The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

I glanced at the sword that could be drawn at any moment.

, is perfected in the Bastille Mountains after being demoted, but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t skilled before that.

   No, to be more precise, she was completed in the Bastille Mountains, but in terms of her physical abilities, she was already a monster.

Otherwise, she would have died on her first day in the mountains.

   A weakling like me would have died without even realizing she was drawing her sword.

“Are you going to draw that sword?”

Precia’s eyes fluttered at the sound of my calm voice.

   “If you’re going to kill me, I’ll ask you to do it with a single blow, so I don’t feel the pain.”

“Your Highness!”

   She raised her voice, and I calmly brought my index finger to the corner of her mouth.

   “Hush, it’s late; the others will be disturbed.”

Precia panicked as I cautioned her in a calm voice.

She can’t kill me.

   I’m the one she failed to protect, the one death she regretted so much.

   And even if that were to become a thing of the past, it would not change the red-haired girl before me.

   “Your Highness… please answer me. Are you really the Prince Yuan I know?”

Hearing the confused voice, I couldn’t help but laugh.

   “Puh-hat! Am I Prince Yuan? If I say no, are you going to draw that sword and slash me? If so, slash me now. I’ll give you a chance.”

   I walked up to Precia and grabbed the sword hilt with my hand.

Precia’s blue eyes flickered, and she took a half step back.

   Thrrrr-!

   I immediately drew the sword and held it in her hand, bringing the blade to my throat.

   Precia then flicked my hand away in surprise and sheathed the sword behind her back.

   “What’s wrong? Didn’t you put your hand on the hilt of the sword to kill me?”

   “No, I didn’t!”

   I narrowed my eyes at her confusion.

   “I’m disappointed.”

   I meant it.

   This indecisiveness was not what I wanted from her.

   She was supposed to be the most resilient and determined heroine in the novel.

   To see her like this, even though she claimed to be unstoppable?

   Maybe my death was the most important part of Precia’s growth.

   “Neither this nor that. Did you think you could protect me like that?”

   This is something that could have been a major setback for my future plans.

   “If you thought I might be an enemy, you should have at least subdued and interrogated me, if not killed me! Your actions endanger not only yourself but those you are supposed to protect!”

   How can I trust you with my life if you hesitate to look at my face?

   For a moment, I almost shouted in anger, but I barely managed to stop myself from scolding her.

“My, my prince.”

Precia looked horrified at the sudden rebuke.

   What a disgrace to be frightened by someone you could kill with a snap of your fingers.

She sighed.

   “…Did you ask me if I am the prince you know? Who is the prince you speak of, the weakling who can’t kill a passing ant, who cries every night for his mother and seeks you out with his old servant? If so, the prince you seek died the day the assassin came for him.”

I turned and walked away in an unpopulated direction.

“Follow me if you wish to keep me safe, or pack your things and leave the palace at first light, for what I need on my journey is a knight who will defend me in all circumstances, not an indecisive coward.”

   If she doesn’t come with me, things will be drastically more difficult, but that’s all.

I’m fully prepared for her absence.

   Replacing my heroine would be tough but not impossible.

   But contrary to my fears, Precia quickly followed me.

* * *

I made my way through the deserted areas, but it was not difficult to find my way in the bright moonlit night.

   As I walked along, I said to Precia, who was following behind.

   “Precia, do you know why I was almost assassinated?”

   “It’s because….”

She failed to answer my question.

   She couldn’t answer my question because common sense told her there was no reason for me to be assassinated.

   If I was only threatened with assassination because I was the eldest son, I should have been killed soon after Prince Yuan’s mother died.

   It shouldn’t have been too difficult since there was no Precia at that time, and the only one who could protect Prince Yuan was the old servant Herion.

The reason for Prince Yuan’s death was not simply a matter of succession.

   “I don’t know, of course not. How can I know what the bastard who wants to kill me is thinking?”

   Actually, I do know.

   This weakling was assassinated because of the blood seal passed down to Prince Yuan.

The founder of this country was a great hero, like any founding king.

   The founder sealed something to save the world, and to keep it that way, he randomly passed it on to his descendants.

   And this time, the seal just happened to fall on me.

   After I die, the seal is unguarded until someone else is born who inherits it, and the person behind the assassination wants to kill me because of that vacuum.

   “But I do know one thing.”

   “And what is that?”

   I grinned like a rascal at Precia’s serious question.

“Because I’m weak, they dare try to assassinate me.”

   There are plenty of ways to break the seal without killing me.

It’s just dirty and complicated and difficult.

   They only chose assassination because it was the easiest way to get rid of me.

   If killing me was as difficult as breaking the seal, they wouldn’t bother trying to kill me.

“So I’ll just have to get stronger, and if I can’t get stronger on my own, I’ll have to create a force that won’t dare underestimate me.”

   To be honest, I initially aimed for the former, but the more I moved my body, the more I realized it was impossible.

Well, that’s my fate.

   Hearing my answer, Precia looked at me with surprised eyes.

I thought it was cute and asked her seriously.

“I ask you again. Precia, do you want to protect me?”

   Precia answered my question without a second’s hesitation.

   “Of course!”

   The confusion and anxiety that had filled her eyes just moments before was nowhere to be found.

I wiped the smile off my face and said firmly.

“Then what happened just now must never happen again, and if you have any doubts, cut the person down, even if they are in my form.”

   “Yes!”

   Precia replied vigorously.

Doesn’t this mean we’ll just be separated for a while, and if we meet again, she’ll just kill me for being suspicious?

Did I sound too assertive?

   I feel a little uneasy.

   I swallowed those thoughts and looked up at the Third Palace.

   “Can you sense any of the soldiers on patrol?”

Precia answered my question as if it were nothing.

   “Yes, I can. Two soldiers are slowly approaching here, about eight hundred meters from here. They’re headed this way, but I don’t think they’re coming directly here, based on their approximate patrol route.”

   I looked in the direction Precia pointed, but I couldn’t see anything because of the outer wall.

   I clicked my tongue at the senses beyond the human category and asked.

   “By the way, were you spying on me, too?”

   When I gave her a reluctant look, Precia threw up her hands in embarrassment.

   “Oh, no, it was… …for the safety of the prince….”

   I blushed and sighed as my voice slipped into a croak. Surely, it wasn’t a coincidence that she jumped right after me.

   “Next time, talk to me without following me; it’ll be embarrassing if you follow me to the bathroom.”

   “Uh, the restroom… no, I’ll keep that in mind.”

   Precia blushed and avoided my gaze.

   I was just kidding; she didn’t really track me to the restroom, did she?

   “But why are you here?”

   I blurted out as I quickly changed the subject.

   “I have business to do in there.”

   “If you have business, why didn’t you take care of it when you visited during the day….”

   “I came quietly at night because I have something to do without anyone knowing.”

I said to her while pulling out a rope with a hook that Herion had packed for me.

   “Of course, Precia’s not a stranger, so we’re moving together.”

  I’ll let it slide that I originally planned to go it alone.

   I didn’t think anyone would be watching my every move all day.

   “And how are you going to sneak in with that?”

I spun the rope as she asked.

   “Just like this. Navi, please.”

-Nyong~!

   I tossed the spinning rope upward, and Navi caught the hook and hooked it into a third-floor vent.

Precia noticed the odd trajectory of the hook at first glance and looked at me.

I stroked the nape of Navi’s neck as it returned and said.

   “It’s okay to show yourself.”

   At my words, Navi unraveled her invisibility and revealed herself.

   “Awww, how cute!”

Precia’s eyes lit up at the tiny creature, which was the size of her palm, and she gingerly tried to touch it.

But Navi avoided Precia’s touch and hopped onto my shoulder.

   “That’s because Navi is shy of anyone but its owner. Once she gets used to you, she won’t run away if you try to touch her.”

   “I see.”

   Precia looked at me wistfully as if asking me to explain.

   “Navi is a wind spirit left by the Ancestral Queen Lizbet, and I inherited it.”

   “Queen Lizbet?”

   “Yes. Although it doesn’t have much power for a spirit left by a legendary spirit master, it can manipulate the wind better than most.”

In the novels, the characters were so monstrous that spirits rarely acted as anything but mascots, but the power they felt after signing the contract was not ordinary.

I pulled lightly on the rope, glancing at Precia, who stared in wonder.

“I haven’t known Navi for very long, but she saved my life from an assassin.”

   “Then….”

   “Navi saved me.”

   Alright, that’s a solid hook.

   “Navi, support my body from underneath.”

   -Meow!

   Navi cried briefly, and a strong wind blew from below.

   I clambered up the wall with the rope, relying on the strength of the wind.

   With the wind pushing me from below, it was easier to climb because I had to stand so that my body was as level with the ground as possible.

When I reached the vent, I struggled to get inside and managed to do so safely.

   “Whoa, that was hard.”

   My arms were numb from the climb.

   I tossed the rope I’d climbed on and motioned for Precia to climb up.

   Precia looked at the rope, and without even grabbing it, she lightly hopped in place and climbed up to the vent.

   Wow, this is the third floor, and one floor is at least four meters high.

   “Are we going in here?”

   “Yeah. Oh, can you grab the rope?”

I stuffed the rope Precia had retrieved back into my bag and crawled ahead.

   “What are we doing here?”

   I answered her question, my voice low and cheerful.

   “We’ll find out when we get there.”

   We’re on our way to get something very interesting.

   There was a reason I came here first, of all places.

TN: You’ll never guess what he’s trying to get ^^