Crown Prince’s Ex-Boyfriend

The change felt rather awkward, so I replied dazed.

“Uh, yeah… it’s all right.”

“If I hadn’t ‘accidentally’ passed here, you would have been in trouble.”

Emphasizing the word ‘accidentally,’ Vin looked slightly strange.

Strangely, he puffed his chest out and gazed intently at me…… I think he feels proud.

What the hell is he doing?

“Why do you look like that?”

“What?”

“Why do you look so proud?”

“……because it’s good.”

“What?”

“I’m satisfied with my…affection.”

Affection? What did you feel fulfilled in that situation?

Vin added a hesitant explanation as he looked suspicious.

“……a dream of protecting a person.”

“Aren’t you… you know a knight?”

“You must have protected countless people so far, but why do you feel that now?”

“That and this are different.”

“What’s the difference?”

“The… people.”

“People?”

“Yeah, you. I protected you.”

It was a sentence he uttered in a shy voice, scratching his cheeks.

It was cute, but on the other hand, I felt sour.

I wasn’t even in danger in the first place, but he protected me. It was ridiculous to think about it.

“What do you mean, I was never in danger in the first place, and if I did, would I not have won?”

“……Yes.”

“Now, let’s put it straight. Are you sure you protected me?”

“No……”

Vin mumbled sullenly, shrinking his puffed chest.

With his shoulders drooping, he continued to sigh and exhale helplessly.

“Why on earth are you so strong……. I want to protect you, but I can’t protect you, how could I.”

“But why do you want to protect me? There are a lot of other people.”

“Flower-dong is over there.”

“……you’re changing the subject again.”

This time, as usual, I didn’t let it go and tried to talk to him.

Then Vin, who had turned his body, looked at me again.

But it was only for a moment, and he immediately turned around again and soon mumbled like an excuse.

“You couldn’t keep it seven years ago. You, who had been cornered enough to choose to run away on your own.”

“…….”

“What made it hard, no. I was busy begging for a fight without even knowing it was hard.”

Do you think I ran away because I had a hard time because of you?

I just ran away to live…….

Is this what you call self-consciousness.

“But now I’m not the child of seven years ago. Why did you run away, I won’t push you in a corner saying let’s fight.”

“But isn’t that what you said when we met ago?”

“……I’m sorry. I lost my mind then.”

“You lose your mind often then.”

“Ha…. I am no longer who I was seven years ago.”

A wickedly clever smile appeared on Vin’s face.

I didn’t think it would suit him at all, but when I actually met him, it was quite…

It looked good on you because you were pretty.

As expected, the completion of life is the face, and as long as it is pretty, even if the prince, who is an angel and a devil, becomes a beggar he’d still look good.

“Stop forgetting me from the past.”

If it sounds somehow mournful, you’re mistaken.

When he nodded blankly, Vin pointed his finger again in the direction he had pointed earlier.

I thanked him and walked in the direction he told me. But…

“Why are you following me?”

“I’ve got work to do there, too.”

“Flower-dong1 is a women-only dormitory. What’s your business there?”

“It’s a dormitory that hasn’t been used for a long time, so now that the director is away, I have to check whether the facility is underdeveloped.”

“Do you stay in Flower-dong?”

“The leader and the deputy leader have separate accommodations alone.”

“Uh… well… Well, do you have to check it yourself?”

“Yes.”

“……Yes. If you see and have anything to repair or replace, fix it with some power.”

“Yes.”

Vin smiled, slightly bending his eyes.

The smile did not disappear even while passing through the main hallway of the dormitory to Flower-dong.

“Why are you smiling like that?”

I asked because I was worried that I might be caught by the crown prince while doing this.

However, Vin only kept smiling, he did not answer.

“Your a weirdo.”

Meanwhile, we finally arrived at Flower-dong.

Having entered any room once, I couldn’t help but flag.

The rustic pink flooring, the blurry yellow polka dot wallpaper that lagged far behind the trend, made me feel like shaking the interior designer by the collar a little by little.

On the other hand, the luxurious closets and dressing tables were unnecessarily large, so the room, which was not spacious, seemed more suffocating.

“I’m really sorry to say this, but if you have a budget left, I’d like you to do something about the interior.”

“……I don’t have any budget left, but I agree, so I’ll do something about it.”

“Thank you. Well, my room is…….”

I took a look at the assignment sheet that I received in advance. “This is the room right next door. Are you going to go into my room?”

“……Uh, um, you and I have to go into the same room, right?”

“Yes, but why? You said you had to check the facilities.”

Vin hesitated in an inconsistent way and stepped back as if he was about to run away.

How can a deputy director who’s been rolling on the battlefield for seven years look like that?

In front of a new knight who just joined the team…….

Anyway, I understand that you don’t want to see me(?) inside, even if it’s for some reason.

I waved to Vienna without asking any more.

“Well, okay. I’m going in now because I have to hurry up and organize my things. See you tomo- uhm..well, bye! Deputy director.”

I inadvertently tried to say, ‘See you tomorrow’, but I corrected my words consciously to push him away.

Since we see each other every day anyway, it wouldn’t have meant much, but…….

Damn it, what am I gonna do?

If the deputy head is in charge of the new employee, shouldn’t he closer to the Crown Prince. It’s like you’re begging the Crown Prince to kill me…….

“Oh, damn it. I don’t know! Let’s think about it later.”

After running away to my room, I closed the door quickly and recited like that.

I joined the company as a punishment anyway, so I can’t leave the company on my own…….

If you can’t avoid it, don’t tell me to enjoy it. There may be another way out tomorrow…….

First of all, I should organize my luggage that I sent in advance for tomorrow and go to bed early.

“Why are you coming from the Flower-dong, sir?”

Vin’s secretary Adrian Schultz asked with wide eyes, when he saw his boss coming from the east of the flower, his face somewhat red for some reason.

Flower-dong was a building that had not been used for a long time because there was no female support joining after Rapel Isdon.

Therefore, except for Rapel, there was no knight who stepped in the Flower-dong.

Furthermore, even Rapel, who once lived there, even ordered the door to be closed, saying, “I’m sick of seeing that ugly design.”

It is ironic that a noble deputy leader walks out of such a place.

“As a deputy leader, it is to check whether the building that has not been used for a long time is underdeveloped.”

“……Iron-Dong, the male dormitory you became a vice president and never looked at it.”

Shriik. A cold gaze pierced Lord Schultz, incomparable to the gaze he had been directed to the knights that were with Irillin.

Lord Schultz quickly stopped talking to save his hide.

“Oh, you know that Iron Dong is always well managed because there are always people! Hahaha….”

“Adrian.”

“Yes, yes!”

Vin’s blue eyes turned to the bundle of papers that were tightly held in Lord Schultz’s arms.

He meant to make a note of the instructions.

Besides, if he didn’t follow the instructions, Vin won’t let him go.

“Enforce a complete replacement of the interior of the flower building.”

“……do we have that much budget?”

“If you don’t have it, sell the a unit’s iron copper tiles and make it.”

“What kind of nonsense is that…….”

“Adrian. There hasn’t been a normal interior, heating and magic facility, or a complete shower facility in Iron Dong for decades, but isn’t this even more ridiculous?”

“No, but how can you sell a unit that has already been built……! What about the innocent knight living there?”

“So, you’re saying it’s bad because you’re guilty?”

Lord Schultz suppressed his desire to shout, ‘Why are you talking about it here, you bipolar man!’

He only asked politely, blaming the authoritarian society.

“What does that matter……? You can’t redo(?) the flower-dong while removing the room facilities of the another knight…!”

“That’s wrong, I can. You’re sound a little less smart after a some time, Adrian.”

“Yes, yes……? Right, sir……. My weak intelligence must have misunderstood what you meant, right? Please say yes…….”

“Is it because you have a weak intelligence that you don’t understand people well and questioned them? That’s exactly what I’m saying. Now, if you understand it correctly, write it down. Go to the unit’s room right now and get all the facilities removed. The owner of the unit is…….”

Adrian moved his pen with tears in his eyes, thinking this hysteria would continue if he didn’t write down what he was saying.

Who will be the poor member who got caught wrong by the vice president.

Adrian paused to wait for Vin’s mouth to open.

“Nix Hayman.”

As the name was said a mean smile spread across Vin’s lips as if he was a villain.

Adrian prayed for the repose for the poor new knight for a moment.

“By the way, sir.”

“What?”

“Can the vice president decide that at his disposal……?”

Although the head of the team is away, the deputy head is temporarily acting as the head. However, major matters such as changing dormitory facilities would have required approval from the head of the knights.

He seemed to have no qualms about it, even though she would not know it.

Soon the reason came out of his mouth.

“That’s all right. She’ll approve it, if she sees it. Because, on her desk when she returns, there will be the finest Seromsan wine that I bought.”

“Oh, then of course she’ll approve it.”

Everyone in the Knights knew that Rapel Isdon was crazy about red wine that resembled her hair color.

Originally, Vin bought it because he wanted to enjoy drinking with Irillin, but he changed his plan because he thought it would be better to use it to make her live comfortably.

Anything that makes you happy.

That was what was drove Vin’s decision to act according to his desires.1

(In Korean, “dong” (동) is a unit of administrative division, similar to a neighborhood or district. It is commonly used in the context of addressing locations in South Korea. Yes, I just copied that from the internet)