305 < Chapter 54. Wildfire (5) >

The tea that brewed the watermelon tasted the same even though it changed color.

I liked the uniqueness of changing the color of the petals depending on where the flowers were rooted, and I liked the appearance of the flowers that bloomed abundantly, but I also liked the watermelon tea the most because it was a tender taste regardless of the color.

So when I met Chase, I almost always had a sweet aroma and a refreshing aroma. Arianne had an aquatic tea, Chase had a mint tea.

"Ugh."

After eating a piece of kiwi, Arianne, who drank the hydroponic tea and dropped it, frowned a little. I put the table in front of my favorite things, but I couldn't help but shrug my shoulders.

It was because my back neck was still sore.

Of course, it was a brutal wound in Eila's hand.

"Your bruises are gone. I guess you're not all better yet."

"Don't smile. Mom, you can't laugh when I've worked so hard while I'm in there relaxing."

"Let's laugh about being uselessly stubborn and injured. There's nothing to accept when people get angry."

"Even if the whole world blames me, you have to take my side. That's too much."

"Say that when you are born as someone else's daughter, not the Marquis. I wish I could say all my daughters did well without measuring back and forth."

Despite his location, Lazian drank his tea, saying that he could not accept even one of his daughter's young children. Especially when it comes to this, there is no stringency. Arianne, who strangled you, smiles slightly.

"And even if all the people of the world blame you, there is already one person who can help you."

"I'm busy these days, so I don't have time to take your daughter's side. Besides, if you knew who hit me, you wouldn't be on my side this time. So you just didn't tell me."

Lazian says, fixing his glasses.

"Someone related to the prince."

"Yes, an old fiancée."

Chase had no intention of bringing up the past to Lazian.

It was similar to why Calian was intimate with Sodmaster Slayman or Jan's father Slayman, but distant from Duke Slayman. The mother of Arianne, Lazian, had no reason to keep a secret, but it was hard to completely trust her as the Marquis.

However, as the process of stopping Tensyl's healing intensified, one or two of the Lazian questions began to emerge. What the hell are you going through to get a deeper result with Tensyl?

The words surrounded by the concubine Luiz or Chase were difficult to convince completely the wise Lazian, and eventually he met with the Lazian and told him about his past events.

"Yes. I've heard of it. You have a very cool personality and you have a fiancé."

"He said his brother was cooler."

'Is it okay if it's just cool? · · · · · · · · ·'

Arianne smiles and replies, thinking of Chase, who was unfit for her.

When I first heard that story, quite frankly, Lazian nearly broke Chase and Arianne. That's why Louise and Chase thought they were crazy. However, when the future things that they talked about started to happen one by one, I finally believed them.

It was a 'axis of time' that I had never seen or heard of, because I was not a royal. This country is doomed. The king's bride, who had two eyes to see the end of this country and the last king of this country, put a blade in my neck while standing in front of the body of Chase and the axis of time. The whole world crumbles like black sand castles are blown away, and time returns.

"Anyway, he didn't get along as well as me. I thought maybe me and I were getting engaged to him. So I'll be on your side. I'm sorry."

"You just said you didn't know."

"I don't know who I was. You know we have a foolish personality."

"That's why you're so sad."

"No, I like that. He's cute."

Lazian smiles and nods.

"I don't have to stick up for you because you don't have to."

"That's so mean to my daughter, my mother."

"Do you want someone who takes special care of you because you're a daughter?"

"No, that's not it."

"Yes, that's fine."

If it wasn't for the Lazian who had lived in the world with neutral eyes, it might have been difficult to take such bold treatment of Plants who had come with Chase. That one was fortunate.

"This is why I like my mom."

"You should be happy you didn't get kicked out in that accident. Are you making a sound?"

"Yes, you are."

Arianne, who put her hand around her neck to burst her smile, ate another piece of kiwi. And he made a cheerful face to the sweet taste that was buried in the sour end.

The Lazian stands up with the data on the edge of the table in his hand. It was Luis' data that was handed back to the released Lazian.

Soon, the Lazian goes to the window and bends the curtain.

The eyes of Black Ingots fill the Grand Marquis's yard.

"Did you get a lot of people together?"

Soldiers.

He was a soldier of several nobles who gathered to trust Tailan and Lazian.

"Yes, it's enough to twist a fishtail. Fortunately."

"But is it really okay? His Holiness says he wants to see his mother."

"Don't worry. Nothing's gonna happen. If I want to protect my daughter, I have to be safe. Wouldn't you?"

Arianne nods, looking at the reasonably confident Lazian.

* * *

Every step seemed to scatter the petals.

No, it looks more like the first wing of a little bird or butterfly.

It would be so nice to see its wings flapping in the fog of the early dawn. Or is it so nice to see its wings flapping in a dream that was never seen before? One step carefully watched Hina's footsteps, and there was a lot of love in her eyes.

"My Hina. When did he learn to dance again?"

Now that I got the title, I had a lot to learn. I just didn't remember putting my dance teacher aside. So maybe Janna, if not Demirea, taught me. I thought it might be Eila or the rest of the Balkans. Everyone taught me to dance, and Hina learned well.

Every one of the clumsy but little footing steps was so precious that I couldn't miss it.

Yeah, it is.

I couldn't take my eyes off it.

"Kirrie."

"Yes."

Once again, patience has reached its limit, saying that it is a pleasant night and that it's been a while since I've been sober up Devil. I forgot for a moment, but it was a place to celebrate the day that the precious pea was born. Moreover, it was Hina who brought him here as his bride. So, naturally, it followed.

Now that the congratulations and toast are over, the next order.

I am watching my precious Hina dance for the first time in her life, and I do not know why she keeps obscuring her sight like the oat buds of the sunspring in front of her.

"Breathe. You, too."

"· · · · · · · Yes. Prince."

A pretty dress of grapefruit and a long mint cloak keep on touching it. I even counted his cloak in silver. I was going to tell him not to put silver embroidery on your prince's clothes when I met him, but he was the prince and I endured it.

Plants was wearing a white suit on a mint shirt.

The two of them put together and endured the thought of a really lively grapefruit tree. Thanks to this, one fork opens up in Gerko's cavity and Arsen adds one more item of affection. Kalian doesn't see the Arsen moving the spoon to a discreet location, just in case.

Thank goodness.

Otherwise, the Arsen waist would be frozen instead of a spoon.

"· · · · · · It's okay to just look at hina."

"I understand."

Anyway, while Calian called Serenti's name a hundred times inside, he commented to Serenti about a hundred harsh swearing remarks, and the dance of the party characters was barely over.

After the party was over, the nobles who were a little nervous about the drink held each other's hands and went to the center of the banquet hall. It was around the time when Hina, who was feeling better, reached out to the Kyrie and went out to dance again, started a fabulous dance with Arsen and Euria on half a mouthful of poisonous Serenus and avoided the intense gaze of Kalian when Plants left alone emptied alone near a bottle of Serenus.

So far, the Grand Chamberlain approaches and gives a short message to Devilan, who is just watching everything. The Devil's finger draws a long arc, and Calian doesn't miss it.

- It's starting to move.

- You mean Marquis Lynn.

- And Marquis Lynn, and my father.

- Aye, sir.

And he saw that his face was full of anticipation, and he did not miss it.

"Looks like it's begun."

"You know, you're really quick."

"Earl Lynn has asked me to prepare a private army. Are you trying to start a civil war?"

"Yes. I will gather the noble soldiers who were holding the hand of Earl Amri, who were not present, and set out for the palace. In a sense, it's a civil war."

"Devilan can't have known that kind of movement. He's really moving."

"Yes. The Devil's army must have gone to the Marquis Lynn's Manor. We will take evidence of treason and use it as a hostage for Earl Lynn and Arianne to put pressure on Chase again. I think so. I think so."

"The Marquis Lynn knows that."

Knowing that it was Devilan's trap, Calian smiles and gives the answer, asking about Marquis Lynn's plan to prepare the soldiers and start a civil war.

"Neither Grand Master Chase nor Devil knew that my master and I would not intervene if only Master Chase and his people were safe. So neither of us is going to put it into the calculation. And if you look at it, there's no better chance for the late Lord Lynn. The nobles who stood for all the royals and the Devils are all in one place, and it's easy to take over the kingdom as long as we get rid of the people of Cecritia here."

Khalian is Prince Cairys.

Therefore, I will not interfere in the civil war of Cecretia. Just assuming Chase is okay.

That means that if Chase dies, Calian moves and Alan follows. So Devil still won't risk Chase's life. And Lord Lynn has no reason to kill Chase.

So, both are calculating and moving the struggle between each other without the need for Kalian's power to intervene immediately. Marquis Lynn gets rid of Devil, establishes Chase and reclaims the nobleman's rights, and Devil gets rid of Marquis Lynn and narrows Chase's position to further strengthen his power.

"Thought it was a trap."

"Yes. You know that. What to bet to get the opponent's Hand. We've done a lot of that. Even if we think we have traps set up for each other, we take the damage and push it away."

Like Hina, who exposed herself before Devil's eyes to protect her interests. Like Kalian and Plants, who have already died so many times to survive.

"It's just something Devilan doesn't know, so Marquis Lynn and Arianne should be fine."

"I don't know what."

"Devilan may think that Earl Lynn is coming for his head today, but he isn't. I'm going to hit, I'm going to sink, I'm going to hide. That's what Marquis Lynn will do today."

"Then after that."

"It's a trigger."

The green eyes of Plants point towards Kalian.

"There's a lot of wind in Sacritia, and a lot of grass in the field is dry, brother. Not only Raven, but Estina was so skinny she didn't want to eat it."

As is customary, Calian, who replaced the answer with another word, still relaxed his face and picked up Serenus' illness. You hear a rumbling sound in the empty bottle.

"No one can stop a fire in a field that's so dry. Wizards make water without rest, but they can't beat the speed at which the fire spreads. The fire spread into the forest, and the flames scattered from the forest moved back to the other side. It burns down houses and devours people. A fire that starts in a dry field where nothing grows and devours people. That's the scariest thing in a dry, twisty time."

Kalian's cup is filled with the last remaining brown wine.

"That's a wild fire, brother. You haven't seen it."

"I didn't."

"You, me and Chase lit a fire today. What I've learned here will bloom like fire in the heads of the nobles, and Lord Lean will be the wind that will spread the fire. Once you know the truth and know how to act, everyone will be on their own. It's a fire Devil can never put out."

All I saw in the palace was a flame at the end of the Wizard's hand. Only fire ruled by man. Suddenly, I saw a lonely campfire while I was still hungry. The Wizard's gesture also cools off in one fell swoop.

I have never seen a fire that cannot be ruled by human hands.

"Never underestimate the power of the lesser people. Don't make fun of me by making a loud, frightened speech and sticking your tail. The Devil ignores it and ridicules it, so he will spend every day calculating who he can trust and how many days he has left in a palace he knows nothing about. The price of ignorance, I'd say."

What Callian and Chase know.

Devil doesn't know.

"You will see flames and winds gathering in the fields and become wildfires. Watch and learn. because you won't forget. If it's you."

Serenus' last remaining voice echoes once more and disappears into Calian's mouth.

< [Ambient] Serenus >

That's amazing.

Obviously, wine made from grapes has no aroma whatsoever and all sorts of other aromas. It smells like walnut shells, and it smells like wet dirt in the rain. Then it smells like cinnamon. It smells so much, but it never smells like grapes.

I wonder what kind of time I spend in that oak barrel would be that different. Sometimes when I think about it, I drink it all before I answer, so I just fall asleep.

What do you think, you?

Eila.

* * *

- Kuaang!

I remembered that day because of the blue bird, or because of the enormous noise that I heard at the knight training ground inside the Resistance. Or was it him or the smell of wet dirt in the rain? I can't remember.

Anyway, the truth is, that day, the rain came down.

A blue bird flew in to avoid the rain.

And then the explosion happened.

I remembered the fading smoke that spread through the rain that was pouring in the sunlight.

"Has this bastard gone mad?"

The knight with the silver sword speaks in ridicule.

It was also because I almost sincerely burned my favorite long blue hair while I was just using it, but it was even bigger because a single, smaller than my fist, amorphous bird died from the explosion.

"Why would a bastard with a sword use a magic bullet?"

"Let us overcome them by all means."

"I told you not to block the way, did I tell you to throw a magic bomb during the sword fight?"

"If there were other conditions, you should have told me first."

There are many ways to be a knight.

You either have a lot of money, you have connections, you've been under a different knight since you were a child, you go up one step as a seed, you get sworn on your knees before someone who has the authority to knight.

Or cross the threshold of the Royal Knight Sanctuary.

If a stranger hears the story, perhaps the last way is the best. Actually, I wasn't wrong. It was the easiest and quickest way to get rid of the prince, famous for his dirty personality, standing at the door of the Knights' Sanctuary.

After all, the prince was famous for his character, not for his swordsmanship. Thanks to this, those who came to cross the threshold once had four or five times a day. And most of them went back without giving up three strikes. With only a new realization that the fact that the prince's sword was so powerful was consumed by rumors about his personality that he had been forgotten.

"I never would have thought to search the rest of the place, not the newborns, if I hadn't gotten rid of the magic grenades."

"I can't afford a magic bullet that strong. And I didn't think he could stop a magic bomb."

The knight, Bern, laughs out of his mouth.

"Birds are mistakes."

"A mistake?"

"I didn't see it. I'll bury you."

"Bury him. Come back tomorrow."

So I accepted.

"I'll make sure you don't use magic bullets to eat the wrong life any more." "

Not because he had a good sword and a straight personality, but not because he was curious to wear a sword with a face that was too pretty to stand out, but because he seemed crazy to let go.

"What's your name?"

"Eila. I'm Eila Verdandy."

The sky was clear and rainy.

A blue bird is dead.

That's how we met.

* * *

I liked the spire.

In fact, I liked the sea more, but I couldn't visit it often, so I went up to my next favorite spire. There was only a moderately wide floor, a moderately tall handrail, and four posts. There was no wall up there, so it was always windy.

I went there and sat on the floor like a habit.

My long hair was torn apart by the wind, but I didn't care. I didn't have to tie it up so I didn't have to clean it up because my vision was a bit obscured.

Unlike Bern, one of the people who would really hate it opened his mouth with a slightly frowned face.

"Tie your hair. It's a madhouse."

"I lost my headband. Give me one."

"Did you leave it there? What's the number?"

"Expensive hair bands? What are you so sorry for?"

"Do I look like I don't care?"

"Huh."

With the same tone, the baroness looks stunning.

"This white-haired bastard."

"You keep forgetting, my brother's hair is the same color as mine."

"Don't say you're like me. The vision is shattered."

"That's too bad. You're married to my brother, and I'd be disappointed if you beat me like this."

"Marriage is nothing. I'm going to be in love."

"Then who's the next king?"

"You can do it."

Bern laughs when he hears this.

And I suddenly remembered another word with my face.

"Speaking of which, you didn't tell my brother last night that you had a drinking fight with my drivers at the table next door."

"Ah. Just in time, I have one hair band left."

A short strap of hair with a pink lace ribbon protrudes out before Bern's words are finished. Bern picks it up, tearing off the ribbon and returning it to him.

"I'll use it well, Arianne."

"Don't tell me what happened yesterday. I don't need to worry."

Of course, it wasn't Arianne that Chase was worried about.

The other side, who knew that the Marquis's spirit had been intertwined in the place where the quarrel soon turned into a fist clash, would have halved his life.

"I'm sure the birds already told you that. I won't."

"Yes."

Arianne opens the Cork Stopcock, which was blocking the bottle.

Even though it was on a windy spire, its distinctive aroma spreads.

"Your Majesty, did you rob the liquor shed again? I think Serenus is the superior."

"I brought a gift for my father."

"Did you steal it?"

"I brought it. My father wouldn't put a drink in his mouth anyway."

"What if there's poison in there?" "

"To be a poor son who died instead of his father."

Arianne frowns again.

I heard from the Marquis Lynn that something similar had happened somewhere, but I don't remember much. So I just gave up thinking deeply and said something else.

"More aspiring knights, I hear."

In Arianne's question, Bern, who had handed her long hair with his fingers, nodded. The difficult hairband was blown away by the wind, and the answer came out with my mouth.

"One."

"They say she's very pretty."

Bern opens his mouth after tying his head with a skillful grip.

"If I was as good with a sword as my face, I would have already surpassed my master."

"· · · · · · · Yes. Sure."

Arianne shakes her head in horror. Seeing that, Bern smiled and added.

"Anyway, I brought him here because he's got a twisted mind."

"You're good, you're bad."

"You're good, but you're funny."

"Funny."

"Funny."

"What's so funny?"

"With a guy like that, I can't afford it either."

Arianne was a so-called childhood friend.

I grew up fighting against precious brothers and sisters. Like Chase and Bern, Arianne and Bern knew nothing about each other.

"Stop turning. He worries a lot."

"I'm not going around in front of my brother. Don't worry."

"I'm worried about that. He can't worry about you because he won't just walk in front of you."

pruning.

What Bern is doing. Except that one.

"My brother has a lot to worry about besides me, so you don't have to put another one on him."

Bern speaks lightly and pours Serenus into his cup.

Later, when I poured a drink into Arianne's cup, a drop of wine in Arianne's cup popped up. Then, strangely enough, Fondant goes into Bern's cup.

"Oh, I wish. Make a wish."

Arianne who saw it said with a playful smile.

He was talking about a metaphor created by people who like to drink.

When the drink that popped out of his glass goes into someone else's glass, he wishes for Serenti. It was a strange coincidence that I drank less than a drop of wine, so it meant asking Serenti to grant me a wish instead of not drinking it.

"I beg your pardon."

"Let my friend stop spinning."

"That's absurd. It's too late."

"But you know what? Serenty will grant you a wish."

"I wish Serenty would grant me that wish."

I didn't do anything.

"· · · · · · · became. Drink up. I have to go out soon."

"Where are you going at this hour?"

Bern smiles briefly.

And I turned my gaze at Arianne and looked down. I saw a drink with the name 'blessed gift of Serenti' in my eyes.

"A place without Serenti."

A poisonous wine made from grapes, but with no grape aroma, disappeared into Bern's mouth.

* * *

If you don't tell me, I won't know.

If you don't tell me, I won't understand.

* * *

Days pass by like always.

As usual, the Serenti day passes.

In the morning, we talk to Chase, we learn swords from Tailan, we teach swords to knight aspiring students, we eat with Chase again.

Sometimes it's night, and sometimes it hurts a little bit. So much time passed again.

Bern continues to climb the spire.

Arianne was with him sometimes, but mostly alone.

Bern, who climbed there as a habit and looked at the place spread out under his feet like a habit, opened his eyes for a moment. Then I suddenly pulled out my sword from my waist and pointed it at my back.

- Whoa!

There's a man standing there who doesn't even look at the sword that stopped in front of his neck. My long hair was shattered by the wind. Bern did not lose his headband today, so it belonged to the man who stood face to face with Bern.

Bern, who saw the sea hair scattering like waves, put his sword back and opened his mouth.

"Don't sneak up on me. You'll die, Eila."

"I'm sorry."

"What's going on?"

"I have something urgent to ask of you, and I'm here." "

"Tell me."

"But I can ask you something else first."

He didn't even tell me what he was going to ask, so I couldn't care less what he asked first.

"Do whatever you want."

"Do you like alcohol?"

"Not often. Sometimes I see Arianne."

At that point, Eila reaches out the hand she left behind her back.

Serenus, who once drank with Arianne, was heard.

"I heard it's expensive."

"It's not stolen, it's not poisoned. I just brought it because it's my favorite drink."

I wasn't worried about that.

Bern nods, smiling bloody. And I sat on the floor, as I always have, pointing to the other side.

The thin moon was veiled by the clouds, and the son-in-law was dark, but they both gave and received alcohol regardless.

"But what are you drinking? What else is there to ask?"

Eila stares at Bern for a while, a knight in shining armor who no longer uses magic ammunition.

"How many?"

"What are you talking about? Suddenly?"

"A life that the prince has taken in secret. I'm asking how many."

You'd be surprised how many people know.

You'd be surprised how many people I remember.

"· · · · · · · How did you know?"

"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 we had to kill all those people, something. Don't tell me to forget. I'll try to understand."

Things that won't be erased even if the world is turned upside down.

What would be different if I told you there was a reason for that?

I wouldn't have even started if I wanted to be different.

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

"The king called 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. However."

I know.

Thank you and I'm sorry.

"Eila."

"I don't think that's necessary."

Don't do it, Ella.

Don't do that.

* * *

I did.

- Blue sole. Why did you send him to Tensile?

- He's a very talented boy.

- Let me in. She's my fiancé.

I know she wasn't that friendly with you. You still can't lie.

- No, that's right. Married.

- You wanted to keep her alive.

- He's my man.

I tried to save her somehow.

Me, you.

Eila.

- Emperor, the blue seagull.

The shadow of a lifelong snake tilts.

It was late.

Gone.

Then the blue seagull left with him.

- Find him, bring him here.

It reminds me of burying a bird that I accidentally lost. I came to find the body, saying that I will send it here myself, not from that far away.

There was a monk in his hand, who had always been stuck in his head.

Only blue sea hair remained.

"Eila."

I prepared a drink.

There was no grape aroma in Serenus, who said he liked it.

If it hadn't been in the oak barrel, it would still have such a sweet, dark aroma. There was no grape aroma in Serenus.

The liquor that lost its grape aroma was called a gift from Serenti.

What.

How?

"I'm sorry."

It's too late.

I couldn't save her.

"· · · · · · · Eila."

* * *

I wish I'd just let you go that day.

What if I hadn't called you in?

What if I had told you the truth and sought your understanding?

I regret this now.

What do you think, you?

Eila.