Doctor Resignation

Jade left the store with his shoulders and back straight with dignity and entered the next store.

“Whoah…”

Sitting again in the corner, his hand that was holding a book was slightly shaking.

“I apologize, Your Highness.”

Keynes immediately bowed.

“Due to our incompetency, a disaster almost happened because we couldn’t serve Your Highness well…”

Jade muttered blankly as if he couldn’t hear Keynes.

“I… I didn’t make any mistakes, right?”

“Yes?”

“I-I talked with a woman. D-Did I somehow seem unnatural?”

No one noticed, but the title of the book that Prince Jade was enthusiastically reading was “A Book for Returned Soldiers Who Are Not Good at Dating.”

This book was gaining massive popularity among Sailors these days.

“Speak as little as you can, and if you think you’re going to make a mistake, get up first before you show any unattractiveness… I followed this book.”

Only then did Keynes realize why Jade abruptly left the cafe when everything was going fine. In fact, when he stood up so suddenly and headed to the cafe next door with a similar atmosphere, all the attendants who served the prince were quite surprised.

“The Empress said that women in the capital would line up when the prince returns from winning the war.”

Jade had a fiancée who he had only seen a couple of times since they were young.

In many ways, it was an engagement with the great Marquis, but the young lady was staying at the border most of the time, recuperating her weak body.

In the meantime, rumors strangely emerged around the aristocratic young ladies that he doesn’t like women. Then, as soon as he reached adulthood, he went out to destroy pirates in the southern coastal area.

Of course, no one knew that it would take five years to destroy the pirates which he thought would be simple. And not long after the pirates got wiped out, his weak fiancée died.

He mourned to an extent because they still had a relationship even for only a short time, but five years passed and everything was already forgotten as an old memory.

And in the last letter of the Empress, [When you return to the capital, you have to find a new fiancée. If you win, women will definitely stand in line.] was written.

The problem was that he had never had a decent conversation with a woman his age.

He rather likes to be in a war that has a tendency to recklessly break through rather than attend meetings or any social events. 

Rumors also spread strangely, so the young ladies thought he hated women and did not talk to him at all. Hence, he’d never had a proper conversation with women.

‘Now I can finally get out of the bloody battlefield and talk with a woman…’

In the free city, where he came to play with great expectations, he settled down in a cafe full of aristocratic young children, but no one talked to him.

In fact, everyone was waiting for him to talk to them first, but Jade didn’t notice.

“I guess the prince really doesn’t like women…”

“He’s not even looking at me.”

“He’s the one who brutally slaughtered the pirates. He’s somehow scary…”

Jade had never dreamed of such a rumor circulating among aristocratic young children.

In the meantime, a lady in a green dress sat at the table right next to him, where everyone dared not sit. He was already very nervous, but she perfectly recited the symptoms of his eye disease that he and Keynes have been agonizing over.

When he came to his senses, he was already sitting in front of the lady, telling her his symptoms.

“Can I check for myself? Please pardon me for a moment, Your Highness.”

His heart began to pound as she approached and looked into his eyes. It was his first time being so close to a woman.

Her soft hand touching his eyes seemed to smell sweet.

He trembled as he looked at her round green eyes.

And when he said he would do her a favor out of gratitude, she blushed shyly and looked very happy.

‘Does she have a crush on me?’

Is this the ‘green signal’ that was mentioned in “A Book for Returned Soldiers Who Are Not Good at Dating.”

“Later… After some time… I hope His Highness would give me an opportunity to personally meet him.”

‘Looks like it!’

Jade barely pressed his bursting heart and replied as cool as he possibly could. But since he thought that the situation could suddenly go wrong, he just left the cafe.

He settled in the cafe next door and told the lieutenant.

“Find out which family the lady named Lise, who lives in the Duke of Casseus belongs.”

“Lise?”

“Yes, that’s the young lady’s name.”

The conversation started suddenly, so he couldn’t hear her family name, but he somehow overheard her first name and remembered it.

He recalled that the pink-haired servant called her “Lady Lise.”

“She wished to see me, so I have to do her the favor.”

“Yes?”

Jade was an unrivaled master in battle. However, in other fields, he was at best simple-minded and at worst, plainly bad.

Keynes, who was well aware of the Prince’s tendency, opened his mouth to order.

“I’m sure she’ll come to the victory banquet, right? I’ll send her an invitation myself even if she’s a lady from a lowly household.”

Jade’s face, which had been favored by a woman for the first time in his life, sparkled with hope.

“Well… If you say it’s an invitation directly…”

“After the war, she was the first woman to talk to me, and she even seemed to be a little bit in love with me.”

He laughed proudly and opened the book “A Book for Returned Soldiers Who Are Not Good at Dating” once again.

He doesn’t like reading books because he easily gets bored, but it was worthwhile forcing himself to read this one.

Just in time, the title of the chapter he would read was as follows.

‘A Person with a Tendency to Fall in Love Very Easily.’

***

[There was an inevitable situation. Please be my godfather.]

After Prince Jade left, I wrote a short letter and immediately sent it to Viscount Perelman.

With this, ‘Viscount Perelman was decidedly my godfather.’

I’ve made my white-lie true.

Though not perfectly successful, the biggest goal of coming to the free city was achieved either way.

“Lise, what the hell are you planning to do?”

Diel sarcastically said as we walked through the street.

“I understand that this was of great help to the Crown Prince. But have you forgotten your commoner status and dreams to be the Crown Princess? That’s illegal. However, if you’re aiming to be his mistress…”

“I will really forget that I’m also a commoner and hit you hard if you keep talking like that.”

When I shot back at him with a stern face, Diel quickly lowered his tail.

“…Why did you have to take that risk?”

“It’s not even that risky.”

I shrugged my shoulders.

“I just didn’t know that the store kept commoners off. Did I lie? Oh. Of course, there is a little hidden truth, but I did not lie.”

“Haa, but…”

“What’s the meaning of being in a free city? The commoners are free to talk with everyone, whether it’s aristocrats or royalty. The law does not apply here.”

“Well, you have a point. That’s what people say but the reality is… No, forget it.”

“It’s fine as long as we didn’t get punished.”

They wouldn’t do anything rude to his benefactor who kept her real name hidden simply because she broke the store’s rules.

No, it was highly likely that Prince Jade didn’t even know that commoners were being blocked from entering the store in the first place.

“I thought I would be given the right to an audience with the Crown Prince any time I needed.”

I sighed and muttered, “But if the time comes and I’m in a hurry, I’ll just ask for an opportunity to have a conversation with him saying that I was the one who healed his eyes.”

It was not that there were no results at all because even a tiny possibility was created.

“Let’s get going. Oh, I have to buy a gift for Erhan.”

“Gift?”

“Yes. It’s been a while since he’s been home. So it’ll be my welcome home present. I have money… About 500 gold.”

Diel frowned.

“Not 5000 gold?”

“I used it somewhere, and there’s nothing else left.”

I’m not a noble and I couldn’t even write a check.

“Master Erhan is someone who doesn’t lack money, so I think it would be much better if I’d just give him something that came from my heart… What do you think will be good, Diel?”

“What the hell does a servant know? I have poor eyesight.”

“It was an inevitable situation. You know.”

“Yes, this servant should understand.”

As if he had recalled the bafflement he felt a while ago, Diel grumbled with his mouth sticking out.

‘Oh, I think this one is going to last.’

I lightly sighed.