259 < Chapter 46. The Prince (3) >

You hear no knocking.

As I walked past the corridor in front of the office, there was someone who opened the door and greeted me.

"Welcome, Lord Bern."

It was Hina who visited and Alan who met him. Hina nods her head, holding something full of arms in her arms. Alan quickly picks it up from Hina's hand and puts it on the table, as the unexpected object looks heavy.

In the meantime, Eila, who came with Hina, shows an example and closes the door outside. Alone watches Hina carry it and asks.

"Isn't it Cavania? It's going to cost a fortune."

- Yeah, that's right.

In the red flower, there was not a flower, but a sweet scent.

It resembles a work of art, but is much smaller in size and its petals look unique. Hina said to Alan, looking down at the flowerpot full of mysterious flowers.

- I thought it was medicine, and I worked hard to get it, but I didn't want Beverly, Lo, you, Car, to grow it in the Oval Office. And then, when I saw the flowers, the captain, he thought he'd like them, so I brought them.

A jewel-like transparent red petal.

Looking at it, Alan looks as pleasant as the sweet aroma that reminds him of his beautiful pupil's eyes. It's been a while since I've seen Khalian.

"Thank you for your concern. I'll raise you as well as I can."

Hina nods and raises her head with a smile.

I didn't bring anything else. I came to deliver the potter, so I was going to get up from 20,000. Then Alan got up and got the car ready.

She seems to have something to say, so Hina doesn't ask if Eila can come in with her, but just waits for a moment.

Two glasses of mint tea with a fresh scent were placed on the table shortly after. Then Alan, sitting across from Hina, peers at the door and opens his mouth.

"I heard about the Wilhelm coffin. I heard he's hotter than I thought, standing outside the door. Is he worth living with? No place to go?"

Yes, I'm fine, I'm fine. I got to know him a lot.

"Let me know if you're uncomfortable with anything. The prince asked me to take good care of you, so I'm going to get a ticket in my ear."

Hina nods and drinks a cup of the tea she just handed you. Then he put down the tea cup and said,

Same leaf, different flavor, different scent.

The mint tea Alan gave me tasted better than any other tea Hina had ever had. The aroma is cool but warm.

"But it's always hard for me to boil this. This guy is always a problem because coffee is boiling heavily and strawberry tea is brewing lightly."

Coffee for Allen or Arsen is always strong, strawberry tea for Plants is always light. And the mint tea that Callian drinks is absolutely delicious. That's why it's the hardest car for Kalian.

Knowing that, Hina nods again.

- But, Eila, are you, uh, three, seven, lee, tee, uh, human?

She was the one who sat down with Hina to ask if she was doing well, but when she heard this from the tip of her hand, she was surprised.

In fact, it wasn't that big of a deal that Hina noticed.

Although I had never met Eila in person when I was traveling with Roselita with Calian, I knew that Eila originated in Whitlin.

"Not now. Is there something bothering you about that?"

- No, the escort's last name. I know where it is. So, I wondered, are you really from there, are you from there, or are you a prince or a saint?

"I know it was made by the Prince himself. Is there such a place in Cecretia?"

- Yes, there is. It's a small forest, I hear.

Alan gives you a sneaky look.

Oh my, my beautiful apprentice has created another street to be discovered. I'm gonna have to call Chase sometime and get him to change the name of a place called Bridget. My disciple, like a flower, accidentally wrote the name of Cecretia in naming me. Change the name, of course.

Hina continues to speak as Alan makes his own big plan.

- The dead mother, the letter she left me, it was written. It's where my mom and dad met for the first time.

Hina's mother.

Was it an Elf who was banished for something wrong? Is that why he hid in the woods of Cecretia, not Cairys?

- In this country, I thought if I had a brother, we could all go back to the Elves Forest, together, but we couldn't. So, my mom and dad, my brother and I, all together, we went back to that forest, and we wanted to live, but we couldn't. It's the same. He was sick, my mother. If I'd waited a little longer, I could have fixed it.

Hina glances at the teacup for a moment and moves her hand again.

- I used to say that to my brother all the time, not my mom, not my dad. Let's go live there later, instead. Now I go into that forest, and I don't, but before I met Prince Charming, almost every day, I said that. imagining, I don't know, a place, obviously, a happy place. So, when I heard your name, it was nice to meet you.

'There's no need to call Chase.'

Alan looks back at you, confused as to why Callian wrote that name. That's why even if Chase wants to change his name first, we have to stop him. So I just listened to Eila's name and changed my mind about getting rid of her if anyone doubted.

In the past, Kyrie who lost Hina found out why she had gone to Sacritia. That's how Bern met Kiri, because Kiri went to see Cecritia. Otherwise, Calian would still be living without even knowing who Kiri is.

If Alan had not built the castle Bern for Hina and Kyrie, his sister's castle would have surely become a bridge. There must be another reason only Calian knows why he gave the castle to Eila, but it's a good thing he didn't give it to her without thinking.

Alan looked at Hina and asked, "This is another way to find out what's going on inside my son."

"Yes. Would you rather live here now than there?" "

Hina looks up at Alan.

He nodded and replied with a worry-free face.

This is, like, a really weird place.

A strange place where two cats with long and long names on the necklace take chicken with no salt from anyone, show their colleagues what a healer's golden glow felt like, and bring sparkling water to the foreground commander to take Duck Moi. Really, really weird place.

Hina, who lives in such a place, smiles warmly and nods.

- Because Prince Charming, who made this place, is the strangest man alive. I like this place better than I've ever imagined, happier, weirder than anything.

"You're a strange man to say that."

It is a place where all the secrets seem to be kept until the death of the prince who has come to the enemy country over time. Or is it because it's a place where we don't get revenge that we must do, but save them all?

Alan smiles at me, thinking:

* * *

My feet dig through the sand carved by the waves.

I was slowly buried like that without knowing it. The wave touches my toes and the back of my foot gets wet.

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

The waves flooded, but only a voice was leaking from between the mouths. Despite seeing Calian's face for a long time, Plants responded with a low voice that was no different than usual.

"You're greedy with me and you don't seem to be."

"You're not the one who doesn't know why I do it."

"Neither one of them made a choice, so they were erasing the grass that was buried in my clothes. Just like I believed that it would never be my fault. You were thinking that maybe your fault was already cleared, that if I made it look the same height, that it wasn't even my fault. That's what I was gonna ask you."

Without a care for the tight collar, Plants stares directly into Calian's eyes.

"It seems that your guilt was erased along with the emperor, so. If you go back to your stainless white clothes and force your eyes to look up, you won't forgive them and try to bury them all. I thought that might work."

The end of your hand grips the collar.

"You can't do that."

- How many?

- What do you mean, all of a sudden?

- A life the prince secretly erased. I'm asking how many.

Incorrect, irreversible.

The kind of tea that's already been spilled. Making Dane's wounds and blistering and scarring.

- How did you know that?

- I ran into Prince Theon yesterday. But this morning, I heard that the family had disappeared. To think about it, every day the prince smelled like blood, the same thing happened.

- Forget it.

- I think there's a reason I had to kill all those people, something. Don't tell me to forget. I'll try to understand.

- Talking doesn't change anything. It will always be the same. So that's it. It's none of your business.

Regret. It's no use.

It's like rain pouring in through a broken window. Even if I try to stop it, I end up soaking my whole body cold.

- You called for me not long ago. He asked me if I wanted to try something other than a knight, and I didn't want to be a nameless bird. He said he would live with pride and die with honor. He said he was going to die a knight like Prince Charming. By the way.

- Ella.

- I don't think we should do that.

Forgiveness, unforgivable.

It's like a river flowing with a lot of words. No matter what you do, you can't show me and tell me anymore, so just shut up.

- Emperor, the blue seagull has folded its wings.

- · · · · · · · Body.

- I'll have the birds take care of it in the tent.

- Find him, bring him here.

Eventually, I sank into the deep, dark water alone.

Whale crying.

"Going back in time. I've forgotten all the people I need to ask for forgiveness. Dead or not, there's no blood on your hands. So if that's the color of the calf knife you feel comfortable saying you have no redemption to make, I don't want to be your brother anymore, either."

It smelled like salt.

I feel like I'm used to the smell of the sea. I feel like I'm standing in the sea.

"The madman, engulfed in the smell of blood that no one knows about, lives in comfort for the rest of his life, regardless of whether his blood is alive or dead. That's yours. Get out of those waters and don't dry up. Just breathe in there and live."

Life as Bern.

"Don't even think that you didn't qualify because you weren't his old Khalian. If you can't forgive me for what I did to Callian, you can. You can do it. Don't pretend you didn't see it thinking you're a fake with all your memories. What would Chase be then? Don't make your old brother disappear."

And life as an old Kalian.

"If you decide to leave everything, take all the responsibility and all the rights. Don't just take the responsibility. Take everything. If it seems natural, take it. If it seems greedy, be greedy. You can do that."

- Bro, here's a comic book. He left it in his garden yesterday. Oh, I didn't know you hated red. Can I keep this, then? I think it's a birthday present.

- Sir, have you seen what's in here? It looks like a red star.

- But you know what? Like us, Cecretia is buried with flowers. I want flowers to fly for me to be red stars.

- Brother, no. I'm just saying. There's nothing wrong. because of the jewels in the glasses. I thought it was because it looked like it had stars. Nothing happened. No, he's not. Yeah, nothing really happened. I'm just saying, really.

- Brother.

My head drifts away from my flashing memory.

It smells different from the stink of salt.

"Don't do that."

I grumbled.

I vomited more unbearable breath. I breathed.

"Don't just say that all of a sudden."

White hands, hanging off the hook, tremble thinly.

A new wound has crawled over the long scar carved into the palm of your hand. Blood spreads on the white collar of your empowered clothing.

"If you don't tell me, how will you know? How can I understand · · · · · · · · · how can I understand when my brother is not talking? You should have explained. You should have explained!"

I couldn't forgive him because he's an old Kalian, but I couldn't save anyone, so I couldn't ask anyone for forgiveness. I couldn't just blame him for ending up with an unforgivable brother.

"Why do you look so much like him? Why do you look like him, like me? Why do you look so much like me?"

I finally understand.

Because that's what Kalian is now. In the end, I had to understand.

"Brother · · · · · · · · · · ·."

I was greedy.

Unexpectedly, all of a sudden, I fell into a pile of transparent emotions that had been lit up on the back of my feet, which I no longer hid. I fell into the same salty water.

The wave swooped in quietly and became distant.