Ms. Goose Velvet pulled the livid Thales and walked out quickly.
Only behind him, Keya's hysterical voice could be heard from afar.
On both sides, there were maids and servants with calm faces from time to time, rushing towards Keya's room.
He seems to be used to this kind of scene.
Keya's screams still ring in my ears.
"Ooooh-my Luther-no! Don't!"
"Your head... Wuwu... Why can't you put it back on! Why can't you put it back together! Why does it always fall off! Why!"
"Stick it! Just stick it and it'll be fine! Luther? Right?"
Thales just walked forward with a pale face.
He felt that what happened behind him was too cruel.
He didn't dare to face it.
It wasn't until Keya's voice disappeared far behind that the two of them stood still in a corridor.
Thales looked behind him with lingering fear.
"I'm sorry." The long-haired lady in black said softly: "Usually, Keya's attacks don't happen so quickly."
Thales looked back blankly.
Doubts slowly began to arise in his mind.
Thales raised his head and looked at this lady.
"Back then, when Luther and Lydia—my brother and sister—were assassinated," Thales said with difficulty, "The queen and Ms. Jinnie were all there. Did they witness it with their own eyes?"
After a few seconds of silence, the lady in black and velvet had sadness in her eyes:
"Yes."
She said slowly:
"That day, His Highness Luther was..."
Ms. Goose Velvet closed her eyes tightly and said breathlessly as she recalled:
"Jini and I rushed over after hearing the sound, but we both arrived too late."
"It is said that his head rolled under the bed..."
"Princess Lydia was kidnapped. Jinni snatched the horse and chased her away. I ran to inform the guards, leaving the frightened Keya alone in the room."
Thales took a deep breath.
The answer suddenly came to his mind.
I see.
He was assassinated on the way to Fuxing Palace that day.
Jinni's abnormal reaction...even alerted me in advance. He was not an assassin coming for me.
Is this the reason?
They have all experienced... such a scene?
so……
"But you don't need to be afraid, Thales," the velvet lady with long hair in black smiled at him gently:
"...Queen Keya, she has been like this for many years."
"When she is awake, she is always hysterical and full of resentment," the velvet lady said with emotion: "When she is sick, she is quiet and peaceful. She only feels that Luther and Lydia are still beside her, jumping and playing..."
The lady's expression gradually became sad and miserable:
"After the tragedy that year, the palace was in chaos. Even King Eddy and His Highness Midir were... The guards were so nervous that they drew their swords when they saw anyone... So no one paid attention to this place, and the servants all fled."
"Only Keya clings to the prince's body and refuses to let go...it is said that she locked herself in the room..."
"I was forcibly segregated into a safe house by the guards... The panicked nobles closed the Fuxing Palace and Yongxing City... It would be two weeks before His Majesty Kessel took control of the kingdom and stabilized the situation." Ms.
He sighed and lowered his forehead.
Thales sighed softly.
"For two weeks, Keya stayed in the room, crying with her arms around the dead Prince Luther, and surviving on the water in the vase..."
"You know, two weeks have passed and the prince's body has become..."
Following the lady's description, Thales tried to imagine the scene and suddenly shuddered.
"Two weeks later, they broke open the door and we saw Keya, who was dying and almost fainting, and in her arms..."
The lady let out a long sigh, her face full of fear:
"That kind of scene is just like a nightmare."
Thales swallowed his throat and didn't dare to imagine anymore.
For the Bright Star Royal Family...
Year of Blood...
Is this the scene?
Born for the stars - is this the price?
silence.
Until Thales suddenly reacted, he raised his head and looked at the velvet lady in front of him in confusion.
correct.
Just now, Jinni called her——
your Highness?
Judging from her age, she shouldn't be Kessel's daughter, so the princess refers to...
However, the eldest princess Constance Canxing, the youngest daughter of the late king and the youngest sister of Kessel V, was not what he saw in Canxing’s tomb...
Thales had questions in his mind.
"So, are you...?" Thales asked cautiously.
"Oh, the title of 'princess' must have confused you." The goose-down lady understandingly relieved Thales of his embarrassment and lowered his head slightly in embarrassment:
"My surname is not Canxing, and I am not a real princess," I saw this "princess" shaking her head slightly:
"I am just the adopted daughter of His Majesty the late King. I can be regarded as your half-aunt."
Thales opened his mouth wide in surprise.
"I am Elise Sola, I am a little younger than Constance," Princess Elise said with a smile, a charming dimple showing on her face: "But I am not qualified to be named Bright Star... Sola
, this is my husband’s last name.”
Half... aunt?
Why hasn't anyone mentioned it before?
"Excuse me, who is your husband..." Thales said mechanically.
"Count Sola...the honorary count from the late king's time," Elise sighed upon hearing this, "he just passed away a month ago."
widow?
No wonder, it's the man in black... who is still offering his condolences.
"A month ago? The honorary Earl passed away?" Thales asked doubtfully: "Is it an illness..."
But Thales realized that he was a little rude and quickly bowed and apologized: "I'm sorry, Aunt Elise, I was presumptuous."
Princess Elise was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said: "No, there is nothing to hide..."
Just listen to the late king's adopted daughter, Princess Elise, speaking every word:
"He died in the big explosion in the center of Hongfang Street a month ago."
Hongfang Street...
big Bang?
Tails froze immediately.
Could it be...
"It's XC District and Xihuan District, the night when the gangs broke out." Elise said sadly.
Yes.
That's right.
It was me, Yoder, and Asheida who caused the explosion.
Guilt suddenly welled up in my heart.
Thales breathed out.
"He, your husband," Thales suppressed the discomfort in his heart and asked slowly, "Why was he in Hongfang Street that night?"
There was obviously a curfew that night, right?
But Elise obviously didn’t know much, she just sighed:
"We don't have a good relationship. My husband... likes to go to Hongfang Street to have fun... A few days before his death, I went there to look for him and had a big quarrel. He didn't come back for three days..."
"But I didn't expect that it would be the last time."
Elise closed her eyes, shook her head and sighed.
She pulled the goose down on her shoulders to keep her warm.
But at this moment, Thales' pupils suddenly shrank!
That goose down... looks familiar.
Goose down...
Miss……
Hongfang Street...
Days before the big bang...
Argue with your husband...
Could it be...
Thales was shocked all over!
He looked at Aunt Elise's face again.
This time, my aunt's delicate face completely overlapped with a face that seemed to be from a long, long time ago in my memory.
It's been so long that I almost forgot.
yes.
is her.
It's the goose-down noblewoman.
Thales looked at the princess aunt blankly.
That day, it was her.
It was she, covered in goose down, with twenty Terminator Swordsmen, who met Thales who ventured out to beg in the territory of the Blood Bottle Gang on Red Square Street.
It was she who gave alms to unkempt Thales on the street, twelve coppers and... one silver coin.
However, Thales has changed so much that even she may not be able to recognize him. The second prince Thales in front of her is actually the same person as the beggar Thales a month ago.
Thales touched his chest.
There, it was the scar that Quaid had burned with that silver coin.
Because of that charity, Kolya, who was seriously ill, was able to survive typhoid fever.
It was because of that charity that Ned reported to Quaid.
It was precisely because of that charity... myself... the beggars... Quaid... Yara... Red Square Street...
It was precisely because of that charity that everything happened after that...
Thales sighed deeply.
"What's wrong?" Princess Elise looked at Thales with a complicated look on her face.
"No, it's nothing."
Thales raised his head and showed a respectful smile.
This aunt suddenly became much kinder in his eyes.
"I just felt a little emotional when I saw my relatives."
Ashida Sarkon's smile reappeared in front of his eyes.
Is this, what you said, accidental?
Or - Thales saw the strong Kessel in front of him, his lonely figure in the royal cemetery - it was fate?
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XC District Underground Street, Sunset Bar.
"Cut it down."
"Just think of it as a piece of wood."
"Abandon useless emotions and principles and become a true Sarriton!"
"Cut it down!"
No.
No!
Yara Sarriton suddenly woke up from her nightmare!
She rolled up from the bed, breathing heavily.
She remembered that after the three beggars were kidnapped, she knelt in the Sunset Bar and could not get up for a long time.
until losing consciousness.
And now...
"It's really ugly."
On the other side of the bed, in the corner of the room, a voice that was very familiar to Yara came from.
"Do you always have that nightmare every time you are stimulated?"
Yara exhaled hard:
"old man."
"When did you come back."
She closed her eyes and lay back on the bed.
But the voice didn't mean to answer her:
"Yara Sarriton, if you can't look back and face the fears of the past, then you will always be a weak person."
Yara opened her eyes, then pursed her lips, turned to face the wall, and turned a deaf ear to the old guy's words.
"Even Roda can suppress you to the point of being unable to fight back... What a pity those two great murderous knives are..."
Yara thought of the three kidnapped beggars and Kolya's heartbreaking pleas.
【Sister Yala...】
She closed her eyes tightly and fought back the tears in her eyes.
But the old guy's words still came out: "A fear has locked you up like this. You are no different from Quaid... back then..."
Nightmarish memories came over me.
Yara couldn't bear it anymore, so she got up and shouted angrily at the corner:
"enough!"
"No need to remind me again!"
The old guy laughed deeply:
"Hehehe... remind you what?" The old guy continued to laugh at her: "Huh, look, you are so scared that you don't even dare to mention it..."
There was a "ding" sound, which startled Yara.
She knew that it was the sound of the old guy playing with the blade of the knife.
Although she was a little weak, Yara stood up angrily.
"Hmph, it sounds like if I mention it, I will immediately become an extreme master."
"Who knows," the old guy said mysteriously, "but if you keep escaping, you will definitely not reach the extreme...what happened yesterday will still happen again."
"The name Sarriton will still imprison you like a curse for eternity."
"Do you really want that man's nightmare to rule the rest of your life?"
"Or do you want to experience your own powerlessness and weakness again?"
Yara opened her mouth and took two deep breaths.
"What's so difficult about this?" she gritted her teeth, "it's just that."
"Oh?" The old guy's voice fluctuated a little: "What's the matter?"
Yara twisted her face, and the stone room appeared in front of her eyes.
no.
She began to tremble.
no.
Darkness and blood spread before her eyes like a tide.
no.
Her teeth began to chatter.
no.
She could hardly breathe.
no.
Can't remember...
But the next moment, a small silhouette appeared in front of her.
That was a brat with black hair and gray eyes, covered in scars, and he looked at her unpretentiously and said resolutely:
"I'm going alone."
Yara opened her eyes and took a breath of air.
In the brain, back to that stone room.
She spoke tremblingly:
"Twelve years ago, in Fuxing Palace..."
Cold sweat broke out on her head.
"Ding!" The sound of the old guy playing with the blade could be heard in the air.
Just listen to the old guy saying coldly: "Go on."
Yara gritted her teeth, her expression getting worse and worse.
"My first time, first mission..."
Yara's whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.
But the scene flashed before her eyes yesterday, when Rhoda held her knife and took away the three beggars with a nonchalant expression.
That was... Colia's pleading eyes.
"I……"
Yara shivered and felt nauseated.
"I……"
Yara felt that some liquid was flowing out of her eyes.
"I……"
Everything in front of me turned bright red...so...scary...
Yara slurred, her lips not touching.
At this moment.
It’s the old guy’s violent drinking!
"explain!"
Yara was shaken all over.
What followed was a ray of silver light shooting toward her!
"Boom!"
A wolf-leg knife was nailed to the wall half an inch from Yala's left ear.
Yala is so excited!
All the scenes, characters, sounds, and colors of that day were clearly reproduced before my eyes!
"That day, I——"
Her eyes were dull and she shouted involuntarily:
"I beheaded a baby alive!"
After shouting these words, Yara gasped for air and felt that all the strength in her body had left her.
Twelve years.
she shouted.
She finally shouted.
"thump!"
Yara trembled, fell to her knees on the ground, covered her mouth, resisted nausea and nausea, and cried bitterly.
From the corner, the old guy's voice came faintly:
"Now, pick up your knife."
"Your own knife."
"Not Sarriton's knife."
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Regarding Sarriton, interested book lovers can go to the work-related section to read Extra Chapter 3, which briefly mentions some related things.