How the Prince Makes Friends - Chapter 98



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Episode 98

In the palace’s office. The prime minister was clutching his head.

“What on earth is going on right before redevelopment!”

“…Calm down, Abel.”

Sedes, who had dark circles under his eyes from working all night due to a sudden incident, calmed down his friend who was buried in a pile of documents just like him. In fact, it was Abel, not Sedes, who calmed him down last night.

“Is this real?! It’s drug and human trafficking! It’s not just pickpocketing!”

Seeing his friend spitting out exactly the same words as he did yesterday, Sedes shook his head and repeated what Abel had said.

“At least it’s fortunate that it was discovered before redevelopment.”

“I have to start over from scratch with the relief budget!”

“……Good work.”

Sedes offered deep comfort, knowing that the prime minister’s work was no less than his own.

“I’ll give you a vacation after this is over.”

“…A month?”

“…….”

“…Full moon?”

“…Four days.”

“Oh my god.”

Not even a week, but four days!

Abel swore at the king of a country in front of him. He had been working without rest days due to the recent incidents such as the slave ship and the rabbit hole, and now he only got four days off.

Abel was about to throw away the bundle of documents he was holding, but realized that he would be the one who would suffer the loss anyway, so he sat down quietly again and picked up his fountain pen.

“By the way, did you put Sirentea in there?”

“Ahhhhhhh! I forgot!”

Abel screamed as he remembered Sirentea, whom he had placed outside the window of his bedroom in the palace the previous night to let in the moonlight.

“Saddie, I’ll be back for a bit!”

“…okay.”

Sedes watched his friend leave the office in a flustered manner, and thought blankly that he too wanted to leave, but soon shook his head and turned his gaze back to the documents.

‘I want to go home.’

This place was already my home.

Sedes thought about that and sighed deeply.

***

“…So, if we supply food using ingredients rather than cooked food, wouldn’t we be able to reduce labor costs and provide larger quantities? I think dried foods that are easy to store would be good!”

“That may be good, but it will require a lot of drinking water. If we start the waterworks, it will be difficult to use the well, so we need to keep that in mind.”

“I see! Neil is really smart! We should think about the water problem too!”

Lianus kept praising his friend who pointed out things he had missed or not thought of. While chatting about homework with the smartest friend in the world, he arrived at the palace in no time. After finishing his mission, Bella said she would come back to play again and went back.

As I opened the terrace window, the butler, who was tidying up Lianus’ bedroom, opened his eyes wide at the sight of everyone and greeted me with a gentle smile.

“Hello.”

“Yeah! I’m back, butler.”

“I will prepare the bath water.”

“huh!”

Lianus quickly took off his wig, saying that he really wanted to wash. The dark green hair that had been trapped inside the wig for so long finally showed itself. The fresh air that permeated his scalp was very pleasant.

Nihil, who had no need for warm bath water in the first place, was about to go straight to his room to wash up, but a maid came and stopped him.

“Your Majesty, I think the magic stone in your room has run out of mana! It might take some time to heat the water, so could you please wait a moment?”

“…….”

The culprit who secretly used up all of the magic stone’s mana kept his mouth shut.

Then a good idea occurred to the kitten, who jumped up and suggested a solution.

“Then you can wash with me!”

Nihil nodded, saying it was a good idea, but the cat, who had been following the kitten closely, was grabbed by the scruff of the neck in front of the bathroom door.

Nihil frowned as he was held by the back of his neck and hung there.

“What’s the problem with kids washing together?”

“……You don’t seem like a child, so you won’t be able to do it.”

“If you’re worried, you can wash with me.”

“How can I wash with my master…….”

“Okay! Let’s wash together, Evan! I’ll scrub your back!”

“……what.”

So Evan was led into the bathroom by two very scary and pushy little guys. I swear, he didn’t just follow the kitten’s back and push him.

Evan, who was led into the bathroom by the kids, realized that he had never shown his naked body to the prince before, and he felt awkward and timid. He lowered his head slightly and saw the scars on his body. He was worried that the prince would be scared when he saw this, and then his eyes met with a white cat’s.

“What are you looking at?”

“…That unlovable little cat.”

“The uncute thing is your crotch. Cover that dangling thing. It’s so awkward because it’s at eye level. Or just take it off. It’s so heavy. How can you carry it around?”

Nihil clicked his tongue as he spoke, as if he was genuinely disgusted. Evan was dumbfounded for a moment before realizing the meaning and quickly wrapped a towel around himself in shock.

“You idiot. The King of Jewels, please be careful what you say in front of the prince!” (You crazy bastard. Please be careful what you say in front of the prince!)

“Can’t you even joke?”

“Who the hell makes jokes like that!”

“You didn’t even try washing with a friend. Your life has been in vain.”

“…….”

Evan, who had no real friends, had no choice but to keep his mouth shut. The Knights he was in were quite a bit older than him, and even the ones who came in as juniors were mostly older than him.

I wonder if it’s normal for close friends to joke around like this.

While Evan was confused, Rian opened his mouth hesitantly.

“Uh, I don’t have any friends besides Neil.”

“It’s okay, Lian. You’ve only wasted seven years of your life. Puppy has wasted twenty years.”

“I see!”

“…….”

Evan was once again speechless at Nihil’s miracle calculation. Evan frowned, feeling as if he had wasted twenty years of his life in an instant. Then the bowl caught his eye.

“…….”

Evan snatched up the bucket, filled it to the brim with water, and dumped it all over the cat’s head.

Chook-

Evan raised the corner of his mouth.

“How does the water taste, you damn cat?”

“…….”

Knock- knock-

Water dripped from his pure white hair.

Nihil stared blankly at the water droplets falling through his hair for a moment, then carefully picked up the bowl.

And then the war began.

***

“…This is the first time in my life that I’ve washed with such difficulty.”

Evan flopped down on the rug, looking genuinely tired. The lynx had more stamina than I had thought, and playing in the water was more tiring than escorting the Shaton.

Rianus, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, looked at Evan like that and then he sat down on Evan’s lap with a fluffy towel. Then he handed Evan the towel as if telling him to quickly dry his hair and smiled bashfully.

Evan opened his eyes wide when he saw the kitten acting up at him, then quickly dried its hair as if he was touched.

Lianus laughed heartily, moving around under Evan’s touch while buried in a fluffy towel.

“It was fun!”

“If you find it fun, then that’s fine, Your Majesty.”

“Let’s play again next time!”

“…haha…….”

Evan thought it was quite enjoyable, but he couldn’t answer right away, so he kept his mouth shut and laughed awkwardly.

Nihil looked at Evan like that and replied indifferently while drying his head with a towel.

“Play when you can. When a child grows up, he or she cannot play.”

“……Are you really going to talk like that like an old man?”

“joy.”

Lianus laughed at the sight of the two of them becoming quite friendly, not even realizing that he was being treated like a child. Then he took out a piece of paper and pen and wrote down briefly the contents of the plan that needed to be revised.

After a while, Nihil, who was wiping the puppy with a warm towel next to him, went out, saying he was going to my bedroom for a moment.

“Come to think of it, if we had a large stone, we could heat the bath water in an instant. Right, Sir Evan?”

“Yes. I think it could be useful when hunting monsters.”

Rianus thought that stones might be a more practical material than he had thought, and asked his butler to add stones of various sizes.

While he was writing on the paper for a while, he noticed a puppy squirming on a soft cushion. Rian hesitated and then carefully picked up the puppy. It felt like it would crumble if he held it like that.

Was bringing a puppy really a good choice?

A fragile creature that can’t do anything on its own. The child I raised before was bigger than this, but it was easily broken.

Lianus brought the puppy to his cheek.

‘It’s warm.’

The puppy was soft and warm. I could hear its heart pounding. It was kicking and whining as if it was uncomfortable being constantly petted.

I placed the puppy back down on the cushion and brought my finger to it and it started sucking.

“Oh, I have to feed the kid!”

Lianus shook the chime, thinking that the puppy needed to be fed too. Food was very important!

But there was no news, whether the servants were a little busy or not. Eventually, Evan, who had nothing to do, went down to the kitchen himself and brought milk and a plate.

“Rian… what are you doing?”

Nihil, who had returned after making a potion to feed to Lianus, opened his lips slightly in embarrassment. The puppy was absorbing the milk with its entire body under the overturned plate.

“…What the heck is this….”

“Neil!”

“You little squirrel!”

The two people who had been fidgeting and waving their arms next to the puppy greeted Nihil as if they were really happy to see him.

Nihil was very shocked by the current situation, but he rescued the puppy from the milk puddle first. He wiped it with a clean towel, but he didn’t know that in that short time, he would give it a milk shower.

The puppy was also confused, as it continued to writhe and whine even after being rescued by Nihil.

“…I was just trying to give you some food.”

“Yeah, I was just trying to give you some food.”

Evan and Rianus began to mumble excuses. Nihil chuckled at their excuses and made a makeshift bottle out of an empty bottle with a small spout and began to feed the puppy milk.

Rianus stared at the sight and then opened his mouth.

“What should we name the child?”

“Evan II.”

“Hey, you……!”

Evan opened his mouth and grabbed my head, then lowered his head. He looked slightly depressed, as if he had reached the fourth stage of anger. It seemed like he would accept it if I teased him a few more times.

‘No, even if you accept it, it’s a problem.’

As Nihil was thinking about that and wondering if he should stop teasing, the kitten cried out brightly.

“Let’s name this child ‘Robert Louis de Armand II’!”

“…….”

“…….”

So the puppy’s name became ‘Robert Luis de Armond II’.