Chapter 33. I’m going to get a dog (2)
Scar.
The marks left behind prove that all wounds have healed.
There was only one person in the world who knew that, but Bern had quite a few scars on his hands and body. There was also a long, thin scar on Calian’s right palm. Only Planz would know what the intention was, but the wounds suffered due to his idiotic behavior were not healed immediately. Of course, other than that, there were no other scars. This was because Sispanian’s blessing showed solid healing power.
The same was true for Plants.
The Oath Seal is a blessing power that does not heal right now because it does not affect the heart, but the wound caused by Calian’s decapitation was healing quickly. Of course, that didn’t mean that the wounds would heal and disappear right before my eyes, so unless Hina was gone, it would take at least half a day for them to disappear.
“It’s not a pretty wound.”
Even though I buttoned my shirt all the way up, it didn’t cover the wound. Plantz responded with an expressionless face when asked about the long blood lines on his white neck.
“Are there any nice-looking wounds?”
The day when Lucy, a nameless kitten not long before being injured by Silike’s dagger, entered the rose garden without knowing what to do. So, the day Randel blocked Hina’s path.
Since that day, it was the first time we had seen each other and talked properly. To be more precise, it would be necessary to first consider whether there had ever been a proper conversation between the two, but that’s what Plants thought anyway.
“Sometimes there are necessary wounds, right? I can’t say it’s a bad thing to see something like that.”
I had absolutely no desire to sympathize with what Randel, who was sitting in front of me, said, but it wasn’t wrong. Didn’t you think of that especially when holding the sword? I wonder if it would be a little more comfortable to hold the sword if I had calluses.
However, the necessary wounds Randel was talking about did not mean the prosecutors’ calluses.
Silike’s Dagger.
I’m talking about the wounds I suffered that day.
“If you had been awake at that time, it would have been like now….”
“I will just say what I have to say and then I will leave.”
Plantz, who did not want to continue thinking about him too much, interrupted Randel like this.
There was no scent at all in Randel’s empty room. I was reluctant because I thought it might be full of the scent of roses, but then I thought about it and realized that Kalyan had already been here. Since there was no scent, they must have made a bet on the condition of meeting Randel.
“It’s not you who told me I have something to tell you. It’s interesting.”
A person who really wants to know what fun is said this.
“Do you not like it?”
So Plantz, who barely knows the dictionary definition of what fun is, gave this answer.
“If you don’t like it, I’ll leave.”
He buttoned his shirt all the way to his neck, wore a tie, and wore a platinum chain accessory that connected the ends of his shirt collar. Instead of the cardigan she always wore at Chermil Palace, she even wore a jacket that fit her arms perfectly.
Instead of trying to figure out whether the feeling of suffocation was because of the stuffy clothes or because he was looking into the eyes of his real brother sitting in front of him, Planz picked up the tea cup, took a sip of what was inside, and put it down.
The taste of bitter, melted chocolate was not very pleasant, but it was not as repulsive as looking into the eyes of Randel, who was sitting in front of me.
“It doesn’t matter either way.”
Either Kalian came, or else Plantz came on behalf of Kalian, who said he would come. This means that even if either of the two came, it wouldn’t have been much different.
Since Randel has now decided to step into Calian’s shadow, it does not matter whether Plantz, who has already joined hands with Calian, or Calian himself comes to visit. In the end, no matter which of the two came, Randel was told to ‘talk to someone for a moment’ It also meant that it had no meaning beyond ‘doing it.’
Plantz, who fully understood the meaning, felt regret for a moment.
Rather than regretting Randel’s feelings, it was regret that he was thinking of using that as an excuse to just go down if Randel was reluctant to talk to him. Since we said it didn’t matter either way, we had to continue the conversation without any way out.
“There is a healer in Balkan. I think I need training through Tensil’s healer, so I came to ask you a favor.”
In the end, Plantz made a request to Randel.
And in his mind, he cursed at just two people. One was Plantz himself, who brought up this story, and the other was Arsene.
I lost the sparring with Calian, but I definitely won the bet. Therefore, I learned from Kalian a walking method that only Slayman uses. It was a technique used to efficiently dodge the body and counterattack immediately when dealing with someone with high speed.
After that, Kalian had Jan tell Randel that he would visit him in a while.
And then I got a call from Arsene.
I have something urgent to tell you, so I’m coming to Calian.
“It seems it wasn’t a facade. Seeing you ask me such a favor.”
Thanks to you like this.
I even heard stories that I didn’t need to hear.
“Did you see my departure to the Balkans as a facade?”
Randel nodded.
It is said that he was considered a vice-corps commander who only had a name to show off to others.
It wasn’t a big mistake. If it weren’t for Kalian’s ‘teachings’ not long ago, Plantz would have thought the same thing.
So Plantz was about to answer again to Landel, who was nodding his head, but Randel took a look at the rose garden outside the window and stared deeply at Plantz. I looked at the life-filled light green eyes as if they were being swallowed up by a deep, unavoidable abyss.
“I thought it was just a facade. How would I have known that you would dare to benefit from the third child?”
properly.
Even though I have never paid attention to it.
He said this.
“this.”
Plantz made a short noise.
I raised my hand and grabbed the tie knot. I felt like I was suffocating and tried to release it, but I took a deep breath and put my hand back down.
There was no longer any need to show bad behavior in front of Randel, so I put up with it.
“Do you even remember what I did to Calian?”
“Is there any need to keep that in memory? I just said what I know.”
“I wish you had at least remembered that this is not something you can say. Is it difficult to calculate such an easy thing?”
As Plantz said this, one corner of his mouth curled up.
“Let’s just do one thing. You can either pretend to be a victim forever, pretending to be the one who has been hurt, and stand at a distance, blocking everything you see around you and cutting off the rose branches, or you can face it properly and then blame yourself. You can do both. It’s greed.”
Randel laughed quietly, seeing the fire in his light green eyes that had just escaped from the abyss.
* * *
Dark gray marble floor.
The dark red light shone on the well-cleaned floor without any stains and sparkled.
– Do-do-do-do!
A cat is a creature that if there is something shining in front of it, you have to catch it and see it, so when Lucy saw it, she ran hard and tried to catch the reflected light.
But just before those two cute, cotton-like feet snatched it up, the light that had been sparkling on the floor suddenly disappeared.
“Aow!”
Smart Lucy, who already knew who the culprit was, sat on the sofa and cried once as she looked at the bright red eyes looking at her. Then, as if to comfort Lucy, a dark red light of a slightly different size and shape floated far away.
This time the light didn’t disappear, but that didn’t mean I could catch it. Since it was a shapeless sparkle from the beginning, there was no way Lucy, standing on both feet, could catch it no matter how hard she tried to grab it with her front foot.
“Meong!”
Lucy, who had repeatedly failed to hold on to the dark red light, looked up at Calian with a sound of frustration. Calian let out a small laugh when he saw the irritated face that could be interpreted as ‘Do I really need to be this stressed out because of you?’, which closely resembled someone in the upper room.
“Lucy. Is the reason you feel bad because you can’t catch this?”
Lucy, who could not understand these words, followed the light that appeared and disappeared here and there in the room according to Calian’s will.
– Do-do-do-do!
Of course, the result was the same.
Calian burst out laughing again when he saw Lucy, who had experienced the same thing three times and was glaring at him with the fur on her entire body puffing out.
A dark red aura full of creepy energy.
“Normally, they would be offended or scared before even trying to catch them. I guess they are just curious.”
“Aeowong!”
I felt a little more at ease as I heard that cry, which contained a meaning that I couldn’t quite understand yet, whether it was a protest, a retort, or a warning.
Calian spoke once again as he watched Lucy running around following the lights that appeared and disappeared here and there in the room.
“You even tried to catch the rain outside the window. What if you like things that can’t be caught so much?”
“Aow!”
No matter how you look at it, you talk back.
I didn’t know if he wanted to say that it was unfair, that he was reaching out without realizing it, or that this was all because of you, but it was clear that he was talking back.
Calian, feeling sorry for teasing her, took out a piece of dried beef and handed it to Lucy. Lucy ran making a noise and went to a far away place with a smelly snack in her mouth. Then, his face became happy and he started eating the beef jerky while making a salty sound.
Calian, who was looking at the small life that became endlessly peaceful as he looked at it, opened his mouth again.
“I said I was going to get a dog, but now I’m getting you.”
If we were to look at it accurately, Lucy was raised by eight peas, but no matter who raised her, Lucy was Calian’s cat.
A human voice went away once, and a cat’s cry came back, and like that, Kalian spent a while doing nothing.
After some time had passed, Jan came in with a knock. Calian laughed when he saw the blue-haired wizard following him.
“Are you all better?”
Arsene nodded and answered what he said, seeing that the bandage that fixed his shoulder had been removed.
“Thanks to your concern, I got better quickly, prince.”
Calian was afraid that he would be disappointed if he said he wasn’t worried at all, so he just smiled again.
Jan, who had gone out for a while, came back and put down a cake topped with bright red cherries, which was the complete opposite of Arsene’s hair, and black tea.
Calian said to Arsene, who cut a corner of the cake and took a bite.
“I heard that the Lord has something important to tell me.”
If it was just nonsense to ask for permission to make that strange statue, I was going to break my arm again right away.
“Yes, my prince. I have something to tell you.”
Actually, I was thinking about getting permission for that someday, but fortunately Arsene didn’t say that today.
“A knight from the Knights of the Order of Karen came to see me today. He told me something and said that the vice-captain, the prince’s older brother, was away all day and came to see me.”
ah.
Of course today.
I remembered Plants, who said he had work to do and was busy. It seemed like he was planning to join the Knights, but it didn’t seem like anything was urgent, so he just sparred, and it seemed like the bird of Secretia had visited in the meantime.
Calian made a strange face as he looked at the several pieces of paper Arsene took out from his arms.
Didn’t Chase send that letter before talking to Calian about how he could trust Arsene?
Therefore, the fact that Sejak visited Arsene instead of Plantz must have meant that Chase had thought on his own and put Arsene in the range of people he could trust.
“By the way, Prince. I didn’t mean to see it, but I accidentally dropped the letter and ended up seeing some of its contents. Of course, I didn’t tell anyone else.”
Chase, who considered Arsene a trustworthy person, told him to deliver the letter through Arsene if Plantz was absent, but Plantz was not there. The reason Plantz was absent was because of Calian.
“I want to know what your relationship is with the Crown Prince of Secretia and why something like this happens.”
So, in the end, it was Calian’s fault that Arsene brought up this story.
