failed so many times in a row like this.

To make matters worse, my mana is almost depleted. If I draw any more mana, it will definitely strain my mana heart.

‘… This is the last… … !’

The wizard breathed mana into it for a final attempt, and at that moment, the magic circle finally sparkled and showed a response.

“at las!”

I was so moved that I burst out in tears, but I didn’t need to worry about the little one’s reaction anymore.

No matter how great the child’s strength is, it would be impossible for him to take on multiple wizards.

‘You damn brat, I’ll make you my slave and treat you like an animal for the rest of your life!’

But the magic circle soon lost its light and collapsed.

“……?”

Before I could figure out the cause of the unexpected situation, my mana flowed back and blood rose up into my throat.

“Be quiet. You’re stubborn even though you’re not good at using magic.”

“Coolook…, , what is this….”

The wizard looked back at the boy, panting with pain squeezing his heart, trying to resolve the questions that were rising in his mind.

The boy flipped through the old books as if he had never responded before, then took out another old book and opened it, as if it wasn’t what he wanted.

Then he took his eyes off the book and turned his head towards the wizard.

Eyes of mysterious color that seemed to contain all the colors that exist in this world looked down at him quietly.

“hmm…….”

Nihil threw down the ancient book he was reading and walked towards the wizard with heavy steps.

In the suffocating silence, the wizard met Nihil’s gaze, trembling and unable to look away.

“What should I do with you?”

Even though I looked through the old books just in case, there was no trace of me left.

It was expected and perhaps it was natural, but I felt uneasy for no reason.

Nihil grabbed the wizard’s chin and turned him around.

From the moment he set his sights on our child, I had no intention of letting him off easy.

“A wizard can’t even use magic properly, has no sense, and denies any questions you ask him, so he’s completely useless.”

The wizard didn’t know who ‘Aril’ was. He might simply not know the name, but Nihil knew nothing else than the name ‘Aril’, so it wasn’t easy to ask.

‘I guess it’s a person… … ?’

Surely that’s not a pet name.

The wizard surprisingly didn’t seem to be that close to the queen, and said that all he did was receive money and write blank contracts or fill mana into magical tools.

‘I guess I have to chase after the dog when it goes out… … .’

But I didn’t feel like it. At that time, I had to leave the child with someone else, and I didn’t know if I would have to explain the dog’s situation to the child.

If we’re not careful, the relationship between Lianus and Evan could go wrong.

“I wanted to resolve this quietly…….”

I don’t know if it’s a continuation of a relationship, but I absolutely do not want to break it.

Even if he suddenly disappeared and the connection was cut off, he had to leave a connection that would fill the gap.