CH 44

Cain went to the king’s castle to receive instruction in swordsmanship at the training center of the king’s guard.

He had a few local habits, but he had the basics down, so he would occasionally have a real knight fight with him. However, because of the difference in size, most of the time Arundilano and Cain were fighting each other.

On days when the vice commander wasn’t around, someone would take turns watching by his side, and if there was a problem, that person would instruct them accordingly.

“Yaaaah!”

Arundirano raised his voice and struck at the wooden sword that Cain was holding. It was a crushing blow that made Cain’s palms a little numb.

Cain had noticed that Arundilano sometimes shouted unnecessarily loudly, and there were moments when his swinging became bigger.

Arundilano had learned to distribute his energy so that he could train properly for the full morning. He was conscious of the fact that the strikes were repetitive exercises to help his body learn the basic types, so he relaxed his shoulders to some extent.

However, sometimes he would suddenly shout loudly.

Cain wondered what it was, but today he found out the reason.

When a certain woman passed by the corridor near the training center, he would raise his voice. What is this, puberty? Cain thought.

“Your Highness. That’s not very manly,” Cain said.

“What? What? I’m not sure what you’re talking about,” Arundilano said.

Cain lowered the wooden sword he was holding and shook his head. Arundirano rolled his eyes in panic, wondering what Cain was suddenly going to say, and scanned his surroundings. Cain made a small beckoning gesture and let him close the distance he had taken for the fight.

“It’s too shameful to draw attention to yourself by shouting loudly, and then act cool only when someone looks at you, hoping that they will call out to you, Your Highness.”

When Cain whispered this in his ear, Arundilano’s face turned bright red. He was half in tears and desperately trying to come up with some excuse, but he couldn’t seem to get the words out.

“Is it the one in the sky blue dress or the one in the blue-green? Which one?” 

Cain glanced at the corridor and asked, describing the two women who walked through it. Arundirano was slumped over, squirming and mumbling something, but Cain couldn’t hear him.

As Cain was about to ask for more information, a knight who came to check on both of them scolded them for slacking off, so Cain had no choice but to resume their training.

In the event that Arundilano has been trying to make a good impression, but he’s been caught scolded by a knight, Arundilano looks embarrassed, yet he’s pretending to be flustered.

After that, Cain trained in silence until the time was up, and then it was time for lunch.

After wiping off his sweat and changing only his jacket, he was led to the dining hall where he ate together with Arundilano.

It’s been a few days since Cain started going to the knight training center, but he’s never had His Majesty the King or Her Royal Highness come to the lunch table.

“Well, let’s talk about love, shall we? Your Highness,” Cain asked.

“Wha, what do you mean?” Arundilano said.

“You know, just a casual conversation about your love interest. Which of the two women walking down the corridor on the training grounds is your favorite?” Cain asked.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

“iii-its not like I like them or dislike them! And that’s not the point!”

As usual, the table was lined with warm, lukewarm soup with overcooked vegetables, bread that was neither fresh nor fluffy, and a salad of torn vegetables.

Cain tore off a piece of bread with his hand and looked inside. Today, there was a chopped apple in it. He put the apple bread in his mouth and chugged in the soup.

There were two maids standing by the wall of the dining room, but they didn’t speak to him about his bad manners or anything. They were just standing there.

“‘But you wanted to get their attention, didn’t you? Yesterday and the day before that, you were shouting all the time when those two were walking by…”

“Shhh! Shhh! Cain, shhh!”

Arundilano did his best to cover Cain’s mouth with his small hands. They looked like the hands of a small toddler, but the skin was a little hard from the sword training.

He glanced at the maid by the wall and she looked up at Cain with a troubled expression.

“Don’t tell anyone,” Arundilano said. “The person in the blue-green dress is called Dediny.”

“So it’s the blue-green dress”

Arundilano did his best to cover Cain’s mouth with his small hands. They looked like the hands of a small toddler, but the skin was a little hard from the sword training.

He glanced at the maid by the wall and she looked up at Cain with a troubled expression.

“Don’t tell anyone,” Arundilano said. “The person in the blue-green dress is called Dediny.”

“So it’s the blue-green dress”

Cain chanted “Dediny-san” three times in his mind. It was Cain’s own ritual from his previous life to remember people’s names.

If Arundilano loves anyone other than Dianna, then he would simply get them together. I’m sorry for Dediny, but even if the scenario goes as the crown prince route, it will be Dediny, not Dianna, who will be given to the posthumous wife of the old nobleman.

I’m sorry about that. He was really sorry, but Cain didn’t care what happened to the stranger as long as Dianna wasn’t unhappy.

It is also possible that Dediny prefers a withered man.

But for all intents and purposes, she looked like someone who works at the royal castle. If you look at her, she is in her mid-twenties. If she was a noblewoman, she would have been married or engaged by now, and there was a twenty-year age difference between her and the four-year-old Arundilano.

“What do you like about Ms. Dediny?”

“…… You know, Dediny was the one who complimented me when I fell down last month…”

The two of us are sitting side by side at a table in the cafeteria.

When I asked him what he meant by being praised for falling, he said that Ms. Dediny, who had seen him get up by himself without crying when he fell in the corridor last month, had praised him for being brave for such a small boy.

What’s that? Cain thought. That’s it? He thought, but didn’t say it out loud.

The maid who was standing by the wall seemed to be getting closer to him as he whispered in a low voice with his face close to hers.

Cain coughed, straightened his back, and separated his face from Arundilano’s.

“Your Highness. If you don’t mind, you can come visit me at my house. I have a maidservant in my house who is my age. If you like, you can call him brother,” Cain said.

“I will ask my father and mother!” Arundilano said, smiling happily.

At the duke’s house, Ilvalino sneezed loudly and was warned by the butler.