After promising to do this occasionally in the future, I asked sothing I was curious about.
'By the way, how did you beco friends with that ill-mannered prince?'
"Oh, you an Phili?"
Amain told the story of how he beca friends with Prince Phili.
Hearing it, fate truly was mysterious.
'Hooh, I see...'
So that's how it is.
It seems I can handle the prince through Amain.
==
Rania had her ear pressed against the professor's office door.
Prince Phili was carefully watching her from behind.
"I can't hear any-"
"Shh!"
The prince quickly shut his mouth.
Rania frowned in concentration, but soon sighed and pulled her ear away.
"Can't hear anything. Seems they used magic to block sound."
"It's been an hour already!"
Quite so ti had passed since Amain went in for the one-on-one eting.
Yet there was still no sign of him coming out.
They could have just left, but they were too worried about Amain to do so.
The prince said seriously.
"That professor might be beating Amain up."
"No way!"
Though Rania responded that it was nonsense, the prince's expression was very serious.
"That guy is really bad. Maybe we need to save Amain..."
To Rania, the prince clearly had mild paranoia and anxiety disorder.
However, dismissing or ignoring such a person's thoughts wouldn't be good handling.
Just as Rania was about to say sothing nice.
Creeak-
The door opened and Amain ca out.
Since there had been no sign at all until he ca out, both Rania and the prince were startled.
"Are, are you okay?"
The prince asked.
"Okay...? Of course I'm okay."
Amain grinned broadly.
Far from being beaten up, he looked like he had a very enjoyable ti.
"I got praised a lot. Haha."
"You got praised? By that professor?"
"Well... sothing like that."
Amain stayed quiet without answering.
Looking now, it seed he had candy in his mouth. Did he even get candy?
"What's he plotting..."
The prince had his suspicions.
Since he refused etings, maybe they're trying to draw him in by sweet-talking Amain.
'Still, absolutely not having any etings!'
While he was making that resolution.
The door opened and Obern poked his head out.
"Oh, you were waiting without leaving. Good. Let's have your eting too."
"No!"
When the prince refused like that. Obern frowned.
"I'm not talking to you. Your self-consciousness is excessive... Rania Martein."
"Eh, ...?"
"Co in."
Rania pointed at herself with a confused expression.
But Obern didn't explain anything, and she ended up following him into the room.
Now only Amain and Prince Phili were left in the corridor.
"Damn it... what is this!"
Phili cried out.
He couldn't guess what was going on at all.
He asked Amain what they talked about inside, but Amain kept his mouth firmly shut.
Appeals to friendship didn't work and royal authority was ignored.
Finally they waited a long ti until Rania ca out.
When they quickly asked her:
"What did you talk about?"
"Ah... secret."
Even Rania answered like that.
She also wasn't the type to change her mind no matter what Prince Phili said.
Shortly after, Obern ca out and asked:
"Prince Phili, will you have a eting?"
"..."
This ti even the prince couldn't say no.
"Damn it!"
Though he grumbled like that, he went into Obern's office.
==
Anyway.
Kids beco friends incredibly quickly.
I never imagined Rania, Amain, and Prince Phili would end up sticking together.
They're not the Gryffindor trio or sothing. Even the gender ratio is the sa.
When did they beco friends so quickly?
It becos very difficult to make new friends when you beco an adult.
I know that very well.
...Co to think of it, I don't think making friends was easy for even when I was young.
I wish I had friends like Amain or Rania...
I revealed myself to Rania too.
And I gave her a light apology. Because I had shattered the dagger Rania gave before.
Rania gave a bitter smile, albeit reluctantly. Saying it was fine.
I promised to teach Rania and her friends well while I'm here.
And lastly, Prince Phili.
I didn't reveal my identity to him who was wrapped in wariness.
I probed a bit through Obern's mouth.
Then I learned sothing unexpected.
"I... have to do well."
That one line was the first ti Prince Phili revealed his inner thoughts.
"I have to do well, I promised mother. That I would do well at school."
And this kid tried to cause trouble from day one?
Obern didn't say that.
"What does doing well an?"
When alone, Obern used honorifics too.
"Well..."
"Is there a comparison? Soone you need to do better than?"
"..."
Prince Phili glared at Obern.
But there probably aren't many people in the world who could win a staring contest with Obern.
The prince quickly lowered his eyes.
To him, Obern.
Instead, threw out quite a profound line.
"If Your Highness has the determination, I will make it so."
"...What do you an."
"I will make it so you hear that you are better than the Second Prince."
"You're not trying to play gas with royalty... blasphemy is punishable by death."
Obern didn't give any answer.
I knew. That he was timid enough to not dare answer here.
But to the prince, Obern must have looked very solemn.
A heavy silence flowed for a mont.
The eting ended like that.
From what I could tell, it seed the Second and Third Princes were in opposition.
What kind of person is the Second Prince?
Is he a ruffian like the Third Prince?
The chance to find out ca sooner than expected.
Two days after the etings.
It was when we went out for practice for a lecture called 'Dungeon and Ancient Text Analysis'.
Leading ten students including Amain's trio to the school's back garden.
But whether by coincidence or mistake, there were already other students there.
"Oh? We submitted a usage request for this class period."
"We received approval as well."
The instant dungeon usage requests had overlapped.
Then, the other professor said with a smirk.
"Since we're third years, and the Second Prince is here, we'd appreciate if you could yield to us."
Haha, how arrogant.
Go ahead Obern.
"I refuse."
We have a prince too!
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