"I don't know a close friend who would use his hard-earned life to give back to society. ”

"Hey!"

The bearded Nick shouted in dissatisfaction, but was quickly stopped by Zenas.

"You're right. "I was so stupid as to degenerate the lighthouse into what it is. ”

Charlotte's eyes narrowed.

At this time, the balding gentleman Moon interrupted the conversation between the two and suggested that the two might as well go to the house for a talk. Charlotte thought about it for a while, arranged for Elle and Vivien to stay in the courtyard, and agreed to the proposal.

Moon prepared a drink for the two of them, leaving room for them to exit the door. Zenas took the wine and motioned for Charlotte to clink glasses, but after seeing that Charlotte was unresponsive, he shook his head with a wry smile and drank the wine in one gulp.

At the end, he wiped his mouth, "Don't worry! ”

"But I'm afraid you'll take advantage of me when I'm drunk. Charlotte, who was not accustomed to drinking spirits, gave herself a high-sounding reason, pulled out a cigarette in a fine sandalwood box, and asked Zenas, "Do you want one?"

Zenas hesitated for a moment and nodded, "When did you start smoking?"

"A while ago, when I saw a group of children under the Lighthouse suffering and dying because of demon worshippers, I couldn't help but want to get a pill of this chronic drug that makes people flutter. ”

"It's not a drug to you, it's not toxic to you. ”

"Yes to you too. ”

"But I'm not as rich as you. ”

"The generalissimo and the deputy speaker of any country can't afford to smoke Valcam?" asked Charlotte with a smirk, "I heard that you are all quite rich. ”

"It's the Council of Elders Valcam. Zenas corrected in a silent tone, but he soon laughed self-deprecatingly, "I'm sorry, but you're probably the poorest deputy speaker and generalissimo in history." ”

Two cigarettes lit up in the room, smoking green. Charlotte spat out a puff of smoke rings and smiled as well.

"So, how can the generalissimo and deputy speaker of the House play peek-a-boo with his subordinates here?

Before the smoke ring in Zenas's mouth could be spit out, he took a bitter sip of wine, which Charlotte thought was definitely not very good.

"Don't scold me, Charlotte. The taste of the mixture of tobacco and alcohol was unexpectedly bitter, just like Zenas's bitter expression now, "In fact, I'm now higher on the lighthouse's wanted list than Elbert. ”

"Did you do it to Speaker Shawshank's wife?"

For some reason, Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief. Perhaps deep down in his heart, he didn't want to see Zenas fall, because that would also mean a complete rejection of Charlotte's past judgment and efforts. So at this moment, Charlotte's mood was inexplicably much lighter, so that she could make some jokes on Zenas.

Zenas smiled bitterly, "This joke is a bit excessive. ”

As a former champion knight of the younger generation of the Empire, Zenas is flawless when it comes to personal morality.

Charlotte no longer joked, but said solemnly, "That is the birds are all gone, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackeys are cooking?"

With a sip of his jaw, Zenas savored the taste of the words with a strong wine, "Good bow hidden, lackeys cooked?" However, it may be worse than you think. ”

"What's a bad law?"

Zenas filled the empty cup again, and replied with a frown full of sorrow, "As you can see, after we defeated His Majesty Elbert, the upper echelons of the lighthouse gradually deteriorated. They were no different from ordinary nobles, no, to be precise, perhaps because they had been too hungry and thirsty, and after the defeat of His Majesty Elbert, the food of those in power was even more ugly. ”

Charlotte noticed that Zenas still used the word 'Your Majesty' when he addressed Elbert, and he felt that Zenas might be a man of more complexity than he could have imagined.

In fact, this man is not only sad about the situation at the moment, the knight named Zenas is always in a spiral of contradictions, even when he is in high spirits and power. Loyalty and justice, when the oath taken at the time of the knighthood conflicts, how to choose?

Perhaps people who live too seriously will experience pain that ordinary people can't feel.

Zenas continued, "I tried to reverse all this, and my prestige was on the rise of the lighthouse. Just when I felt that everything was going in a good direction, and I was even close to victory, I didn't realize that the so-called victory was just a phantom, and that the real danger was looming behind the phantom. No wonder philosophers say that if fate wants to destroy it, it must first make it mad. I was basking in the glory of victory, and it was no wonder that I would taste prison again. ”

"The Deputy Speaker and Generalissimo is a fake?"

"No, it's true. But at the cost of losing freedom. Zenas's tired eyes were bloodshot and angry, "I know for the first time that the knife in the hands of a politician can truly kill invisibly. They feared my great influence in the army, so they tricked me into Arad under the pretext of appointing me and admitting defeat to me, and I enjoyed a life of so-called wealth there, but like a canary, I could not do without my luxurious mansion. ”

Charlotte pouted, "You're so easy to deceive, but to be honest, I do admire your skills, you seem to have the strange aura of 'no matter where you are imprisoned, you can get out of it'?"

"Actually, Moon warned me a long time ago, but I said that when fate wants to destroy a person, it will always make him taste all the victories in the world first, and make people stupid and crazy. At the mention of being deceived, Zenas was filled with indignation and chagrin, "As for running away. To be honest, I didn't even think I would be able to escape, and although Judson wasn't under house arrest just in case, his strength alone couldn't save me. ”

"And how did you escape?" Charlotte snuffed out the cigarette butt, full of curiosity, "Could it be that there is a stupid girl like my sister running to rob the prison?"

"Don't say that about her! This was the first time that Zenas had shown an unhappy face at Charlotte's joke, who raised his hand to show that he had no ill intentions, and Zenas continued, "Actually, I don't know who that person really is. All I know is that he's a very powerful mage, with a group of ...... Even the professionals Judson had to admit had robbed me. ”

"What? You mean you don't know the mage at all?" Charlotte thought things were even more interesting.

"I've never seen it before. "He has long black hair, like a mage but more like a nobleman." ”

- Sounds like my brother!, of course, Charlotte didn't say that.

He thought about it and found that except for Aivan, he really didn't remember such a number one person in his impression. After all, Zenas's ability is also extraordinary, and he can call it powerful, so the guy who 'has long black hair, like a mage but more like a noble', should not be weaker than himself on the surface.

"You haven't investigated his purpose since?" Although it was logical, Charlotte always felt that something was wrong.

I asked him why, and he only said that the people could not afford to lose me. Later, I also wanted to inquire about the identity of him and his subordinates, but as you can see, I was like a rat crossing the street. ”

Zenas smiled wryly and took another sip of the spirit.

It is understandable that if it were Charlotte, she would not be entangled in the identity of a life-saver when she could not protect herself.