How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 228



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Episode 228

“Ugh, uh-uh-uh, hi-uh, uh-uh-uh…….”

Lianus sat down on the grass and cried without thinking about his dignity. He looked quite bad, having rolled around on the muddy ground, but he had no time to think about such things.

After crying until my eyes were swollen shut, I was able to see my surroundings a little. The sun that had been high in the sky was now slightly tilted and burning red.

Lianus said nothing and just stared blankly at the ground for a long time. Just then, ants were passing by, carrying insect carcasses on their backs.

‘worm…….’

Suddenly, I remembered the bugs that had been attracted by the sweet scent of the cream.

‘The dessert that Sir Evan bought last time was also probably aimed at Nihil… … .’

Then why did Evan try to eat it himself?

Rianus looked up from his daze and looked at Nihil. My friend had been staring at me the whole time, and our eyes met right away.

Nihil was silent. He wanted to ask what you would do if Sir Evan tried to harm you, what I would do, but his lips would not move easily.

“…Neil.”

“Yeah. I’m here.”

“…….”

Even though this situation must have seemed strange, you just stayed by my side silently. On the one hand, that was strange.

…Why don’t you ask anything? Did you actually know everything? Or did you… … .

There were many things I wanted to ask. But I was afraid of the answers I would get, so in the end I couldn’t ask any of them.

I was afraid that even Nihil might go somewhere, that my only escort was not mine, that even my only close friend might leave my side.

‘Your Majesty.’

When on earth did it start? No, maybe it was from the very beginning. What was he thinking as he stayed by my side for five years?

Poor? Funny? Stupid?

“iced coffee…….”

Tears welled up in my eyes again. I believed that he was my person. I thought that Evan would never betray me, even if it was someone else.

No, if he wasn’t my person from the beginning, then isn’t that a betrayal?

It just went back to where it was.

Lianus groaned as he sat up. He couldn’t sit like this forever.

Rustle.

The soft grass tickled my toes. It would have been a pleasant tickling sensation before, but now it felt like a bug was crawling on my foot.

Lianus lowered his head slightly and looked at his feet. His other shoe had come off when he fell, so they were bare.

“…….”

When I raised my gaze slightly, I saw a shoe flying far away. When I opened my palm, I saw the bracelet I had been holding tightly for some time.

‘I definitely slept with it off my wrist.’

I checked it right before I went to sleep, so it couldn’t be a mistake. Didn’t I think that Nihil would come back because of this bracelet?

Lianus looked down at his tattered robe, which was covered in dirt and torn in places.

The outer garment worn over the pajamas, as if she had slept in it, was, comically, neatly buttoned up to the neck.

“…….”

Lianus closed his eyes tightly and opened them. Then he quietly called out to Nihil.

“Neil.”

“huh.”

“Save my knight.”

The still moist eyes no longer trembled.

* * *

“Wow, Your Highness! The Second Prince has returned!”

“what……?”

Helia asked back, as if she had heard something absolutely ridiculous.

“What are you talking about?”

This couldn’t be happening. The second prince was supposed to be released after two days? And he hadn’t even caught Baedong yet.

But contrary to Helia’s thoughts, the soldier who had come up to report in a hurry shouted again.

“The Second Prince has just arrived at the palace. He is in the lobby now.”

“……Prince!”

Evan, who had been standing there blankly, cut the rope and ran out. The knights were surprised and tried to catch him, but Evan shook them all off and ran.

‘Ah, prince.’

Could it be that Karus-sama came looking for me? No, maybe the wildcat guy came back.

‘If that lynx brought it, how did he know to bring it…?’

Evan quickly shook off the thought, though he had a moment of doubt. What did it matter who brought it? The important thing was that the prince had returned.

The prince might know everything and look at me with contempt, but for now, I just wanted to make sure my master was okay.

Evan ignored the stairs and jumped over the railing, jumped over, jumped over, and jumped down to the first floor. The surprised servants screamed, but Evan couldn’t hear them.

“Huh? What are you all doing?”

The small, curly green head tilted its head as if it could not judge the situation in the palace. It seemed a little wet.

At the sound of someone coming down the stairs, the round and sparkling odd eyes looked up at him. And then they curved round.

“Sir Evan!”

“ah…….”

Seeing that smile, Evan dared to relax. He thought that he hadn’t been caught yet.

The small baby ran towards Odo and hugged the much larger body tightly.

Evan felt that his master’s body was a little cold, so he quickly hugged him and examined him to see if he was hurt anywhere.

The clothes were a little dirty, but not torn.

‘… Did I put this on you…?’

Suddenly, he felt that the color of the outer garment he had dressed her in seemed subtly different, but he wasn’t sure because he had just dressed her in whatever he could get his hands on in the dark.

There were no major visible wounds, but there were small scratches on the palms of his hands. Upon closer inspection, he also felt that one side of his cheek seemed slightly swollen.

When he raised his hand and gently swept it away, the prince smiled bashfully, slapping his chubby cheek, but Evan couldn’t smile.

“…What happened?”

Evan asked and then laughed to himself. What happened? I was kidnapped and barely managed to escape, so why are you asking me this?

But my master instead rubbed his face against my hand and opened his mouth brightly.

“I almost fell down while running in the forest. But Neil showed up and caught me. But it was fun, so let’s do it again next time!”

“……yes?”

What are you talking about?

Evan was dumbfounded. The gathered servants and knights exchanged glances, wondering what was going on.

The queen, who came down late, also flinched slightly at the words spoken brightly by Lianus.

Lianus continued to babble as if he had not noticed the presence of the queen.

“Escape game! This time it was really real. I was really surprised! Where did you hire those actors? Let’s go see a play later!”

“…….”

“More importantly, why are you all gathered here?”

“…….”

Evan looked at Nihil, who was standing a little way away, with his eyes slightly trembling. But the guy just tilted his head as if he didn’t know what he was talking about.

“Your Majesty, how did you come here with that guy?”

“Huh? We came here holding hands?”

“…….”

Evan asked again, wondering if he had asked the wrong question.

“…Where did you meet?”

“Here in the back mountain. Weren’t you waiting for me to escape?”

“…….”

Lianus blinked his big eyes and looked back at his friend. Nihil tilted his head at those words and shook his head.

“Huh, huh? No?”

“…….”

“…….”

The palace lobby was enveloped in silence.

Evan had to rack his brain to figure out where and how his master was misunderstanding things.

No, actually, I didn’t even have to think about it. It seemed like I had completely misunderstood everything from beginning to end.

The butler quickly came over and explained the situation. The prince had been kidnapped and had only been back for a day and a half. While explaining, the butler looked at the prince from every corner and turned him around.

Lianus, who had been spinning in place at the butler’s touch, asked again.

“Really…, has a day passed?”

“Yes. I’m glad you came back safely.”

“Then, there are no products?”

“…….”

The servants’ faces became strange. Helia also laughed in vain as if she found it ridiculous, then pointed to Nihil, who was standing there blankly, and gave orders to the knights.

“Hold on to that.”

“yes!”

The Duke’s private soldiers immediately surrounded Nihil. Rianus was surprised by their behavior and blocked his friend’s path.

“What are you doing now!”

“We’re just capturing the criminals who committed the murder and kidnapping of the royal family. What are you doing, why don’t you quickly capture them?”

“My friend did nothing wrong!”

At those words, Nihil, who had been looking at the people surrounding me, tilted his head again and nodded as if there was nothing wrong.

“I was the one who was kidnapped in the first place, so why is Your Majesty intervening? Please hand over the soldiers from my palace!”

“Your Majesty has handed over this investigation authority to me. Whether this is wrong or not will be known after the investigation. Separate public from private, Second Prince.”

“This is ridiculous!”

“If the spirit is not at fault, I will release it again. It may not be a spirit, but an evil beast.”

As Helia said that, she looked Nihil up and down. Nihil opened his mouth as he looked the queen in the eye.

‘I’m going to die.’

“…I, I…!”

Helia stuttered for a moment, overcome with emotion. She couldn’t read Nihil’s lips exactly, but she remembered what she had seen in the diary.

But before he could say anything, Lianus quickly pulled Nihil towards him and wrapped him protectively.

“My friend is neither a spirit nor an evil beast!”

“I…! Big, ahem. Everyone says that. But how could that be an ordinary human being?”

Helia barely regained her senses and continued speaking in a whisper before nodding at the window.

“……!”

The faces of those who turned their heads in response to the nod were filled with shock. Before they knew it, the outside of the palace was surrounded by pure white birds.

The servants who had checked outside the window late also began to grumble among themselves.

“…What is that?”

“The sky is full of birds!”

“Jane, why is it a bird and not a lynx?”

“Well, well.”

“…Are you guys joking like that right now?”

“I guess you’re a real spirit!”

Rianus was also surprised to see the bird, and he opened his eyes wide and looked at his friend. Nihil just tilted his head as if there was nothing wrong with meeting Rianus’ eyes.

“Come on, grab that.”

The order to capture Nihil was given again, and a man who appeared to be a knight grabbed Nihil’s wrist viciously.

As the small body began to sway violently, Evan, who had been kneeling next to Lianus, suddenly stood up and snatched Nihil into his arms.

“What the heck is this!”

“It’s just transporting the criminal.”

“Just a weak… child!”

Evan hesitated a bit when he uttered the word weak, but the knights simply laughed.

“If it’s a spirit, it wouldn’t be ordinary.”

“If this is a spirit, then its retaliation is not scary…! Hey, hey! Stay still!”

At that moment, Nihil started hitting Evan on the cheek. Evan looked at him as if asking why, but Nihil seemed not to understand the meaning of his gaze and flinched in his arms before jumping down.

One of the Duke’s knights picked up the nape of Nihil’s neck as he jumped down.

“…….”

Nihil stared blankly up at the knight who had grabbed his nape. The knight looked into those mysterious eyes, hesitated for a moment, and then carefully picked him up. If he was a real spirit, it would be bad to incur hatred.

While Evan was looking at the article as if it was ridiculous, the cat smiled happily, as if it seemed to please him.

“Please transfer.”

The cat was dragged away like that. Like being treated as a master.