The Max Level Hero Strikes Back!

ous crime to steal money from the royal funds, as far as I know.”

I grinned and murmured.
“Anyone caught would be beheaded.
Haha, you’re not stupid enough to not know that.”

She snorted at my words and walked away.
That was enough.
When I lay down on the bed with satisfaction, I lifted my mana and saw four circles rotating inside my body.
It was magic that moved along the blood points.

Search Eye.
Just like the command mana, which symbolized secrecy, a black air stream, invisible to others’ eyes, stretched out and followed Queen Liness.
It wouldn’t last long, but I had an eye on her.
It was quite a satisfying result in return for getting slapped in the face.

* * *

“…”

Queen Liness, who returned to her room without saying a word, remained silent with an expression of rage.

“Queen Majesty.”

Slap!

When the maid quietly tried to speak, she was hit by the queen.

“Don’t be hasty.
Do you really want to die?”

At her shouting, the women bowed their heads with their mouths shut.

“I’m sorry.”

Her face showed no emotion as if she weren’t even human.

“Grrr!!”

Angered even more by her dull expression, Queen Liness began to throw everything in her reach hysterically.
Most of the people in the Queen’s Palace knew that she had a bad temper.
Nobody stopped her, even if she shattered glasses and smashed wood tables.

At that point, they were just waiting for her to stop.

“Sigh… Sigh…”

After the long disturbance, she put her hand on the smashed table with a grim face, clenched her fist, and growled.

“He is stupidly clueless about where he belongs.”

He didn’t do that in the past.
He was as dumb as his shallow mother back then.
In fact, she could’ve killed him if she really wanted to.
However, he became different after he woke up from a coma.
It was as if he had become a completely different person.

“Come on.
If you really want to die, there is no reason to hesitate.”

Breathing heavily, she murmured lowly, “Keep it up.
Your rude behavior will tighten the noose around your neck.”

She didn’t know that Davey was humming as he listened to her hysterical shouts.

* * *

The result went as expected.
Rumors began to spread inside the palace.

Prince David Al Rown was crazy.
He was mad and killed the innocent people around him without any care, losing his royal pride.
Since most people inside the palace were her people, my reputation plummeted.
In the past, they thought I was too weak to be king, a kind prince with a lot of affection.
Now, however, I was treated like a maniac.

“Majesty! The medicine is here today!”

When I was quietly reading a book, Amy came in and began to make a fuss.
She still seemed quite shocked by the time I wielded my sword.
Still, she showed me a smile because she knew I was trying to save her, not anyone else, and that I was generally nice most of the time.

I thought she was cute.
No one had been younger than me in the Hall.
I was currently sixteen years old, and she was a little younger than me.
In that regard, she was like my little sister, although the status between us had an enormous gap.

I had to protect my people.

“Who brought the medicine?”

At first, they only brought me food, but medicine then started showing up after I ended priest Bort’s life.
The gifts arrived secretly, so no one could really tell.
In fact, it had been quite helpful to me.
I didn’t need any medical herbs as of the moment, though, so I just kept them in storage.

Clearly, my body had finished recovering.
After five months of dedication to recovery and training, the effects began to appear.
Once my body started to heal, it didn’t take long to become healthy again.
She smiled at me when I asked her a question, pretending that I didn’t know that someone came in the middle of the night.

“I don’t know.
Maybe someone who knows your kind nature is helping.”

“Do you think I’m kind?”

“Yes!”

She smiled brightly as she nodded, which made me laugh.
Even though she had seen me kill a man, she still had quite the character.

“Take good care of the medicine and keep it safe.”

“I was going to get them ready for you.”

“I know my body well enough.
The medicine I’m taking is enough.”

She looked disappointed when I refused but didn’t argue further.
I was a man of my own.

“David, your Majesty, are you here?”

While I was talking to Amy, gently teasing her, I heard someone calling my name.
Slowly, I got up from my seat and went outside, and an old butler dressed in neat clothes bowed to me.

“I see the little sun of the kingdom.”

“You don’t have to act fancy.
What’s going on?”

I knew the old man.
Vespers.
He served as the king’s servant and the head of the royal court’s inner servants.
He was an old man who had worked here since I was born.

“They’re the ones who stole money from the First Prince’s Palace and escaped from their duties under the command of Queen Liness.”

I squinted at his determined words and let out a small sigh.
When I looked behind him, I saw a little more than ten people kneeling on the floor, all having frightened expressions.