The Low-Key Life of a Necromancer

After entering the maintenance room, the light disappeared completely. Leon, trapped in the small room, became more and more uneasy.

Suddenly, a bright light illuminated the darkness. Leon looked closely and saw that it was Li who lit the magic lamp in the maintenance room.

Li installed the worn-out magic stone into the groove of the magic lamp. The magic stone no longer had much magic power, and the light was dim, flickering from time to time.

Under normal circumstances, Leon would naturally look down on this kind of rubbish magic lamp, but when he was in danger, Leon felt that this light was very gentle.

"you…"

Leon wanted to ask Li why he was so familiar with the things in this maintenance room.

But thinking back to what Li had said before, Leon shut up rationally.

Leon kept silent, but Lee took the initiative to speak.

"Your Highness, it's a bit boring to stay like this, do you want to play poker?"

Li took out a deck of cards from his pocket. Judging from the wear and tear on the cards, this deck of cards had been used frequently.

“…Aren’t you a cook? Why do you carry playing cards with you?”

"Your Highness, you are an amateur. As a cook, it is also very boring to stew some big dishes. It is easy to fall asleep while sitting and watching the fire for several hours."

What Li said was not a lie, many ingredients in this world were different from those on Earth, and it was very common to stew some special ingredients for several hours.

Leon got to know the cook's life today. He felt that Li's daily life seemed more interesting than that of a prince like him.

"It's already this time, how can I be in the mood to play any cards!"

Leon watched Li shuffle and cut the cards skillfully, as if he really wanted to play poker with him.

Leon was still emotionally immersed in the attack just now, and they were not really out of danger yet.

Leon couldn't understand why Li could act so relaxed.

"Your Highness, we have done what we can do now. The rest is up to fate. Perhaps those villains will find and kill us. We don't have much time left. Do you want to spend this short time in fear or play a few cards to relieve your boredom?"

Li flattened his chef's hat and used it as a cushion, then laid the cut cards flat on top of it.

Under the dim light, Leon tentatively extended his hand.

"How do we play?"

Li looked at Leon and found that although Leon looked stupid, he had a strong ability to adapt to the environment.

This Prince Leon must have become a laughing stock in the royal family because no one taught him seriously.

This is very interesting~

"Your Highness, a game that is too complicated is not suitable for the current situation. Let's keep it simple and compare size."

Leon nodded and accepted Li's suggestion. He really had no intention of playing cards. He was just responding to Li's behavior.

"Your Highness, simply comparing size is meaningless. We need to add some stakes."

"...You are not going to take this opportunity to blackmail me, are you? I tell you, don't even think about it..."

"Your Highness, you are worrying too much. Our bet does not require physical payment, nor does it require Your Highness to promise anything. The one with the smaller points can just tell an embarrassing story about himself~"

Leon was speechless. You are just a cook, and you want to know my embarrassing stories. I hope you won’t use them to blackmail me in the future!

Li didn't care about that. He reached out for the cards first and pinched out the smallest one.

"Your Highness, let me make a sample for you first~"

Li threw the cards aside and casually talked about the embarrassing thing that happened at the dance.

"Your Highness should know that it took me a lot of effort to kill the garlic-flavored fish I made at the ball!"

“…Is this also considered embarrassing?”

"Your Highness, I used all my strength to hold down that bully fish, and guess what happened~"

"What's wrong?"

"When I pushed hard, a bubble of snot came out, and everyone in the kitchen saw it!"

Leon was stunned at first, then burst into laughter.

"This is really embarrassing, hahahaha... No, you didn't spray your snot on the Tyrant Fish! I'll strangle you to death!"

Leon felt uncomfortable all over when he thought about how delicious the bighead carp was when he ate it.

Leon pinched Li twice and then let go.

Leon knew that Li was deliberately trying to make him relax. Although the chef Li did not respect him, he was very good at taking care of others.

"It's your highness' turn."

Lee pointed at the cards, Leon nodded, and picked one at random.

The points were not big, and Leon knew he had lost without Li having to draw any more cards.

"I'll also tell you a story about myself. I ate a snotty fish at a banquet and was locked in a sewer with the fish cook."

After Leon finished speaking, there was an awkward moment in the small maintenance room.

But at the same moment, two puffs were heard.

Li and Leon laughed in perfect sync.

"Your Highness is very understanding. This is how the game should be played~"

"I'm a prince, but I'm here joking with a cook like you. How unpredictable the world is."

The friendship between men who share hardships grows very quickly.

After Lee and Leon played a few hands of cards, they became almost brothers.

Lee grabbed another card, this time without even looking at it, and threw it aside.

"When I was five, I ate my dad's hemorrhoid cream as if it were candy!"

When Leon heard this, he was shocked. Such an embarrassing thing was worth writing about!

Leon didn't want to lose to Li, so he followed Li's example and pinched the playing cards between his fingers and flew to the side.

"When I was a kid..."

Leon was very confident at first, but after hesitating for a while, he began to doubt his life.

“When I was a kid, nothing seemed particularly interesting.”

Leon was a prince, and he was well taken care of by servants during his childhood.

A prince who has never even had any bumps on his back can't tell anything interesting.

Leon was unable to tell Li about his embarrassing childhood experiences and always felt that he was inferior to Li.

But Li's face was full of admiration, and he said something that made Leon spit blood.

"Your childhood was so boring, Your Highness, you are so embarrassing~"

How boring a person would be if there was nothing worth remembering in his childhood.

After Leon reacted, he immediately looked at Li with a resentful look.

"Brother, you are so heartbreaking."

"Your Highness, I didn't expect you to be able to joke~"

After chatting and laughing with Li for a while, Leon's tension was relieved a lot.

But Leon was even sadder.

"It's only after being with you that I know what a true friend is like."

"Your Highness, our relationship can only be considered as acquaintance, not friendship."

"So what kind of people can be called friends?"

"People who look down on each other at ordinary times, but are willing to sacrifice for you at the critical moment, are friends."

Leon was silent. He found that there was no such person around him...

As a prince of a country, such a life is really sad.

"Your Highness Leon, you may not be as lonely as you think."

Leon raised his head, waiting for Li's follow-up words.

"Isn't that servant who took the bullet for you up there a pretty good guy?"

Lee pointed upwards with his finger, and Leon's eyes followed the finger.

There were only dusty bricks above his head, but Leon's eyes seemed to penetrate the bricks and saw the servant lying in a pool of blood.

"…You mean him? He often stole dishes from the palace and had an affair with a maid. In order to arrange for his son to work in the palace, he even used tricks to squeeze out the original groom."

Leon knew very well that his servant was not a good person.

However, it was such a servant who was full of thoughts who protected himself at the critical moment.

Come to think of it, this servant had never done anything bad to him.

"Lee, you're right, that squire is mine, my friend."