How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 202



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Episode 202

“Neil, your hair is all tangled up. Let me braid it again!”

A kitten who had been running around the garden merrily plopped down on a picnic mat to catch her breath, then walked over to a lynx that didn’t seem to be bothered at all. It seems like our kitten has some strange compulsion to take care of the lynx’s fur.

“I want to do Kara too! Kara will dress you up nicely!”

“Oh, then me too……”

Perhaps it was fun playing with the baby’s hair that made a mess of it, but the other children also slowly approached Nihil.

In the meantime, Revan tried to tease Nihil by bringing a bug and got scolded by Sergio, but he couldn’t give up teasing him and decorated Nihil’s hair by poking leaves into it.

Evan raised the corners of his mouth involuntarily as he watched Nihil’s hair becoming more and more messed up the more the kids fiddled with it. It was as if the kids were fiddling around so much that their hands were starting to stain his pure white hair.

Even in the midst of all this, the wildcat looked very satisfied, as if he was glad that the children were huddled around him rather than that his head was ruined.

“It’s strange. I’m sure the baby had his hair braided like this…….”

Our lovely kitten tilted his head. What started out as a three-braided hairdo had now become five-braided hairdo.

“Your Majesty, that is not how it is done.”

Evan smiled softly and approached the lynx, grabbing its head and running his hands through it. Leaves and flower petals fell down. The hair, which had been tangled up, was unexpectedly smoothed out and came out in a flurry.

“What should I tie it with?”

“This is Kara!”

“I have this.”

“Isn’t this prettier?”

“Neil would look good in anything.”

The question was directed at the lynx, but the answer actually came from somewhere else. Evan smiled awkwardly as he looked at the head decorations sticking out here and there.

But just as I was about to extend my hand, thinking that it would be best to use what our prince had offered, the lynx opened its mouth.

“entire.”

Evan chuckled at that answer. It would certainly be ridiculous to wear all the hair accessories, but the soft voice of the guy who said he would even take it all on was both arrogant and affectionate.

“You’re greedy.”

“yes.”

Evan willingly showed off his skills for the first time in a long while for Nihil, who had become greedy. Although he couldn’t completely escape the ridiculousness brought on by the excessive decoration, it wasn’t as strange as I thought, perhaps because his appearance supported it, or because he was so calm.

“You look like a princess from a fairy tale!”

Kara circled Nihil with shining eyes. The little girl’s hair was all messed up from all the running around, and I was wondering if I should tie it back up or not, when the girl turned her head to me and spoke.

“Please treat me like a princess, Kara!”

‘Brother, tie me up like a princess from a fairy tale.’

“…yes.”

Evan answered a beat later in the voice of a child whose last name he had vaguely remembered, then carefully untied his pigtails.

‘This is not a princess. It doesn’t look like her!’

‘… Sorry. I’ll practice more.’

‘Next time, you have to treat me like a princess.’

‘huh.’

There was definitely a time when I felt awkward touching my hair.

“My secret friend is very talented. Teach me!”

“It’s just a trick.”

Karus, who had been watching from the side, approached him in admiration, but Evan smiled awkwardly and passed it by.

‘When was the last time you went to Aril?’

Evan naturally counted the prince’s schedule and the days he could go out. He thought of a list of knights who would escort the prince instead of him, but the people he could ask were more limited than he thought.

Master… , will be busy, so I asked Karus-sama to take care of the cat… , No, no. No matter what, it would be a bit much to drag in an outside reporter… . The temporary pharmacist is not only untrustworthy, but I don’t know his skills yet. And he’s still young.

Vice-captain, you must be busy too. It seems like you’ve been enjoying teaching the prince dual swords lately… I’ll tell His Majesty to make you a shadow knight… no.

What if they ask why I’m going out?

Evan stopped his hand, suddenly overcome by anxiety.

“Secret friend?”

“…Miss, you can just call me Evan.”

Evan’s hand, which had stopped at Kara’s strange title, moved again. It was all because of the Marquis who called him his secret friend.

“But my older brother said we were secret friends.”

“Kara, Sir Evan is my secret friend, so you shouldn’t call him that.”

“I want to be your secret friend too.”

“Well, that’s… a bit difficult.”

“Why?”

“Well… ”

Karus, who didn’t want his only secret friend to be taken away by his younger brother, muttered something random.

“Since Sir Evan is secret friends with this brother, if Kara becomes secret friends with Sir Evan, then Kara and her brother will become friends with their secret friends, right?”

“……?”

“This brother is Kara’s brother, so wouldn’t it be weird if he became the friend of my secret friend?”

“Well, Kara, it’s hard. I don’t want to be your secret friend.”

The little girl, who didn’t want to use her head, gave up on being secret friends with Evan because of her brother’s sophistry and turned her head to Nihil.

“Friend, Kara also wants to wear that hairpin.”

“okay.”

Nihil smiled lowly and handed over the largest ribbon pin in his hair to its original owner. It seemed to be a treasured hairpin. The large ribbon rose above Kara’s head like cat ears.

‘Hairpin… Should I buy you some?’

Evan looked at Kara like that and thought of his sister. Ariel likes flowers, so she might like a flower-shaped hairpin as a gift.

I was already worried about where to buy things like hairpins for the kids, but I smiled faintly when I thought of my little sister who would love them.

“Here comes the baby snake.”

“…….”

The smile soon disappeared.

* * *

“Your Majesty, shall we send a message to the palace of Wernus?”

“No. I want to surprise you, so I think it would be better not to put it in.”

You don’t have to include any messages. I’ve never included anything like that before, and Rianus has always been happy to visit me. In the first place, there’s no way Rianus could refuse my visit.

But if by any chance Lianus refused, he would be the only one who would look ridiculous, so Lawrence muttered with his eyebrows furrowed as if he was embarrassed.

“…What if Rianus doesn’t like it?”

“No, Prince. Don’t worry too much.”

“But…, my relationship with my younger brother hasn’t been good lately….”

I feel a little cautious. As I quietly muttered like that, sighs erupted from all over.

“Your Majesty the Second Prince is going too far. The Prince has always taken care of me, and now you’re behaving so unjustly just because you have a friend?”

“No. I scolded my brother too…….”

“Your Majesty, you only spoke the truth! It was you, the Second Prince, who was rude and tried to protect that worthless commoner child!”

That’s right, that’s right. There were voices of agreement here and there. Lawrence sneered again.

Now, even if Rianus refuses, it won’t be bad for me. I will be the poor older brother who came with a gift but was cruelly kicked out, and Rianus will be the heartless younger brother who chased away his older brother who came with a gift.

Yes, he didn’t do anything wrong in the first place. He was just pointing out his younger brother’s wrongdoings as an older brother. It was Rianus who picked up such a thing and acted in a way that did not befit the authority of the royal family.

‘… It’s still cheap. It’s so nice to match it with other things.’

‘Yes, that’s fine.’

‘… … .’

‘It’s much more than hanging out with my brother.’

Suddenly, a decisive voice passed by and made his mood sink. Of course, Rianus was upset at being criticized and blurted out the words unintentionally, but he could not forgive someone for daring to compare himself to something so cheap.

As we approached the Palace of Wernus, we could hear children babbling.

“Neil! From now on, I’ll take responsibility for combing your hair!”

At the cheerful voice, Lawrence instinctively glanced at his hair, which was tied to the side, and quickly frowned.

Where has the dignity of a prince gone, combing the hair of a lowly being?

Lawrence hurried his steps again, thinking that he would have to cut its hair short later.

The children were sitting in a circle on picnic mats, and the servants who saw them started to chat amongst themselves as if telling them to listen.

“Even though he is only half-a-prince, he has the status of a prince, and yet he is at the bottom like that…….”

“The only person I have close to is a commoner knight. I guess I’m being contagious.”

“They say she doesn’t have any maids or servants, but I guess she has never been properly served.”

“Look at the garden, it’s so empty it’s hard to believe it’s a palace.”

“You really are the one who is destroying the dignity of royalty.”

Lawrence didn’t comment on the gossip of the servants. He just thought that picnic mats shouldn’t be used.

“Then this time Kara will be the tagger!”

“……?”

But then suddenly the children got up and scattered.

“Uh, no…, that….”

Lawrence felt a little embarrassed as he watched the children scatter. He couldn’t do anything rude like shouting out, so he wondered what to do about the situation, and then suddenly realized that Baedong was nowhere to be seen among the scattering children.

‘Baedong… where did he go?’

I’m sure Rianus was with me since he just said he was going to comb my hair…

suddenly.

“……!”

puck!

Lawrence was so surprised that he pushed away with all his might the thing that had suddenly appeared in front of him.

Fortunately or unfortunately, no funny sound came out, but the bouquet of flowers that had been brought as a gift was also thrown away, causing flower petals to scatter in front of my eyes.

The rounded petals falling down quietly looked up at him. His eyes, resembling the universe, were mysterious and unfamiliar whenever he saw them.

I was blankly staring at the unfamiliar appearance no matter how many times I saw it, when I heard Sulae’s singing.

Hide, hide, hide in the shadows. When the sun goes down, the monster will wake.

When a monster approaches, close your eyes tightly. You will be captivated by its beautiful eyes.

Hide, hide, hide in the dark. When the moon rises, the monsters will come.

When the monster sings, cover your ears tightly. You will fall in love with its beautiful voice.

Hide, hide, hide behind the smile. When the sun rises, the monster will go away.

Find the child before the monster falls asleep. Find the child for my beloved monster.

“…monster.”

“…….”

“No, I didn’t say that to you. Are you okay?”

Lawrence muttered without realizing it, then came to his senses and held out his hand to Baedong.

“Prince!”

“It’s dangerous!”

“Are you okay?”

However, he was unable to stir up trouble because the servants who came to their senses too late surrounded him.

Lawrence glanced at the condition of the abdomen between the servants who were examining his body. It was true that the abdomen that suddenly popped out was a hundred times wrong, but the fact that it had injured Lianus’ abdomen might have created strange rumors later, so if it had been injured, measures had to be taken to prevent anyone from talking about it.

‘… When did my hair grow so long?’

It was clearly a length that only reached to his shoulders, but now it seemed longer than him. Could it really be inhuman, as rumored?

Baedong’s hair, which was absentmindedly brushing away dirt, was covered in a comically large number of ornaments, and the flower petals on top of it made it even more colorful.

Thanks to his outstanding appearance, he didn’t look that bad, but he couldn’t help but look a little lacking.

‘… What is that black, round ornament… … .’

Lawrence stared intently at the fur ball on Baedong’s head, which he had no idea was used for decoration, then lowered his gaze slightly and met Baedong’s eyes.

As I was staring blankly at it without realizing it, Baedong got up from his seat and took a step closer.

“Get out!”

The knights drew their swords too late and threatened the child. However, Baedong tilted his head as if he was not afraid of the blade thrusting in, and he gathered the intact flowers from the fallen flowers and handed them to me.

“ah…….”

Lawrence took the bouquet, which had clearly shrunk in size, in a daze. Suddenly, a thought crossed his mind.

“Would you like to take it?”

Lawrence smiled as he handed Baedong a bouquet of flowers.