Chapter 183

"Don't... don't hit me..."

After a hellish mixed "rescue" by a man and a woman, the freckled prince, who had been beaten black and blue and had fainted and woken up again, couldn't hold on anymore. He curled into a ball with his hands covering his head, lying on the ground and moaning in protest:

"I... I am a prince after all. Your Cleanup Bureau has an agreement with the royal family to... to ensure our safety..."

"Your Highness Watching Watching Qiaoshuya, you are being ungrateful saying that."

Shaking his sore wrist, Leon, who had truly enjoyed the rescue, marveled at the hardness of this guy's worldview—even after such a severe beating, he still couldn't forget his status as a prince—while talking nonsense sincerely:

"We are ensuring your safety right now. After being saved by us for so long, don't you feel much better? Don't you have that strange feeling of being controlled and influenced anymore?"

"..."

That feeling never existed, okay! I just wanted to know what was going on with that dream!

Even though he hated these two damn cleaners to death in his heart, the freckled prince, who had received the first beating of his life, was truly scared now. He nodded repeatedly with his butt stuck out:

"It's gone, it's gone, I really don't feel anything at all. I've never felt so good!"

Watching Watching Qiaoshuya's worldview was just taught to be extremely distorted, not that he was naturally lacking in intelligence. Of course, he understood the subtext in Leon's words.

Feeling much better probably meant he wouldn't have to be beaten, while saying he didn't feel anything meant he was still being controlled and needed to continue being "saved" until he felt much better!

Alright then, I'm satisfied too.

Seeing this living hedgehog finally give in, Leon, who had been saving him for a long time, was also truly tired of hitting. He turned his head to look at the tall beauty beside him and asked politely:

"Senior Auntie Ai Ma, do you want to save him a few more times?"

"No, I've vented my anger."

After returning a rather bright smile to Leon, Senior Auntie Ai Ma reminded him:

"Leon, remember to heal his injuries before leaving, otherwise it won't be easy for you to explain when the investigators from the bureau come down."

"Okay."

After nodding, Leon took out the 【Plague-Stained Bandage】. Amidst the freckled prince's struggle and screams, he forcibly pried open his arms that were holding his head and wrapped this dirty bandage around his head twice.

And with the rapid injection of health taken from the kitchen's fat chicken, the freckled prince's face, which was swollen like a pig's head, took only a dozen seconds to reduce the swelling, revealing his original appearance again.

Finally... is it finally going to end?

After noticing that his face suddenly didn't hurt anymore, the freckled prince hurriedly reached out to touch his face. After finding that the swelling had gone down, he was almost moved to tears.

Although the destruction of the country and family last night was tragic, it happened in a dream after all, and the feeling wasn't that deep across a layer. That kind of extreme pain and regret like cutting flesh slowly eased after waking up.

But this beating right now was truly painful!

In all the years he had grown up, he had never been beaten so severely, except for a few bumps when he was young. Even his father, the king, had only slapped him once... Ah!

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"Tsk, why are you moving blindly?"

Looking at the freckled prince who was slapped to the ground again and was covering his face in a daze, Leon frowned and said with dissatisfaction:

"I healed too much when I was treating your injuries, and accidentally healed yesterday's slap too. There are two reasons for hitting you yesterday and today. One thing at a time, so I have to imprint that slap back on you...

Get up! Put your hands down! Stand still! If it's crooked again this time, I'll have to slap you again!"

"Alright, alright, let's stop here."

Looking at the freckled prince who lowered his hands tremblingly, eyes closed and face mournful, waiting for Leon to re-imprint the slap, Auntie Ai Ma couldn't help but shake her head, went over to hold Leon's arm, and pulled him, who was really preparing to slap again,

out of the room.

"Senior Auntie Ai Ma, why are you pulling me?"

"Of course, to save you from causing more trouble!"

Looking at Leon, who still seemed to have some unfinished business, Auntie Ai Ma couldn't help but say helplessly:

"No wonder the director specifically instructed me before I came to try to hold you back. You really are...

Leon, even if we found a decent excuse, this will definitely attract investigators from the General Bureau. He has already admitted that he is fine, so you should stop. If you keep hitting him, there will be trouble."

"Don't worry, I thought of a reason before I did it."

Leon smiled upon hearing this and explained:

"Although I don't have memories of this, didn't his sister say she had already accepted my proposal? In that case, I am his brother-in-law in name.

A brother-in-law and a brother-in-law having a quarrel and slapping each other twice lightly, and without using anomalous objects to hurt people, no matter how you think about it, this should belong to a family conflict. The General Bureau's investigators won't even manage this, right?"

You can do that?

Auntie Ai Ma was slightly startled upon hearing this, then said with a laugh:

"You really are... I'll give it to you!"

"I'm not amazing, you are the truly amazing one, Senior."

Thinking of Auntie Ai Ma's surprisingly stable emotions and her calm and rational way of dealing with sudden situations, Leon praised her sincerely:

"I'm just a bit more flexible in my thinking, but there is still a lot to learn from you in terms of ability to handle things... Oh right, Senior, your soul jumped violently before, did you discover anything?"

"Don't call me Senior, it sounds old. I'm actually not much older than you. You can just call me Auntie Ai Ma from now on."

After correcting Leon's address, Auntie Ai Ma, who was in a quite good mood, smiled and said:

"As for discoveries, there are indeed some... Have you heard the name King of Nightmares?"

"King of Nightmares?"

"The King of Nightmares is also known as the Lord of Nightmares, controlling the nightmare authority within the dream authority. It is one of the true gods worshipped by the Nightmare-Worshipping Black Sect.

Because its true body only exists in the dreams of intelligent creatures and never involves reality, even the General Bureau has no way to deal with it. It is a quite troublesome guy."

After briefly explaining the situation of the King of Nightmares, Auntie Ai Ma thought for a moment and explained:

"The ancestors of our kingdom's royal family once fought with the King of Nightmares and forcibly drove it away several times, thus suffering some curses from the King of Nightmares.

As they grow older, every direct blood descendant of the royal family will frequently fall into nightmares, constantly experiencing the most regretful past of their lives in their dreams. And the older they are and the more regrets they have, the more real and painful this dream will be. The old king is now sick from being tormented by such nightmares.

So if I'm not mistaken, Prince Watching Watching Qiaoshuya must have experienced an incredibly painful nightmare last night, which is why he suddenly lost his mind just now and acted so crazily, wanting to know what was going on with that dream no matter what.

This is why I didn't plan to argue with him at first. It's normal for him to be emotionally unstable after experiencing such a terrifying dream last night. Watching Watching Qiaoshuya also has his own difficulties."