After hearing Kant's words, Aubrey let out a sigh of relief: "That's okay. There's no big problem."
Kant nodded and said, "I originally asked Bundak to come to me today. Why did you come?"
"Commander Bundak set off for Durandal with the escort team, and no one else was found in the barracks. Your Majesty, your guards came to me." Aubrey replied embarrassingly.
"Bundak went to Durandal? Why didn't I know?" Kant was slightly puzzled.
"Your Majesty, don't you know?" Aubrey's eyes widened, and he had a premonition in his heart that he might have caused a catastrophe, so he hesitated and said, "I heard that Commander Bundak heard that Commander Derrick will end this year. I didn't go back to Dherim, so I found it, after all, the two of them were comrades-in-arms before."
"So that's it, who is in charge of the affairs in the barracks now?" Kant asked.
"Adonis," Aubrey replied.
"Well, good." Kant said calmly without any displeasure on his face.
Aubrey followed Kant tremblingly for the rest of the journey, and escorted him back to the palace.
After walking out of the Senate Hall, Aubrey thought silently in his heart: Should I send a letter to Bundak or something.
But thinking that Bandak should be on the way back with the escort team, he dismissed this idea.
"What can we do?" Aubrey looked at the sky and sighed.
The time went back to two days ago, when Bundak had just arrived in Durandal.
Banda Ke got off the camel, took off his velvet hat, and said to the surprised Derrick, "Long time no see."
"Why did you come with me?" Derrick happily walked to Bundak's side and said.
"If you don't go back to Dherim, I'll come to Durandal to see you, okay?" Bandak said.
Derrick waved his hand and said, "Why do you say that, I'm just staying here for the New Year. How many days are you going to stay here?" He said and took some of Bundak's luggage.
"I have to leave tomorrow. Your Majesty doesn't know that I'm out, so I have to go back quickly." Bandak patted Derrick on the shoulder and said.
"Ha, you are brave enough." Derrick let go, and the luggage fell to the ground.
"It's okay, I can't find it. Yadonis is helping me hide it." Bandak said: "Ah, this bag is the cotton-padded clothes I brought. You are responsible for getting wet. Pick it up quickly."
Derrick was stunned for a moment, then picked up the duffel bag that fell in the snow, followed Ben Dake's footsteps, and the two walked side by side.
"When you go back, let's see how His Majesty deals with you." Derrick said.
"I came here specially to see you." Bandak shook his head indifferently and said, "To be honest, I won't go back this time. Apart from wanting to stay here, do you still have the letter I wrote to you?" reason?"
Hearing this sentence, Derrick took a deep breath, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Yes. I was also angry when I first heard that His Majesty planned to unload me. But after thinking about it, maybe this is the case. It's all right, Claremont is better suited to try than I am. My wish is to stay in Durandal and finish the work here."
"This is completely different from the purpose of my original letter to you." Bandak said.
"Then what were you thinking when you wrote the letter?" The road is still long, and Derrick doesn't mind this topic continuing.
"Of course, I want you to return to Dherim to make some achievements. In this way, His Majesty will not remove you from the position of command. In this way, we can continue to be colleagues and wait for the next time to rush to the battlefield together." Ban Duck spoke out all the thoughts in his heart.
"Thank you, Bandak." Derrick said with flushed eyes, "However, I am also very happy to support you as a subordinate."
"No." Bandak reacted and said, "What are you doing?"
"I don't have the determination to compete with others, do you remember? The celebration banquet when we first came back from the Elven Kingdom." Derrick said: "At that time, it was already the time when I had the strongest desire to win. .I showed myself as a leader in a victory I just won. At that time, I had enough confidence in my heart to be a better leader than you. That's why I wanted to show myself in front of you."
"Wait, the celebration banquet? How long ago was that?" Bandak frowned and said, "Derrick, you are really good as a leader. But sometimes your delicate thoughts will bother you .”
"I know." Derrick replied: "Anyway, now I don't have the confidence to stand in the position of leader."
Banda Ke looked at Derrick's side face, and found that Derrick, who was usually calm and self-possessed, had such a stubborn and fragile childish side. Can't help but sigh in my heart.
After returning to Durandal's military base, Derrick hurriedly brought Durandal's staff to help unload the cargo. There is no time to meet Bandak. Bundak stayed in his room until the evening.
"Commander Bandak! It's almost time for dinner!" A soldier knocked on Bandak's door and said.
"Understood." Bundak replied. After drinking the last sip of tea in the porcelain cup, he walked out.
The building they stayed in tonight was newly built near the barracks. When they walked outside the lobby door on the first floor, they could see the noisy crowd of soldiers gathered in the barracks.
"Commander Bundak, please come with me." A Durandal soldier said.
Bandak followed behind him and walked to the table of the banquet. Derrick was also sitting there.
"You're here." Derrick greeted with a smile.
"Yeah." Bandak squeezed out a smile, and now in his heart: Derrick has become a complete stranger.
The dispute in the afternoon took place in less than two hours, and Bandak really couldn't imagine what Derrick's smiling face meant.
At the beginning of the banquet, Derrick and Bandak, as representatives of the two parties, made a few remarks respectively.
When Bundak was speaking, he didn't know what he was talking about at all. After saying "I wish you all a good meal" at the end, he sat down in his seat and drank a glass of sake.
"Toot, toot -" the empty wine glass was filled.
Bandak looked up and saw Derrick, who still had a smile on his face: "Don't drink in such a hurry. Let's eat the vegetables first."
"I feel like I can't eat it." Bandak smiled wryly.
"Then I'll drink with you." Derrick replied with a sigh.
After speaking, he took his wine glass and sat down in front of Bandak.
"Come on." Derrick filled his wine glass, raised it in front of him, and said to Bundak.
(end of this chapter)