How to Live as the Enemy Prince

Steam rising in the sand dunes.

Warm water rising through the rocks.

How many people would hate to close their eyes after soaking their whole body in a net slightly higher than their body temperature?

Two more days east of Cairosis, you'll reach the province of Schrinz, famous for its hot springs. It was also home to the Royal Palace of Cairys.

If it were close, it would be close and far, but two days' walk was not too burdensome for the lost nobles. Most people traveled to their own lands once or twice a year, far away.

Because of this, many nobles in Cairosis often sought Shrinks for tourism or nursing. But...

"You weren't worried."

Demirea opened her mouth, and all sorts of emotions appeared on her face. And to interpret the biggest of all those faces, it would be, "Dad, how could you do this to me?"

Yeah, sure.

There are one or two things that even my bloodline cannot comprehend.

Yan, who looks at the living prince and says it's like a flower, is hard to understand, but it's better that way. It looked like a flower. I can just do that and move on.

"Did I not worry about my child?"

"Your skin is too fine to worry about."

Demirea looks at Slayman's sleek, shiny face and says,

When I went to Remain and heard why Demirea locked the door, Slayman asked me to lend him some money without saying anything else.

And with it, I went to the hot springs with Sherry.

Demirea told you to rest a few more days. That's why I left. In Schrinz, two days from the capital.

I can't understand that tranquility. Demirea's rationality was too healthy to understand it.

"You look like you've had a good rest."

Slay, Siegfried's housekeeper, is poisonous in the event that Siegfried and Brissen face a conflict between the two princes. So we know that you were just helping Demirea by falling far away.

But look at that face.

Worrying about your daughter How can a country worrying about its family accept that face that has not spread as much dust in the air and is really just so resting?

Slayman laughs as it comes out of his face in unison. Then he erased the playfulness and said with a smile.

"Sherry told me not to worry, and so did I."

Slay freely expanded the meaning of the 'shield' allowed. They even tricked us into thinking that helping Kalian by subtly interpreting the will of protection and abstinence is not against their beliefs.

I didn't worry about Demirea.

I didn't believe in scolding.

Slay opens his mouth, looking at Demirea.

"Let me ask you a question."

"Yes."

"I wondered why."

"What are you referring to?"

Slayman drank a sip of the transparent wine he was holding and said:

"You're Jan, aren't you? But I don't know why I helped the Three Princes in the first place. I wondered how many days the three princes had seen the Duke of Siegfried and whether they had gone this far or for any other reason. What they had seen and decided."

Demirea hasn't been to Khalian as much as Jan. She hasn't met him. That doesn't give us an idea of what Callian really looks like, like Slayman. However, no matter how much I thought about it, it was hard to understand why.

With Slayman's question, Demirea opens her mouth without hesitation.

"Your brother is laughing."

Yan, who lived with the face of all the misfortunes under heaven, said, "It's all mine," and was smiling when he came to tell me to hold hands with Kalian for a while.

"I was wondering if you could help me do what I want, since you made me do it. because I can handle that kind of decision."

That was why Demirea was so calm.

Slayman's mouth widens when he hears it. Only Slay gives you a big smile. He nods and opens his mouth.

"I'm going down tomorrow. We're going with Sherry."

"You're going to Duke Siegfried?"

"Yes. It's hard to keep it empty for long now because there's no one there. Do whatever you want to do here."

Demirea said that she had come to the capital and made fun of Remain with Alan, drank with Alan, and almost begged Tailan to die, and that she had been banished from her home and to the hot springs, only Slay replied, watching.

"Yes."

I'll leave Demirea alone in the capital.

It tells you to decide and act accordingly, no matter how you help Callian. It was as if he was going to give Demirea that much power by lowering himself.

"Thank you."

Demirea smiles slightly as she sees her father believing in his decisions and actions.

* * *

After the trip, Slayman entered the house and was encouraging Calian to raise a cat for Plants.

Raul opens his mouth, postponing his meeting with the Elven Sadan, looking out the window into a huge garden.

"You said there was evidence of Tensyl's involvement."

Ren, who was standing behind Remain, replies.

"Yes, Your Majesty. In a bookstore with a man named Nerd, Tensyl's royal family and many letters were found, including everything they had planned to do to harm Prince 3."

"Other than Tensyl, no one else was involved."

"Yes, it is. Content only confirmed for tencils."

With Len and Kaerra meticulously searching in person, there should be no evidence missing.

It was Randall who benefited the most from Calian's disappearance. It is of course Tensyl who benefits when Randall takes the throne. So the reason for the raid was also very clear.

Evidence and circumstance were all pointing to Tensyl.

"Burn them all."

That's why Remain ordered it. It's because I told Allen about what's behind this.

Of course, Remain didn't know that the dead were Cecretian setups. Alan's concern for Chase was greatly appreciated.

"You don't have to keep it for later."

"There's no reason to leave it as it is because it is a lie made by someone anyway. If you have another problem in the future, you won't be able to use false evidence, so burn it down."

Ren did not disagree.

Just like Tailan and Kiri, knights of Ronan Cite Chase, knights of Siegfried.

"Very well. I will deal with it, Your Grace."

Ren leans out, his head lowered, and Remain opens his mouth quietly.

"There must be punishment for the two princes and the Peacock."

The world doesn't know that Callian was attacked.

You can't just let Randall from the banquet hall walk out of Chermill and leave Khalian, who's been missing for the past week. Neither did Plants leave the palace in the middle of the night, nor did Siegfried detain them.

Demirea, of course, was determined to take her punishment for Siegfried as well. But there was one thing Demirea didn't know. The fact that Slay only knows a little better about who Le Maine is going to punish than Demirea.

"Siegfried Ball is leaving the capital tomorrow."

Alan passes by to help Remain figure out what punishment to inflict.

Remain smiles as he hears it.

Despite Le Maine's intent to leave the capital at this time, I was not unaware of Slayman's intentions.

Immediately, Remain called for Grand Chamberlain Raul.

and communicated a few things.

"Send the Confused Duke of Siegfried out of the capital tomorrow and stop him from entering Cairosis until sundown."

Slay is the only one punished on Demirea's behalf.

If Demirea's job was to become Khalian's shield, then Slayman's job is to become Demirea's shield.

"And both prince two and prince three will be barred from entering the palace. You will not be able to participate in external events until permission is given."

It was a pretty strong punishment, but Alan thought it was protection. There's no safer place in Cairys than this royal palace where the Sispanians can touch.

"Perfect punishment."

Allen nods, smiling softly.

* * *

Yeah, we talked about that.

The moment I was locked up in this palace, I felt suffocated as if it were the end of my life.

I don't want to be king.

I want to live.

Kalian won't know why Plants would say that. No, I probably knew better. You must have spent much longer in the palace than you did in Plants, as the son of the king and as the brother of the king. You may have empathized with Plants' words and nodded your head.

Still.

Even so.

Even if it is.

Plants releases the horse back from Siegfried's mansion as if it were his own.

"My brother trusts me too much."

I can't believe you're giving up Brycen.

It's too big and heavy to tell a tangerine peel with a natural face.

Plants thought so.

"Maybe you're scared. Whether you're overwhelmed."

Ever since I first found Callian's room, and ever since. Kalian never doubted Plants.

If you don't have what you have in your hand, you can lend it to Balkan who will die. Plants says so, looking at Calian, who wants to give it to you.

What do you believe in?

What if I change my mind right now?

"Then I'll do it again."

Plants, who was saying this, shut up.

Calian pauses as he feels his words stop.

It's because she felt what Plants had swallowed back.

And so, for a moment, I was silent.

"How quickly my brother notices."

A short sigh comes out of Calian's mouth.

Then I began to peel the tangerine again. The red eyes remained unchanged from the green tangerine peel.

"That's all you need to think about."

The scent of Sidi Cinnamon Tangerine was on the tip of my nose.

At the end of that, one person kept coming back to me and I couldn't eat alone.

There was also someone in front of me who knew not to think.

"Just get to the point. Don't be sure."

There was a war, there was an explanation of how he died, there was a story of who started it. I wasn't going to do it.

This is the past that Kalian went through alone.

Chase remembers, but in the end, it doesn't mean anything. Why are you doing this by yourself to find out what hasn't happened yet?

"· · · · · · Plants."

You close your eyes slightly, and Calian opens his mouth again.

"It was none of your business."

It has nothing to do with Plants now.

It's never going to happen again.

I'm gonna make it happen.

Plants does not answer and once again closes his eyes, Calian pulls a piece of tangerine out and puts it in his mouth. I smiled bitterly because it tasted particularly spicy.

Callian chewed the tangerine for a long time and swallowed it.

"You said you never wanted to be king on your own, and you hated it even more when Randall sat on the throne and locked me and you in the tower side by side. That's why I believe."

I'm not good enough to trust you with my life. So don't be fooled by useless thoughts.

"If you change your mind and need a three-way, just ask. I'll think about it."

Khalian told Plants that he had never coveted anything else. One of Plants' mouths twists when he sees it.

"Son of a bitch."

Kalian smiles, raising the tails of his mouth.

Then he picked up the last remaining tangerines and sent them to Plants.

"Sir, would you like some?"

Plants sighs and sighs.

And I handed over the tangerines in Calian's hands.

After that, Sherry's thoughts disappear.

So what do we do?

We should have a cat instead of worthless ideas. In Brissen.