Act 52: The King of the Underworld (Part 1)
Brando froze when he saw the crystal tears rolling down Akane's face.
"What's wrong?"
But the girl let the tears slide down in a daze, as if she hadn't heard it, and it took a while to react. She sniffed first to stop her broken emotions, and finally realized her gaffe, and her cheeks became hot and blood-red for a while.
"It's nothing," Because, because it hurt too much, Akane turned her head and replied a little reluctantly, "Your Excellency, ...... Lordship."
Brando's heart burst into tears, "I thought to myself, this excuse is too clumsy, is it like crying because it hurts too much?" It's better to cover up that you have panicked, and it's more appropriate!
He wasn't stupid, he had vaguely guessed what the girl was thinking. Although he didn't know what Qian was thinking of the rest of the Gray Wolf Mercenary Group, Macaro and himself, he could see that "the taciturn on the surface can't hide this girl's escape from the past."
Rather than accepting the existing qiē, it is still stuck in the memories of the past, and she seems to have an instinctive fear and distrust of the external world, and if she leaves the familiar yiē, she will be surrounded by a great sense of isolation.
Brando didn't know what Akane had been through in the past, but he knew that "Maned wolf, what Macaro did in the first place must have caused great harm to this girl."
"Can you stand up?" He asked, throwing those thoughts away.
Akane nodded weakly, but she tried a few times, even holding Brando's hand, but the sharp pain made her whimper and fall to her knees.
Brando was a little unbearable to see the red-haired girl crying while gritting her teeth and working hard. Although it's not that he hasn't seen a woman cry, compared with the daughters in the game who have red circles in her eyes at every turn, Akane's strength makes him appreciate it more.
What's more, he's still a man.
"Don't insist any longer, I'll carry you!" Brando said.
They couldn't stay here for long, though they didn't know what was going on with Kuran and Métiza, who were sealed off on the other side. But if the old man had returned to the surface before they did, then their operation would have been a complete failure.
So every second counts.
"How's that going...... Yes? ”
Akane was stunned, "But how can a lord do such a thing?" Maybe Macaro would have done it, but she knew now that it was to buy people's hearts, just as the Grand Master had ignored her in the past, and she didn't understand why, no matter how good she did, she wouldn't get as much attention as Eco.
But then she finally learned that "even buying people's hearts requires the qualifications to be bought." Of course, Akane will not be jealous of the person she loves, but she can't help but be a little disappointed in her heart.
A guy who doesn't even have the strength of silver may not be as good as Reddy in the eyes of the regiment leader. Thinking of the white-haired young man who had been killed by Brando, the red-haired girl couldn't help but feel a wave of disgust in her heart.
But what is this young lord for?
She doesn't have any strength at all now" She doesn't have any prestige among the remnants of the Gray Wolf Mercenary Regiment, and she is not as good as Sanfud. The lord spied on her body, but she also considered herself less beautiful than the merchant lady who was claimed to be Brando's fiancée.
Brando, even the latter, is limited to a small intimacy in the limbs and body, "not to mention himself."
"No need", she thought for a moment and shook her head vigorously: "Lord Lord, you go first" Wait until you control the mining area, and then come and save me......"
She paused for a moment, and said with some hesitation: "I'm a mercenary, and I won't be too scared alone, at most, at most, at most, you can leave me a lighting crystal."
Brando looked at Akane with a smile and a scared look on his face, "I thought it was still a question if I could find a way out", but even if I was lucky, it would be at least a few hours before I came back. Not to mention that there is no danger in leaving a defenseless girl here, the most important thing is that maybe he will be in danger of being divinely made as soon as he gets away from Akane.
But he thought about it for a moment, and instead of saying it directly, he replied tactfully: "You have lost too much blood, and it will be dangerous to stay here."
"It's okay", the red-haired girl shook her head: "This is also the will of Lord Martha, and besides, there is no need for you to bring a drag to adult~"
She paused, her voice becoming weak, "Actually, thank you, lord, you don't want to leave Akane behind, that's enough......"
The girl took a breath, and suddenly showed a smile with some difficulty: "So ......, I can't be selfish so much, can I?" ”
Brando's hearing this was shocked.
He looked at Akane's beautiful eyes as amber, and there was even a trace of mist in them, but in the end, they were still dim and dull," he suddenly understood.
Such an excellent girl, if it were in the era when Vaynd was stable, "at least she wouldn't have suffered such a fate, but did Vaynd have a settled day?"
Amber Sword sets this world as a strife, turbulent world because a game needs a turbulent environment to write an epic-like chapter, but what is epic? For this world, it is nothing more than the flames that burn the earth, the bones pile up, and the blood flows like rivers.
Warnde, who is constantly being encroached upon on the frontiers of civilization, wars are becoming more frequent, and human beings are becoming more collective on the one hand because of the need to survive, but on the other hand, they are becoming more utilitarian and practical.
The consequence is that the individual's existence becomes insignificant.
The warmth between people has long been gone" and the whole society has become filled with an icy smell when it is formed, cold and efficient.
Although in Eruin "there is an increasing revolt because the incompetent aristocracy holds the power of the country", this revolt is not aimed at overthrowing the system of this world. In the final analysis, it is because the people at the bottom generally doubt the legitimacy of the rulers, which has nothing to do with blood and origin, and the only criterion for judging is strength.
The strong are respected, and the weak seem to be left to fend for themselves.
As a modern person, Brando does not object to the former, but he does not dare to agree with the latter.
It's like he knows that Akane's story is not an isolated case in this world, there are thousands of Akane here, just like there are thousands of Funya, if it weren't for him, the fate of the little girl in the green village at the beginning would not be better than the red-haired girl in front of him.
Isn't it?
What's more, there are far more unfortunate people in this world than them.
He was powerless to change this qiē, which was different from changing the fate of the kingdom of Eruin. It is a rebellion against the will of the world itself, which represents not only the power of a vast society" but also the natural laws that form this power itself.
After all, this is a different world from the earth.
Brando's selfish desire was to save the kingdom, and he didn't think much about whether he would hurt more people because of this wish, whether it was from other countries in the world, whether it was Mardala, Cruz, or even the oppression of the kingdom itself.
Brando only hopes that the tragedy that happened to those people he is familiar with, whether it is Her Royal Highness, whether it is the Valkyrie, or the Valkyrie, and many more who have given their lives for this kingdom, will not be repeated.
Rewrite history, that's all.
When a tragedy like Akane happens around him, he doesn't think he can turn a blind eye.
Therefore, after listening to the girl's words, Brando was slightly stunned and then shook his head: "You think too much, am I such an incompetent person......"
"But ......", Akane was still hesitating.
"A good team leader will not leave any of his team members behind", Brando felt that at this time he should say something similar to this look handsome, he remembered that this sentence was told to him when the senior sister handed over the team to him.
However, he found that he couldn't get up at all when he opened his mouth, so he could only shake his head and make a clumsy joke: "Don't worry, I won't take advantage of you......"
But Brando's heart was on the verge of crying when he said this, and he felt that he had lost all the face of the traverser.
Akane was no better, her face turned completely red, and she quickly shook her head: "Of course not, it's just ......", "No, just go......" Brando felt that he was going crazy if he continued to talk about it" He simply, without saying a word, copied Akane horizontally with both hands, completely ignoring the latter and let out a low cry of fright.
Akane was stunned.
She never dreamed that Brando would come hard, and she thought in a mess: "He, he, he just said that he wouldn't take advantage of me"! But the girl immediately buried her head in her chest like an ostrich, her ears were red, her heart was pounding, and she couldn't say a word.
Did she think this was the legendary princess hug?
When she was in the mercenary group before, "I wondered more than once that Eco would one day carry herself to the temple like this, but this little extravagant hope had long since become a beautiful fantasy after Yura appeared."
But this red-haired girl would never have imagined that one day someone would really hold her like this. It's just that this person is not the one she imagined, and the dark mine tunnels around her are a little too weird.
But when she rested her head on Brando's chest like an ostrich, her heart was beating hard, "but she felt a kind of stability inexplicably."
"Lord is different from most of the people I've ever met," she thought, "and Ico are not the same. There is a strange feeling of reassurance and trust around him, and I think Antitina is the same, and Miss Roman is the same, they can both experience it", Akane suddenly understood a little, "Why more and more people have gathered around Brando in just a few months", although this is not unrelated to the personal ability of this young man, but in Vainde, there are more capable people than him with a background.
But in this episode, she finally found the reason.
She cut lightly, thinking to herself that it was a blessing to be able to follow such a lord, and it seemed that Master Martha had not completely abandoned her.
But the prospect of losing her power still made her feel a little bleak, and Akane knew that she was not a genius, and it might not be so easy to regain that power.
But she shook her head and put the idea away, and walked one day at a time, Brando's every move had completely put her mind at ease.
But when the girl thought so, she didn't know that she might only have a few days or even a few hours to live.