The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

At my words, Divet jumped up from his seat and approached me as if he was about to pounce on me.

“What! You found Nedrian! Where is she? Is she living well? She hasn’t encountered anything terrible, has she?!”

The trembling old man’s hand grasping my shoulder had quite a strong grip for someone suffering from tremors.

“Calm down. It hasn’t been confirmed yet if she’s really your granddaughter.”

“You said you found her without even confirming!”

I shrugged my shoulders while looking at Divet, who was shouting.

“To confirm if she’s your granddaughter, I need to see the pattern below her chest and the scar on her back, but I can’t suddenly visit and ask her to take off her clothes, can I? Still, it’s almost certain.”

“That, that’s true, but… Wait, how do you know that? I never told you.”

Divet glared at me while calming his excitement. At the old man’s reaction, I grinned.

“Did you tell me about your identity for me to know it? Since I said I would find her for you, I investigated in various ways.”

“Hmph…!”

He looked at me disgruntledly at my answer but soon sighed as if he had no choice.

“So where is Nedrian, and how is she doing? She’s safe, right?”

I smiled at his voice that couldn’t hide his impatience.

“If the person I found is correct, she’s doing relatively well. On the day the Poison Institute decided to expel you, Cure Master Aladrine moved to save your family.”

“…Rine did?”

Hearing Aladrine’s name, Divet held his forehead as if he was dizzy.

His expression was full of guilt and regret.

Cure Master Aladrine was a pharmacist who formed a pair with Poison Master Divet as a member of the Poison Institute and was a master of anesthesia.

And when Divet was turning the Poison Institute into a group chasing profits, she fought against Divet from the opposing faction until the end but was eventually expelled.

“They couldn’t save your daughter and son-in-law in time, but it seems they managed to rescue your granddaughter, who was still a young child.”

“I see. Rine…”

Divet made a complicated expression while calling Aladrine’s nickname.

It must have been even more shameful since they studied under the same teacher as children.

“The Cure Master who adopted your granddaughter as her own wandered around to avoid the eyes of the Poison Institute and settled in the capital a few years ago.”

“What?! Nedrian was in the capital?”

As the saying goes, it’s darkest under the lamp, and Divet’s granddaughter was in a nearby place.

“Where is it! The place where Nedrian is!”

Seeing the restless Divet, I took out a bundle of medicinal herbs from the space-expanding bag.

“First, make the medicine I’m going to take.”

“Is this the time to make medicine!”

At his protest, I answered with a playful smile.

“When a pharmacist receives a request, that’s when it’s time to make medicine. When else would you make it? And what will you do if I tell you?”

“That’s…”

“Your granddaughter probably doesn’t even remember your face. If you suddenly visit and rush at her with a fierce look, saying, ‘I’m your grandfather!’ will she say, ‘Oh, is that so! Grandfather! I missed you!’ and have a touching reunion? The Cure Master being chased by the Poison Institute wouldn’t have taught her that way.”

“Ugh!”

Divet made a face as if he was about to cry as his vital point was stabbed.

“And what about the child lying down? You should at least wait for Gilbert to take care of her, shouldn’t you?”

“You…”

“You want me to stay? Are you kidding me? I’m a busy person too.”

I said while handing over the bundle of medicinal herbs as if passing it on.

“Don’t be wary and do something foolish to your granddaughter with your eccentric personality. Just make the medicine.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Divet listened to the manufacturing method I dictated, looking dejected.

After hearing the manufacturing method, Divet suggested improvements as if he was never discouraged and was intrigued.

“It seems you’re trying to remodel a weak body to function as a normal human. Given your body condition, the root of the evening primrose would be much better than the stem of the dog rose flower. I happen to have some, so how about manufacturing it that way?”

“Let’s go with the method you recommended.”

Honestly, even if he tells me that, I don’t know much. What the hell is a dog rose flower?

I don’t know anything beyond what was in .

*******

In the early afternoon, the Queen, who even skipped lunch, had been wrestling with income and expenditure payment documents since morning to redistribute the budget to be allocated to each palace.

Originally, the palace management budget was determined and provided for a one-year budget through a meeting of the King, the Minister of Finance, and other ministers.

The Queen’s role was to redistribute the cost of maintaining and managing the palaces to the management supervisors of each palace quarterly and oversee them.

“Your Majesty the Queen, the roof of the 4th Palace is old and needs to be replaced. Please allocate the budget from somewhere else.”

“Your Majesty the Queen, the 7th Palace has a lot of silver furniture. If the budget is reduced, we won’t be able to purchase dedicated maintenance supplies, so please reconsider.”

The managers of each palace pleaded with the Queen, who was moving the abacus, not to cut their budgets.

The managers of the King’s residence, Simgung, and the detached palace, which didn’t need to make a fuss, didn’t come to the place where all the palace managers gathered.

In previous years, the budget plan was completed at the end of the year, and they would only need to execute it as is, so there wouldn’t have been much to do, but this year, the budget execution schedule was completely messed up.

The reason the budget plan was messed up was simple.

It was because the King himself tackled the budget plan.

“Grr! I don’t like it! How many days has it been!”

The King didn’t simply stop at ordering to allocate more budget to the detached palace where the 1st Prince Yuan resided but also pointed out the excessive uneven distribution of the budget.

At the same time, he ordered to pay the money that had not been paid based on the detached palace’s budget execution records for the past 10 years and to reveal where the unpaid money went.

The Queen naturally expressed reluctance, saying that the budget plan would be disrupted, but since it was an order based on records, there was no justification to oppose it.

Unjustified refusal of the King’s order was treason, so the Queen had to spit out the money she had embezzled over the years and even bring in money from her family because she couldn’t resolve it within the budget.

Moreover, since the palace management budget had to be operated under the management of Sang Seon, who was directly under the King, for the time being, it was as if the Queen’s public operating funds were frozen.

The detached palace’s budget issue was not simply a matter of unfair budget allocation but a blow that the King had properly inflicted on the Queen’s political faction.

The Queen, who had been holding her head, threw the income and expenditure payment documents and shouted:

“A short break! Everyone, leave!”

At the Queen’s order, the managers of each palace quickly left the room so as not to provoke her temper.

As if swapping places with the managers, a head court lady, one of the Queen’s confidants, entered.

“Phew~! Go to the kitchen and get something sweet…”

“Your Majesty the Queen! We have a big problem!”

As the head court lady interrupted her own words, the Queen glared as if she wouldn’t let it go unless it was a big deal.

However, she couldn’t hide her shock at the piece of paper the head court lady took out.

“This is the amount Boutique is billing me?!”

The bill the head court lady handed over had an astronomical amount equivalent to several years’ worth of operating funds for the territories of fairly high-ranking nobles.

“I, I never bought anything like this!”

At the Queen’s scream, the head court lady was at a loss.

“I said the same thing, but Boutique has no intention of listening at all. Moreover, they’re arguing and asking what we did to the engraver, saying things I don’t understand…”

It was a disaster for the Queen, who had already spent her personal secret funds and family’s money to the fullest.

However, as if adding insult to injury, the Queen’s hardships didn’t end there.

Another head court lady, who entered urgently following, shouted hastily.

“Your Majesty the Queen! We have a big problem! It is said that Prince Yubaha assaulted Prince Yuan in public! The entire palace is abuzz with that story!”

A political disaster erupted one after another following the financial disaster.

*********

I frowned while looking at the hundreds of bottles of medicine contained in the medicine bottles.

No matter how much they say good medicine is bitter, the smell emanating from the medicine wasn’t just bitter but as foul as ten-year-old sewage water.

In the novel, they did say it was very bitter, but there was no description of this kind of smell.

“Prince, do you really have to take that medicine? What if that senile old man made a mistake?”

Precia expressed concern with a worried face. At Precia’s slander, Divet burst out in anger.

“If you don’t want to eat it, then don’t! I couldn’t even hear where my granddaughter is, so do you think I would give something harmful?”

That shout did increase my trust in the medicine.

Whether I could eat something that smelled like this was a separate issue, though.

“Candy… do you have candy?”

“I don’t have anything like that.”

Divet, who answered firmly, had a joyful face as if he was looking forward to my reaction after taking this medicine.

Isn’t he getting revenge for not telling him his granddaughter’s location right away?

I couldn’t erase my suspicion and said to Precia:

“If I die, bury that damn old fart with me.”

“Nonsense! You won’t die!”

“Prince…! You can’t die!”

“No! I said I won’t die!”

As I held Precia’s hand tightly and prepared myself, Divet kept interrupting.

“Bleh~! Phew~!”

Ignoring the grumbling Divet, I took a deep breath and gulped down the medicine in one go.

“Ugh!”

The nauseating smell stimulated my olfactory cells through my esophagus.

My body swayed with dizziness that made me feel like vomiting right away, but strangely, I didn’t feel like gagging.

Normally, my stomach would contract sharply and expel its contents, but there was no such reaction at all.

When I didn’t vomit, Divet said triumphantly:

“Ahahaha! It’s a success! Vomiting is a phenomenon where food refluxes due to the sudden contraction of the stomach. Then, if you temporarily restrict the movement of the stomach, you won’t vomit, right? Well, the stomach will start moving again in 10 minutes at the earliest, so don’t worry. By then, you’ll have absorbed some of the medicinal effects, so it’s okay to vomit.”

Damn old fart! It was intentional after all, wasn’t it?

I caught my rough breath and balanced my body.

From the moment I took the medicine, I felt a strange hot energy spreading throughout my body.

I glanced at the Ancestor’s Legacy engraved on my wrist, and the number was changing in real-time. The final changed percentage was ‘0.157 percent’.

Even if I exercised to death, it would be a lot if it increased by 0.0003 percent in a day, but just by taking the medicine, it increased by more than 0.1 percent at once.

As I breathed heavily for a few minutes without saying a word due to the smell rising from my stomach, Precia tried to draw her sword.

“What kind of medicine did you…”

I stopped Precia by raising my hand and said:

“The effect is definitely there. The taste and smell are the worst, though. Ugh!”

My stomach started moving again, and I almost vomited for a moment. Still, I forcibly endured it to digest the medicine perfectly.

When I endured it, Divet clicked his tongue.

“I shouldn’t be the one to say this since I made the medicine, but you’re quite tenacious to endure that.”

“I’m also risking my life here.”

When I smiled bitterly, he nodded.

“It’s best to digest it without vomiting. I don’t need to explain it to you since you know the manufacturing method of this medicine, but it needs to be combined with exercise to maximize the effect.”

The true efficacy of the medicine was to raise the effect of exercise to the extreme, not to instantly remodel the body like steroids.

To put it simply, it could be seen as a protein shake with insanely good effects.

It’s just that the effect appeared right away because my body was too weak now.

The medicine bottles in front of me looked like they were well over 300 bottles.

“By the time you take about 100 bottles, you’ll have the physical abilities of a decent adult male. Usually, no matter how weak you are, 10 bottles would be enough, but your body…”

“Is terribly weak, I know.”

I sighed involuntarily at the thought of taking all of this, but I had no choice since I confirmed the effect right away.

I planned to take it every few days instead of every day because it would be too arduous.

I sighed and put the body remodeling potion in the ingredient storage.

Because I put it in so carelessly, even the subspace storage was quite full.

I thought I should organize the storage later, and then the bell on the door rang, and Gilbert’s voice was heard.

“Grandfather, I’m here. How is my sister doing?”

Gilbert, who came in while taking off his shabby coat, was surprised to see me.

“Lo-Lord! You’re here!”

I threw the ID card to Gilbert, who was acting as if he would kneel right away.

“Take it.”

“What is this?”

Gilbert looked amazed at the ID card engraved with an old-fashioned magic carving.

“It’s your new ID card. Congratulations, you’re now a noble, albeit a low-ranking one. Of course, it’s not that high since you’re a single-class noble.”

“What? What?!”

Gilbert was so surprised that he almost dropped his ID card. I grinned while looking at him like that.

(To be continued in the next part)