How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 181



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Episode 181

Quagwagwa-!

Lianus’ head snapped up. The sudden loud noise sounded unnatural, as if it had been cut off somewhere in the middle.

“Neil!”

“Prince!”

Evan immediately let go of the kitten’s hand and ran after it, calling for a cat.

“Prince, it’s dangerous! Don’t run alone!”

“Sir Evan, it’s definitely Neil!”

Although the source of the sound was not clear because it was so loud and spread out, the prince ran straight in one direction without looking back.

“Sir Evan! Hurry up! Neil might be in danger!”

Evan thought it was strange, but he immediately picked up Lianus and hugged him, wrapping his arms around his legs. Then he jumped up in one breath and flew up using the tree as a stepping stone.

“Sir Evan, over there!”

“……!”

As I jumped high, I saw a corner of the forest that was so badly damaged that I wondered how I had not noticed it before.

“Hold on tight, Prince.”

Evan became anxious at the thought that the Serpent might be in danger. He detonated his aura to descend as quickly as possible, and the speed of his fall increased with a bang.

“Eww!”

The surprised prince grabbed him by the collar and strangled him, but Evan braced himself for the shock by holding the prince tighter.

Kwaaang-!

The landing site was hollowed out with a loud explosion, but the surroundings were in such chaos that it was not noticeable.

‘How can I find him in this mess?’

Just as I was starting to worry that I might have been caught in a tree, the prince discovered something first and shouted.

“Neil!”

Evan turned his gaze and came face to face with a lynx that had fallen from the sky.

And at that moment, I instinctively took a step back at the cold sensation I felt down my spine.

“……?”

Before he could even begin to question his own inexplicable actions, the lynx that had discovered him rushed at him with a frightening momentum.

“What, what…!”

Evan unconsciously tried to draw his sword, but he managed to regain his senses and wrapped his aura around his arm to defend his front.

however,

Kwajik-!

The thick aura layer shattered with the guy’s not-so-heavy punch, and a huge amount of mana was lost in an instant.

At the same time, every time I did personnel training with the guy, I was overcome by a sense of loss that I could never get used to.

‘This kid, can he even scatter the aura wrapped around his body like this… …!’

I don’t know how the situation turned out for him to attack me, but I know for sure that he’s been watching me all this time.

For a moment, his legs almost gave out, but perhaps his training had been effective, and Evan was not too flustered and immediately calmed down his trembling mana.

‘There is no murderous intent. We must subdue them.’

Even as he thought about it, Evan wasn’t sure if he could subdue the guy. After all, he had a prince in his arms.

At that moment, the lynx again kicked the ground and charged.

Evan quickly drew up his mana again, but before he could wrap his aura around his body, the guy grabbed his wrist. And then,

Bam!

“……!?”

Bitten.

“Neil!?”

Evan froze in a daze as he watched the lynx bite his arm, then belatedly shook his arm off. The cat didn’t seem to intend to keep biting his arm, as it surprisingly easily shook off the bit and rolled around on the dirt floor.

But the confusion in Evan’s head did not go away.

Has the lynx finally gone mad? Or has it regained its wildness?

No, maybe it’s infected with rabies.

‘Then, can I get infected too? If I get rabies, who will protect our lovely and cute prince?’

All sorts of thoughts were passing through my head, and then suddenly the air changed.

“……!”

Feeling something was coming, Evan wrapped the prince in his cloak, then buried his sword deep into the ground and lowered his body as much as possible.

And at that moment, a storm blew in.

Woozikkun, bang-! Kwakwakwang!

The trees around me were uprooted and blown away in vain, and the sword I had deeply inserted was pushed back little by little. As if things weren’t bad enough, I saw a broken tree flying towards me through my barely open eyelids.

Evan gritted his teeth and planted his feet on the ground, as he was in a situation where he might be blown away if he tried to avoid it.

“Hold on tight, Prince!”

Evan made sure that Lianus had his arms around his neck, then pulled out his spare dagger and wrapped it around his auror.

‘If you swing too fast, you won’t reach the target.’

A sword master could have dealt with it by firing his sword energy, but Evan’s best option was to use his aura to extend the range.

‘…now!’

For a moment, a cold light flashed in Evan’s eyes and the dagger swung. Just before it collided with Evan, the tree split in two and rolled loudly on the ground.

And soon the wind died down.

“Your Majesty, are you alright?”

Evan carefully pulled back his cloak, revealing his cute face.

“…Neil?”

“ah.”

At those words, Evan looked back in surprise.

All the trees around were broken or uprooted, so the view was clear, but the guy was nowhere to be seen.

“…Did it fly away?”

Evan looked around in confusion. It was such a huge gust of wind that he wouldn’t be able to say anything if he were to be blown away, but he wouldn’t really be able to fly away, right?

“You little squirrel!”

Evan looked around the area where Nihil had previously been and called out to him with all his might.

It felt strange, like I was looking for a lost pet, but now it seemed like it would be really awkward to call it by its name.

“Sir Evan, come down.”

“No.”

Evan held the squirming prince tightly in his arms. He might not have actual rabies, but he couldn’t rule out the possibility that he was being controlled by something.

“If we look for it together, we’ll find it faster.”

“You saw that guy attacking earlier. Look at this.”

Evan showed me a rather crude-looking round teeth mark on his forearm. Blood was seeping out of it.

Honestly, it was a bit… funny, but it meant that the guy really bit with all his might. He himself rarely got hurt.

At that moment, a rumbling sound was heard from behind.

“Lee, Callock, Lian.”

“Neil?”

“A wildcat?”

A white hair peeked out from above the tree, which had only the stump left. As expected, the wild cat’s lifeline is tenacious.

Of course, he couldn’t go against the wind, so his hair was very disheveled and even very messy from rolling around on the dirt floor earlier.

Normally, he would have laughed at him with all his might, but seeing that the boy looked a little tired, Evan sighed deeply and hugged Nihil.

“Neil, are you okay?”

“Yeah, were you looking for me?”

“I think it’s too late…….”

“thank you.”

The boy smiled faintly and patted the prince’s head. Then he looked at me and asked.

“…Are you sick?”

“Are you talking about me?”

What could possibly hurt me?

Evan frowned and thought about it, but his forearm was ticklish. When he looked down, he saw the lynx gently rubbing his forearm. To be exact, his own bite marks.

“…this.”

“I guess he was definitely in his right mind.”

What a relief it isn’t rabies.

“So why are you asking?”

“Can’t you bite the child?”

“…Can I ask?”

Of course… , if a lynx has to bite something, it would be right for it to be bitten… … .

Evan’s face softened. Nihil shrugged and replied vaguely.

“I couldn’t help it because it was urgent. I’ll treat your wounds when I get back.”

“What about treatment? This is also a wound.”

Evan waved his hand roughly, saying it was nothing, and then he swung his sword from the ground. At any rate, he had managed to capture the lost cat, so it was a good thing.

* * *

The banquet hall of the Francesca family.

Everyone looked nervously at Nihil, who was drawing a summoning circle.

“Kara, come here.”

“yes!”

When Nihil called Kara after drawing all the summoning circles, Kara answered bravely and stood in front of the summoning circle.

“The day will come when we will see our Kara make a contract with a spirit with our own eyes…!”

Karus muttered in a way that seemed to be moved, holding the video storage device tightly. Nihil looked at Karus and gave him gentle advice.

“Teacher, the spirit will not be captured in the image sphere until it materializes after the contract. Naturally, it will not be visible to the naked eye.”

“It’s okay. We just have to take good care of our Kara.”

“Big brother, you have to take a pretty picture of Kara!”

“Yeah~ Our Kara, oppa will take a pretty picture of you~”

However, the face of Karus, who had been smiling brightly, seemed to become more and more rigid every time Kara tried to summon him. And the same was true for Nihil’s expression.

“Eek… He just left again.”

Kara, who had become gloomy from the repeated summonings, lowered her head. This was already the third time. The magnificent and spacious banquet hall was not even a breath of wind, let alone the wind spirit.

Nihil checked Karina’s records several times, wondering if he had drawn the summoning circle incorrectly. However, there was nothing wrong with the summoning circle.

Nihil, who felt something strange, closed his eyes tightly. When he opened his eyes again, his expression was extremely cold.

“You do all sorts of things.”

The heads around him flinched at the annoying words he spat out.

“Hey, dear friend, is something wrong?”

“Maybe I was being too frugal with my magic stone?”

The Francesca siblings, who had been comforting the gloomy Kara, approached her quietly.

The eldest daughter, Cayenne, was holding a pouch containing magic stones, but she had already used half of them to summon spirits.

“The magic stone isn’t the problem.”

Nihil rubbed away the lower-level spirit summoning circle drawn with magic stone powder and began drawing another summoning circle.

“There was someone who got in the way.”

When I closed my eyes and opened them, I could hear a sharp voice.

(I’m the one who’s going to sign with Kara! If you guys sign with Kara before me, I won’t let you off easy!)

The Wind Spirit King, who was thought to have returned to the spirit world, was still hanging around.

“you…….”

Nihil was about to say something to the guy, but quickly shut his mouth. There was no way to know what would happen if he spoke to him without being in sync with the spirit.

“Cayenne.”

“Yes, my friend.”

“Is that all there is to the Magic Stone?”

“For now…, yes….”

“Give it to me. I’ll pay you back later.”

Nihil thought he should go find a crack and engraved a wind attribute rune on the magic stone he was given. Since it had come to this, he intended to try making a contract with the Spirit King.

“…is it a little lacking?”

However, even if the attributes of the magic stone were changed and optimized, it was still not enough to summon the Spirit King. Even in the times when there were relatively many suitable people, the existence of the Spirit King was only something that could be found in records.

If we force the summoning like this, Kara’s mana vessel may be damaged.

“…Friend, Kara can’t make a contract with a fairy?”

Kara, who was a little excited at the thought of flying in the sky, asked gloomily. Nihil patted Kara’s head and then swept up the magic stone powder.

“I’ll use another method, so wait here… no.”

Nihil hesitated for a moment before moving his seat.

I had deliberately chosen to sit in a large hall because it was obvious that the surroundings would become a mess if I summoned the wind, but where should I go if I leave this place?

Currently, the existence of the spirit master has not been clearly established in the Middle-earth, so if a contract is made openly outside, it may cause some misunderstanding. In the end, there was only one conclusion.

After thinking it over, Nihil said briefly.

“get out.”