Chapter 74. The other end (5)
…… Ah.
“Brother, you are not the kind of person who usually goes out dressed like this. Of course, in the past, you used to go around in clothes that you couldn’t tell whether you were taking them off or not, but that was when you were building your personality for the public, so you acted differently from your original intentions. .”
…… Really…
“Actually, I did something fun today and my brother had to stay in his original form, so I lent him some of my clothes. So, after he returned to his original form, he was in my arms. “It must have been a perfect fit. As you can see, my body is as pretty as my face.”
“You’re talking about something I wasn’t curious about.”
“I decided to take your side in front of Brother Randel. Anyway, that’s why you’re dressed like this now. So, don’t say things like I’m still the same or look like Brissen just because I didn’t wear my tie properly or my jacket and my shirt was undone.”
“I’ll take it into account.” I
just
wish it would turn off.
Without taking sides or considering it, I just want them both to turn off.
“Aeowong!”
Lucy It’s been a long time.
Anne came to visit, but you didn’t come, so I thought you forgot about me… Ah. Anne must have confused the floor. Well, he somehow came alone.
Calian muttered this and stroked Lucy’s beard. He looked relaxed and didn’t really care whether Pea was angry or laughing. Isn’t Calian the one who doesn’t pay as much attention to things like Lucy’s hair because he’s the best on the continent who doesn’t want to pay attention to details?
“But Anne, you look really round. Have you gained weight?”
“no.”
“I gained weight.”
“It’s fur. Speak informally.”
“It’s fur. Anyway, it’s still pretty. Lucy and Anne are both pretty.”
“…… okay.”
It’s like an angry pea or something.
It’s so round that it loosens up quickly.
“Ah, brother. Coco ordered Jan to take her to Lord Hertz. It’s no good to leave your child in the hands of someone else.”
“Who are you talking about now?”
“Anyway, surprisingly, the cats don’t seem to hate Brother Randel. Should I make a door in Brother Randel’s room for Lucy and Anne to go through?”
“It is done.”
“no.”
“Aow!”
“Niaang.”
“yes.”
Calian responded as if he knew that would happen, picked up the crying Anne in a quiet voice, and handed her to Plantz. Then, I lightly hugged Lucy, who was nearby, and placed her on my lap, then grabbed the teacup. Then, not at all surprised by the long gray hair floating on top of the car, I naturally cast a clean spell, took a sip of black tea with a vanilla and orange scent, and put it down.
Then, when he saw that Anne’s hair had blown all over Randel’s white jacket, he used Clean once more and cleaned up the cat hair all over the room.
Randel, who was looking at that scene, opened his mouth.
“He said he was going to get a dog.”
“I don’t raise the cats. This white cat is my cat, raised by Hina, but somehow they ended up in my brother’s arms. I will be raising the dog, though.”
“I hope this place doesn’t get any more noisy.”
Calian, who looked at Randel for a moment at these words, nodded. And he answered in a voice that sounded like a sigh.
“… Yes. Not really.”
“You don’t have to say it that way.”
However, I kept my mouth shut thanks to Plantz’s voice interrupting my words. Plantz, who joined the conversation between the two, continued.
“Kalian will never have a dog in Chermil.”
“You’re making hasty bets.”
“It’s not too hasty.”
“Yes, but can you really watch it?”
“Calian is going to Camilon. I don’t plan on going and I will keep an eye on him, so don’t worry.”
While Calian let out a silent sigh, Plantz, who answered each word with force, turned his head. He stared at Randel with the same hard-to-read expression and then opened his mouth once again.
“I don’t know if you really know the word worry.”
– Sigh!
– Suddenly… Suddenly!
The sound of snapping fingers rang between the two.
The white curtain is lifted all at once, and the long, tightly closed window opens wide. Hair of different colors sways here and there in the sudden breeze.
A voice containing a low warning was directed at the two brothers.
“Please don’t criticize me like that. In front of me.”
Randel and Planz’s eyes turned to Calian.
Calian, who was looking down at the teacup with a face that was full of mischief, had completely erased his expression, and opened his mouth softly.
“I cannot take your side when it comes to picking on painful sounds and escalating fights.”
No matter how much you said you would take his side, you can’t say that Plantz did a good job when he did something wrong. Calian, who had been scolding Plantz while looking at him, raised his head.
“If you need someone who will listen and accept how unfair Brother Randel has been, I will take you to Schrinz right away. Go to the person who was at fault, not the wrong person, and tell them.”
The same goes for Randel, who always pokes at the still-still Plantz.
Regardless of who he is closer to, from Kalyan’s point of view, they are both guys who have done nothing good. Those guys are sitting facing each other and exchanging words that could almost hurt each other.
“Aow!”
It would be right to be scolded not only by Calian but also by Lucy.
“You are already working hard to keep your brother from following in Briesen’s footsteps, even without you intentionally reminding him. If you keep saying that because you are worried that your brother might end up like the same person, you can stop now.”
Randel lowered his eyes.
I couldn’t tell if it was positive or negative, but Kalian continued talking.
“And… I think you feel better if you keep messing with your brother like that and hearing back the thorny words you said to Brother Randel.”
No answer came back.
Useless, meaningless, meaningless. If you try to put it out there, it becomes clear that it will only be words like that anyway. Calian’s voice continued, having put aside any expectations of hearing a meaningless answer.
“You brought a watch to my brother’s room where there was nothing.”
“So it was.”
“Nothing will change if you look at a clock that doesn’t stop or go back and try to regret it.”
“…… okay.”
“No matter how long I watch the withered roses bloom with my brother’s hands, no matter how long I watch the clock, nothing will change. There is no going back. Even if there is a way to go back, I will step in and stop it. No matter what I do.”
“okay.”
“So, I hope you don’t do that anymore. Even now, for whatever reason. I hope you don’t do that. If you decide to take a good look, take a good look not only at me, but also at your brother, Brother Randel, and at yourself. Hand the Renieri to Brother Planz and remove the thorn. “I wonder if the job I’m getting back is really a comfortable thing to do, like staring at the clock in an empty room all day. I wonder if it’s really a comfortable thing to do.”
Calian paused for a moment and searched in his arms. He took out his pocket and put something out and spoke again.
“If you need another way, you could just apologize to me. Even if I don’t say it’s okay, I’ll listen. If that’s too difficult.”
-Tap!
What was in Calian’s hand was placed in front of Randel.
“Take it.”
“What was it?”
A withered rose branch with small flower buds.
I caught a glimpse of small white petals wrapped in green-colored calyxes.
“I saw a greenhouse on the way to the Marquis of Briesen’s residence, and there were flowers growing on branches that I couldn’t tell if they had been withered or abandoned, so I brought them. I heard you were going out to the garden again.”
Calian let out a short sigh, watched Planz and Randel, and continued speaking.
“It’s too boring to stop fighting with the second brother, and it’s too easy to apologize to the third brother, so if you can’t do it, just do it. I wish you could try growing it instead of the flowers I cut. Wouldn’t that be difficult?”
“It’s a white rose.”
“Yes. It’s a rose.”
“It has withered a lot.”
“Yes. It has withered.”
Randel said no more.
Instead, he quietly reached out and picked up a withered branch.
The tips of the petals that haven’t even bloomed have already turned yellow. The long branches also dry out quickly, so they are closer to brown than green. He handed it to me and told me to grow something like that. Something that is neither a proper sapling nor a healthy branch.
“Even if it’s withered. At least it’s not Annelusia.”
“…….”
“It’s a rose.”
“…… okay.”
Because none of the thorns barely hanging on the dying branches are strong. Even if you grow it, the wounds won’t increase.
“Let me try that.”
I answered that I would stop giving thorns to Plants and get them back, put off trying to give apples to Calian, and try growing the dying white roses.
“That’s good. Because you listen carefully.”
“They say it’s a rose.”
“yes.”
Planz, who was watching his brothers, closed his eyes.
And when Anne reached out to grab the rose in Randel’s hand, he gently patted her and stopped her.
Because I knew that it had become a rose that no one should mess with. Because I knew that it would be the first rose that Randel would grow, and not Annerusia.
“You should not use fake spiritual powers and nurture them with sincerity.”
“If you were going to say that, shouldn’t you have given me a sturdy rose?”
“Then the meaning fades.”
“You have a knack for making up useless words.”
“Is this a compliment?”
“Is that a compliment?”
“It seemed like Sispanian poured the blessing into my older brother’s head, but I think he poured it out of my brother Randel’s mouth. I’m not sure where I got it from. Maybe it’s because he’s the youngest.”
“You’re good at saying simple things.”
“Is this a compliment?”
“Is that a compliment?”
of course.
“…… under.”
The thought of wanting it all to turn off didn’t change.
* * *
How much time has passed?
Anne quickly got up and went looking for someone to give her a snack, and for some reason, Lucy’s tail, which was lying on Calian’s lap, started wagging more and more slowly and stopped.
After breaking up the two brothers’ argument, Calian was lost in thought to come up with his next words.
– Knock knock knock.
There were three people and only one spoke, but silence fell. The younger brother who scolded the older brothers harshly told them not to hurt each other, but that didn’t mean they should be friends.
Therefore, the small sound of fingers moving filled the room.
Even though there were three people and only one had his eyes downcast.
“so.”
Calian, who had made Lucy fall into a deep sleep by gently tapping Lucy’s round head instead of the table or thigh, unable to overcome the soft fingers patting her at a steady pace, finally broke the silence.
“Why did Rashid Briesen come to visit?”
Plantz, who was relieved that he had now gotten to the point, endured his fatigue, and Randel, who had thought of today’s events that he had dismissed as useless and had already been pushed to the other side of his memory, opened his mouth.
“Inquire about your well-being and make suggestions.”
“yes.”
“He threatened me.”
Come to think of it, did I ask how you were?
Just when Randel, who was recalling something he had forgotten, thought that Rashid had not asked how he was doing, he heard Kalian’s voice.
“What did you propose and what threats did you make?”
“I made the same offer as you. But after that.”
When Calian nodded, he was about to answer.
Plantz slightly opened his closed eyes and looked at Calian.
“Did you at least offer the throne of Tensil to your brother?”
“Yes. I did that when I was in Wilhelm Guan’s hospital room.”
“why.”
“I don’t want to send you to the tower. But, brother, if I build you another house with lots of roses next to the Marquis of Briesen’s residence.”
“no.”
“I think you will.”
What are you guys doing with me now?
Randel thought about saying something like this, but it was meaningless, so he left it alone and picked up his teacup. Calian smiled brightly as he cleaned up Anne’s hair that had fallen on the teacup again.
‘After living like that, I don’t like going to the tower, I don’t like being locked up in a beautiful estate, I don’t like wearing the crown of a country with no roots, and I don’t like standing in the square. Brother Randel is the one who said he didn’t like everything… Decide for yourself whether you like roses or cats.’
‘It’s a difficult choice to pick up.’
“Of course, I also told you that if Brother Randel tells you what you want to do, I will help you achieve it.”
‘I’ll let you do whatever you want, no matter what. I am.’
“I haven’t heard a confirmation yet.”
“…… okay.”
Randel silently put down the teacup and was silent for a moment.
“I’m reluctant to go to the tower, and I don’t want to be trapped in a beautiful estate again. Now that I’m standing in the square, I feel regretful.”
“I’m glad. Brother Randel also has something to regret.”
“I’m worried about whether the white roses grown here will take root even if we move the land.”
Randel stopped speaking and turned his head. And he gazed deeply at Planz with similar but slightly different eyes as always.
Plantz looked at Randel with sharp eyes. I knew that I would no longer be able to smell the scent after Randel’s deep-sea-like gaze, but I couldn’t help but feel reluctant.
“I don’t want to bow my head to my younger siblings.”
They say they are younger brothers, but they are unconditionally pointing to Plants. This means that no matter what happens, I will never bow my head to Plants.
Calian chuckled and nodded.
“I said I would accomplish whatever you said I would do, so I will ask Master to move the garden intact to Tensil so you don’t have to worry.”
“Yes. I believe it.”
“yes.”
I think I can hear Plantz’s regret over Randel’s decision to become the king of Tensil. Because of this, Calian laughed a little louder and opened his mouth towards Randel.
“So what about threats? Are you referring to the seal of oath?”
Randel did not answer.
Calian, who already knew that it was because of the restrictions imposed by the oath seal, leaned back. After sitting a little further away from Randel, I looked at Randel’s eyes, eyebrows, mouth, neck, shoulders, fingertips, and knees. I asked, taking everything in at a glance.
“If I kill Rashid Briesen, will the effectiveness of the threat disappear?”
There was no answer.
Does not matter.
That will soon be the answer.
“If not. Is the person you signed a contract with related to Rashid Brissen? If Rashid Brissen threatened it, it means he can influence the seal of the oath.”
Like when I dealt with Silike, when I had Evan in front of me, like when I faced Devlan, like when I looked at Eila, when I dealt with the head of the Magician Association of Secretia, and just like when I threw away the white eagle.
Kalian, who listened to the answer in silence, spoke next.
“Then. It is correct that he is a Tensil person. Are you by any chance a member of the Tensil royal family?”
“What are you doing?”
“I’m looking into Brother Randel’s inner thoughts. Me too. Because I’m a person with a knack for finding out what other people have buried. Anyway, even when I asked him back then, he seemed to think he couldn’t know for sure, and that’s still the case. If it’s not clear whether he’s from the Tensil royal family… ….”
He didn’t say anything, but it was as if he heard an answer.
“Selena Heidern. Are you the person you said was Rashid Briesen’s mother?”
Randel did not answer.
Calian heard the answer.
“… I’m really curious about who he is. When I lived, he was a person whose name I had never even heard of. What changed to make him sign an oath with the prince of a country?”
Calian, smiling long with narrowed eyes as if amused, looked at Randel. Then he picked up the teacup, took a sip, and pointed to the bracelet that was lying on the table.
“My brother and I messed with Gray Briesen a little today. While we were going to Marquis Briesen’s residence, I showed my face here and there and got some rose branches. You, like your brother, decided to meet many people at the palace, so it would take two days at the most. In other words, the Marquis of Gray Briesen will know that the same Calian was in two places at the same time. The Marquis will also know that the person who will imitate me is my brother, but who will decide whether it was really me or my brother who visited the Marquis? You will be very anxious because you won’t know that we have been tricked. Moreover, Rashid Brissen caught me meeting with the Marquis. If he realizes that Rashid Brissen knew first that we were deceived, the Marquis will probably come to his senses. ”
He revealed what he had done today and that it was Gray, not Rashid, who was targeting him.
“Wouldn’t Rashid Brissen, who is just an individual, become a nobody in Kairis where the Brissen family disappeared? So, I guess I now know that the one I will target first is of course the Marquis. Put him in that position, not the Marquis. “I wouldn’t know if there weren’t two good people, but now there are two more, and one of them is closely connected to me.”
Riri.
Of course, I have no intention of letting Riri get involved in this situation. If you do that, you will really break off the engagement.
But Gray doesn’t know that. Even if you directly tell children that they just need to be loved and that they do not need to be manipulated by the words of the political world, they will not believe it. Because it’s Brisen.
“So, even if you don’t understand exactly what I’m planning with this, you will know that the Marquis himself has become the target. Brother Planz went to visit the Marquis separately, so I wonder if he was real or fake that day. That too would be confusing. . He will think that it is not an important situation to decide whether to be on Brother Randel’s side or on his side. He will gather all the people he believes he can trust and unite. Then, I will quietly watch… Now. To attack Brisen, you just need to figure out which families need to be eliminated first.”
“So you came together and acted as one person?”
“…… Called.”
Calian took his eyes off the teacup and looked at Randel.
“I’m sure smart Rashid Briesen would think so.”
Rattling.
Calian put down the teacup, being careful not to touch Lucy, and picked up the bracelet. He then turned it around and opened his mouth. However, he said something a little different than what he had been saying before.
“It is made in Secretia. There wasn’t a lot of it, but it was used a lot here and there. His Majesty the King of Secretia promised that it would not be made anymore, but we have no choice but to always be on guard against what has already spread.”
Randel and Planz’s eyes fell on the bracelet.
Kalian, who was examining it as if it were a strange object, said.
“As you know, you increase your height, change your appearance, and change your voice. But Hina said that even if you use this, the inside of a person doesn’t change. I thought that was strange. Why can’t the inside change while changing the skeleton? I’ve been thinking about that.”
click.
Kalian put the bracelet on my empty right wrist.
– Sreuk.
Black hair grew long.
Red eyes turned to Randel. And headed to Planz.
His long black hair changed color. With a light like those eyes. With a bright red light.
“… I know what it looks like.”
Freya in a portrait.
Calian, who smiled for a moment, changed again, looking strangely similar to Freyja’s face, although his size and body were different.
The color of long hair is changing again.
The color gradually disappeared and turned into a bluish silver color.
It was another sight that Randel and Planz had also seen, but the child, who was much younger than Calian now, looked at the two older brothers with bright purple eyes.
“And this too. I know what it looks like.”
Calian opened his mouth as Vern from his younger days and fiddled with his bracelet.
“Because it is easy to see and experience the appearance. It changes because there is no difficulty in recalling it. But the inside does not. Because I cannot recall it, it does not change. No matter how hard I try, I cannot do that either. Even when I fought Vulcan this time, in the end it was only the appearance. “Because it was a fake muscle that looked good. Like Hina said, we couldn’t change the inside. However.”
Kalian said this and closed his eyes for a moment.
Landel, who watched Calian for a moment because he couldn’t tell what else he would show him this time, let out a low breath. Planz, who was looking at Calian, closed his eyes tightly.
Tap tap.
The bracelets hanging on Kalian’s left arm fell to the floor. I saw it rolling and lying down on the floor with nowhere to go. But neither Randel nor Plantz paid attention to that appearance.
I saw one sleeve of a person with the body of Calian and the face of Bern swaying in the wind. I watched as the arm that was supposed to hold it inside disappeared.
“I… experienced it. This is enough for me.”
Calian, who was looking down impassively at the sight of his missing arm, extended his right arm to Plantz. Plantz, realizing what that meant, quietly reached out and took off the bracelet.
Sweet.
What had disappeared appears again in the sleeve.
Calian smiled slightly as he looked at the light green eyes that were relieved to see that, and opened his mouth.
“Rashid doesn’t know that the white suri is dead. He doesn’t know that I will write it again or even think of writing it this way. He’s smart.”
It means to disguise yourself as a white eagle.
Calian, who told me his plan with a nonchalant expression, smiled mischievously.
“Get rid of Rashid Briesen quickly and go to Tensil. I will free Brother Randel’s heart.”
The person who recalled the memory of what had disappeared laughed so hard that he would even try to use it.
