How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 269
Only Noblemtl
Episode 269
“Baby, aren’t you sleeping? Should I read you a story?”
“No need.”
“Then, please read a fairy tale.”
“…….”
Dios opened his eyes squintingly as he saw the storybook that was suddenly thrust out to him. For some reason, it seemed like the storybook had been brought here for this purpose from the beginning.
As I stared at the green little rex, who was so incredibly unbiased, the pink little rex opened its mouth.
“Ruth, aren’t you embarrassed to read a storybook to a baby?”
“It’s okay, bro. The baby is all grown up. So it’s not weird for him to read storybooks to me, who is still young.”
“……?”
“…….”
Dios sighed deeply. The wolf cub was already asleep and snoring, but the little rexes were wide-eyed, not thinking about anything.
It seems that one of them is upset because of his mother’s trial, and the other one is waiting because his father hasn’t come back yet.
It was late at night, so I was thinking of reading a quick story and putting her to bed quickly, and was about to open the storybook when the little pink Rex opened his mouth again.
“Baby, can you tell me more about the story you told me before?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Well, that means… I’m not an illegitimate child.”
“Are you still concerned about that?”
Dios frowned. I don’t know why I’m so attached to bloodlines.
“You are not an illegitimate child.”
“Is there any reason to be so sure?”
“…….”
Dios didn’t answer right away and thought about it. No matter how hard he tried to explain, the only response he got was, “What do you know, you little baby!”
“…I asked the Archduke.”
It was a short and concise, almost insincere answer, but the pink little Rex’s eyes widened. It was truly absurd.
Then the little green rex barged in again.
“Baby, tell me a story.”
“Didn’t you ask me to read you a storybook?”
“I’ve read a lot of fairy tales, so I know all the content, so it’s okay to skip a day or so.”
“Just grow up.”
“Then, please sing a lullaby.”
“…….”
Dios was getting tired quickly. He should have offered to help the wolf awaken. But he didn’t want to face him since he had already said that he would let his sister go without any pain.
But since my father had asked me to do it, I couldn’t just leave the lumps behind, so I ended up opening my mouth.
“The Archduke…, when he first met Harpen.”
“It seems the baby is really close to His Highness the Grand Duke.”
“…Be quiet and listen.”
Dios tapped the little pink Rex’s forehead as if he was curious and continued speaking.
“It was when the Archduke was wandering around here and there looking for something.”
“Baby, what was the Archduke looking for?”
“Can’t you just listen quietly?”
“But I’m curious.”
And if we look for it together, we might find it faster, said Rianus, and smiled bashfully.
Dios paused, frozen, as he remembered Harpen’s childhood, when he would laugh foolishly at such a Lianus, and then chuckled in vain before continuing.
“There’s no need to look for it, since I’ve already found it.”
“What was it?”
“…Rest. I was looking for rest.”
“Were you looking for a place to rest?”
“okay.”
Dios nodded. It wouldn’t be wrong, since my father was like my home.
“…It’s a little…broken, but I found it.”
Thinking about my house that has become so small, I started to have a headache again. I wonder if he is properly absorbing the magic stone I gave him.
“At that time, Harpen was about the same age as you guys…, and he came up to the Grand Duke out of the blue, played the lyre, and asked for money.”
“……?”
“So you gave him the money. No, you said you gave him the money.”
“?!?”
“After that, he kept coming and playing the lyre…….”
“Wait a minute, baby! It seems like the Archduke has been… no, no, forced into it!”
“…I’m not a fool.”
“Oh, I misunderstood. I didn’t mean to call you a fool……”
“Baby, Ruth doesn’t mean anything bad, so you shouldn’t tell the Grand Duke.”
Rianus shook his head at his slip of the tongue, and Lawrence, who had been watching, quickly came to Rianus’ defense.
Dios washed his face dry. It seemed as if he had brought up a pointless topic.
“…You guys, just grow up.”
“Baby, how can you stop talking!”
“That’s right. It’s not right to arouse curiosity and then unilaterally cut off the conversation.”
“…….”
… It’s annoying, so should I just put it to sleep with magic?
As I was thinking about that and trying to gather mana, a decent amount of power for a human burst out from somewhere not far away. It seemed like he had somehow succeeded in awakening the wolf cub.
‘Father will be here soon.’
Dios decided to just end the story. If he put the blood clots to sleep with magic, his father would definitely complain.
“To the Grand Duke, money and stones are not much different, so I just gave them to him. And Harpen never received any money after that. Rather, he came to me saying that he had received too much money and asked to play more. Okay, that’s the end of the story. Now go to sleep.”
“It’s too short!”
“What is that! That’s insincere!”
“Go to sleep now!”
Dios forced them to lie down by pressing down on their small heads. But the princes showed no intention of backing down easily.
“Baby, tell me how the Founding King threatened the Grand Duke.”
“…I didn’t threaten you.”
I don’t think human threats will work on me. Why are you even asking me that? Are you planning on threatening me?
“That can’t be! The Archduke was clearly deceived by the wicked Lord Harpen!”
“I said no.”
If you think about it, they are our ancestors, yet they are so evil.
“Sleep tight, little Rexes.”
“I’ve been wondering this for a while, but why do you and the baby call each other Rex?”
Rian asked, then quickly added, remembering that he hadn’t properly introduced himself to the baby.
“Oh, my name is Rianus. Your brother’s name is Lawrence. What’s your baby’s name?”
I heard my friend call me Dia, but somehow Rianus had a feeling that it wasn’t her real name. No matter what, it’s rude to call her by a nickname right from the start.
Of course, it would have been stranger to call him a baby, but Lianus hadn’t thought that far ahead.
“Rex is enough. You can call me whatever you want.”
“why?”
“Well… ”
Because it’s fleeting.
But Dios didn’t say the answer out loud and just quietly covered the children with a blanket. He thought to himself, “When did I stop calling them by their names?”
Fortunately, the clumps of blood stopped poking at me.
Dios turned off all the lights that were flickering. Perhaps they were tired, but the little rexes looked at each other and soon fell asleep.
“Dia.”
“…You’re here.”
Dios replied without looking back at his father who appeared silently behind him.
“I’m going to go now.”
“You’re going too fast. Why don’t you wait a little longer?”
“…I remembered something I had forgotten.”
Dios, not wanting to reveal his feelings, opened the passage and quickly left.
Of course, it was not like Nihil could not sense Dios’s feelings, but Nihil did not bother to catch him.
‘Help me.’
Nihil closed his eyes tightly and opened them. The voice of the dog asking for help and apologizing over and over again did not leave his head.
‘But even the little one I have to consult about Ariel is in a bad mood… … .’
Nihil smiled bitterly and wiped his face.
What should I do about this?
* * *
“Neil, are you tired?”
“…….”
After finishing preparing to go out, Lianus circled around Nihil to check on his condition. His expression was not much different from usual, but for some reason he looked a little offended.
“Neil, it’s okay. If you talk to me nicely, I won’t be in too much trouble.”
As he spoke, Lianus glanced at the knights who had been waiting. The vice-captain who had returned from his dispatch was also with him, but since no one else knew the true identity of his close friend, he was extremely cautious.
Then one of the knights cautiously opened his mouth.
“Vice-captain, is it okay to leave Baedong free like that? First of all… he’s a kidnapper.”
“…He may look young, but he is a wizard of considerable skill. Don’t displease him. Do you want to see the princes kidnapped in pairs right before your eyes?”
“That… won’t work.”
‘Well, you shouldn’t go against it. That’s right.’
Lianus nodded in agreement without realizing it.
The setting was that Nihil had kidnapped his brother somewhere and was persuaded by a knight named Martin to bring him home this morning. However, Rianus, who was not good at lying, was a little worried that he might make a mistake.
‘Anyway, Neil wasn’t at the Wernus Palace all this time, and I didn’t know anything!’
I told you before that if Nihil had a hard time answering, just say you don’t know, so just do that.
At that moment, my brother approached Nihil.
“Neil, don’t worry too much, I’ll make it clear that you didn’t hurt me.”
My brother, whose hair color had changed back to blue-black thanks to the earring-shaped magic tool, said this and pulled his hood up over his head.
“Brother, aren’t you hot?”
Lianus tilted his head. Unless he wanted to hide his pink hair, I don’t know why he would bother to wear a hood while using a magic tool.
“It’s okay. I just want to look forward now.”
Even the oblivious Lianus noticed the meaning and nodded. It seemed like he wanted to narrow his field of vision. Or maybe he wanted to hide his expression.
Lianus was a little worried about his brother. Of course, everything would go according to his friend’s will, but his brother’s feelings were different.
Then, his eyes met with Nihil’s, who was just blankly staring out the window. Rianus felt that his friend was different than usual, but his pretty face was still the same, so he brought a robe and covered it with a deep hood.
“Neil, let’s go. Let’s go, bro.”
“okay.”
“…….”
Lianus held the hands of both men tightly and climbed into the carriage. The judge was not far away, but Lianus tilted his head as he got out of the carriage.
“Isn’t this a stadium?”
The place they arrived was one of the few internationally renowned arenas in the Kingdom of Harpens, where mock cavalry and close combat were held, and a competition to select the best swordsman was held once every four years.
“It’s usually used as a stadium, but it was actually originally designed as a court, Your Highness. International issues and matters related to the royal family are handled here. This trial is about the content, and since you said you’d build a Statera… ”
“What is Startera?”
“You can think of it as someone who uses magic or divine power to determine whether something is false or not.”
“…! Is there such a thing?!”
Lianus was surprised. I can’t lie like this!
‘Oh, what should I do… … .’
But as the trial time approached, Lianus had no choice but to enter, holding the hands of his brother and close friend.
‘There are too many people!’
Then, when I saw that the audience seats, no, the gallery, were completely filled, I froze.
“Are you okay, Ryan?”
“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?”
“…….”
Rianus, who had calmed down his older brother in a dignified manner, stood proudly on the witness stand. In fact, he was trembling, but at least Rianus thought he looked proud.
‘Oh, it’s Sir Evan!’
When Lianus found Evan a little way away, he waved his hand in joy, but then froze when he saw the queen.
Given her status, there would have been no torture, but the queen looked extremely haggard for someone who had only been locked up in prison for half a day.
Rianus felt uneasy for no reason and pressed harder on his brother’s hood.
“…? Ruth, what are you doing?”
“Brother, just look at me.”
“???”
Lawrence thought it was really out of the blue, but he smirked when he saw the solemn expression on Lianus’ face. It couldn’t be more comforting to know that he wasn’t alone.
At that moment, Nihil’s head, which had been silent, suddenly turned. And immediately after that, a tremendous pressure was felt, and hundreds, if not thousands, of people fell silent at the same time. It was so quiet without warning that I thought I had gone deaf for a moment.
“……!”
As I turned my head in the direction Nihil was looking, tense from the suffocating pressure, I saw an enormous door of indescribable size rising from the ground, emitting an enormous presence.
The door opened fully, with a thud and a vibration that shook the air.
The fear that the world would end if that door opened, and the dangerous curiosity that made me want to open it anyway, drove my head.
At that moment, Nihil’s hand moved erratically. Rianus, who had been standing there dumbfounded and unable to move due to the overwhelming pressure, was surprised and tightened his grip on Nihil.
However, Rianus, who remembered his friend’s sudden actions so far, felt uneasy. So he asked his older brother for help.
“Brother, Brother, please hold Neil’s hand tightly.”
“Well, that’s important right now, …!”
Just as Lawrence was about to argue,
Rattling. Squeak.
The heavy door began to open with a scream.
“Gulp.”
Lawrence swallowed nervously without realizing it. Even so, he held onto the hand that Rianus had forcibly grabbed, because it was about to slip away.
While everyone was watching nervously, His Majesty came down from the stage with the knight in tow. Since their eyes were fixed on the door, they realized late that His Majesty had come down.
It seemed as if he was trying to personally greet someone who was coming out of the door, and his Majesty’s face was clearly tense.
At that moment, His Majesty hesitated in surprise and stepped back. Almost simultaneously, the knights placed their hands on the swords at their waists.
thud.
Immediately afterwards, a giant werewolf stepped out the door.
“……!”
There were gasps here and there at the appearance of the werewolf that looked to be at least three meters tall, but the wolf quietly looked around and opened its mouth as if to growl at the knights.
“Step back. This is the procession of the Tai Kung.”
His voice was not loud, but it rang clearly in my head.
‘…! Is it magic?’
Surprised by the unfamiliar experience, Lawrence fiddled with his ear for no reason, and Baedong, who was watching from the side, nodded his head as if he was satisfied.
And then he said one thing.
“Kui.”