(Two in one, today and tomorrow together)

On the 23rd of Huixue, Lorna, who was on the border of Fenghuo Province to fight against the rebellion, received an urgent report from the rear, saying that her dragon Fei Ye was going crazy and massacring civilians and was now under control.

Lorna was so distracted when she saw this urgent message that she could not care about the situation of the battle. She rode the fastest winged beast and rushed back to the royal city that day.

As soon as she arrived above the palace, Lorna heard loud cries. A dozen plainly dressed civilians knelt on the ground and cried hoarsely, with tears streaming down their faces. Several of them were holding something black in their arms.

After landing, Lorna walked past these people and saw clearly that they were young charred corpses.

Looking past the crowd, the scene before her eyes made Lorna's eyes split open.

I saw an iron cage not far away. Feiye was locked in it. Her wings were tied with iron chains and stood tightly on her back. A metal muzzle was locked on her mouth. Her huge body was almost invisible in the narrow iron cage.

The space for movement is extremely painful.

"What are you doing?!" Lorna roared and rushed over, pushing away all the imperial guards blocking the way, tearing apart the iron cage and prison equipment with her bare hands, and released Feiye.

When Feiye saw her master, she let out a sob of grievance, her big head pressed tightly against Lorna, and she was still trembling from time to time.

The Judge of the Royal City came behind Lorna and said softly: "Your Highness, please understand that you were not in the Royal City before, so we had to capture it and lock it up as a last resort."

"The trial office received a report yesterday evening that eight children were murdered on a mountain outside the royal city. We sent investigators overnight to visit the area where the incident occurred, compared traces at the scene, and finally found out."

The inquisitor pursed his dry lips and continued: "It was discovered that all the children died of dragon's breath, and the only dragon that came in and out of the incident during that time was your Feiye."

Lorna was so shocked that she couldn't even think about retorting directly: "No way!"

A kneeling villager wiped away tears and said: "It's this giant red dragon! I watched it fall on the back mountain with my own eyes. Then I heard a loud cry and it flew away. We took people to drive it away.

In the past tense, the ground was filled with flames, and the children were burned to death!"

Lorna pointed at these villagers and yelled: "Fei Ye was brought up by me. It is absolutely impossible for me to take the initiative to hurt others! It must be your own problem. Someone did something offensive to Fei Ye!"

A haggard-looking woman cried: "Our Amy is a good child! How could she attack a giant dragon?! She is only four years old! Give me your daughter back!!!"

Just as the two sides were quarreling red-faced, members of the Citizens' Assembly came forward.

As an institution endowed with supervisory powers under the New Deal, the Citizens' Assembly has elected members who have obligations on major and important cases and also have the right to supervise the handling of cases by the trial office to ensure that no one desecrates the law during the entire process.

Feiye's murder of children has spread in the royal city. The nature of such a major case is bad, and it also involves Lorna, the Queen's most important confidant. People are worried that someone is bending the law for personal gain, and require all 24 members to attend the supervision.

The leading congressman looked solemn and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness Lorna, there is no point in worrying about who is it now. No matter whether these children have aggressive actions or not, one fact cannot be erased - your dragon brutally killed them."

"According to the law, animals that harm innocent people, especially animals that cause death." The congressman looked into Lorna's eyes and slowly said the last words, "They need to be treated harmlessly."

As soon as the congressman finished speaking, he suddenly felt an almost substantial dragon's power sweeping across his face. His heart almost stopped because of it. The temperature of his blood seemed to have dropped to freezing point. All his strength was deprived of him, and all that was left was irresistible.

Tremble.

"Try to move it?" Lorna's eyes were burning with anger, and the ancient and majestic dragon power swept around. The nearest congressman was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, and the civilians kneeling on the ground were also panicked.

Shrinking back, his fearful eyes were as wide as a copper bell.

When everyone was trembling, Lorna looked at the familiar figure on the steps, her eyes revealing deep sorrow, and her voice began to become hoarse: "You are just watching there? You don't say a word to help me?"

The victims came to the palace to report with their corpses, and Solandel was of course also present. She stood alone on the steps, with a haggard face and unfocused eyes, staring at the ground blankly, as if she did not have the courage to look directly into Lorna's eyes.

Lorna: "Speak."

Solandelle was speechless.

"I told you to speak!" Lorna almost shouted.

The member of the Citizens' Assembly calmed down and stood up and said softly: "Your Highness Lorna, this matter has nothing to do with Her Majesty the Queen. Rules are under the law, and everything is done in accordance with the law and will not be changed by personal will. This is the fundamental principle of the New Deal

.”

Hearing the word "New Deal", Lorna's eyes became more and more sad. For the first time in her life, she looked at her childhood friend who grew up with eyes full of alienation: "Solan, you have become more and more mature in the past ten years.

The weirder it gets, the more I can’t figure out what you’re going to do.”

"At the very beginning, you wanted to take away the Regnom family's fiefdom and power. You said that the contribution of my ancestors to the establishment had nothing to do with the present. You said that the things my father left me were not mine, and you wanted to take them all away and distribute them to others.

"

"Okay. Anyway, I've been letting you do it since you were a kid, and I don't need those things. If you really want them, I'll give them to you."

"Later, you said that Kino, who accompanied us all the way, was a bad guy, and you wanted me to beat him in front of everyone, and even hurt him so that he would bleed for everyone to see."

"I don't understand very much, but I did it for you. Even if you are both my friends, in my heart, you are more important than him. If I can only choose one, I will definitely choose you."

"Later on, you became more and more extreme. You wanted me to kill Kino and you wanted me to kill him by any means necessary."

"Haha, it's come to this, what can I do? If you want to kill, then kill. Even if you die in the process, just treat it as I have fulfilled my duty as a friend. You can remember me in the future and remember that you have such a friend.

, just go to the cemetery and send me flowers occasionally.”

When Lorna said this, tears began to fall from her eyes, and her voice began to become distorted and hoarse: "But you want to kill my dragon now?"

"Solan, Feiye grew up with you! You knew him when you were three or four years old. After more than 20 years, he is no different from the one you raised by yourself!"

"I really don't understand. Why can you just watch your men catch it and hurt it, and remain indifferent yourself?"

"Are you really distorted by sitting on this throne? From the bottom of your heart, you feel that neither Kino, nor me, nor Fei Ye, is as important as your throne?"

Solandel closed her eyes, tears kept overflowing from the slits of her eyes, her body was shaking with sobs, but she still had no words.

Perhaps, any words are useless at this time.

"Are you deaf?!" Lorna rushed forward, grabbed her clothes frantically and kept shaking her, and finally pushed her down on the steps, "I told you to speak!!!"

Lorna also wanted to grab Solandel and continue pushing her, but a slender figure stood between the two.

Hilly stretched out her hand to stop Lorna, her eyes were indifferent, and her tone was as calm as dead water without waves: "Sister Lorna, "rule under the law" is an unshakable national policy. Under the new policy, the law will not avoid relatives, and the law will not tolerate mercy."

"As His Majesty's best friend, you should tolerate and understand her difficulties instead of making things difficult for her."

"Friend?!" This word was like a spark falling into a pile of gunpowder, instantly igniting Lorna's emotions. She pointed at Solandel's nose and cursed at the top of her lungs, "Ask her! I regard her as a friend.

Does she consider me a friend?!"

"I fell on the bed and collapsed in pain. She wouldn't come to see me for several months! She caused a lot of trouble. She couldn't handle it herself and just forced it on me. She never considered my feelings! I helped her fight and it hurt her eyes.

I’m already blind, and now you’re stabbing me in the back!”

"If something happens, ask me to go to the front and fight with others. If nothing happens, use me to show off my power. What do you think of me? Do you think of me as a dog?!"

After Lorna yelled at Solandel, she wiped away her tears with her sleeves, turned to look at the civilians who were kneeling and sobbing, and said coldly: "I tell you, I don't care about the code!"

"I will tell you today in front of so many people! Feiye's life is nobler than ordinary people like you! You are nothing in front of it!"

"I don't understand, why are all living beings equal? ​​I'm better than you and can do a lot of things that you can't do, so why can't I be superior to others? Why can't I enjoy even a little bit of privileges?!"

"So what if Fei Ye kills people? During the years when it fought with me, it saved hundreds of thousands of people, not to mention millions! Is it enough to just take a few merits and pay for your children's lives? Ah?!

"

When it comes to this topic, everyone is speechless and everyone has nothing to say.

The twenty-four members of the Citizen's Assembly, who were elected by the people and shouldered the power of supervision, all turned their attention to Solandelle. The meaning in their eyes was: We have no choice, you can do something about it.

Parents who lost their children cried and looked at the Queen with pleading eyes, hoping that she could seek justice.

Lorna also looked at Solandel, her eyes were sad and bleak: "Aren't you forcing me to take sides between you and Kino? Okay, then I'll force you once too."

"Tell me, are you willing to spare Feiye's life? Are you going to stand next to these civilians you have never met before, or are you going to stand next to your childhood friends who grew up with you?"

Now, Solandel was forced into a corner and had no way to retreat.

A question was placed in front of her: What are you going to do?

"Government under the law" is your decision.

You have given this great concept to the people and told everyone that all living beings are equal under the law, and the law does not shun relatives and the law does not tolerate mercy.

In order to help you make the final decision, Maban, who has been following you for many years, gave up the chance of clearing his name all his life and his name in history, and resolutely jumped into the muddy water to rectify the law.

His wife, Miss Aurora, also sacrificed her life for you, whom we only met once, for the sake of her ideal future.

Later, as you wished, the respect for the law remained in everyone's heart, and the new era of "ruled under the law" that you wanted was born in your hands.

But now, something happened to your best friend.

She doesn't agree with you.

She doesn't obey the law.

She felt that she should be superior to others, and felt that those untouchables would die if they died, and they did not deserve Fei Ye to pay for them with their lives.

Okay, Solandel, what are you going to do?

You, Solandel van Dogullande, the Laurel Queen, the initiator of "rule by law" and the champion of all subjects in the land, what are you going to do?

In front of the twenty-four members of the Citizens' Assembly, in front of those poor parents who have lost their children, what are you going to do?

The wind on the 23rd was colder than ever before.

Lorna's eyes, the eyes of the citizen councilors, the eyes of the parents who lost their children, all gathered together, as if they had turned into a wall, trying to crush her.

This queen who was born in a greenhouse and rose up in the flames of war, who abandoned her true love for her ideals, finally tasted the bitter fruits of change.

Solandel's blue eyes were empty and lifeless. In the ten years since she took office, she had never burst into tears like this one day before. She raised her head and looked at Lorna. The remaining emotions in her eyes completely collapsed and she couldn't stop her lips.

Trembling, a desperate whimper came out:
To be continued...