I Became the First Prince

Part 3: Prince of Mangani (2)

An unexpected visitor came to start working on the mana heart ductility.

“Majesty! Your Majesty has come! Hurry up and refine your garments and prepare for your Majesty.”

“No, why is the man suddenly not looking even when he is dying?”

The maid who helped the general manager looked at me with a hot face.

“Me, Your Majesty. The bright court knights have reached the point. By all means.”

I belatedly recalled my current situation and closed my mouth.

Unfortunately, her advice was too late.

“He said he was dead and raised, and his tempered head stays the same.”

One of the bright writers she said has already listened to me. When it appeared, the white-haired old knight was in the room.

“You must go. Your Majesty is not expecting you anyway.”

Nogisa expelled the maid at will and looked at me as if she was displeased.

“But there is a priest’s kite, so why don’t you pretend to know now?”

It seems that he was the teacher of a man who was overwhelmed. I couldn’t even know what Nogisa and Mangani taught each other and what they learned. Even if I wanted to pretend to know, it wasn’t something I could do.

So, my eyes were flickering, but Nogisa’s complexion changed.

“Majesty?”

My eyes were staring at her to see if I felt anything strange, sharp like a knife. I took the gaze off the search, intact.

“The memories are messed up, and you may or may not remember who you are… ….”

After waking up, I threw in a chunk of what used to be memory loss, yet it was something I had always thought of.

“Surely…?”

Nogi asked for a bit of rice cake.

“Your Majesty came!”

However, before Nogisa started chewing on the rice cake properly, an author named King arrived.

“Hoo.”

I was honored as I watched the King, a brilliant middle-aged man among the attendants.

Over time, the lion’s blood became cloudy and became the blood of a dog.

The seemingly good appearance, the dignity of a monarch, and the King seemed to have no shortage to lead a nation.

“You look much finer than I’ve heard.”

Said the King.

It was an overly affectionate tone for the first word someone hands to his son who dies and, then, survives.

“When I saw my father, I didn’t say hello, because I thought he was going to die, but people must change.”

Said the King, kicking his tongue.

At that time, Nogisa intervened.

“Shinshin, I just heard that your memory is incomplete.”

When Nogisa said that, the King asked me if it was true.

I nodded.

“Oh My God! What a variation!”

“Why did you not tell his Majesty these important facts?”

“Call that away, look at your body!”

Ui-Yu arrived while the attendants were shaking their heads. If you have already heard of the situation on the way here, your body language says otherwise. And he turned to the King.

“I cannot find any abnormality in the Majesty’s eyes.”

Said the King.

However, there may be a temporary symptom due to a mental shock, and I did not forget to add an excuse to use cotton.

“A memory loss? “

At the end of his words, the King stared at me. It wasn’t like the gaze of a poor son whose eyes were as cold as an ice sheet, passing on a lie about losing his memory.

Maybe you noticed.

I was nervous without knowing it. At the moment, the King seemed to scream who the hell you are and where my son is.

“It’s very convenient.”

But the King didn’t doubt me.

“Now, I can’t remember if, when I came, I was told you haven’t done what you’ve been doing so far.”

I was just angry.

“Sometimes, you can make the wrong choice. You can even behave in a way that’s all overpowered. There is something to realize later. If he does not make the same mistake again, he will just be in a learning process. But you have forgotten all that.”

The voice of the cold King suddenly rose with anger.

“But since it all happened, then you haven’t taken a single step from your last mistake. Also, I will not be able to move forward.”

No matter how low the limit was, those words would sound like a rant rather than mend.

“My Majesty, calm your voice.”

The King’s anger wasn’t heard before the King’s words were spoken. However, the cold eyes remained the same.

Mistress, you stepped on shit.

At the first meeting, he noticed that he was a rare mess in the world, so he didn’t expect that he would be treated properly. However, as it turned out, it was not a Prince’s hospitality, but a person’s generosity.

Looking at the constant contempt that came from the eyes of those who looked at me, I realized that it would not be as easy as I thought to live in the Prince’s body.

So the King stared at me and left the room. My six-month probation before leaving was a bonus.

“Hoo.”

As I sighed, I felt a gaze staring at me. As I turned my head, Nogisa was looking at me.

A transparent gaze, as if looking inside of me, she looked over my entire body.

Nogisa, who knew how to say a word, looked at me like that and disappeared.

“He did what he did.”

I tried to get frustrated but to no avail.

The King left, and the woman named the Queen came.

“My situation has been heard on the way. Yes, how confusing it is.”

She scared me. It was a face that revealed its intention to die of injury.

“Memories will be back soon. No, it would be a big deal for nothing to remember the past.”

She always comforted me in a warm tone. Unlike the King, there was no sign of her being anxious. But I was very uncomfortable with that gentle attitude.

I was the weapon that killed her son and the robber who robbed her body.

Besides, I’m a couple of years older, but I’m acting like a kid.

So I shut my mouth and only listened to what she was saying.

“Don’t come again.”

When the long encounter with the Queen ended, it was after the sun had already set.

Only then could I start working on mana development.

“Well, there’s all this fat!”

I ran into a challenge from the start.

Until I accepted my first mana, I had no choice but to follow the constitution.

It sucks, and it pukes, and when sucked, I puked. No matter how hard I tried, my body could not accept mana.

His body was, as far as mana was concerned, a believer without a head on his shoulders.

“I wish I had the body.”

My original body, which I lost again, was regrettable. If I have been accumulating mana for hundreds of years, I would ignore the aesthesia and beat it. Unfortunately, my body was confiscated by the King and stayed in bed.

How sad it was to hear it from the maid.

I couldn’t help it. There was no other way but to try until now. I’ve been snuggling all day with mana that doesn’t seem to latch on.

But even then, I couldn’t earn any income, so it was a great opportunity.

“Your Majesty, the food that the Queen has sent specially to protect your Majesty’s power has come.”

Then the ‘Boyangsik’ sent by the Queen to the car was like rain

after drought.

There was a surprising amount of mana in the boyangsik. As it is refined, pure mana is filtered and does not contain any miscellaneous things.

“I will use it in my mouth, but it will be very beneficial to my body.. “

When I was staring at the medicine, the maid said with an embarrassed face.

“I was worried that I would use herds, not as a medicine.”

Of course, I had no intention of doing so.

“Majesty?”

She took the plate from her hand and ate it up to the last drop. Then she put the candy in her mouth.

“Now go.”

She gestured out the maid and sat down on the bed immediately.

I felt mana. I did not hesitate to pull mana into one place.

On the other side of the heart, on the chest.

Again, this time, mana refused to rest on my body. However, it was not a difficult task for me now to forcibly hold the mana that has already entered my body.

Mana settled in the body. There is still not enough quantity, and even that one would be lost after a day, but mana was mana anyway.

I called the maid again.

“Are there any more?”

The maid opened her eyes wide after hearing my words.

* * *

I ate the medicine sent by the Queen many times. Thanks to that, I was finally able to collect enough mana to create a new heart.

“After this time, no one comes in until I call you first. Don’t let other people in.”

I called the maid and the new party several times, and I immediately started to cultivate Mana Hart.

It’s been done so many times. Mana Heart was something I could make with my eyes closed. I thought so.

“–!”

Until suddenly, my mind became confused by sudden pain.

Mana, who settled at the heart of my chest, faltered. And whenever mana jumped, I felt terrible pain.

I was embarrassed. This was the first time.

“Ah!”

The answer was nearby.

[Hurry! I think it’s on fire!]

[You feel like your chest is going to burst!]

In my head, the screams of the former owners came to mind. Everyone was the one who forced me to make mana hearts.

I realized. This has always been painful.

However, I was overlooked because I was a sword-fight survivor with no blood, tears, or pain. And I paid the price for that ignorance now.

“Turn it off.”

I concentrated my mind. You shouldn’t be letting go of your mind like the ex-owners. They had someone to control mana, but now I am alone.

If you lose your mind as it is, mana will rule you. It wasn’t even mana with a mouse tail, but a half body of a child who just stopped walking.

So I desperately clung to Mana Hart’s ductility. And finally, he succeeded in fixing the raving mana.

I was successful in cultivating mana hearts.

“I! I did it!”

Despite being the mana heart I’ve made countless times, I had no choice but to cheer. My own, not the other’s, that small difference made me feel a different level of achievement.

At that time, a voice like a hallucination came to my mind.

『Mana Heart has been created.』

The voice revealed the value of a single footstep just taken. Satisfaction doubled.

“Uh?”

However, my satisfaction lasted only a moment, and I was completely engulfed.

“It’s a status message.”

It perfectly matched the status message I always sent to my masters when I was a sword.

『Restore the connection with the root source.』

“What?

“

The message came out without even knowing the situation.

“The connection has been restored. However, the link is not useful. “

“The connection is very unstable.”

『Most powers cannot be used.』

『Only some powers can be used.』