How the Sidekick Prince Lives Again Chapter 36

Renato had a very long nightmare. In his dream, he once again lost his precious people. Trudy, Louis, and Luna all left Renato's side while covered in blood.

No.

Trudy's dead body dispersed into flower petals. Louis' fallen body sank into a pool of blood. Luna's torn body was shattered like a broken sword. Renato screamed because of that unbearable misery.

Don't go.

His desperately stretched hands struggled to reach the three of them. Sinking down on the floor, Renato gathered the petals scattered on the floor, dug up the puddle of blood, and connected the shattered fragments together. But it was only a futile attempt.

After that, Renato was left alone in the darkness. Trudy, Louis, and Luna were all gone. Renato, left alone again, was disheartened. In the end, he failed again.

I don't want this, please……

Sitting down on the floor, Renato cried miserably. A mournful sobbing sound echoed back. He reached out his hand, but couldn't catch anything.

I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

Renato shed tears, apologizing and apologizing over again to those whom he failed to protect, and to those who lost their lives because of him. A terrible sadness swept over him.

At that moment, a small warmth touched his damp eye, then parted away. Feeling the hand wiping away his tears, Renato flinched. He struggled to catch the warmth that drifted apart.

'Please calm down. I will be here.'

A low voice reached his ears, and the warmth that came back held Renato's hand. Renato finally stopped struggling.

'Please sleep well. When you wake up, everything will be fine.'

Really? Renato was not easily relieved by the voice that soothed him. Perhaps sensing his anxiety, light pats fell on the back of his hand. Following it, Renato's rough breathing gradually became calmer. His stiff body slowly loosened.

Don't leave me alone.

Feeling his consciousness fade away, Renato desperately grasped the warmth that touched his hand. Then, the hand that was patting Renato's hand paused for a moment.

'I will stay by your side until you wake up. So please don't worry.'

He could feel no lies from that honest voice. Hearing the promise to stay by his side, Renato fell asleep again with a more relaxed expression on his face. There were no longer nightmares that tormented him.

……Where is this place?

Renato woke up again a few hours later. He thought as he lifted his heavy eyelids. An unfamiliar ceiling appeared in his blurry vision.

“Huu.”

A tired breath flowed out from his dry lips. His head felt heavy, and his body felt drowsy. Renato looked around the room, moving only his eyes. It was then that he heard a familiar voice.

“Are you awake?”

“……! Your, highness?”

Renato's body slightly shook, startled by the sudden voice. Turning his head towards the voice, he saw Khalid sitting in a chair while looking at him, and opened his eyes wide.

“Why am I here, no, why are you here, your highness?”

Renato raised his body and gibbered random words. Looking at him, Khalid stood up with a blunt expression. Then he took a water bottle from the table and poured out the water.

“This is my official residence. Your guard knight asked me to help you, so I brought you here, Your Imperial Highness.”

Khalid solved Renato's curiosity and handed him a glass of water.

“Please drink some water first.”

“……Thank you.”

Renato held the glass and hesitantly drank the water. When the moderately cool water wetted his dry mouth and throat, the sleepiness in his body also faded away.

“Did Luna ask you to help me, your highness?”

“Yes. She is waiting outside with the attendant right now. Should I call them?”

“Please wait, wait a minute. Just what……”

Renato stopped Khalid from calling Luna and Louis. He had already woken up, but he couldn't understand what was going on. When Renato had a confused expression, Khalid let out a small sigh and sat down on the bed.

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“Don't you remember anything?”

“What…… Ah.”

Renato blinked at Khalid's question, then immediately let out an exclamation. The situation before he fainted came to his mind one by one.

He went to see Baikal and got swept away because of a commotion, then his memories surged up when Luna fought against the enemies, causing him to panic, then he met Khalid by chance and lost consciousness in the man's arms.

“I have caused trouble to you. My apologies.”

Realizing what happened, Renato immediately apologized. He didn't expect that he would run into Khalid there. Having to face an unexpectedly difficult situation, he agonized over how to deal with this problem.

If it was just a meeting by chance, he could have gotten over it somehow, but the problem was that he collapsed in front of Khalid.

“You don't have to apologize to me. Rather, I should be the one apologizing to you. From what Dame Luna told me, it seemed that you were involved in an accident caused by me.”

“Pardon?”

Renato lifted his head because of the unexpected words. When Renato looked at him with a confused expression, Khalid calmly explained the situation.

“The disturbance on Baker 13th Street today was caused by me. I heard that there was an organization that smuggled medicinal herbs from the kingdom, so I started an operation to sweep them up. Those who attacked you in the alley were the gang members, Your Imperial Highness.”

“Ah.”

After hearing Khalid's explanation, Renato softly sighed. When he put the puzzles of his incomplete memories together, he could now understand the situation.

In his previous life, Baikal was captured by the security forces as a member of the smuggling organization, but fell into Marquis Medus' hands when the man realized his talent. At that time, it was Khalid who wiped out the organization.

He didn't know it would be connected like that.

Renato was a little surprised when realizing so. But he was soon convinced by that fact. Even though he regressed, it was impossible to remember everything that happened in six years.

He knew the major events that shook the Empire or what kind of conspiracy Marquis Medus had, but he did not know the causal relationships of other minor incidents or events.

Far from engaging in political affairs as a Prince, he never even took the initiative to do anything.

All Renato did in his previous life was to stay still like a fish out of water when Marquis Medus conspired things and heard about several things by chance.

They treated Renato just like an invisible person and carried out plans such as who to eliminate and which traps to make without hesitation. They didn't care about Renato's existence at all.

At those time, he felt painful just like being tortured, but now, those memories were helpful in many ways. Without the information he had then, he would not have even dared to try to change the future now.

“I heard about the situation from Dame Luna. She said that you went to see the doctor called Baikal without letting your personal doctor, Marquis Medus, know about this? That's the reason why we shouldn't let other people know about today's meeting.”

“Yes.”

Renato lightly nodded his head. He wondered how Luna had explained it to Khalid, but fortunately, Luna seemed to have done a good job of covering up things.

Khalid moved his lips, perhaps wanting to ask Renato something, but then closed his mouth again. After hesitating for a moment to choose his words, he slowly opened his mouth.

“……First of all, let's cover it up that you stopped by the dwarf's workshop and got caught up in the commotion at Baker 13th Street, Your Imperial Highness.”

“Pardon?”

“There were gang members who ran away, so it was not difficult to manipulate the information. I also contacted the Imperial Palace, so you can rest here today.”

“Please wait a moment, won't that cause you trouble, your highness?”

Renato asked with a surprised face. Khalid said today's operation to clean up the smuggling organization was his job as the diplomatic ambassador. If people knew that he, the Prince, had an accident and collapsed when Khalid handled things, they would immediately doubt Khalid's ability. This would surely cause trouble for the man.

“You don't have to do that……”

“I'm just taking responsibility for my mistakes. It was clearly my fault that you had to encounter the gang members, Your Imperial Highness.”

Khalid had sought cooperation and evacuated the Baker 13th Street people before the operation began.

So he felt quite a huge sense of responsibility for this. In fact, there was no one else involved in the fight between the Knights Order and the gang members other than Renato.

“I contacted the Imperial Palace because I didn't know when Your Imperial Highness would wake up. The doctor said you were just asleep, but you didn't wake up at all. So I decided it would be better for me to contact the Imperial Palace first and explain the situation before the matter escalates.”

Doctor. At that word, his mind cleared up as if cold water was poured over him. Renato hurriedly examined his body. His robe and cape were nowhere to be found, and his shirt was unbuttoned. Upon confirming that, his mind became cold.

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