319 < Chapter 57. Please (1) >

I'm from the King's Oval Office.

I went down the stairs and came out of the palace. You stare at the garden of Begonia, where red flowers bloom sparsely, and turn away. I never crossed the garden of Begonia, the beautiful fountain, the tidy maze garden, or the corridor. Since it was the king's, no one who was not allowed to walk out of the palace through it.

The knights of the palace stand here and there.

As you approach, all the knights stand face to face with the Devil. It was also one of the knights' laws to announce that when a new king entered the kingdom in a way other than Serge or Viceroy, he no longer looked at the former lord.

After the palace, you passed in front of the first annex.

The curtains of the annex were all down. You notice that all the colors of the curtains are black, and a long smile catches Devil's mouth.

When I walked out the back door of the palace without a word.

"Your Majesty."

There is only one person approaching as everyone turns their backs on Devil. A man in a black leather suit who turned the sea light's head upside down. It was Eila.

Devil turns to a name that is not a name but unfamiliar to him. Eyla looks at the locked eyes of Devil for a moment and walks slowly, even with her head down. Tailan didn't stop her.

"Thought you'd say hello if you didn't share it."

"I'm giving you what I couldn't give back."

Eila moves her hand slowly, saying,

Eila's hand, raised still, touches the hair of the sea. After a slow sweep of her long, twisted head, Eila touches a beautiful girl with her hair fixed.

Tailan still hasn't stopped the act, and he just silently watches as Aelle, who has chosen a daughter, takes a step ahead of him.

Once more, Aelle walks forward to Devil and hands over the poisoned monk.

"Is that what you didn't give me?"

"That's right."

"If you come to me of your own accord and you give me this, your new master will not be pleased."

"You have nothing to worry about. I've been told to go."

Devilan receives it without specification.

From the mouth of the person who was staring at it for a while, a drunken laugh came out.

"Your new master is very thoughtful."

You can't hurt yourself in hell.

I can neither strangle myself nor pierce my heart with a blunt blade made by scraping and grinding stone walls. It can't even swallow poison in a dripping headdress.

Refusing food to be sent down, dying of thirst, or gradually getting old and dying. That's all you're allowed to do.

"Kalyan."

So this is your chance to pass it on.

Or the terrible curse you cast on me.

Devil couldn't stick it in my neck right here. I just looked down at her, holding her in my hand, and put her in my jacket pocket.

"Curse."

The one whose life was so broken that I felt so sorry for it, so I cursed him to look back on this moment until the last moment came. The curse is that the person who never regretted anything until now regretted not finishing his life on his own, and he should regret it, and close his eyes to that dreadful contradiction.

I asked Gekko Devilan for the last time. Eila's hand was a blank gift from Calian.

Eila, who delivered a gift that was neither an opportunity nor a curse, turns away as if she were no longer foolish. You've moved away from Devil Lane. A place with a real owner who can give you a new girl to see, no matter who you are.

Devilan takes another step back, looking at it for a moment.

The sinner's footsteps were entirely on my two feet, so not only the wagon, but Devil, who could not even climb the horse, just walked. Without thinking about why the knights turned their backs on themselves, why the curtains in the annex were black, or why the nobles spit out their names like vomit.

- I need to be distracted. It's the end of your world.

One step, several stops. All this is a grave Devil made by his own hands, and he strives to avoid reminding himself of Kalian's words. The wind blew at the end of his step, so he was hit by a violent wind. The end of the step slips away.

in front of the place that reaches the end of the chaos.

Devil stops once more and smiles. No, I didn't. I couldn't smile.

I stepped forward.

Ending up leaving Tailan behind with no one to greet him, leaving an empty land where no one will ever come again.

- · · · · · · Huang!

Into the darkness that will never leave me again.

To hell.

* * *

I wore a white shirt.

A long blue jacket with an embroidered white thread and black pants. The thick white cape with a black thread embroidered and lined with a black lining remains unchanged. Black Kravat, instead of Thai, was fixed with a platinum accessory with a pale light crystal. Even at the end of the refugee chain, the cloak is shaken by two fluffy, violet crystals. I brushed my longer hair neatly for a few months after I cut it off.

I left a desolate room with black linens and monotonous furniture. Then, for a moment, I stopped.

"Mother."

I never said anything different.

I wonder who it might have been. Louise, standing in a gorgeous white dress, nodded slightly and spoke in place of many words.

Chase extends one arm, just like every other day. Louise puts her hand on that arm. And we walked together.

I went down the stairs and came out of the palace. Chase mounted Louis on a small white wagon decorated with platinum, and he climbed to the silver gray horse that followed Bern best in his memory, but not now.

The knights of the palace stand here and there.

Knights from the palace to the palace gate stand on Chase's path. The knights standing on their heels duck as Chase steps forward. With one knee on the ground, the right hand rests on the heart and raises an example of a knight for the king.

I passed them by.

Through the gardens of Begonia, where red flowers bloom sparsely, and through beautiful fountains, neat maze gardens and corridors.

I left the palace gate and headed to the square.

Climb onto a dark platform and close your eyes for a moment.

the sound of the flag twitching in the wind, the sound of the bird crying, the sound of the branches shifting to the side, the sound of the branches touching the wind, the sound of small coughing, the sound of thin armor groaning.

Many of them heard the sound of living breath.

"Shenzhen. Forget about Devil now."

I opened my eyes.

Everyone in this place, who gave me so much noise, kept everything in sight. I pressed the square of this unforgettable day into my head until I died.

He looked at the faces of the gathered people one by one.

"It is my responsibility to remember and be vigilant about the past. And I will remember only myself."

He didn't say anything grand.

Just, I made a promise.

It says, & '93; I will punish those who have what they should not have, &' 94; and I will give it back to the plunderers. Those who cannot turn back will be forgiven for sinners. Even if you raise the birds again, you won't force them to make a choice.

No one would treat me like I was dead. I said I wouldn't erase anyone.

"Forget all of you. Forget everything and come back to life. Every day, like every other day."

So now let's all go back to our lives and live a long day, he said.

The sound of my breath grows louder.

A tightly clasped mouth opens.

The sound of the man greeting the new king echoes the Secreta.

Until Chase went down to the platform, and I didn't even know how much I was doing to look into the sunset of the man who ran out in front of me, until I grabbed his little blue, bored hand and held it still.

"Why were you so worried, Arianne? I told you I'd be back."

At the mouth of the king who kept his promise, until he had a small smile.

A cheer rang out.

* * *

That winter.

The day the rain stopped and the cold wind blew.

Chase Durahan Sacritia takes back the throne.

It was the current king's sole responsibility to remember the previous king. The others purged the Devil's trail diligently. The surviving people, knights and acolytes of Deblan leave Sekretta. Chase's office is filled with missing Devil's trail.

- Just leave the king's bedroom empty. I'll continue to use the place I originally stayed for a while.

Kalian doesn't meet Chase.

It's the right thing to do if you haven't met. It was not a good time for the estramorwn of Cairys to return to the royal palace of Cecretia. However, Khalian has kept people other than Allan in Cecretia. in case you didn't know.

The nobles who gathered in Secreta and pressured the Devil returned to their respective lands. Of course, Alan worked hard on their way back from their share. I thought Adelia might come back, but she didn't.

The day Callian came to visit the royal palace of Cecritia, the garden that Devil had built Chase for so long also changed. It wasn't the garden that was destroyed, but Chase planted a large spruce tree in the middle of the garden. It was a tree that resembled what was planted somewhere in the royal palace of Cairis.

After many things had been found or left empty and changed to new ones, Chase announced that the lords of the throne had changed to the kingdoms of each country. And then I began preparing for the immediate immediacy.

Time went by as I went through so much.

One day, the thin moon filled up and thinned again, and a few days later.

- It hurts, your brother.

What are you talking about?

It's been so long since I've been back in the rain.

He jokes with Uriah as he smiles, eats well, trains with Kiri, watches if Hina is cold, and breaks Arsen's head to ask for a spoon. Now I see Coco swimming well in the water and think of Lucy and Anne. On a typical day I had a normal conversation with Eila.

- That day, in the rain.

Kalian suddenly catches a cold.

I have a severe fever.

According to Plants, who took Khalian's ring, Chase did not immediately give him an answer. It's not because of Plants' habit of not talking about it, because it's not official until it's instant. It's because of what's been told.

- · · · · · Yes.

- Maybe you should check it out.

It took me a long time to answer.

The answer that came back was not very long.

- Aye, sir.

After a short conversation with Chase, Plants sighs.

Chase's voice is heard again as he stands at the door for some time.

- Confirmed.

- I think so.

- I told you to clean it up.

After he sold everything he was so careful with. How did I know the shadow on my ankle was gone? The fever rises. I feel sick.

- Thanks for the heads-up. Prince Plants.

- It's not me.

- Whoever. You're right.

- That's it.

At least I know how Chase or Calian must feel now, and Plants knows. Now they didn't need consolation. I know it's just passing time to clear my mind quietly.

So Plants didn't tell Chase any more. After taking off the ring's magic, I told her not to let anyone into Calian's room where she was lying, just like that.

"It's better to leave it alone."

To Hina.

Plants then spends the day leaning against Calian's visit. So that the remnants of him who is brought out of hell, who cannot come out alive or dead, can be put to rest for a short time.

Just like Calian did when Plants did.

- Tick, tock, tick, tock.

When you get used to the sound of the clock ringing louder at this time.

"Why are you here? I'm not sleeping."

Calian opens his eyes overnight.

"Somehow."

"Stop worrying."

"I didn't."

"Yes."

He stood in front of the visit and said that he was sick to the poor prince who was standing there.

"Can you call Ella, please?"

I asked you this.

Plants nods quietly and walks out.

After a short visit, Aelle and Calian stare for a long time. I just stared at him without saying anything.

"Good for you, Eila."

Then I smiled again.

* * *

All of Begonia's vast gardens have fallen.

Sometimes it rained and very rarely snowed. The day of sitting in front of the fireplace continued without hesitation.

It's been a long time since all the wounded shoulders healed.

I emptied my stomach and a long time passed.

"Meow."

"Miao."

A long time ago, Plants had been forced to twist his legs again, and he touched both cats with a familiar touch.

- If Anna's bigger, we'll have a fight.

Anne, who grew up to resemble Lucy, also liked it on her lap.

There was still no great difficulty with Anna placing both on the lap of Turra Plants, who was smaller than Lucy. But if it's bigger, Calian said there's going to be a fight.

What's there to fight about?

We can put them both up.

- The cats really like you. It would be so much fun if people outside the palace found out.

Even on that day, the one who had the greatest share in making the rumors go viral was barking. He never forgets his brother's barking words, so Plants frowns for a moment after he spent some time with his cats in peace and remembered what Kalian had left behind.

"· · · · · · How well you bark. My brother."

The eyes of the two cats who heard a clear complaint that it was a soliloquy set Plants back on their feet. Plants turns his head to the temperature of the cats warmer than the fireplace. Beyond the window, you see an endless number of stars above the sea where darkness settles.

So it was still in Cecretia.

Alan just dropped off two dead cats at Plants' voices, because he was going to stay in Sacritia for the rest of the winter and spring. So Plants was able to see Anna grow up safely for the rest of the winter.

And...

"My prince, where have you been again?"

"Outside."

"Out where?"

"The sea."

"Did you go alone?"

"And tomorrow's improvisation."

The baby elephant followed the cat.

Jan has been using Plants as a Khalian location tracker lately because she forgot about the acolyte once she got out of the palace.

Yan opened his mouth, looking at Prince Charming for a moment, who was a wreck who didn't care whether or not.

"Everyone's out there now. Would you like to come out?"

"Why."

"I heard you were watching. Together."

At that point, Plants staring out the window again and shutting up, trying to say, "I hate it because it's cold." And I said something shorter.

"Got it."

Yan nods, a little surprised at this answer.

"Yes. I'll get you another cup of tea."

"Yes."

Jan leaves first, showing no sign of greetings or neck movements, and then Plants carefully hugs Anne. Now, even Anne hasn't forgotten that her lower back started to stretch, so she sits on the couch with her hips slightly supported. After that, I moved Lucy with the same hands.

After that, I got up and put on a dark purple cloak that Alan had sent me.

I woke up and gazed out the window without even knowing it.

A white star filled with water far above shines brighter than any other day, and I thought about it for a moment and went out.

And another person who was looking up at the sky.

- Shoot him.

Calian takes a deep breath.

"I wonder if I'm here sooner or later than I thought. That's right."

Chase glances around with a soft smile in his voice.

"Still."

"Yes, it still is."

A place full of white sand.

There is a wooden house that is a little bigger than what it looks like in memory. Where there is one small rock.

I came to the sea. Now it is.

"Brother, don't you need to rest early today? You must be tired tomorrow."

"I'm still young."

Calian smiles for a moment with a light answer.

"My teacher wanted to come tomorrow, but she said it was going to be a mess, so I told her to just stay in Cairis. Just in case you're upset."

"So many people are coming from Cairys. Is there anything to be sad about?"

"Still."

"But it's going to be more crowded than ever. That will be all."

"Yes, I suppose it is."

Chase's immediacy.

I only came here a day before the immediate service.

Not because we don't have time, not because we don't care about each other, just because. I was determined to find this place on this day as if I had promised.

Chase tilts his head as he pulls out the watch in his pocket and checks the time.

"That's strange. Maybe not today."

"I don't know. Me neither. It's a rare day, so I don't remember much."

"Let's celebrate even if it's not today."

With a smile still on his face, Calian nods.

I'll take it from telling stories like that, when the conversation between the two brothers continues.

- Thanksgiving.

A blue light began to fall from the sky.

And then there's one more light, and then there's one more.

Lighter blue light than a feather.

I came down like a snowflake.

Calian looks up at it, looking up at the sky. I glanced at the blue light falling like it was pouring down, and closed my eyes for a moment.

"Happy birthday."

Blue light comes down without a hitch.

Serenti's time.

"· · · · · · · My brother."

I was wondering what name to call him. Bern laughed as he watched his brother congratulate me under a title that would not change anything.

"Thank you."

Bern opens his eyes quietly and looks at Chase.

"I'll tell you tomorrow, congratulations on the instant. Brother."

"Yes."

Chase nods.

Once Chase does that, once more the ocean waves, once more the blue light comes down. Bern stares at you, looking at Chase.

I leaned back.

Like taking out a deep, unbeatable, profound display.

"Please stay a good king for a long time."

I said that one more time.

The night of the blue light.

Dear Chase, Bern.