After returning from the Kumar Fortress, Lady Saviara rarely stepped out of the living quarters in the castle's backyard. Even at the coronation ceremony of her second son a few months ago, she shirked it on the grounds of physical discomfort.

Before the rebellion of the Eluk Lord, she originally only wanted to go to the imperial capital of Suk City to attend the wedding of her eldest daughter, but when she arrived at Kumar Fortress, the merchants of the Eluk Lords rebelled.

So, she decided to wait for the rebellion to end in Kumar Fortress, but in the end, the empire ended her rule for more than 300 years because of this rebellion!

While waiting at Kumar Fortress, she sent her second daughter to the Mage Tower, and almost missed her second son's wedding.

...

Inside the old attic in the old attic of the Dukes' quarters in the backyard of the Kaval Castle, there is a small family-style dining room, and next to this dining room is a smaller tea room.

Pedi and his two ministers went straight to the tearoom at the maid's prompts, and unlike the last time they met their father here, the musty smell in the room had been dispelled and replaced by a faint smell of tea.

"Sit down, it's really hard to talk to you alone. Saviara whispered.

"You can summon me at any time. Pedi replied.

"Your father has said that I am not allowed to summon you on my own initiative, nor that I am allowed to interfere with your government. ”

Pedi was stunned and then took off his pants like a child: "He's dead." ”

"Yes, he is dead ... But because he is dead, I will not disobey what he commanded. Saviara had a very serious look on her face.

"Oh, is it?" said Pedi, with a subconscious suspicion of being a king.

"I see doubt in your eyes, you doubt what a mother says to her child. There was a certain sense of loneliness in Saviara's voice, "Your father is right, you are a true ruler, he said... Although you are emotional, you always maintain an independent thinking attitude. ”

"Like now, if Omar were in front of me, he would trust me unreservedly, and you would even be suspicious of your father and your wife... Don't look at me with such eyes, I didn't arrange for someone to be by your side... These are what I see with my own eyes. ”

Pedi didn't speak immediately, he walked over to the chair opposite Seviala and sat down and looked at his mother: "But sometimes it's the eyes that see the least trusted. ”

"Yes, sometimes that's the case...", Saviara seemed to say to herself, "Yes... Yes... Your father and I have paid a great price for this, and we have spent our whole lives atoning for and being busy with it. Her eyes looked at the flames rising in the fireplace, and suddenly she changed her words and asked, "Do you remember this tearoom?" she picked up the teapot of black tea, and suddenly had a quiet smile on her face like a mother looking at her son, "Can you feel a sense of familiarity coming over you while sitting here?"

Peidi shook his head regretfully, "You should know that since that incident thirteen years ago, I've almost forgotten all about my memories of before I was seven years old. When he looked around at the look of disappointment on his mother's face, he couldn't help but add, "But I'm sure this place must have left me with the best memories." ”

"I believe it too. Saviara leaned back in her chair and looked at Pedi with some kind of memory in her eyes, "At that time, your father had not yet inherited the dukedom, and we would occasionally take you and your brother to this tea room... Your grandmother is a kind and wise old man, and every conversation I have with her is very pleasant, but I can't be like her, never will. ”

"It was a very short time, so short that it seemed to pass by in my memories and disappeared. Saviara poured a cup of black tea for Pedi, "Later, when the puppet Emperor Barrit reorganized the First Legion of the Empire, he appointed your father as the commander of the Third Corps... Your father was so excited that he insisted on going to the imperial capital despite your grandfather's objections. ”

"So, in the second month of the Imperial Capital's order, your father and I arrived in the Imperial Capital with you and Omar. When Saviara recounted this, her eyes flashed with a scorching light under the reflection of the fire, "Compared to Crewe City, the imperial capital is indeed very prosperous, and more importantly, in the imperial capital, we can go wherever we want, theaters, knights' dueling arenas, vast Suke Plains, etc. ”

"We were crazy and happy during that time... So, your father wrote to tell his younger siblings everything about the imperial capital... Although your grandfather seems to be very strict, he is actually very kind in his heart, and he can't bear the request of his younger siblings, and finally agrees to send them to the imperial capital. ”

"During that time Penny was born, my lovely little princess was born, my most beautiful little princess. "For the next two years, our life in Sook City was good, and during this time, the puppet Emperor Barrit began to reform the empire from the top down, and a large number of nobles were hanged for opposing his reforms... What he did then was pretty much the same as what you are doing now, except that he had significantly more enemies than you. ”

"Huh?" Pedi was not surprised to hear this, he had made a similar inference when he had studied the ascension war years ago, and now it was confirmed by his mother's mouth.

"And then there was that weird fire... Your uncle and aunt died in that fire, that fire... Your father told me not to pursue the fire, but I know... I know what's going on!" The old lady was a little incoherent, and there was a certain anger and anger in her eyes, "so I don't agree with Penny and Sinda's marriage, and I haven't agreed all along, but your father—" she didn't go any further.

"It happened so suddenly, and so did the escape, and your father and I didn't even have time to take you and your brother with us... I thought I would never see you again, but Barrett didn't want your life, and the then Prime Minister of the Reich, the Duke of Wellsk, protected your brothers. Seviala suddenly murmured, "Duke of Wellsk, a true nobleman... The original goddess blessed him with peace in the kingdom of God in his soul. ”

After hearing these words, Pedi couldn't help but ask, "Is it the Duke of Welsk, who has been standing by Barret's side in the war for the throne, the Duke of Welsk, who was hanged in the Imperial Morning City, and the Duke of Welsk, who was formerly the Cullen Cliff family?"

"It's the funniest joke I've ever heard!" said Saviara coldly, "Laubert is the biggest moth of the Empire, and his coronation is the biggest mistake of the Empire, and the entire Empire will be destroyed because of his coronation." ”

Saviara's eyes grew more angry, and she struggled to control her emotions, and when she finally calmed down, she said, "Let's skip the whole topic, because I hate to bring up Laubert." She gritted her teeth and said, "Your grandfather was seriously ill before that accident, and the deaths of your uncle and aunt completely broke him, and your grandmother also died of illness after the war for the throne... Your father began to become silent, I couldn't stand the days in the empire, and left the imperial capital after giving birth to Phyllis. ”

"Do you know why I'm telling you this? I just want to tell you that I don't love you, I don't love Phyllis, I just—" Seviala looked at her second son, "I see alienation and suspicion in your eyes, and you suspect that your mother will join forces with outsiders against you?"

Pedi said in a stiff tone, "You can explain!"

"Your father didn't want me to explain, he said I could tell you everything only when you came to me. Saviara's breath was a little short, "He is in control of everything, the reason why I have been in Kumar Fortress for so long, everything is arranged by him, he needs me to help him master this fortress, with the mother of the Empress of the Empire to control Kumar Fortress, he doesn't even need to explain it to anyone." ”

"What about the five hundred thousand gold coins?" Pedi frowned, "And the death of Count Rezerster, what the hell is going on?"

"You need to check it yourself, I can't do anything about it. Seviara shook her head, "You don't have to care about my attitude, you just need to remember that I will always be on your side." She leaned back, leaning back in her chair, "I just hope you can bring Penny home, alive." ”

"Penny has a mind of her own, and she has been a maverick since she was a child. Pedi frowned, "I'm also anxious about her safety, because she's my sister... But she's now leading the whole of Suker City, and she's..."

"Then bring Suke City home with me, I need to see her, see my little princess!"

Pei Di was stunned, looked at his mother's serious and serious face, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

As a king, of course, he hopes that one day he will be crowned emperor in the land of the ancestors of mankind, but this is not something that can be achieved just by thinking.

"All I can say is that I'm going to put my life into it. Pedi reassured, and then added, "You should also care more about Phyllis, you haven't been by her side since you were a child... I remember that when she was in the imperial capital, she clamored to see you every day, and every time she was unhappy, she would call her mother, but no one ever responded to her. ”

Saviara's hands holding the teacup began to tremble uncontrollably after hearing this, she seemed to be afraid, her fear was accompanied by a certain kind of fear, "After the war to the throne ended, I entered the imperial capital again, but the beauty is gone, and all that remains is endless fear and nightmares. ”

"After giving birth to Phyllis, I couldn't stand anything in the Imperial Capital anymore, so I returned to Crewe City with Omar and fled the Imperial Capital... I wanted to leave with you, but your father wouldn't allow it, because he was the prime minister of the empire, and he needed the emperor's trust, and you became one of the conditions for the damned emperor to trust your father. ”

"For Phyllis, I'm not a good mother, I can feel her endless thoughts about me, but... However, the more she was like this, the less courage I had to face her, I didn't even dare to talk to her, I didn't dare to open the letter she wrote to me, I was afraid that all the contents were cursing me... I miss her too, I miss Phyllis, I miss her immensely, but as an incompetent mother, I just don't dare to face her..."

"What can I do? I can only put all my love for my daughter on Penny, and I can only mention Phyllis in my letter to Penny, and mention my love for her, I—" The old lady became more and more agitated the more she spoke, and at last she could not help but tremble, and the tea spilled on the table because of her trembling hands.

Peddy had never thought that Phyllis was such a presence for his mother, and he walked up to his mother, grabbed her hand and put the teacup down, and then silently retreated to his place.

Then he fell silent...

Saviara also fell silent,

After a long time, Pedi woke up from his musings, he stood up and looked at his mother, "I'm very sorry to let you have an unpleasant noon..."The old lady's gaze met Pedi's, Peidi looked at his mother's slightly tired eyes, and for a moment he didn't know how to say the next words, he was silent for a few seconds before he said, "I promise, next time we will have a pleasant tea party." ”

Old Lady Saviara's originally sloppy gaze shone with a special light as Pedi's last promise came to mind, and Pedi had already walked to the door when the best of her vague memories came to her mind.

...

When Pedi walked out of the courtyard gate where her mother lived, it was already half past one in the afternoon.

The two ministers of the Cabinet and his queen Eileen Phier had long since left, and he stood alone outside the gate looking at the tall attic that stood alone in the courtyard, and he watched for a long time before leaving with his knightly guards.

When Pedy returned to the Inner Hall office, he saw the old orc Morinda outside the office. Before the old orc could speak, Pedi preemptively said, "You should be at the negotiating table now, not here, right?"

It can be seen that His Majesty the King is in a very bad mood right now.

"I found a little surprise. Morinda could naturally hear that there was an inexplicable evil fire in the young king's heart, but he did have something to report immediately, "Kesai left, at noon, and he left in such a hurry that he didn't even have time to inform us. ”

"That should be a good thing, right?" Pedi forced himself to adjust his mind, trying to think about everything about the orcs.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs doesn't have any official orc summons, which means that... Kesai's departure was not meant by Shikan-Silveraxe. Morinda broke through the key to it in one sentence, and the two of them had already entered the office between words.

"You mean to say that Shikan-Silveraxe will soon send his true emissary?"

Pedi leaned back in his office chair and rubbed his forehead tiredly, "How soon do you think the Battle of Crane City will break out?"

Faced with this question, Morinda did not answer immediately, he was silent for a while before he said: "Two months at the latest, the fastest and half a month at the latest, Shikan-Silver Axe will attack!"

"In other words, there's a good chance that the orcs will talk to us while fighting?"

"Yes, and we still have to join this war first. ”

Pedi stared at Morinda Morinda, "What about this negotiation? Moreover, my cabinet members are all against me uniting the orcs against our so-called allies in the Twak Territory!"