CH 53

I found myself being carried on a broad back.

I could see the tasseled shoulders swaying in front of my eyes. It was the uniform of the Knights of the Kingsguard.

As I sat up and looked ahead, I saw a very short, indigo-colored hair.

“Did you notice?

“Vice Commander…”

Cain was being carried on his back by Fabian, the vice commander of the Kingsguard.

“Where are His Highness Al and Ilvalino?”

“I’m here.”

“here.”

I heard a reply from my feet. I looked over and saw them walking next to Fabian.

Ilvalino and Arundilano were walking holding hands as if they were trying not to get separated.

Cain gained consciousness and asked to be put down, and Arundilano was put on Fabian’s back instead.

According to Fabian, he noticed immediately that Arundilano had escaped from the castle.

“When I met up with Cain, I thought it was another kidnapping of the crown prince.”

He smirked.

Cain’s reaction on the carriage made it immediately clear that Arundilano had followed him on his own.

He said that he had been following on foot because the circulating carriage ran without much speed. However, he had lost sight of the three of them in a narrow alley after getting off.

“I was afraid you had been seriously kidnapped or had an accident.”

Later, he said, he heard an explosion in the forest on the outskirts of the royal capital, so he rushed there.

When he arrived, he found a cratered plaza and Ilvalino and Arundilano dragging an unconscious Cain near it.

Fabian was suspicious as to why the boys, whom he lost in an alleyway in the city, were here.

“Why were you all there? What were you doing there?”

“‘There was a ruin over there that Ilvalino and I found. It was connected by a hidden passageway to an abandoned house in an alleyway in the city, and we thought it would make a cool secret base for us.”

“A secret base? No, wait, did you say a hidden passage?”

“Yes, I found it by accident when I was walking around town visiting an orphanage. I thought it might be dangerous, but a hidden passageway is exciting, isn’t it? So I decided to go down it just for a while. At the end of the passageway, I found a ruin in shambles.

“So it was a secret base?”[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

“Yes, a secret base. Didn’t you, vice commander make one? A secret base.”

Cain has visited the orphanage several times in the past. Fabian was with him when he brought Arundilano the other day, so he wouldn’t suspect anything there, and there would be no problem if he was investigated.

He had also followed the orphanage children to the city to get alms, so it was no lie to say that he had walked the streets with the orphanage children.

It’s not that he found the passage, it’s just that Ilvalino knew about it.

“‘It’s good that you tried to turn it into a secret base. No, it’s not good. If it was a ruin, it could collapse at any moment, so you shouldn’t play in such a place.”

“What kind of places are good?”

“What kind of place would be good? – like putting a wooden plank on a tree for a nap, or  claiming land inside a field of silver grass and using reeds for a roof over our heads.”

“I see. So that’s where the vice commander’s secret base was.”

“It’s just a parable. I’ve never said I built it there anyways. …So, what happened in that secret base? What was that explosion?”

“There was a strange tool in the ruins that I had never seen before, like a magic tool or a spell. When I touched it out of curiosity, it became active and exploded. His Royal Highness Prince Arundilano and I quickly deployed defensive magic and saved the day. …Well, I ran out of magic power and collapsed…”

Cain lowered his eyebrows in shame and scratched his head.

As we walked, talking, we came to the edge of the forest. We could see a carriage on the road behind the trees. Fabian seemed to have arranged it.

“This case involved His Royal Highness Prince Arundilano. We’ll hear more about it later. But Cain you had collapsed too. You should go home and get some rest for today. I’ll take you home in the carriage.”

“Thank you very much. To tell you the truth, I paid for His Highness Al’s carriage on the way there, so I didn’t have enough money for one person on the way back. Thank you for your help.”

“Even though you are the son of a duke?”

Fabian raised one of his eyebrows and made a sarcastic face.

Cain lowered his eyebrows at that and gave an exaggerated shrug of his shoulders.

“If I ask for something, usually it will be given to me. But that’s why I don’t have any money. In terms of the amount of money one has, I think Ilvalino has more money than I do.”

Cain sometimes receives some money for festivals, but he spends it all on Dianna, so he has very little leftover.

This time, he borrowed the money for the carriage from Ilvalino.

Fabian stopped when the carriage was only a few steps away.

He turned around and stared at Cain’s face.

“The place was abandoned, wasn’t it? There was no one else there, was there?

Fabian’s eyes were serious as he asked, but Cain smiled and replied.

“It’s a secret base, of course there was no one there but us.’The place was uninhabited’.”