I Became a Time-Stopper at the Academy

71 – Crown Prince

“I am truly grateful to Your Majesty for coming to see me in the hospital.”

First, he bowed his head and said thanks.

Well, even if you’re not the crown prince, it’s natural politeness to thank the person who came to visit you.

Kik-.

The visit was opened.

It was Louisa.

She looked at me and opened her eyes wide.

She then dropped the basket of apples she was holding on the floor and ran to me.

“Bocchan, Bocchan… !!”

Louisa jumped into my arms.

As expected, it seemed that he had suffered again because of me.

“I’m sorry. And thank you.”

“No… ! I Luisa, I’m just glad that the young master regained consciousness safely… !!”

He hugged her while caressing her black bobbed hair.

Then the prince sent us a look that seemed to be pleased.

Clearing her throat, she pointed her chin at her crown prince.

She said “Oh… !” She stepped back a bit.

The prince smiled and said.

“Why would you do that when you could just keep going?”

“… I am sorry.”

“What are you sorry about? Rather, it’s even weirder when her lover who was almost poisoned wakes up and she’s calm.”

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I wasn’t wrong, but honestly, I wanted to argue with you because your status isn’t normal.

But it can’t be broken.

She just kept her mouth shut.

The prince got up from her seat and took her basket of apples, which Louisa had dropped, and sat back in her chair.

She said to him, “Sorry….” She apologized.

Apparently he asked her to bring her an apple.

“Incompetent Marquess, I will show you my special skills.”

“… Yes?”

“Maid, lend me a fruit. Oh, not even a bowl.”

Luisa brought her knife and a plate from her room.

The prince put her knife in her hand and began to slice her apple.

What is it?

I couldn’t understand the real English.

Unexpectedly, the workmanship was good.

You seem to cut better than me.

It was a bit slower than Luisa, who had been a maid for a long time.

“How is it? Is not it cute?”

“…… Ah yes.”

The prince proudly handed over the plate with the apples on it.

Cut in the shape of a rabbit.

Is this your specialty?

It was a skill that was too inconsistent with the position.

“Thank you.”

Still, it’s an apple that the prince cut and cut himself, so I can’t stop eating it.

Luisa hurriedly brought a fork to a piece of apple and put it in her mouth.

It was delicious because of the high sugar content.

The prince cut another apple.

I heard it was Louisa’s share.

She put on a slightly embarrassed expression.

He said with a small smile.

“Actually, when I need to think deeply, I focus on peeling apples.”

It was so unique that it was a really unheard of concentration method.

I’ve heard that it’s recommended to do simple repetitive tasks rather than just being still when you’re concentrating, but….

The prince gave Luisa a plate of apples and said,

“Would you like to hear what happened to the culprit who tried to kill you and Princess Benedetta?”

“Yes, please—. Yes? Mr. Benedetta… ?”

“Oh, don’t you know? Not only you, but also Princess Benedetta fell down after ingesting poison. I woke up before you.”

The poison was only in my risotto.

But why Benedetta too?

While questioning it, the prince explained in detail what happened after I collapsed.

In short, the report that Benedetta was nearly poisoned reached the kingdom, and the king became very angry, and the imperial emperor killed his eldest son and sent his head to the kingdom in order to calm such a king.

It was a situation that could easily escalate from a diplomatic dispute to a war.

‘It looks like Benedetta was poisoned on purpose….’

She could have done that.

A situation where they value me so highly that they would give me the throne if they wanted it.

It would be reasonable to say that the incident was deliberately increased to eliminate the fear of being assassinated.

Kingdoms and empires are seemingly allies.

However, as far as I know, until the threat of the demon king came to the fore, the relationship was originally an enmity.

Is it different from the sect right now?

“Your Duke, you still haven’t been recognized by the Marquis, have you?”

“Yes, what….”

First of all, I wondered if Joel’s biological father, Marquis Jahe, was really waiting for me to graduate first.

After the news that Julian was excluded from the quantum candidate, he didn’t seem to have abandoned it at all, seeing as there was no word that he was looking for another quantum candidate.

“How about having an early wedding with Miss Eliane and properly acting as the heir to the duke?”

The prince asked me with a rather serious expression.

After I paused for an answer, he started talking about his relationship with the Duke of Chablis.

Unlike in the game story, the two became political partners.

… If so, the strategy Lena had devised before to become the right-hand man of the crown prince became ambiguous.

Since the symbol of the nobility that I first sided with has disappeared.

“I’ll be honest. I have high regard for you.”

“Are you talking about me?”

“First of all, isn’t your skill rapid fire?”

I got goosebumps for a moment.

How far have you dug me?

Of course, since he is the crown prince, he must have excellent information gathering skills.

But the meaning of using that information-gathering power on me….

“I want to make it a rapid fire skill.”

I couldn’t just pass along the information about the [Time Stop] Skill, which I hadn’t taught anyone else in the world, to someone I’d only met twice.

If the Crown Prince is greatly displeased with my answer, he is a person who cannot go with me.

In the civil war that will come later, you have to either stay with the anti-Prince faction or go to the kingdom.

He smiled and nodded his head.

“Let’s assume it’s a rapid fire skill.”

He readily accepted it.

A person you don’t even know.

“Two more. Did you trick Julian into a trap? To attack Miss Eliane.”

“I don’t remember.”

“I see. Did Daniel-kun fall into a demon and kill him?”

“The same is true.”

The prince continued to nod his head at my answer.

With a very funny expression.

Catching a bandit, subjugating vampires on an uninhabited island, dungeon mutation, and even a quest to kill a mutant monster were mentioned.

“I have a suggestion for you.”

“Do you have any suggestions?”

“Wouldn’t you like to come on a field trip with the Red Tide Knights during summer vacation?”

“… !”

It was the prince’s strategy with various intentions.

The Red Tide Knights are the most frontline troops in the Empire.

It is also a knight order with the most combat experience against the Demon Kingdom.

Among the knights, only those with exceptional skills are assigned.

As such, the status of the Red Tide Knights is high.

However, the prince could not completely take control of the Red Tide Knights.

Even in the story of the game, the Red Tide Knights, even if they didn’t openly betray, just stood still in the name of maintaining neutrality when a civil war broke out.

‘Through me, he intends to take over the Red Tide Knights.’

If I become the heir to the Duke of Chablis, I will naturally become an aide to the Crown Prince.

After that, if I join the Red Tide Knights, even though I am a Red Tide Knight, I will notice myself, and even the crown prince.

Even though the majority of the Red Tide Knights hate the crown prince, the crown prince has the power to disband the knights.

What should I do?

I thought deeply.

If you become the heir to the duke and become the crown prince’s aide and help the crown prince win the civil war, your future life will be solid.

I can keep my harem stable by changing the imperial marriage system to polygamy.

“Can you give me some time to think about it?”

But I also have the path suggested by Benedetta.

In addition, he solved the problem of the eldest son of the Duke of Chablis, which was troublesome by eating poison.

If you choose the prince’s proposal here and now, you are ignoring her favor.

At the very least, you should think about it over and over again.

“I knew it. Still, I expect a good answer.”

The prince got up from his seat and walked toward the door.

Luisa bowed politely to him.

Her stopped for a moment as he looked at her like that.

Then he pointed at her with her index finger and asked her at me.

“Where can I get these clothes?”

“… Yes?”

“I also have a maid among my girlfriends, and I want to try on a maid outfit like this. When he makes her wear revealing clothes, she gets very shy and tries to hide it with her limbs, but when she half-forces her to show her closely, her reaction is very cute.”

“… ….”

If you let me know the size, I replied that I would make it and give it to you.

*

After the prince passed away, a visit to the hospital continued.

Not to mention her external fiancé, Ellie Anne, Delia, Caitlin, Benedetta, Lando and her girlfriends, Clava, restaurant chef, school principal, and so on.

… There were quite a few people who saw it for the first time in their lives.

After resting for another day, today is the next day.

After receiving Delia’s request to refrain from excessive exercise, I went to her academy again.

Benedetta briefly returned to the kingdom to report the incident directly to her father, the king, and to receive a thorough examination by the court healer.

“Are you going to the study meeting today? Or are you going to rest?”

After listening to the afternoon lecture, Caitlyn came up to me and asked.

Ah, come to think of it, today is the activity day of the Capitalism Study Group.

Since it was all about sitting down and having a conversation, I decided to just go.

I entered the study room with Caitlyn, Louisa, and Lando and sat down.

Since Lena isn’t a member of hers, I just told her to go back to the dorm first.

The chairman of the research center, wearing glass bead glasses, came forward and said.

“The Advanced Management Institute of the Republic of Korea is holding a seminar this time, and our research group was also invited!”

The research chairman listed the people and organizations invited to the seminar besides our research society.

There were quite a few prominent businessmen, professors, and economic officials from three countries as invited guests.

I heard about it for the first time, but it seemed like a possible seminar because the Advanced Management Institute was quite famous.

Of course, the members of the study group cheered.

Caitlin next to me also raised her eyebrows.

Probably because it’s an opportunity to broaden her network.

“Are you going too?”

Caitlyn asked me.

I was a little worried.

I was reluctant to leave the academy since I didn’t know when Balbino would start working.

Although it’s only for two days, which is a holiday.

As if she had read my expression, she lowered her head slightly and spoke quietly.

“The seminar venue is near my hometown. So, I want to introduce you to my parents and show you the lab that develops the horse gun, but no… ?”

As I looked up with sad eyes, it was hard to refuse.

All the more because she is pretty like a heroine.

Well, I don’t think Balbino will suddenly do something during the two days I’m in the Republic.

Even if something goes wrong, I just need to take measures so that Lena, who will stay at the academy, will contact me immediately.

Then you just have to take the portal and return to the academy.

“Okay, I’ll go too.”

“Yes!”

Caitlyn smiled.