How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 182



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Episode 182

Suddenly, the entrance to the hall closed.

The landlord, Carus, was dazed for a moment before coming to his senses at the sound of the door closing. Even though he had been kicked out, he was still the landlord and had to take care of his guests.

“Okay, it seems like our friend has something else to do, so we’ll just stay for a moment…”

But the kids were already clinging to the entrance of the hall, trying to peek inside.

“What, what? What are you doing inside?”

“Ah, bro, it’s heavy. Get out of the way.”

“Be quiet, Revan.”

“Please put Karado in too!”

Karus, who was watching the scene, couldn’t shake off his curiosity and pressed against the door. He saw his secret friend Evan’s eyes getting dim, but he tried to pretend not to notice.

“Prince, can’t you hear me?”

“Yeah, I can’t hear anything.”

After being stuck on the door for a while without any results, the door suddenly opened wide.

“Ako.”

“Ugh!”

“Ugh!”

“Wow!”

“Ouch!”

The kids who had lost their balance fell to the floor. Karus, who had also fallen and almost crushed the kids, barely managed to prevent the disaster by stretching out his arms and legs, but soon his arms began to tremble.

“Teacher, what are you doing among the kids?”

“Haha…, I’m so curious…, huh.”

Because of my awkward posture, I couldn’t get up and made an excuse with an awkward smile, but my body was pulled back. It was none other than my very large and strong secret friend, Sir Evan. My younger siblings, who should have been the first to save me, were looking at me with pity.

“Thank you, Sir Evan. Friends are the best. Raising children is useless.”

“…You should do some exercise.”

“Hahaha, I was just thinking about that too.”

Karus quickly helped the kids up, thinking that he had made a good secret friend.

“Neil, are you done?”

Before anyone could help him up, Rianus jumped up and went straight to Nihil, looking around.

Sniff sniff.

Then he started sniffing around like a kitten looking for a snack.

“…Rian, why are you smelling?”

“It smells fishy.”

“…….”

Nihil tensed a little as he watched Rianus narrow his eyes and examine him. This clueless kid seems to have a really good sense.

At that moment, his hand was grabbed and he was turned over. Nihil had a wound on his forearm, so he was worried that Rianus might roll up his sleeve.

Fortunately, Rianus’s intuition didn’t tell him that far, and Rianus’s exploration ended with him just touching Nihil’s palm.

“Friend, friend~”

At that moment, Cayenne, who was watching the summoning circle, asked with sparkling eyes.

“What is that drawn on top of the summoning circle?”

“Mana Amplification Circle.”

“Oh my, oh my, oh my.”

Cayenne’s short reply caused a lot of fuss.

“Friend, can I take a video of that?”

“Don’t take pictures. It’s dangerous.”

“Ugh.”

Nihil added a word while looking at the sullen girl.

“I’ll draw you one that’s not dangerous.”

“Really?”

“instead.”

“……?”

“You should abandon the Magic Tower and join the Magic Engineering Guild.”

“…yes?”

You want me to throw away my magic tower?!

“The magic stone provides twice as much as the magic tower. Sometimes it also teaches magic.”

“I don’t know what it is, but I’ll go in!”

“good.”

“…Sister, you must have known where that place was before you went in…….”

Karum, who had been watching, said something, but Nihil, who had gained a guild member, just smiled happily and called out to Kara, who was crouching in front of the summoning circle.

“Kara, summon her again.”

“What if you just leave again…?”

“I’m not going this time.”

Because I’ll be anxious to sign the contract.

“I’ll try!”

Kara stood in front of the summoning circle with a solemn expression. Nihil immediately closed his eyes and opened them, preparing for any unexpected events.

(Finally, finally!)

The excitement of the wind filled the banquet hall. As Kara closed her eyes tightly and activated her mana, the magic circle she had engraved began to glow, and a strong yet gentle wind that had never been seen before began to envelop the hall.

“Hey, friend!”

Just when things were going smoothly, Kara called out to him urgently. He opened one eye slightly and saw Kara’s face turned pale.

“What’s wrong, Kara?”

“Oh, sir, I forgot to order!”

(what?!)

“Oh, like that.”

Even though the Spirit King and Kara were in a serious situation, Nihil just smiled wryly.

“Oh, what do I do! Kara can’t summon fairies anymore!”

The summoning circle’s light also swayed with the wind, perhaps because the caster, Kara, was feeling uneasy. The one who was most anxious was none other than the King of Wind himself.

The wind kept calling Kara, trembling with anxiety.

(Kara, Kara! I’m here! Just call me!)

“Friend! Help Kara!”

(My name is Ariel. You can call me Eri!)

“Friend!”

(Kara!)

However, the wind’s voice did not reach Kara. Nihil was right next to her, but he smiled bitterly at the sight of the two beings who could not communicate with each other, and then quietly parted his lips.

“Ariel.”

Call his name.

* * *

“My friend is a liar!”

“…Kara, that’s not it…….”

Lianus looked at his friend who was sweating profusely against Kara, and then at the summoning circle.

The summoning circle was still shining brightly, but Lianus could not see anything because the contract had not yet been completed.

“Kara, that’s the wind spirit.”

“But, but……!”

That girl is so big! Kara shouted, and the wind blew loudly. It seemed that the spirit’s actual appearance was very different from what Kara had imagined.

“Fairies are supposed to be this small…!”

Finally, Kara began to convince Nihil by making a circle with both hands and explaining why what was in front of her was not a spirit.

“…So, that girl is not a fairy because she’s too big and doesn’t have wings and doesn’t wear any fluttering clothes.”

“Oh, I see.”

If the spirit were to hear these words now, he would probably be very shocked, but my friend just nodded with a sly smile.

“Kara, since you’re not a fairy, shouldn’t we make a contract?”

At those words, the wind felt even sharper. Just in case, Rianus quickly blocked Nihil’s path.

“Rian?”

Nihil suddenly looked at Lianus, who had blocked his path, and asked curiously.

“What’s wrong, Lian.”

“Neil, don’t tease me too much. If you do, I’ll hurt you.”

As he said this, Rianus added a small word.

“You can tease me. I won’t be mad at you.”

“…huh.”

Nihil stroked the peculiar seaweed and glanced at Ariel. He was glaring at her with all his might, but he didn’t feel any great hostility.

‘When will you rush at me as if you’re going to kill me…?’

It’s so funny how he doesn’t even recognize me, but at the same time, it’s a little sad…

“…Kara.”

Nihil continued speaking, swallowing the bitter liquid rising up inside him.

“Kara, if you make a contract with that, you can summon even small fairies. That one is big because it’s the king.”

“Because he’s a king, he’s big?”

Kara’s eyes widened at the simple explanation.

“Yeah. Even if I sign the contract now, I won’t be able to call it for a while. It’s a big king, so it consumes a lot of mana.”

Even though she had excellent affinity for spirits, that didn’t mean she didn’t need mana. In fact, with Kara’s current mana vessel level, it would be difficult to summon even one low-level spirit.

“Then, Kara can’t fly?”

“If you keep practicing mana, you can fly.”

“Then I’ll sign the contract!”

(Yeah! Good idea!)

The wind laughed heartily. He must be good to me, since he is the blood of the previous contractor. Judging from the fact that he chose to live in seclusion after the death of the contractor, it was clear that he was a young and naive wind.

After that, the contract went smoothly. Although Kara fainted due to the Spirit King’s overwhelming power, her life was not in danger.

“Friend, is our Kara really okay?”

“are you okay.”

Nihil continued his explanation, calming down the commotion of Karus and his brothers, as if to appeal to the Wind King who was still staying nearby.

“Teacher, information about the spirits will be gradually revealed,

It won’t be easy. We have to change the public’s perception first.”

“We’re not as stupid as we used to be. We can tell the difference between spirits and demons.”

“no.”

Nihil shook his head firmly.

“That’s not the problem. Kara will be the ‘foundation’ of the spirit master.”

“…….”

Only then did Karus understand Nihil’s warning and his face hardened. Now that his mother, who was a spirit master, has passed away, Kara has no one to compare herself to. Every single action of Kara’s will be reflected in the spirit master’s image, and the little child’s mistakes will soon become the spirit master’s mistakes.

“You can’t show yourself to the public until you become familiar with spirit magic. You also need to establish proper ethics.”

“I…, then….”

Karus hesitated for a moment and then brought his other brothers forward.

“Are these guys impossible?”

Wouldn’t it be better to increase the comparison group by one? Karus continued cautiously, thinking that it might be able to act as a shield in front of the still young Kara.

“It’ll be difficult right now because I don’t have a magic stone…, but maybe later….”

“it’s hard.”

However, Nihil flatly refused. The second is already a 4th circle magician, and the third is also a swordsman whose mana heart is hardening, so he will soon be handling the auror.

“If you want to sign a contract, you have to give up everything you’ve achieved and start from scratch.”

The turquoise-haired ones bowed their heads deeply. Rather than feeling disappointed at not being able to learn spirit magic, they seemed to be more regretful of not being able to carry on their mother’s will and of not being able to protect their younger siblings.

Nihil stared at those heads for a long time, then closed one eye and opened it. Under the closed eyelids, the black pupils held a clear blue-green color.

“How about a teacher, not younger siblings?”

“Huh? Are you talking about me?”

Karus, who was comforting his younger siblings by stroking their heads, opened his eyes wide as if he had never thought of it.

“Honestly…, the teacher is the least talented. But….”

Nihil rolled his turquoise eyes under his closed eyelids and looked at the small wind that followed Karus alone.

“…I guess you treasured the spirit stone I gave you.”

“Oh, that’s it!”

Karus smiled brightly and showed me the small spirit stone in a glass bottle that was hanging around my neck.

“I brushed it thoroughly every day. Sometimes I even sang a lullaby to it.”

I read in some ancient book that a baby spirit sleeps inside the spirit stone. As he said this, Karus took it out and cleaned it until it made a squeaking sound.

However, the ones sleeping inside the spirit stones are not baby spirits, but rather, most of them are weak spirits that have lost their power and are just waiting to disappear.

Nihil stared blankly at the hazy wind blowing across his face, then opened his mouth.

“(Do you want to be with him?)”

The spirit flinched at the question, looked at Nihil, and then nodded hesitantly.

“(Yes. It will be as you wish.)”

* * *

Nihil tried to teach Kara the art of mana training, but remembered that his sister was a sorceress and passed it on to her.

“No, Oppa! That’s not it! Kara is so good at this, so why are you like that?”

…Unfortunately, Karus seems to have no talent for mana training.

“But Neil, doesn’t your hair look strangely shiny?”

Yeah, actually now is not the time to worry about others.

At the moment, he was not a complete human. To be exact, he was a ‘human with added doggy scent’.

When I first took the blood of the pup and checked, he was definitely human. But today, when I was chased by the Wind King and hurriedly bitten off the guy’s arm, things were different.

The pain of being burned alive in a fire that came as soon as I became acquainted with the puppy.

The pain was very brief, but Nihil could quickly guess what it was.

Divine punishment.

‘But why?’

“What are you looking at?”

When I stared at him intently, the shy puppy responded bashfully.

The current puppy doesn’t seem to be receiving divine punishment. The reason the divine punishment was immediately taken away must be because he realized that he had made a mistake.

“That can’t be. It must be the light reflecting off of it. My hair is white.”

“Is that so?”

“huh.”

I was really concerned about my hair sparkling in the moonlight.