How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 238



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Episode 238

Lawrence kept his mouth shut. Contrary to expectations, it was not the escort knight who entered the room, but Baedong.

He was holding a simple snack in his hand, which seemed to have been brought for me to eat.

“Aren’t you hungry?”

“…….”

Of course he was hungry, but Lawrence couldn’t say so because of his pride, so he turned his head away.

Gulp-

“…….”

“…….”

The stomach made a fuss without warning. Lawrence wanted to make excuses that he wasn’t hungry, but his mouth was blocked, so he couldn’t do that.

Clack, clack, clack.

Baedong approached me, placed the plate of food next to me, and took off the cloth covering my mouth.

“What the heck is this…!”

“Shhh, are you okay?”

“…….”

Lawrence gaped in amazement at being treated like a brat. But then he realized that getting out of there was the priority, so he continued to speak calmly.

“If your mother finds out about this, she won’t let it go. I won’t tell you that you’re the culprit, so why don’t you stop now?”

“lie.”

“…….”

“Your lies might work on a naive child, but they won’t work on me.”

Well, that won’t work on Lian either. Baedong said as he picked up his plate again and poked at the vegetables wrapped in bacon.

The hungry Lawrence stared at the delicious-looking food for a moment, then suddenly came to his senses and turned his head away.

“I know what you put in your food.”

But Baedong, not knowing that it was sarcasm, put his fork away, stared into the bacon, and opened his mouth.

“Hmm… there are mushrooms and paprika inside the bacon.”

“…….”

“Why, you don’t like paprika, either?”

But I won’t let you go. You shouldn’t be picky. I felt strange listening to the kidnapper’s calm voice.

Lawrence stared at the bacon roll being pushed in again. He wanted to open his mouth at any moment because of the unfamiliar hunger, but his pride and reason spurred him to hold back.

“Not eating?”

“…….”

Maybe it was because I smelled food, but I felt my stomach churning.

Should I eat it? Can I eat it? Although his stomach was strong, he didn’t seem to think that food was poisoned, so it shouldn’t be okay. As I thought that, I opened my mouth.

“Why, I was afraid the food might be poisoned.”

“…….”

Lawrence froze with his lips slightly parted at the words that were blurted out so thoughtlessly.

My head was spinning. Was this just a joke, or was it something he said to test me?

No. Whatever that meant, being nervous here would only make my feet numb. Lawrence tried to relax his expression.

“……!”

But before he could get Taeyeon back, Lawrence froze again at the touch of a hand stroking the back of his neck.

To be exact, it was Baedong who had straightened the hair that had fallen forward, but Lawrence couldn’t look straight into those eyes because for some reason his spine felt creepy.

Baedong laughed quietly, his voice shaking, as if he found himself funny.

“Strawberry cake.”

“……!

no way…….

Lawrence’s pupils trembled slightly. And at that moment, his head, which had been bowed down, was forcibly lifted by Baedong’s hand, and he met the mysterious pupils in front of his nose.

The night sky was round and curved.

“Did you think I wouldn’t know?”

Shudder.

You knew everything.

That the cake was poisoned, and that he was the culprit.

Lawrence’s nerves suddenly dropped.

“Then…, about the knights escorting Lianus….”

“know.”

“Then why do you just leave it alone!”

Lawrence shouted for no reason. He couldn’t understand Baedong’s actions. What does it mean to be on Lianus’ side and leave the traitor alone?

But the answer that came out of Baedong’s mouth was something I never expected.

“Because Lian wants it that way.”

“……!”

Lianus too… , you know?

Lawrence’s crimson eyes trembled violently. How on earth did he know everything? His mind was filled with confusing questions.

Are you saying that you acted so naturally even though you knew it all? Is that Lianus who is so bad at lying? Or does it not matter if he is a traitor? How can you do that? You never know when you will be hit in the back of the head… …!

“Of course, the little guy didn’t even know he’d been caught….”

I came back to my senses at the sound of a smiling voice.

‘Remember, Louis. You must not show weakness. The moment the prince shows weakness, everyone will bring him down. That’s the kind of people that are. They can’t stand seeing someone above them. They have no one to trust but this mother.’

Do you understand, Louis?

“…are you going to kill me?”

He tried to pretend that he wasn’t scared and that nothing had happened, but his voice cracked and cracked in an unpleasant way. He thought that he was really ugly, but Baedong, who was staring at him, tilted his head and opened his mouth in a strange manner.

“Why me.”

“…? Then why me…?”

Kidnapped beggar?

“It’s just… I’ve been getting kidnapped all the time so I wanted to try kidnapping someone too.”

“…….”

“Well, it would be good to experience it once in a while.”

Kidnapping… …?

For a moment, I was dumbfounded and my mouth fell open. Baedong, who had never spoken before, began to speak, but Baedong still couldn’t understand whether he was speaking or not.

“Okay, okay.”

Before he knew it, a piece of bacon had slipped through his slightly parted lips. Lawrence chewed it reflexively, then froze at the thought that it might be poisonous.

“You can’t be a picky eater.”

“…….”

It wasn’t because of picky eating that he stopped moving his mouth, but Lawrence chewed his food again at Baedong’s determination. Perhaps because he was hungry, he couldn’t spit it out easily.

“ruler.”

As he chewed and swallowed what was in his mouth, food naturally came in one after another. Eventually, Lawrence could not control his appetite and finished the entire plate.

Baedong wiped the oil off the corners of my mouth and even applied medicine to my skin that had turned red from being rubbed by the rope.

Lawrence felt a sense of relief at the strange affection. Somehow, it didn’t seem like it would hurt him.

But Nihil opened his mouth a little harshly, looking at Lawrence whose expression had relaxed.

“What are you relieved of?”

“…….”

“You’ve been kidnapped.”

“but,”

“baby.”

“…….”

“Do you think I would kidnap you without any countermeasures?”

Lawrence was taken aback by the distinct change in tone and atmosphere.

“Do you think I’m kind?”

“…….”

Lawrence couldn’t answer because of the rapidly growing psychological distance, so he kept his mouth shut. Baedong smiled as if the heavy atmosphere was a joke and continued speaking.

“If you can escape, then do it. My child escaped on his own.”

“…It was you who helped me….”

“I just picked up Lian who escaped.”

Isn’t our child amazing? Baedong, who had been praising Rianus as if it were a given, put something on my wrist that was already tied with a rope. It was a cheap bracelet made of thread, like the kind you would see at a street stall.

That’s pink too.

“…….”

Lawrence froze again at the sight of the color, but tried not to show it.

‘I wonder if he knows something and is doing this.’

The flowers you gave me before were also pink. I might just like the color pink, but maybe… … .

“It’s a gift. My child escaped with this too. I’ll give you a special chance, too.”

“…….”

Should I be grateful that the kidnapper gave me a chance to escape? How am I supposed to escape with such a crude bracelet?

“I won’t tell you how to use it. I’ll be in trouble if you escape.”

“…If the knight decides to watch over you anyway, you won’t be able to escape…….”

“Can you get away from me?”

“…….”

That was the case too.

Lawrence recalled the fleeting landscape he had seen through the fibers of a thousand sacks.

Baedong, with his back to the king, sneaked up to the fifth floor of the Wernus Palace as if the security of the royal palace was a joke.

He used to jump up and down tall trees and walls of buildings, but he was dragged here without even making a sound because he was told that if he screamed, he would be thrown down.

“We have to get out quickly. There isn’t much time left.”

“…There’s not much left, so I’m sure he won’t kill me…….”

“no.”

Baedong cut me off, then came closer to me again and pretended to brush my hair back while putting a long earring on my finger.

“this…….”

“…! Don’t take it out!”

Lawrence shook his head in horror. Nihil looked at Lawrence like that and smiled.

“I’m out of mana.”

“How, how did you do that…!”

“The spell will probably wear off sometime tomorrow night.”

“Did I know everything?”

And then you pretended you didn’t know anything and said you wanted the earrings… …?

Lawrence felt betrayed for some reason. He had never trusted her from the beginning, but when he realized that even the small favor that Baedong had shown him was fake, he felt a surge of sadness.

But Nihil, reading Lawrence’s emotions, smiled even brighter as if to say something and whispered quietly in his ear.

“If you don’t want your secret to be revealed….”

You’ll have to hurry.

* * *

“Strawberry cake.”

Stop.

“Did you think I wouldn’t know?”

“…….”

Evan, who came to check on the prince’s condition, put down his hand that was trying to grab the doorknob. What kind of conversation is this?

No, there’s no use pretending not to know. Don’t you already know the answer?

“Then…, about the knights escorting Lianus….”

“know.”

“Then why do you just leave it alone!”

The first prince shouted. Evan also wanted to ask the same question as the first prince.

Why did you just leave me alone? Why didn’t you have to kick me out for the prince’s sake? Why did you act like you didn’t know anything and show me such kindness until now?

“Because Lian wants it that way.”

ah…….

Evan’s face contorted.

* * *

Lawrence struggled for hours trying to free the rope, but by the time dawn broke, he was overcome by sleep and began to nod off.

Click.

Through my increasingly distant consciousness, I heard the sound of a door opening.

‘…Who is it?’

At the sound of movement around him, Lawrence tried to raise his head, but he was too sleepy to even open his eyes.

The visitor approached cautiously, mindful of the sound of his footsteps.

‘… Is it Baedong?’

It won’t be Rianus. There’s no way Rianus would take care of himself. He’d be lucky if he didn’t kill himself.

Lawrence guessed that the visitor was Baedong, as his footsteps were as light as a child’s, for a servant.

Since he packed me a meal last night, he might have come to pack me a meal this time too.

‘… It’s not like I’m giving you a bottle or medicine… … .’

Lawrence vowed to himself that this time he would never do anything so indecent. He was too tired to eat, after all.

‘I will never… , just let this pass. I will definitely, definitely escape… … .’

However, the consciousness of the child who had been tense all night could not last long and soon lost consciousness.

“…….”

Bush, click.

‘… Did you fall asleep… … ?’

Rianus, who had arrived early in the morning, leaned against Lawrence’s side and only when his head dropped did he feel relieved and came closer.

Since my close friend was the kidnapper, I couldn’t just let my brother go, but I couldn’t just leave him alone either.

Lianus looked at the wounds that could be there, drawing on his own experience of being kidnapped. The skin where the rope had touched was bright red and peeled off, as if he had been struggling all night.

‘This really hurts… … .’

Chit-chit-chit-chit.

‘Okay!’

After applying a generous amount of Nihil’s special ointment, Lianus wrapped a soft cloth around her skin and tied it up before quickly leaving the room.