Volume 1: Arrogance Chapter 1: The first meeting between the two
The expansive turquoise lawn, the infinite blue sky, and the golden sunlight shine brightly, making the artificial lake in the center of the estate glow with dazzling phosphorescence. In the white pavilion by the lake, a woman sits on a stone bench, her expressionless face makes it difficult to approach.
"How long has she been sitting here?" Outside the gazebo, Ronald casually beckoned a maid and asked.
"It's been two hours since I went back to Your Highness."
"Two hours?" Ronald raised an eyebrow, looked up at the sky and said, "So she's sitting here at seven o'clock?" ”
"Yes, Miss got up at five o'clock in the morning, and she has been sitting here since her daily sword practice."
"Have you delivered anything to eat?"
"I've eaten it, but it's not ......"
"But what?" Looking at the maid's strange appearance, Ronald couldn't help but be a little curious.
"It's nothing, it's just that the young lady eats a little too much...... It's about five or six people. ”
“…… Five or six people ......" Ronald twitched the corners of his mouth, and then turned his gaze to the slender figure sitting in the gazebo, he suddenly wondered how such a thin body could eat so much, "I've been eating so much before?" ”
"That's not it, although there were a lot of them before, but it was only the amount of two people, although it was rare, but there was no one in the manor, just like the Navis butler."
"......" He seemed to know something that he shouldn't know, and Navis's smiling face came to mind, and he said in his heart that people should not be good-looking, especially in terms of food, "You go down first, tell the people in the kitchen, she can eat as much as she wants, don't be told that she can't even feed a girl......"
After a few words, Ronald walked straight to the gazebo.
"His Royal Highness the Second Prince is really good Yaxing, is it possible that his personal hobby is voyeurism?"
"......" breathed in his chest, and Ronald suddenly felt that it was a mistake for him to come alone, "This is my home." ”
"That's right, please send me out with Your Highness."
"Are you serious?" With a slight pause in the action of pouring water from a teapot in his hand, Ronald looked up at the woman or girl sitting in front of him. Dressed in a pure white dress, her long silver hair is scattered and draped, and her blue-white eyes have a maturity that does not match her age.
"Of course, I am grateful to have been rescued by His Highness that day, but this is never the place I should have been."
"So where do you want to go? Back to Evel? Grabbing his wrist, Ronald stared at the man in front of him.
"Your Highness, this may not have anything to do with you, right?" Perhaps hearing Ronald's question, Xiao Yueluo's voice was a little more harsh than before.
"It's really none of my business, but there's no way you're going to leave if I want to stop you."
"You ......"
"The Duchy of Evel no longer exists, and even if you go back, you won't be able to meet the people you want to see."
Xiao Yueluo looked at the person in front of her who had her back to her, she was still fighting with herself just now, but now her tone softened: "Of course I know, I have realized since the first day I woke up here, the Duchy of Evel, and the princess......"
"Bang!"
The loud noise behind him made Ronald turn around, and the girl with her hands on the table, bright red blood flowed down her fingers to the table, and her face was full of grief: "I know! Of course I do! But so what? What can it be? Is it possible to know that nothing has ever happened? How can it be? Nothing is gone, princess, and all the juniors, everything I care about...... It's not there anymore......"
At the end of the words, tears flowed down his cheeks, and his voice was already choked. Ronald looked at the scene in front of him, silently, not knowing what to say. As a knight, a leader of a knighthood, the first thing you care about is the people you have sworn allegiance to, and the second is those comrades who fight side by side, but now......
"Their corpses ......"
"The Plains of Sauron, the place where you fought for the last time, has been buried."
"Really...... At least in the end, there is no Violent Corpse Wilderness, which may be a kind of home for them......" Xiao Yueluo got up and walked to the steps outside the pavilion, the tears on her face gradually dried by the wind.
"Actually, if you want revenge, I can help you."
"Thanks, but I'd rather do it myself if I could, after all, it's none of your business......"
……
"So you went to her this time and didn't say anything?" In Ronald's office, Venus propped her hands on the table with an angry face.
"I want to talk about it too, but even if I say it, she probably won't agree."
"Even if that's the case, it's not a reason for you to forget your business, okay?"
"Why don't you try it yourself?"
"Try it, you think it's all like you."
"Don't blame me for not reminding you in advance, that girl is sad, if you scare people away, you won't have to take this month's salary."
The figure at the door paused slightly, almost gritting his teeth: "Got it." ”
"Bang!"
The loud sound of slamming the door made Ronald touch his nose helplessly: "This guy's temper is really ......" Although this scene has appeared hundreds of times, it is still a little unaccustomed to Ronald, after all, he is usually used to seeing Venus smiling, but ...... It seems that this guy only became like this when he was alone with himself...... Irascible?
Time passed day after day, and two days later, Navis was in front of Xiao Yueluo for the first time.
"You're the butler here?" Looking at the person who suddenly appeared in front of her, Xiao Yueluo frowned, and her voice sounded a little disgusted, "The smile is so fake." ”
The smile on the face of "......" instantly stiffened, looking at the girl who walked to the edge of the artificial lake with her back to her to wash her hands, Venus kept reminding herself of the purpose of this time, "Ahem, are you still used to living here?" ”
"It's okay, the environment is beautiful, the food is delicious, the servants are also careful and thoughtful, and most of the injuries on the body are healed, but ......" Speaking of this, Xiao Yueluo stopped directly, staring at someone with playful eyes.
"But?"
"But there are two annoying people, and it would be nice if there weren't so many things going on."
The meaning of the words "......" made the corners of Venus's mouth twitch slightly, and at the same time, he instantly understood something, "You know everything?" ”
"Know what?"
"This time, and last time, His Highness came to look for you."
"Oh, you said this...... Xiao Yueluo nodded, took out a long sword from the weapon rack not far away and threw it to Venus, and then picked up a spear from it and weighed it, "You know martial arts, accompany me to fight first, and then I'll tell you the answer." ”
"It's really the same as the rumor, but ......" casually pulled a sword flower, and the temperament around Venus became fierce, "I haven't made a move before." ”
"Then, come on!" As soon as the words fell, the spear in Xiao Yueluo's hand swept over, and the moving footsteps drove the dust on the ground, and even the skirt danced with it.