Chapter 46. It’s a prince (5)
Hmm.
therefore.
“I think I heard something about the secret of birth or something.”
Calian muttered as if to himself and looked at Plantz for a moment.
Plantz shook his head after seeing the expression on his face that asked, Brother, do you know anything? If Hagisa Plantz knew something, Calian should have known as well, but even when I searched through my memories, I couldn’t remember anything other than a brief visit to the forest while I was in Bern, remembering Kyrie’s words. I only remembered returning to the elf village in the forest without even seeing the elf shadow.
“This is something I’ve never heard of. Was my mother a half-elf?”
“Not a half-elf. Queen Freya was born between an elf and an elf.”
“That’s a bit strange to say. If you were born between an elf and an elf, why are you explaining that you’re an elf…” Knock knock
knock.
Calian stopped speaking and his fingertips tapped the table. This is because I noticed that Narzan was focusing his gaze on Kalian with meaningful eyes. To be exact, I was looking at red eyes that looked exactly like Freya’s.
Calian, who had been thinking about Freyja’s portrait for a moment, looked at Narzan again.
Even though Lemain is Lemain, his eyes are not so blind that he cannot recognize his cut off ear. Even if Lemain tried to hide it, it was difficult to hide the severed ear in that narrow palace. impossible. That’s right.
“No way…”
“They didn’t have any of the external characteristics that elves have, and their growth rate was the same as that of humans.”
Freya was born between an elf and an elf, but was born without pointy ears and grew up at the same speed as a human. Freya was born with red eyes that no one other than Sispanians had. so.
“That’s why he was exiled. Because he was a mutant elf born with a human body and dragon eyes.”
“You did something lousy.”
Plantz’s voice was heard and the pounding on the table stopped.
Brother, I won’t forget what you said about me with my eyes until I die. Calian looked at Planz with a look that asked why you curse at them, then looked at Narzan.
“If I had to make one excuse, it was a problem with the leader of my squadron. Before and now, I don’t kick out my own people for that reason.”
“Where is the elf called the squadron leader?”
“For causing that and other problems, he received the harshest punishment.”
There are rules even among elves.
The strongest punishment they say is, of course, execution. An executed elf cannot return to the mother tree. Therefore, Kalian knew that for those people for whom the mother tree was the source of life, execution was a strong punishment that was completely different from the death penalty for humans.
“Do you know anything else about my mother?”
“That’s all I know.”
After gathering his thoughts as he rummaged through the untouched mulberry jam, Kalian put down his utensils and looked at Narzan.
“OK got it.”
As Calian quietly passed over, Narzan looked at Calian as if he was strange. Plantz calmly took another sip of tea, as if he had expected that kind of reaction.
“I thought you would get angry again or say something harsh.”
“I’m tired of blaming someone who has already been punished. I don’t think my mother would necessarily be unhappy just because she was expelled from here.”
Didn’t Silike do that?
Freya said she fell in love with Calian after giving birth to him.
It is difficult to imagine whether it was motherly love, a desire for power like Silique, but it was love for Lemain, or something else. Freya said she liked it.
“Imagining what it would be like if you continued to live here is honestly a meaningless fantasy. So that’s enough.”
What happened after that wasn’t the elves’ problem. Those who wronged Freya have already died at the hands of Calian.
“Just keep talking about what you were saying.”
After finishing the story about Freya like this, Calian took a sip of grape juice and put it down and said.
“Secritia found out that outcasts were living in Bridget Forest and asked them to provide a healer in return. I have a question. Why didn’t you pay ‘price’ to Secretia?”
While Narzan was thinking about what to say in response, Calian continued to ask questions.
“Elves never accept help without compensation. But I don’t know why they didn’t pay anything to Secretia for living in the Forest of Secretia and not in Kyris. If you know that my mother is from there, you know the existence of that place. “It’s not like I didn’t know.”
“Aren’t they people who are not recognized as their own people? The reason they were exiled is different from Queen Freya.”
“Are you saying that because they were elves and half-elves who committed a crime and were exiled, we knew where they lived, but we didn’t manage them or provide them with help?”
“yes.”
Kalian tapped his finger briefly on the table. It was an expression of feeling uncomfortable rather than having something to think about.
“I don’t think it’s very palatable behavior to treat a half-elf like that.”
“It’s for the preservation of the ever-diminishing species. Just because you’re an elder doesn’t mean you can always do what you like.”
“If you are the ones who ignored them anyway, there is no need for you to pay the price.”
“They said that if things go wrong, they will execute all the elves there. I want to prevent them from being executed there.”
“Because they are not completely of the same race, I have ignored them no matter where and how they live, but they say they do not want to be executed.”
Narzan nodded.
In any case, it is difficult to empathize with the elves’ way of thinking. What on earth is this something that Lemain would have said two years ago?
When I turned my head, I saw one corner of Planz’s mouth turn up. I don’t know, but I’m sure he’s thinking similar things to Calian right now.
Suddenly, I remembered how Plantz had laughed at a noble meeting a long time ago. As Calian pondered for a moment whether he had told him not to do that or not, he heard Narzan’s voice again.
“As the Grand Elder, I do not allow them to live here, but as the elf Narzan, I cannot allow them to be executed.”
Kalian laughed.
“You finally say something you like.”
“So I went directly to their king and said I would pay in another way, but it didn’t work.”
I guess so.
It must have been a pod that I managed to find in order to call a healer, but no matter what I gave it, it wouldn’t have worked.
There was a sound of tapping on the table to make me think. Calian, who had been silent for a while, stopped with his fingertips. I finished thinking.
“They said this was an unclaimed land.”
“I see.”
“Okay, let’s think about it and talk about it tomorrow.”
However, instead of making a decision, Kalian just said this. The shy Planz, who had been sitting quietly without saying anything unnecessary, turned his head to see Calian.
* * *
Arianne, who opened the door to her office, paused.
“…… It’s a surprise.”
It was because there was someone who couldn’t be here at this time.
Arianne asked, taking off the glasses she was wearing as she sat down on the sofa after putting down the documents she was holding in both arms on the desk.
“What’s going on here? You’ve been in the palace the whole time.”
“just because I got bored.”
“It’s strange. There’s no way you could be bored, my fiancé.”
“Really. It’s been a while since I had time. I just wanted to rest, not work.”
Arianne smiled, unable to hide how happy she was to meet purple eyes after a long time.
“Okay. Take a rest and go.”
Soon, Arianne, who had several coconut cookies, a cup of cool mint tea, and a cup of cream-filled coffee in front of her, asked while swirling the cream on top of the coffee.
“The death of Marquis Kairis is not something to be trifled with.”
Then he asked, ‘Is this also about work?’, making Chase laugh.
“I’ll pretend it’s not about work. It’s not a three-step thing.”
When Secretia Sejak was caught trying to assassinate the second prince of Kairis, Marquis Evan Briesen was killed and the third prince was seriously injured by the Sejacs. That’s what Kairis said. Devlan asked for an explanation and apology for the incident.
It was quite a long time ago, but Arianne and Chase haven’t been seeing each other for a while. We had to avoid Devlan’s eyes, and we were all busy with things, so we were only asking now.
“He’s Prince Calian. He’s not weak enough to get hurt by birds.”
“I heard you got hurt a lot?”
“Yes. They said you were hurt a lot, but I think it’s all healed now.”
Chase, who didn’t know that not only was Calian now fully healed, but he couldn’t stand the bird and ran away from home to live in his mother’s tree, answered like this.
“You must have been worried.”
“I was worried, but I was relieved because this was the first time she said she was sick. I was like that, Arianne.”
Arianne looked at Chase for a while and nodded. And he said, pointing to the mint tea in front of Chase.
“Your younger brother is taking steps like that, and you should do the same. You are the older brother. So don’t hesitate and be honest. Why are you here?”
Chase laughed without answering.
The laugh was so ambiguous that when Arianne was about to ask again, Chase spoke up.
“Your mother, Marquis Lin.”
“huh.”
“You will be arrested today.”
Arianne’s hand, which was about to take the coffee, stopped for a moment. Soon, Arianne reached out again and lifted the coffee.
“Did you not stop it or not?”
“I didn’t stop it.”
“okay.”
Arianne took a sip of coffee with a nonchalant expression and put down her cup. Then he looked at Chase and opened his mouth.
“Tell me. What should the Marquis’ agent do starting tomorrow?”
Knowing that Chase’s attitude stemmed from the belief that he would somehow save her life even if his mother was arrested, Chase just nodded without saying another word and began talking.
* * *
It was difficult to estimate the height of the mother tree of the elves.
It’s amazing that elves are living in layers in a hollow, transparent tree, and it’s also quite strange when you think about it. As a human being, isn’t it no different from living in Serenti’s body?
A garden located on the middle level of the Mother Tree, which appears to be made of crystal walls on all sides. All kinds of plants were planted on one side, and the sea was overlooked through a wall that could not be called a window or the outer bark of the mother tree.
– Fondant…!
Calian, who was sitting on a bench next to the fountain in the garden, threw a small chunk of Auror at the mermaid statue in the fountain.
“It doesn’t matter. Even if it’s a harp.”
Plantz, who was standing next to the bench, opened his mouth.
I thought he was acting like that because he had complicated feelings.
“Ah, yes. I decided not to worry too much since I was just like a normal person. But I am concerned about something else. How did someone from Secretia come to Kairis and meet someone like Your Highness?”
After hearing this, Plantz turned his head and looked at Calian.
It was like Calian’s expression after hearing what Arsene said after revealing the secret he had been hiding. He said, ‘What’s hard to believe is not the fact that I came back in time, but the fact that you worked for your brother.’
“…… okay.”
However, unfortunately, Plantz, who felt a strange sense of kinship between brothers because he understood very well why Calian was questioning it, nodded.
Soon, Planz handed what he was holding to Calian.
Calian, who was staring at something that was suddenly presented before his eyes without saying a word, stretched out his hand and took it. And when he saw what was inside, he burst into laughter.
It was jerky.
“I’m not Lucy.”
“You bark instead.”
Jerky included in the dry food provided by Siegfried’s command. As expected, it was left intact in the shape prepared by the market, as if it had not been touched.
“Do what you think. Don’t worry.”
Calian raised his head and looked up at Planz, who was still standing.
“Secritia. Don’t worry about what’s going on and just follow your plan.”
“Do you know what I’m thinking?”
“You’re trying to call the snake here. You lied and said you would treat it if it came. It’s an unclaimed land, so no matter what you hunt here, it won’t have anything to do with Kairis.”
“… My older brother is so perceptive.”
Planz, who had put Calian’s barking to a certain extent, pointed at the beef jerky in Calian’s hand.
“You can eat whatever meat you like. I will take care of it.”
Calian, who was looking at the beef jerky, chuckled.
It was because I really felt like I was being treated like Lucy.
