How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 230



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Episode 230

‘The two are ordered to keep an eye on Knight Evan. If he takes any sudden action, he is to be executed immediately.’

When Evan heard the order, he wondered what it meant. Rather than thinking that his punishment was excessive, he simply wondered whether the old butler and the delicate maid could execute him so quickly.

Of course, that question quickly flew away.

‘I don’t know how useful this old man will be, but I will do my best.’

‘… … !’

Immediately after that, the butler drew his sword and showed his Majesty the courtesy of a knight.

The swift and clean draw of the sword, which was hard to believe was that of an old man, and the bluish-gray aura that rose from the blade clearly showed that the old man before his eyes was no ordinary butler.

With a feeling of hopelessness, Evan naturally turned his gaze towards the head maid. However, Evan was so startled that he had to quickly turn his head back.

To my surprise, the maid was taking off her skirt!

When I took off the fluttering skirt, what I saw was a very neatly… … .

‘… It was a mace.’

In other words, it was a sledgehammer. In simpler terms, it was called a club.

Perhaps for the sake of weight balance, there was one on each leg. He showed off his hard work by swinging the iron club around, making Evan’s back tense.

“Now, Sir Evan!”

Evan, who was lying stiffly on the bed, flinched at the sight of the teddy bear in his arms.

“I’ll lend you my PooPoo. Hold it and sleep.”

“I can’t just lend it to you because it’s going to be stolen,” the prince added, shamelessly hugging the rabbit doll tightly to his chest.

Evan glanced away from his old teddy bear. Despite the late hour, the butler, who was talking about work with Prince Sergio, noticed my gaze and turned his head to smile kindly.

“…….”

Evan quickly lowered his eyes again, half in fear and half in apology.

“…Then I will handle it that way.”

Prince Sergius bowed and left the room.

His supervision was done in turns by the butler and the head maid, which made the newbie Prince Sergius very busy. The only person who could replace the butler and the head maid was a child of a noble family.

‘Confucius, I’m really… sorry.’

Evan sincerely apologized to Sergio. Wasn’t this all because he stayed by the prince’s side?

‘It’s okay. The butler takes good care of me… Honestly, if it weren’t for the prince suddenly disappearing, I think everything would be okay now.’

‘… … .’

Prince Sergius said it was okay, but he seemed to have already lost his senses.

Evan, the culprit behind the incident, quickly changed the subject as he had no more words to add.

‘… Were you by any chance preparing to enter the palace before?’

‘I don’t know either. I wonder if I was preparing to enter the palace or something… When I came to my senses, I realized that I was naturally receiving training.’

Confucius added with an awkward smile.

‘Actually, the reason I decided to enter the palace was because of you, my lord.’

‘Did that guy threaten you using your leg as an excuse?’

‘Haha, it’s true that I felt a sense of guilt, but you never mentioned it first. Instead… … .’

‘… … ?’

‘My child is good at doing things on his own, so there’s not much to do. It’s great that I can just look at her and receive a salary. I can try it for a bit and if I don’t like it, I can just quit. I’ll give her a high starting salary, and I’ll even give her a retirement allowance if she works for only six months.’

‘… … .’

Evan was speechless. It was such an absurd argument, but strangely persuasive.

‘But I heard that he told me to train the butler so that he can hand over the job at any time.’

‘… … ?’

‘I was completely fooled.’

Somehow, I thought the new employee training was too systematic… Prince Sergio muttered as he trudged off to work.

“Sir Evan, what are you thinking?”

“Ah, Prince.”

Evan quickly shook off his thoughts. It was disqualifying as a knight to be thinking of something else while the prince was right next to him…

‘… Ah, you’re not a knight escort right now… … .’

Evan, who was lying on the bed, rolled over to the side. The prince looked up at me with his bright eyes, then took a book from the nightstand and handed it to me.

“Sir Evan, read me a storybook.”

“…Me?…?”

“huh!”

Evan took the storybook in a daze and straightened up. To be honest, it wasn’t difficult, but I wondered if the storybook I was reading would be fun.

“Hurry up~”

“Ah, yes…….”

At the cute urging, Evan had no choice but to open the storybook. He was a little nervous, so his voice came out stiff and unnatural, but the prince didn’t seem to care.

Could it be because the lynx is gone? The prince has been acting strangely these past few days.

Even if he only walked a little, he would ask to be carried because his legs hurt, or to be fed, or to throw tantrums and ask for someone to eat the vegetables he didn’t want to eat.

Even today, the child who grew up next to me is throwing a tantrum… … .

‘…Are you lonely?’

Maybe he was trying to fill the lynx’s void, Evan thought.

“…and lived happily ever after.”

“What a touching story!”

It was the same old story, without a single word changing, but the prince just smiled brightly and said it was good.

‘That would be nice. Because there’s a happy ending.’

Evan stared at the smiling fairy tale characters and covered his chin. He felt jealous for some reason.

“Sir Evan, lie down now!”

“…….”

Bang bang!

The prince patted the seat next to him and urged him to lie down quickly. Evan glanced at the butler who was watching him and carefully moved to lie down again.

The bed shook with every movement of his heavy body, but the prince laughed heartily as if he was enjoying it so much.

“…….”

There was silence for a moment. The soft, fluffy feeling of the bed that made you want to sink into it, and the soft, fluffy feeling of the pillow were both very unfamiliar.

Could it be that it’s all a dream?

He is still in prison, and is probably asleep and dreaming.

When I open my eyes, I wonder if I will see the prince looking at me with contempt.

“Sir Evan.”

At that moment, my master, whose voice was also sweet, broke the silence. Evan absentmindedly thought that it would be nice if this wasn’t a dream, and answered a beat later.

“…Yes, Your Majesty.”

“Sing me a lullaby too.”

“yes……?”

What are you calling?

“lullaby.”

“…….”

“Come on~”

“…….”

Evan corrected my thinking.

It didn’t seem like a dream. She wanted to do anything for the prince, but she didn’t want to sing a lullaby.

The kitten meowed again.

“Okay, Jang, go.”

…when will the lynx come?

* * *

‘Neil, save my article.’

Lianus asked for help from his best and most capable friend in the world, because he was too weak to save Sir Evan on his own.

‘Rian, you might not want the puppy.’

‘Evan Sir’s opinion doesn’t matter. I just want to do it.’

‘You might get hurt more.’

‘are you okay.’

It was not something to say when you were crying over being betrayed, but Lianus nodded and said it was okay.

My friend stared blankly at me and slowly opened his mouth.

‘… It’s okay if you grow a little more slowly.’

‘You don’t like me growing up?’

‘… I can’t stop until four hours. It’s just a little disappointing.’

My friend muttered something like that and then told me what he had to do.

‘Rian, while I’m out, tease Puppy hard so he doesn’t have any other thoughts.’

‘Okay! Okay. I’ll work hard!’

After finishing his reminiscence, Rianus picked up the paprika left on his plate with his fork to do his work.

“Sir Evan!”

“Yes, Prince.”

“Eat some paprika!”

“…….”

I’m not giving it to you because I don’t want to eat it. I’m giving it to you because my friend told me to tease Evan.

Actually, Sir Evan hates all vegetables no matter what you give him, but he still has to deal with paprika… … .

Rianus made excuses in his head, but then decided it was too much and took a picture of the meat too.

“ruler!”

“…….”

Evan hesitated for a moment, then decided to do the paprika for me.

“Ehehehe.”

Lianus laughed heartily. Who knew tormenting people could be this enjoyable?

‘Oh my, I shouldn’t get into a habit of this.’

Rianus quickly came to his senses and slapped the ball.

But contrary to my intention, Evan Sir spent a lot of time just standing there blankly. So I teased him hard.

“Sir Evan, hug me!”

“Sir Evan, put this on!”

“Evan, eat the carrots!”

“Sir Evan, sleep with me!”

“Sir Evan, read me a storybook!”

Sir Evan, Sir Evan, Sir Evan… … .

Lianus called Evan out of the blue. Even so, he seemed like he would drift away if he looked away for even a moment.

“…and lived happily ever after.”

“What a touching story!”

When the story ended, Lianus clapped his hands reflexively. Was it a touching story? Actually, I don’t know. I just kept looking at Sir Evan’s expression.

It must have been a touching story. It must have had a happy ending. That was the story that was set in stone. I know because it was a fairy tale I’d read over and over again.

“…….”

“…….”

There was a moment of silence. Sir Evan stared at the illustrations of the characters, then pressed his thumb against the smiling face of the witch and closed the book.

Are you jealous of the witch who became friends with them even though she kidnapped the princess?

‘Wait a minute. So, Sir Evan is a witch and I’m a princess?!’

Lianus’ eyes widened for a moment at the conclusion he had reached, but soon he smiled bashfully.

Who is who?

“Sir Evan.”

“…Yes, Your Majesty.”

“Sing me a lullaby too.”

The princess decided to do her own thing while waiting for the warrior.

* * *

While the princess was waiting for the warrior, harassing the witch, the warrior, the lynx, was locked in a luxurious-looking room.

‘It’s all blocked.’

It seemed like they were treating us well, but all the windows were blocked and there were always guards waiting at the entrance.

‘It’s not like I couldn’t get out though.’

Contrary to expectations that he would be dragged to the dungeons of Autumnum, the carriage carrying Nihil left the palace and headed to a mansion in the capital.

As soon as we arrived, we could easily tell that this was the Duke’s townhouse, thanks to the constant stream of servants who came out to pester us.

Although Aiden seemed to want to harass him, Nihil was quickly isolated as he was brought in as a criminal or a subject of investigation.

Within a few days, wizards, priests, sorcerers, fortune-tellers, and even a duke visited, but of course, they could find nothing out.

‘I wondered what would happen when the priest came… … .’

The divine power wasn’t as strong as I thought, so no problems occurred. Separately, it was very comfortable because the spirit didn’t think of talking to me, thinking that I was just a beast.

As there was no income, the number of people coming to visit gradually decreased. For the past two days, all they had done was give me food at mealtimes, but it seemed like they were trying to discourage me by neglecting me.

‘It’s more comfortable for me than being a bother… … .’

At first, knights stood guard, but the number gradually decreased, and after a week, only one person, who appeared to be a soldier, was left guarding the entrance.

“Hey, commoner!”

Around lunchtime, the door opened wide and a maid brought in food.

For some reason, the Gongsons followed them in with their attendants. It seemed that they had been insisting for several days that they would go see the spirits, and finally received permission.

Nihil quickly covered himself with the blanket and pretended to sleep. In fact, he was tired after staying up all night for several days.

“What is he doing? Sleep?”

“Hey! Show me your face!”

The servants came over to the pile of blankets and poked Nihil.

“Because he’s a spirit, he doesn’t need to eat. He hasn’t had a single meal in a week and just sleeps all day.”

“What are you not eating? How much does this person eat?”

“That’s right. When I was invited to Her Majesty the Queen’s luncheon, I ate it all by myself.”

“Yes? But…, I really just sleep and don’t do anything.”

“Is this okay?”

“Aren’t you going to die?”

“Hey! Wake up!”

‘I’m sleepy.’

The pranksters whined and wanted to play, but the old man was too tired to sleep, so he buried himself deeper under the blanket.

But soon, unexpected news arrived that made Nihil react.

“Your Majesty, Miss, I heard that the First Prince has come to visit.”

It was Lawrence.