episode_0058

“Haha, right? This is your first time seeing me, right?”

Rupert looked bewildered at the Crown Prince’s incomprehensible greeting.

Despite Rupert’s reaction, the Crown Prince continued to treat him as if he was friendly, and everyone around him also seemed puzzled.

“I could tell how hard you had fought alone.”

“Your Majesty… .”

Rupert’s mind was spinning faster than ever.

If the princess had come, it would have been surprising, but understandable. The obsession she had with his work, which I had only seen briefly, was certainly a bit dangerous.

But the Crown Prince and I only exchanged letters.

He was the person I had sent and received letters with quite uncomfortable content. If he had come to hack me, wouldn’t he have noticed? I couldn’t understand why he reacted so happily.

‘Looking back, it was crazy.’

Rupert recalls the past when he raised the princess’ shield in response to the Crown Prince’s letter telling him to be careful.

Thinking back now, that kid’s response in the past was so absurd that I doubt if he was really me.

“By the way, the mansion is noisy. Is something going on?”

“I’m sorry, but someone is already at the mansion.”

“Really? I guess I came here to be mean. Who is the guest? If he’s a noble, I might know him.”

“That’s… The saint of the Goddess Church is visiting.”

“The Saint? Oh, she’s here. What on earth is going on…!”

The Crown Prince’s surprised reaction upon hearing the identity of the guest who arrived first.

That’s understandable, because there are exactly two people in the empire that the royal family cannot treat with impunity.

Those two are the Pope and the Saint of the Catholic Church.

Even the Emperor, the Crown Prince’s father, was cautious when dealing with the two, so there was no need to say more.

Especially in the case of the saint, she was a difficult person to meet, even for Crown Prince Alex, who had only seen her a few times.

And as the Crown Prince was wondering why such a saint would visit the Somerset Earldom in the countryside, he suddenly felt an ominous feeling.

“Where is the saint now?”

“… The saint is now in the family workshop.”

“Guide me!”

Rupert began to lead the way, resisting the Crown Prince’s instructions with a stern expression and a firm voice, as if he was being forced to do something he did not want to do.

“Hmm… .”

The Crown Prince met eyes with Count Bradley while passing by.

The count bowed his head naturally and showed his respect, but a tsk tsk sound was heard from the crown prince’s mouth as if he was not pleased.

The count wondered inwardly what mistake he had made, but he had no idea.

This is my first time meeting the Crown Prince, so how could I be rude?

“The workshop is quite large.”

“Yes. It was small at first, but it continued to expand and grew in size.”

“Yeah. I think it was smaller than this last time I saw it.”

“Last time?”

“I’ve been here before. I left a letter, too.”

A memory that Rupert had pushed aside came to mind when the Crown Prince said that he had already visited the mansion.

An anonymous letter that I tried to ignore, thinking it was some crazy person joking, but I kept it carefully because an unknown cold feeling warned me.

Only then did the things I didn’t understand start to fit together like puzzle pieces.

The crown prince himself came to visit after receiving the blasphemous letter he had sent.

‘But why didn’t anything happen?’

The crown prince, who was known as a scoundrel, came in person, but instead of doing anything, he just left a letter and went back.

It’s not easy to understand.

“That’s right! What did the old man say about Ada being chubby?”

“Haha, I’m sorry about that time, Ada. To such a pretty lady.”

Looking at the Crown Prince and Ada, who seemed so incomprehensibly close, a theory occurred to Rupert.

‘This kid, do you think he has taste…?’

If the crown prince knew, he would be so disrespectful that he would even cut off his own head, and he thought about it and reasoned in a more realistic direction.

“Did you visit last time with Ada?”

“Oh, yeah, that was a really fun time.”

“That’s right! Daddy, let’s play again!”

Rupert, who had almost become accustomed to Ada’s rude address without realizing it, regains his senses.

“Ada. You shouldn’t give His Majesty such a rude title. You should tell him to call you His Highness the Crown Prince.”

“Okay. Ada, I give you the right to call me whatever you want.”

Rupert’s mind became complicated as he saw the Crown Prince speaking while stroking Ada’s head with such a kind expression.

The original crown prince that he knew would have by now become a deposed crown prince after committing an outrageous act that was too outrageous and displeased the emperor.

Of course, it is not a complete abdication, but the emperor’s bombshell statement that he will select a successor again.

This is an important event that announces the beginning of the original story, the Third Prince’s ascension to the throne, so I was also following the rumors about when it would come out.

I was uneasy because I hadn’t heard any news about the Crown Prince’s dethronement.

‘Am I the problem?’

A phenomenon commonly referred to as the butterfly effect.

I can’t help but think that many of the original content might have already changed due to the changes that occurred when I was reincarnated into another world as Rupert.

If I said I was being quiet, people around me would look at me like I was crazy.

But what on earth changed so that the crown prince was not deposed?

The worries couldn’t last long.

“What happened in the workshop, Sir Rupert?”

“Yes?”

“I couldn’t say anything earlier because there were so many eyes watching. But I already noticed something happening in the workshop.”

“How about that… His Highness the Crown Prince?”

“If the saint knows I’m here and is still in the workshop, then something must have happened.”

Rupert said, “Oops.”

Because the image of the crown prince as a scoundrel was so firmly established, people looked down on him.

He was quicker than I thought.

“Probably, the people in the workshop collapsed.”

“… That’s right.”

“I heard that you also collapsed.”

“I’m just tired… .”

fizzle

The crown prince nodded as if he knew everything and extended his index finger to stop her.

“Did the saint also notice this huge conspiracy?”

What the heck is this conspiracy?

The crown prince opens the door to the workshop and enters without giving anyone a chance to stop him.

“Ugh… Mother… .”

“No!! If you eat that….”

“It’s assassination… Someone attacked us… .”

The workshop staff were lying down in one place. They were still unconscious and muttering as if they were having a nightmare.

“Hello, Your Highness the Crown Prince. Please forgive me for not being able to go out due to the urgency of the situation.”

“It’s not too late to say hello, Saintess. I already know the situation is urgent.”

“Yes?”

“I thought I hadn’t missed the warlocks, but they’d already hacked me!”

-Everyone, search this area thoroughly! There might still be remnants nearby that we missed.

At the crown prince’s strict order, the knights guarding his side suddenly disperse to the surroundings.

“Saint! Can you save these people?”

“Yes, treatment is possible…simple food poisoning….”

“That’s great! By the way, who’s that person?”

The crown prince anxiously examines the situation without even listening to the saint’s words.

A woman who was quietly sitting in a corner came into his eyes.

A beautiful woman with blue hair.

But his expression was drooping as if he had committed a crime, and he was looking around.

“I am Miss Amelia, the daughter of the Duke of Bluewell.”

“Did the Duke know about this? But why did only Young-ae come?”

“What the heck… .”

The Crown Prince, looking at the people lying down, became angry and continued to speak incomprehensibly.

‘What on earth does this food poisoning incident have to do with the black magician?’

The craftsmen lost consciousness after eating the food made by Amelia.

And the crown prince happened to visit the family at that very moment.

The saintess, who was at a loss as to what to do because things were so complicated, told Rupert to go to the workshop to meet the crown prince while she went to treat the fallen people.

Thanks to that, I didn’t do anything rude like making the crown prince wait. But I also didn’t have any idea how to explain this situation to the crown prince who visited the workshop.

Knowing that he had collapsed, Bluewell’s Young-ae came to visit him and prepare a meal for him.

It turns out it wasn’t a meal, it was an assassination?

Amelia looks shocked and at a loss at the sight of the fallen craftsmen.

This was a shameful, even humiliating, incident for a daughter of a noble family.

‘I don’t want to see that kind of sight.’

She was the original heroine, and she was actually a character I liked. Amelia, who was troubled by her family and love in a novel that was a typical romantic fantasy.

There is one line from her that I still remember.

-Even if the world were to end tomorrow, we loved today.

A somewhat obvious line that Amelia said to the Third Prince when he was in a critical situation.

But the scene where she, who had always dreamed of romantic love and hid her feelings because of the burden of her family, blurts out those words was the moment when Amelia’s character was complete for me.

“Your Highness, this incident has nothing to do with Youngae. She just visited me to thank me for the book and witnessed the incident.”

I don’t know what happens after that.

First of all, I wanted to get her out of here.

“Of course Young-ae is not involved. This is clearly the work of the remnants of the evil warlocks.”

“Your Majesty… Do you know anything about this matter?”

“As you know, Rupert, thanks to you, we were able to stop their plot in advance.”

-Of course I lost an arm.

The crown prince boasts about his missing arm.

Rupert felt as if the Crown Prince’s remarks were putting together a strange piece of information that had been building up since earlier.

“As soon as I got here, I caught the guy who was trying to do something horrible to your sister Ada and your dog, but I never thought the mansion would be raided too.”

Rupert remembered every word the Crown Prince said, as he excitedly told his story even though no one had asked.

There were three important keywords.

The Black Magician, Ada and Rash, and the .

Rupert saw a way out of this situation.