A night passed, a good night's sleep.
After waking up, the little girl sitting on the bed was a little dumbfounded. She thought that she would be the same as before, because she had to stay alert, so she didn't sleep well, but she didn't know that she slept until dawn.
If someone was mean to her last night...
[If you make her feel that her disguise is working and she can sleep peacefully, I will pretend to be deceived, and it's fine.]
She eavesdropped on the conversation between those two people last night in order to find out why those people brought her back, but she heard such a sentence.
Compared with the fact that the boy was the prince of Aaron Landis, this sentence made her feel more complicated.
The boy was indeed good-looking, but he was a man.
Thinking of what happened in the past few months, she hated the existence of such things as men from the bottom of her heart.
Teenagers are no exception.
Just because at first glance, she could see that the knight was not easy to fool, and her eyes were vicious, so she kept pretending to be pitiful and sticking to the boy who seemed to be more talkative, using the boy's hand to avoid the knight.
When she smiled sweetly at him in front of the boy, when she pretended to be pitiful, she was sneering in her heart.
It just didn't occur to her, it was just her self-righteousness.
From the beginning, the teenager saw through her.
With a sudden creak, the door was pushed open, and the blond boy walked in and smiled at her.
Emma opened her eyes and looked at him for a while.
She didn't speak until the other party walked up to her.
"why?"
She lowered her eyes, and the shadows from her fine eyelashes made her face look gloomy.
Her fingers clenched the soft quilt tightly around her body.
"Why didn't you expose me?"
Garlan, who was about to reach out to take the little girl down, was startled.
He looked at little Emma and didn’t answer immediately.
At this moment, Emma's pretty little face no longer had the sweet, cute and occasionally pitiful look she pretended to be in front of Garland yesterday.
She lowered her eyes, her eyes gloomy and penetrating.
That little face looked like it was covered with an opaque black shadow, and even the tender voice was gloomy.
"Don't expose me because you want to see me joke?"
Emma's hand was tightly clenched on the sheet, she gritted her teeth and said, "Seeing how I carefully please you, you are very proud!"
She knew she shouldn't have said such things, and she still needed this person to protect him.
But for some unknown reason, when the teenager smiled at her, she just felt aggrieved.
She just can't help herself saying such things—
Garlan looked at the gloomy look on this little child's face that didn't match her age, and the fingers that were clenching the sheets as if to vent.
He thought about it for a while, then leaned over the bed and knelt down on one knee.
Raising his eyes slightly, he looked at little Emma from a slightly upward angle.
"Emma."
He whispered the child's name softly.
"Maybe during this time, you've been through a lot of bad things that made you sad and painful."
"You hate those who hurt you, that's right. In the future, for those people, you can always hate them, you don't need to forgive them."
He says,
"You can hate those people, but you can't hate everyone."
"Because those people are not qualified to represent all."
"In this world, there are good things, and naturally there are bad things, even for men."
Emma stared blankly at the person kneeling in front of her.
The boy who spoke to her had a pair of golden eyes, clean and clear, as bright as light.
When those eyes looked at you, it was like bright sunlight falling on the body and seeping into the bottom of my heart.
"Maybe you think I'm lying to you... don't care, you don't need to believe me."
"You are still young, your strength is still weak, and there are still many things that you have not seen."
"But when you grow up, when you have the power to protect yourself, you can see the world again with your own eyes."
"Whether the world is good or bad, when that time comes, you will find out for yourself."
Emma stared blankly at the boy's bright golden eyes, watching him stretch out his hand to her.
"So, Emma, now, before you have the power to protect yourself, I'm going to send you back to the place where you can protect you, and those who are anxiously waiting for your return."
After a long silence, Emma looked at the hand in front of her for a while.
Then, she raised her hand.
The little hand grabbed the boy's hand.
I didn't believe him.
My sisters have said that men only lie, and their words are all lies.
So, I didn't believe him, I just pretended to believe him in order to get back to everyone.
The little girl warned herself in her heart.
…
In a hidden harbor, there is a large ship moored.
In the afternoon, several people in capes entered.
After walking into the cabin, Garlan put down his dark hood, and his long golden hair fell down. In order to divert the attention of others, Kaihos did not follow him. Following him were several guards arranged by Kaihos.
He glanced at it and saw a row of people standing opposite, all of them were tall and strong women, each with slender hands and feet, with heroic brows, each carrying a war bow on their backs.
Those Elson female warriors looked at him with unstoppable excitement, and their faces were full of surprises.
The leading female warrior couldn't hold back and walked over quickly.
Before Garland spoke, she saw that the female warrior lowered her head and her body, and she knelt down in front of Garland.
The moment she knelt down, the row of female warriors standing opposite followed and knelt down in unison.
Garlan was stunned for a moment, and then he heard the little girl beside him speak.
"General Vinier, I'm very sorry for causing you so much trouble because I went to sea without authorization."
"No, little princess, it is my dereliction of duty to fail to protect you."
Kneeling on one knee in front of Emma, the female soldier Elson looked at Emma with excited and tender eyes.
"Your safety is our greatest comfort. The queen is very worried about you. Please come back to her with me as soon as possible."
Emma nodded.
The female soldier Elson, who was called a general, stood up, turned around and started directing her subordinates to prepare for the voyage.
At the same time, she also handed the remaining information to the guard behind Garlan.
"His Royal Highness Prince of Aaron Landis, I will keep in mind your help to our princess."
Vinier held Emma tightly with one hand, pressed the other hand to her chest, and bowed her head to Garlan.
She said: "I will tell the Queen all this. Elson will not forget your kindness. If you need it, we will repay you."
After she finished speaking, she took little Emma's hand and turned and walked away quickly.
Little Emma was held by her hand, walked a few steps, and suddenly stopped again.
When the female warrior looked at her with inquiring eyes, she suddenly broke free from the other and held her hand, turned around, and ran towards Garlan.
"I don't believe what you said!"
Emma rushed in front of Garlan, who subconsciously reached out and caught her.
The little princess tightly grasped Garlan's wrist, she raised her head, her little face flushed slightly, and her big blue eyes looked at Garlan without blinking.
"Men are all liars, so I don't believe those things you say."
she says,
"So, when I grow up, I want to see it with my own eyes!"
She put the silver-white earring engraved with Elson's unique pattern, which had been tightly in her hand, into Garlan's hand.
"Remember, when I'm older and stronger, I'll go to you! I'm going to see it with my own eyes, to find the answer—"
After the little princess finished speaking so loudly, before Garlan could speak, she turned around again and ran away.
Only Garlan was left holding the silver-white earrings in his hands, standing there in a daze and at a loss.
uh... wait.
What just happened
Holding the earring in his hand, Garlan felt a little confused.
After the little prince returned with the stack of exchanged documents and the silver-white earrings in his hands, his one-eyed knight laughed wildly for a long time.
"It's very good, Prince, your charm can only make me wait and see."
Kaijos said while laughing intermittently.
"You are booked by the next Queen Elson."
"Enough, Cayhors."
Looking at the earrings, Garlan only felt a headache.
The Cavaliers continued to unceremoniously fill the knife.
"Elson female fighters have always been sturdy. If they are rejected, they will rudely snatch the man they like back."
"… "
"Although the little princess is still young, her strength is not small, and her reactions are very quick. When she grows up, she must be a powerful Elson female warrior. With all due respect, in terms of talent, prince, after seven or eight years, you will I can't beat her."
Garland: "...Shut up."
To tell the truth you are still my good knight.
He looked at the hot thing in his hand and was so distressed.
"It's really troublesome."
he muttered softly.
"Trouble? Isn't this very good?" Kaihos said with a smile. "You like white skin, long hair, cute smiles, and petite than you. Take a closer look, that little princess doesn't suit you very much. your liking?"
"What a joke, she's just a child, a ten-year-old child!"
The little prince, who had endured teasing his knight for a long time, finally froze.
"Who would think about a child? I'm not a pervert!"
"What does it matter, girls grow up fast, she will be the ideal girl in your mind in a few years, although she may be able to fight a little, but in terms of appearance, she must be a sweet and lovely beauty Girl. When the time comes, you can… uh… ahee!”
The knight who was flirting with his little prince suddenly sneezed fiercely.
Strange, do you have a cold
The knight rubbed his itchy nose in confusion.
…
At this moment, above the distant ocean, the following dialogue is taking place.
"Hey? Vinier, have you chosen a man who will allow you to have a child? You have always been very picky and can't find a match."
Several Elson female warriors gathered together and chatted.
"Tsk, that's because the men I met before were all too weak, they looked like trash, how could I be interested."
Vinier said carelessly, "This is different now, that's the guy who can beat me, and the child who inherits his bloodline will definitely not be bad."
"That's right, in order to give birth to a strong child, you must choose a strong enough man. In other words, since you can beat a man as strong as you, why don't I go with you too?"
"If he's really as good as you say, then I'm just too..."
…
A sneeze!
Ahhhhhh!
The blond knight, who was cherished by the Elson female warriors for being too powerful, sneezed several times again.
He couldn't bear to continue teasing the little prince, rubbing his nose and planning to get a bowl of ginger soup to ward off the cold.
****
Another day has passed.
It was already late at night in the distant royal city, and the whole city was quiet in the dark night and went to sleep.
In the bedroom deep in the palace, Heimos lay sideways on the bed, his fine black hair scattered on the snow-white pillow.
A ray of moonlight from the skylight fell on his handsome side cheeks, but under the moonlight, his brows were slightly wrinkled, as if he was having a bad dream.
…
… In the dark world, I can’t see anything…
There is not a single star in the night sky.
Suddenly, a crimson fire lit up the entire sky.
Amidst the whistling wind, the churning flames instantly engulfed the pitch-black earth.
In the place surrounded by flames, in the collapsed ruins, someone was sitting there.
The man was on fire.
The deep shadow reflected by the shaking firelight made it difficult to see the person's appearance.
Suddenly, a gust of wind whistled past.
The man sitting in the fire looked up.
The strong wind whipped up the golden strands of hair, and the firelight illuminated the face.
On the blood-stained face under the blond hair, a little tear in the corner of the half-open golden eyes in the dark shadow suddenly made people's heart hurt.
The flames spread to the boy's body, igniting the golden hair and the messy corners of his clothes.
In the blink of an eye, the crimson flames engulfed everything.
The figure of the young man was also vanished in the flames that suddenly raged violently—
…
"!"
Heimos opened his eyes suddenly, rolled over and sat up.
Dream
He sat on the bed with his knees bent, breathing hard.
After a while, he turned his head slowly and looked around at the darkness, the fine black hair scattered in the corners of his sharp eyes, and the expression in his eyes could not be seen clearly in the dark night.
In the dark night, he raised his hand and clasped his chest tightly with his fingers.
Inside, the heart was beating violently, and there was no sign of it slowing down.
A little tear oozing from the corner of the golden eyes that I saw in the dream flashed in my mind again.
The fingers that clasped his chest tightened even more, and Heimos's lips were pursed to the extreme.
… an ominous dream…
Garland in Fire...