Chapter 266

The time when red falls on the world.

Chase, bathed in the setting sun everywhere, stood in front of the castle gate with a gentle smile on his face.

“I am relieved to see that you arrived safely.”

“I don’t know if I added to the crown prince’s worries by being stubborn.”

The person who responded to Chase’s welcoming words held out his right hand. The ends of the long sleeves of the black silk dress sway gently. As Chase took her hand and led her inside, the hem of her rich black lace and flower-decorated dress made a fluttering sound.

Soon, the two people left their followers at a distance and began to slowly walk down the path leading to the palace. The scent coming from the spacious flower gardens on both sides and the sound of water coming from the beautiful fountain replaced the conversation between the two people.

“Are you feeling a little better?”

It seems like a fragrant wind or a flowing stream of water. Chase’s voice captures the silence of this moment. At the question brought by that voice, the sky blue eyes hidden by the black veil connected to the headdress turned to the floor.

“I can’t tell whether it’s getting better or deeper.”

With those words, a long sigh was heard.

Chase turned his head and asked in a low voice.

“Do you still miss me so much?”

“There was only one person in this royal palace I could open up to. He left so suddenly, and even though it’s been several years, I still remember him like this.”

“Your mother must have been happy because she never forgot you.”

Concubine Louise, who had spent a month in a villa located near the tomb of the deceased Queen Diana, smiled lonelyly. Chase released Louise’s hand and placed it on his arm. After pulling my mother a little closer, I opened my mouth again.

“For someone who has passed away, there is nothing happier than having someone who remembers them.”

Bern’s mother, Queen Diana.

And Chase’s mother, concubine Louise.

In the past, Verne and Chase had the same mother. For both of them, their brothers were like sons. The two mothers raised the brothers so that their relationship would not fall apart due to the throne, and the brothers grew up as they wished. Their friendship and trust were so deep that Deanna asked Louise to look after Bern before she died.

Although Bern was not there in this life, their relationship was the same. After Deanna, who had only one son, Chase, instead of Bern, died, Louise would sometimes visit Deanna’s villa like this.

“So, I’m sure your mother would have been happy too.”

“It would be great if this was conveyed.”

Just like Chase’s blue-silver hair, Louise’s platinum-blonde hair also turned red in the setting sun. Louise opened her mouth to Chase, who was silently looking at her red hair and black dress.

“Right before I arrived here, I heard news about the Marquis Lin. But the palace is unexpectedly quiet for something like that to have happened. I don’t know if I heard the wrong thing.”

“No. It is true that he was arrested. It was because we were careful not to cause a disturbance.”

“Please take care not to go through any hardships. I am worried that Arianne will worry too much.”

“I will.”

After the conversation, Louise stopped for a moment and walked towards the garden. Chase, who had his arms crossed, naturally followed along.

Red begonias, the color of the sun, were blooming in colonies. Louise removed her hand from Chase’s arm, bent her knees, ran her hand over the flower clusters, and quietly opened her mouth.

“Are you still the same?”

Chase, who was silent for a while, lowered his eyes and answered.

“Yes. It’s still the same. There is no improvement or progress in the condition.”

“Last time, I heard that you took the medicine the crown prince sent you. This time, before you leave the palace, you told me not to use the sleeping incense that I always prepared for you… If your condition remains the same, you will probably dislike those around you even more now. ”

“So, I think it would be a good idea to avoid being alone as much as possible from now on. You may no longer want to show your mother a good image.”

Louise opened her mouth in a slightly lower voice. He still kept his gaze and touch towards the flower.

“If Marquis Lin is captured, isn’t there a possibility that Tensil’s healer will come to visit?”

“Yes. Your Majesty will want to be the first to get involved in that matter.”

Chase continued speaking as he looked at Louise who nodded slowly.

“So I also plan to stop implicitly preventing healers from coming in.”

“Are you talking about bringing a healer into the palace?”

“No, mother. I plan to make my position clear and make it public in front of the nobles. I would like to ask Your Highness why you keep trying to bring Tensil’s healers into Secretia’s territory in front of all the nobles and demand an answer.”

Louise’s hand stopped for a moment.

“…don’t do that.”

Louise stood up and looked up at Chase and said.

“I am concerned that the crown prince will get hurt if he tries to bring such a story out on the water.”

“That way, the nobles will also know about your health and that you don’t see me as your son.”

“Everyone already knows this. There’s no need to reveal it.”

“Hearing it with your ears and seeing it with your own eyes are different. Only when you become convinced of things that have only been heard through rumors will nobles raise their heads.”

Louise quietly reached out her hand and placed it on Chase’s cheek.

Louise, who had been warming Chase’s cold face for a while, lowered her hand. Then, he held Chase’s hand again and kissed his lips a few times before speaking.

“Not long after coming to this palace, my mother and younger brother were in an accident. The queen also left the world, so now the only family I have left is the crown prince.”

“…… I know.”

“Please be careful.”

Chase quietly stretched out his arms and hugged Louise tightly. And he answered while slowly patting his small back.

“Don’t worry, Mom.”

The scent of begonia washed over me like a wave.

* * *

He was good at dealing with people.

Although he was not able to completely see through the inner thoughts, he was good at understanding and handling thoughts. Depending on whether it is someone you need to criticize or someone you need to respect or consider, the way you speak, your facial expressions, eyes, voice, and atmosphere completely change.

Kalyan has always been like that.

No matter who was in front of him, he always kept his composure.

“Nothing much.”

Sometimes there was a green person who made me completely forget my leisure time, but fortunately this time I wasn’t embarrassed or surprised when I saw that person in front of me.

“When using magic, if you yap, it appears.”

Calian, who was looking up at the cluster of blue and silver stars that seemed to be pouring in, opened his mouth in an unusually slow tone.

“When infusing magical power, if you say yap, it goes in with a yap.”

“…… hey.”

You are my little brother, you bastard.

Plantz, who spoke a word with the same meaning as this, finished answering and looked down at Calian, who was about to get up.

“Brother, what are you planning to do again?”

“Anyway, if you notice, I’m just asking you to teach me.”

“older brother.”

“why.”

Calian smiled brightly and pointed to the area around Plantz’s wrist.

“I noticed it, so I’d like you to explain it to me. Why that shiny thing is on your wrist?”

“Speak informally.”

“What is that?”

“Speech habits.”

“Answer. Brother Iyo.”

caught.

Oh my, the vice-captain, who is a prince here, looked like he was going to catch people and told the two wizards who were lying down that they couldn’t run any more, saying that it was enough and that they should go and play. After that, I moved to go back first.

The beef jerky I ate for lunch swelled and exploded in my stomach, so I skipped dinner and passed by my younger brother who was sitting leisurely on the sandy beach.

okay. at that time. Just at that time. Of course, at that time.

The bracelet hidden in my sleeve began to shine. Chase spoke. Of course, it was just that time.

Calian, who felt the flow of mana and turned his head, saw a truly familiar light leaking out of Planz’s sleeve. Thanks to you, I got it.

“I understood that you no longer felt frustrated after coming out, but I thought it was surprising that you even changed your habit of rolling up your sleeves.”

Calian touched the button on his shirt that was well buttoned around his neck and smiled as he said this.

“There was another reason for that.”

The light circling the bracelet quickly disappeared.

This means that it is not an urgent contact. Since Plants doesn’t respond right away, it means he’s stopped sending messages. And now Calian is demanding an explanation from Plantz, but isn’t it obvious who would have the ring connected to that bracelet anyway? Calian knows that if it had been an urgent matter in the first place, he would have contacted Calian, not Plantz.

So Calian was leisurely dealing with Planz.

“You are now collecting mana little by little, so you can try it yourself. I told you how to do it.”

When I say yap, I say yap.

Plantz frowned at Calian, who was still looking up at him with a smile on his face.

“Don’t bark.”

“When on earth did you make this? Did you send it on the day we left here?”

Anyway, thanks to that guy and his old brother who were good at getting caught, I got caught too. Plantz, with an annoyed face, ignored Calian’s words and took a step forward.

“If you ask the pink-haired wizard who eats things with salt to tell you how to apply magical power to contact the crown prince of the next country, he’ll come up with a really good answer.”

“older brother.”

“why.”

Whether the pink-haired wizard eats the salted one or not.

I don’t know that, and I don’t think Needlen should know that. Therefore, Calian, who had summoned Plantz, opened his mouth.

“I’ll let you know.”

It’s a loss.

It’s not about losing, it’s about losing. I said I would help and I asked for help, so I am losing.

“Instead, I hope you don’t hide anything from me about Secretia, but I wonder if that would be difficult.”

“…… okay.”

Soon Calian nodded with a short sigh and pointed to the other side, and Plantz sat there.

“Excuse me for a moment.”

Calian asked for understanding first and placed his fingertips on Plantz’s bracelet. And Plantz began to explain what he was curious about.

Calian’s magic, like a warm wind that he once felt, wrapped around Plantz’s arms. I could feel Calian’s magic moving along as he continued to talk about how to move magic from where it was stored and infuse power into objects.

After explaining for a long time, Calian took his hand away and finished speaking.

“If you can’t do it alone, please tell me. I will help you.”

“okay.”

Plantz, who answered like this, looked into Calian’s eyes for a moment and then opened his mouth.

“It’s different from when using a sword. It’s the same magical power.”

Plantz’s eyes turned to Calian’s fingertips.

Calian, who understood the meaning, nodded and answered.

“Yes. I use the same magical power to use magic and Auror, but the energy is a little different. I think it’s because I was different when I learned magic and Auror, but I don’t know exactly.”

The magic of old Kallian.

And the Auror of Bern.

When I use magic, I get a warm feeling that doesn’t seem to match the current Calian. And because the Aurors had changed everything from old Callian to Bern’s way, they had a dark red color. That energy alone was already like a ruthless blade. The difference between the two was stark.

“okay.”

“Is learning magic fun?”

Suddenly, Calian asked this question, and Plantz raised his head and answered.

“not really.”

“Then you won’t learn anything else other than the magic of removing cat fur?”

“I’m not learning.”

“May I ask why you won’t learn?”

“I feel like that’s no longer necessary.”

Calian looked at Planz and his face soon became as if he understood something.

It’s because I thought about it.

Why did that green older brother say he wanted to learn magic?

“Then do you plan to continue learning the sword?”

“… The Duke said. The sword is heavy.”

The weight of being responsible for a lot of things.

In the end, he was probably saying that he liked the weight that made Plantz stand on his feet.

Now that Calian seems to have his feet well on the ground, he will no longer be interested in magic that he does not need to learn, but it also means that he will continue to learn the sword.

“Yes. Then I’ll just teach you how to remove cat hair and I’ll continue teaching you the sword.”

“okay.”

So that I can keep walking no matter what wind blows.

To take responsibility for many things and be able to protect yourself.

The sky shines like a blue-silver kaleidoscope. A dark night filled with stars.

– A rattle.

When Kalian, who had finished talking and teaching, stood up. A familiar sound was heard from the end of the sandy beach.

Shionaga, who came back after eating a well-cooked meal of wild chicken she had hunted in the forest, approached the two with her characteristic light gait.

“The great elder asked me to come now.”

Then he relayed the Grand Elder’s words to Calian.

At the very least, we were supposed to meet again tomorrow and finalize the negotiations through Siona, not Needlen or the knight, so why are we calling Calian again at this time?

“now?”

Seeing Calian’s face filled with such questions, Siona added her explanation.

“Mother Tree said she would see you.”

Plantz narrowed his eyes.

Calian smiled slightly as he understood why the ‘elf’ Siona had to deliver the message rather than a Vulcan member.

“I thought you weren’t very curious because you were a tree. You were a little late.”

The prince, who had a very unique constitution that made even Sispanians appear, looked at the mother tree of the elves in the distance and said.

“I’m not an elf.”

Not only is he not an elf, but he is also a person with a dark side.

“I’ll go tomorrow morning.”

I answered that I would not do as I was told.

Siona nodded with an amused expression.