Chapter 60. If possible, a dream (1)
is a companion, no matter how much it comes and goes.
“I came here to see my brother. The person who was next to the Margrave earlier is my brother.”
I had no idea that a new companion would appear so suddenly.
“Actually, the Margrave of this region is my uncle, but since he has no children, I was thinking of making my younger brother the heir. But since I decided to marry His Highness, even if not immediately, in the future, my younger brother will have to take on the title of mother instead of me. Marquis and “I came to ask my brother whether he would do both or just one of the margraves.”
In addition to that, I never thought I would hear about other people’s personal circumstances that I wasn’t even the slightest bit curious about. Serjane really didn’t expect the current situation at all.
You may or may not know that Serjan is very confused right now. Arianne, a person who would not have cared at all about the other person’s current state from the beginning, continued to speak arbitrarily.
“But the pigeon that flew in from the palace said that there was a sacred knight here and that he should be taken to the palace prison. Moreover, it said that the crown prince of Tensil might be wandering around alone, so if you find him, it was written that he should be taken to safety, so I followed him. Does anyone know the face of crown prince Tensil? “There is no one else but me.”
“Why are you telling me that?”
“I thought they were curious as to why I was here. No, I should say I was on guard. Anyway, I’m telling you not to be nervous because I’m not here for any other reason.”
Serjane’s eyes fell on his hand holding the teacup. The original hand was a little blacker than this and had a lot of calluses. So the transformation magic was not released. In that case, isn’t Arianne the one who should be more nervous in front of Serjane now? The current Arianne was the daughter of a marquis who had a crown prince from a foreign country in front of her.
“I wasn’t nervous.”
“I was nervous. I was afraid I was going to die.”
As he took another drink and added these words, Serjane’s eyes turned sharp.
“I must have looked very funny to you, my lady.”
“Look, I was nervous.”
Arianne smiled slightly as she answered as if she had been waiting.
“There’s something strange about a crown prince speaking highly of a marquis’ daughter from a neighboring country with whom he doesn’t have a good relationship, right? So don’t be nervous. I’m not here to harm Crown Prince Tensil.”
Serjane stared at Arianne sitting in front of him. Then, his face changed as he realized what Arianne had pointed out. I thought to myself that maybe it was true that I was nervous, just like Arianne said.
that day.
Serjane visited the forest with Adelia. The purpose was to visit the elf village hidden in Brigitte Forest, where the roots of the mother tree are said to extend. The reason is as Plantz predicted. Since there was no way to get to Kairis, I thought I would ask for the power of the mother tree.
– You said that humans cannot find the elf village. Is it true that you know the location?
– It’s a village, but now everyone has run away and there’s no one there. And you went straight to Alan Manasil. Surely I can’t find it?
It reminds me of Adelia, who spoke excitedly, spreading her magical power in all directions and tracking the location of the elf village. However, that excitement did not last long.
– weird. Judging from the sudden change in energy, this is the right place.
– Just go back. I have to attend the luncheon with His Majesty the King here.
– Wait here. You’ll find it soon.
Hearing those words was the source of trouble.
Adelia did not return and it lasted four months. It became a situation where he didn’t even know whether Adelia, with whom he was in a business relationship, had stabbed him in the back or not.
The Holy Knights, who had been hiding their identities for a while, took out their swords.
He did not have a very close relationship with the bodyguards assigned to him by King Tensil. But anyway, there were people who died trying to protect Serjane. Sergein also fought with them for quite a long time and eventually ran away. After that, he wandered through the forest for a very long time to avoid them, but was eventually found again.
He almost died after being betrayed by those he thought were on the same side, but was saved thanks to Calian and Plants, who he thought were not on the same side. Then a fight broke out between Calian and Adelia, and it seemed like Adelia did something she shouldn’t have done. After that, my last memory is being engulfed in a bright light.
When I opened my eyes again, I was outside the forest.
I couldn’t tell how much time had passed and I couldn’t check where Adelia had gone. The only thing that is certain is that the Mother Tree rejected Sergein’s visit.
It means that the Mother Tree banished Serjane.
After realizing this fact, Serjan immediately summoned his horse and rode on it. It was to go to a place where there were other attendants who had not come to the forest. Because we had to check whether there were any other holy knights among them.
– Crown Prince Tensil? Is that correct?
however.
– I think that’s right. I was roughly informed of the situation through Jeonseo-gu sent by His Highness.
An unexpected person said something unexpected. Then he got off his horse, came closer, held out his right hand, and smiled.
– Do you remember me? He was always next to our Highness. Anyway, since this is my first time seeing you separately, let’s say hello again. My name is Arianne Lin. She is the daughter of Marquis Lei Jian Lin, the Minister of Justice, and is to be married to His Majesty the King at some point in the future.
With a face that showed no signs of wariness in this unfamiliar place.
So I finally opened my eyes. And while the Margrave, who had gone into the forest, took over the Holy Knights from Prince Kairis’ party, they sat outside the forest together and had a conversation, each holding a teacup. If Arianne spoke one-sidedly and Serjane mostly just listened, it was a conversation.
“Is there anyone left to escort you?”
“Maybe. I’m not sure.”
“Okay. If there’s anything I can help you with, please let me know.”
“You sound like you’ll help me if I talk to you.”
“There’s no reason we can’t help.”
“It’s not like there’s no reason to help?”
“Why do you think that?”
Serjane smiled bitterly.
“Because my country is Tensil.”
“I’m really sick of Tensil’s healers, and I don’t have any good feelings towards the Holy Knights. Just thinking about the Tensil royal family wakes me up. But we’re not heartless enough to leave Prince Tensil in trouble. Besides, anyway. “You said it wasn’t even real.”
Serjane almost dropped her teacup at the last word. If the cup had been made of silver instead of thick tin, it might have been crushed.
Serjane, who was trying hard to feign composure, opened his mouth.
“… It’s not real.”
“Oh, that’s right. Your Highness said you were pretending not to know.”
Arianne said she had made a mistake with a look on her face that said it was not a mistake at all. Then he pointed to the light pink diamond earrings on my earlobe. As if he knew what secrets were hidden in Serjane’s blue earrings.
“I heard roughly what kind of person you are. Please keep the fact that I revealed my knowledge a secret from you.”
Arianne asks Chase to keep it a secret that Arianne told her that Chase was pretending not to know that Sergein was a fake.
“What is that…”
What does that mean, the sound of lighting a bonfire on Danu roots?
Did you see Serzane with a bewildered face or not? Arianne continued again.
“Don’t worry. No one is listening to us right now. Anyway, what brought you all the way to Secretia? To see the Mother Tree? I heard that the light green one is not. I heard he was very interested in the Kairis Crown Prince and his party. Our Highness came to see the Mother Tree with the people of Kairis. “Are you pretending to congratulate me on the coronation ceremony?”
It’s literally a flood of questions.
Arianne just smiled brightly, as if she wasn’t expecting an answer.
“It was shameful that he came disguised as a royal, but planning something like that was a bit bad, right.”
“… If this is a reprimand for not being able to attend the luncheon. Shouldn’t it be from His Highness the King of Secretia, not the lady?”
“Ah. Your Highness is not that kind of person. You don’t know.”
Arianne gulped and took a sip of the tea in her hand.
“A reprimand. Your Majesty, I won’t say that. There’s no need for an explanation. I’ll just meet the ‘Crown Prince of Tensil’ and have another lunch full of good words, and that’s it. I won’t expect anything more from you. Taking my relationship with Tensil into account, I tried to pretend I didn’t see him come into my land in disguise, but how can I trust someone who goes to the forest of elves on his own accord? Don’t you? So, tell your true identity to His Majesty first, and if you need any help, ask for it straight away. Be sure to apologize as well. “Do it. Then stay quietly and leave.”
Far away the Margrave and his knights. And then the four captured Holy Knights began to appear.
Arianne lowered her head to her teacup as if she was not interested in them and only raised her gaze to look at Serzane, and then let out a thin voice.
“I’m saying this because I’m worried. I’m afraid I’m going to die.”
Serjane’s eyes sank deeply as he had forgotten whose land this was for the sake of the immediate task. Arianne, who gave a warning in a light tone, stood up.
* * *
After sending back the Holy Knights on the Margrave’s side, a wild boar came.
This means that the boar was so large that the prince who was dragging the boar and the crown prince who was walking next to him could not be clearly seen.
One huge boar and one wild chicken.
And it was full of bright red ripe raspberries.
“The prince eats pork, I eat chicken, and the crown prince, vice commander, eat raspberries?”
Anyone with a normal mindset would have thought that we would all just eat pig, chicken, and strawberries for dessert. That’s why Arsene only said it half-jokingly. However, I saw Calian and Planz nodding their heads with sincere faces.
Arsene, who was at a loss for words, kept his mouth shut.
After that, Arsene floated the wild boar and chicken that Calian had brought with his magic power, went to a corner, cleaned them, and grilled them until golden brown as he had learned from Euria. I froze the remaining meat well and put it in my pocket.
Although he is a count and the vice-commander of a corps, the remaining two are princes and crown princes, so what can they do? Arsene should do it.
As I quietly returned with what I didn’t know whether it was lunch, dinner, or early morning, I saw Planz sitting quietly in front of the bonfire. And a little further away, I saw Calian sleeping, leaning against a tree.
Plantz opened his mouth to Arsene, who was standing blankly holding large plates in both hands.
“Leave it.”
“I don’t plan on waking you up.”
Arsene answered quietly and went to sit next to Plantz. He then handed me a well-washed raspberry and said,
“Prince, this is my first time seeing you sleep so deeply.”
“I’ve seen it a few times.”
“… That was when you fainted.”
“Is it different?”
“It’s different.”
“Well, that would be better.”
“Are you saying it’s better to faint?”
“I guess.”
Arsene clicked his tongue, hearing for the first time that it was better to live than pass out. He has a knack for making people feel really frustrated, whether it’s the person who is sleeping over there or the person who can’t sleep next to him. I won’t say it about it because I’m probably the most frustrated, but the frustration builds up anyway.
Arsene, who was looking at the crown prince eating raspberries while nibbling, offered him some boar meat.
“I will stay. The prince is asleep.”
“I’m not going to eat.”
The crown prince, who was not good enough to eat an animal he had killed with his own hands, immediately refused. Arsene, who could barely guess the reason, grumbled.
“If I told you that the Vice Commander, Crown Prince, has this type of personality, everyone would probably curse at me.”
“why.”
“I heard you’re saying nonsense.”
“It certainly seems like he’s taking after his owner.”
This means that Arsene barks well along with Kalian.
Arsene, who just grinned and did not answer, turned his head towards Plants as if something had suddenly occurred to him.
“The crown prince was a corps commander for a short time, but now he is the vice corps commander. I don’t know when he will become a prince again.”
“…… why.”
Planz, who was contemplating whether to use his last patience or not, answered after a while. Arsene said, pointing to the hem of Planz’s clothes.
“It’s because there’s blood on my clothes. Would you like me to wipe it off?”
“Leave it.”
“Are you afraid that I will play another prank while cleaning up the blood?”
“It’s not blood.”
The hem of the clothes was stained red.
If it had been blood, some guy sleeping over there would have already erased it. So it wasn’t blood.
It looks like the raspberries got wet while picking them. Because of the guy who said that even if he was in the grass, the grass didn’t get water, the strawberries got water. I don’t know what I was thinking, but my younger brother, who didn’t clean for some reason, was fast asleep next to me.
I put down the plate with raspberries and was looking into the bonfire for a while when Arsene, who had finished his meal without another word, got up and handed me a sleeping bag and said.
“It looks like the sun will rise soon, but I heard you couldn’t sleep last night, so please get some sleep. I’ll take care of it.”
“okay.”
Plants, who felt that staying up alone at night would not be of much help, quietly went into his sleeping bag and lay down. And Arsene went to a tree near Calian and sat down.
Calian, who had fallen asleep and did not wake up, was left alone.
If you touch it, it will definitely break.
– Cracking crackling…….
It’s always nice to hear the sound of a bonfire.
The sound is so peaceful that I can’t sleep.
Arsene, who had been looking at the blinking eyes on the face sticking out of the sleeping bag, let out a low voice.
“You can’t even touch the wild boar meat you just killed. So how can you hold on?”
“what.”
“I’m telling you this because I don’t know what you’re going to do if you really start dreaming of the ‘past’.”
Planz’s eyes looked at Arsene for a moment.
The sight of red light shining in light green eyes is a bit unfamiliar.
“I’m better than you.”
“I am okay.”
“Isn’t this a hasty assertion?”
“Actually, I’m curious. If it’s not a dream, when will I stab the prince with an ice spear?”
Even Plantz can’t handle the extraordinarily crazy wizard’s way of thinking. Arsene smiled while looking at Planz, who was frowning heavily, and opened his mouth.
“Of course it will bother me, but it won’t affect me, so it’s okay.”
“I might worry, but it’s okay. Me too.”
“Isn’t the Crown Prince someone who would be influenced by saying that?”
“doesn’t care.”
There are still plenty of raspberries left in the small bowl placed next to Arsene. I took it with me, saying I would eat it if I got bored while watching.
– You can eat it when it is cooked to this level. You can’t eat the underripe ones. And although it is similar, you should not eat anything that looks like that because it is not a raspberry. Wild strawberries attract a lot of bugs, so watch carefully before eating them. Of course, I know that you would rather starve than pick and eat something like that yourself.
As I look a little closer to the side of the raspberry ball, I see Calian still sleeping motionless.
“… I know that there is now because there was that time.”
He’s still out of breath because of what he got his hands on.
I was wondering what to say to that guy, but I just told him that my current situation had nothing to do with him.
Now that I think about it, Kalian looked at the planz and said, ‘Well, peas are the color of peas.’ When I tried to talk about red eyes like that guy did, I couldn’t bear to say anything more using my eyes because I had done it a long time ago.
Even so, I couldn’t say it because I felt like it didn’t have a good connotation to say that you were black. So I just told him it didn’t matter.
Then, I suddenly became curious.
“I also have some questions.”
Not red, not black.
What color was it originally?
okay. I was curious about that.
I knew how he died and I knew when he died, but I couldn’t figure out why he died. I didn’t even know its name, but now that I think about it, I didn’t even know what color it was.
Now I’m more curious about what Planz did wrong than what Calian remembers, and I think he’s really going to be okay now.
“What are you curious about?”
“I will sleep.”
“Yes. Please sleep.”
Arsene quickly gave up his curiosity about planz and picked up a few raspberries and put them in his mouth. Meanwhile, Plantz had truly fallen asleep. Before I knew it, I quickly fell asleep.
And I had a dream.
I had a dream full of light in a world where there was nothing.
“…… sir.”
I had a dream where there was no one and there was only bright light.
I remained alone there and dreamed of being able to hold the light that filled the world with my hands, see it with my feet, talk to it, and even look into it with my eyes.
“older brother.”
I had such a dream.
“Brother, wake up.”
I forgot.
My eyelids, which had been closed for no reason at all, finally opened. Two bright red eyes were calling out to Planz with the sky brightening above.
Planz looked up at Calian and slowly closed his eyes again.
“You’re sleeping deeply. Did you have a nightmare?”
“not.”
Calian, who woke up Plantz, who had not woken up until late, looked at Plantz without another word. Plantz, who had blinked for a long time, opened his mouth again.
“Because it’s full of starlight.”
It resembles that of a king who likes to be treated well.
And it looks exactly like Sinastar.
It is full of such light.
“I was alone in that place and then I woke up.”
“…Did you dream of something that would never happen?”
Calian responded like this and smiled slightly.
Plantz, who was watching this, laughed.
“I see.”
“yes.”
Soon, a warm magical energy blew near Plants and then disappeared.
The dust, disheveled hair, and crumpled clothes that had been picked up by the wind that blew all night all returned to their original places. Except for the traces on the raspberries that were already completely soaked with water.
“Since you’re awake, please eat. The meat is delicious. Thanks to my brother for catching it well.”
Planz stood up and looked down at it for a moment, then remembered the light in his dream and laughed.
“okay.”
By the way, it’s starlight.
I can’t repay you for making fun of me because I’m pea-colored.
do.
