Chapter 47. I set a trap well (1)
The deep blue sea visible beyond the transparent wall.
An indoor garden filled with bright blue skies and pure white clouds, cacti with golden thorns and trees with huge green leaves. And a beautiful fountain made of black marble.
I guarantee that if Sispanian had said the sea was good, Hatsuara would have built a palace that would have been as good or better than the one here now. It is clear that the country was founded by somehow expanding its territory to the sea, or if that was not possible, it would have created a sea instead of a forest at the north gate.
However, unfortunately, thanks to the ancient dragon’s love of snow, Calian had no choice but to take in this wonderful scenery with his eyes.
“I eat it because they give it to me…”
While eating beef jerky.
“Actually, I prefer grilled meat over dried meat.”
Plantz frowned at the words of Calian, who was still sitting on the bench chewing and swallowing a piece of beef jerky. Then, I thought that was something a guy who had just finished eating all that beef jerky in one sitting would say, so I finally said something.
“I won’t get caught this time.”
It’s not something to hide, but who would see that guy as a half-elf anyway?
Less than two hours have passed since I returned to the luncheon invited by Grand Elder Narzan. I wouldn’t have thought that if I hadn’t eaten beef jerky as dessert after a meal, which could easily be enough for a day’s worth of food.
As expected, the overalls fit reasonably well, as if they were generous, and the heights were always similar. Now, Plantz, who has managed to answer the biggest question of his life, which is where all the food you eat goes, without hiding his Aura, asked a fairly normal question.
“Do you have no intention of meeting Queen Freya’s blood relatives?”
Everyone knew that Freya had a younger brother. Moreover, since she was an elf, wouldn’t Freya’s parents also be alive if there were no other problems?
“I have to meet him. I was already thinking of asking the elder where he was, but I hesitated because I was worried.”
“Does my brother know how to hesitate?”
If I had lived without hesitation until now, brother, you would have disappeared from this world on the first day I changed. Calian, who had a face that made him want to say, smiled quietly and answered.
“I don’t know.”
“Why did you hesitate?”
“I’m afraid I’ll hear the same story again. It might be a little different.”
Red eyes. Incomplete blood vessels. Mixed race. Mutation.
I’m afraid that the meeting will become meaningless and will only increase the number of things I’ve heard so many times.
“…I don’t know.”
“Yes. It’s hard to know what he’ll say until we meet. Anyway, when I can take my eyes off Secretia’s business, I’ll look for him and meet him.”
“okay.”
After answering, Planz, who was watching Kalian, thought for a moment about whether there was any more jerky left, and then opened his mouth.
“Xeon. Why don’t you ask?”
There is nothing left.
I need to think about something else.
“Even though they are acting more favorably than when I first saw them, I still think an elf is an elf. I don’t think it’s the right time to ask.”
“then when.”
“That is also after resolving the Secretia matter first. There is a possibility that Zeon and the elves have a close relationship, but if that were the case, if the elder found out that I was interested in Zeon, I would not be able to properly help in resolving the Secretia matter. .”
Kalian concluded the story like this.
Plantz nodded once and looked at the mermaid statue in the fountain for a moment. Then I walked towards a plant I had never seen before and stretched out my hand.
Calian opened his mouth to Plantz, who was touching a wide leaf full of white fluffy thorns with his fingertips.
“It’s a banana tree. Brother, this is your first time seeing it. If you take that fluff and plant it, it will turn into a banana.”
“… It’s not the beef jerky I gave you to make you bark more.”
I wasn’t fooled.
To be honest, I almost believed it for a moment, but my brother’s voice sounded different than usual. Then I remembered that the banana tree I saw in the book didn’t look like this. thank god.
Anyway, Plantz was stroking the leaves that were shining in the sunlight a few more times, thinking that he really couldn’t lie, and looked at Calian, who was laughing as if it was fun.
“Is that why you can’t lie?”
“No. Normally I can’t do it. It’s not that I can’t do it because I’m a half-elf. Kirie is good at it.”
When I asked why it looked so pretty, I was told that it must be because it was a half-elf, and it was obvious that I would be told to get out of there right away, so I just put it in. Kalian knew well that the only people who would accept such words were Jan and Alan.
In addition, Calian, who did not even mention the question of whether he often lied before changing into his current form, opened his mouth in a passing tone.
“… This is Renishita.”
Renicita in the square.
Planz took his hand off the leaf for a moment.
Why was it that the one I chose and touched among so many cacti was Renishita? Calian let out a silent sigh and added a short comment.
“So don’t look at it too strangely.”
In fact, there was no need to spread Renicita leaves because there was magic, but the royal family continued to carry out sentences in that way. Meaning of warning. In other words, it was intended to maintain symbolism and leave awareness of the death penalty in people’s minds.
And not long ago.
A Lenisita leaf for Lennon Brissen was laid out in the square.
Planz, who felt as if his arms were numb like the day he punched Lennon, clenched and unclenched his fists for a moment, then put his hands on the Lenicita leaves again and said,
“Take a look at this and that for yourself.”
Calian gave a small laugh and nodded.
“Then take it and plant it. See if the banana grows or not.”
“Stop barking. Water.”
“yes.”
Calian, who still understood one thing Plants said very well, nodded, made a water drop, and placed it on a Lenicita leaf.
Instead of fist-sized water droplets flowing to the floor, they are instantly absorbed and disappear, making me think of them as the foam of waves seeping into the sand and disappearing. After staring at it for a while, Planz’s eyes turned to Calian.
“Is there one in Secretia?”
“Yes. Although it is not used for the same purposes as us, Renicita grows. I saw it when I was walking around. It probably grows south of Siegfried Territory as well.”
Plantz nodded and swept down the Lenicita leaves, which had completely absorbed the water, once more.
“okay.”
Seeing that, Calian looked down at his palm, which had already completely healed, leaving only the original scar, and then turned his gaze again. Even though I was standing in a place full of greenery, I did not lose and headed towards the greenest green color.
It’s still hard to tell how good his brain is, his mental age is at the level of someone arguing with Arsene, and his real age is a furious puberty.
However, the experience I have is at the same level as Lucy and Anne.
Even Bern at that age wasn’t that bad. What more can I say since Raven has seen more.
It suddenly occurred to me that Planz, who had been wearing his Vulcan uniform ever since he left the palace, had never once taken off his jacket or unbuttoned his shirt.
“I understand why you were suffocating, brother.”
So another random word came out.
Planz looked at Calian for a moment and turned his head without answering. And after looking at the garden for a while, he pointed at something with his finger. Calian, seeing what it was, answered.
“It’s a pineapple. The flower in the middle gets bigger and a pineapple comes out from inside.”
“You again.”
“Really. It grows in pineapple land.”
For as long as you know what you know and what you don’t know, just as you don’t know.
“This.”
“I saw this when I went to the Gaden region, but I don’t remember the name. Anyway, the fruit is green on the outside and pink on the inside. It was very sweet at first, but the taste was bitter at the end, so I didn’t like it that much.”
“okay.”
“Actually, the stem is a little more unique than the fruit. If you peel the skin and place the white part on the wound, it will stop the bleeding quickly and prevent the wound from festering. At that time, I was drinking and rolled down a cliff, and when I opened my eyes, it was stuck all over my body. Oh, don’t learn this.”
“…… know.”
“yes.”
For quite some time, Planz asked and Kalian answered.
* * *
Ten wizards and thirty knights.
And one sword master.
We made a bet on who would win.
Of course, it wasn’t a bet on a fight.
Needlen clearly remembered that when he sparred with Calian in similar numbers, all the Vulcan members lay down in an instant.
So they made a bet to see who would get impatient first and go out of the forest to eat meat.
“…I can’t believe you went out.”
“After staring at the table set up for lunch for a while, I went out of the city for a quick visit, Vice Commander.”
And Siona lost.
Of course it’s an elf.
Siona is thirty-eight years old.
They are elves who live about three times the lifespan of humans. That doesn’t mean that mental age grows three times slower, and it may be because growth is slowest during adolescence, but he currently looks like he’s in his late 20s. Anyway, there is absolutely no age to be immature. But he went out.
It was in the afternoon of only the third day since I came here.
“under.”
It hasn’t even been a week since I left the palace, so why are each day so long? Planz, who really missed Anne, who must have grown up a lot in the meantime, and Lucy, who was still pretty, opened his mouth with a frown.
“The crew.”
“Everyone is here. Lord Hill went out alone, Vice Commander.”
At these words, Plantz opened his mouth, increasing the wrinkles between his eyebrows.
“Where is the orange haired wizard?”
“You mean the orange-haired wizard?”
“Kane Tesman. Where are you? There are only thirty-nine people here right now.”
Needlen’s face, who was looking at the crew with eyes that couldn’t possibly be like that, turned white little by little. No matter how many times I counted, one person was not enough.
“Vice Commander, I just left because I thought I knew how to set fire to crystal.”
And these words came out of the mouth of another member.
“…… ah.”
Plantz, who was touching his forehead for a moment, spoke in a low voice towards Needlen.
“Get him.”
“Yes, I will get it right away.”
The pink-haired wizard who ate things with salt answered quickly and ran outside.
* * *
Calian laughed again.
I laughed for a while as I watched the pink-haired wizard and the orange-haired wizard running endlessly on the sandy beach. It was a spirit exercise in the name of physical training.
– Still, aren’t you glad that you didn’t really mean to set fire to your mother’s tree, Prince Calian?
Hearing this, Kalian laughed again.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Plantz smile brightly. It was so funny that I couldn’t stop laughing.
– yes. I’m glad I went out to get a crystal glass. Although it is said to be more controllable than external magicians, it is not easy to keep up with the personality of the person who needs to check everything right away to be relieved.
– It’s amazing that they manage the wizards to that degree outside of the palace. It looks like Prince Planz is still doing his job well. Aren’t wizards very diverse?
Calian, looking at the green-haired man running next to the two wizards, nodded.
The color of the remaining cabbage after removing five or five layers of pink and orange.
– Yes… it’s colorful.
It looks like the top of a rainbow.
a little…… It looks like a macaron.
– I was already planning to contact you, but it was surprising that Prince Calian contacted me first.
As I was looking at the colorful feast for a moment, I heard Chase’s voice again.
– What’s going on?
– Marquis Lin was arrested a little while ago.
Calian, who immediately recognized that she was Arianne’s mother, let out a sigh.
– Is it because of Marquis Lin’s private army?
– Can I ask why you think that way?
– If Arianne becomes the Marquis’ representative, Prince Chase will be able to move the Marquis’ private troops more easily. In addition, since marquis and above can stay in the palace, Arianne will be able to be protected within the palace.
– ah. I would be a little uneasy if Prince Calian found out these two reasons right away.
Chase’s voice is like a gentle breeze blowing in the deep woods. Calian, who was looking at the rippling sea, smiled softly.
– Are you worried that King Secretia will notice?
– I guess so.
– It’s probably a bait to lure King Secretia anyway, so I don’t think it would matter if he noticed.
Chase fell silent for a moment after hearing this.
To arrest the Marquis of Lynn and allow Arianne to briefly wield all authority, including the Marquis’s private army. And Chase brings Arianne to the palace to keep her safe.
With this intention, the plan was to make Devlan realize that Chase had condoned the arrest of Marquis Lynn. And Calian noticed the plan right away.
– Isn’t the King of Secretia someone who cares for Crown Prince Chase the most?
Externally, Devlan treated Chase very well, to the extent that Alan commented that Devlan was a bit harsh but a better person than LeMaine. In this situation, if Chase takes down Devlan himself, the nobles have only one thing to do.
‘Chase, who was known to have a gentle nature, turns out to be even more cold-blooded than his father.’
There was no way the nobles, who were already holding their breath due to Devlan’s tyranny, would welcome Chase’s ascension to the throne. When the previous king died and a new king ascended the throne, there was a very high possibility that he would try to establish a new royal lineage.
– So you have to show it. Shouldn’t we make it clear how the King of Secretia actually regards Crown Prince Chase?
To let the nobles know that Devlan was viewing Chase as a ‘competitor’ rather than a son.
Let the nobles who were secretly holding hands under Devlan’s sword imagine the bleak future after Chase, whom they regarded as their last hope, is sacrificed to Devlan.
So, it was their first plan to reach out to Chase a little more boldly and give them the cause and sword that Chase currently does not have.
– yes. you’re right. That’s what I’m thinking. In a situation where you can’t find a healer, didn’t you receive a message full of reprimands from the King of Kairis? So, I thought my father would be very impatient by now, so I tolerated the arrest of Marquis Lin, who was blocking the influx of Tensil healers.
– Here, we plan to summon King Secretia to the elf city. Since he is a very suspicious person, I think he will never come, but I think I will have to wait and see how he responds first.
After hearing Calian’s words, Chase lowered his gaze for a moment instead of answering. It was a short letter delivered through a messenger sent to the royal palace of Kairis.
‘I know you plan to put the nobles on your back. I also know that your fiancé’s faction will be blindfolded. I want you to let me know what you plan to do after that.’
A sentence written without anything to hide. Unlike Kalian’s handwriting, which is neat and powerful without a single hint of disorder, the handwriting appears cursive but is elegant and thin. It was a letter from Plants that I had received once.
– I hope you don’t overdo it.
– Don’t worry, I’m not overdoing it, Prince Calian.
After answering this, Chase’s hand lifted up the letter.
Chase, who was looking at the ring that was included, smiled softly and heard Calian’s words.
– The King of Secretia is also a ghost that must be taken away with my own hands. Please let us know if you need any help. Anything.
– All right.
Calian, who had no idea what was on the wrist of Planz, who hadn’t even rolled up his sleeves the entire time he was here, or what the falcon sent by Jeon Seo-gu, who was living well at the Kairis palace, had delivered to the crown prince of Secretia, looked up.
The bright red sun was turning the blue sea golden. The sky between red and blue is extremely beautiful.
Calian, whose eyes had become golden in the light of the setting sun, blinked and continued speaking.
– I can see the sun setting from here now. It was great to watch the sun rise from that small sea in Secretia, but it’s a bit disappointing that the sun doesn’t rise here.
– If you look at each moment, is there any difference between the rising sun and the setting sun?
– Both of them are beautiful from moment to moment, but I can’t help but feel a little different.
– Then, one day I will come here. I guess we can see it that day. Prince Calian.
Calian looked at the orange-haired and pink-haired wizards, who were exhausted, and his older brother, who was supporting them while standing next to them, and then looked at the vast sea again.
– I will go to the coronation ceremony.
Let’s take a look at the rising sun.
Now I want to dip my feet in that sea.
To properly face the face I wanted to see.
I just want to do that without needing to worry about safety, the situation, positioning, or anything else.
– older brother.
I got greedy one more time.
For a long time after that.
For a long time, Chase didn’t say anything.
– ……Just wait.
And he answered like this.
It’s been a really long time.
