Chapter 272

Chapter 48. Himolica is delicious (2)

The quiet purple eyes moved slowly.

Very slowly.

However, without hesitation, he moved his gaze towards the person sitting in front of him.

– I will be at the end of your thoughts.

Chase glanced at the short blue-silver hair that was very similar to his own, then looked directly into two dark brown eyes that were very different from his own.

Eyes more creepy than those of a snake.

Chase didn’t avoid those eyes at all. I looked straight ahead.

– If it were me, I would have deep doubts about my identity. Devlan is no different, so it is clear that he will try to expose his brother to find out the truth.

What Calian had told me before coming here was exactly true.

– You must not be agitated. If you doubt me, let you doubt me. If you don’t doubt it, leave it alone. If you try to hastily remove suspicion or deceive them, they will be more persistent. Anyway, news will soon spread that Xeon and I may be related, so you can just leave it at that until then.

It was different from making small bets by looking at the morning sky and guessing whether it would rain that day or not. It was different from fighting and fighting in front of a chessboard.

“If you think we have a lot in common...”

So Chase tried his best not to hold his breath and not let his eyes shake at this point.

“Wouldn’t it be nice to meet you sometime?”

Devlan’s fingers paused for a moment.

These words are of no help to Devlan, whose meaning changes depending on what he thinks. I saw Chase’s eyes and heard his voice as he said those words without hesitation.

The smile that was placed on the tip of the finger moved to Devlan’s face.

Predictions are being made with more at stake than a single coin.

A battle of moves began, with lives at stake instead of chess pieces.

“It’s okay. That’s not what’s important right now.”

Devlan turned his head towards Calian.

Meeting him in person was also something I was interested in, but I decided to postpone my interest in Kalyan for a while until I could make a more accurate decision.

“And please rest and do not attend this noble meeting.”

At the noble meeting, they tried to get Devlan to reveal his condition and his true feelings toward Chase. And Devlan stopped Chase as if he had already read all of those thoughts.

A cough followed, and Chase took advantage of it to lower his eyes for a moment to gather his thoughts and then opened his mouth.

“All right.”

okay.

There’s no way you wouldn’t know.

I wasn’t disappointed that Devlan didn’t move as he wanted. Because I knew that this was not a fight that would end overnight.

“Did you call me to tell you not to attend the meeting?”

“No. Rather.”

Tap again.

Devlan’s fingertips touched the back of his hand.

“I just called you in silence for a moment.”

The crown prince of a country summoned his son and made him wait for an hour. I sat there for an hour without even pretending to know or saying a word.

Just to be quiet for a while.

No reason, just because I was bored.

‘bottom.’

The goal is to send Chase down to the bottom.

No matter what you plan, you are ultimately my son.

Shouldn’t you know that no matter how much you try to escape, you cannot go against me?

“Wouldn’t it be okay if I did that? For me.”

“Yes. You may do so.”

Chase nodded slightly in response to Devlan, who was looking at him with a benevolent look. And then he looked at Devlan with his still eyes.

As you think.

I am your son

“...... Not yet.”

Chase added a few words and smiled softly.

Devlan’s lips drew a long line.

* * *

It was like the sound of waves hugging the wide sea.

It sounded like the wind passing through the middle of the forest.

– Shoot...!

It rained.

The chandelier hanging from the ceiling swayed in the cold wind blowing outside the window.

“Thank goodness it started raining after we arrived.”

Cold rain was falling on this southern land as if it were about to welcome fall.

If you listen to what Reric said, Lucy when she was younger and Anne now hated getting wet, and I think Calian wasn’t that different. I always disliked the rain.

Maybe it’s because it feels like being submerged in the sea.

“okay.”

Instead of pointing out that he ended his sentence with an ambiguous word that was neither polite nor informal, Plantz just nodded slightly.

Kalian, who returned from sparring the previous day, went to bed and Plantz lost himself in thought all night. We set off again in the morning and returned to Siegfried’s Range in the late afternoon. After taking a bath at the market and coming out for dinner, it was pouring rain, I don’t know when it started.

“Should I close the window? You’ll catch a cold.”

Even though it had been a long time since he had tasted a proper meat dish, Kalian was not very fond of it. We just ate dinner in silence, and when the wind blew, all we could say was this.

“Leave it.”

“yes.”

“The one who said he would go find Devlan.”

Plantz answered, slightly raising the sword he had brought.

“I know what using a sword means even if you don’t tell me. I know that the sword is heavy. I knew it and decided to learn it, so I have no intention of avoiding it.”

Just as Demirea said, it is an item that separates life and death. I

never forgot it and never learned it. I never had the illusion that I would continue sparring beautifully without getting blood on this sword for the rest of my life. Whether it was to protect it or not. Regardless, I knew from the beginning that it was something that would eventually harm someone, and I never forgot it even for a moment. “

So it’s not because of Sejak.”

Planz frowned for a moment as he recalled the last image of Sejac swallowing the poison in his mouth. It’s true that it wasn’t a very good memory, to the point where I had trouble sleeping for a few days. But it definitely wasn’t the reason why I got bitten by my sword during sparring. If there was

blood on my sword, I might not be able to sleep for another few days, but I didn’t intend to let go of the sword because of that.

” Or for some reason?”

“You. I think I know what I saw at the marquis’ mansion.”

Plantz had an idea of what Calian saw and who he thought of when he stopped his sword at Evan’s mansion that day.

“Isn’t it my brother who I shouldn’t have lost my mind before sheathing the sword? .”

“Are you saying that the child I saw at Marquis Briesen’s residence that day reminded me of my brother, and for the same reason, I couldn’t attack him because I was afraid my brother’s sword wouldn’t be able to block it?” Calian, whose face seemed to have finally figured out what Plants was thinking, said something more

. When he was about to do so, Planz said as

if driving a wedge in his head, “I’m afraid I’ll get the same blood on the same sword twice.”

This means that he couldn’t attack Calian because he was afraid that Plantz would hurt Calian again with that sword. I was afraid that old memories would come back to my mind again and that I would get confused between then and now and let go of the sword.

“Ah...”

Not knowing what kind of face to make, Calian bowed his body for a moment. He sat down with his knees bent.

I couldn’t tell whether to laugh or cry.

Isn’t it no different from saying that a cat was fighting with a dog that was much bigger than it, and stuck its claws in because it was worried that the dog would get hurt. That’s a really ridiculous and funny story

. I knew that, but I couldn’t laugh. I knew very well what Calian thought of Plantz in the past, so I couldn’t laugh because I didn’t find it strange that Plantz, who knew the facts as well as I did, came to that conclusion. “Let me explain

. “I am.”

Calian said this, but instead of getting up, he just raised his head. He

only half realized what Calian had seen that day, so he looked up at the pea-like eyes of his older brother, who guessed something completely different. “Tell me.” “It’s

Lillie

. The child’s name.”

The child he saw at Evan’s mansion.

He spoke about the child whom Demirea is now protecting.

“As you might have thought, he resembles his older brother.”

In the few years since coming to Chermil Palace, Calian has been out of town. There were no enemies. It was because I was too young, and it was also because the maids who were taking care of Calian did not let him out because they said it was dangerous. Then one day, I looked outside the terrace and thought that I wanted to go to that lake. Rather than feeling frustrated, I just suddenly thought that the lake sparkling was so pretty

. .

So I secretly went out.

No, I tried to go out.

When I sneaked out to the only staircase in the Chermil Palace, I saw someone coming up. Calian, who was embarrassed, turned around and went up one floor. And at the end of the hallway

. I met my older brother for the first time.

“The color was different, but the hair was tied back, the face, and the eyes. He looks a lot like the older brother I saw for the first time. So I was surprised. It’s true that I was surprised.”

When I saw Riri appear at the end of the hallway in exactly the same way as before, the memory of that day flashed out in an instant and I was surprised. It’s true that I was surprised. “But that’s not why I stopped the sword

. Of course, I can’t say it’s completely wrong, but there was a slightly different reason.” After

saying this, Calian brought up another story.

Words that he couldn’t tell to Chase, who found him after getting injured. He slowly revealed the real reason why he stopped using the knife.

When I saw Riri, I remembered Plants that day and was reminded of another child just like him. I also told him what I had done to that child. I also told him why and for whom I had done that. This time, I did not hide everything. I spoke while

sitting with my knees bent and caught in the rain. I

looked up at Plantz, who was standing next to me, and my eyes were closed by the falling rain, so I looked ahead again and told the story without even trying to hide it. This time,

Plantz heard everything I said.

“That’s why I stopped the knife. It was a difficult reason to tell, so I asked you to skip it.”

“... Yes.”

It would have been something I couldn’t have said to Chase or Kirie at that time. So, knowing that this was the first time I was bringing this up to someone, I didn’t frown at all. I just listened. I listened.

“Were you worried about that?”

This time, there was no answer that came back like a knife.

Calian laughed softly, stood up straight, and continued speaking.

“You don’t necessarily have to cut something with that knife. I wanted to tell you this first, but I ended up going to a place where I might have to cut something down.” “I know.” ”

If

the situation calls for that, I hope you don’t think ahead and lower your sword first.” ”

I know. That too.”

“And I’m not the kind of person who will die twice because of you.”

Plantz looked at Calian for a long time at his sudden words. Calian, who

had said something he would never have said before, added one word.

“Brother, your younger brother is holding a sword . I write pretty well.”

“...... I know. Now.”

“Yes.”

A playful smile appeared on the corner of Calian’s mouth.

“You’re too weak to make a mistake.”

Seeing his younger brother smiling, one corner of Planz’s mouth curled up for the first time in a long time.

Now he barks in a casual tone.

Even if I point it out, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fix that messy hair, but that doesn’t mean I can just ignore it as an older brother. So, I’m worried about what I should say first, but I can’t easily point out one thing first. So instead of speaking, I just stretched out my arm. –

Kaaang

. The three swords clashed again in the cool pouring rain

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