I Possessed The Villain’s Childhood Friend

4 – A dream?

Ah, this is a dream.

I suddenly realized that fact.

I wasn’t the one moving my body right now.

I am only conscious.

I heard that lucid dreaming can do anything you want, but I learned that it’s not really like that.

“A raid!”

“Ike! Move!”

The background of the dream was the crown prince’s social debut stage.

I was so scared that I couldn’t move, and I could barely move until the very end.

But the me in my dream was different.

I drew my sword at the same time as my father commanded, and when I heard the report of an attack, I quickly jumped.

I could tell by looking at it.

That this is the ‘real’ Ike Access.

“Ike! Get behind me!”

“Yes, Father.”

It was different from the time I experienced it.

Though the crown prince was mortally wounded, the situation was sorted out much more quickly with Ike’s joining.

My father obviously said that Ike had no talent.

But to me, an outsider, that was a lie.

A 14-year-old was unimaginably quick and heavy with blows, and he was almost indistinguishable from the movements of other adult knights.

It was enough to compare with my father.

“This is the end.”

With Ike’s declaration, the last assailant collapsed.

No one was hurt.

It ended much faster.

Only then did I know.

Why was my father disappointed?

What did it mean to believe in Ike’s endless efforts?

I knew everything.

“Ike!”

My father smiled and approached Ike as he inserted the sword.

And that moment.

“Dangerous!”

The prince, who was coming this way with me, suddenly jumped to the right.

A final blow by a certain stranger that no one else noticed except him.

For some reason, the dagger flew towards Reina instead of the crown prince at a very high speed.

But Reina didn’t even have the strength to react, she didn’t move even when she saw the dagger.

I imagined a terrible future, I wanted to close my eyes, but I couldn’t.

It wasn’t me who was moving this body right now, it was the real Ike.

“Keuugh!”

And the dagger pierced the right breast of her prince, who threw herself to save her.

After that, Raina fell in love with the prince who saved her.

Reina does not miss a single day, visiting him for treatment and taking care of him with all her heart.

She, of course, had no such heart for her crown prince, but there was no way for her to know that.

Ah, this is a big deal.

The story was twisted from the beginning.

At the same time as I was thinking that, I woke up.

★

When I woke up, my head was foggy.

“… I think I had a dream of something important.”

I tried to recall the memory, but the memory was hazy and I couldn’t recall it.

If it’s really important, wouldn’t it come to mind?

I moved on with that thought.

Two weeks have passed since the incident happened at the prom.

Of course, the assailants were all sentenced to death.

The imperial family tried to find out who was behind them, but it was impossible.

Some of them immediately committed suicide at the party, and those who were captured and saved by magic did not open their mouths.

In the end, nothing could be found out.

“It’s probably those guys anyway.”

At first, I thought it was all an infighting due to the succession to the throne, but thinking about it again, it was strange.

The prince’s faction of nobles is at a similar level to non-existent in the current situation.

The reason the faction persists is simply because the crown prince’s overwhelming talent was put forward.

In that case, it was enough to ruin the party moderately and lower his status.

Even if people don’t gather around the prince, the prince’s path will be blocked.

In other words, it was too much to say that this incident was a battle for succession to the throne.

It was so serious that it was suspected that someone else was behind it.

In the end, there is only one remaining case.

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Probably the forces of the original final boss.

I don’t have to worry though, since the crown prince and the heroine will take care of it later anyway.

Come to think of it, the crown prince properly started his foreign activities to expand his faction.

As if the modifier genius wasn’t lying, his clique was rapidly expanding.

The crown prince struggled to protect the other nobles even after receiving the most fatal wound at the ball.

Such stories circulate, and the incident at that time actually gave the crown prince wings.

Of course, it was still weak compared to the other princes, but the speed was unusual.

It’s as if he said that the 14 years he had stopped were like a handicap.

Lastly, one more thing has changed.

“Brother. Reina-sama has come to visit you.”

… The time to meet Reina increased.

Originally, it was only once on a Monday.

That was a short time of two hours.

But now it’s Monday, Wednesday and Friday a total of three times.

There we talked for about 4 hours.

Raina came to me with a brighter appearance than before, and I was happy about that too.

She came to me and I loved the way she chattered and laughed a little bit.

She kept her distance from people with her cold appearance, and always acted like an aristocrat.

The appearance was certainly beautiful, but I knew very well that I couldn’t melt the prince’s heart like that.

So, I was so happy to see her gradually changing and approaching her future happiness.

But if there is one problem.

“Your Highness? We meet about once a week now. And have a light talk and part ways. Even if it’s a fiancé, we don’t know each other well yet, so we’re slowly getting to know each other.”

It seemed that Raina hadn’t fallen for the crown prince yet.

In the side story, it was described that after that incident, she fell in love with Reina.

What’s the matter?

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t imagine the image of the crown prince saving Reina from that incident.

There was no way a man who had no interest in her other people and did not love her Reina to the end would sacrifice her body to save her.

In other words, there must be a different reason for Raina to love the crown prince.

… Am I too hasty?

You may have to wait a little longer.

Well, that incident could lead to other things happening.

Let’s have a little more patience.

For the sake of a world where Reina can lead to her Crown Prince, where she can be her happiest.

★

“Suck!”

“Slow, Ike!”

Now training has become a daily routine.

Wield the sword and refine her magical power.

If it was my original body, it would have been so hard that I couldn’t stand it even for a minute, but it was training that Ike’s trained body could handle.

But after the prom, one more drill was added.

“Know the enemy’s path, anticipate the attack, and counterattack. That would have taught you the basics of combat?!”

“Keuugh!”

A formal sparring with my father.

Originally, the end was to listen to stories about movement and attitude from the side, but now I have to sparring for at least an hour.

My father misunderstood that the reason I couldn’t move that day was because of the sudden tension of my first real fight.

And after the first sparring, he sighed with a sad expression.

‘… From now on, I’ll continue sparring until all of the tension you’re having right now is gone.’

Of course, I couldn’t tell the whole truth, so I thought I’d pass it as well.

Anyway, sparring with my father was necessary for me too.

“Distract the opponent’s gaze! Aiming only for a strong blow means that it is easy for the opponent to read it! Don’t use it unless it’s a certainty!”

For me, this sparring has one purpose.

That day, the movement that took place at the end.

It wasn’t my will, but to reproduce the movement this body showed.

That was my goal.

“The action is great! In a life-and-death battle, that one mistake is the end!”

I could guarantee that my movements now are less than 10% of those times.

You have to pull it out by at least 50%.

I didn’t think it was impossible.

I don’t even know what to do yet, but anyway, that was the movement of this body after all.

Surely I can do it too.

“Today ends here. Don’t go in first Ike.”

“Yes, Father. Thanked.”

The fear of the day I thought of running away still lingered.

But the fact that I was weak and had to watch Reina get hurt, the fact that she almost died made me even more frightened.

So I was standing here right now.

To be able to protect Reina.

“Ha ha, ha ha.”

I am short of breath.

Other training wasn’t this hard, but it was always like this after the sparring with my father.

“Ike.”

Reina, who was watching under the tree, approached.

“Here is a towel and water.”

“Thank you.”

I wiped her sweaty body with the towel Reina gave me and drank her water at once.

“It was amazing. His Excellency, Duke of Addos, and you too.”

“Compared to my father, I am still far away, well.”

After barely catching my breath, I continued my conversation with Reina.

“Is it fun to watch this?”

“Because I also have some knowledge.”

Reina was also a gifted woman whose outstanding talent was recognized in her original work.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for her to withstand the gangsters alone.

Even in the original work, there were readers who initially wished that the Crown Prince and Reina would continue.

She looks friendly with Raina, a cold and lofty talent, but she was of the opinion that a cold genius, the crown prince, suited her.

Of course, those opinions disappeared in an instant after a while.

“… But it still remains, that.”

Suddenly, Reina looked at my chest and made a complicated expression.

“Oh, this.”

My top was slightly torn from sparring with my father.

And between those torn tops, you could see a huge scar.

It was the mark of her sword piercing her right breast in place of her Reina.

She was immediately healed with magic, but was told that her wounds were too deep to erase.

“Are you okay? Aren’t you sick?”

“It feels strange to touch, but it doesn’t hurt at all.”

It was actually a lie.

She still throbs from time to time, but she didn’t want Reina to feel guilty about these wounds.

“Thank you.”

“It’s okay. I think of it as a medal for becoming a knight.”

After that day, Reina always said thank you whenever she saw me.

She said, to be honest, she felt a bit pressured, but she couldn’t stop it because she would have her own thoughts.

“Let’s go for a walk by the lake. I’m going to change my clothes and come back.”

“Yes. I’ll wait here.”

After changing clothes that were damp with sweat, Reina moved her feet to the arena where she was waiting.

“Ike.”

She bumped into her mother in the hallway.

“Mother.”

“You said you were going to the lake at Reina and her sheep today, right?”

“Yes.”

“I have a favor, would you mind?”

“It’s okay.”

For some reason, I felt a different atmosphere from my usual mother.

It didn’t feel dangerous or insecure.

It was like looking at something interesting.

“Can the two of us go to the market together? I have things I need.”

For some reason, Seonji’s mother, she was smiling more happily than usual.