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Chapter 354.2
Chapter 354.2
Chapter 354.2
Playboy [Part 2]
“Arthur, prepare for an outing. We shall go to the slums now. I mustn’t be satisfied with only reading paper reports like these.”
Edward rose to his feet, having made up his mind.
“Huh!? Your Highness!? What did you just say!?”
“It’s something I must be aware of as someone born into the Royal Family of this country.”
“Hold on!? Please wait!!! There’s no way we can just go out so sudden—….”
“Please”
The prince lowered his head to Arthur.
The Royal Family should never lower their heads so easily… but this wasn’t a simple matter.
“…eugh. Understood. Please give me one hour. I will figure out a way to earn permission and gather several capable knights.”
Arthur gave in in the face of the prince’s earnest eyes he had never seen before. Listening to the prince’s selfishness was also one of his duties as the prince’s bodyguard.
“No, no need for exaggerated escorts. You alone are enough.”
“Eh?”
“I can’t see what I want to see and can’t know what I want to know if I’m being surrounded by knights, can I?”
“Your Highness, if it’s like that, earning permission will be impossi—….”
“We can go out in secret… Although that place is called the slums, it’s still within the Royal Capital. It doesn’t differ much from going to the academy.”
“Your Highness, those are two completely different things!!!”
“Didn’t Emma and her brothers go to the slums with just them three siblings alone? Although not as good as George, I am more physically active than Emma and William. No problem.”
“If anything, those three siblings are always the center of trouble!”
Arthur shook his head, thinking that the siblings were the first on the list of people he mustn’t let the prince get influenced by.
Like that one Robert’s case (the fight in the Monster Science class), or that Robert’s case (slime jelly), or another Robert’s case (insects)…
“All of those cases are Robert’s fault. That’s a terrible false accusation, y’know?”
“W-Well that’s… true, but…”
‘It’s because His Highness didn’t see how Lady Emma stuffed the slime jelly with relish.’ Arthur swallowed back the words at the back of his throat. Staining a lady’s honor was a behavior that went against his pride as a knight.
However, the three Stuart siblings… mainly Emma, always caused trouble almost too often in places Arthur didn’t know, so would someone please tell Arthur that he shouldn’t give in to what the prince said?
???
-Commoner District-
There was a weirdly open space in the middle of the streets despite the area being crowded.
In the middle of that were Arthur and Prince Edward standing idly in commoner’s disguise.
Today, with Arthur as his only bodyguard, the prince was heading to the Commoner District… This was a plan carried out after the prince and Arthur compromised with each other, but based on the surrounding reactions, things didn’t seem to go so well for them.
Arthur took impeccable measures and let the prince wear clothes and a big hat he prepared to hide the eye-catching black hair and eyes, but people were still sending covert glances at the two from a safe distance.
“Huh? Arthur-sama and…? (*in low voice*) Your Highness? What are you doing?”
Hearing a familiar voice from behind, Arthur and the prince turned their heads around.
“…! Ah, George-kun?!”
The eldest son of House Stuart, George, was standing there in clothes with many glaring fabric patches while carrying a lot of luggage and looking at them in wonder.
“Right back at you, what happened to you?”
Seeing George looking like an errand boy, Arthur wondered if anything was troubling George and became worried.
“Huh? Me? I’m… ? Wait, pardon me. Your Highness (*whispers*), Your Highness (*whispers*), I’m by myself today. Emma is at home researching Ove…r, I mean, reviewing her lessons. She is not here.”
George talked to the prince, who kept glancing here and there beside Arthur.