I Became The Childhood Friend of the Obsessive Second Male Lead

“Should I call the doctor?”

The words he asked near the grains of her hair were a little tickling.

Rieta arranged her hair back on her head and shook her head.

“No, I don’t think it’s that bad.”

“But what if the Princess becomes an idiot?”

“If you say that, I will be angry.”

“I am seriously concerned. Because I have no intention of destroying the Kingdom of Liz. Tell me, how much is four thousand nine hundred plus nine hundred ninety-nine?”

“Can I even do that on a normal day?! Five thousand . . . five thousand, eight hundred and ninety-nine.”

“Oh my gosh, Princess, is your addition really that slow?”

Saying this, it seemed as though Noel wished that the state of Rieta’s head would become worse.

“So mean.”

Rieta groaned and turned her head round and round.

Then, Noel, who was just examining Rieta’s head, moved closer.

Their gazes met.

“Uh . . .”

The moonlight seemed to have helped Noel examine Rieta’s wounds a while ago.

Again, in fairness, Rieta helped examine Noel’s wounds.

Although it was not a visible wound to the eyes, it was clear that it was very deep.

The red and swollen eyes from tears were proof of that.

“Noel.”

Rieta patted his cheek slightly.

The white tears that remained were clinging to the bottom of Rieta’s hand.

“You cried a lot.”

“. . .”

After returning quietly, Noel quickly stood up on his back and turned his body away.

“I , I didn’t cry.”

He said it out of embarrassment, but she knew the truth.

So Noel bit his lip and bowed his head.

“Noel, you must have been really sick . . .”

Rieta whispered again.

As if she had found the answer to the ‘Are you in a lot of pain?’

“. . . Nope.”

Noel shook his head for nothing.

“But your eyes are swollen. Shall I bring some ice?”

“It’s okay.”

“I mean, I’m worried.”

Rieta rose to her knees on the sofa and grabbed Noel’s arm as he turned back.

It looks like she wants to check his face again.

“Just let it go and it will subside. If not, while the whole country is clamoring for a lack of water, can we use precious ice for this kind of thing?”

“Really?”

“Yes.”

Noel bowed his head at an angle and grinned at Rieta, who looked up at him.

“I think it still hurts.”

“It’s just a little uncomfortable.”

“I’m glad if that’s the case.”

Rieta straightened her posture again and sat down on the sofa.

Noel continued to look out the open window, and reconsidered what he had just said a moment ago.

The whole country is clamoring for a lack of water.

That was a really big deal.

It must have been the problem that made his father’s expression full of concern for the past few days.

“I hope it rains soon.”

Noel muttered in a frustrated voice.

“Yeah . . . I think it’s been a long time since I’ve heard the sound of rain.”

“I am very lucky only to miss the sound of rain.”

Noel remembered the wide fields or slender streams he had once seen.

Even outside the capital city, there were plenty of such things.

And he learned that it is closely connected with people’s lives.

“A lot of people are actually in trouble.”

“That’s right.”

“That’s why my father was so busy.”

“Because the Duke is a good person.”

When Rieta praised his father, Noel felt a little better.

In fact, he was also very proud of his father.

However, he felt a little sorry for saying ‘proud of my father’ in front of Rieta.

“What, what is so good? Of course, he was doing what he was supposed to do as a Duke.”

“Really?”

“Yes, who else would take care of the Duchy estate at a time like this, except for my father?”

“That’s right.”

“I mean, the people in the Duchy who pay their taxes and pay their respects to my father, they will all want to help at a time like this.”

Noel began to narrate the stories he had heard from his father one day.

Rieta sat in her seat and said, ‘I see,’ and nodded slightly.

“. . . So, this time, he was taking a wizard to the Duchy estate.”

“Well, I’ve never seen magic before, can they really create water?”

“What, there are no wizards in the Kingdom of Liz?”

“There are, but they are all my father’s wizards.”

Moreover, they were not on good terms, so it was difficult to see even a single sleeve of a wizard’s robe in the royal palace.

“I’m sorry you can’t even see that.”

Noel grinned and rested his chin on Rieta’s shoulder.

“It’s very strange.”

“How is it?”

He closed his eyes, still with his chin on.

“Well, a lump of water started to float in the air and grew bigger. Just like soap bubbles.”

“Then are you giving out those water drops to people?”

“You foolish Princess, it’s not like that. Usually, they raise the water high and burst it in the air like rain.”

However, the Duchy estate was a little different.

“Sometimes they put it all together in a water reservoir.”

“Is it going to get better for a while after that?”

“Probably.”

Noel let out a small sigh.

“Still, I’m really glad he has a wizard to take with him. Without a solution, my father would have been even more troubled.”

Perhaps he would be digging with a shovel himself until the water came out.

He was a very responsible man.