Chapter 3350 The Trial of the Great Fool (One Hundred and Fifty Three)
It was still a long, long time ago, in the Kingdom of Solis, in a deep dungeon beneath the royal palace.
The king approached the prison fence with an expressionless face, and looked coldly at the Red Lion boy who was imprisoned in the dungeon through the iron fence.
"Then, explain." The king asked without emotion: "Why did you bring that child to the altar? Did you make him carry something he shouldn't carry, just to play a prank? Or do you want to take this as revenge on me?"
"None of them." Eddie replied coldly: "It's to verify something."
"Oh?" The king snorted: "Say it. Although I promised not to kill you, depending on your answer, I will punish you to varying degrees. Don't think that there is no torture in the Solis Kingdom.
Don't think that as a king, I have to be tolerant to you. Even if I don't kill you, I can cut off your hands and feet and make you live in pain and death, but I can still do it."
The red lion raised his eyebrows slightly.
"To verify whether the child has royal blood in his body." He said slowly: "People without royal blood cannot activate the altar. That's what I heard. So nothing happened when I lay on it. But he did."
Eddie stared at the king: "He is your illegitimate son, isn't he?"
You accused the queen of being unfaithful to you, having an affair with my father and giving birth to me. However, you are not much better. You were also unfaithful to the queen, having an affair with another woman and giving birth to the child. Am I right?"
After hearing Eddie's accusation, the king suddenly burst into laughter. The laughter turned into laughter. The king burst out laughing, laughing loudly, then beating his chest and laughing, until he almost choked with laughter and then gradually stopped.
"Ha... this is the funniest joke I've heard this year." The king wiped tears from his eyes: "You are indeed just like your father, arrogant and stupid. Do you know that little Elaine was created by Lord Menes?"
The artificial man is an experimental product of Lord Menes in pursuit of the method of immortality?
The Royal Soris family has known Lord Menes since the generation of my great-great-great-grandfather. The immortal serum studied by Lord Menes also contains the genetic factors of the Soris family. The child was injected with that serum.
He naturally has the blood of the Solis royal family in his body.
You use this inevitable thing as evidence to prove that I am unfaithful to the queen? Are you kidding me?"
"Menes is immortal and has a serum with royal genetic factors. I don't understand these things. It sounds more like a fantasy." The young man from the Red Lion shook his head and said, "All I know is the facts I see before my eyes."
A child who was not supposed to have any connection with the royal bloodline was accepted by the altar. And I have the right to doubt all of this."
"You may have doubts, but I do things with a clear conscience and I am not afraid of your doubts. My love for the queen is unswerving, and I have never been unfaithful to her in my life. On the contrary, she was unfaithful to me." Wang Ban
With a face: "If I didn't still love her, if you didn't still have half of her blood flowing in your body, you would have been executed hundreds of times, brat!"
"Oh? Is that really so?" Eddie also confronted the king with a straight face: "Your love for that child is not natural. He is obviously just your adopted son, but you love him more than your biological son."
Don't think I didn't see it. You alienate Prince Leoport, but you dote on that child. Isn't this enough to prove that he is your illegitimate son?"
"So you are extremely stupid." The king explained, while showing a slight pained expression involuntarily: "Because Leo also has the blood of that woman. When I think of that woman betraying me, I can't invest in that child.
Real feelings. But little Elaine is different...it is precisely because he has no blood relationship with me that I can pamper him."
"That's nonsense." The Red Lion boy laughed and said, "It's impossible for anyone in the world to love other people's children more than their own flesh and blood."
"Believe it or not, I have nothing to explain to you." The king's brows suddenly moved, and he noticed something: "Oh, I understand. This is your provoking method, right? You think I have to tell you
What do you want to prove? Prove that little Elaine is not my illegitimate child, prove that I am not unfaithful to the queen?"
A drop of sweat broke out on Eddie's forehead, but he didn't reply.
"You are both humble and ridiculous. You are as elusive as your father. Just by raising your tail, I can guess what you are thinking." The king rolled his eyes at the child: "That's fine. You want to use provocation to trick me and make you
If you have a chance to see that kid again, just think that I fell into your trap. You have the last chance to see him. Just take a good look at him and see if he has any of my characteristics.
Is he my illegitimate son?
I know you are as stubborn as your mother. If I don't give you this opportunity to completely destroy your self-confidence, you will probably still do something small, and I won't be able to take this breath. So I will follow your provocation method.
However, you only have this last chance. After this time, no matter what you do or say, I will not let you stay in the palace. I will banish you outside this palace and this country.
.You should gradually rot away from my sight, in a place where people know nothing about, and then die in silence.
——Because this is what you deserve, Edismund."
After saying this, the king walked away.
The next night, the White Bear boy appeared in front of the prison fence.
"Ai, Eddie?" Elaine asked in a low voice, "Yes, is it your uncle who locked you up here? He, how could he be like this..."
"It's okay." The red lion opened the door of the cage with a calm face: "Although this is a prison, the door is unlocked. If your highness doesn't mind, just come in and sit. I've made tea."
Elaine walked into the cell a little worried. The cell was a little dark, but it was still very clean. The aroma of herbal tea echoed in the prison.
Elaine didn't even know that there was such a prison underground in the palace before, and besides Eddie, there was no one else in this prison. Even the entire prison lacked human atmosphere, and it was estimated that it had not been used for decades.
Elaine was very uncomfortable sitting on the stool. But he still tried to take a sip of tea and tried his best to calm down.
"I think this is goodbye." Eddie whispered: "The king is still very angry. He decided to send me outside the palace. I'm afraid there is no room for negotiation on this matter."
"This, this is so unreasonable..."
"I'm fine." The young man from the Red Lion smiled bitterly and said, "Today is the last day. Although this place is a bit unsightly, let's play together. Smile more and leave good memories."
"Okay, okay..." The white bear boy tried his best to smile.
It's a pity that he doesn't laugh much. He doesn't smile much at ordinary times, even when playing with Leo. He often has a dull face and a stupid look, which is probably the stereotype that others have of him.
"Your smile is not natural at all." The little lion squeezed the corners of Elaine's mouth with two fingers, and said half-jokingly: "Don't you know how to smile at all? You should practice more."
Elaine opened her mouth and made a funny expression while saying vaguely: "Yes, it's just for practice..."
He really can't laugh. The reason why he can't laugh is because he lacks something decisive in his heart, so he just can't.
"Yes. It's decided." Eddie seemed to have seen through it all: "One day, I will make you laugh from the bottom of my heart. I will definitely be able to do it."
"But, aren't you leaving the palace?"
"I was just expelled from the palace, not executed." The young man from the Red Lion smiled and said, "As long as I am still alive, we will definitely meet again."
He held Elaine's face with his hands, and his expression became serious.
"I stayed in the palace at first just so I could see the child from a distance. I knew I couldn't contact him and would never interact with him in this life, but I thought that this would satisfy me. I'm really stupid
people.
Then I had a friend. You are the only person in my life that I can call a friend, Prince Elaine. Having a friend like you...is actually not bad. The idea of seeing that untouchable relative...but instead
It becomes less important."
"Ai, Eddie..."
The lion boy buried his head in Elaine's chest.
"This feels so good and furry." He whispered: "I kind of understand the king's mood."
"Ah...this..."
"Although it's a bit shameless to say this, can you stay here tonight? Please, just... just for one night? If the king wants to blame me, I will bear it all."
"This, okay, okay..." the white bear boy compromised. He never knew how to refuse others.
"Thank you." Eddie took Elaine's hand and sat down beside the prison bed: "I want to hold you and sleep together... Wouldn't it be weird? A pajama party or something."
"No, it won't be...right? My uncle often sleeps with me in his arms." Elaine smiled bitterly and replied, "You, you all like to use me as a pillow?"
"It's almost like that, hee hee." The little lion gently pushed the white bear boy down on the bed, and then hugged him: "Ah~ it smells so good. It feels like I'm biting you."
"Don't, don't bite."
"You're kidding." Eddie turned around, lying on his back with Elaine, looking at the ceiling: "It's a pity that we can't see the stars here. I really want to lie on the lawn with you and watch the stars."
"Do you want stars..." Elaine thought for a while, "I, I'll try my best."
"Is this something you can do through hard work?" - Eddie wanted to answer this. After all, the orcs have no way to use spells, and it is even more impossible to conjure the so-called stars.
But the boy from the White Bear Man just managed to do it.
A tiny ball of light was released from his palm, like a small ball of light like a firefly, but the light was not green, but warm white.
Eddie instantly understood what it was.
That is the ancient [gold magic] that created the sun magic.
However, orcs cannot use spells. Let alone orcs, even humans cannot easily use such spells.
However, this guy used it easily, as simple and natural as breathing.
Small balls of light are like dust, flying around, turning the entire cell into a starry sky. Of course this is not the sun, not even an artificial sun, just a very small star. But the stars have already told
everything.
"The king really didn't lie." The young lion man sighed in a low voice: "Am I the one with the ugly heart?"
Orcs cannot use magic. The royal family of Thoris is no exception. If Elaine is really the king's illegitimate son, he should only be able to activate the altar, but cannot use gold magic.
This kid isn't an orc at all. He's wearing an orc's skin, [something].
"Huh? Eddie, Eddie is not ugly!" Elaine shouted: "Why, why do you have to belittle yourself like this?"
"Sorry, sorry." The little lion grabbed Elaine's hand and took something out of his trouser pocket: "Then, under this starry sky, let me play a song for His Royal Highness."
He put that thing to his mouth. It was a harmonica.
The melodious harmonica sound gradually sounded, echoing in the deep dungeon.
After the song, Eddie paused slightly and asked, "Are you doing well?"
"It sounds very, very good." Elaine replied, "I think I heard it somewhere before?"
"This is the tune my mother taught me to play. There should be quite a few people in the palace who know this tune." The lion boy told a little lie: "Your Highness, please promise me one thing. This [gold] you can use
Magic], in the future, people in the whole world may be fighting for what they want. They will do anything to... to get you. So, please don't use this in front of anyone anymore. You have to pretend
Ignorance. Learn to protect yourself."
"Uncle, uncle said so too."
"Then why did you——"
"I, I want you to know this secret." Elaine replied: "Because I believe you."
"Thank you, Your Highness." Eddie smiled, holding Elaine's hand tightly while continuing to play the harmonica.
Time kept passing like this, but they didn't care. The white bear man boy gradually fell asleep amidst the melodious sound of the harmonica, making a slight snoring sound.
"Are you asleep, Your Highness?" The lion boy stopped playing the harmonica and asked in a low voice.
No answer.
He was silent for a while longer.
Then he turned around, hugged the arm of the White Bear boy, and put his forehead against the hair on Elaine's shoulder: "Good night, Your Highness."
"Huh?" Edmund suddenly opened his eyes.
Is it a dream? It’s such a nostalgic dream.
It was already past one o'clock in the afternoon. Because Elaine had an eye injury and needed to rest, everyone went to rest after lunch and acted according to Elaine's schedule. Edmund kept transforming and casting spells quite well.
I was so tired that I naturally took a nap.
He heard a noise outside the house and knew that Elaine and the others had woken up, so he tidied the bed a little and climbed out of the window.
"Ah, Edmund!" When the white lion boy saw the appearance of the blood lion, he greeted, "Sleep, did you sleep well?"
"I rested well, Your Highness." Edmund saw Elaine wearing Queeg's spare glasses and knew that the white lion boy's injured eyes had not recovered as before, so he deliberately did not mention it, Cha
He opened the topic: "What are your plans next, Your Highness? Do you plan to continue going deeper into the underground city of Atlantis? Or do you want to take a day off to let your injured body rest well?"
"Uh-huh...I, I want to move on." Elaine replied.
"Big brother——" Bailey muttered beside the white lion boy.
"I, I know. But time is really running out." Elaine showed a confused expression.
"Then let's move on." Edmund nodded and said, "Take it one step at a time. If you find that you can't move forward, go back and make a new plan until the victory is over."
"Thank you, thank you, Edmund." Elaine smiled bitterly and said, "No, without you here, I don't even know what to do."
"I should be the one to say thank you, Your Highness." The blood lion smiled meaningfully.