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

I waited for him to speak.

When I gave him time to think so he could speak first, he curled up and wiggled his hands.

“… .”

Silence filled the room.

The third prince glanced at me, opening and closing his mouth, wanting to say something.

“… dead.”

“… ?”

After a long silence, the third prince struggled to open his mouth.

It was an unexpected start, but I listened to him in silence.

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

The 3rd prince, still with his head buried in the arm resting on his lap, refused to raise his head.

I have nightmares in my dreams, but now I hear hallucinations in reality.

His voice trembled when he said that he was afraid to open his eyes.

“Prince.”

“… scary. I’m scared… .”

I covered my ears again as if the hallucinatory disease had struck, and held his shoulder as he muttered.

“Baan!”

“… .”

I grabbed his shoulders and made him look at me.

He still had his eyes closed.

“You may open your eyes.”

“Before, before… !”

“I will take care of it. You have nothing to be afraid of.”

He still had his eyes closed, unable to think of waking up.

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

Even when I said it, I tried to laugh.

believe me

In a way, he became like this because of me, but can he trust me like that?

“… !”

But he opened his eyes.

Seeing something next to me, he freaked out and tried to turn his head.

Grabbing his head, I grabbed the lamp and brought it close to him.

“Hold this.”

He accepted the lamp innocently with trembling hands.

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

To let him know that there is no one in the room but me and him.

The third prince’s trembling subsided, as if my action and the lamp had worked.

“Are you all right now?”

The third prince nodded.

“Leave that lamp on when you sleep and when you wake up.”

The third prince silently nodded.

“The Count dispatched a pursuit party to pursue the remnants of the Warlock. So they don’t have to worry.”

“… Yes.”

Perhaps thanks to the lamp, blood began to circulate on his pale face.

“And there is nothing good about being alone in a room like this. I don’t know when you’ll be gone, but come out and move your body like before.”

“… .”

“Well… Then I’ll just go. I hope you take good care of yourself.”

“Re… !”

“… ?”

He was about to say something but shut his mouth.

I didn’t know what I was hesitating about, but I didn’t rush and waited.

The second hour of silence has come.

Fortunately, this silence didn’t last too long.

“L-sama, how can you be okay with Raymond-sama?”

How could I be okay… There wasn’t really any way to do this.

Hallucinations and reality are different, and I could tell them apart.

And it was also thanks to Aura.

Aura gives the user some degree of resistance to magic.

So the wizard and the knight are enemies and counters to each other.

The condition of the day and the difference in strength determine victory or defeat.

Neither did I.

Since he has an aura, he has some resistance to black magic.

In addition, since you can distinguish hallucinations, it was strange to be frightened by seeing fake ones.

The hallucinations didn’t hurt me, and there was nothing I couldn’t overcome as long as I was aware that they weren’t real.

“I know it’s fake.”

“FALSE… ?”

“Yes. There is no reason to be afraid of the insubstantial.”

“ah… .”

At my words, he opened his mouth in shock.

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

The third prince raised his hand and wiped my face.

“… .”

His eyes were looking into space, not mine.

His eyes flickered mercilessly, as if he was looking at something.

He took a quick breath and blinked his eyes.

The trembling was completely gone, and those eyes didn’t shake either.

“FALSE… You just have to recognize that it’s fake.”

I couldn’t completely overcome it, but I was able to endure it to some extent.

“It’s fake, so you don’t have to be afraid.”

The third prince looked back at me and smiled faintly.

“Then I guess I have something to do.”

“ah… yes… .”

3rd Prince, who was about to grab my hand, stopped in mid-air and captured it.

I also have my own job.

I couldn’t have a conversation with the third prince forever.

“And it looks like the guests have come too, so I hope to get a good rest and see you soon with a brighter face.”

I patted him on the shoulder and opened the door and left.

“uh… ?”

“This is Daria. Are you here to see the prince?”

I saw Daria walking in front of the door, contemplating whether or not to knock.

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

In the first place, she hated the third prince.

‘Is the degree of hatred affection?’

Still, since the person I knew had gone away, it could have been a stop by to say hello.

It’s not my business to get involved.

“You are inside. Please go in.”

“… Yes.”

Daria, who had been staring blankly at me, nodded with a determined face and went through the door I opened.

Glancing at the startled third prince and Daria approaching him, he left.

***

Whether it was because of the effect of the lamp or because of Daria’s visit, the third prince had a positive reaction.

Little by little, he seemed to be confined to his room, but he started to come out and walk around.

“Good job.”

Hovering around his dorm, he gradually expanded his territory and came to the training ground where I was on the third day.

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

“die!”

Although he showed symptoms of seizures from time to time, they quickly subsided when he was moderately socialized by his side.

Since the priest came and went once, there was no way the curse would still remain.

And even the count’s magic items.

If you’ve done that much, you should have brushed it off and got up by now.

Maybe it’s because I’ve never experienced it, so I couldn’t understand why he was still having a hard time.

“Where did the knight commander go?”

“By the Count’s order, he has gone out to carry out his mission now.”

“mission?”

“Yes. Details are confidential, so I cannot tell you.”

Normally, when I was at the gymnasium, the captain of the knights who had noticed me like a ghost would come and help me with training, but now I had to train with the two of them.

“Swing your sword a little straighter.”

As a result, I naturally came to teach the third prince.

One of the knights who was standing at a distance and watching, as if he didn’t like the look, spat out a complaint.

“Why on earth does the prince follow a guy like that even though he’s been through that kind of thing?”

“Shameless bastard. It’s like the guy who put the prince in danger is stuck with the prince.”

“He must be doing that because he has nothing to gain. I don’t like it.”

They started swearing at me openly.

Whether it was not enough for what they did last time, or if I didn’t like it that much, the appearance of them speaking in a not small voice in front of everyone made an impression on the people around them.

“Are you going to leave it that way?”

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

“Hey. I have a good way.”

They got together and started whispering among themselves.

The expressions of the other knights who heard the article saying that there was a way became strange.

“Are you okay?”

“If you’re that scared, just watch.”

“Didn’t you feel that? It won’t be easy.”

“under! That’s right, it’s just a knight on the periphery. Besides, that guy is a child of a magical family. I have to use my sword… .”

“No, I guess you really didn’t hear. That light in the North… .”

“it’s okay. If you don’t want to do it, I’ll do it myself. Why is a knight so talkative?”

I interrupted my fellow knights and approached me.

I thought I knew what the fellow knight was trying to say.

It was in the North, so be careful. I think he was talking about something.

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

It was obvious what he was trying to do as he approached me with hostility.

Bona Mana will apply for Dalian.

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

As much as I stepped on the 3rd prince that way. There was nothing better than that to vent your anger.

‘It looks like it wasn’t there yesterday.’

When I visited the third prince yesterday, if I had been there, I would have thought twice.

I had no intention of stopping him. In the first place, I was excited at the thought of swinging a sword at me, so I didn’t listen to my colleagues.

And I was a little angry with him too.

“Mrs. Raymond.”

Oh, but you still put ‘nim’ on it. I thought I’d say ‘the guy’ rather than ‘sir’.

Maybe it was because the third prince was next to him, but he seemed a bit polite.

No, it had nothing to do with the third prince. I don’t think I’ll do it if I don’t say it nicely, so I’m saying something respectful so that I can accept it.

“Why is that?”

His eyebrows twitched when I said honorifics to him.

“You seem to be well versed in swordsmanship, so would you mind sparring with me?”

“… .”

Human laughter can be so deceitful.

The mouth was smiling, but the eyes were threatening to receive their sparring.

“Carly! Now What… !”

“it’s okay.”

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

“Article… No, can I say Lord Carly?”

“… as you please.”

He hardened his face and nodded.

I calmly stood in front of him and said.

“So, what are you going to do with Dalian? Jingeom? A sword?”

“Do it with a real sword. I don’t think Gakum is in the mood for sparring.”

“All right.”

He shrugged and took the nameless.

He looked over the cotton in my hand and let out a sigh.

“her… We’re not going to do that, so why don’t we risk something? A sword for example. I think I’ll get fed up with sparring.”

I admired him in a different way, talking nonsense with eyes saying that he coveted my sword.

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

There are things that can be done and there are things that can’t be done, but he didn’t care about those things at all.

It’s not even funny that the person requesting sparring told them to bet something.

After all, they are inseparable even when the sword is removed from the knight.

It was a natural thing for a knight to find a good sword.

But that doesn’t mean you can do anything rude.

“Why don’t you like it? If you don’t have the confidence to win, you can do what you didn’t have.”

Wipe your saliva and lie.

If I said such a thing with the eyes of please not rejecting it, it wasn’t persuasive at all.

“great. However, I have no desire to have Lord Carly’s sword.”

“Well, then what do you want?”

“Considering the value of this sword… Would you like to be my slave?”

The surroundings were stained with silence at my words with a grin.