Episode 148


    After sitting me down, the 3rd prince did not speak for a while.


    I waited until he spoke.


    When I gave him time to think before speaking, he curled his body and wiggled his hands.


    “….”


    The room was filled with silence.


    The 3rd prince nced at me and opened and closed his mouth, wanting to say something.


    “…He died.”


    “…?”


    After a long silence, the 3rd prince opened his mouth with difficulty.


    Although it was an unexpected start, I listened to him in silence.


    “I dream every day. Everyone dies. “I dream of my people dying.”


    The 3rd prince still buried his head in the arm resting on hisp and did not try to raise his head.


    He says he has nightmares even in his dreams, but now he sees hallucinations in reality as well.


    His voice was shaking so much as he said that he was scared to open his eyes.


    “Prince.”


    “…scary. “I’m scared…”


    I covered my ears again and held his shoulder as he muttered, as if hallucinations had taken over.


    “Baan!”


    “….”


    I grabbed his shoulders and made him look at me.


    He still had his eyes closed.


    “You can open your eyes.”


    “In front, in front…!”


    “I will take care of it. “There is nothing to be afraid of.”


    He still had his eyes closed and couldn’t think of opening them.


    “If you believe me, please open your eyes.”


    Even after I said that, I was trying tough.


    Trust me.


    In some ways, it’s because of me that he became like this, but can he really trust me like that?


    “…!”


    But he opened his eyes.


    He seemed to have seen something next to me and was startled and tried to turn his head.


    Holding his head, I grabbed themp and brought it closer to him.


    “Hold this.”


    He innocently epted themp with trembling hands.


    I got up in front of him and walked around the room in front of him.


    To make him aware that there was no one else in the room except him and me.


    The Third Prince’s trembling subsided, probably due to my actions and the effect of themp.


    “Are you okay now?”


    The 3rd prince nods.


    “Leave thatmp on when you go to bed and when you wake up.”


    The 3rd prince nodded silently.


    “The Count dispatched a chase team to chase down the remnants of the warlock. So they don’t have to worry.”


    “…yes.”


    Perhaps thanks to themp, his pale face began to turn pale.


    “And nothing goodes from being stuck in a room like this. “I don’t know when you’ll be gone, but pleasee out and move your body like you did before.”


    “….”


    “Um… then I’ll just leave. “I hope you take good care of yourself.”


    “Re…!”


    “…?”


    He was about to say something but then closed his mouth.


    I didn’t know why he was hesitating, but I waited without urging.


    The second moment of silence has arrived.


    Fortunately, this silence wasn’t very long.


    “Les Raymond, how can you be so calm?”


    How could I not feel anything? There wasn’t really a way to do this.


    There was a difference between hallucination and reality and I could tell them apart.


    And it was also thanks to the Aurors.


    Aurors give the user a certain degree of resistance to magic.


    So the wizard and the knight are each other’s natural enemies and counters.


    The difference between winning and losing depends on the condition and strength of the day.


    It was the same for me too.


    Because it has an aura, it is somewhat resistant to ck magic.


    Plus, since I can distinguish between hallucinations, it was strange to be scared when I saw something fake.


    The hallucinations didn’t harm me, and there was nothing I couldn’t ovee as long as I recognized that they weren’t real.


    “Because I know it’s fake.”


    “FALSE…?”


    “yes. There is no reason to be afraid of something that has no substance.”


    “Ah…”


    He opened his mouth in shock at my words.


    “So you don’t have to be afraid, Prince.”


    The 3rd prince raised his hand and stroked his face.


    “….”


    His eyes were looking into space, not at me.


    The eyes were shaking mercilessly as if they were looking at something.


    He blinked his eyes as he took a moment to catch his rough breath.


    The trembling hadpletely disappeared and his eyes did not waver.


    “It’s fake… you just have to recognize that it’s fake.”


    I wasn’t able to ovee itpletely, but I was able to endure it to some extent.


    “You don’t have to be afraid because it’s fake.”


    The 3rd prince looked back at me and smiled faintly.


    “Then I guess I’ll have to go.”


    “Ah… yes…”


    The 3rd prince, who was trying to grab my hand, stopped it in the air and grabbed it.


    I also have my own work.


    I couldn’t keep talking to the 3rd prince forever.


    “And it looks like we have guests, so I hope you get some rest and see you with a brighter face soon.”


    I patted his shoulder, opened the door, and went out.


    “uh…?”


    “It’s Daria. Are you here to see the prince?”


    I saw Daria pacing in front of the door, debating whether to knock or not.


    In the middle of the conversation, I felt someoneing, but I didn’t know it was Daria.


    From the beginning, she hated the 3rd prince.


    ‘Is it okay to hate someone so much?’


    Still, since someone I knew was gone, I might have just stopped by to say hello.


    It’s not my business.


    “He is inside. Pleasee in.”


    “…yes.”


    Daria, who was looking at me nkly, nodded with a determined look on her face and went through the door I opened.


    He nced at the surprised 3rd prince and Daria approaching him, then left.


    ***


    Perhaps it was the effect of themp or Daria’s visit, but the 3rd prince had a positive reaction.


    He, who seemed like he would always stay in his room, began toe out and move around, little by little.


    “You came out well.”


    He wandered around his lodgings, gradually expanding his territory, and on the third day, he came to the training ground where I was.


    As soon as he saw me, he ran over to me, clung to me, and swung his sword with me.


    “die!”


    asionally he would show signs of seizures, but they would quickly subside if you were around him appropriately.


    Since the priest hade and gone once, there was no way the curse would still remain.


    Plus the Count’s magic items.


    If I had done that much, I would have brushed myself off and woke up by now.


    Maybe it’s because I’ve never experienced it before, but I don’t understand why he’s still having a hard time.


    “Where did the knightmander go?”


    “He has now gone out on a mission by order of the Count.”


    “mission?”


    “yes. “I can’t tell you the details because they are confidential.”


    Normally, when we were in the training hall, the knightmander who noticed us like a ghost woulde and help us train, but now we had to train together.


    “Swing your sword straighter.”


    As a result, I naturally ended up teaching the third prince.


    One of the knights, who was watching from afar, probably didn’t like the sight, andined.


    “Prince, why on earth do you follow a guy like that even after going through something like that?”


    “Shameless guy. “It seems like the guy who put the prince in danger is now attached to the prince.”


    “I guess they’re doing it because they don’t think they can get something out of it. “I don’t like it.”


    They started swearing at me openly.


    Maybe what they didst time wasn’t enough, or maybe I just didn’t like them that much, but the sight of them speaking in a loud voice in front of everyone was such that people around them were impressed.


    “Are you going to leave it like that?”


    “But the prince likes it. “Can’t you see you smiling over there?”


    “hey. “I have a good way.”


    They gathered together and started whispering among themselves.


    The expressions on the other knights’ faces turned strange as they heard the knight say that there was a way.


    “Are you going to be okay?”


    “If you’re that scared, just watch quietly.”


    “Didn’t you feel it then? “Your skills must be formidable.”


    “under! Well, he’s just a knight from the frontier. Besides, that guy is the child of a magic family. I guess I should use my sword…”


    “No, I guess you really didn’t hear me. That guy from the North…”


    “That’s enough. If you don’t want to do it, I’ll do it alone. “Why does a guy called a knight talk so much?”


    He interrupted his fellow knight and came towards me.


    I thought I knew what my fellow driver was trying to say.


    I think he was trying to say something like be careful because it was like that in the North.


    ‘If I had listened to my friend, I wouldn’t have been embarrassed.’


    As I saw it approaching me with hostility, it was clear what it was trying to do.


    I’m sure he’ll apply for a sparring match.


    Because it was the best way to legally beat him as a knight.


    I also stepped on the 3rd prince that way. There was nothing better than that to vent my anger.


    ‘I guess it wasn’t there yesterday.’


    If I had been there when I visited the 3rd prince yesterday, I would have thought about it again.


    However, I had no intention of stopping him. I was so excited at the thought of swinging a sword at me in the first ce that I didn’t even listen to my colleagues.


    And I was a little angry with him too.


    “Raymond.”


    Oh, you still add ‘nim’ to it. I thought you would say ‘you’ rather than ‘nim’.


    Perhaps because the 3rd prince was next to him, he seemed a little more polite.


    No, it had nothing to do with the 3rd prince. If you don’t say something nice, I probably won’t do it, so I say it with respect so that I can ept it.


    “Why are you doing that?”


    I also gave him a respectful word, and his eyebrows twitched.


    “You seem to have a lot of expertise in swordsmanship. Would you like to spar with me?”


    “….”


    A person’s smile can be so treacherous.


    His mouth was smiling, but his eyes were threatening to spar with him.


    “Carly! Now What…!”


    “it’s okay.”


    He calmed down the 3rd prince who was about to get angry and spoke to the knight.


    “A knight… or rather, may I say Lord Kali?”


    “…as you please.”


    He stiffened his face and nodded.


    I said calmly, standing in front of him.


    “So what do you want to do in sparring? Real sword? “Gagum?”


    “Do it with a real sword. “I guess Ga-geom doesn’t feel like sparring.”


    “All right.”


    I shrugged my shoulders and took the cotton.


    He looked through the cotton bag I was holding and sighed.


    “Huh… Instead of doing that, why don’t we risk something? For example, a sword. “I think it would be boring to just spar.”


    I admired him in a different way when he tantly said nonsense while saying he wanted my sword.


    The guy whose purpose was to beat me up was now coveting my sword as well.


    There are things that work and things that don’t work, but he didn’t seem to care about those things at all.


    It’s not funny that the person requesting a sparring match asks for something to be wagered.


    After all, the knight and the sword are inseparable.


    It was natural for a knight to look for a good sword.


    However, that did not mean that it was okay to behave rudely.


    “Why do you hate it? “If you’re not confident of winning, you can just pretend you didn’t win.”


    Just wipe your spit and lie.


    If I said something like that with an eye to please don’t say no, it wasn’t persuasive at all.


    “great. But I have no desire to have Lord Kali’s sword.”


    “Then what do you want?”


    “Considering the value of this sword…how about bing my ve?”


    As I spoke with a grin, the surroundings became silent.