How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 290
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Episode 290
“Hey, Your Majesty.”
“What is it, Abel?”
“Stop shaking your legs.”
It’s annoying. Abel said something to his friend, His Majesty the shit cat, who has been shaking his leg in front of the communication port every chance he gets since yesterday.
“You said you were only going to stay one night. You’re coming today.”
“But there’s still no news.”
“Then why don’t you try calling?”
“…….”
At those words, the shit cat started rolling the crystal ball on the table. It seemed like he wanted to make a call, but he couldn’t because he was afraid of being heard.
“If you were that worried, why didn’t you just come with me?”
“…The kids said they were leaving right away, so when would they be ready? It’s not like the king can just leave whenever he wants… Honestly, it was too sudden.”
“I guess I wanted to follow you.”
“…….”
Abel shook his head as he watched Sedes tightly shut his mouth. Still, it seemed that he was aware that he was a king.
But in fact, there was someone whose symptoms were more serious than your Majesty’s.
dripping-
It’s scary to think that my sister came to visit me.
“Your Majesty, this is Amanda Tarandrus.”
“…I’m sure you came 10 minutes ago too.”
“Heum, I came here because it’s the princes’ class time now. When will the princes come?”
“…….”
At those words, Abel glanced at his watch. If he had to spit it out, there were still five minutes left.
Of course, I knew from the beginning that the class was just an excuse and that they were simply waiting for the kids who had gone to the Grand Palace to return, but my sister was a bit too much.
Abel decided to quickly try to calm her down, as he felt like his sister might collapse if he left her alone.
“Don’t worry, Sister. Even though you’ve been eroded by magic, you still have the Archduke and Neil. You’ll be fine.”
“The Grand Duke and Baedong will take care of it.”
“Then why are you so worried?”
“Are you asking because you don’t know?”
Amanda pounded her chest as if she was heartbroken by her brother’s words. Sedes pretended not to know and handed over the documents as if it had nothing to do with her, but she soon snatched them away from him.
“Your Majesty! How could you send the prince and children to the Grand Duke without any preparation?”
“…But I sent the Sword Master along too……”
Sethe tried to make excuses, but it wasn’t enough to calm her down, as Amanda covered her face with her hands in despair.
“Reven… there’s no way that child would stay still after seeing the Sky Island!”
“Sister, calm down. If something really happened, you would have contacted me.”
“Abel, this is not the time to be carefree! I’m talking about a kid who jumped from the second floor with an umbrella, saying he wanted to fly. If the Grand Duke behaved like that and got into trouble, what would I do?”
“ha ha ha…….”
Abel smiled awkwardly. My second nephew was certainly a bit free-spirited.
“He is curious, but he will be fine as long as Sergio is by his side. Even though Revan grumbles, my brother is very obedient.”
“I wonder if I’ll be caught and eaten by a demon while I’m out and about somewhere….”
“Oh my……”
Sedes, who had been listening, shook his head as if he felt sorry. It was a little comforting to know that our children were very well-behaved and kind, so that wouldn’t happen.
At that moment, a familiar crack appeared in the air and a clear voice was heard.
“Hahaha, that was fun.”
“Revan!?”
“Huh? Mom.”
Countess Talandrus, not afraid of the pitch-black passage, went straight to the child and warmly welcomed him…
Snap! Snap!
“Eww!”
Instead of doing that, he started hitting me on the back.
Sedes looked at the sight with a trembling face. Since they were siblings, Abel hitting his back naturally came to mind.
“I told you not to go, and you just followed me in that short while?!”
“Ha, but my brother went too!”
“Isn’t your older brother the second prince’s servant?”
“Is it okay for you to be my prince’s servant? Your Majesty, don’t you need any more servants?”
“Revenge!”
slap!
“Ugh, Mom only hates me!”
“…….”
Sedes glanced at the peaceful conversation and then approached his sons, who were also watching the scene with a similarly trembling expression.
“Come in.”
“I’m back, father.”
“I’m back!”
In Lawrence’s arms was a familiar snake doll, but it looked particularly stupid, perhaps because its tongue was crooked.
‘I ruined a perfectly good doll.’
But what can I do? The tongue is already stuck.
In fact, while the kids were away at the Grand Duke’s, I put the eyes back on Lianus’ teddy bear, but it ended up looking even worse than before.
‘I wonder if Rianus saw it and cried.’
Sedes tried to look away from the doll and patted his sons on the head. Anyway, I’m glad you came back safely.
“…But Baedong didn’t come?”
Sedes looked around. The passage had disappeared with Sir Evan as the last, and the white head was nowhere to be seen.
“Neil said he had work to do. We wanted to play more, but the Rotten Moon is particularly strong in magic, so we came back because it was dangerous to stay in the Grand Duke’s territory for too long. Oh, and what is the Rotten Moon? It refers to Quies Mensis. And the Grand Duke told us to come back next time. Can we come play again?”
“…You told me to come next time?”
Sedes was a little surprised. It seemed like the Archduke was taking better care of him than he had thought. Since he was going back and forth through the passage anyway, he had to sneak up on Abel and come back…
“Are you going to follow me secretly again next time?”
“Okay, I’ll ask permission and go!”
“…….”
I think it would be better to ask permission first.
“Father, the Archduke seems to be a better person than I thought. When he heard that the children were coming, he quickly prepared a playroom for them. All the toys were magic tools, and there were many truly amazing things.”
“I guess you had fun.”
Fortunately, there are many magic tools, so it seems that there will be more than enough to tempt Abel.
“And, the Archduke is much, much stronger than you think. He crushed a bear as big as me into a fist and…!”
“Ruth, it’s not the Grand Duke, it’s Baedong….”
“Oh, you taught us how to catch a demon and how to close a rift, but since the Archduke is so busy, I think we should learn a little and help him out. Honestly, I thought it would be irresponsible to leave everything up to the Archduke.”
“That’s right, Father. Up until now, we have been relying too much on the Grand Duke. I think it’s right to lighten his burden a little for the sake of our country’s independence.”
“…Is that so?”
Sedes looked a little shaky. He must have just come from a birthday party… … .
Why are you so proud?
* * *
“…after…….”
Chin, thud.
Dios, who had been looking through an ancient book on divine punishment, put the book down and got up from his seat. It seemed that this was also a dud.
‘Dia…, I would like to consult with you about Aryl.’
‘I don’t like it.’
It had been ten hours since I had refused to talk to my father and had locked myself in the study. The crack was extremely quiet, as if my father was closing it.
Of course, if it wasn’t for the crack to close, he would be watching me from somewhere. And he would be waiting for the right time to speak again. I didn’t feel any movement, but Dios, who had been with my father for a relatively long time, could tell.
At one time, I thought my father had special powers that allowed him to know where I was… … ,
‘Father, how do you know and show up whenever I’m in danger?’
‘Dia, I was always by your side.’
In reality, he just kept following me around. He was afraid that he would die again.
When I was young, I didn’t really think much about it, and it felt so reassuring to have my father by my side all the time, but when my voice started to crack, his interference became uncomfortable.
Perhaps that was the real puberty that humans commonly experience.
‘Don’t follow me secretly.’
‘I didn’t follow her secretly. Dia just didn’t sense my presence.’
‘If you follow me without saying anything, aren’t you following me secretly? It feels like you’re being watched, so don’t do it.’
‘…Are you feeling bad?’
‘Would that make you feel better?’
‘I’m sorry. I won’t do that again.’
After I snapped at him, my father stopped following me around. Instead, when I returned home, I would see him just sitting there, waiting for me, and smiling brightly when I returned.
As I looked at that sight, I suddenly felt angry. Perhaps it was because I realized that he was not human.
‘Dia, come quickly,’
‘Are you showing that you are not human?’
‘… Dia?’
‘I don’t want to talk to my father.’
Now it didn’t matter whether he was human or not, but at that time, it was so painful to know that my only family was a different life form than mine, that we were in fact not related at all.
Because it felt like I was left alone in the world.
Strictly speaking, my father had done nothing wrong, but in order to appease me, he read books to gain knowledge, observed ordinary human families, and sometimes even asked questions himself, thereby learning about humans.
It was probably then that I learned the flexibility to talk to a child who refused to talk.
‘Dia, can I talk to you?’
“Dia, can I talk to you?”
“…….”
Dios, who had been blankly staring at the bookshelf at the sound of overlapping voices, lowered his head. He saw his father, who had become very small.
Dios turned his head back to the bookshelf and spoke firmly.
“No.”
“It’s too much.”
“…I don’t know why I said that back then.”
If you’re a little bit inhuman, what’s the big deal? By saying that, you’ve made yourself seem like a real human being.
“If you hadn’t said that…….”
… Wouldn’t a father have done something like this to save a single human child?
“Dia, who taught you how to stop talking?”
“…Please be quiet.”
Dios got angry for no reason and tugged at his white hair.
Although he told the wolf cub that he would also find out about the divine punishment, all he found out was that the Wolrang tribe had been punished for speaking against the god.
‘Is the ultimate result of going against God extinct?’
The punishment that the child is currently receiving only comes on nights when the moon rises, but at that time, the Wolang tribe would not have had such a thing. The only way to escape the continued suffering was death, so in the end, they would have ended their own life.
Then, children born in the rotten moon or mixed race people with light blood survived little by little and the lineage has continued to this day.
Dios, who had a history of talking back to God, did not think that the Wolang tribe had done anything so wrong. When God himself moves, it is because someone has discovered his own wrongdoings.
The Wolang tribe must have noticed his or her ugliness.
“…I cannot agree.”
However, Dios still could not agree with what his father was trying to do.
“Dia, it’s not as hard as you think. You’ve been through this before.”
“So you’re saying you’ll die instead?”
“…….”
“How many more times must I see my father die?”
“…Dia….”
Dios rubbed his face roughly and took a deep breath.
“I will sympathize with that child as if I had sympathized with him,”
“…….”
“Just as I died taking my place in the task, let’s assume that I die taking the child’s punishment.”
“How about that…?”
“How did you know? Huh, how… how could you not know?”
I couldn’t not know. The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was my father’s body burning in the fire.
“…liar.”
“…….”
“You said that when I opened my eyes, it would all be over.”
The tip of his voice trembled slightly. However, perhaps because he had lived a long life, Dios soon regained control of his emotions and spoke softly.
“Okay, Father. Do it or not, as you see fit.”
“…Dia, I had no intention of hurting you….”
“instead,”
Make a bet with me.