135 < Chapter 24. cornerstone of understanding (6) >

There was a small footstep outside the curtain.

The maids carefully raised the thick curtains in the bedroom. After a while, Yan's eyes turned round as she entered the bedroom.

"Were you up all night again, prince?"

It's because I saw Kalian leaning on the head of the bed and greeting her.

Calian never got up first. If I was awake, it was mostly at night. In fact, I slept a lot in the morning in Bern, but I rarely came out before my teacher Tailan. However, if you change your body, that habit cannot be fixed.

Callian quickly opens his mouth at Jan, preparing to nag.

"Did you have a good dream?"

Jan, who almost replied 'yes' without even knowing it, paused and curled Kalian's eyes.

"Sorry."

Where and to what extent does Count Evan Brissen think "treason" is? I stayed up all night assessing each of the solutions to that many assumptions.

"I couldn't sleep."

"Still, isn't it time for you to rest well?" "

Remain well enough to forget to say hello to Khalian, but Jan's color is clearly invisible. I would have forgotten about going over the terrace in front of my eyes to the fourth floor.

Khalian smiles silently at seeing Jan like that.

Calian comes out of the hallway, relaxing with Jan's nagging that he never hates. Of course, it was for breakfast in a quiet room where the cat cries.

Calian opens his mouth quietly on his way to the stairs.

"I'd like to call Lord Hertz to dinner tonight."

"Yes, I'll pass it on to Deputy Chief Hertz. Are you two eating?"

"No, not even my brother."

Jan heard that and laughed without me knowing. Calian looks back at you for a moment because you don't feel like smiling.

"Sorry, it's nothing."

The only acolyte who can say something that has the meaning to the prince is Jan, "I've heard you say something funny, but don't mind me." Of course, even after hearing this from the acolyte, he'll only nod his head and the horse prince will only be Khalian.

Anyway, Jan laughed because of Calian's title.

Around the beginning of last year, Calian didn't really distinguish between Plants and Randall. When I had to say it, I only mentioned "my brothers" or "my two brothers." At some point, the title, which was only called "Plants," became "Plants" for a while and then changed as it is now.

Obviously, the sound of "my brother" from Plants made me say that without knowing if I should take the change well, and I still can't figure out whether I should accept it.

Anyway, Yan hurriedly smiles and gives an answer to Khalian's words.

"You'd better eat in a restaurant if that's the case. Prince Plants would be more comfortable with that. I'll let you know as soon as I have the time."

Jan looks back at Jan again with a surprised look at Kalian.

"I didn't think he cared whether you were uncomfortable or not."

"The prince cares. I still don't like Prince Plants, but I can't keep bothering him because he cares so much."

Callian also knew that the day Jan understood Plants completely would never come. Jan will never forget what Plants was like.

"Yes."

That's why Kalian nods, saying only this. Then he stepped on the stairs and said as if to inform.

"And I'm going to be in the training ground a little longer from today."

"Yes? Prince, now."

Yan, who was trying to take out the mixed words again, shut up.

- Bruises, bruises.

It was because I heard someone coming down the stairs.

I've been hearing that voice for a long time, but Calian hasn't stopped talking. After saying goodbye to Yan's face, he continues to climb the stairs.

The sound of footsteps following at precise intervals, like clockwork. It was Randall.

- Tak.

Randall stops at his feet, facing Calian.

And Calian's mouth is filled with cynics that seem unwilling to hide.

'How consistent you are.'

Two flights of stairs.

Calian stops two flights of stairs above where he stands.

Last time it was three cars, this time it was two.

If I run into you a couple more times, I'll see you at the same height.

"Jan."

"Yes, my prince."

"Tell my brother."

Calian's feet step on the stairs.

Again, you climb two more steps and stand alongside Randall. He opened his mouth without turning his gaze to the dark blue eyes.

"I can't eat with you today."

A message about Plants before a greeting to Randall.

It was Callian's answer to "two flights of stairs."

I said I'd try to understand Randall. I didn't say I'd lose.

* * *

The tail of one of the plants slowly rises.

Cream soup, crispy white bread, full salad, boiled eggs and roasted beans, spice-free smoked ham, crispy onions, and tomato juice.

It is a 'eating and exercising all you hate' diet. I have to use more strength than the others, but if I put the food in front of me, I'll grind it, which means I don't want to see it.

"· · · · · · You didn't get the sword for nothing."

I should have known when I was being too nice to people by giving them too good a sword. He would have planned this situation. If you got a good sword, you'd think it'd be a good test.

"Nia, meow!"

As if you were welcoming a friend of mine.

'I am Prince Plants' favorite cat, Prince Kalian. '

The cat repeatedly wandered around the ankle of Plants, crunching my body.

Plants holds a cat like that, picking up the dried chicken that Raric the acolyte laid down and giving it to the cat. In the meantime, Raleigh informs Plants of the transfer from Jan.

"Prince Kalian is unhappy today."

Plants turns his head and looks back at the table. Two soups, two juices, two dishes. This means that something sudden happened to prepare a meal without notifying you.

"Have you met Randall?"

It's not that kind of work, it's Callian who wants to eat.

After the single-car incident, she said she was going to grow up quickly, but she was a little different from then.

A fast-paced sword that burns muscles, and the magic of 4 circles that is always maintained to hide errors. These two things make Kalian's energy consumption unimaginable. So, instead of eating like that, my muscles wouldn't grow fat.

Plants knew that.

Thanks to this, it is not difficult to assess why Kalian must eat. I won't postpone my meal unless I've met Randall.

Léric quickly asks, watching Plants move back into the bedroom.

"Are you refusing to eat?"

"Later."

I was trying to sleep a little more because I couldn't sleep well, rather than thinking about it. Callian wasn't the only one thinking about it all night.

Leek takes Plants' steps for a moment.

"Prince Kalian's escort is waiting outside. If you need a little more rest, can you tell him to come back in a minute?"

Plants looks irritated.

I was going to the Arfia Palace to meet Remain this afternoon, so I decided to practice my sword this morning. That's why I've already come and waited.

- You're weaker than I thought.

He confronted Plants with a sword last night and said nothing of the sort to Von Kiri.

There were few words in Kiri. As few as Plants. Not that I wasn't curious about the hindsight, but unfortunately, Plants was also an annoying type of horse. I didn't ask for it.

I was expecting it to be less like, "But you're stronger than I thought."

"Leave it."

So Plants told me not to send Kyrie, but to let her go.

Plants, picturing a tall Kiri, sat in front of the table. And then I started breakfast without a scratch on my mouth.

However, I didn't want to continue to lose to his acolytes.

* * *

- The Tensyl wagon shaft was not an accident.

If Callian already knew what Chase asked me to say, he might have changed his attitude towards Randall a little bit.

But I didn't know, so Calian's appearance with Randall did not change at all.

After I climbed two more steps, I put the plant in my mouth first. He then showed an example with a fabulous attitude. It was the same as when I threatened to raise a dog in Camelon to kill her if she didn't come under me.

Randall looks at Calian for a moment and opens his mouth quietly.

"· · · · · · Follow me."

I was going to talk to you anyway.

That's why Kalian followed Randel to the Rose Garden.

Calian looks back at Randall, who can't feel anything shaking for a moment.

'What it was like after I became king of Tensyl.'

I tried my head hard, but I couldn't remember anything.

It was Tensyl.

Cecretia and Tensyl were perfectly hostile.

It wasn't enough to reveal their teeth to each other, but it was always like that. I always thought that no matter when the war broke out between the two of you, it wouldn't be weird.

One origin, two countries.

That's what Cecretia and Tensyl were for.

Qutros Horn Siegfried, a knight who pledged his allegiance to the First King Hartsara, the High Dragon Sispanian and the Sispanian of the eight heroes who led the Old Testament War to victory. The country they built is Cairis.

However, there was one who established the kingdom before them.

The last Shrine of Serenti.

It is the great king of Cecretia.

- Anonymous king.

Three years before Cairys, she built a country called Cecretia and died at the last minute, erasing all traces of herself, leaving no name. It was not even known why.

At first, Cecritia, founded by an unnamed king known only as the 'Great King of Cecritia', was not much of a problem.

But around the time when the Sispanians hid their longevity in Cairys, there was a revolt going on around the Shrines of Cecretia. It was because the royal court of Cecretia did not allow the use of healing with novelty.

Cecritia was a country with low military strength.

Because of this, the rebellion soon became independent.

That's a tensile.

That's why Cecretia and Tensyl didn't get along so well.

Nevertheless, Bern, who used to manage Sezark, darkened the information about Tensyl because Bern was the king. The information about Tensyl was handled directly by the kings, Devil and Chase.

"I thought you were going to ask me if I was okay with being hurt."

Because of this, Calian, who doesn't know what happens to Randall, now sees the red buds starting to happen and says, This is why Randall started grooming roses without saying anything.

Randall pauses for a moment in Calian's voice, then answers.

"You were the one who deserved it."

· · · · · · It's only Jan who worries about me.

I heard Remain was dying and that he was relieved that he was eating well and that Randall didn't even worry. Kalian argues as if he's joking.

"The warriors' swords are sharper than I thought."

"A warrior."

Randall turns to face Calian, contemplating the meaning of his words for a moment.

Randall knows that Tensyl and the Great Desert have teamed up.

Randall doesn't know that it was the warriors of the Great Desert who attacked Kalian.

A grudge against Randall who sat peacefully inside the Chermill Palace as Calian and Plants were punished during the commotion. And I was relieved to confirm that I was not the one who wanted to hurt my brother with someone else's hand. I liked it just like that.

Calian's mouth draws a beautiful picture of that strange heart.

"Brother Randell doesn't know either. Who they are."

Randall stares at Calian without answering.

Kalian shakes his head and refuses to look.

Callian extends his arm and brings his hand to the rose Randall was just looking at. You hold the power of the error in the long fingers.

"Look at me."

The rose touched my thin, white finger, and it broke and fell to the ground. I felt it in Randell's eyes for a moment.

Callian gives a cold voice to Randall.

"Here. Don't."

Again.

I said I would try to understand. I didn't say I would lose.

< [Disclosure] Kyrie >

- Did I not tell you?

- What are you talking about?

- The meaning of your name. It means something to me here.

* * *

Tsk, tsk.

In the middle of the day, one or two dark spots appeared on the moderately dry soil.

The droplets that fell on the tip of the nose and forehead became raindrops. From the moderately dry soil, a moderately pleasant breeze of rain soon dispersed.

I knew it was starting to rain a long time ago, but I turned my hands and looked up at the sky. The drops of water that had fallen gracefully settled on the palm of my hand.

"It was so clear in the morning. That's weird."

"I told you. I thought it was going to rain."

Bern grins as he pulls out a few words mixed with Pinzan's teasing. Then he reached out his palm to Chase. Since you lost the bet, it means to ask for the money you wagered.

Chase smiles and says, looking at that dazzling smile.

"I'm not in right now, so I'll go in and give it to you."

"You're forgetting again."

"When have I ever forgotten something like that?"

"Yes, a lot."

Another beating.

Kyrie, who was watching this brother behind her, smiled quietly.

So this job started with a sudden verb from Bern.

'Sir, is it going to rain today?'

As soon as I met Chase in the morning, he replied, 'I don't think it will rain.' Bern immediately said, "Let's make a bet."

Chase nods again as Bern has never refused to make a bet. Bern, who smiled meaningfully, looked back and said,

'Kirrie, take a good look. My brother clearly said it won't rain.'

'Yes, I understand.'

The only knight Kiri who pledged allegiance to King Bern, not to Knight Bern, replied:

It was always like this.

Bern offered to bet first, and if Chase accepted, Kiri was a witness. When the bet started like that, I ended up arguing like this.

"I don't remember forgetting the money I gave you."

"You don't know how many times I've said that."

Perhaps the nobles could not even imagine.

That King Bern would only grumble at King Chase with a silver coin.

A smile appeared on Kiri's mouth to see him like that. One was king and one was king, but they were just brothers. It was just good.

When they weren't kings and kings.

Yeah, the day Kiri first met them, they looked exactly the same.

Especially now that Bern is exactly the same. My mouth was a little rougher and my eyes were a little fiercer than now, but it was the same.

At least that's what Kiri thought.

* * *

When I first met Bern.

Tensyl was flooded. It was a disaster that happened just in the spring.

There was plenty of wheat and not enough salt.

Wheat was originally expensive for nobles. Salt was more expensive.

The bodies of the poor, who could not obtain wheat and salt, rotted away.

Those who could not bear it crossed the border.

It was better to hide in Cecretia than to have Cairis swarming with troops. At least she didn't kill any refugees.

Of course, it was a refugee situation.

In Cecritia, we couldn't accept anyone who crossed the border. They were able to move the plague, crime could escalate, and above all, they had difficulty supporting all of their settlement.

"So what does my father say?"

Unless the nobles or devils were in front of him, Bern called Devil "Father."

It wasn't because I was friendly.

It was because I couldn't guarantee myself how and when I would betray my relationship if I didn't call it that. I hated Devil that much.

It's not that he doesn't know Bern, but Chase doesn't say much about him. Unlike the way it looks, Chase was also not very good with Devil and was also because he knew Bern's nature well.

"Let's take a look and decide."

"Did your father leave the issue of refugees to you?"

"Yes, that's what you said. So I'll decide for myself."

Devilan handed over the rights to life and death of hundreds or more refugees to a prince who had just turned 19. It may cause any problems between Tensyl and Cecretia.

"I'll take the escort."

Bern smiles as he says.

It meant that he would not take part in the first trial Devil gave the prince. Chase, who showed interest in solving the problem with Bern, said, 'Let's take a look and decide.' He nodded without saying anything.

The prince and the prince set foot in the place of those who were caught crossing the border.

The number of refugees gathered in the no-man's square without a tent was just as much as I thought.

Bern's eyes stop in one place, looking around them without getting off his horse. Sharp, radiant eyes of mercury pinpoint one who is mixed among many refugees.

"· · · · · · · That."

When Chase faced the problem.

When you encounter an enemy that is difficult to deal with.

When I find a force to kill.

Whatever it was, the expression that I used to make about something interesting came to Bern's face.

"I'm not a refugee."

Looking at the boy in the water head, Bern's lips painted a long wire.

* * *

He was one year younger than Chase.

So he was one year older than Bern.

Of course, since they were royalty, the age difference did not change the top and bottom of people.

"Eighteen."

I was intrigued by Bern's bright, radiant eyes.

Why were they stuck among Tensyl's people?

Why did they want to come to Cecretia?

Why did he leave Cairis?

It's only 18.

It smells like dark blood.

Just like me.

"That's right."

Two different colors of eyes stare straight at Bern. Bern looks at those eyes and smiles once more.

"Son of a bitch, my eyes are spinning."

Just like me.

That was Bern's first impression of Kiri.

That's why Bern, who was drunk one day, said that he liked it.

My eyes are spinning.

"Do you use a knife? Or a fist."

"I'm done."

"Yes."

At the same time, a long silver sword is drawn from the sword and thrown in front of Kiri. It was Bern's sword. Bern's mouth opens to gaze at it.

"Write it down."

The knights around you make nervous eyes for a moment.

I wasn't worried about Bern.

In front of countless refugees, he thought he was going to slaughter a young boy. Bern grinned as he glanced at the knights.

"Don't worry. You're not gonna die in this place."

- Ta-ah!

It's as if he was waiting for it.

At the end of Bern's words, Kiri's body thunders. He picks up the falling sword and throws it straight at Bern.

Bern turns, standing in his place.

I couldn't touch one of Bern's black collars, which I learned from my eyes without context. And Bern stepped out and kicked Kiri.

- The coup d 'etang!

And then...

"See?"

and.

You grin at the distant Kyrie.

* * *

"Name."

"Kiri."

Bern laughs as he hears it.

"What a magnificent name."

Kirrie sits in a chair across from Bern. It was Bern's order not to kneel any more.

You attempted to attack the prince, but were not arrested. Bern gives Kiri water to wash, new clothes, and food. And I was just about to sit down and start talking again.

It definitely looked like it had been washed out.

Nevertheless, the grassy, blooming fish did not go. The knights were weak enough not to notice, but not to Bern.

Nevertheless, Bern did not ask about him. You didn't even ask why Cairis ran away. Instead, I put something else in my mouth.

"Kirrie. Do you want to be a knight?"

Two eyes of different colors.

Kyrie's eyes came alive for the first time.

Maybe we should call it desire.

"It's a sword."

A sword.

Bern's eyes are sharply forged.

Kiri did not avoid the eye. Keeri opens her mouth again, even with her lifeless eyes wide in front of her.

"I will be the sword."

Is it the sword that kills people or the sword that guards people? I did not ask such a frivolous question. Bern wasn't into that sort of thing.

"Good."

Bern grins as he says.

"I'll make it for you."

* * *

- Aren't you curious? What your name means.

- I wonder.

- It's a short name, but it means a lot.

- What do you mean, long?

- I'm not gonna teach you. Lifetime.

- · · · · · · Why don't you tell us?

- I said yes. I didn't say yes.

- Yes, sir.

You don't want to know what's wrong?

- None of that fits anyway.

- I guess so.

Well, I guess my name doesn't fit either.

* * *

"You made another bet."

"Ah, I did."

"You made a bet not long ago about whether it would rain or not."

Bern nods at the slightly bruised Kyrie.

"This was a long shot. About three years ago."

It seems that the stakes were high because it was a bit of a long-term bet. Bern smiles, bouncing off a single gold coin from Chase with a proud face.

"I've got money. Let's go get a drink."

Bern was the only one who wrote the words of the time of the prince to Kiri.

And I couldn't use a drink.

And yet, always.

'You like drinking more than me.'

I made excuses for Kiri.

I didn't go to the bar well.

It's because the air in the tavern froze solid when Bern opened the door. Bern, who was drunk, didn't like the way he played the role himself.

Bern, who was drunk, was not so poisonous.

Only Kyrie knew it was the real Bern.

Bern grins as he takes all sorts of liquor out of the palace liquor shed and places a single gold coin in the empty place.

"If I get this out, I won't be scolded by my brother."

Then I climbed to the top of the palace spire.

Cecreta, the capital of Cecretia.

It was the only place where the whole Secreta could be seen. It was Bern's favorite place.

I went up there and drank myself drunk.

I didn't know what kind. There was no such thing as soju. I wasn't drinking because something happened. I just drank because I felt good and I felt bad.

I was able to disperse the hangover but did not do so. I was drunk to the top of my head, and I always climbed down the spire on Kiri's back.

"Don't you want to know what you bet?"

Bern asks with a tongue twisted on his back.

"I wonder."

"Then you should ask."

In Kiri, it was usually like this. I didn't know how to ask first. Bern was always frustrated and sad. Of course I didn't.

"What kind of bet did you make?"

"How tall you've grown."

Maybe you'll grow tall enough to bow your head when you walk through the Knight's Training Room door. But this morning, I saw you come in with your head down. That's why I won.

In this muttering voice, Kiri laughs with a small voice.

The kings and kings of the realms,

Bet a Silver Coin in case it rains.

Bet a gold coin on how tall Sue is.

A place where bets like that end up getting beaten up.

That's where Cecretia was.

Until the end.

It had to be.

But I couldn't.

* * *

Last day.

On top of the spire Bern loved.

· · · Kirrier. '

What Chase said.

It was someone's name.

It wasn't just someone's name.

Kirrie, it is.

Sleeping God's mercy.

It was the last verse of prayer for Serenti.

* * *

Unforgettable heroes.

The last hero of Cecretia. The hero who gave up everything for Chase. The hero who gave up everything for Kiri.

Bern.

Bern, who is to be guarded by the king, leaves the gates.

I know it's too late. Everyone, including Bern, knew. I knew and grabbed the sword. I grabbed the sword because I knew.

They were all the king's swords.

- Plants Lou Rune Cairis demands a time axis.

- She refused.

In the face of a sudden war, she was strong and weak. I burned my life to the last before the hands of those white devils, the wizards they had raised. I hugged the wizard and died in a fiery body.

Hell.

Yes, this is where hell would be.

Balkan of Plants has made Cecretia a living hell. The king and the king put a penny of silver coins in hell.

"Stay with me."

Tailan is dead.

Bern doesn't cry.

"Don't stop."

I stopped him from crying and pushed Chase out of the gate.

"Boeun."

Forty-eight knights died before me.

"· · · · · · · That's all, but · · · · · · · ·."

When Kyrie stopped talking in blood.

Bern was mistaken.

I wept as I watched Kiri die from an arrow in front of me. The smile that I was about to enter the path of the sword just came to my mind and I cried. I cried because my face was funny, telling me to stop making bets. I cried because I remembered the last cup I had left to come down with Bern drunk.

I cried because I wanted to see my brother.

I just want to go like this. I'm going like this.

I wept for the life of a loyal and dedicated man.

I cried for my life.

I cried knowing that this was the last of them all.

* * *

So, Serenti.

Please have mercy.

With all my life.

You should have seen it.

Kyrie