Chapter 68. Sleep (1)
Evening.
Crown Prince Planz and 3rd Prince Calian left the palace.
night.
An accident occurred in which a magic bullet exploded in the sky above Naerangsha. Balkan went to the palace to understand the situation.
The royal prosecutor who caused the accident entered the palace with serious injuries. The capital guards, who tried to forcefully arrest the prosecutor in violation of royal law, were escorted to the royal palace.
Crown Prince Planz entered the palace with Balkan. Siegfried’s minor duke, who had entered the palace with him, left the palace after reporting the incident in detail.
3rd Prince Calian did not enter the palace.
midnight.
It was confirmed that the 3rd Prince was last seen near Duke Siegfried’s residence. In relation to this, Duke Siegfried was allowed to re-enter the palace, but the whereabouts of the three princes were not confirmed.
dawn.
The Balkan wizards who secretly left the palace began searching inside the capital.
morning.
Elazar of the King’s Guard began searching the Marquis Briesen’s residence. Marquis Gray Brisen entered the palace to protest.
By order of King Lemain, all arrested capital guards were dismissed and expelled from the capital indefinitely. Some of the capital guard commanders and vice commanders were stripped of their knighthoods, and Trivan Fiat, who had been appointed as the commander of the outer castle garrison last year, was reassigned to the capital guard captain.
Marquess Gray Brisen returned home without protesting the search of the Marquis’s residence.
afternoon.
dinner.
The search for the Marquis Briesen’s residence was completed, but the third prince’s whereabouts were not found.
night.
The 3rd prince’s horse returned to the palace alone. After confirming this, Balkan corps commander Allan Manasil left the palace.
* * *
– Jump up!
Even though the owner wasn’t there, he arbitrarily opened the door that wasn’t even locked. The blue-grey eyes of a person wandering around the black room immediately fall upon him. Plantz, who saw the sharpness in his eyes, left Relic outside and closed the door.
Why didn’t you come together?
If we went out together, we should have come together. Why did you let me leave alone? Why did you just send me out to wander around alone without anyone? Why did you do that?
I know that Calian did not disappear because of Plants, but instead, I am filled with a light of resentment that I do not yet know where to reach. Unable to hide it, I closed the door so that Relic could not see the words that appeared on my face.
“…… why.”
“Revised version. Take it out.”
Even though he handed over the crystal plate to stay while looking at Chase’s face, Calian asked for the ring connected to Chase to be returned to him. He said he would lend it to him whenever he needed it, so he could use it himself. He said there was nothing better than going around and trying to contact Chase. So he handed it over, and now Plantz had no means of contacting Chase right away. That’s why I came here.
Jan looked at Planz without answering.
He looked at me like that, not understanding what he was trying to do by summoning the King of Secretia in this situation, and then nodded quietly. Without asking why, I walked towards Calian’s safe. I opened the door.
– Cry!
Jan’s hand moved quickly as if there was nothing to take out carefully, and emptied the inside of a safe. Florins and checks thicker than gold coins were thrown out of a large safe that contained not only copper coins but also silver and ordinary gold coins. Yan roughly pushed them away and put his hand in. Plantz, who was watching Jan, turned his head out the window.
A large safe. The deepest part of it.
A place where you can’t easily take it out because you can’t reach it with your hands. I found out that the modified version was left there.
The ring and bracelet that only conveyed your voice should be carried around without a care in the world, and the crystal version given to you should be kept in a place like that. I realized that I had been keeping it hidden, as if I was holding it tightly.
“Here you go.”
It wasn’t long before Jan’s voice came from nearby. Plantz nodded, taking the familiar crystal tablet in his hand. Then he turned around and opened his mouth.
“… It’ll be okay.”
Jan, who was looking down at the crystal plate, looked at Planz.
I’m sleep deprived now that my prince is gone, but even so, my face says that I don’t think I’d stand up and dream of hearing those words from your mouth, as I’m not someone else.
Plantz, who had no intention of being particularly attentive enough to pay special attention to such a yarn, hurriedly came out of Calian’s room again. He then went up to his room and immediately infused magic into the crystal plate.
The screen seemed to brighten, then turned black for a moment. And immediately the image of someone appeared.
It didn’t take long for the joy on the other person’s face to disappear and his purple eyes became cold. The bandage on his shoulder and Plantz’s expression. As soon as I saw it, I heard Chase’s voice, guessing the situation in less time than it takes to take a breath.
“Tell me, Crown Prince Planz. What’s going on?”
“Contact me. Have you ever been there?”
“……Is Calian gone?”
“That’s right.”
“No. Just a moment.”
After saying this, I saw Chase looking away without saying another word. It was clearly an attempt to connect with Calian, so Plantz waited silently.
After a long time, I heard an answer from Chase.
“No answer.”
“okay.”
Planz closed his eyes for a moment.
I opened my mouth without looking at Chase’s face.
“If you happen to come.”
“What happened? Crown Prince Plants doesn’t know anything. My birds aren’t there anymore, so I can’t figure out the situation right now.”
“No… Suddenly, it disappeared. Calian’s horse came back alone. Calian… Ah, that beach. He might have gone there. He might have gone there. He might have gone there.”
“I’ll check. He probably didn’t come. Crown Prince Plants knows, but he’s not that type of kid.”
“…… okay.”
Chase suddenly realized that Plantz’s words had gone down, but he didn’t seem to realize it himself, so he just let out a long sigh.
“I understand for now. I hope something didn’t happen, but if something doesn’t happen, I’m not the kind of kid who disappears like that. If something happens, I’ll go back there on my own…” Chase said this and his voice sank
. He said with a smile.
“Get some rest. I was going to talk to you, but that won’t help. Anyway, I’ll let you know when I hear from you.”
Plantz nodded.
Chase, unable to erase his stern expression, cut off communication first.
If I had been contacted by Kalian, Chase would have informed me of the revised version first. Did they contact me first and give me something to worry about? Plantz, who had regrets for a moment, put down those regrets and a revised edition. It was because I thought Chase had the same right to know.
Planz, who had been looking out the window for a while, looked up at the dark sky and unbuttoned one button of his shirt that had been fastened tightly. That wasn’t enough, so I closed my eyes again.
But soon he couldn’t bear it any longer and walked out of the room.
* * *
He said that it was already morning.
As soon as I got into the cold air, I said that.
“Callian is.”
So I asked.
Relic didn’t answer for a moment.
As I wait for an answer, I look at his face out of habit.
“Prince Calian has not entered the palace yet, sir.”
As the names are mixed in there, I let out a long sigh as is my habit.
“okay.”
Relic’s expression darkened, making it difficult to recognize that it was not because he was frustrated or annoyed, but because it had a slightly different meaning.
“Your Majesty. You have been here ever since you came back.”
“know.”
“Nothing will happen. I heard that the Marquis Manasil came out last night. Sir Knight Bern and Vice Commander Hertz are also scouring the area, and the Wizards Association and Duke Siegfried are also looking for him, so we should find him soon.”
I understand, but I couldn’t answer.
I couldn’t say that would happen.
I once again gave strength to my straight legs.
The lakeside of Chermil Palace.
I stayed up all night in a place where I couldn’t hear anything except the sound of grass and the wind. I went inside for a while, but I couldn’t bear it, so I came back out and spent another day. Unable to resist the words of Lemain, who came to check on his two remaining sons, he ate. However, as if the room were deep in the sea, I jumped out and stood here as if I was sticking my head out of the water.
spent the night
“Lord Verne also advised me to stay warm as not everyone has been cured yet. Just go in and get some rest. Didn’t your Majesty say so too?”
Relic’s face shows deep concern.
okay. I’m worried.
know. Know. I thought.
I didn’t know. why.
“…… are you okay.”
arm hand.
I was hurt.
“Then I’ll give you a blanket. I’ll bring you a chair.”
“Relic.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Alone. Just a moment.”
“You keep saying that, right? Now go in…”
“Reric.”
“…… All right.”
The sound of Relic answering quietly walked away very slowly. It disappeared, drowned out by the sound of the wind shaking the blades of grass. Plantz took his ears off the sound and turned his head again. I looked at the lake swaying in the wind that seeped through it.
‘He said he had to go to my superiors to apologize and receive an apology, and he said he would go back. So, the prince did not enter the palace because of his fight with you. I don’t know if this will make you worry more, but I’m telling you this in case you think it’s my fault.’
The sun rises.
The water soaked in the wind begins to sparkle red. It looked like countless fireworks that rose into the sky that day, so I forgot about the glare and watched endlessly.
But in the end, I couldn’t win and closed my eyes for a moment.
However, I couldn’t keep it closed for long and opened my eyes again.
‘Without dying. It doesn’t disappear either. Forever. I.’
I watched it again.
It’s like it’s going to stay there forever.
– Jump and jump.
There was a sound of footsteps.
Although for different reasons, neither Reric nor Calian make any footsteps. The smart mind has already remembered it, but it turns its head. A light half-disappointed and half-disappointed appears in his light green eyes.
I was about to look towards the lake again, but belatedly realizing that our eyes had already met, I turned towards the sound of footsteps.
– Tak.
– …… Jeopuk.
Likewise, the person who discovered Planz also stopped for a moment. As if he was thinking the same thing, the person who was originally going in the direction he was going took a small step to change direction. And it stopped.
That much distance.
A distance created by stopping towards each other at a distance that allows voices to be heard but facial expressions not to be seen clearly. We faced each other with just that much distance.
One was the crown prince before being the younger brother, and the other was the older brother before being the prince, so neither of them showed respect to each other first.
“That’s unexpected.”
However, on behalf of the person who had no intention of putting himself first in the conversation, someone who knew that his position was no lower than that of his younger brother spoke first.
“They wouldn’t even set foot here for fear of running into me.”
“I thought you wouldn’t come because you wouldn’t know I was there.”
“That’s why I didn’t walk yesterday.”
Landel’s servant Den is seen holding garden shears in his hand.
“… Wouldn’t it be correct to say that you didn’t walk yesterday either?”
Randel had not yet set foot in the garden. I found out about this fact because of a guy who left his seat and jokingly said that the branches growing all over the place were already full and that if I cut off the rose branches instead, my brotherly relationship would also be cut off.
“If you think about it that way, would there be any difference?”
“When I remind myself that it is not only a garden that I didn’t come to yesterday, but a garden that I also didn’t come to until yesterday.”
Of course, now that Calian is gone, I wonder why I suddenly entered a garden I had never entered before.
Planz, who was about to say this, closed his mouth.
I remembered the words of the guy who told me not to try to force Landel’s head to turn as he was still ignoring his younger brother. Every time I tried to help Kalian in my own way and make room for him, I ended up hindering Kalian and hurting him, so I just stopped talking for fear that it would happen again this time.
“… Let’s go.”
Plantz, feeling suffocated again, took a step forward. I was afraid that if I sat by the lake, I wouldn’t be able to get up again, so I held my legs, which I had forcibly held upright as if I had nailed them in, from breaking. I took a step.
– Just because I’m in the palace, I don’t feel out of breath like my brother. I’m good at running away on my own… Aren’t there many places in the palace where you can take a breather?
Instead of going to a suffocating room or by a lake where you’ll be forced to breathe, try to go somewhere where you can breathe a little more. So, I guess I’ll have to ask Relic to bring me Estina. While thinking about that, I move my feet.
“Is it really necessary to go through such useless repairs?”
Randel stepped on Plantz’s shadow at his feet and opened his mouth.
“The way you forget where you sit doesn’t change at all. That’s all I’ve seen and learned so far, so I don’t know how to act differently.”
The words that followed were not even audible.
The thorns that came every time I encountered them didn’t even pass my ears. Instead, another word I heard along with it burrows into my head.
The tips of my fingers inside the long cardigan covering my injured shoulder were cold. Plantz, who was also holding on to him tightly so as not to shake, let out a low voice.
“…Are you saying this is just a useless repair?”
“Wouldn’t it seem pointless in the eyes of others?”
“Do you see it that way in your eyes? Is that the person who came to the garden?”
Landel’s gaze, which was heading toward the lakeside, caught on to Plantz. I stared at the light green eyes of my brother, who looked nothing like me.
“You’re asking a meaningless question.”
A sigh, whether long or short, escaped silently. Randel’s words continued towards Plantz, who breathed out all the curses, rebukes, and reprimands.
“If your actions are not gratuitous repairs, then what is?”
Jerk.
Plantz’s foot took a step closer to Randel.
Jerk.
I took one step closer.
At a distance where he could now clearly hear his voice and see the expression on his face, Plantz stopped for a moment and looked at Randel. He let out a calm voice as he faced the deep blue eyes that were trying to suffocate him.
“I’m worried. That’s all I’ve seen and learned so far.”
The sound of footsteps like water carried by the wind passed Randel. He walked away, leaving Randel standing in his place.
* * *
I feel sleepy.
– Flash.
I. What… did he do?
Demirea.
okay. I met Demirea. After meeting him, I came out.
Come out. I.
– Flash.
I saw a one-armed prosecutor.
It looks… familiar.
so. I. I was wondering who it was.
okay.
Ayla.
Ratran Territory. okay. It did. The guy who played into the hands of those who stole shoes there. The guy who attacked me ended up cutting off my arm. That guy. Norton Ramirez.
I saw this guy who was supposed to be safe in my territory moving around suspiciously.
So I just passed by? is not it.
Did you chase it?
How did you… do it?
– …… Flash.
I think he was chasing me. I.
I followed you secretly.
…What did you do after that?
Scent. okay.
There was a scent.
– Blink… Blink.
Scent.
It smells good. Take charge of it.
Raven. Raven stopped. Raven stopped walking and suddenly got down on her knees. Raven blinked her eyes.
– Flash.
Because my mind was preoccupied with something else. I.
Raven seemed to be asleep… so I did. I’m angry.
Then. I.
“Hmm? Did you wake up again? No. Don’t wake up.”
That woman.
okay.
“I’m having a hard time when you wake up. I’m not done worrying about what to do with this. Just sleep a little more.”
Because that woman is blocking the way.
Then the scent came again. I felt sleepy when I smelled it. I.
“[slip].”
Going back.
Because my mind was preoccupied with something else.
Then that woman.
“Sleep…….”
That woman. okay.
Because I met Adelia.
“Sounds the same.”
…I was on my way back.
– Kwaaaaang!
dare.
me.
