Chapter 67. Fragrance (3)
I heard the whole story.
“It was said that when Sir Bridget fell from the roof, our prince appeared from somewhere and caught it. Our prince acted as if he was going to kill Sir Brigitte one more time… Ah, I think I know roughly that. I experienced it. “The craftsmanship is so amazing. Anyway, what our prince gave us back then, we kept it very well at our house… No, that’s okay.”
Arsene took his gaze away from Needlen, who was wondering if the guy standing in front of me was really my boss, and opened his mouth again.
“Around the time when Duke Siegfried came after that and blocked the capital guards. I don’t know how long. It’s a mistake to say, so don’t listen to it. Anyway, the vice-captain, who is the crown prince, arrived and defeated the capital guards… Then the capital guards “Are they the ones held over there?”
“Yes, Vice Commander.”
“Yes. Anyway, the vice commander, who is the crown prince, bought you perfume.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“How much?”
“yes?”
“Oh. No. I was just curious.”
Since he was trying to give me enough money to make me question whether he was telling me to hoard perfume instead of buying it, I just swallowed the words that I ended the transaction by asking for a one-time reduction in case I had to scold the members later in order to maintain a transparent and smooth transaction system in the perfume market. Needlen just nodded.
“Anyway, then I arrived.”
“Yes, Vice Commander.”
Arsene shook his head as he remembered Eila and Hina, who returned to the palace with half of the people who had come here.
Then I raised my head and looked towards the rooftop for a moment.
Needlen, who was nearby, asked Arsene with a face full of worry.
“Wouldn’t it be better to go up and support? The noise of fighting is loud.”
“Have you ever seen our prince fight in person?”
“Yes. I have seen the Third Prince fight against Siona Hill.”
“How was it?”
“It was scary.”
“It wasn’t me.”
“Aren’t you scared?”
“No. I felt like I was going to die.”
“Ah yes.”
“Anyway, I don’t think you need to go up. Just guard this place well.”
“Are you going to be okay?”
In response to Needlen’s worried question, Arsene turned his head and looked at Needlen.
“I heard you bought perfume?”
“yes.”
“You wouldn’t have just left what you bought, so wouldn’t you have sprayed a lot of it?”
“… Rather than spraying it, he poured it in.”
“I guess so. Anyway, if that’s the case, just leave it as is and watch over it with Siegfried’s knights. Keep your eyes wide open so those garrison guys won’t go anywhere. We have to take them to the palace together later.”
Arsene, who spoke as if it was no big deal, took a step forward. Then Needlen took a step towards Arsene and opened his mouth.
“Where are you going?”
“It’s going behind.”
“Behind the building?”
“okay.”
“Why are you going there?”
“I heard you saw our prince fighting too?”
“yes.”
“In the first place, didn’t our prince get hit hard the last time you drank alcohol and destroyed the store?”
“I did.”
“Then we have to find out whether that living person is our prince or not.”
“I know it’s not the Third Prince’s.”
“So you’re going backwards.”
“……Vice Commander, are you taking after me now?”
It was just a riddle being said without a proper explanation.
Arsene frowned, looking like he had just heard something incredibly dishonorable.
“If there was a fight upstairs after the Vice Commander, who is the Crown Prince, went up after pouring perfume, it is said that the Vice Commander, who is the Crown Prince, was the one who made that guy up there grab a sword and start killing people. He has a knack for changing people’s personalities. Anyway. That means he intentionally started a fight. Is our prince the kind of person who can catch people in the middle of the capital? Not even the president of the association. No. Forget this.”
“Yes. I think that will work.”
“Thank you. In any case, whoever our prince doesn’t catch and let go in a fight that was deliberately caused is probably a dirty bastard, so shouldn’t I catch him? So, you are here guarding those guys, and you, Duke Siegfried, and the knights. “Be a little more acquainted with them. Make it seem to other people that you are close friends with Balkan and Siegfried. Do you understand?”
“…… yes.”
Arsene nodded and took another step. Then he stopped again and looked at Needlen.
“Oh and.”
“yes?”
“You’ve been around the Crown Prince, Vice Commander, a lot these days.”
“Yes, I was helping Vice Commander Hertz with his work.”
“… Yes. To help me with my work.”
“yes.”
“That’s not the important thing. If you’re going to buy a new perfume with the money you sold to the Vice Commander, the crown prince, don’t buy flower perfume.”
“Why are you doing that?”
“Don’t ask.”
“yes.”
“Don’t even buy grapefruit scent. That’s a shortcut to a downhill road in life.”
“…… why.”
“I’m busy, so I’ll explain later. Anyway, I’ll go.”
Arsene may have seen it or not, but Arsene moved towards the back of the building with the same gait as always.
By the time the toes reached the shadow of the moon.
Arsene’s toes disappeared. Then, my ankles, calves, shoulders, and finally my bright blue hair all disappeared as if they had been erased.
Arsene, who had covered himself so transparently, soon began waiting for the ‘scummy bastard’ to jump this way.
* * *
There was a reason.
I just continued to tolerate Gray. No matter what thorns were thrown at him or what insults were thrown at him, he accepted them all and endured them. Although he repaid his words with his younger brother’s hand, even that could not be a complete repayment. In the end, I just endured it. Because now I understand that it has to be that way.
But I couldn’t stand even Rashid’s. There were many reasons. More than anything, I didn’t want to get used to being another obstacle to my younger brother, so I couldn’t bear it. Because now I know that’s okay.
So I had a lot to say.
There was a reason. I needed to get you to reveal the weakness that you could use to suppress them, which you couldn’t because you were angry.
They said it wasn’t reckless since they had already checked a lot of things. I saw who the guy next to me was, I knew what was in that guy’s heart, I knew what he was reluctant about, and I guessed how much power he had. He said he didn’t send Needlen and Arsene away just in case.
There was so much to say.
Explain, persuade, and make excuses.
Aside from the fact that I just got scolded, this was the first time in my life that I had heard the name ‘hey’. Considering that it was another new experience, the fact that it came from my younger brother’s mouth seems to be a bit of a problem. I guess that’s a bit absurd to listen to without prejudice, but anyway, you’re really spoiled right now.
By the way, do you know that you and I are the same? Do you think that you who are angry at me are not risking your life?
I had to say something like that.
but.
“He must have thought it through with his smart brain and calculated it. Since he came with Hina, he must have known right away that that guy was suspicious. If I scratched him gently and exposed the bottom, I could grab him and swing him. I guess he did.”
I got angry and said I couldn’t tolerate him being so rude any longer. You’re just stronger than me, but in the end, you’re the same as me. Give me a discount.
I was going to say that, but
“If the bastard who killed half of Aila was a sword master, I wouldn’t have told him not to come because he was crazy, so I looked into it. Or, I checked something else while I was here. I think his skills are comparable to Aila’s and mine, so somehow. He must have figured it out well. He must have figured it out because he thought it would be okay because there was a Vulcan. That must have been it. He must have been clever.”
First, I heard the voice of my younger brother, who seemed to be half inside my head. Because of that, everything I could say disappeared.
The smell of blood was so strong that it blinded me, and I couldn’t think of anything else to say due to the scent mixed with it.
“Whether you sacrifice your heart or your neck, you can use your smart head to find out everything, even the hidden abilities of that bastard. He’s so smart that he can clearly see whether he’s making five or ten moves, just like he’s playing chess. If you do that, everything will work out just as you think. Because it will.”
– Drip, drip, drip.
I don’t know what I was doing just now, but I had to apply so much force to cut another deep wound in the flesh, so much so that the blunt shirt pin that made a dent in the royal body was stuck deep in the wound, and something red and soft was dripping from the wound.
So, should I just stop and let go of this hand?
Or should I ask what this is?
Even though I kept thinking, I couldn’t come up with the right answer, so I stayed still.
“Should I take care of it and save him? I guess he believed that too. Even if he gets angry, even if you can’t stop him, it will be okay because he will take care of it for you. He must have believed that without a doubt.”
Plantz’s gaze went down.
I looked at my hand, which was covered in blood and I didn’t know who it belonged to. I looked down at it.
“okay.”
And then he moved his mouth.
“I’m sure he’ll be able to stop you anyway. He’ll be able to save you well. My brother.”
I knew you were angry, but
I knew very well that I had turned around again.
“It’s not that I want to die or that I don’t want to live. I know that this isn’t the place for my brother to be in danger. My brother, who is so strong that he often puts up a shield, won’t just sit there and watch, so I won’t die either. Then, isn’t this the best way? . So I did that. Why?”
Why? Why are you angry?
Why did Calian turn around like this when he is still my younger brother?
Still don’t know why.
“… Ah. It wasn’t that he wanted to die or that he didn’t want to live. But he entrusted your head to me instead of to you himself.”
A voice full of cynicism is heard.
“Whether or not there might be someone else besides that bastard hiding here. Whether or not I might lose sight of that bastard’s sword. That bastard’s head will turn and I won’t pay any attention to him, and he’ll only rush at my brother. Those things need to be calculated. There is nothing. Because you only have to figure out what you can see. That’s all you’ve considered in your head. Anyway, nothing will deviate from what you expected. That’s it, without any exceptions. That’s how you think about it. Everything in the world will work that way. Even if it doesn’t work. . Even if that doesn’t happen.”
The hand that was not holding Planz’s collar moved.
A white finger pressed Plantz’s shoulder blade. Planz’s mouth, which was closed as if nothing had happened, can be seen being squeezed tightly.
okay.
It looks very good.
“If I can block that bastard’s sword a few times, nothing will ever happen to my brother. I won’t let that bastard get near you, so there won’t be a problem.”
Calian put more pressure on the hand holding her collar.
I didn’t use anything like Silent. I lowered my voice so as not to raise my voice.
A voice that was almost a whisper came out.
“It’s okay. I’ll take care of it and save you… brother. I.”
Ugh.
The tip of my hand lightly touching Planz’s shoulder gives strength once again.
sick.
“But. If you trust me so much, why do you say you don’t like being shielded first in front of your brother? Why do you say it’s annoying to be treated like a child wrapped in swaddling clothes? Don’t you know that this is very contradictory? Even with your smart brain, you haven’t thought about that.”
Plantz didn’t answer.
Calian didn’t wait for an answer.
“If you don’t like it and it’s annoying. If you feel like a dog, receiving unconditional protection first. Don’t entrust your life to me, and don’t tell me you’ll become stronger by using your sword well. Start by learning how to be scared. Think about what’s really scary. There is one other person, there is one me, so my brother is also one. Let’s stop playing the numbers game where everyone is counted equally and one by one. I’m asking you to worry first about what will happen if something goes wrong and whether you will get hurt or die.” A
low growling sound continues to be heard.
“Be scared and think. Don’t calculate it. If the injury is this bad, how much pain it will be when you die, and how scary it will be… If you think about that, you won’t be so carefree if you entrust your life to me. Then, I won’t blindly stand in front of you.”
That’s right.
That wasn’t wrong. What Calian said was always right.
It’s true that it’s contradictory. Even though he didn’t want to be locked up in the shield and stood behind his back, he was trying to be the older brother who protects his younger brother. In the end, I know that he was using Kalian’s power as a bulwark. Even after he came in front of Rashid with the scent he hated covering his whole body, I know that he thought Kalyan would block Rashid’s sword. The contradiction is right. “I thought.” But I was
wrong
. “
I thought. There is something that scares me. Me too.”
“I was scared after thinking about it, so you’re doing something like this?”
“Yes.”
Plantz looked at Calian.
What was he thinking?
What made him scared.
It wasn’t necessary to explain.
” That’s why it’s like this.”
“… ha.”
Calian took it easy to understand that.
Suddenly.
The broken shirt pin fell to the floor.
The fingers that were pressing down as if digging into the spaced shoulders fell. The collar. The hand that was holding it loosened.
“He said he would live and that he didn’t even want to die.” Put your heart on the line and put your neck on the line. He took it into account that I was blocking him in front of him, as if it were a natural thing. You believed in me so strongly. Just as you wish… I will. They said they would keep blocking it forever. If you believe it. If you believe me without a doubt. Even if it’s annoying, do you think I’ll keep blocking it?”
The red eyes glared at the light green eyes.
They glared as if they were going to tear everything down and cut it out.
“If you act like a child standing on the edge of a cliff. I am. Do you think he will continue to be like that, playing around with his brother, nagging him to eat, working hard to clean up the smell of flowers, and saving him when he needs to? Does that seem like an easy task? Do you think that will happen?”
“……Stop it.”
“It seems like I can do whatever I want to do according to what you calculated. That’s it.”
“Stop it. “I did it.”
“I did.” Forever. “Keep going.”
“Hey.”
“Don’t die. It doesn’t disappear either. Forever. “I.”
I had nothing to say.
I couldn’t think of anything to say. So
I didn’t say anything.
– Ugh!
Calian’s head snapped up. Plantz, who was returning his swinging arm to its original position, bit the inside of his mouth tightly.
Plantz. I could have said it, but I didn’t.
Calian could have avoided it, but he just got hit.
I thought it was a price for speaking informally, so I just got hit.
“If you’re that scared of losing your brother again.”
However, it hurt a little more than I thought for that price, so I got hit one more time. He opened his mouth.
“…… Let’s think about your little brother who is worried about losing you again. That’s probably not something you’ve already thought of. I thought so, but I know he’s not the kind of guy who would have continued to do this even after knowing. Because I’m not the kind of person who would go through all this trouble for having a little brother like that. “Me too.”
The guy who had been beaten so hard that his head was turned and his lip was busted barked once more. Then, not paying attention to his dislocated shoulder, he left the guy who had punched him alone and went down alone.
