How to Live as the Enemy Prince

I now like the smell of dried strawberries in mint tea.

Even if it wasn't a special symbol, it would be amazing if you just said what you like about it. Calian smiles for a moment and drinks a cup of warm tea that reminds him of the old Khalian.

"Smells good. I like it."

I ate a cake with just harvested red strawberries and dark chocolate, and I ate a Borat macaron with blueberries chewing in a cheerful way. In fact, I don't like sweet things unless I have something to mind, so when I eat sweet things like this, I think of green tea. However, Yan, who rolled the Kalian stone with a thick mofo and shoved everything into his mouth, gave him another tea, saying he couldn't sleep when he drank tea.

However, Kalian replied, "I like you without any complaints."

Not only that, if Jan brought it to me, if I don't give it to him or give it to him, he just sat still and received everything. Directly next to him, he grumbles as he looks at the other person's face, who is being treated the same way by Léric with the same twist.

'Take good care of her. The Black Sea drowned in the middle of the night, and the Prince and I must have been surprised when we counted.'

After going in and out of the water, the seasickness got worse. It tasted even worse now than when I went into the sea with a lot of snacks, but I couldn't wait to see Raleigh stunned by the words of Allen or Allen who worried about him the same way as I did when I treated Calian.

So I sat next to Plants for a long time without even seeing Khalian. Then, in the end, I put one uncomfortable point in my mouth very carefully.

"You know, yarn."

"Yes, my prince."

"I'm hot."

While you may not know that Allan's warming magic is already in the cabin, you look at a furnace that is lightly burning without knowing it, and you give me courage because you think you might lose your peanut butter.

"What kind of person drowns near a whale? No matter how curious you were, you should have looked under McDreamy's feet. It's a good thing it didn't get any worse, so just sit tight."

"Yes. I'll stay put."

I was scolded without fail.

"And don't lie, because I know you don't burn in the cold."

You know I don't burn in the cold. However, when the child who knows about it asks if he didn't let him eat the ice as soon as the summer is over, he can only get scolded without income. I'm going to ask you to take salt water instead of me and look at that countryman who looks like he's being baked.

"Kalyan."

"Yes."

"Shut up."

"Yes."

I heard a voice from the prince who had fallen into the sea to pick up his brother who had stumbled off his feet while trying to watch a whale.

You know who I'm trying to take care of, and you know Yan is mad at me, and you're cold, and you're burning up hot. Oh, my God, I don't know how you've really lived this long. That's what I'm more curious about than the axis of time.

I thought that I would be dipped and pulled out of the sea with my neck wrapped again, so I kept my mouth shut gently. And in the end, I don't know whether they were baked or not, I just got up from my seat after having a nice, refreshing cup of tea with my heart to enjoy my life.

"Why are you up?"

"My teacher called me."

Yan's eyes narrow as she sees the bracelet on Calian's wrist glow.

"It's been less than a minute since you told me to stay put."

"Yes, but the teacher is calling."

Calian, who spoke in a daze, unhooks the rolled muffo and gives it to Yan. There were many faces that didn't like it, but Jan nodded softly. Jan smiles silently, not wanting to follow her.

Anyway, Jan is Jan.

I didn't say it was hard to get along, but one of Kalian's ideas is that he really understands me. So really, Jan is Jan.

"You get some rest, too."

"I understand."

"Don't tell anyone else I drowned. I'm worried."

"Don't worry. I'm not talking about it."

"Kiri shouldn't know. Don't forget to brighten your ears."

"Yes, I'll be careful."

Kiri will definitely carry a fishing rod when he finds out about this. Either a winged eel or a blue backfish or a whale. Anyway, I forgot about the sea dragon. He's not even a thousand years old. He doesn't care about dragons or fish or anything.

"Master, I'll be back in a moment. Take a rest."

"Got it."

Calian looks down slightly toward Plants and steps out of the cabin.

With the hot face of death and the fur wrapped around him still inside Plants.

* * *

With a knife, with magic.

I have a father who will find me no matter where I go on the continent.

"Are you sure you're okay?"

You look worried all day.

Looking at the red lace straps tied to Chase's head, Calian nods, smiling appropriately.

"Yes. Almost not. It's okay."

If I were still out of breath in the sea, my memories might have swept back like waves. However, I was well rescued thanks to some seaweed that held my brother's neck up, not the tip of his head.

Calian smiles alone as he recalls Arniesel giving him an unexpected experience.

"Are you smiling right now?"

And I heard it again. This time it was Alan.

"Yeah, it's fun. Not all dragons are like the Sispanians."

Maybe it was Arniesel who was excited to say goodbye.

I laughed because I thought that I was similar to myself for some reason why one or two of the thickest things I could live without being careful.

"You must have forgotten that you didn't leave someone in the sea who was supposed to go back safely to Cairys and bring back the Sispanians. I think it kind of resembles me."

"I'm proud of you, very much."

Soon, Calian stops laughing and opens his mouth to Alan and Chase.

"Anyway, that's not why I came here. I want to ask you something."

"Tell me. Anything."

"It is said that the Sispanian built the axis of time."

"Yes. Lord Manasil told me before you came."

"Yes. That's why. Where did you first see the axis of time? I saw it in the Royal Treasure Chamber, but I think you already knew that."

"Didn't I tell you that?"

"Yes, you didn't."

"I thought you said something on a day I didn't know."

Kalian shakes his head without answering.

Chase looks away for a moment. When I think back to something in my dreams that I had not experienced, I used to look like this.

"· · · · · · Falling."

And Chase came up with an unexpected story.

"It originally appeared in hell. I feel a strange energy out there, Lord Castrin told me that. But this time it was a battle instead. When I found the temple instead, I took the king and his mother with me for the first time because they told me."

"I thought it might have been hidden in the temple. The first time was hell."

"Maybe that's why the Great King Cecretia made it, too."

Callian nods in reply to Allen's reply on Chase's behalf.

"It would mean that it was made by the Sispanians and last used by the great king of Cecretia, and then hidden or stored by the great king of Cecretia."

"Maybe."

"So you found it and moved it right away."

"I did. I moved my findings to the royal treasury. Since this story has only been told from the Royal Book of Books, only the royal family can understand what it is. Maybe I shouldn't touch it carelessly. You must have seen that move."

Knock, knock, knock.

Suddenly, Calian's fingers are tapping his knees.

"When Arnigel stopped time, He used the axis of time, the fragment of the axis."

"Yes. Time stopped."

"Yes, so I have some questions."

I'm here to see Chase and Allen about Plants, who fell into the water together, because of what I'm about to tell you. I'm not sure if you're already thinking the same thing about Kalian, but I don't want you to know right away.

"The axis of time could only be used once. But it's fragmented, but somehow it's coming back here. not only that, but that's what Arniesel used to do. And that's what I'm going to do."

Multiple round rings representing the movement of the celestial body. And the hourglass in the middle.

Something you shouldn't touch lightly.

The Sispanian who made it with my own hands called it "disaster."

Calian pauses, thinking about the axis of time, and then says again.

"This time, what Brother Plants has been doing while time stands still, and what is beyond the scope of the impact that the axis of time has created, is probably the effect of 'the past' · · · · · I keep thinking that way. If the meaning of the word 'can only be used once' does not mean 'destroyed'. So maybe..."

I can't rest my words.

Chase looks at Calian for a while and opens his mouth.

"What it means to turn back time just once is not the destruction of the axis of time, but the impact on the user."

"Yes."

"Then, when Prince Plants was right to use the axis of time in the past, it was already used once, so he might have gotten away with it."

"Of course it's a family. Anywhere. If only one were true. I hope not, but if it's true, it could be · · · · · · · · · if it's not a family."

The story stops again.

This time, a few sounds came from Chase's teacup with his fingertips on it, and a short sigh came out of Alan's mouth. It is because we understand that it is a sound called "assumption," hoping not to be right.

not because he didn't want Plants to use the axis of time, not because he really feared or didn't want to believe that Kalian was going through time by Plants' hands.

It's not like that anymore.

"If it's true, if it's not a family. I think there's a clear reason why I should have a time axis. In the worst case."

If Callian's right about everything.

If the axis of time that is reappearing falls into the hands of someone other than Calian. If you can't destroy it, if Serenti, or the Sispanians, or anyone else who doesn't care, uses it. If you can't stop it.

When the worst thing that ever happened to me happened.

"· · · · · · Peas might wander alone again."

A thin soliloquy leaks out like a whisper.

* * *

- Tak, Tak.

I paused for a moment and rolled my feet slightly a few times.

- Jubbuck, Jubbuck.

And as I took another step, the sound of the heel touching the floor rang the hallway.

Chase and Alan close the cabin door and don't make a sound until you come downstairs. It wasn't walking with heels like yarn, but it was because if I didn't care, I would remove the sound and walk like a habit.

My head was shaking so much that I couldn't even pick up the footsteps that I had always cared about.

After moving so slowly, Calian stops in front of a cabin.

- Knock knock.

And after a long time, I put my hands up and said knock.

There was no Jan to serve, no Kiri to protect, and no other acolytes to knock on the door for me.

"Why."

It was too obvious who the owner of the unfamiliar knock sound was.

I didn't even ask who he was, and I couldn't even tell if he was allowed to come in or just ask him to leave. I heard a strange commotion in the cabin. So, without further ado, Kalian opens the door. I knew when I was coming in on the terrace, I knew why I was coming in with permission.

After opening the door, Calian laughs for a moment. Jan and Léric have no idea how they got it out, and all they could think of was a pile of well-baked peas.

A new cup of tea is placed across the street from Plants, where Callian used to sit. Jan must have left something new because he said he'd be back soon.

Calian looks down, sitting there, looking at the closed door for a moment. And I'm still drinking hot tea.

"You've never seen a mermaid before."

"Nothing."

"I saw it."

I boasted.

Who cares if it's an easy transformation or not. You saw it.

And if you go outside and dip him back in the water, he looks like he's going to get seasick and smiles at the powerful Plants. I feel very proud of myself for having such a rare experience.

Plants leans on his back, leaning against his head, not even with his face.

"But I thought you couldn't swim either. When did you learn?"

I should be able to float rather than swim, but for Callian, the fish was no different from the ones that didn't sink.

"Not long ago."

"I didn't hear you say you're learning."

"Books."

"· · · · · · · Books."

When I saw the novel about the knights, I stared at the prince, who said that the three princes who had mastered horseback riding had learned to swim while looking at the book.

"A book."

"Yes."

Yes, I know that when you read about how to float in a book, your body is a great person who follows you evenly. I also know that placenta is thanks to that head, as it's not that hard to swing two swords separately. I know, but...

"Then, sir."

"Why."

"How did you get here?"

"What."

"You came to the sea before your master. You can't tell me how you did it."

"Somehow."

There is no roar that comes back without conscience. After a long time of silence, Plants raises his eyelid slightly and looks back at Calian without turning his head.

"You went down with the rope. To the sea."

"You know I'm not asking that."

"I just knew. When I found out, it moved."

"You don't know how it works."

"I don't know."

"Then how did you know that · · · · · · · · time stopped?"

A pale hand protrudes out of Mofo.

Plants pointed to my head with the tip of his hand.

"Time has stopped, but it hasn't stopped."

With a face full of no idea what he was thinking, Kalian opens his mouth a long time later, looking at his bony finger on Plants.

"The last time you hurt your shoulder, It was like he was having a nightmare. I thought it was going to be okay soon, but I wonder if it's for the same reason. You don't always do that."

"· · · · · · · · No."

"Another lie."

"Another half-word."

After my birthday, Calian didn't connect a single letter, even though he saw the snowy Plants keep cutting the tail.

"So from the beginning, I mean, I was in Cairis."

"Don't."

I don't know if it was before Callian changed.

Plants simply cuts off the difficult words out of his mouth and answers.

"It used to be. Evan, it's getting worse. Since then."

Originally, I was smart, quick to notice and had a lot of thoughts, but it was after Evan's work that my thoughts continued endlessly like now. Since I went on and on with my other thoughts to not break the seal of the oath. From then on, he told me I had become a habit. Now it is.

Callian raises his hands and covers his face.

Plants, looking at the slimy Khalian, opens his mouth.

"I'm barking in my head again."

"I'm not barking."

"I've never been uncomfortable."

"How can a man's head not rest?"

"Still smart enough."

"That's what you're saying."

"It's not your fault. Why do you keep blaming yourself?"

Kalian's answer is no longer connected.

It's not Calian's fault that Plants stopped thinking about catching Evan. Serenty gave me a smart head to keep thinking endlessly, or Evan, for that matter. No one is to blame.

"It's not my fault."

Including myself, Plants, who made the seal of the oath.

"That's a relief. I'm not blaming my brother for nothing."

"I know that much. Me, too."

It is very objective to use yourself as a chess word and very objective to cover up anyone's mistakes. Should I have done well for that stupid consistency or should I have done wrong?

"The nightmare, it's getting better."

"Really."

"Decreased. Not long ago."

Plants nods and sits still for a while, looking at the cup of tea in his hand. He looked down silently at the strawberry slices and mint leaves inside.

"Ever since there was more I could do with my hands than just think. So."

The nightmares created by unconscious thoughts are diminishing, and he gives a non-mixed answer.

"If you break the habit of wasting magical power, I don't think you'll be able to continue my thinking."

"You said you wouldn't blame me."

"I don't blame you, but I know how to deal with it. Me, too."

Smarter than you.

Calian opens his mouth with a serious face as he looks at the added plant.

"But the shield is so fragile that I have no choice but to let you live."

"When will you stop barking contextually?"

"I'll get rid of my manners. I have to break your habits."

"Got it."

Kalian nods a few times, pointing fingers at his head. just like Plants did a moment ago.

"So, you moved as soon as you realized you stopped time."

"Almost."

"You'd be surprised."

"Why."

"I'm afraid your brother is missing."

· · · · · · · Again.

Plants closes his eyes again without an answer. Callian pretended he didn't see it coming.

"Time stopped, so I came to ask you a lot of questions with peace of mind. We talked and talked and joked. I forgot how smart you are. If I knew you were doing that, I would have just come up."

"I'm not surprised."

"Yes."

"I was worried."

Kalian grins.

"Again. The sea."

"I fell into the sea again, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. I wasn't as young as I was then, and I was fine on the boat. Who saved you in time."

"· · · · · · · Yes."

"Anyway, next time, I won't be surprised. So the next time you stop, you just stop."

Do you think that's up to you?

That answer did not come back. Neither one of them knew it anyway.

"Don't wander off when there's no one there."

"Got it."

"I won't let it go away like that again."

"Horse."

I don't really know the criteria for pointing out half-words.

However, this time, Kalian was able to fix the horse.

"I won't let you."

I changed it a bit while I was fixing it.

Plants nods, holding still for a moment.

"Got it."

"Anyway, it's nice to hear you say that."

"Better if you don't bark."

"Later. That."

The promise you can't keep now is lifted again by Kalyan, who beat you up.

Soon, red light began to grow in the dark blue sky.

It was the first sunrise facing the sea.