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I don't know why I'm doing this.

I don't know why he does that anymore.

The more I thought about it, the more curious and irritating the madman was born, the first time I had experienced it, but because of the problem that he was my brother, Plants felt like he should just get over it and be what he was.

Well, if there was one more Calian-like creature, the world would be peaceful, or dead, or one of the two. So it's a pity that he's the only one in the world who's been through this for the first time.

"Ha."

Plants sighed once again for all the things he had sinned over, whether he was annoyed or worried or sorry or frustrated.

It was not that I didn't know what Kalian meant by wanting to end this subtle brother conversation appropriately. That's why Plants, who had recently become angry, tried to bite one foot off from the right line.

"There you go again."

Unless he's smiling.

He thought he needed a hawk instead of a pigeon, and he thought, "What am I going to do if I don't run out of the palace every day?" And if he didn't smile, Plants would have had a good conversation.

But the crazy guy laughed.

Callian says he knows how Chase is, and Plants regrets not saying anything for a moment, and the madman laughs. Kalian says there's nothing to worry about, and Plants feels uncomfortable about it, and the madman laughs.

The madman did not lie, Plants was clever, and Calian laughed. A little while ago, you smiled as if you didn't want to live, but now you smile as if you were already dead.

- I was his brother, and now I'm your brother. I think so, but it's not that easy.

The day Chase broke into Cairosis. He came back after meeting Chase for the first time and laughed just now when he barked.

That's how I knew.

Something must have happened that Plants shouldn't have known about. And Callian would have put Chase on his side to care about the heart that Plants gave me.

Otherwise, you wouldn't be laughing with that look on Chase's face the day he circled around the canal.

So, Plants noticed that the bracelet was a rotten rope that he handed down to Chase instead of Plants' heart, and that it was a wormhole that he wanted to keep alive, not live with.

"Yes. It won't be easy."

Plants closes his eyes for a moment, saying something even Calian couldn't understand. And I counted once.

When I handed everything over to Plants. When I told him to grumble, he cursed. And today.

I've endured it three times just thinking about thick things.

· · · · · · Insane.

I don't know if anyone will recognize me because I've been standing in my place for a few laps, but if I rip it right off, it's the biggest freak in the world.

A maniac who knew he had money and didn't pretend he had it.

A real lunatic who called Plants crazy.

- I'm not the only rotten brother.

I bet if I could search through the Great Desert with that much color, she'd be the only one!

Thus, Plants quietly opened his eyes after a very rational judgment and a very objective look.

Green eyes sweep across the table for a moment, and reach for the cup of tea that Kalian pushed aside. Plants smiles silently at it. I smiled brightly like a child.

That way, Plants, who had a smile that made people very anxious, suddenly said as if to chew out his face.

"I see what my brother was thinking."

Then, he took the tea he had removed to his side and drank it without hesitation.

If you want to wake up a madman on your own, you have to be a little bit crazier than that madman. Maybe Calian told you about the day he took the knife.

So Plants drank the fragrant tea that must have poisoned himself. I was surprised myself for a moment because I was disgusted by the dark aroma, but not as fierce as I thought.

"What are you doing?"

After a sudden change in Plants' attitude, Kalian asked. Plants, staring at Khalian like that, gives a slight voice, curling one side of his mouth.

"Being a rotten brother."

Plants lowers the cup of tea hard, showing you how to use what you've learned from Callian. Then he picks up the bracelet that Kalian gave him and goes outside.

- Boom!

That's why Callian was embarrassed.

I'm not sure what Plants knew.

I don't know how else to deal with my puberty brother who openly declares to rot in his brother.

* * *

And Alan was embarrassed.

It's because the two princes who came here without me have made unheard demands.

"I opened the window. I tried warm magic. So I think we can do it, Wizard."

Plants brought the bracelet that Kalian took.

And then he asked like a herd. No, he asked for a favor and asked for a favor.

Alan smiles slightly and asks, "I've never seen Plants before."

"What makes you say that?"

According to Plants, Alan was able to unravel the Sispanian security spell and open the windows to Plants' room. I used to put all kinds of magic in Hina's robe.

But what Plants is saying now is more than that.

"You can't use communication magic for an individual where the Sispanian can reach you. · · · · · · · · · · if you ask me to untie it."

"Me."

Plants opens his mouth, grinning at Alan's words.

"No matter what I do, I was annoyed at getting in his way, so I thought I'd do nothing."

Plants said that, pointing to the location of the Haycia Palace, which was seen outside Alan's office window.

"If he hadn't done that in the first place, he'd still be alive and dead. If we keep people alive, we keep them alive. What's the point of choking the living to death?"

Allen's eyes curl up, hearing this far.

Smart, sensitive, mouth-watering and fierce, but I'm good at listening to Kalian. Yeah, that's why I'm so good at hearing things like Prince Raven's back and forth.

"I guess Prince Kalian did something nasty again."

Plants frowns without an answer. Seeing it, Alan stood up and said with a sultry smile.

"Just a moment, please. All I have is coffee and mint, so I'm going to ask you to prepare another tea."

As soon as I got here, I said it because I couldn't even get my car out, thanks to Plants, who spilled his words so that it wouldn't fit.

"· · · · · · · Mint."

In fact, it was better for the coffee side, but because I still had deep, dark apples in my mouth, Plants continued to react like this. Then he frowned at Allen, who also showed his face toward the only friend he ever played with.

Alan smiles at Plants and prepares his car on one side of the office. A clear sunshine from the sunny window came into the couch and settled in Plants' hair. The rattling sound was not bad to hear.

"Devil is like a snake."

After a while, I heard this story after breaking the silence. Devil and Plants knew the name well. There was always an assessment that he was cold, relentless, challenging, and never made a mistake.

"I don't know if you know this, but I hit my brother and sister in the neck with my own hands as soon as I became crowned prince."

A nice, warm cup of tea was placed in front of Plants. A very light minty scent passes by.

"There are many people in the world. Some people don't even know what purple flowers show, but some people feel relieved until they pick out the source of their disbelief."

Birds constantly observing the movements of other countries. Endless doubt.

"All I do is protect my brother from the father who hurts someone and protects himself, so I only know how to protect someone by hurting myself. So don't think it's too ambitious."

Plants, who was watching Alan tell the story, responded.

"I don't think so. I know, I know."

I don't know what he saw growing up, what he did, but I know why. So how do you think you're gonna feel about that? It's frustrating and irritating.

"A bracelet. I'm sending it to the prince of Cecritia."

At that, Alan looks a little surprised. Plants opened his mouth again as he saw the thought of it being a good thing.

"Instead of cats."

If you understand what it means to send a bracelet to Chase instead of a cat, you're Calian. At least Alan has the vocabulary he needs to communicate normally.

He added that he did not understand what he was saying.

"Wizard, save your son. You have abilities, you do."

Alan looks surprised when he didn't expect to hear the word "son" from this place, and through Plants' mouth. Soon, he replied with a soft voice.

"I do."

A light mint tea gives you a glimpse of someone else's frown.

Whether I get in his way or not, he thinks I should take care of it, whether he's in trouble or not.

I'm not just going to live with what I'm given.

Not like Chase.

* * *

After that, time passed as if nothing had happened.

Kalian and Plants still eat together from time to time, sitting across from each other almost every day, looking at the blobs of paper and rotting their heads.

I scoured the sculpture of the wall in the basement of the Heicia Palace. Arsenal, a wizard with many things to do, came and stayed the night once or twice.

There was no letter from Chase. Apparently, Plants wrote a letter through Sezar, so when someone grabbed the flying hawk or thought that Chase would take a while to recall the axis of time.

The ring embedded in Calian's index finger illuminates.

On the third floor of the Chermill Palace, Plants rolled one lip up, wondering why Lucy kept pressing her thigh down over the origins of the letters written on the paper. Then I got up and walked out without a word, holding Lucy in my arms.

Prince Kalian.

The time when the blue stars and silver moon that were floating in the sky shined like a dream.

A dreamy voice that I never thought I'd hear so quickly in a place like this rang in my head.

Calian gets up quietly and leaves the terrace.

It didn't take long to understand who was responsible for this, and it took a long time to understand what he was doing this for.

- From Prince Plants, Prince Kalian asked me a question and I told him to speak to him personally. I don't know how to work magic, so I'm late for Lord Castrin's help.

· · · · · · · Son of a bitch.

He did not say that he needed to remember the axis of time.

You can do it yourself if you need to.

I'm not gonna do it, so you take care of it.

If you can do it even after hearing that voice, let's try it.

- Ah.

Kalian raises his hands and covers his face.

Wait, I think I'm dreaming.

Prince Kalian?

It was like I was dreaming because I heard that voice in a dream one day without preparation of my mind.

I forgot what to say, forgot what to say, and covered my face like that.

When the silver moon shines under the black sky, Bern's long hair, which was like a starlight, rises up and covers his face.

You can't keep that memory closed.

It sounded like the crazy guy asked me that, so I forgot all about it.

- I will.

- Tell me anything. It's okay.

You don't even know what you're trying to say, and you give her a nice answer, and her shoulders shake for a moment.

- Not yet.

Like the dawn when the winged birds cried, Calian held his breath once more.

- Later.

When everything's all right. That's when it gets really good.

Prince Chase, me, and Kirrie, all together. At the palace spire. I could use a drink with you. I was going to ask you if it was okay.

Later.

- Come when you're older. Whatever.

The pleasant answer landed as if pouring out.

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Black night.

A group of blue lights illuminates the sky.

The sun that declares the end to the darkness must be red.

Just as I don't like the red feeling, I want to let you know that I can cast out the night with blue, a group of blue light gathered in the middle of the night lit up the black night and came down like snow.

If defeating the night is the same, the difference between red and blue is also remarkable.

The people coming down the street stopped and looked up at the sky in unison. Black eyes, green eyes, brown eyes. The eyes of various colors contained a blue sparkling night sky. Stardust falling from the sky began to fall on their heads, foreheads and hands.

- Serenti's time.

Between the end of February and the first of March.

One year, the joyous day that comes and doesn't come, came, and there was a hard voice to figure out what to say to someone.

"Oh, I forgot."

The light that gathered in the sky was scattered like snow. At some point, it was only after dark that it became night again. It felt like a day when I lit up one night and disappeared and drifted away like a mirage.

Because of that, people put in a "day" at that mysterious time.

However, since the time never came every year, they commemorated the time by creating a day that was not on the calendar.

A short day like that. February 30th.

Bern looks at the man on his knees and opens his mouth again.

"Today was my birthday."

A beautiful day off the calendar.

For most people, the same time as Serenti's blessing.

"My father would have known. You sent me on a day like this."

The boy's words tried to say Moore, a man with a frightened face, but nothing came out of his mouth.

Knock, knock.

Because the boy took a man's breath.

A blue star shines on the drop of red blood. The light purple eyes that seem to cover the end of the winter lose their light once more.

In the midst of the blue sparkle pouring down, the boy shifted his steps. The day when everyone looked up at the sky. Only the boy saw the land alone.

I can't get the smell of blood out of my black hoodie. I feel like a lot of that life that I've held down with my hands is crushing my shoulders. The boy walked with his head down.

Inside the shadow of the largest, most glamorous and shiniest place in Cecretia, the light reflects.

Even now I know it's my birthday.

* * *

February 30.

A short day that is hard to remember.

A name created because it was born on that day.

The name that his mother named him, with a heart that I don't want to forget, and a heart that I want to be remembered forever.

Bern.

It was the boy's first birthday present.

* * *

The royal palace of Cecretia.

Bern returns to the spacious room in that corner and brings out a habitual word.

"I'll be alone."

In the middle of the night, all Bern knew about was what he was doing, carrying a black robe and sword, another escort knight from Devilan, not Tailan, and a senior acolyte from Bern to deliver Devil's letter. All three of them were alive.

The knights and Tailan have doubts. You couldn't have known the stench of blood buried there without trying.

But Bern said nothing, and they were not in a position to speculate on the prince or the prince's high servants.

"Yes, Prince."

Bern's acolyte moves swiftly as soon as Bern comes back, wearing a black robe. On that day, whether it was winter or summer, I put firewood in the fireplace to keep the fire going and put cold water in a large bath. And I put clean bandages and medicine on the bed.

He did nothing else and said nothing else. It was because I knew it was best for Bern.

- Tak!

Bern closes the door and tightly locks himself in front of the fireplace.

Bern throws it all into the blazing fire, feeling the blood dripping from his black clothes and robes. Nevertheless, I washed away the lives of someone large and small who could not be erased with cold water.

I felt a sharp pain in my forearm that was touching the water.

Turning your head, you see blood draining from the superficial wounds on your forearms. Bern glances down at it for a moment and opens his mouth quietly.

"· · · · · · · It hurts."

Today, dead, they, more, more, must have been sick.

No matter how fast Bern's sword got, it would still hurt a lot if I just cut his throat without touching anything else. I immerse myself in the cold water without letting go of the constant guilt that comes with me.

- Knock, knock.

After breaking the silence full of cold energy, you hear a small knock, and a cautious voice is heard from far away from the visit outside the bathroom.

"My prince."

I thought I'd be alone.

Bern's unpleasant expression quickly startles him. I thought I knew why the servant called Bern.

"Prince Chase is here."

The acolyte says, just as Bern was right.

Pleasure, joy, embarrassment, embarrassment, etc.

For the first time, my old face touched Bern's face.

"Ahh · · · · · · · · · · ·."

Bern's eyes rush toward the fireplace, rushing out of the bathroom in his robe. Bern doesn't even want to show up in front of Chase, though he already saw all the charred clothing.

"I'll get out of here, sir."

So I said, wrapped the scar around my arm with a bandage, and quickly put on my clothes.

* * *

Standing at the top of the spire of the royal palace of Cecretia, all of Cecreta unfolds beneath your feet. Bern likes it best on top of the tower, where it can see far away. Chase, who stood side by side with Bern, looked at the long wall behind Bern's gaze, said.

Would you like to go see the ocean?

"Now?"

Bern asked in a bewildering voice, and the answer came as if it were natural.

"If not now, when?"

"Anytime but now."

Chase was thoughtful, always thought of someone else first, and always smiled softly.

Instead, it was a bit sudden.

It was a bit sudden.

"I want to go now. With my sister."

Chase smiled.

Just a moment ago, I didn't know what Bern was doing.

I don't know what happened to the Earl when I was close to his cousin.

"No, no, no."

Bern answers decisively, adding a secret he won't share with Chase until he dies.

At this dawn, two princes of a nation ask you to leave the capital and go to the sea. No matter how close the sea is, he asked me to leave without knowing how big it is.

Of course, Bern wasn't the first thing Bern was worried about, just in case. It was one of the things I was worried about, but it was bigger than that.

"My brother has a cold."

The flu, in case it catches.

Serenti's time came the same night Bern turned ten. That night, Devil took two brothers out to sea. And he tested Chase in the way he thought he would.

Bern is submerged and Chase dives.

No matter how short the winter of Cecretia may be, it is not enough for a young child to get into the water.

Chase finally caught a cold. A severe cold has become a severe pneumonia and has barely survived.

Because of this, flu has become the world's biggest and scariest disease. And the Devil is no longer Bern's blood.

"It's like a cold. You'll get better."

But not for those who had been through it, Chase continued.

"You don't want to go with the teacher. What are you gonna do if someone follows you?"

"What would I worry about with you?"

"Your life."

Chase makes a good laugh when he hears that. It just didn't mean that it would never stop thinking.

Chase's stubbornness did not break his mother's concubine Louise, so it was certainly impossible for Bern to overcome her stubbornness. In the end, Bern lets out a short sigh and shakes his head.

"Leave the knights to me. Tell him yourself. I don't know."

Devil says it's because he didn't yell at Chase.

Devil lets Chase do whatever he wants.

He did not interfere in any way and promised Chase a three-way. Bern was instead of pruning for Devlan.

Saving Chase, that's how long I've been able to hold out.

"That's about it. Whatever."

In Chase's reply, as if it were coming from inside his head, Bern smiles deeply.

The dark dawn of Serenti is over.

The two princes' words finally ran toward the sea.

* * *

I thought he was talking about the Royal Sea, of course.

But Chase has come a little farther than that.

Bern opens his mouth, watching the sea glistening silently as the silver moon rises on the water and recedes.

"It's too big for a gift."

"That's what I've been thinking about."

There was a small rock, and there was a small wooden house. It was a very small beach with a narrow white beach with good waves.

"Arianne said the sword would be good, but she didn't like it. I was going to buy you a horse that could run a long way, but you already have three horses. So I thought I'd buy you a vacation home, but I inherited it from my mother. I bought the sea while I was wondering what you might not have."

Chase, who gave his little brother a gift on the beach, became the face he wanted to compliment and explained:

"Wouldn't it be better if your mother was around?" "

Queen of Cecretia, who died a month ago.

The sea was not far from Queen Deanna's grave, the mother of Bern.

"The nobles must talk a lot."

Nobles don't need to be so chatty.

A brother who gifts the ocean for his brother's birthday. I was sure that many more words would come out.

Chase shrugs.

"Don't worry, it was Arianne's. I snuck in and gave it to him in secret."

Arianne, longtime friend of two brothers and betrothed to Chase. She told me to keep the secret that she had sold this little beach to the First Prince. And since I brought Bern here at dawn to avoid the eyes of others, that shouldn't be a problem either.

In the end, Bern decided to accept this great gift without being denied any further. It was because I didn't know that I was worried about Bern, who had lost his mother not long ago, but didn't care much for Bern.

I really liked this gift that was close to my mother, and also had quiet waves and a nice smell.

"Come anytime, no one will come. Come anytime." He comes in anytime, he takes a break, he plays. Do that. "

The sand was harder to run than the bare ground. Seeing Bern, who often thought I could come here and practice running, chase was the last word.

"It's a good place to do nothing. Sometimes, no. Feel free to come and stay at ease. I hope so, I..."

Fourteen years old.

One overgrown, single brother.

I felt sorry for him, but it was a voice.

Bern spent most of his day with Knight Tailan. Every day, the blisters burst and I grabbed the sword until the blood leaked. Except for the few days I lost my mother, I always held the sword.

Chase knew who he was doing it for.

I didn't know how much blood was already on those hands, but I knew that much. I gave the sea to him. It meant that it was good to take a breath and try to breathe.

Bern just laughed.

The sound of the waves coming and going is good to hear.

I like the salty sea, not the bloody sea.

"Bern."

Chase, who was watching Bern, quietly called Bern. Bern, who resembles Chase, only has longer hair and lighter eyes than Chase, looks at him.

"· · · · · · Perhaps I don't want you to be a knight. Is it difficult?"

"You always said it was good to be honest."

"I didn't know it was serious."

Bern grumbles with a bloody smile.

"You know I can't lie."

"I didn't even know it then. Did I really think I'd do it?"

"It's already too late. What to do with a good sword."

He was as stubborn as Chase or Bern. It was not just like a silk face, so it was no different. This time Chase sighed deeply.

Dark ocean.

All the blue light was gone, so now I can see my brother's hands so well in the darkness where only the moonlight and starlight were hidden. The only hand that was full of wounds was where his hands were, and he was particularly upset and could not speak more. The sound of the waves is as quiet as Chase's voice, replacing the words swallowed.

"I'll be back often. I'll take good care of your gift, brother."

Ingenious Bern, a thoughtful child.

My dear brother, always sad.

"How did I get here?"

Sound like a forest blowing in the wind scatters over the waves.

Chase's short blue feet sway along the wind to find their place. Along the way, Bern's long blue feet falter as well.

"The place is yours."

The day Bern turned fourteen.

When the day breaks, Devil says he'll give Chase the three jaws. That must have been the heart again.

"It's not my seat."

A place for the owner of this land to sit.

A place where the blood of the holy man sits and protects the holy earth.

The object of a terrible contradiction where someone is buried blood to have that position, and someone is buried blood to not have that position.

"It doesn't matter who it belongs to."

Whoever it is, it really doesn't matter.

But both must belong to Chase in order to live. So it's a place that Bern doesn't covet.

"I don't want it."

Bern takes a big breath.

It stinks. I want to contain some more.

* * *

In a place where all the central nobles were gathered, Devil spoke only one word.

I'm putting Chase on three.

No further explanation was made.

"It's the spawn of a concubine."

The nobles rebelled.

Despite Devil's power, you still resist.

Because Devil wanted to.

It's because everyone knows Chase's gaze touches Bern, even when he mentions Chase in his mouth.

"Even though you are the First Prince, how can you say that about the Second Prince, who is the queen's son?"

The repulsion was nothing but castration.

There are no other rational reasons, but Devil says nothing.

Just quietly, you look down at Bern.

'Let's see, win this one too.'

Bern's eyes are cold.

With reluctance from Bern's life equality, Devlan, who was never a match for Bern, turns his head away from his son's eyes.

If Bern becomes the count, Chase dies. The nobles will be forced to completely sever Chase's enormous wings.

Never.

If there is.

This can't be happening.

One fucking crown, one fucking crown.

Losing Chase is absurd.

Knock, knock.

Bern's fingertips tap the table.

Several times, the nobles' gazes converge on Bern.

Devilan also looks at Bern. Bern also looks at Devilan.

Bern's fingertips are rounded.

Along the end, Bern's mouth draws a long hose.

Let's try to stop this. '

Father.

- Bloop.

The heavy chair is pushed back.

The eyes of the nobles followed.

The day breaks in Devil's eyes.

- Jubbuck.

One step.

Long hair tied high was shaken along the way, but that's it. Nothing else was shaken except that.

"Bern, stop."

You hear Devil's voice.

Breaks Devil's word for the first time and for the last time.

- Jubbuck.

One more step.

Straight ahead without stopping.

Only towards Chase Bay.

I walked.

Chase, who had already realized what his brother would do, smiled. I don't know why I have to do that, so I know why I can't say no.

I smiled in agonizing pain that I will never forget.

"· · · · · · · Get up."

What a voice.

"Listen to your pledge."

Bern's, like, crazy voice.

It was a hurricane.

In Chase's eyes, he got up from his seat quietly, kneeling on one knee and seeing his younger brother bowing his head.

"I, Bern Secretia, swear allegiance to Prince Chase Secretia, who will be my sole master in the name of Serenti."

The knight's oath was blessed by Serenti, and no one could stop it once it began.

"My sword will be used for you, my shield will stand in your way, and my death will precede you."

No one could stop Bern.

"Hold the knight's honor and allow me to die fighting for my lord."

The prince with the power of blood knelt on his knees to save his brother who lacked only one.

Chase couldn't beat Bern like that.

I could never win that stubbornness.

The sound of the Black Sea waves echoes through Chase's ears.

"Permission · · · · · · · · ·."

The salty sea has filled Bern's head. As long as I didn't forget it, I could endure the bloody smell many times.

"I'll allow it."

Thus Bern became a knight.

I laid down my path for the throne and became Chase's knight.

A brother to the king, a servant to the king, a knight to the king. I only wanted to protect Chase in all his forms. I really wanted to live and die like that.

* * *

Chase.

As the will of his name is, may God remain as the Lord without question, the only light on the earth.

All other Darkness.

I will gladly accept it only for myself.