Crown Prince’s Ex-Boyfriend

“What are you thinking about?” 

“Your Highness.” 

The Crown Prince, with his black hair soaked in water, asked as he sat back to back with Vinh.

“Just… thinking about something else.” 

“I mean, like what.”

“I think Irelyn is weird these days.” 

Ttuk. The energy of excitement flowing strangely from the crown prince was cut off. 

It wasn’t an illusion. The shallow smile on the crown prince’s face disappeared.

“I think she’s trying to get your attention.”

“I thought so… I feel something different. It sounds strange, but she doesn’t feel like the Irelyn I used to know.”

“That really sounds strange.”

The Crown Prince, who spoke in a low voice like a growl, got up dusting off his butt.

“Why do you care about others? There’s no need for that.”

“Where are you going?” 

“I’m not going to tell you.” 

Vinh asked the Crown Prince who suddenly walked away, but the Crown Prince was upset for some reason.

He has no actual destination. It was just to get Vinh’s attention. 

‘Follow me.’

The crown prince kept walking and hoping, but there was no sound of someone following him.

Eventually, the crown prince turned his head. 

“Don’t follow me.” 

Then, as if he had inadvertently remembered it, he turned around and added.

“Ah, that kid. Don’t worry about it, just don’t think about it.”

What he said before meant please follow him, and what he said later was the truth as it is. 

But there was still no following sound.

‘Sheesh.’

Unfortunately, the crown prince thought he should at least just follow the latter. 

Unfortunately, however, there was still something the 13-year-old Crown Prince did not know well.

The more oppressed people are, the more they want to escape. 

The moment he said Vihn shouldn’t think about it, he just thought of it more. 

* * *

Grit. My teeth are gritted. 

I’m not in a very good mood at the moment. 

There are two reasons for this. 

One thing is that Cith gave me frustration with the words “no” yesterday, and the other reason is…

“There are only two months left until your graduation. You know that you don’t have time to be immersed in emotions. This means that you have only two months left to prepare for your graduation exam!”

It’s because of the graduation exam. 

The graduation test requires a certain score or higher to graduate safely, but if you fail even one subject, you will regret it. 

I was worried about all subjects, but the biggest problem was the swordsmanship test. 

Wouldn’t I have to take a sword to take the test to get a score? 

In other words, I have to hold a sword somehow!

What kind of fate is this? Irelyn took an elective course and chose swordsmanship…! 

Nope. When I think about it, it is all thanks to me that the characters in <The Prince’s Lover> have a deep connection with swordsmanship.

…I decided to write the knowledge I learned from fencing in the novel because my sister was lazy to research about it. 

“What are you doing. Aren’t you going to lift the sword?” 

“……”

Vinh, who does not know that his swordsmanship was conceived from me, was busy urging me today with an indifferent look. 

Ah… …I really don’t want to hold it. 

I didn’t want to see with my own eyes that I could hold a sword with a body other than my real body.

If I see that scene, I might think like that.

Think that I don’t want to go back to my original body.

“Well, I’m not feeling well today either.” 

“What’s wrong with you?” 

“I don’t feel good”. 

“Really?” 

“Uh-huh…” 

What’s wrong with this guy. Is he interested in Irelyn’s work?

When I answered with a hint of bewilderment and embarrassment, Vinh folded his eyes and smiled. 

He couldn’t look so beautiful with a smile in my indifferent eyes. 

But, suddenly, Vinh’s eyes, which had been folded, returned to their original positions. For a moment, I felt chills.

“I saw you eat a whole bag of cookies in one bite before class. You must have been really hungry.”

As if convinced that what I said was false, it sounded somewhat sarcastic. 

I’ve seen a similar scene in a novel. 

When Vinh smiled just like now, numerous extras would be disposed of. 

…Am I going to be like that now?

“Oh, well. I felt sick after eating it…” 

“What about yesterday’s class? You also don’t feel good back then.” 

“Even then, I was…” 

“You didn’t feel well, but didn’t you had dinner at the marquis’s house that day?” 

“What? Why do you know that?”

“Did you forget how close our family is? I don’t want to hear about you, but I still know. To the point of getting tired of it every day.” 

Screw it. Even if you hear something like that, forget about it.

Why is he even interested if he’s tired of hearing about it.

Vinh immediately added, as if he had read my mind. 

“I’m sick and tired of hearing that your appetite has increased abnormally and that your evil doings have decreased, but that doesn’t mean I’m interested in you, so don’t misunderstand. I’m just trying to find out the threats around me as a person of Ortega.” 

“What kind of threat do I pose to you?”

“You’re a very big threat. You tied me up with the rope of marriage, so I couldn’t be separated from you for the rest of my life. To avoid such a thing in the future, I need to know in advance and prepare for it.”

It was also because of this attitude of Vinh that the Crown Prince had Irelyn executed.

He always tried to keep Irelyn in his sight even though he hated it so much.

Even if it was only because of anxiety about his own personal affairs, it would have been enough to ignite the prince’s jealousy. 

“I’m not going to do that anymore…”

“I’ve heard that more than a hundred times. I don’t believe anything you say anymore.” 

That’s why he didn’t believe me when I said I don’t like him anymore. 

It will probably continue to be so in the future. Damn it.

Please I’m begging you… Please don’t pay attention to me! 

“You’re still lying. You’re not even sick, you can lift a sword, but you’re saying you can’t lift it to avoid me. Why is that?” 

“…avoiding you doesn’t pose a threat to you.”

“It’s a threat. I’m worried about what I’ll do if you do something you’ve never done before. And…”

Vinh pointed to the other students who’re struggling using his chin. 

“Falling behind is also a big threat.” 

“If you want to fight, you can change your partner.” 

“I can’t do that.” 

“Why?” 

“There’s no one better than you.”

Until this period, when she had not yet reached the second stage of her growth, Irelyn was a strong person who could overcome all male students.

It’s because she made a lot of effort to walk the same path as Vinh.

However, there was only one person Irelyn couldn’t win against. 

It’s the crown prince. 

The crown prince had excellent skills among his peers, to the extent that none of the students were comparable to him. 

Thanks to this, the prince’s opponent was determined to be the swords art teacher, but there were times when he was already pushing the teacher because of his outstanding skills.

“Why don’t you do it with His Highness, the Crown Prince? He’s better than me.”

“I can’t do that either.” 

“Why?” 

“How dare I wield a sword at his highness.” 

“……” 

It must be a time when the relationship with the Crown Prince should not be known yet. To say something expressive like that…

That’s what I was thinking, but Vinh immediately added an excuse. 

“As a vassal, I wouldn’t dare to commit such a blasphemous thing.”

“Ah, yes. I guess so…”

“Anyway.” 

Vinh pointed to the sword that was calmly stuck in my scabbard with his eyes, not his chin this time. 

Then he looked up and looked directly at me.

His deep blue eyes looked like a calm lake, but it felt like I was being sucked in and suffocated.

“Hold the sword, Irelyn Heather.”

I swallowed my saliva without realizing it. It was because I felt overwhelmed. 

To a 13-year-old kid. 

Vinh’s words had weight. 

‘It’s not someone else who’s asking, it’s what I always wanted. I have to listen. As always. Right?’

It’s as if he was thinking that.

It’s only Irelyn who had to give up a lot since childhood to purely express her desire.

She wanted to grant Vinh anything he wanted. 

Like even giving up her own life. 

Therefore, this situation is unacceptable to him. 

If a dog that was wagging its tail just until yesterday suddenly bites its owner, everyone will react like Vinh. 

However, there is no dog here. 

Neither the original Irelyn nor the Irelyn now is a dog. Irelyn may have acted quite similarly, but as long as I am in her body, I would never see her treated like a dog. 

“I don’t want to.” 

“What?” 

“Don’t give me orders. Vinh Ortega. I’m not your dog.” 

My expression through Vinh’s eyes looked quite firm. 

This was the case with a tightly closed mouth and water-colored eyes that did not tremble and shone intelligently. 

Vinh seemed embarrassed by my reaction that was unlike “Irelyn.”

After taking a deep breath after a while, he opened his mouth. 

“…I never thought so.” 

“That’s what I think. You keep forcing me even though I said no.” 

“Forcing…” 

Vinh muttered the words. 

He looked blank, perhaps shocked. 

Irelyn has always done it to him, but this time it’s because of an opposite situation.

After that, Vinh had not been able to say anything for a while. 

But it didn’t last long. 

Because Vinh has heard a much more shocking sound. 

“Ugh!” 

It was not a loud sound, but Vinh’s pass immediately went back to the place where the sound came from. 

Where Vinh’s gaze was directed, there was the Crown Prince and the swords art teacher. 

“Are you okay, your highness? I apologize. I went too far with the attack.” 

“…No. It’s my fault that I couldn’t focus on the fight.” 

Obviously, it was an answer to the swords art teacher, but the prince’s red eyes were not looking at him. 

It was facing me and my side. 

…Are you jealous? We just talked.