How to Live as the Enemy Prince

< Chapter 23. If such a day comes (8) >

Kalian eats.

Explain why you made the Palace of Heicia look like that, what you've been working on this time and what you're planning. I didn't do anything. I really only ate food. I ate bread, put it in my mouth, chewed bacon, ate salad, and drank water.

As if we had completely forgotten "together" on the topic of eating together, it was like we had the world's most important dinner in front of us.

I was eating very well in a quiet and elegant manner.

I stared at that absurd figure for a long time, then suddenly rolled up one side of my mouth.

'How rash.'

I remember saying that one day.

"You don't eat."

Callian, who put down the water cup, asked more about such plants.

Technically, it's more important to say that you ate it all than that you didn't. Just don't eat like Kalian did today. Plants certainly ate.

"That's enough."

"Yes."

That's why I felt like I was waiting for the answer, saying, "I ate it all."

Kalyan picks up a folded napkin with a sharp answer and wipes his mouth. Then he got up from his seat and walked towards the terrace. Apparently, he wants to go back down now that he's finished eating.

Ha, the plant opens its mouth with a short sigh and a laugh.

"Kalyan."

"Yes."

"Sit down."

"Yes."

As soon as Calian answered, he walked again and sat down where he had originally been. The sound of laughter echoes once more from Plants' mouth when he saw it.

Either you listen or you don't listen.

The outside of the window is quiet and the inside is quiet.

As the maids approach, she looks at the sliding plant as she clears the table with caution.

"Thank you. Let's go out there."

Soon after the maids who put the car and dessert on the table took a step back, Calian sent them away with these words.

Plants' words protrude out with the sound of the door closing.

"Why are you doing this?"

It was the same question I asked before the meal, but the meaning was different. I was asking why I was going to let him live like this.

Calian leans back slightly and opens his mouth, understanding what Plants has to say.

"I have to tell you."

Immediately, Calian continued to save Plants.

I know how hard Kalian at the first breakfast would have tried not to kill himself. From uncovering hidden errors to lending me my power and yesterday's work to preventing the mastery of silica.

Plants shuts his eyes quietly. And I asked.

"I don't understand."

I know he wouldn't do something like that out of pity.

He was not the kind of man who would pity himself in the first place, nor was he the plant to be unaware of how he treated himself with such unfit emotions.

So you don't have to tell me anymore.

To the point where they would tear the palace apart and keep it alive.

Calian looks down.

The light green mint tea has a cool but sweet aroma. A mint leaf floats slowly in the car.

Callian opens his mouth, looking at it quietly.

"It's just, I'm scared."

It was neither a plan for what was to come nor an explanation for what was to be thought.

The unexpected answer frowns on Plants' glabella.

* * *

Blueberries are purple or blue.

When I talked about it, I ended up arguing. It was a very young thing, of course.

It was around the time when Hina had just learned Suir.

Hina, who explained it as' blue 'with a clumsy gesture, did not refute Kyrie's words. His hands were slower than his words and he didn't know many words. In the resentment, young Hina stopped crying.

So Hina won.

Since the blueberries were always blue for Kiri, the blueberry ice cream was naturally blue.

"Hina."

Kiri brought two blue ice creams made by the chef of Chermill Palace, and called Hina who was waving carrots in front of Raven while exercising because she was struggling.

Hina, who heard Kyrie's voice, ran with a smile and moved her hand after eating a mouthful of ice cream in Kyrie's hand.

- Delicious.

Although none of the three princes in the palace enjoyed ice cream, the chef sometimes made various flavors of ice cream. That's why Kalian asked me to find out how much Hina likes ice cream.

Of course, even if Hina didn't ask for such a favor, she would have done well if she liked it, but she did.

- Are you here to give me this or not?

Kiri nods and smiles.

It was a pretty cool smile to show in front of Hina.

- That's great. I need to talk to you.

Hina walks to the trail behind Chermill Palace, where Kiri and Jan used to talk. Sitting on a bench, Kyrie, who placed both ice creams next to Hina, unfastened her sword and placed it on her knees.

"What's going on?"

Hina didn't answer for a moment, but dragged Kyrie's hand and wrote "Balkan" on it.

- Sweet Prince, if you want to work here, tell me.

It was a name I didn't think of.

He looks down at the palm of his hand and asks Kiri, thinking about something for a moment.

"Balkan? You want me to work as a healer?"

At that, Hina looked surprised. It was a surprise that Kyrie, like the bear, recognized Kalian's intentions that Hina had never understood at all.

- How, you know?

Kiri smiles.

I looked at the blade of the gaze I had placed on my knee with a smile that was slightly different from the cool smile I just showed you.

'It's a train.'

Kalian just said that, handing over the sword, and understood what he meant by giving it to Kiri.

It's because Kiri knows what the railroad is.

It's one of the few precious materials that can contain error. So, giving him a canal sword also meant that he wanted Kiri to become the "seventh sword" quickly.

So I practiced harder and went over a wall. And I defeated Callian.

As Calian said, Calian's body was not normal, and it was unused, but it was clear that he had defeated him with a pure sword.

That must be why Kalian was thinking of showing Hina a different path. Kiri beats Kalian because it means she's one step closer to becoming Kalian's "sword."

I don't know when I'm going to die.

"If you're okay with it, I think you should try it."

Kalian knows Kiri well.

I knew he would give my life just because he believed in himself and gave me a chance.

- Why, do you think it's a good idea?

Kalian didn't tell you about Kiri in the past, but he clearly believes he died before Bern did. I would have died defending Bern for no reason whatsoever.

Kiri thought it wouldn't be any different this time. Of course, Kalian must be thinking the same thing.

"It's better than being a royal maid, even though the prince may be able to help you for a long time. You have to think of a way to live without help."

Even without Khalian, and even without Kiri, Hina can continue to live. I understood that I had made way for Hina to live.

Hina looked at Kyrie for a moment, saying.

- What's wrong with you two?

Two ice creams were melting evenly, and one without a word. Hina said without even looking at the ice cream turning blue.

- Neither are you, sweet prince. It's weird.

"Are you and I weird?"

Hina nods, asking. Then I gave Kyrie the fury I worked so hard to hide in front of her.

- Dead, thinking, living. Why?

Hina's hands move faster.

- Sweet Prince, he doesn't want anything. Even the cat necklace, they told me to clear my name. I'm not leaving anything. But so are you. What's the matter with you?

"Hina, it's not like that."

A prince who lives in the safest palace in Cairys, always risking his life. And the prince's escort.

So I don't know when it's gonna happen, I'm just being prepared. I'm not trying to die.

I didn't know exactly what Kalian was thinking, but I tried to say so. But Hina stopped Kyrie.

- Hey, I'm going. Go, I'll heal. I'm gonna live with you and McDreamy until I die of old age.

Kiri stares at Hina's hand without answering. I forgot all the words I had thought about comforting Hina a a little while ago.

Hina said again when Kiri refused to speak back.

- You think death is, like, awesome, you morons.

Then he got up and went back to Chermill Palace.

The ice cream that had turned blue was shaken for a moment.

* * *

The Great Desert in the North is always frozen solid.

If flowers bloom there and butterflies flourish, you would rather believe what they say.

But Kalian is scared.

I just kept saying that. Pick up a teaspoon and touch the mint leaf floated in the teacup without saying anything else.

Sixteen Plants, who quietly chewed out a word of his younger brother who did not even know how old he was, said.

"My fearful brother destroyed my mother's palace yesterday."

"It's not where my mother used to live."

Callian laughs a little.

"There was another reason, a concussion."

I didn't just get rid of it for one plant.

After measuring roughly what he might have done overnight, Plants brought the original topic back instead of asking what it was.

"How many times do I have to ask?"

It was the first time I had been so persistent that I just opened my mouth to Kalian, who was about to move on appropriately.

"Meow!"

'I am Prince Plants' favorite cat, Prince Kalian. '

A cat entered Plants' room. Then, for some reason, you climb up to Calian's knee and take your place, not Plants's.

Calian grins as he holds his cat and looks down at the collar. It is because I saw that the contents have not changed.

"You said no. I didn't erase it."

"· · · · · · Annoying."

He understands Plants' brief words very well, and Plants reads Calian's insides very well. You notice the words in Calian again.

Callian looks up at Plants, smiling and opening his mouth.

"You're so smart, I can't say a word to you."

"Don't bark."

I went all the way to Chase and told him not to get ready, but I realized that the younger brother in front of me had no sense of life.

That's why we're trying to save Plants.

Sit on the throne for Khalian when there is no Khalian in the bay.

Plants leans against the backrest.

Sitting there staring at the red eye, Plants opens his mouth.

"I said no."

"I know you're not interested. I just keep thinking that."

"What were you thinking."

"Because of Serenti's cursed act of being mindful of the Joke Journal, we are moving like this · · · · · · by borrowing a body that will be dead."

Kalian laughs.

"When the day comes when my birds are finished, No, when the day comes. Will my life continue after that? I don't know."

I was scared of it.

I wasn't afraid to die, but I was afraid that that vacancy would show up.

Meet the blue soles, meet the Sispanians, meet Chase, and go through the white repairs.

After feeling the vacancy that Bern had lost, Calian was releasing the idea he had been raising in front of his brother, who was much younger than me.

"I already live more desperately than anyone else. I have no intention of disappearing easily or dying. But what if."

But if only one such day would come. When the day comes you can't help it.

"I hope my clever brother, who came to Siegfried's mansion, will do something for me."

Kalian laughs.

Plants does not smile.

I lifted the car without saying a word. Calian's bitch servants have brought him a tea that suits his taste. The unfamiliar mint scent lingers in my mouth.

"Stop barking."

After a sip of mint tea, Plants opens his mouth like this.

"· · · · · · I'll live up to my brother's wishes."

I'll eat as much as I want, so you're on your own for the rest of your life in the Palace of Arfia. That's what I meant.

I don't know if you understand.