498 4. Prince, Working (After)

"A cold coming from overwork......? Well, we'll just have to get some rest."

"Congratulations...... ho"

When I woke up in the morning, I only felt lazy, and my illness was even worse after noon.

Fever in sore throat. And cold. The water I was given to drink - it's just water - was delicious.

Whoever it is, I suspect a cold first.

Later, he left first, but Alcia has made the same diagnosis. There was nowhere to be doubted.

Since when, such as a cold, Cress follows her memories with a confused head.

But is it because of your health, or do you really not remember? I couldn't remember.

"You don't have to worry about it. Because I asked Mr. Claude and Dal-Lukash to cover the job. You should rest."

Yut's words of course.

But Cress couldn't get it right.

Pathetically, Cress turns her back on Yut.

The bed, which was not big, smudged, and the wall approached right in front of me.

Cres lived alone, renting a room in an inn in the city of Falve.

Claude Laker, entrusted by Yut with the task of preparing a room for the fortress on his own authority, refused to allow Cres to treat it specially.

I went around a few inns myself because I was used to it in my adventurer's life, and chose this place because of the taste of the meal. Falve itself is a new city, so every inn has beautiful buildings, and there was no other choice.

In the room, the bed where Cress is sleeping right now. Chest to use as a storage. Besides, there is only a simple writing desk. The chair on the desk was used by Yut.

Alcia left the inn first after completing her examination, not only to prescribe medication, but also because of one end of the room's narrowness.

A room that is obviously too small for a prince of one country to use.

However, Cress was content to be a quality.

"... pity... no, sir"

Did you realize you can't keep your back turned forever?

Hit the turnaround, and Kress crushes interruptedly as she looks at the ceiling.

It was the 12-year-old daughter of this inn who discovered Cress, who was in poor health.

Usually Cress comes down at the same time she starts serving breakfast - just like a prince from her daughter's eyes - but she doesn't wake up for long.

So, if you never come to see how it goes - so be it.

This history alone makes me applaud my pity.

As a matter of fact, Claude Laker told Cress to inform the castle first, and Yut and Arsia arrived.

It became important to the extent that I caught a cold.

It annoyed a lot of people's hands.

I'm sorry to include that.

Preliminary initial steps such as physical fitness management. If you're an adventurer, you're an impossible loser. How much, I was overconfident, even though I had a track record of dating Lela's unscrupulous training.

Embarrassing.

I'm ashamed, but because of the fever, my thoughts don't come together any more. Various thoughts are sprayed away.

A halfway situation where you seem to be sleepy and unable to sleep.

I follow Yuut's movements with my eyes, blurring, with a cloth wet in ice water against my forehead.

"I can't think of anything like that."

While nursing - temporary until the medicine comes - Yut comforts Cress with a soft voice.

In fact, I didn't think it was a big problem.

On the contrary, I think it's clumsy, but I even rate it as more splendid than myself.

"I would have done the same without Huberd's bed and Arcia Dinner."

Without the experience of falling, you cannot know how painful it is.

And I can remember the art of walking carefully if I know how painful it is.

Everything has the experience it takes.

Cress grew one thing.

That's what I'm praising...

(Uh-huh. I don't feel like I'm getting through)

It's supposed to be an honest argument, but there's no sign I convinced Cress.

Persuasion is different depending on who speaks, not what. This time, it seemed to fit the example.

"Speaking of which... Before this, Dal-Lukash told me. He said he had no choice but to compare me to you."

So you don't understand what's being said and you're not convinced?

With that thought on board, Cress talks pompously about what he talked about with Dal-Lukash.

It was a yuut I was going to stop if I had a health problem, but in the end, I lost that enthusiasm and finished listening to it to the end.

"What do you mean, I know...?

"Thanks again, didn't you just say that?

Yut responds strangely that you haven't said anything difficult.

"I'd do this, and Cress wouldn't make sense to do this. Because right now, I'm the only one who can tackle that problem. It has nothing to do with the superiority or inferiority of your abilities there."

If they chew it up and say it, it sounds like an uncontested honest argument.

But it was also beautiful.

"Really... is it...? At least I don't think it's wrong to want to be someone."

"I'm not wrong. But it can be dangerous to ask for something you don't have."

Yut searches for words as he wipes the sweat off his neck.

Should I say or not?

"Dal-Lukash made a mistake. It's supposed to have never happened, but I guess you care."

"Fault?"

In the end, Yut gets just a little lost and then tells how Dal-Lukash became a mad all-knowing dragon in search of all-knowing.

Seeking all knowledge, but that I went insane unacceptably.

Exactly, it has to pass, but it is as it were.

"I can only be myself. If you force yourself to go up there, you will be unhappy..."

I can't hide my surprise from the first story I've heard. Cress.

Even Dal-Lukash, who is far more capable than he is, is failing.

That was giving Cress a fresh surprise.

"You wouldn't deny it until you were uplifted, but, well, I guess that's what you mean. The more brittle the perfect thing is."

"Now, if I get too much on my hands, how do I..."

"You have company."

All the while, Cress wanders around in bed.

"Well, I guess I'm like one of them. I know what it's like to hold you in, but if you're going to be king, you have to let others do it... so this could have been something you had to realize for yourself. King Eldrick is about to give me a novel."

"King... if you want to be king..."

"He's not the king, but we'll take care of our Val."

"... Indeed"

I've stayed in Falve for less than a month yet, but I can see that.

Even a hot head, I know.

"King Alsace has considerably entrusted it to the Chancellor. I tell myself to take you on an adventure."

"Oh no..."

Cress, who had only fought directly in the Great Martial Party and secretly held a thank you to Alsace.

When I heard that unexpected story, for a moment, I also forgot about my physical condition.

"Unbelievable."

"Oh, my God, the practice is good there if the policy isn't even wrong. An emperor in my homeworld, taking up bureaucratic work, making all his own decisions."

"I think that's obvious."

- You couldn't live long.

Tell them what you reviewed in class to Vainamarinen with a soft grin.

Exactly, "King Eldrick's not that diligent, either, is he? I couldn't say."

"Still..."

"It's good to work hard. But then I guess I'd better try to think about the future."

"What kind of king do you want to be..."

My grandfather is a hero king who rebuilt his doomed homeland.

My father chose the path to support his grandfather like that.

Cress gave up to his grandfather, Eldrick, a hero, and went for a hero to succeed him on the throne.

But I can't just thank you anymore.

"I... Still, I want to be involved in as many things as I can… and I think"

"Right. Then all you need is study. What you have to remember is to decide on the importance and priority and make a rounding choice. And then, don't take the weight to make your people feel comfortable with the job."

Yut laughs when his future is difficult.

Medium, it may be either way, but it is also the most difficult path.

"Well, 'cause I don't really get mad when I'm monopolistic. It's time to disperse. If I were you, I wouldn't be distracted."

"Angry...... can you?

Not responding to Cress, Yut stood up and opened the door to the room.

"Cress......"

"Satya......"

Beyond it stood Satya, a magician (wizard) girl who was a fellow Cress adventurer, with a bag of cloth containing medicine.

There's no way a fellow adventurer could even accompany you on a southern expedition.

I don't even know what the relationship is, but I'll leave Cress to it and it won't be a problem. Alcia entrusted the medicine because she made the same decision.

Rather than that, it was Yut who taught her about Cress.

"Take care. And just in case, at least two days off."

Speaking out with a reckoning that he would probably be listening, Yut leaves the room to replace Satya. With satisfaction that you did a good thing.

Well, the rest will do well. Be wild, be mountain.

(I see. Did Jii from Vainamarinen feel this way)

Mr. Jii's earlobes shouldn't be gone.

Having gained new insights, Yut returned to the office to carry out his own work.

Arcia and I were waiting at the entrance to the inn, and the two of us took them together.