Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure

The trial ended as one would expect.

All of the members of the Snake Syndicate received the death sentence for their crimes.

From the very beginning, the fourth prince hadn't been planning on letting any of them live. The only reason that he went through with this sham of a trial was because he wanted to show the people of the kingdom that he would not tolerate criminals like this.

He wanted to use this trial as a message for all those that were still out there that there was someone to protect the people of this kingdom.

He wanted to use this trial to instill fear into the other criminal organizations that were in the kingdom.

Of course, this wasn't the only thing that he had planned for them, but that was another matter.

It would have been perfect if it wasn't for the final blemish at the end. Though this blemish was only a small one that wouldn't really affect the overall message that the fourth prince was planning to send.

At the same time, even if it was something that might involve the Tide Empire, it was something that was easy for the fourth prince to cover up. With his influence in the kingdom, it was easy for him to make news like this disappear as he pleased.

The only problem was that this was a blow to the ego of the fourth prince.

He thought that he had planned everything perfectly and now there was something that he hadn't been able to predict.

So for the fourth prince who wanted to do everything perfectly, the first thing that he did was...

He threw himself into his work.

As soon as we returned to the castle after the trial, the fourth prince immediately went into the king's study and started going over the details of the future trials.

Even when it was time for dinner, it didn't seem like he was going to respond.

Though I wanted to go and see what the fourth prince was up to, the king stopped me.

He just simply said, "Let him do what he wants. I know that child and I know that he needs time to unwind, so just leave him be."

I had a look on my face that didn't seem as certain about this, but the king was the fourth prince's father after all...

Still I couldn't hold myself back in the end as I went up to the study after dinner.

I found that the floor was completely covered in papers and the fourth prince was scouring over them like he was a madman. It was as if he was obsessed with what was written on them and he wouldn't calm down unless he found every single thing that he was looking for.

The way that he was going over these pieces of paper, it was clear that it wasn't healthy.

It was clear that the fourth prince was pushing himself too far as seen by his appearance.

If he didn't stop, he might even run himself ragged.

Of course, it wasn't as if this was just the result of him pouring over these papers.

This was the result of his several weeks of stress.

Ever since he had learned about the Yuletide Family's intention to rebel against the kingdom, the fourth prince had been preparing for this. This was why everything had been planned and there wasn't a single thing that escaped the fourth prince's plans.

But that naturally took a toll on the fourth prince since doing something like this clearly wasn't easy.

The fourth prince looked like he could collapse at any moment.

I just couldn't let him keep going like this.

So I stepped forward and said, "That's enough."

The fourth prince didn't seem to hear me at first, so I stepped forward and pulled him up.

The fourth prince quickly turned around to look at who it was that was disturbing him. The way that he even looked at me was almost as if he wanted to forcefully pull himself away from me.

But when he saw that it was me that was holding him, that look disappeared from his face.

Still, he didn't stop as he said, "No, I need to keep going. I need to make sure that nothing goes wrong."

I shook my head and said with a sigh, "What if you collapse? Isn't that considered something going wrong? You need to calm down and see the bigger picture."

The fourth prince was about to say something, but when he saw the way that I looked at him, he stopped himself.

After a long silence, he said with a nod, "You're right, I was wrong."

The king who had been watching from the door had a shocked look on his face.

After all, he had never seen his son acting this way in all this time that he's known him.

The only person that had ever tried to stop the fourth prince like this was still in the dungeon…that was why he had come along in the first place. He had been planning to help Zwein if anything happened.

I gave a satisfied nod after hearing this and said, "Come and eat. You need to rest up for tomorrow."

The fourth prince just gave a simple nod before following me out the room.

As we walked past the king, I could see that he was looking at me with a strange look.

As for why he was looking at me with this strange look…

It was because he realized just how much trust the fourth prince had in Zwein.

He had been worried about his son because it had seemed like he would never trust anyone in his life. He had always kept his true feelings to himself and even if he worked with others, it was always him dominating them.

But now…it seemed like he had formed his first real connection.

As a father, the king was naturally happy about this.

As a king, he was even happier since he knew that the future of the kingdom were in the hands of these two.