How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 179



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Episode 179

“Hey, what the hell is this?! Where the hell did you get that?!”

Francesca’s second son, Carum, pointed at the little boy lying in bed.

“If your brother had an accident, how old were you when he had it? 14? Or is he a secret illegitimate child of our family? Was your mother pregnant before she gave birth to Kara?”

“Ah… that’s a good idea too. How about bringing in our fourth child?”

“Kara will be the youngest.”

“Then, our Kara will be the youngest forever~”

“What nonsense are you talking about!”

Karum looked at her family, who seemed helpless, and grabbed her hair.

It was only a few minutes ago that a strange little boy with red, bloodshot eyes and burst blood vessels suddenly barged into my room, locked me in, and collapsed.

The little boy looked very anxious, but perhaps because his eyesight was poor, he did not notice himself right in front of him.

Yeah, that’s fine as long as it ends there. In life, some kid might suddenly barge in and lock your door.

But the problem came next.

“Are there any other people besides our family with such jade-colored hair?!”

A strange change occurred in the fallen boy.

That is, the once white hair changed to a very familiar color.

“Where is your mother!”

“No, Karum, that’s not it…….”

Karus hesitated, not knowing what to say. This wasn’t the first time his friend’s hair color had changed.

‘At that time, it was said to be the power of magic tools… … .’

No matter how much I think about it, this isn’t that type of thing…

“This is a side effect of the magic tool.”

“…Prince?”

In response to Carus’ question, Lianus emphasized once again.

“It’s because of the magic tool.”

“but…….”

“Magic tool!”

Lianus opened his eyes wide and glared at Carus without answering.

“My best friend is good at everything, but sometimes he makes mistakes.”

“…Yes, that’s right.”

Then Cayenne approached me quietly.

“Your Majesty, if it’s a side effect of the magic tool, I’ll take a look for you… ”

“no!”

With a snap, Lianus quickly pushed away Cayenne’s hand reaching out to Nihil.

“Cayenne, it’s okay, just step back.”

Carus tried to calm down the embarrassed Cayenne and made her step back, while Rianus tightened his grip on Nihil’s hand. It felt like if he let go, they would just scatter like the wind.

“You’re saying that he’s not your brother…?”

Karum, who had been glaring at his brother suspiciously, turned his gaze to Nihil.

“Sure…, except for the hair color, they don’t look alike at all.”

He’s too pretty to be your son. No matter how pretty his mother is, it’s hard for a kid like this…

As Karum muttered, her eyelids, which had been so calm, fluttered slightly.

“Neil!”

Lianus sat up and looked at Nihil. Immediately, his eyelids lifted and his cyan eyes, different from usual ones, resembled Aurora.

“@!$^$%&^$.”

“Neil…?”

Nihil looked around, rubbed his face, and muttered something unintelligible. Occasionally he waved his hands in the air as if swatting away a fly.

“#@$%$%&*@!”

“……?”

“%&@#$%.”

The series of unknown sentences continued, like a conversation.

“Friend, what are you doing?”

Kara, who had been watching, hugged him tightly.

“Kara, #@$%!@#$^.”

“Huh? I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

At those frank words, Nihil muttered a few words quietly in his mouth, then soon spat out something intelligible.

“Kara, let’s sign the contract later.”

“I will do whatever you say, my friend!”

“Yeah, that’s good.”

Nihil tried to pat Kara’s head, but then realized his hand was held tightly by Rianus and turned his head away.

“Rian.”

“Neil, are you okay?”

“Yeah. You were holding it the whole time?”

“huh!”

“thank you.”

Lianus opened his eyes wide at the unexpected thanks, then smiled brightly. It seemed like he was glad he had held on.

Nihil looked around him and muttered when he saw a boy he was seeing for the first time, but who didn’t seem to be seeing for the first time.

“Is this the third child? This house is all the same. Teacher, there’s no way you’d lose a child somewhere.”

“Haha, you are the pride of our family. So, dear friend, would you like to come in as the fourth child?”

“no.”

Nihil flatly refused and then swept away the spirits hovering before his eyes with his hand.

(Isn’t he really our king?)

(No.)

(But the same thing as us?)

(The king is sleeping.)

(When do you wake up?)

(I don’t know either.)

“ha…….”

I just sighed. The spirits’ system was a complete mess. Since when did it start to be like this?

‘I thought something was strange… … .’

The only consolation was that only the wind spirits were in this state. Nihil wiped his face once and asked the spirits a question.

“(How long has your king been in seclusion?)”

(I don’t know.)

(1 year?)

(No, it’s been over 100 years.)

(What are you talking about? It’s only been five years since Karina died.)

(Then 5 years.)

(It’s been 5 years.)

Nihil, who was listening to the spirits’ conversation, looked at Karus with a suspicious look.

“teacher.”

“Yes, my friend.”

“Who is Karina?”

“My… mother.”

“…I see.”

Teacher, your mother was a contractor for the Spirit King. She was a bigger shot than I thought.

I heard that he went into hiding because he was shocked by the death of his contractor, but this is surprisingly common. In the case of lower-level spirits, they sometimes disappear without being able to overcome their grief.

The problem is that there is no reason for the spirits’ system to become so messed up after only five years of seclusion.

Basically, their king did not interfere much with Middle-earth, and Middle-earth ran without problems with only nature spirits. As long as the king’s position was not completely empty, nature spirits naturally repeated birth and death.

‘It is difficult to understand the situation where the spirits are gathered in one place like this based only on the king’s seclusion… … .’

(Are we going to be king?)

“…….”

My head hurt. How did I end up being a mess with these guys?

“are you okay?”

As he was pressing his temples, Rian asked him with concern. Nihil stared at Rian for a moment and then stroked his curly hair to calm his mind and body.

‘Should I go to the spirit world?’

Now that you have united with the spirits, it is not difficult to go to the spirit world. All you have to do is beat up the King of Wind with harsh words and wake him up.

However, the flow of time is different in the spirit realm and the middle world. That’s why the spirits talk nonsense like 1 year or 100 years.

‘What should I do?’

As Nihil continued to ponder, Rianus slowly crawled onto the bed and whispered cautiously.

“Neil, is your hair color due to your magic tool? I told you so.”

“…That’s right. Thank you.”

Nihil thought, stroking the hair of the smiling little boy.

I still don’t feel like going to the spirit world. I don’t know how many seconds or how many years will pass in the blink of an eye, but I can’t leave my child behind.

“The king… must be dragged out.”

As I muttered quietly, the kitten and the puppy looked at me with anxious eyes, as if they had mistaken the person I was referring to.

“Are you going to drag His Majesty out…?”

“…Treason is not allowed.”

Nihil laughed at her innocent reaction and called Kara.

“Kara.”

“Yes, yes, my friend!”

“Let’s prepare to bring out the king.”

“Yes, my friend!”

* * *

“Brother… what on earth did you make that kid do?”

“Brother, no matter what, isn’t this a bit too much?”

“That…, it seems a bit…, to you too…?”

Karus awkwardly wiped his face at his younger siblings’ scolding. His younger siblings, who had been looking at him with a bit of suspicion, now looked at him with pity.

The friend who was invited to Kara’s birthday party worked for three days and nights and it was still going on.

During the day, he plays with the children and works in between, and at night, he works without even sleeping.

And that’s not all.

I copy and translate the letters and diaries my mother wrote using the spirit language and give them to my brothers as gifts. I do this by imitating her flying, bad handwriting!

bang-!

“Eww, buddy! My hand hurts!”

Early in the morning on the fourth day, as Nihil finally exploded and slammed his desk, Karus ran over and wrapped his small hand around it.

There was a crack in the desk, but I pretended not to notice and covered it with papers.

“If it’s too hard, you could slow down a bit…….”

“@#$!%#.”

Shudder.

The three jade-colored heads that had been watching flinched at the unfamiliar language that was being spoken in a low voice. I didn’t know for sure, but I had a feeling that it was probably a curse word.

“#$%, Kara@%!@#$^.”

“…yes……?”

Karus heard his beloved youngest’s name among the list of unfamiliar words and asked involuntarily.

“What about Kara?”

“Ah…, he’s still sleeping.”

At the mention of sleeping, my friend opened his eyes slightly and checked outside. The sun was just about to rise.

“Should I wake you up?”

“no.”

Children need to sleep well to grow well. My friend said that while he himself was not sleeping, then got up from his seat and walked to the next room.

In the room next door, children were playing late into the night and then each took a seat on the floor and slept there.

The only child of the Allier family and the second son of the Talandrus family joined in, making it very crowded. In fact, the second son of this house was also among this group… … .

Karus glanced at Karum, who had woken up early to go out for dawn training, and was watching his friend, before turning his gaze back to the children who were sprawled out.

Originally, I was going to move them to their respective rooms, but my friend said that these were all just memories, so I just left them.

My friend took out a crystal ball and started walking around the bedroom putting the kids in the crystal ball.

“Ah, please wipe off our Kara’s spit and take a picture……”

As he said that, Carus only covered her with the blanket he had kicked away and left it there without wiping the drool away.

Oh my, even our youngest princess finds it cute when she drools.

“teacher.”

“Yes, my friend.”

“I’ll go out for a bit and come back.”

“Where are you going this early in the morning?”

“Windy Forest.”

“There……”

Karus tried to dissuade them, saying that it was dangerous and that it wasn’t called the Forest of Ghosts for nothing, but he just left them alone.

“Take care on your way back.”

“okay.”

My friend, who had given a short answer, disappeared from my sight.

* * *

Nihil grasped my hand, which had grown several times larger. The heightened field of vision felt awkwardly familiar.

‘Is it because it is recombined in the most familiar and comfortable form?’

When he returned after being scattered by the wind, he had grown much taller. And that was not all. The hair that had been cut on the slave ship had grown long enough to drag on the floor.

‘This appearance is also 500 years old.’

In reality, I was asleep the whole time, so it didn’t even feel like a few months.

It wasn’t that his strength had returned. It was just an incident that occurred because he had become the wind and had not yet adapted to the form of the wind.

Nihil walked along, wondering if Lianus would resent him for growing up alone if he saw this sight.

The wind forest lived up to its name, with gusts of wind constantly blowing. Even in the midst of all this, my hair, which was dragged to the ground, remained still and unwavering, which seemed very foreign.

“(stop.)”

After a short command, the wind died down. Nihil started walking again.

With every step, the wind blew and the fallen leaves and flower petals left in the forest rustled.

But there were no footprints or sounds. Nihil felt a little uncomfortable, as if this was telling him that he did not exist here.

After becoming one with the spirits, the first thing I did was to send them back to their places. However, it was no use because the spirits only dispersed for a moment and then slowly gathered again after a while.

(Are you summoning the king?)

(Kara made a contract with the king?)

(Weren’t you supposed to be our king?)

(But I can’t summon it?)

(I can’t, I can’t.)

(Why don’t you become king?)

(It’s impossible.)

(Cannot be summoned.)

(That’s right, that’s right.)

Although it was very annoying to hear so many spirits chattering right next to me, I endured it, thinking that everything would be resolved as long as Kara completed the contract safely.

Until just a moment ago, when I heard some stupid words.

(The King cannot be summoned because he is in the Wind Forest, not the Spirit World.)

“…I don’t know why I have to do this…….”

I promised myself that I would never again fill the void by replacing something else.

But it’s okay, the world isn’t as unstable as it used to be. I have to finish this quickly and play with the kids.

According to the teacher, people entering the ‘Wind Forest’ have been getting hurt frequently in the past. However, it was only at the level of falling or getting scratched, but since 5 years ago, the level has gotten worse, with people going missing or getting seriously injured.

Considering that it has been five years since the wind began to blow, this is a pretty accurate story.

The question is, why do you choose to live in seclusion in the Middle-earth and not in the spirit world?

“Is this it?”

As we entered the center of the forest, a giant spirit stone appeared.

(Two kings?)

(No, isn’t that weird?)

(Is it good to have two kings?)

As I stood before the spirit stone, the spirits of the nature surrounding me began to murmur again. Then, the high-ranking spirit guarding the spirit stone sank to the ground. His expression looked extremely bewildered.

(Who are you? Could it be that the succession took place while the King was here?)

At those words, Nihil kicked the spirit stone nervously.

“(Stop talking nonsense and wake this guy up.)”