After seeing off his guest ("You're going to make him die miserably, right?" - Belicia's intriguing attitude before leaving), Thales returned to the dungeon and faced a situation that was obviously different from before.
of Lausanne II.
"I heard that you finally relented and wanted to see me again?"
Lausanne II raised his head with difficulty, looking through his messy hair, and first looked at the people around him:
"I only promise to see you."
Beside Thales, Miss Cecilia Cavendill, who looked unhappy because she had lost face ("Well, your method is more effective than the soul bone Jacques, are you satisfied?") crossed her arms.
, frowning and threatening:
"Oh? Are you sure?"
Thales looked around and quickly smoothed things over:
"Well, in this case, Xi Lai, if you are present, he will not be very willing. Does that mean..."
"I stayed."
Hilley was decisive and blocked all possibilities.
Thales raised his eyebrows and quickly changed his words:
"OK."
The prince looked at the killer with an undiminished smile:
"Look, I tried my best."
Lausanne II said disdainfully:
"Try harder."
"Are you sure?" Xi Lai pulled his gloves coldly, "You want me to work harder?"
When Thales put on a smile and prepared for another round of persuasion, the vampire killer smiled sadly.
"You guys should put away this red-faced trick," he turned his head to the side with an indifferent attitude, showing no reaction to Hilley's threats. "I'm tired of it."
His attitude of giving up everything made Thales and Hilley both frown and look at each other.
"It seems that you had a good chat with your old friend?" Thales asked tentatively.
Lausanne II was silent for a while:
"How did you come up with the idea of finding her?"
Very good, if you are willing to talk, then you don't have to think of ways to send the eldest lady away.
"Because I can't catch you - in every sense." Thales sighed.
Both physically and mentally.
Lausanne II looked at him again.
"But fortunately, I began to understand that in my position, there are many things that you don't have to do yourself," Thales shrugged. "If I want to catch you, I just need to find those, well, people who have caught you."
.”
It's just...
He pursed his lips.
The second prince's reputation is probably not big enough.
At least... Black Sword refuses to come?
"As for Belicia, well," Thales speculated, "rather than intimidation, sometimes letting you chat with your old friends and letting things take their own course might lead to better results?"
Miss Hilley on the side took her seat and glared at him angrily.
Lausanne II sneered.
"Then her performance was so good. I can't even tell how much of it was true feelings and how much was intentional."
Thales' expression changed slightly:
"You know she's acting?"
"I wish I didn't know."
"Then you are still willing to see me?"
The vampire killer raised his eyes, expressionless:
"I'm not willing to see you because of her."
Thales' eyebrows jumped.
But after all, you were only willing to let go after meeting her.
But Thales thought so, nodded to himself, and brought the topic back to the key point:
"I understand that you were involved in the change of power in the Emerald City that year. You were betrayed in the battle between the Blood Bottle Gang and the Brotherhood, and suffered a complete defeat. Only then did you return to the Emerald City for revenge many years later. Now I still have the last piece of the puzzle, and I need you...
…”
"Have you ever lost?"
Thales was startled:
"What?"
Lausanne II, who was covered in bruises and in heavy shackles, took a breath and spoke in a daze:
"I mean, Your Highness Thales, have you ever lost in your short life?"
What?
lose?
This topic was too far away from the topic. Thales couldn't react in time and didn't know how to bring the conversation back.
"I told you, you should use my method."
Xi Lai, who was listening in the audience, sighed, with an expression on his face that he had known this for a long time, and shook his head in disdain.
But Thales raised his hand and asked Hilley to wait a moment.
He put himself into the other party's situation and tried to understand Lausanne II's thoughts:
"Have I ever lost...Why do you ask?"
Lausanne II raised his head and looked at him carefully under the dim light.
"From the first time we met, I could see it in your eyes, Your Highness."
The killer narrowed his eyes:
"You are a stubborn and stubborn man, and you may have been called stupid and naive."
Hilley couldn't help but glance at the prince, while Thales remained silent.
"You must have experienced trials, pains, tribulations, setbacks...perhaps unimaginable to ordinary people, but you gritted your teeth, relied on your will to convince yourself, and persisted in overcoming. Every time, every time you became stronger and more tenacious,
Even more unshakable - like all the great heroes of all time."
Lausanne II smiles hard:
"Just like a high-quality ancient imperial sword, it becomes sharper as it is sharpened, and becomes stronger the more it is used in battle. Everyone is in awe, envy, and covet it."
But his smile disappeared immediately, and his words changed:
"Except for one thing."
The killer said coldly:
"You have never experienced failure."
Thales listened to his words carefully and smiled involuntarily.
"Then you are wrong."
Thales looked at the bottomless darkness around him and felt in a trance:
"On the contrary, I have experienced countless failures, as well as many seemingly successful failures, including too many helpless and compromising choices..."
Abandoned House, Mindis Hall, Manor Manor, Fuxing Palace, Palace of Heroes, Dragon Sky City, Blade Tooth Camp, Prison of Bones... and the Kongming Palace in front of you.
"The fault is yours, Your Highness."
As a prisoner, Lausanne II mercilessly criticized the temporary warden in front of him:
"As long as your will has not been broken, it is not a failure."
Thales' eyes moved.
"As long as you still hold on to the hope of 'not giving up' or even 'starting all over again,'" the killer shook his head, "then what you encounter is far from failure."
At that moment, endless gloomy despair appeared in Lausanne II’s eyes:
"The kind of failure that is so complete that it makes you deny everything that belongs to you, your faith is shattered and you are so disheartened that you just want to give up everything, numbly escape, or even end it all."
Lausanne II’s words seemed to spread ink in the air, making everything around him blurry:
"In the face of that kind of devastating failure, any thoughts of revenge, unwillingness, resentment and regret all cease to exist, or at least become insignificant."
Thales frowned upon hearing this, thoughtfully.
"It is precisely because you have never experienced such a failure, Your Highness," the vampire killer said quietly, "so even now you still don't understand, you are still like those common people, you still think why I came back... ha, revenge?
"
Thales could sense the deep despair and pain in the other person's words, but he didn't want to go around in circles anymore:
"Then why did you come back? To stop failing?"
Lausanne II smiled sadly.
"If a sword has never been broken, shattered, or damaged," he said coldly, "then it will never be able to see its own material in its fragments and fractures."
The killer glanced at Thales coldly:
"Your Highness, just like the protagonists of those chivalry novels that succeed to the end, you have never truly lost, so naturally you cannot understand that a broken sword that is completely broken and has lost its edge will struggle out of its sheath after being recast.
meaning.”
Thales frowned, but was still confused.
"What is the purpose of wielding a sword that has been reforged?"
Lausanne II sneered:
"Just for revenge - to break the sword that broke me?"
He gritted his teeth and stared, as if crazy:
"Then what? To be crushed again one day, to be recast again, and to be recast again?"
Thales was silent for a long time.
He's going crazy.
The voice in the prince's heart quietly told him:
No matter in the past or now, this hateful, pitiful and pathetic killer has been worn down by life and power.
And the reunion with Belicia was the last straw, breaking down his last line of defense.
What you can ask out of his mouth...maybe not what you think.
"If it's not for revenge," thinking of this, Thales' question became cautious, "then when you come back with a sword, you are willing to be a pawn, killing people and disrupting the situation. What is it for? Profit? Ambition? Justice? Or just for the sake of it?
Tone?"
It can't be just to be like Rumba...to end the cycle and innovate and become old, right?
Seeing that he still didn't understand, Lausanne II didn't answer, but just laughed again.
"Hahahahahaha..."
The laughter is desolate, sad and chilling.
Seeing the other party's indifferent expression, even a patient person like Thales couldn't help but feel discouraged.
"Maybe you are right, Shirley," the prince's face darkened, "Maybe I should try your method."
Find the soul bone Jacques...
"Find the craftsman." Hilley suddenly said.
Thales was startled and turned around:
"What?"
Lausanne II's expression also changed slightly.
In the sight of the two of them, Xi Lai was in a daze, muttering what the killer had just said:
"If a sword is broken, you can get a glimpse of its own material..."
Seeing the state of his companion, Thales couldn't help but become worried.
"If the reforged sword is not for revenge, or for finding the enemy sword to crush the opponent, distinguish the superiority, and regain the edge..."
Fortunately, Xi Lai just took a deep breath, came back to his senses, and looked back at the two of them:
"Then this sword must be used to find its source."
source?
Thales looked confused, but Lausanne II looked surprised.
"For example, the craftsman who made the sword at the beginning," Hilley said solemnly, "ask him about the material of the sword, why he made the sword like this, and why...he made the sword."
I saw the eldest lady closing her eyes, taking a deep breath, and seemed to have something in her heart:
"Ask him why the fate of the sword was destined to be repeated collisions, shattering and...recasting from the beginning."
Hilley's voice fell.
Both she and Lausanne II looked gloomy and silent.
Only Thales was confused and had to cough to remind:
"All right?"
"Perhaps, Your Highness," Lausanne II came back to his senses and smiled helplessly, "Maybe it is this young lady I should meet."
"Okay," Thales said even more confused, he said honestly, "I really don't understand."
Xi Lai took a deep breath and returned to the front:
"He does not come for revenge, prince, but for answers."
"Answer?"
Thales became more and more confused:
But isn’t the answer already on the page?
The reason why Lausanne II ended up today...
"Brotherhood? Black Sword? Blood Bottle Gang? Turnbull? People like Belicia who betrayed you? Emerald City? Old Duke? Viscount Sonar? Struggle of interests? Political strife? Even the Kingdom's Secret Service and even... us
Bright Star Royal Family?”
Upon hearing the last name, Lausanne II revealed a cold look under his messy hair.
Thales' eyes lit up when he saw this:
"All the things and factors that brought you to this situation? Are these the answers you want to ask? All these... people who were involved?"
But Lausanne II looked at him and still sneered lightly.
"The important thing is not people, because 'people' are insignificant."
This time, the person who spoke was actually Heeley again, and the eldest daughter of Kevin Deere murmured in a deep voice:
"What really matters is: What makes a 'man' a human being? Why is a 'man' a human being?"
Why are people human? Why are humans human?
Thales looked confused when he heard this:
"Aren't these two sentences the same?"
"They are the same in common language, but in the language of..., they have different parts of speech," Heeley sighed and shook his head. "The former asks why people are human, and the latter asks
What a person does makes him a human being."
Why...
do what……
Thales became even more confused after hearing this.
Hilley whispered:
"Like the great advocate who was..."
Thales reacted:
"Um, Srimani?"
Xi Lai nodded, with a rare expression of compassion:
"Tell me, is he more like a human being when he is suffering and struggling, or is he more like a human being when he is well-off and well-off? Is he more like a human being when he is self-reliant, or is he more like a human being when he acts with a black heart and benefits himself at the expense of others? Is he more like a human being?
Are you more human when you surrender to reality and sacrifice your conscience, or are you more human when you suddenly wake up when the end is approaching?”
These words made Lausanne II's lips twitch and he looked confused.
It also made Thales feel confused.
He had to pat the back of the other person's hand and asked cautiously:
"Hile? Wyana? Good girl, are you still... okay?"
Hilley came back to his senses and shook his head.
"This is not what I said, but... someone said it," the eldest lady said vaguely, which made Thales puzzled. "It is also someone's... principle of 'dealing with others'."
someone?
[It’s not just me saying that...]
Thales was so excited.
Just now, he was sure that he heard something, as vague as coming from underwater:
[Little Liuzhi, this is me and you, this is our common principle...]
Xi Lai trembled slightly, turned pale, and bit his lower lip.
【My partner...】
The next second, the vague sound disappeared.
Lausanne II was still deep in thought, seemingly unaware of anything.
Thales knew that this was not the time to ask questions. He could only swallow his throat, pick at his ears that were ringing slightly, and bury his doubts deep in his heart.
"Okay, so what are you doing?"
The prince turned to the killer and asked:
"If you want to know why you ended up like this, then Belicia should have put everything together..."
But this time, Lausanne II stopped telling riddles. He spoke happily:
"I have lived three lives."
Thales and Hilley exchanged glances.
I saw the vampire killer looking at the flickering lights and speaking in a daze:
"In the first part of my life, I was a squire of Knight Joaquin, a reserve knight who came from the bottom."
High-spirited, naive and frivolous.
"In my second life, I was a terrifying killer of the Blood Bottle Gang who killed without blinking an eye and showed no mercy with his sword."
Going through ups and downs, being cynical.
"The third life... I am a monster returned from hell. I am cursed with immortality and curse the damned people."
Cold, numb, and extremely twisted.
"Years ago, because of Joaquin's relationship, I followed the king to the Emerald City, but because of conflicts with other attendants, I was falsely accused of oppressing the people. Thanks to Crown Prince Midir's mediation, and...a certain local judge
Thanks to the officer's integrity and the king's magnanimity, he personally apologized, so I was able to get away with it."
Lausanne II spoke clearly and unhurriedly, and his expression did not change at all, as if he was retelling someone else's story.
Thales and Hilley looked at each other, and both resisted the desire to interrupt and ask questions.
"But the royal family lost face, and I felt uneasy and guilty about it, so I decided to do something to make up for it: at the subsequent general election, I put on the armor of a classmate's squire and took his place.
"
All disasters begin from here.
The vampire killer raised his head, and in the darkness and turbidity, he found the clear but tough attendant of the past again.
"Wait a minute, your classmate doesn't have any objections?" After all, Heeley couldn't hold back and was the first to ask.
"In that unjust case in which I was framed, Aknett was injured in the hand and unable to fight because of me," Lausanne II sneered, "I think I am also obliged to do something for him."
He said in a daze:
"Just like that, I held my breath and gritted my teeth, fighting and winning all the way until the finals."
Thales' expression changed:
"The opponent is Prince Horace?"
Lausanne II nodded in a daze:
"The Sword of Light."
As a knight master and teacher, Joaquin originally knew his own strength, but before setting off to the Emerald City, he repeatedly told him not to participate in the competition or to be in the limelight...
Looking at it now, many years later...
Lausanne II shook his head and pushed away the unnecessary memories from his mind:
"But just one day before the game, some caring people found me."
Hearing this, Thales and Hille both moved.
"They promised me: As long as I lose the game beautifully after a fierce duel, let the second prince win smoothly, and complete the royal story of Horace returning from the Terminator Tower and winning the championship..."
Lausanne II said in a deep voice:
"After that is accomplished, there will not only be other rewards, but they will also help me settle the aftermath of that unjust case, including conflicts with other attendants, including impersonation while wearing other people's armor. Neither Aknett nor I will be affected.
Punishment, if one day... they will not forget my achievements."
Hilley showed a disgusted expression and spoke out Thales's thoughts:
"No surprise - don't tell me, you agreed?"
Lausanne II looked obsessed and shook his head:
"After that, other people found me."
He continued:
"Compared with the previous group of people, they are better spoken, more confident, and more... upright."
Lausanne II said numbly:
"They told me that the crown prince has been established and the throne has been determined long ago. For the sake of the overall situation of the palace and the stability of the kingdom, it is not appropriate for the second prince to win the championship at this time, let alone enjoy the cheers of the crowd and win boundless prestige at this time."
The overall situation of the palace...
The kingdom is stable...
"Besides, the Crown Prince has worked hard to clear up my grievances, and you should repay his kindness in a timely manner...or something like that..."
He took a deep breath:
"So...if possible, they can provide help, so that I can be more aggressive and play the game more intensely, so that I can openly 'unable to hold back' and cause Horace to be seriously injured and disabled - they even gave me a penalty for this."
Gave me a bottle of poison."
Thales and Hille both frowned.
The prince was seriously injured and disabled.
This is not as simple as losing the game on purpose.
"And these two groups of people... put you in a dilemma?" Thales said in a deep voice.
Lausanne II snorted coldly.
Two groups of people?
Or...are these the same kind of people from beginning to end?
"Then why don't you just go to the king directly?" Thales couldn't help but said, "Confess to him and ask him to make the decision?"
Lausanne II smiled disdainfully.
"When both Zhan and Federico have their own agendas and try to persuade you to do what they want, Your Highness," he did not answer directly, but asked the prince, "Why don't you go to the wise and wise King? Please ask him.
Call the shots?"
"I..." Thales hesitated to speak.
"Placing undue expectations on greater power or higher strength, hoping that they can solve the problem," Healy said quietly from the side, "This is the first step of the fallacy."
Thales couldn't help but ask:
"Did 'it' say it again?"
Hilley trembled and raised his head.
"That was the first difficult duel in my life." Fortunately, the killer interrupted their conversation in time. "The difficulty is not the skill, but the psychology."
He hummed softly:
"That's right, the Sword of Light is very strong after he learned it from the Tower of the End."
Lausanne II's eyes were bright:
"But it's not that strong."
Especially among the team of accomplices around him who all had their own agendas, flattered him, and forcibly praised him as "the best master in the history of the Bright Star Royal Family".
"In five rounds, I found his inevitable flaw."
Speaking of this, Lausanne II sighed:
"But at that moment, my heart was confused."
His tone was calm, but his sentences continued incessantly, vaguely showing his past struggles:
"Should I really start? How should I start? Where should I start? What should I do? Win hard or lose beautifully? What will be the consequences after doing it? What about the favor of the crown prince? What about the prince's face? And the king's
What about the attitude? What about the teacher’s position? As a knight’s squire, what should I consider? Justice or integrity? The overall situation or self? Adhere to etiquette or obey instinct?”
Listening to this series of hesitations, Thales suddenly thought of what Hillay said about the soul bone Jacques:
What makes a person human?
Why are people human?
Xi Lai was silent for a while: "In the end, you still gave in and deliberately lost?"
"No."
Lausanne II raised the corners of his mouth, sneered and shook his head.
"Horace saw my hesitation. Instead of pursuing the victory, he even offered some explanations... But I, I..."
Speaking of this, Lausanne II's breathing quickened.
[Come, put aside your worries, use all your strength, defeat me, defeat me, surpass me, in order to win the crown of this election...]
In front of him, amid the cheers of tens of thousands of people, Horace's low and cold words, as if he was indifferent to everything around him, flowed out from the gap in his mask:
[Even, it doesn’t even matter whether you win or lose, squire... because you are not here to compete, but to prove...]
Horace walked at a slow and dangerous pace, and the nine-pointed star pattern on his armor shone incomparably.
[Whether you win or lose, you are just proving that you can become the sword of our family and the chess piece of our kingdom...my sword, my chess piece...]
The nine-pointed star flag at the venue was extremely heavy.
[Only in this way can you embark on a journey to prove yourself, to earn a title, to become a noble, to become a servant, to become qualified to serve me, us, and the kingdom...]
The light-tracing sword turned its wrist, and a cold sword light flashed:
【……knight.】
Therefore, this is the meaning and value of knights in the eyes of the prince.
Lausanne II fell into deep thought.
No one knew that on that day, the power of these words would far exceed all the exquisite sword moves.
They, coupled with what those thoughtful people said to him before the game, and his own chaotic and numb thoughts, they were connected together and turned into an invisible but extremely heavy chain...
In that arena where the mountains roared and the tsunami roared, and the atmosphere was lively...
Crush him alive.
"Later I gradually understood..."
Lausanne II sneered:
"Then where is the knight's joust? What joust? What kind of joust? I'm not competing with others at all. It's not even a joust."
But comparing it with other things... comparing... who knows what.
"Choose a general."
Hilley on the side suddenly spoke, and both of them turned to Miss Kevin Dill.
"From the very beginning, the name of this competition has been 'Selection of Generals'," Shilai said quietly, "not a tournament."
Her words made Thales think deeply.
Hundreds of years ago, the Duke of Cork held a knight's tournament in the Emerald City in order to use power and wealth as bait to select soldiers to deal with the war threat of "Eight-fingered" Horace I.
In other words, preparing to choose people to die on the battlefield.
"I lost."
Lausanne II smiled sarcastically and continued:
"Before I knew it, I lost."
When he came back to his senses, all he could feel was the deafening cheers filling his ears.
And above the head, the roaring cross and double-star flag.
Hilley came back to his senses and sighed.
"That's enough," Miss Kevin Dill said gently, "runner-up and second place are pretty good too."
Second place... is also pretty good?
Lausanne II's eyes were blank.
The next second, he snorted disdainfully.
Of course.
When the two parties in the duel are the nine-pointed star and... no, the kingdom and everything else, the chess players and the chess pieces...
runner up……
It is the destined destination.
Lausanne II took a deep breath and returned to reality:
"After that, my identity was still discovered, but I was eventually pardoned for the crime of impostor, and was even selected into the escort team of Crown Prince Midir - just like the idiot guards you are around now."
Foolish guard...
Thales' mind flashed to the smiling face holding a little stuffed bear.
Lausanne II closed his eyes:
"And not long after that, the crown prince had an accident."
"I know."
Thales took over his words with a heavy tone:
"The king's eldest son fell from a horse and was seriously injured while traveling. He fell into a coma in bed. When he woke up, his legs were disabled. This also led to the queen's premature birth and her unfortunate death."
Hilley raised his eyebrows with a surprised look on his face.
Lausanne II sneered.
"Oh, so the blame for the crown prince's fall is on you, a newcomer who just joined the team?"
Hilley couldn't believe it:
"Did you cut his bootlaces or something?"
The frivolity in the eldest lady's tone made Thales frown, and he gave the other party a reproachful look.
But this time, Lausanne II was silent for a long, long time.
It wasn't until Hilley began to wave impatiently that the current prisoner and former knight squire snorted:
"It's not a horse fall."
As soon as these words came out, Thales and Hillai were both stunned.
I saw Lausanne II saying quietly:
"Similar to being seriously injured and comatose, falling off a horse is just an excuse to cover up the worse truth."
The worse truth?
Thales and Hilley looked at each other in surprise.
And that's...
"Midir is missing."
Lausanne II's tone was understatement:
"For more than three years, there was no news from him."
Thales and Hilley both widened their eyes.
"You can't see people alive, you can't see corpses even if you're dead."
Just listen to Lausanne II faintly reveal the secrets of the royal family:
"For the sake of the dignity of the royal family and the stability of the kingdom, and for the safety of Midir's life abroad, the Fuxing Palace has strictly sealed the news. It only said to the outside world that he fell from a horse and fell into a coma. He was seriously injured and recuperating and was unable to see guests. In fact, he was acting secretly and non-stop.
The search for his whereabouts continues - even those who know the situation feel there is little hope."
What?
Upon receiving this news, both Thales and Hilley were stunned for several seconds.
Until Thales was the first to react.
"And he fell off his horse, no, the reason for his disappearance was..."
"Assassination," Lausanne II said with an indifferent expression, "a carefully planned assassination - for the order of succession to the throne."
His tone was sarcastic:
"It's boring, cliche, and uncreative, isn't it?"
The killer's expression changed:
"But this set of drama that everyone is tired of watching has to pay the price of countless people's misfortune."
Xi Lai's eyes moved:
"Like you?"
Lausanne II was silent for a moment.
"I cannot absolve myself of the blame."
He said slowly:
"The loopholes in security... indeed came from me, the newcomer."
And by the time Joaquin heard the news and rushed back from the military camp... it was already too late.
Thales came back to his senses. He and Shilai looked at each other and asked in unison:
"Who? Who did it?"
Lausanne II's eyes narrowed.
The next second, he seemed to have remembered something unpleasant and reacted greatly. He trembled under the shackles and laughed coldly:
"Hahahahahaha..."
Thales and Hilley were both confused.
After a few seconds, Lausanne II, who had had enough laughter, took a deep breath, his eyes dim and unclear:
"Do you know, this question is just this question. Back then, I was chained to various instruments of torture, and the thugs from the kingdom's secret department used various methods. Day and night, the cold and heat continued, every minute and every hour, the relay continued.
How long have you been asking for?"
Two years?
Or three years?
Learn with reason, move with emotion, use force and inducement, coerce and lure, torture to extract confessions, speak softly, stimulate with drugs, induce hypnosis...
Thales and Hilley looked at each other in surprise and embarrassment.
"Then you...don't know who it is?"
"Does it matter?"
Lausanne II suddenly opened his eyes and raised his voice:
"You harm me, I harm him, he harms you, you pretend he harms me, I pretend you harm him, he pretends I harm you again..."
He shouted angrily:
"What kind of power struggles and throne intrigues are coming and going? Isn't it just these kids fighting with each other? There are no new tricks!"
The roar of Lausanne II echoed in the dungeon, causing the lights in the distance to sway and the shadows to flutter.
After venting his anger, the killer was trembling, his eyes were blurred, and his emotions could not calm down for a long time.
Thales and Hilley carefully remained silent.
Until the prince took a deep breath and turned to another topic:
"I heard from Thor that in the end, you, you were imprisoned in the Prison of Bones?"
Lausanne II's eyes gradually focused.
Prison of Bones.
Yes, the prison of bones.
Originally, he should have had a worse ending.
But Joaquín…
Joaquin he...
Lausanne II gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
This damn, self-righteous Great Knight, Grand Master, stinky old man...
"I don't know, I don't know who is behind this."
He took a deep breath:
"But I know...after that, the dazzling second prince Horace, who had returned from the Tower of End, was permanently excluded from the Fuxing Palace and exiled to the northern fortress, far away from the center of the kingdom, taking charge of the border areas.
Wind and frost, guarding the national border, are like being imprisoned in a military camp..."
Speaking of this former opponent who influenced his life, the vampire killer had mixed emotions:
"Throughout his life, he has been rejected, ostracized, wary, monitored, hated and even betrayed by his father..."
Thales was frightened and amazed when he heard this.
"In the end, I can only go north alone and prove my ambition by dying, so that I can earn back a sad reputation for someone who sacrificed his life for his country and was loyal to his father."
"Prince Horace..." Hilley said in surprise, "because...the late king doubted him?"
Thales went one step further and revealed his suspicion:
"Because he is the biggest beneficiary of the crown prince's disappearance?"
Lausanne II nodded and shook his head.
"Yes, but more than that."
His eyes were misty and he was in a trance.
"Under the unremitting pursuit of the Kingdom's secret department, several people with serious suspicions were uncovered. Those people confessed under torture and had secretly wooed me before the general election."
Thales and Hille were both startled and raised their heads.
Who will be chosen?
"They said that the reason why I took the initiative to hide my strength, entered the competition under my own name, and deliberately lost to the second prince in the final election was in exchange for the opportunity to surrender to Horace, and..."
Lausanne II sneered:
"An opportunity to join the Crown Prince's Guard."
Thales understood.
"Witnesses, physical evidence, motives, and even countless details, what they said are all facts, they all really happened," Lausanne II said in a sarcastic tone, "And I am really inexplicable, because of reasons other than strength, I lost to He
Lars, made him famous, and he was a blessing in disguise, he was exempted from the crime of impersonation, and he was able to join the service of the eldest son of the king."
In fact, the secret department even found a bottle of poison in his luggage - it looked like he was preparing to commit suicide.
Haha, poison, poison!
Lausanne II held back his laughter hard.
"So, when people - whether they are kings or beggars, when they examine everything, they will find that I, no matter how I look, look like the... key executor of the murder of the crown prince."
Lausanne II's eyes turned cloudy.
As a powerless and ungrateful civilian servant, apart from shouting about injustice like in the past...
He was at a loss.
Don't argue with anyone.
Thales felt heavy after hearing this.
An ordinary person - no, he has already stood taller and more extraordinary than most ordinary people - unfortunately stepped onto the stage of power and stood at a key node in confusion.
What ushered in was only the mockery of fate.
The power that has been ruthlessly crushed is on the verge of death.
"So, Midiel disappeared and Horace fell out of favor." However, Hilley's expression was normal and he still had the energy to count on his fingers. "Because of you alone, the line of succession to the throne of the stars is suddenly missing.
Two people?"
She couldn't help but said:
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, the late king actually only sent you to jail. He was really generous."
Lausanne II couldn't help but clenched his fists - including the lost one.
"Hilai." Thales had to whisper to remind her to pay attention to the other person's emotions.
"Don't forget, his wife also died in childbirth because of this." However, Lausanne II didn't care. Instead, he added with a sneer, "Even giving birth to a princess is still a fool."
From the outside world, it seems that he has committed serious sins.
From this perspective, isn’t it true that the king is magnanimous?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Lausanne II laughed heartily in his heart.
According to what is written in the bard: What are you waiting for? Why don't you hurry up and shout long live the mountains and chant the Holy Ming?
"No wonder the general election wants to erase your name as runner-up..."
Hilley couldn't help but sigh:
"And it has declined since then. No one goes there anymore or no one dares to go. It must be because of you..."
"Hilai!" Thales had to remind her loudly.
Hilley reacted and curled his lips:
"Okay. Then if the election was up for grabs, you won, and even seriously injured the second prince..."
Lausanne II smiled, very openly and relieved.
"The result may be slightly different," Thales sighed, "but I'm sure there will be another conspiracy behind it that will continue to revolve around him."
Many things were doomed from the beginning.
The three of them looked at each other in silence for a long time, and then Hilley broke the silence:
"after that……"
"He is back."
Lausanne II said quietly.
"Crown Prince Midir, who had been missing for nearly three years, miraculously survived and returned to Mindis Hall."
He seemed to be smiling but not laughing, and seemed to be crying but not crying. His tone was full of sarcasm:
"Other than the obvious loss of his legs, no one knows what he went through. Well, except for the king, I guess no one dares to ask."
The killer shook his head:
"After returning, he did many things, such as pardoning a large number of people's sins, including me - although by that time, I no longer needed his forgiveness."
His words were sarcastic.
Thales and Hilley looked at each other.
"As for that damn source of blood, that panacea that can revive human flesh and bones," Lausanne II said with bitterness, "that was after he returned to Mindis Hall, found my whereabouts, and handed it to me with his own hands.
of."
"You?" Hilley asked doubtfully.
Lausanne II shook his head and became lost in thought:
"It's not just me, he wants to make up for my teacher and make up for Joaquin's loss."
"What loss?"
Xi Lai wanted to ask, but Thales stopped him and shook his head.
"But Joaquin refused," Lausanne II looked dazed, as if he was immersed in his own world and couldn't get out, "so it stayed in my hand until..."
He moved his eyes to look at his body which was covered in blood and the granulations in the wounds could not help but squirm.
Lausanne II sneered, not sure whether it was despair or relief.
Hearing this, Thales was filled with emotion and took over the conversation:
"Until your second life."
The life of Lausanne II.
The life of a killer.
Lausanne II was silent.
"Well, I don't blame you, at least it's not entirely your fault."
On the other side, Shilai ignored Thales's angry reminder, and spread his hands in response to the situation and sighed:
"After this experience, if it were me, I couldn't help but want to kill someone!" ()