If Thales made a list of the "most trusted people" in the Court of Stars, then Yodel, who never showed his true face, would almost undoubtedly be the first one - escaping from Red Square Street to Mancao
From the manor being in danger to the assassination in front of the Fuxing Palace, the masked guards risked their lives many times to save Thales, and the latest time they almost lost their lives for him.
Not only that, the masked guard is the only person in the Star Palace who knows his "disaster" identity and still keeps his secret. Thales especially cherishes this.
But it was only now, when he heard Yodel's name in the kingdom of dragons, that Thales realized that he knew very little about this mysterious royal secret guard. Regardless of his appearance, age, origin, personality, and experience,
He said he knew nothing.
He had to admit with shame that Yodel was more like a familiar stranger to him. He had sacrificed a lot for him, but he had never cared about the other person's condition.
No, there are still some - Thales thought to himself: Gilbert told him that Yodel had a deep hatred with Exeter's "Five Generals".
For example, he stabbed Tuleha, the "Fiery Knight" of the Black Sand Territory, in the back...
This was also the reason why he could not come to Exeter.
And now...
A burst of laughter came from the other side of the hall, as if a dozen Northland nobles were playing some game.
Thales then turned his attention back to the kind old woman in front of him.
This old woman from Exeter claims to be Yodel’s...
"This lady, you belong to Yodel," Thales looked at the old woman named Kashan, trying hard to find similarities between the two other than "mystery", and hesitated: "Mother?"
"Please don't doubt it. At my age, I won't make fun of my son." Kashan smiled and shook her head.
Thales nodded awkwardly and turned to Putilai for help.
How is this going?
Who is this old lady?
But Putilai still stared at the old woman with a vigilant expression. Faced with Thales' glance, he shook his head slightly.
"I haven't seen him for a long time, and I miss him especially." Kashan didn't seem to pay attention to the eye contact between Thales and Putilai. Her eyes showed nostalgia and love, and she talked to herself: "That child has been there since he was a child.
He talks little... He has a stubborn temper and is not good at expressing himself. It is really worrying if he is alone outside."
"During his days of serving the royal family, he must have caused you a lot of trouble."
Thales was stunned.
Talk less.
Stubborn temper.
Awkward at expressing.
The silent figure of the masked guard appeared before his eyes.
What followed was what Yoder said that day when he confronted himself in the Mindis Hall and mysteriously appeared in the Hall of Stars.
【You will be better than him.】
"Please don't worry," Thales pursed his lips in the memory: "I believe he is fine now..."
Another burst of hooting came from the noisy hall - two guests actually got into a fight at the wine table.
Thales suddenly realized that he was unconsciously continuing to follow Kashan's words.
He quickly closed his mouth and looked at Kashan in front of him warily.
But the other person still smiled kindly: "I feel relieved knowing that he is doing well."
"Please be patient with his shortcomings. After all, as a mother, I still know my child well." Kashan nodded reassuringly at first, and then sighed: "Little Yoder, he has a rare kind heart.
.”
Thales smiled uglyly, and in front of his eyes was a scene of Yoder raising his sword and taking people's lives in the dark.
Kindhearted?
Doubts couldn't help but arise in my mind: Yodel's mother? Why is she in Exeter?
This old lady...
Wait a minute.
Old woman?
A memory flashed through his mind like lightning.
"ah!"
Thales looked at Cassian, got excited, and screamed in surprise.
The old woman still smiled at the second prince of the stars, with an elegant posture and a kind expression.
Thales remembered.
On the day he left Eternal Star City and set out for Exeter, the king and lords came to see him off.
And the last person who came forward to talk to him was the scary old man wearing black clothes and holding a cane...
[When we get to Exeter, please give me, an old man, a message for an old woman.]
【You'll know it when you see it.】
"Are you..." Thales' eyes widened.
Kashan still smiled kindly: "Huh?"
"Well, I'm sorry...but, an...elder seems to have mentioned something related to you," Thales realized his gaffe and said sarcastically: "You know..."
"Elder?" the old woman Kashan smiled even brighter: "Let me guess, is he a sinister old man who likes to hide in the dark and wears black all day long? I heard that he has started to
Are you on crutches?"
Thales frowned: "Do you know Morat?"
His vigilance was instantly raised to the highest level.
A guy who could be specifically named by the head of the Secret Service... Apart from "dangerous", he really couldn't think of any other adjective.
Hearing the name of the Black Prophet, Putilai frowned and looked at his prince.
"I can imagine how you feel, Your Highness," Kashan smiled: "I don't think meeting him is something to be happy about, is it?"
Thales has the answer.
Maybe Morat is reminding and warning himself.
The second prince sighed: "He said, if I meet an old woman who approaches me in Exeter... I'm sorry, this is... Morat's original words."
"It doesn't matter."
"That old man looks polite, but he actually never understands what politeness is." Cassian shook her head indifferently, and the wrinkles on her face relaxed, "The heartless man is the best at teasing people's hearts, and I don't want to accept this from him.
set."
A heartless man?
Thales opened his mouth slightly in surprise, then closed it with all his strength.
There's a lot of information contained in this sentence...
He tilted his head and said awkwardly: "In fact, Black Prophet... I mean Lord Morat Hansen, asked me to bring you a message."
"You actually asked a prince to bring me a message," Kashan raised her eyebrows, revealing a pair of eyes that were also full of smiles under her narrowed eyelids: "I'm really looking forward to it, Your Highness."
Thales only felt that the peaceful smile of the old woman in front of him put a lot of pressure on him.
Compared with the aggressive and substantive sense of oppression when facing the Black Prophet, Granny Kashan used a gentle and friendly attitude to reveal frowning information. There was something that really made him embarrassed. He didn't know where
The feeling of powerlessness to resist.
"He said..." Thales smiled dryly:
"Don't cross the line."
The voice fell.
Thales suddenly noticed that the old woman in front of him had a strange expression.
Don't cross the line.
Kashan closed her eyes and took a deep breath, sighing and lowering her head, her expression was complicated and difficult to understand.
I saw her murmuring faintly: "So what?"
Before Thales, who was full of doubts, could react, Kashan put away her nostalgia and smiled again.
"You are in a difficult situation now, Your Highness. You are struggling to survive between the stars and dragons, and you are also struggling to survive in the whirlpool of the king and the grand duke." Cassan looked at Thales with soft eyes: "But please believe me,
Compared with Morat... these are nothing worth mentioning."
The next moment, amid the confused expressions of Thales and Putilai, the old woman nodded gracefully, then turned and left: "Thank you for your time."
Thales looked away from the old woman's slowly leaving back.
He couldn't help but notice that on the path the old woman walked, no matter how big or small, nobility, servants and guards, they all bowed respectfully to her and gave way to her.
Thales frowned.
He probably guessed the other party's identity.
"Oh my God," Wyatt exclaimed in a low voice from behind them, "I just saw the Scarlet Witch?"
Thales turned his head and looked at his attendant.
"I'm sorry, I thought they all," Huaiya said with surprise on his face, "...you know, they won't appear in front of others easily."
"Them?" Thales exhaled and grabbed a piece of buttered bread helplessly: "So, my guess is indeed correct?"
"That Granny Kashan, she is..."
"That's right," Putilai replied solemnly, using the bards he was good at:
"The stars shine brightly, and the dim places are dark."
"The giant dragon flies in the sky, and the shadows under its wings are endless."
Thales and Huaiya looked at the deputy bard envoy together.
"That lady is a terrifying figure as famous as the 'Black Prophet' of the kingdom's secret department," Putilai's eyes were full of sternness, and he whispered softly: "The top person in charge of Exter's 'Dark Room'."
"Kashan the Scarlet Witch."
Thales, who had a head as big as a bucket, rolled his eyes.
"To be able to establish herself as a woman in Exeter's court and have people call her the legend of the evil witch - be careful, Your Highness, she is not just here to watch the excitement."
"You may not believe it, but after seeing that lady," Thales bit the bread into his mouth in frustration and looked at the two Northlanders in the distance who were fighting fiercely with bare hands among the crowd.
He said listlessly: "I miss Morat so much now."
"Also, who is Yoder?" Putilai looked at Thales in confusion: "Serving the royal family?"
"This... um, a royal secret." Thales picked up an iron fork and stabbed it into the onions in front of him.
The secret guard of the Supreme King of the Stars is actually the son of Exeter's intelligence chief... Alas, another bottomless pit of gossip.
At this banquet specially organized for the arrival of Prince of Stars and the gathering of the five Grand Dukes, Prince of Stars, as the nominal welcome, was undoubtedly quite neglected. Fortunately, nothing troublesome happened. Some
The Northland nobles who were just watching the fun happened to come up and say hello to him, and Thales was able to return the greeting gracefully with Putilai's prompting.
As for those who came forward to provoke after drinking too much...but Lord Michael could always mobilize manpower at the right time and pull away wave after wave of drunkards.
Thales was able to enjoy his feast in peace - even though a child of seven or eight years old couldn't eat much.
"How long will it take?" A few hours later, Thales, looking at the bustle in the hall, asked Waiya next to him out of boredom: "I feel like I'm almost turning into a Northlander."
Just now, a few drunk feuding nobles triggered a fight that spread to three battlefields, making the noisy hall even more exciting, until the White Blade Guards and the Palace Guards all stepped forward to stop it - with their fists.
"It's been a long time, it's only eleven o'clock at night." Huaiya frowned and looked into the distance in disbelief. A guest with a bruised nose and swollen face was helped to sit on the dining table again. He kept cursing and continued to drink a glass of wine, and then put the glass down.
Throw it in the other person's face.
The prince's attendant shook his head and said: "I have heard from friends from the North that Exeter's feast often lasts until dawn - especially this is the king's feast, which represents the face of Longxiao City, and also has
The five princes gathered together."
Thales shook his head with dull eyes.
The originally casual order in the venue began to gradually disintegrate, and even drunkards appeared, wandering around the place. Some nobles hugged their maids and left the hall, and then strange sounds were heard outside the hall.
Even around the five grand dukes, the ministers and entourages began to leave their seats and participate in the drunken banquet.
King Nun and Nicolai had already left the banquet for a long time, leaving only Michael still calmly monitoring the banquet.
And Putilai... Thales squinted his eyes and couldn't help but curse when he looked at the thin starry man in the field who was arming arms with countless Northlanders, laughing from time to time, and even dared to fight for drinks.
How does this guy fit in so well?
Thales pressed his face on the table and exhaled in pain: "Please tell me, the banquet in the Star Country is not so crazy."
"Probably not." Waiya smiled awkwardly.
"of course not!"
Thales raised his head and saw Putilai holding a barrel of rye alcohol specially provided by the Palace of Heroes, swaying with his eyes closed, and said in his mouth: "The banquet of the stars is more civilized, more appropriate, and the madness is covered up.
Underneath, such as the tryst room specially prepared by the host of the banquet, such as the grass in the garden, such as the quiet and deserted basement."
"As far as I know, your father, our Majesty Kessel, was an expert at this in his youth."
Thales rolled his eyes at him.
But Putilai opened his eyes and his expression changed slightly.
Xingchen's deputy envoy said calmly: "I received a signal from Shles."
Thales cheered up.
"The king has left the table, and the people around the five princes are also staggering," Putilai nodded solemnly:
"I think it's time to talk to them."
When the banquet progressed to nearly twelve o'clock at night, the Grand Duke of Welland, Lebien Alessio, walked out of the hall accompanied by two attendants, stood by a deserted window outside the banquet hall, and looked out the window.
of the moon.
Seems to be waiting for someone.
Until the sound of two footsteps, one large and one small, came from behind.
Archduke Olesiu turned around.
He immediately frowned.
"You're the one who asked me out to meet?"
The Grand Duke held the note that had just been passed to him and looked at the person in front of him in disbelief - Prince of the Stars, Thales Bright Star.
Accompanied by Huaiya, Thales looked at the Grand Duke's beard and smiled brightly: "Yes."
Olesiu looked at Thales in front of him, then at the note in his hand, and the expression on his face gradually changed.
Thales took a deep breath.
coming.
It's about to begin.
He heard himself speak slowly: "Your Excellency the Grand Duke..."
At this moment, Archduke Alessio suddenly snorted and interrupted him.
Tails was stunned when he was halfway through speaking.
"boring."
Olesio glanced at him disdainfully and shook his head.
Then turned and left.
Thales' eyes widened.
Am I so annoying?
"I worked hard to find this opportunity to meet in private, Your Excellency the Grand Duke." Thales took a step forward and frowned behind him: "At least listen to what I have to say!"
"You have nothing to say to a seven-year-old." Olesiu had no intention of looking back.
Thales gritted his teeth.
no solution anymore.
The next moment, the second prince of the stars said loudly to the back of Grand Duke Weiland:
"Rebien Alessiu!"
"Do you know who is about to become the next King of Exeter!"
Archduke Olesiu's steps were interrupted.
He slowly turned around and looked at Thales with a strange expression.
Under Olesiu's strange gaze, Thales gasped excitedly:
"Rumba..."
Olesiu's expression changed slightly.
Thales calmed down his breathing a little, raised his head, and looked at the bearded man with firm eyes:
"The Grand Duke of the Black Sands, Charmaine Lombard!"