How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 268
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Episode 268
Kwaaaaang!!!
A loud noise rang out. The man who had taken Evan’s sword was surprised by the different strength and tightened his grip on the sword.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
It was hard to believe that he was swinging it with one hand, but the destructive power felt like he was striking with a blunt weapon, and his jaw automatically tightened. The attack was so violent that the other knights had no room to intervene.
-Captain, try increasing the dose a bit more.
Walter almost shouted at the young voice in his head. His disciple was already in a state of confusion, having seen a furry ball with no eyes, nose, or mouth, and mistakenly thought it was his own head. How could he possibly give him medicine here?
This was crazy. I should have refused this from the beginning, but I was fooled into thinking they would make my child into a Sword Master… … !
‘Captain, it won’t work if you just protect him. And if you become a Sword Master, won’t you be conscious of punishing him? Since the only Sword Master just lost his arm, this is a very good opportunity.’
The irreversible severance of the one and only Sword Master. And the birth of a new Sword Master.
If possible, there couldn’t be a better scenario.
But Walter thought it was crazy. It wasn’t like Sword Master could just make something just because he wanted to. Furthermore, the plan was too extreme.
‘Isn’t it too dangerous?’
‘If you think about it that way, wouldn’t an artificially created situation be safer?’
‘… … .’
‘Think carefully, Captain. To be honest, taking that little punk out isn’t even a problem. You can just ask the Grand Duke to take him in. Giving up your current life and changing your status is also a way.’
‘Then it would be better to do it like that… … .’
‘Since I can’t survive alone, should I put the chains back on? Or should I live as someone I’m not?’
Walter couldn’t answer easily, especially since Evan was already in chains with the queen.
… But wouldn’t it be a little easier for Evan if he changed his identity and wouldn’t be tied down by the past anymore?
But the moment he said those words, Baedong’s face became colder than ever.
‘Captain, if you change your status, your disciple named ‘Evan’ will die.’
‘… … .’
‘And only in the empty tomb will the disciple’s name be mentioned.’
‘… … .’
‘Evan won’t be able to tell anyone that his brother is his brother, and he won’t be able to talk about the happy times in the past.’
‘… … .’
‘Evan’s name, the youngest and first commoner Royal Knight, will also be buried in the grave.’
Is that okay? Walter kept his mouth shut at those words. If nothing else, he knew that Evan was proud of his accomplishment.
Well, it couldn’t be otherwise. Isn’t that all Evan has to offer?
‘You know, he needs to be recognized for who he is. And soon I’ll be a weakling again. I don’t know when I’ll be able to help him again.’
I had no idea what he was talking about at the end, but I couldn’t deny that Evan deserved to be recognized for who he was.
‘If you try it and it doesn’t work, just quit.’
Walter ended up nodding at the light tone.
BANG! Crackle, crackle!
There was a sound of something twisting. Walter, who was reminiscing, looked at his sword blade in horror, but there was nothing unusual, and the same was true for Evan’s sword.
visor!
But then, something finally broke, and Evan’s momentum began to change. It wasn’t long before he realized that what had broken was the mana restraint.
“……!”
The pressure that was pressing upon me made my breath suffocate. Evan’s ivory eyes had suddenly begun to glow eerily in the darkness like those of a beast.
‘We need to finish this quickly so we can treat the child.’
But now, the situation has come where I have to worry about my own life more than about keeping Evan out of harm’s way.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Evan, who had lost his senses, ignored the increasing number of wounds and ignored all the attacks of the Shadow Knights, chasing only himself fiercely. As if he was determined to kill him with his own hands.
‘You must think of me as your teacher’s enemy.’
It was annoying that he mistook me for a wigged ball and didn’t recognize his teacher right in front of him, but I was still a little glad that he was getting so angry at me because I was his teacher.
But as time passed, Evan’s movements became slower and slower. Perhaps it was the medicine applied to the blade that was circulating.
If Evan collapses like this, it will be neither here nor there.
Walter hesitated for a moment and then opened his mouth softly.
“You even call that a teacher?”
“……!”
“You’d better come under me.”
Wouldn’t I be better than a ball wearing a wig? But the shit dog showed its teeth again, as if it still thought the ball was better.
Walter laughed hollowly. Yeah, maybe the ball would be better.
-Captain, spread out your distance.
At that moment, Baedong’s order came down. Walter didn’t know why, but he decided to follow it. If it weren’t for Baedong’s protective magic, he would have fallen long ago.
However, it wasn’t easy because Evan chased after him as soon as he gained distance. Walter was already exhausted. It was mentally exhausting to fight while controlling his opponent who was giving it his all without getting hurt.
Baedongdo realized his limitations and revised his instructions.
-I’ll stop you, so just hit me and fly away.
“…….”
Isn’t this really too much?
But before Walter could even intend to, the sword shattered and a tremendous impact struck his body.
“Cough!”
Although there were no injuries due to Baedong casting a protective spell to prevent it from being too late, the impact was strong enough to cause his body to float up and crash into a tree.
The moment Evan was about to kick the ground without letting himself be seen, the shadow knights waiting attacked him by surprise, targeting his lower body.
“……!”
Even though I was out of my mind from the shock, I saw Evan collapse to the ground.
-Don’t even think about going to the puppy, just run.
Walter, who was about to run towards Evan without realizing it, quickly changed direction and ran.
Krrrrung. I heard the roar of some beast behind me. And right after that, I heard the shadow knights calling me, and a huge presence came over me.
Walter looked back without realizing it and then froze.
If I had known that this would be the beast’s last struggle, I would never have looked back, but once I caught sight of that splendid thing, I couldn’t look away.
For a moment, Walter’s time passed slowly.
It was only when the sword energy shot by Evan was about to attack me that I began to think that I might die, but God must have thought that it was a waste to kill me just yet, because a strand of pure white hair fluttered before my eyes.
“……!”
The universe rose from a seemingly insignificant gesture, and the beast’s claws were sucked into that emptiness.
Even after the belated wind blast woke the forest and scattered it, Walter stood there blankly for a long time without saying a word.
And what woke him up was none other than the young voice of a child.
“Captain, aren’t you going to see the puppy?”
“…! Evan!”
Walter, who came to his senses late, ran straight to Evan.
“Evan, are you okay?”
“…Master…?”
“okay.”
“Run away…, you have to run away….”
“…….”
Walter kept his mouth shut. He didn’t know what to apologize for when the child came to his senses later. He opened his mouth again because there was something he wanted to say before apologizing.
“Evan, congratulations on reaching the realm.”
“…state…….”
Evan blinked his eyes a few times, either because he didn’t feel it or because he didn’t understand, but he didn’t show any real reaction.
Then Baedong suddenly intervened and patted Evan on the chest.
“You’ve worked hard, puppy. You can sleep now.”
“…lynx…….”
“okay.”
“Damn…, you bastard….”
“Yeah, yeah.”
“Your Highness……”
“It’s okay. The kid is guarding it.”
“grandee…….”
“How did you know? It’s a secret.”
“…….”
“Don’t make such a ridiculous expression. After all, you heard about Ariel back then.”
“…sorry.”
“What do I have to be sorry about?”
“…Help me.”
“…….”
Baedong’s face hardened for a moment at the request for help. But he soon smiled and continued speaking.
“When have I ever not helped you?”
“sorry.”
Sorry, sorry. Evan exchanged an unknown conversation with Baedong, apologized several times at the end, and then fell into a deep sleep.
Walter waited for Baedong to attach Evan’s hand and administer first aid, then he wrapped Evan around him.
“Are you ready?”
Walter looked around at that question. With the bodies of the knights sent by the queen displayed over the traces of a fierce battle, a rather plausible crime scene was completed.
“The magic is broken.”
“…okay.”
As Baedong waved his hand lightly, an invisible curtain was lifted. And at the same time, a tangled forest was revealed, with the sound of people.
“Captain!”
The knights who had just discovered me came rushing in. And even in the darkness, they were speechless at the traces of a fierce battle clearly visible.
“What the heck is this….”
“They seem to be the queen’s direct escort knights. It seems they attacked the witness in order to destroy evidence.”
Walter naturally salivated. In fact, he was the one who attacked Evan, but if they hadn’t intervened and stopped him, the thieves would have attacked Evan anyway, so it wasn’t entirely wrong.
“The search team will recover the body, confirm its identity, and preserve the scene.”
Now all that remains is to put the queen in prison.
* * *
“Your Majesty, do you feel refreshed?”
Helia, who had been blankly scratching her arm, raised her head at the question. Her expression crumpled involuntarily, as she had been experiencing an inexplicable itching sensation for some time now.
“I think you’ve been bitten by a bug. Should I bring you some medicine?”
“…Please do so.”
Helia gave a vague answer and looked outside. It was too late in the night to see anything, but there was no news from the knights who had gone to deal with the prince.
But that thought was so frightening that soon knights came to visit me. And they weren’t the knights I had sent, they were royal knights.
“Arrest him.”
“?! Knight Commander, what kind of rudeness is this, coming here all of a sudden…! T, put this down!”
“Hey, what are you doing to His Majesty! Stop it right now!”
“majesty!”
The maids stopped the knights who were suddenly rushing in.
However, the mood immediately changed when Martin, who was thought to be dead, appeared and manipulated some magical tool.
-The prince, you, and even that commoner knight. It is the Highness’s order to kill them all.
The stupid shadow bastard just blurted out my orders and had them stuffed into a book by the wizard.
“There is still evidence that the Shadows of the Vision attacked the witness in prison, so please make your excuses in prison.”
Clang, bang!
Helia, who saw the iron bars closing, was so dumbfounded that she couldn’t help but laugh.
Not only did they not properly deal with one knight and leave behind evidence, but they also attacked a common knight and got hit back. Doesn’t it seem like they knew all along and planned it all from the beginning?
Snap-!
Just then, a little rat was lurking outside the iron bars. If it had been black, I might have passed it by without noticing it, but it was white, so I couldn’t help but notice it.
Crackle!
“…! I, I get out of here!”
Helia was terrified when she saw the rat trying to get into the cage, and threw everything she could get her hands on. However, it was only a rag, so it fluttered down without reaching the baby rat, and was no threat.
Click, click!
The rat began to play, going back and forth between the bars as if it were teasing me.
She had the illusion that her sense of itching had grown stronger because she had seen something dirty. Helia scratched her arm until it bled and called the guard.
“Warden! Get this rat out of my sight right now!”
But the guard did not notice the pure white rat and just scanned the floor.
“What kind of rat are you talking about?”
“……?”
Confusion appeared on Helia’s face.
Click, click, click!
The white rat jumped up and down right in front of Helia as if mocking her, then leisurely disappeared.
* * *
After a tumultuous night, the day of trial dawned.
Sedes glanced down at the queens being dragged away by the knights as he scanned the organized case, or rather, the manipulated pre-arranged report.
Even though she had a suicide gag in her mouth after attempting suicide in prison one night, her eyes still had a venomous look in them.
“Brother… are you okay?”
On the other hand, the commoner knight was accompanied by a girl who seemed to be his younger sister. Looking at her blank-faced face, as if she had just woken up, I was worried whether she had even heard the explanation properly.
Of course, Sedes himself was in no position to worry about others. It was burdensome to engrave the fabricated information into his head as the events unfolded urgently.
‘The truth is that Baedong, who loves children too much, took them away to play with the First Prince, and when the commoner knight found out, he tried to persuade Baedong, but at the same time, he tried to negotiate with the First Prince in order to escape the Queen’s hands, and when the Queen was about to deal with the Prince to cover up her own corruption, she got hit in the opposite way… Well, if you look at it this way, there isn’t really a lie, right?’
Of course, if you look closely, there are all sorts of lies and traps running rampant, but since the important fact that will be dealt with anyway is that the queen tried to kill the prince, we can just ignore it.
‘I’m worried about Ross.’
The shock must have been immense, and it was inevitable that he would show up in court to testify and let people know that he was safe.
At that moment, I saw Lianus walking briskly, escorted by knights. He was holding the hands of Lawrence and Baedong, who were both wearing hoods pulled down low.
“Don’t worry, Brother Hye-hye. I’m here with you.”
“It seems like you’re more excited…….”
“What the heck? I’m not nervous. Right, Neil?”
“…….”
‘… It’ll be okay.’
The public court, which is sometimes used as a stadium when there are no trials, was soon packed to the brim with empty seats, and most people were there to watch the scales rather than the trial.
‘I don’t know if I can control it properly like this.’
But contrary to my worries, the judge soon became quiet as if he had made a promise. No, to be exact, it would be more accurate to say that no one opened their mouths.
“after…….”
Sedes, whose body was frozen under the tremendous pressure, barely managed to catch his breath and get up from his seat.
In the middle of the courtroom, a gate larger and more magnificent than the city gates was rising.