Chapter 88

Chapter 18. (2)

Kalian opened his mouth with a slightly stiff expression.

“Why are you saying that now?”

Kirie told her that Arsene swore at her only when she passed the walkway surrounding the Senyu Pavilion. Therefore, Kyrie answered Calian in a quiet but clear voice when he asked this question.

“Lord Hertz is a capable man, my prince.”

“Are you saying that I couldn’t tell you on the spot because I was afraid I would send a talented person I didn’t like to the other side of the Seneu River?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“It’s a bit unfair. It’s just that I can’t retrieve the sword I threw away, but it’s not like I know when it will disappear.”

It was unfair for Kalian.

“I wonder if I threw it without knowing how to do it.”

Calian, who attacked after making sure the distance was exactly enough to give Arsene, who seemed to have blind faith in the shield, an appropriate warning, grunted like this.

But at that moment, Yan, who had been walking silently until now, suddenly opened his mouth with an expression on his face that said something had occurred to him.

“By the way. I heard that Prince Randel has a lot on his schedule today. The time is a bit vague, so I think you two may run into each other on the way back and forth.”

Hearing those words, Calian’s feet stopped for a moment.

Calian scratched his cheek and spoke to Jan.

“Why are you saying that now?”

Then, Yan’s face became as if he was sorry, but I guess I had my own reasons. So, when I looked at him to ask what the reason was, Yan confidently gave a truly Yan-like answer.

“You should have had time to think about other things. Do you know how surprised I was to see Lord Hertz training so hard? What if you really get hurt?”

“According to what Kirie said, let alone whether I’m really hurt, shouldn’t you be worried about whether I’m really going to kill Lord Hertz?”

really. This guy or that guy.

One person looks at me too harshly and the other looks at me too soft, what should I do?

Anyway, if you say you forgot because you were so surprised, what else can you say?

“I understand. As long as we don’t run into each other, it’s okay.”

In the end, Calian could not say anything more to Kirie or Jan and just answered like this.

‘It’s Brother Randel.’

After Silike became like that, Randel never came to breakfast. He seemed very uncomfortable with the fact that his true feelings were revealed at the spot where Plantz was injured and that Calian joined hands with Plantz.

Therefore, we did not meet by chance at Chermil Palace.

The only way Randel would normally go out was to go to the rose garden, so Calian just avoided it. When we went to other events together, we didn’t say a single word. He said he was uncomfortable, but he didn’t have any intention of getting close to him.

“Prince Planz doesn’t seem to think anything of you just leaving like that that day, but I wonder why Prince Randel is like that.”

So, in front of Calian, Jan, who did not particularly gossip about other princes, said this.

“Brother Planz, who is so annoying about everything in this world, it’s not that he doesn’t care. He just doesn’t have any thoughts.”

Calian answered and entered the Senyu Pavilion where Evan was waiting.

* * *

Margrave Gray Brisen was the Third Sword of the Continent.

Marquis Evan Briesen entered the path of the sword before him.

So Evan, who became a sword master at a time when he was at least within three fingers, raised his eyes. I had just seen Calian come in.

‘How did this happen?’

Evan even closed the front door and practiced all winter.

Thinking that this was enough, I opened the door and came out.

However, Calian still could not sense the power of the Auror.

He was a young boy who had only been on the path of the sword for less than a year, but on the outside, he was nothing more than an ordinary person. As Slayman said, he was like a quiet prince who couldn’t even go near a sword.

Even though I was very prepared, it was not easy to keep my facial expression from distorting.

Of course, Evan’s true intentions were all revealed to Calian. Since this was the intended situation, Calian was not embarrassed and quietly walked to stand in front of Evan.

“The count likes sweets, so take them and eat them. The newly sealed baron sent me some, saying he got them from Secretia, but he’s not very good at it.”

After hearing those words, Alan smiled a strange smile that Lemain couldn’t see.

Secretia’s tangerines.

Isn’t there just one person who will like you several times more than Alan?

Lemaine, I know that Calian only had the memories of the Secretia knight, so he wouldn’t have remembered it, but it wasn’t Alan. Therefore, without eating any more, Alan picked up the box and asked, with the intention of handing it over to his pretty student.

“Has there been any reply as to who is coming from Secretia to Your Highness’s birthday celebration?”

“Not yet. It will take some time to get an answer.”

Will someone as welcome as Tangerine come to Kalian?

Alan nodded with expectant eyes.

* * *

Is there anything more embarrassing than encountering someone you are reluctant to meet?

On my way back to Chermil after a short conversation with Evan, I ended up running into Randel.

Across the three stairs leading to Chermil, Calian bowed his head towards Randel, who was standing on the stairs.

“See you, Brother Randel.”

In the past, Randel would have passed by with the words ‘Okay’ but stopped and looked down at Calian.

If it had been Planz, he would have said hello and left, saying he had nothing to say and would go first. However, Calian, who could not bear to follow such a plan, could only hope that the mysterious first prince would quickly stop paying attention to him and go his own way.

“I’m sorry I didn’t respond to you that day.”

Only after a really long time had passed did Randel say these words while still standing on the stairs.

There is only one day that Randel, who is indifferent to everything, remembers and refers to as ‘that day’. The day I last met Randel. It was the very day that Silike was driven out.

Randel sensed that Calian knew that he could use healing powers. In that situation where Plantz was bleeding, rather than looking for a healer, he called Randel, so if you don’t notice, it’s literally Jan.

Calian frowned.

Before Hina came, I remembered Kalian, who was looking for a healer, making eye contact, then getting up and leaving. I also understood that he was now apologizing for not responding to his request for help that day.

However, Calian did not make that expression because he was uneasy about the incident.

‘On the stairs... it’s rude.’

Standing on the stairs and looking down at a prince of the same rank was something Calian should not have done, even if Randel was the eldest son.

Calian glanced up at his eldest brother, who was apologizing but showing the exact opposite. Randel was looking at Calian with the same face and expression.

The blue eyes are still deep and dark.

Calian laughed, feeling as if he had stuck his head into the mouth of a blue beast.

“Are you showing your true feelings with only three stairs?”

Calian, who was still standing below, looked up at Randel and opened his mouth. After that, I slowly walked up the stairs. The sound of steps on the stairs and Calian’s voice rang out in the quiet Chermil Palace.

“That little rose that had bloomed for a long time. Now I understand what it meant.”

“Did you see that?”

– Ta-bak-ta-bak.

“Yes. I saw it. However, I didn’t know why he took it out like that, but I guess he meant to make it bloom properly and look good instead of drying out and wilting. It’s just that it looks good.”

– Bruises.

“......Under Brother Randel’s feet.”

Calian, who had climbed the last stairs, looked into the eyes of Randel, who was at the same level. Randel looked into Calian’s gaze. A voice with no pitch was heard quietly.

“Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.”

“I am.”

A voice full of hostility flowed from Calian’s mouth.

“I don’t like it.”

Bern was already a capable and obedient kind brother once.

So Kalyan won’t do it.