CH 48

Cain and Arundilano are training in sword fighting today at the Kings guard training ground in the Royal Castle.

When they were fighting face to face they were secretly talking to each other.

“Did Her Royal Highness accept your offer to follow her on official business?” Cain asked.

“I told her exactly what you said. She looked reluctant, but said she would take me,” Arundilano said.

If she was reluctant, Cain advised him to appeal to her, saying that he would like to see the lives of ordinary people his age, that he would like to hear directly from children who had no parents and consider what he could do to help them, that there were things he could tell her only because he was their age, and that if he had been interested in the lives of the people from his age, he would be able to help the royal family gain control of the people. 

Cain called the mission, ‘You’re so young but productive’. Arundilano laughed at his lack of sense in naming the mission.

“You got her permission! You persuaded her well. You did a great job, Your Highness.”

“Hehe. I owe it all to you, Cain.”

Perhaps it was because he was as tall as Dianna, but I couldn’t help but praise him as much as I did with Dianna. It’s a good idea to have a good idea of what you’re looking for. It’s not really Cain’s role to praise the prince.

“Then let’s carry out the next operation. We’ll be leaving the royal castle today.”

“What?!” Arundilano said with surprise on his face.

“Shhhhh. You’re talking too loud!”

smack!

As if to cover it up, Cain knocked Arundilano out of the fighting field. He then held out his hand as if he approached him to pull him back up.

It seemed to those around him that he had overdone it during a normal training session. Arundilano looks as if he was hit hard and shouted loudly.

The training ended as usual, and we moved to the dining room to have lunch.

After lunch, Arundilano told the maid that he would see Cain off to the exit, and they both left the cafeteria, with only one maid following.

On the way from the dining room to the exit, they walked along the corridor facing the courtyard. Cain pretended to be distracted by the flowers in the courtyard and turned to Arundilano.

“Your Highness Al. May I have a quick look at the flowers in the courtyard? It seems that my sister’s favorite flower is blooming there,” Cain asked.

“Yes. If you like, you can take one with you. …… We’ll go look at the flowers in the garden, oh and you can wait there.”

Arundilano told the maid to wait and they went into the courtyard.

The courtyard had one small arbor, but there were no trees and only flowers, so the view was good. The maid must have decided that she would not lose sight of the crown prince even if she watched from the corridor, so as Arundilano had told, she watched their movements from the entrance of the courtyard.

“There is a single tile that’s a different color under the bench in the arbor. If you remove it, a handle will appear, and if you pull it out, you should be able to find the downstairs,” Cain said.

“Cain, how do you know that?”

I pretend to look at the flowers while I whisper to him.

The reason why Cain knows about the secret passage is, of course, because he has memories of his previous life. It’s used by Arundilano and the heroine to have a secret date at night in the Crown Prince Route in the game.

I don’t know what the passageway inside is like since it doesn’t appear in the game, but I know where the exit is. “‘Wow! It’s really connected to the outside! Al!” was a known scene in the game where the heroine was very impressed.

Even though there are many flowers and a good view, in places like cosmos or henbane is blooming everywhere, it is impossible to see them if the two children squat down.

“I wonder if it was this flower. I’d like to have the most beautiful one,” Cain said.

“What about this one? Oh, I think this one is more beautiful in color,” Arundilano said.

They both crouched down behind the flowers and opened the entrance to the hidden passageway of the arbor while deliberately talking aloud to make their presence known. After setting Arundilano down, Cain while closing the lid said, “They’re all so beautiful, I can’t decide. Please let me choose carefully,” in a loud voice.

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Cain’s voice echoed in the pitch-black corridor, and sparks appeared in the palm of Cain’s hand, making a crispy sound and illuminating the area.

“I really wish I could have used light magic or something, but that’s a higher level magic, so I can’t use it yet,” Cain said.

“That’s great. You can already use compound magic!”

Spark is the weakest spell in the explosive magic family, which is a combination of fire and wind. By adjusting the amount of magic power you put into it, you can make it spark as much as a sparkler or as little as a handheld firework.

“You’re very studious to know that the spark is a compound magic. Your Highness. That’s great.”

“But I can’t use magic at all yet.”

“I’m not good at all…” said Arundilano, who was disappointed with the praise. Seeing this, Cain clucked his tongue in his mind.

Even though he was a child in the position of crown prince, he was not used to being praised. Or he must have been scolded or something for not being able to do magic before.

In his previous life, when he was an office worker, Cain spent a lot of time with children in kindergartens and nursery schools, and he irresponsibly praised every child he met because they were other people’s children.

The young children who were embarrassed by the praise were just adorable, and they were very fond of Cain who praised them.

It was also easy to do business with them because their parents tended to forgive them when they knew that their children were comfortable with them.

If they were my own children, I would have had to scold them, but since they were other people’s children, I felt free to praise them.

In the midst of all this, there were occasional children who were not cute even when praised…in other words, they lacked self-confidence, and whenever he saw such a child, the former Cain felt sad.

Infants and old people were creatures that could be praised just for being able to say their age correctly.

“Come on, let’s go. My handmaiden should be waiting for us at the exit,” Cain said.

Cain stroked Arundilano’s fluffy head, then held his hand so they wouldn’t get separated, and walked down the hidden passageway by the light of a small spark.

At the end of the hidden passageway, at the top of the stairs, I opened the door and saw a lot of ivy plants growing in front of me. When I touched it, I could see that half of it was artificial ivy, planted to hide the exit of the hidden passage.

I looked through the gap to make sure no one was around and quietly stepped out. When I turned around, I could no longer see the door, it was hidden behind the ivy-grown wall.

“I wondered why they hadn’t rebuilt the shed, wow now it makes sense…….”

Pushing Arundilano’s shoulder as he turned and rolled his eyes, Cain headed for the small gate for the servants.

“We’ll be heading to the orphanage I sometimes visit. It’s a different orphanage than the one Her Royal Highness and you will visit for consolation, but it’ll give you a good primer,” Cain said.

“An orphanage… Will they be all right?”

“They’re the same age, the same people. There’s nothing to worry about.”

“The same people…”

The servant’s gate was too small for a carriage to enter or leave, and only large enough for a single human being to exit.

Cain gently pushed open the gate and poked his head out, then looked around to his left and right.

“Huh. Ilvalino’s not here…” Cain mumbled.

“Who, said he’s not here?”

Cain’s soliloquy was interrupted by a questioning voice from behind him. The only person behind him was supposed to be Arundilano, but the low voice that sounded familiar was not Arundilano’s voice.

“Ca… Cain…”

The small, muffled voice that called out to Cain from behind with a small tug on his sleeve was Arundilano’s voice this time.

When Cain turned around fearfully, he saw Fabian Velfadia, the Vice Commander of the Kings guard, standing there with Ilvalino by his side.