Chapter 20. This time (1)
Planz continued to worry.
“I didn’t expect you to say or do something like that. Why did you show that way to the crown prince of a foreign country?”
This is because Lemain, who heard about Plantz’s rude behavior towards Chase the day before, left Plantz, who had come to wish him a happy birthday, aside and began scolding him.
“Crown Prince Chase is a great king. I was really worried that I might have misunderstood you, considering that you treated someone with so much to see and learn from.”
When Freya cursed in front of Lemain a year ago, Lemain didn’t say anything to Plantz. He didn’t even make a reprimanding expression. He was someone who didn’t even have that much interest. Lemain was scolding Chase, who had nothing to do with him, for being rude.
So Planz had no choice but to worry.
Should I take out my anger on my brother who made Lemain like this? Or should I say thank you?
“Do not try to determine top and bottom based on the size or size of the country. That is vain.”
Lemain continued his speech with a stern expression on his face, perhaps knowing that he was thinking of something else while listening to his words with one ear.
Plantz, who was looking at Lemain like that, gave a slightly delayed answer.
“My thoughts were short. I will be careful.”
However, contrary to his response that he would be careful, there was a smile at the end of Plantz’s words. LeMaine felt that and closed his mouth for a moment.
Of course, I knew it wasn’t a joke.
However, I only paused for a moment because I had not yet thought about how to deal with my son who was smiling while being scolded.
It’s not that I’m embarrassed. It’s true.
“okay.”
In the end, Lemain gave a short answer and told a different story.
“So, how are you doing these days?”
As if scolding her was not enough, she was now worried.
Plantz looked at Lemain’s face again. Lemain added to that reaction.
“I didn’t call or ask about it because I thought it was bad for me not to come forward, but in fact, after the incident passed, I was very worried.”
Only after hearing these words did Plantz understand what Lemain was asking about. Now I am asking whether I have been forgetting about Silike. And with that cautious expression on his face.
It may have been Alan’s advice not to come forward.
Since it was Lemain who ultimately poisoned Silike, he must have told him not to act needlessly in front of Planz.
“You don’t have to worry.”
Plantz, who answered like this, let out a small laugh.
It was because Lemain was having such a hard time, but it made me think of a guy who was most involved in the matter and kept saying things like, “I’m going to die this way, I’m going to die that way,” and wondering if he was worried or meddling.
I scolded him and he laughed.
When I told him I was worried, he chuckled.
I did not see the expression on Lemain’s face, who had quite complicated feelings at the strange reaction of his son who was going through a period of upheaval.
* * *
I was going to tell him as soon as I left after meeting Lemain.
I was going to tell him right away when I finished my walk with Randel.
Therefore, when Alan, who had seen Chase out the door, motioned for Kirie to come in as soon as he saw her, Kirie felt really embarrassed.
“Did you hear everything?”
“What do you mean?”
Alan, who had called Kirie into the office about Jan, asked, and Kirie, who has been telling a lot of lies recently, played it off. However, the opponent was Alan.
“I am asking if you would like to tell the prince what you heard.”
“What I heard must be what you also heard.”
“Are those ears that don’t know what they are filtering?”
“I do not know.”
“What should we do with this honest swordsman?”
Alan laughed.
“And… the Crown Prince of Secretia was very surprised when I told him my name. It was as if I had personally told him about Prince Calian’s past.”
“Do you think Chase noticed that you said the last name ‘Bern’?”
“I think my words have convinced you.”
In fact, the process by which Chase linked Calian and Verne was a little more complicated. And it is true that Kyrie played a very big role in that.
Of course, Chase, who found his memories, did not think of Calian and Bern together from the beginning. Let alone making a connection, I didn’t even think that Bern was alive somewhere.
However, at the time when he recovered his memories, he heard the most noisy news of ‘Silike’s ouster’ and the story that the three princes, who should have died, played the biggest role in driving out Silike.
‘How is Calian still alive?’
In a situation where everything was running exactly like his memories, only things related to Kalyan were going wrong. After learning that, I naturally became curious about the 3rd Prince Kairis.
Calian took Allan Manasil, who should have returned to Riverne, as his teacher, and Alan Manasil created Balkan. It was even said that Calian was the sixth sword. What I found out of curiosity was unusual.
From then on, Chase began collecting all information about Calian.
A year later, news came that one of Calian’s servants was stabbed to death in a gambling house. The servant’s name was also included.
– Kyrie.
Until then, Chase didn’t know what Kyrie’s last name was. Kairis’ servants generally worked without revealing their last names.
But the name alone was enough. It was a name Chase knew very well. Isn’t he a loyal knight who died as an arrow carrier on behalf of Bern?
Kyrie, who should have come to Secretia, was with Calian, who should have died. Now Chase finds out where they started together.
– A child brought directly from ‘somewhere’ by Prince Calian.
I was already thinking about Kirie and the gambling house together.
So it wasn’t difficult to think about things that happened a little further back.
It is reported that Sejak, a man named ‘Red Swan’ who Chase does not even know, knows all the passwords to the new store. And the Odd Eye boy who disappeared from the gambling house on the very day the red swan found out the information about the gambling place.
Chase felt like he had been hit on the head with a hammer.
Calian, the prince of Kyris, the sword master, and the person with Kyrie, could be the red swan. Bern, who was a sword master and worked closely with Kyrie, managed Secretia’s three works.
… So maybe. Maybe. Maybe.
As a result of this accident, Chase came to Kyris to meet Calian in person. He had a premonition after seeing Calian’s reaction to him. I met Kirie and asked. And I heard.
‘Kyrie Bern.’
It was right. Calian was Bern.
I shouldn’t have forgotten or lost it.
It was my younger brother.
It was a fact that I learned after a very long process.
“It happened because of me, so it’s something I shouldn’t hide.”
What Kyrie said was not wrong. It is true that Chase became convinced after hearing Kirie’s last name.
Alan sighed.
Of course, Alan was in no position to argue about that.
“Yes. If I were someone who would listen to what others say, Prince Calian wouldn’t have even thought about putting me behind my back.”
On the other hand, I thought it turned out better. Alan was also worried about whether he should hide this from Calian. So, I thought it would be better to let that honest Kirie speak as she believed.
“Yes. Still, this is the time when many nobles gather. Let’s talk only during the festival period so as not to show you losing your composure in front of them.”
“I’ll think about it.”
I’m saying this all with Calian in mind, but I’ll give it some thought before making a decision.
Kirie is the only one who does anything Kalian says.
And Alan is in name and name Calian’s teacher and a wise archmage. However, even though this guy’s knifeman was about to die, he did not immediately listen to Alan’s words.
“Okay. Just leave it to yourself.”
In the end, Alan gave up on this move.
What can we do?
This is all the fault of the guy with good ears who didn’t use magic next to him.
* * *
Randel stared deeply at Calian.
“I didn’t think it would be an unreasonable request.”
It’s not an unreasonable request when you’re asking them to give you information that could potentially lead to war.
I couldn’t give Randel an answer like, ‘Tell me why you’re looking for Lennon, and I’ll think about whether or not to tell you.’ Therefore, Calian answered again without avoiding Randel’s eyes.
“If you keep asking what you don’t know, the answer won’t change.”
As I was about to leave with those words, I saw Randel’s servant approaching cautiously. Jan was also walking next to him.
“I think it’s time to go out to the square. I have a schedule, so I think the walk will end here.”
After concluding the conversation like this, Kalyan showed a simple example and then walked to where Yan was. Yan, who saw Calian’s face, became a little stiff and opened his mouth.
“What’s wrong? You look so bad. You haven’t even said much since yesterday.”
“No, nothing’s wrong.”
This is clearly a lie.
No, what kind of person messed with our flower-like prince?
Jan almost said, but realized that the only people Kalyan met today were His Majesty the King and His Majesty’s eldest son, the First Prince, so he quietly closed his mouth.
It’s hard to ignore the expression on Kirie’s face when she returns to the side, and with Calian also acting like this, the baby elephant, who doesn’t know what’s going on, just wants to cry.
Anyway, regardless of Yan’s circumstances, Kalian was in trouble. Because the conversation with Randel went on for quite some time, Calian was called to the square before he could even think about it, and after greeting him, he ended up attending a tea time with the nobles.
“Nice to meet you.”
The good news is that Calian doesn’t do anything to create strange rumors on his own.
Calian responded to the nobles’ greetings with a truly relaxed demeanor and smile, as if he had been thinking so much. We could see Marquis Evan Briesen in the distance, but since we weren’t happy with each other, we only exchanged simple glances.
After I sat down, I started thinking again.
I wasn’t wondering whether to tell them that Aisha had been poisoned.
Kalian felt sorry for not being able to inform Randel of the cause of Aisha’s death. But both the victim and the perpetrator are dead anyway.
There is no reason to start an unnecessary war.
Didn’t Calian endure it even when he had Silike right in front of him?
Therefore, Calian’s concerns were a little different.
Don’t bring up Lennon Brissen.
Gray Briesen shouldn’t come.
‘Should I keep hiding it? Or…’
Should I kill him?
The question was how to dispose of the two, as it was unclear whether they knew the secret about Aisha.
‘I guess I’ll have to meet them both after the festival.’
I’ll have to meet him and decide if I can keep his mouth open. It was about to come to that conclusion.
“This is Chase Dullahan Secretia, Crown Prince of Secretia.”
The unexpected voice of a knight.
And then Chase came in.
A look of embarrassment flashed across Calian’s face for a moment.
Of course, it was also because I met Chase again. But what was bigger than that was because of Teilan who came in with Chase.
Evan was here now.
Because of this, Calian had hidden his aura with magic.
‘If I hide my auror, Taylan Castrin will be suspicious, and if I don’t hide my auror, Evan Briesen will see my auror.’
The time to worry wasn’t long.
‘It is better to collide head-on with Evan than to be suspected by the first sword of the continent.’
It would be better for Evan, who found out that Calian’s aurors were less than his own, to attack him, rather than to be suspected of having more aurors than Teilan, as someone who has been on the path of the sword for less than a year.
“It’s okay for you to keep your Aurors hidden.”
At that time, Kyrie, who walked behind Calian, said this.
“…The Crown Prince of Secretia knows who you are.”
The moment he heard the added words, Calian’s eyes sank deeply.
