The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

“Abassael! Open this door right now?!”

Left alone in the room where Abassael was confined after the two left, Precia held the door tight so it wouldn’t open as it had no lock.

Outside the door, Boutique employees pounded on the door with a bang.

“What?! Is it true there’s no lock inside? Why won’t it open?”

“If it doesn’t open, break it down!”

Bang! Bang!

When the door shook greatly as if someone was slamming into it with their whole body from the outside, Precia reinforced it by injecting mana into the entire door.

And checking the magic engraving carved on the floor, she recalled what had happened until just now.

“Alright, then take off your clothes.”

At Yuan’s words, Abassael grabbed his clothes in surprise.

“My, no why my clothes?”

At his virgin-like reaction, Yuan answered as if dumbfounded.

“Obviously because we need to escape. You’re going to escape in those clothes?”

“Ah…”

When Yuan took out spare clothes and a mask identical to what Precia was wearing from the ingredient storage, Abassael understood.

As Precia drew her sword and cut the shackles, he began to change clothes.

Looking at Abassael’s skeletal body, Yuan said to Precia:

“You take off that coat too and give it to Abassael. Escaping alone should be simple enough, right?”

Precia handed the coat to Abassael as instructed and answered confidently.

“Yes, it’s possible!”

But right after answering, she looked down and corrected herself.

“Ah, but there’s a quite strong person downstairs. It might take quite some time to shake them off, is that okay?”

At Precia’s words, Yuan grinned with a nasty-looking smile.

“You don’t have to worry about that. I have a plan. By the way, Abassael is taller after all. Try hunching your neck, bend your knees so it’s not noticeable.”

At Yuan’s nonchalant attitude, Precia thought ‘as expected’ for a moment and smiled bitterly.

She was getting used to his changed personality after the assassination incident.

Abassael, who had changed clothes and put on the spare mask Yuan prepared, asked anxiously.

“Can we really deceive them so sloppily?”

“It’s fine, it’s fine. They won’t be able to tell with mediocre discernment. And I gave them a bit of a scare before meeting you. What are those punks going to do if they’re suspicious? Our backer is the queen, ah~! If they’re unhappy, tell them to take it up with the queen.”

At Yuan’s joke, Abassael held his forehead as if he had a headache.

Seeing that, Yuan snickered and took out a high-purity mana stone from the storage.

“What do you think? With this much, you can make a pretty big explosion, right?”

When he suddenly took out an unfamiliar mana stone, Precia instinctively realized it was one of the things obtained during the night walk.

At the same time, she became aware that there was too much she didn’t know about her lord, whom she thought she knew well.

For a moment, she felt a bit hurt but was surprised by her own thoughts and shook her head.

The ideal knight she herself thought of was a knight who trusted and followed their lord no matter what.

She consoled herself, thinking that feeling disappointed when her lord hadn’t even betrayed her trust was an unknightly mindset.

When Yuan handed over the mana stone, Abassael received it and answered seriously.

“If it’s engraving a dangerous magic like explosion magic, it will take a lot of time. You need at least 30 minutes, but will Boutique allow that much time…”

“What are you talking about? Why engrave explosion magic? Just make it fail.”

“Ah! That method!”

Abassael admired Yuan’s words.

Sometimes, the failure of magic engraving caused huge explosions.

It was a hard method to think of for Abassael, who had been compulsively instilled since childhood to never make mistakes whenever using magic for safety.

“Then it won’t even take 1 minute. How long should the explosion delay be?”

“15 minutes.”

At Yuan’s instruction, Abassael roughly scribbled an engraving on the floor with an engraving pen containing magic metal.

And without lifting the pen from the end of the engraving, he drew a zigzag line all over the floor.

“This zigzag line is a kind of fuse. If you place a mana stone at the end, mana will flow along the line, and when it reaches the engraving, an explosion will occur.”

“Yeah? Good job.”

Yuan ignored Abassael’s explanation and made a hole in a small ball he bought at the market and put a rusty nail inside.

Then he gave some instructions to Navi.

“What are you making?”

At Precia’s question, Yuan handed her three small balls and grinned like a mischievous kid once again.

“This? Something very interesting.”

Yuan told Precia how to buy time and boldly took Abassael out.

Bang! Bang!

“You’re not opening right now?! What is this door made of to be so sturdy?!”

“Abassael! Open the door! You just need to go downstairs and tell Julian what the customer ordered!”

At the sound of banging on the door from outside, Precia snapped out of her recollection.

When she checked the presences inside the cathedral, most were in the cathedral’s basement, and a few people were coming this way.

“It won’t be good to come out like this! Do you want to starve again?”

Those outside were also starting to threaten her as their patience was running out.

After confirming that the position of the glowing engraving on the floor was almost at the magic, Precia blew mana into the small balls as Yuan instructed, opened the door slightly, threw them through the gap, and immediately closed it.

It was to prevent them from coming in as soon as Precia moved away from the door.

Pop! Pop! Pop!

The extremely compressed air reacted to Precia’s mana, expanded, and the balls burst.

“Aaaargh!”

“Ugh! What is this! Abassael!!”

“S-save me…”

When screams and groans were heard from outside the door, Precia let go of the handle she was holding and immediately jumped out the window.

Those hit by the nails inside the balls went downstairs as if running away, unable to even think of opening the door and entering.

And not long after, Abassael’s magic engraving caused a huge explosion, and the cathedral began to collapse.

“Certainly, with this much, they won’t even think of chasing us, as His Highness said.”

Precia clicked her tongue as she confirmed it from outside the cathedral wall and headed to where Yuan was.

“I’m back.”

“Oh, you’re here?”

Precia, who arrived in less than a minute after the explosion, sat next to me.

“Wow, ahem! Did you drive the carriage, young master?”

Precia, who almost called me His Highness, hurriedly corrected it to young master and asked me, and I handed the reins to Precia.

“Ugh, I was too scared to drive the carriage. I’ll have to learn how to ride a horse first when I get back.”

I don’t know if Precia knows how to drive a carriage at this point, but at least as a knight who rides horses, she’ll do better than me.

At my words, Precia moved the carriage and answered in a slightly excited voice.

“Then I will teach you the tips for handling horses that I learned from my teacher.”

“Huh…? You?”

I know Precia has no talent for teaching, so should I learn from her?

“Are you dissatisfied with learning from me?”

At the question that sounded slightly disappointed, I answered with an awkward smile.

“Ah. Ha. Ha. Dissatisfied, no way.”

It’s fortunate that I’m still wearing a mask. Precia can’t be strict with me, so it should be fine.

…It should be fine, right?

The evening sunset was already passing over the foot of the mountain, and the sky was beginning to darken.

We put the carriage in the ingredient storage in a place with few people and avoided that spot.

“Now that we’ve come this far, we don’t have to worry about being tracked.”

At my words, Abassael took off his mask and took a deep breath.

“Is this freedom…?”

Looking at the moon hanging over the mountain ridge and the stars gradually becoming clearer, the middle-aged man shed tears.

There was a small window in the place where he was imprisoned, but it was only for ventilation, not an environment where he could look up at the wide-open sky.

It was natural to become emotional after being confined in a small room for ten years.

I also took off my mask and grinned.

“It’s too early to be moved. True freedom starts after finding your magic, right?”

At my words, Abassael wiped his tears with his sleeve and nodded.

“Of course. I must regain my magic, even to repay this favor.”

Having answered like that, he stared at my face.

“But you’re …much younger than I thought.”

“Well, I’m seventeen. Now that we’re in the same boat let’s have a proper introduction. We didn’t even have time for self-introduction while rushing out.”

At my suggestion, Abassael bowed in greeting according to the Magic Tower’s etiquette, bringing his right hand to his heart and his left hand to his back.

“The wizard who lost his magic, Abassael Fineman, pays his respects to the owner of his staff.”

As if responding to that greeting, I also received the greeting according to the palace etiquette.

“I am Yuan del Azdemian Duplion, the eldest son of the Duplion Kingdom and the owner of the staff that lost its magic. Nice to meet you.”

Hearing my name, Abassael looked at me in surprise.

As I greeted him, Precia also took off her mask and brushed back her lush red hair.

“I am Precia Jamileion, His Highness the prince’s first knight.”

Looking at Precia’s greeting according to the simple knight’s etiquette, Abassael asked.

“Are you really, wow, a prince? As a prince, did you impersonate the queen and cause that commotion?”

Seeing him even more shocked, I laughed playfully.

“The current queen is not my birth mother. You must have heard about the story of the first prince before being afflicted by the witch of the Shadow Tower, right? About the first prince’s situation.”

“That’s… I think I’ve heard of it. There was definitely a rumor that there was a prince whom the queen saw as an eyesore because the birth of her eldest son was delayed by a few months.”

At Abassael’s words, I pointed to myself.

“I’m that rumored prince. By the way, the queen even sent an assassin to kill me not long ago.”

To be exact, it was cooperation, but honestly, it was more or less the same.

At my words, I felt something slightly stinging from Precia.

“Was it the queen who sent an assassin to you, Your Highness? How dare she…!”

“Precia, calm down. We don’t have any physical evidence yet, and even if we do, my power is still weak.”

When I consoled her, the something emanating from Precia gradually subsided.

“I apologize. I got excited for a moment.”

As she apologized with her head lowered, I grinned widely.

“It’s okay; it’s rather reassuring that you got angry with me. But be careful in the palace.”

“I will keep that in mind.”

Precia made a determined expression.

“Then what’s our next move? Am I also going into the palace with you?”

At Abassael’s question, I shook my head.

“No, the queen is my enemy and collaborates with the mastermind, ‘Arcana,’ which has the Shadow Tower as a subordinate organization. In such a situation, it’s not only dangerous for you to enter the palace, but it will also limit your range of action when you need to regain your magic as soon as possible.”

“That’s certainly true. Among the court wizards who go in and out of the palace, there will be guys who know my face.”

Abassael would be treated as dead due to the explosion, but if rumors spread, not only Abassael but I would also be in danger.

“If I could, I’d like to move together and help you regain your magic, but I still have things to do in the palace.”

There are still two important items I haven’t obtained.

Leaving the palace would be after I get those two.

“I’ll tell you the location where the item that can lift your curse is hidden and how to find it, so move with the people I’ll assign to you.”

“You’re assigning people?”

At Abassael and Precia’s expressions asking who they are, I took out circus performance tickets from the storage.

“Quite reliable people.”

Ah, but there are three people now, so will they let us in with two tickets?

(To be continued in the next part)