How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 96



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Episode 96

It might seem ridiculous to change your own name, but Nihil seriously considered the name. The twins waited for their names to change, half worried and half excited. Of course, when they heard about the ‘Jaerong’, they looked at me as if it was really ridiculous.

After thinking for a while, Nihil spoke to Ella.

“Your name is Edgar.”

“…Edgar?”

Ella’s eyes widened when she heard the name Edgar. The children who heard the name seemed a little embarrassed and stopped Nihil.

“Doesn’t it sound like a boy’s name?”

It was a name that sounded like a boy’s name, and it sounded very strong. No matter how I thought about it, it didn’t really suit Ella, who had such a pretty face. However, despite the children’s dissuasion, Nihil ignored them and spoke to Ellen.

“Your name is Elena.”

“…Elena……”

Everyone was silent when they heard the twins’ new names. The twins kept causing trouble, so I thought they were doing it on purpose. They were a little… no, a lot prickly.

“‘Edgar’ means someone who protects the family and creates happiness. I changed it a little because I liked the name that sounded strong. ‘Elena’ means someone who shines brightly on their own. It also means becoming the center of something. Since it’s a name we gave each other, let’s cherish it.”

The twins stared blankly at each other after hearing the meaning of their names, but when they heard that they no longer had to live in hiding, their faces distorted and they hugged each other and began to cry.

Nihil muttered as he looked at the crying twins.

“……I make the kids cry a lot.”

“Then why is your name like that….”

Evan tilted his head as he tried to ask why she named him that. There was no way a stray cat would give him a name just because he was being mean.

Evan, who had been thinking for a while, let out a small exclamation.

“Ah… the one with the longer hair was a boy.”

“what?!”

At Evan’s realization, the children screamed and looked at the twins. The twins giggled and snickered in satisfaction at having successfully fooled them.

“Why on earth did you change your life?”

Yvonne, who couldn’t understand the two’s actions, asked. But the twins didn’t answer her question. It was none other than Dave who answered.

“To protect, I guess.”

“You’re saying you’re going to protect me…?”

“…I…, it’s already too late, but if I could go back in time and replace my sister…, I would gladly do it.”

Dave and his sister had a large age gap, so going back in time wouldn’t have been possible, but Yvonne just nodded, guessing that Dave had his own circumstances.

“Edgar, what a fitting name.”

“thank you.”

“Elena too.”

“huh.”

Just then, Rianus woke up and slowly raised his head.

“…Neil.”

“Yeah, I’m here.”

Rianus felt a little better at his friend’s answer and tried to laugh bashfully, but then remembered that he had been fooled and pouty-mouthed and grumbled.

“Neil is a liar.”

“Sorry.”

“Both my older brother and the cat were bad.”

“…….”

“Heehee~ The pretty young master ordered it.”

“joy!”

“Ner, I have to say goodbye.”

“……huh.”

Lianus quickly got down from Evan’s arms and hugged each of the children, telling them that they would meet again.

The little Dan came closer and opened his arms. Rianus, who had been clinging to his best friend, looked at the Dan who had approached last with displeasure.

But soon he smiled and hugged me tightly.

“But, see you next time.”

“Yeah! Fairy Brother, and Fairy Brother’s younger brother, Brother…, huh?”

Dan, the only one of the children who was shorter than Rianus, met Rianus’s eyes hidden behind the hood and opened them wide.

“Brother, your eyes…, ugh!”

Just as Dan was about to spit out, “Your eyes are sparkling!”, Nihil, who was next to him, quickly covered Dan’s mouth and moved him away from Lianus, mumbling softly.

“baby.”

“Huh?”

“Shall we keep what we saw between us a secret?”

“Ugh……”

“If you promise, I’ll let you go.”

“…….”

Dan, whose mouth was shut, rolled his eyes and nodded cautiously.

The children simply assumed that there was something wrong with one of Lianus’ eyes and decided to ignore it. Judging from the bandage he had been wearing the whole time, it might have been an ugly scar.

As soon as Nihil let go of Dan, Dan ran towards Yvonne. Rianus awkwardly pulled down his hood and waved to the children.

“hi.”

***

As the kids left, Dan quickly grabbed Yvonne’s skirt and pulled.

“Brother, brother.”

“But, since we decided to keep it a secret, you can’t tell anyone. And you shouldn’t talk carelessly about other people’s appearances.”

“Ugh…, the younger brother of the fairy brother is also pretty.”

“I see.”

Yvonne stroked Dan’s head as if she was amazed. She thought that he was a grown man who knew how to lie like this out of consideration for other people’s feelings.

“It’s true……”

Dan grumbled as if Yvonne didn’t believe him, but soon shook it off as if he had no thoughts. Since he was the fairy brother and sister of the fairy brother, he just thought that the fairy brother’s sister, Hyeong-ah, had special eyes.

Dave also looked at the unit and chuckled, then looked back at the warehouse that had become a little more comfortable. There was a bit of a fight over who would use the leaf bed that Neil had made and Ner had used, but even that was peaceful.

The kids didn’t believe in empty promises of meeting again, calling them hopeless torture, but Dave believed they would meet again. No matter where he was, the mysterious little boy would come back to find him.

It was a little disconcerting when the cat sister suddenly returned and dragged Yvonne and Jane away, saying that they needed to get their IDs issued, but I thought that they were gradually returning to their daily lives.

***

“This body has come!

“Pan? I told you not to go home, where the hell did you go….”

Dave, who didn’t even know there was a board, was about to say something when he saw the board coming in carrying something, but then he froze when he saw the armored men following them.

“Oh, it’s okay, it’s okay. You’re the ones who came to deliver relief supplies. But… where did you guys go?”

“My brothers… went out for a while because they had something to do.”

“The two of you together?”

“Yeah. I’ll be right back. What happened to you?”

“Oh, it was nothing. It was just…, the old man doing old man things. Now, no, no. I feel so relieved now.”

Pan said that and chuckled. Then the twins came running over.

“Is this ours?”

“Wow! This is exciting!”

Walter, the captain of the royal knights, handed the twins the items and asked them in a whisper.

“Do you know anything about that child’s father?”

“Are you Pan’s father?”

“He’s a total bad guy. He hits you all the time. Right?”

“Yeah, yeah. It’s really bad. Why? Is something wrong with that old man?”

“Oh, no. That’s not it.”

Walter trailed off, unable to bring himself to tell the bad man that he had sold his son and was now in prison. The boy himself seemed reluctant to tell the other children, so Walter decided not to say anything more about Pan’s temporary custody.

“Are there any other children?”

“Uh, uhm…….”

Ella, now named Elena, glanced at the guard behind her, then bowed her head and opened her mouth with difficulty.

“The other kids…, yesterday, they were stealing and got caught by the security guard….”

“No, no, I’m not talking about those kids. I don’t blame you either.”

“Really?”

“okay.”

“Then there is no one else besides the two older brothers who went out.”

“I see.”

Walter nodded, thinking that the twins were unlikely to be lying. On the other hand, the other kids were amazed at the twins’ clever acting. Indeed, the guys who had switched roles were different, but there was something different about them.

“Then, have you ever seen a very tall man passing by?”

“How tall do I have to be?”

“Our brother Jane is tall!”

“That’s right. Jane is the tallest among us.”

“okay?”

The twins did not hesitate to sell Jane out to hide the existence of their ‘big brother’.

Walter, not knowing that, started asking about the boy named Jane. The twins smiled with satisfaction and told him about Jane without hiding anything.

“…So, at that time, Jane Oppa…, oh, there he comes!”

Just as Elena was about to bring up Jane’s embarrassing past, with nothing more to say, she saw Jane returning to the hideout with Yvonne.

As soon as Jane returned, she saw the eyes focused on her and stopped, hiding behind Yvonne. Of course, hiding was useless because Yvonne was smaller than Jane.

Yvonne spoke on behalf of her friend, who was shy and wary of the two people wearing armor.

“…What’s going on? Who are these people?”

“Come on in, guys! These guys are curious about Jane.”

“Me, me, me? Oh, why, why?”

Jane stuttered more than usual and looked embarrassed.

Did he get caught selling children at the Rabbit Inn? Of course, he just did as he was told… … .

“Wh, what, is, happening?”

“Oh, no. I think the kids misunderstood. You’re not the one we’re looking for.”

Walter glanced at Jane, who was tall but skinny and looked like she might snap if you hit her, and was convinced that he had made a mistake.

The boy was quite tall, but smaller than I had thought. According to eyewitness accounts, he was at least 1.9 meters tall, and had a muscular, stocky body. He was definitely not the boy in front of me. In the first place, there was no way that someone with the strength to break through the basement ceiling would be among the wandering orphans.

‘Are you perhaps someone who pretends to sell children to get money…?’

If the man who sold the children and the man who took the children were the same person, then it was quite possible. Since he was an Auror user, his skills would be considerable. Furthermore, since he was able to evade the pursuit of the Knights, he was no ordinary person.

“Captain!”

At that moment, someone called Walter from behind. He saw his subordinate knight approaching, holding a boy and the innkeeper with a rabbit-arm tied to a rope.

“What is it, Sir Alec?”

“Boss! I brought this boy here because he said he knew where the people who sold the children this time are. The innkeeper said he saw their faces, so I think we should check.”

“…Really?”

Jane, Dave, and Pan’s faces hardened at those words. Pan had been arguing that he didn’t know anything even at the guard post.

Kelvin, who was tied up with rope, looked around at the kids in the hideout and smirked. It was clear that he was acting like a water ghost because he couldn’t die alone. Jane and Dave gritted their teeth and glared at Kelvin, but it was no use.

The owner, who had been scanning the children, recognized some familiar faces and pointed at Jane and Dave.

“It’s them! It’s the tall one, and the one with the freckles!”