Prison Games

Chapter 41

Chapter 41

“When the young lady came back, she said something along the lines of, ‘From now on it will be the person inside the cell’s duty to watch over the key,’ and then confiscated it from me..........”

“Didn’t you think that was strange!? Isn’t it!? What type of prison has the prisoners watch over the keys!?”

“No, of course I thought it was strange..........”

The Prison Guard looked off into the distance as if he had somehow reached enlightenment.

“But it’s pointless to try and go against that young lady...........”

“Why is everyone around Rachel like this!?”

Something hit the raging Duke’s knees. When he looked down, he found the monkey that his daughter had said looked cute holding up an apple for him.

“If you take this, would you mind forgiving us and forgetting we were here?”

“Enough already, everyone around Rachel..............!?”

With the shouts of her father creating some soothing background music, Rachel rolled back around on her warm bed, falling into a deep sleep with a happy smile on her face.

It seems like the noblewoman’s will continue on for just a bit longer.

. Elliott switched from the boyish ‘boku’ to the more formal ‘watashi’ here. He’s probably remembering the s******g he got from a couple s ago.

. The ‘apprenticeship’ they’re using here is more specific in Japanese. It’s referring to somebody who takes classes from an aristocrat in how to properly behave/manners.

- Prince Learns the Limits of His Power

- Prince Learns the Limits of His Power

Prince Learns the Limits of His Power

Garden parties get regularly held at residences inside the cities suburbs, and while these parties are meant to be events where different noble families can mingle and form connections, for the children in attendance, it is more of a dull get-together where no fun is allowed.

In the beginning children are always forced to stand next to their parents and greet the other party-goers, but once the adults start talking, it would be normal for them to neglect their children. And so the children would inevitably gather together as well, spending their time chatting with one another or exploring the garden. While the parents all form their factions, the children were off building cliques.

Such a situation had developed with one group where Elliott ( years old) stands at the center, and it was safe to call this group the largest faction amongst the children.

No matter what Elliott is the first prince. Even children can understand he holds a special status. Furthermore there were a number of royalty or high ranking nobles older than them surrounding him as escorts. So naturally, the other noble children would keep their eyes on him.......so Elliott walked everywhere with a big head on his shoulders.

“So then Your Highness, do you want to explore the Eastern Forest?”

As the boys moved from the cobblestone party area into a place in the garden with more nature-orientated terrain, the second son of a marquis walking a half-step behind Elliott made a suggestion for what they should play today.

The eastern side of the venue had a small forest growing there..........well it was actually a grove rather than a forest, and an adult could make their way through in under two minutes.........but it was still a good piece of property that stimulated the boys’ adventurous spirit.

“Hmm, that’s right...........”

Thinking for a moment, Elliott was about to say they should go.........when he noticed a girl with chocolate colored hair crossing his path. The girl was around Elliott’s age wearing an apron dress but because of its size it looked more like a regular one piece. She was holding a dish in her hand and looked like she was just about to go grab some food.

What is this!

Elliott is great.

‘The Prince’ is amazing.

How dare somebody cross in front like this when that Elliott and his “retainers” are walking along!

No, even Elliott thought it couldn’t be helped if somebody was in a hurry, but this woman was just going to go get some food.

In such a case she should have stopped and waited for Elliott to pass, but she just walked past as if it were normal.

“Oi, you!”¹

Elliott started shouting at the girl who had already showed her back to him.

And he was promptly ignored.

“Oi, you over there! Hey, are you listening to me!?”

The girl continued on her way while still ignoring the increasingly furious Elliott. The boys who had been following him quickly ran forward and detained the girl.

The girl looked to be in a bad mood having been forcefully brought back like she was, but having been ignored up until now, Elliott’s own bad mood wouldn’t lose out.

“Oi, you! What is it with you ignoring somebody when they’re calling you!”

“Pardon my impoliteness. I didn’t hear you.”

Answering as if she had done nothing wrong, the girl pinched the edges of her skirt and performed a curtsy. The girl looked to be around the same age as the boys yet the way she spoke and the way she curtsied was no different from a well-mannered adult.

Elliott couldn’t help but get irritated seeing this “adult”. It made him somehow feel stupid.

“You, even though the Prince told you to wait, ‘I didn’t hear you’ is all you have to respond!”

“That’s right, that’s right!”

“It’s disrespectful that you didn’t notice His Highness!”

The followers all started berating the girl as well. In response, the nasty, disagreeable girl once again gave them a curtsy.

“My sincerest apologies. A limited time, limited availability cherry cheesecake is currently being handed out that I must urgently secure, so I shut out any unrelated or low priority information that would distract me from that goal.”

“I, I see.........”

The girl had used a bunch of words that were hard to understand, and the only thing Elliott really got from her explanation was ‘cherry cheesecake’. Well, that’s fine. He didn’t want to admit he didn’t understand what she was talking about, so he had no choice but to veer the conversation off into a different direction.

“Mu..........fine then. You will join us on our adventure. Feel honored.”

Elliott made an arrogant declaration. He was going to take her on an adventure that usually only his “vassals” could come along with. This girl should naturally be appreciative of his good will.

However the girl, didn’t seem happy with the invitation at all and refused.

“No thank you. As I said earlier I’m in a hurry to get some cherry cheesecake. I don’t have time to get involved in any unimportant, inessential tasks. So then adieu.”

The words she was using were polite, but it didn’t seem like she was paying the other party any respect at all.

Elliott was stunned by the girl’s attitude, and then after realizing this wasn’t a dream, grew angry at her arrogant way of talking.

“You!? I just gave you the great honor of inviting you to go on an adventure with us!?”

“And please take care. However I hold absolutely no interest at all in any adventures(LOL), and will instead with Your Highness good fortune while smacking my lips in the sweets corner. Now then”

“What’s ‘adventure(LOL)’ supposed to mean!? .............rather, what are you saying!?”

The girl was going off somewhere irregardless of Elliott’s rebuttal. Even though her tone and the words themselves were polite, her attitude and responses completely rejected the Prince. Exemplary superficial courtesy coming from a child.

He couldn’t stand it any longer.

He’d never been very patient to start with, but he absolutely couldn’t put up with this girl!

“T..........This girl!”

All the blood rushed to Elliott’s head, and before he realized what he was doing, he threw a stone at the girl who had shown her back to him.

This girl!

The girl stopped after the stone hit the back of her head.

“You are being disrespectful to the Prince! How about it, do you get it now!”

The Prince’s proud voice mixed together with his followers’ cheers and flattery........while the girl silently stroked the stone she had picked up.

For this girl, things wouldn’t end until she puts her head up and apologizes. Elliott walked over to grab her shoulder with that thought in mind.

This!

The girl used the sound of Elliott’s footsteps to tell his position, so right when he got close enough to be able to reach for her, she swung her fist around, back-handing him in the face and blowing him away.

“UGYAaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

“Your Highness!?”

Some of the hanger-ons rushed over to Elliott to try and help. The other boys blocked the girl in, keeping vigilant of the girl who had just assaulted the Prince.

“This girl! ..........UWAaaaaaaaaaaaa!?”

The third son of an earl reached out to try and grab her arm. But he ended up getting tripped up, performing a somersault, and rolling away.

“How did you do that! ...........GUFouuuuu!?”

The eldest son of a marquis tried attacking the girl, but she jumped into his chest, slamming her fist into his upper jaw. He floated up in the air for a second before crumpling down in the dirt.

“What is this!?”

“Dangerous, what!”

Even discounting the physical disparity between genders.........no matter how you look at her, this girl is the same age as Elliott and the others, yet there was so much weight behind her punches.

“Ow, Ow, stop it!?”

As a special bonus, the last kid to fall over got the gift of being cruelly kicked over and over again to wrap everything up.

.............this girl is dangerous.

Naturally Elliott and his friends would start to think they’d run into some kind of unknown monster seeing this extreme girl capable of first-class overkill.

“Damn, smash this girl!”

Finally helped up, Elliott shouted out his order while holding his sore nose and tears in his eyes, and all of his underling boys rushed the girl all at once..........or not.

Honestly, everyone was already showing pained expressions after attacking wildly........four, five guys were already lying sprawled out on the ground while the girl practiced a little shadow boxing throwing a couple jabs here and there into the empty air.

What’s is the best thing to do?

The girl looked like she was around the same age as Elliott, but most of the other boys here were older. Even though they had all hit growth spurts and were almost a head taller than her..........none of them could see themselves winning by just punching or kicking. So the second son of an earl standing behind Elliott shouted out to all his friends.

“Oi, everyone get help! This girl has hurt His Highness!”

“That’s right!”

“I-I see!”