It was in this room that Leona had slain the vile old Lorenos, and the guards and maids had carefully cleaned up the place, removing the corpses, wiping the bloodstains, lighting incense, and then sprinkling dried lilacs and rushes on the place where the former lord of Dorin had fallen. Even so, as a soldier and knight who had fought against the brutal orcs for more than a decade, Berdwin was able to smell the fresh blood in the air, and the fishy smell of feces that only came from the flabby anal intestines of the deceased, which mixed with the smell of grease and talcum powder that was necessary for the maintenance of metal weapons, creating a strange smell that was quite uncomfortable.

And the eldest daughter of the old king sat there as if she were sitting in a rose. Baldwin knew that she was not a gentle lady who had never seen blood, that a sentimental cutie was not fit to be a crown prince or even a king of the Highlands Normans, and that the old king, having no choice but to admit the fact that he would have a female heir, took Leona as his own son, and that the sons of the Highlands Normans were always encouraged to be cruel and ruthless, and sometimes their fathers would order them to beat their mothers or sisters, and kill their maids and lovers, so as to ensure that they would not be as indecisive as a and manipulated by those senseless emotions-- So did the old king, who, after one drunken moment, boasted that he had a daughter who was by no means inferior to his son, "she would be a good king," said the king, "how many good-faced and noble-born boys have shown courtesy to her, and yet she has paid no attention to any of them, and even struck them in the face with her sword, just because they dared to stand in her way—it is very good, Baldwin, do you know what I have been worrying about?" I fear that my daughter, too, will give away her crown for a few sweet words, as those shallow women do. Curse it, don't they understand that a king's crown is hundreds or thousands of times more secure than a queen's crown?"

So when he learns that Leona did not cherish power as much as he thought he would be indifferent to the love between men and women, but unexpectedly fell in love with an unidentified commoner's son, he was so angry that he even said things he shouldn't have said, revealing secrets that should not be made public...... Baldwin now looks back on their past with sadness and ridiculousness, and he once had the trust of the king. He was allowed to sleep under the old king's bed, and he was guarded by his side, and on more than one occasion the old king gave him his big hat, pins, or belongings, which was a treat only for the most intimate confidants. Before Leona's father lost his mind and ranted, insulted, and attacked Berdwin, he never thought that he was just a lowly and funny clown in the eyes of his loyalists. How ironic it is that Tyre admonishes his followers to be humble at all times. But Baldwin knew that he was a little lacking in this respect, he might be humble and courteous to a prostitute, but he could not have the heartfelt respect for a nobleman of the royal capital, and whenever they struck him with ignorance, ridicule, and discord, the heart of the former paladin was always full of pity and pride - these poor people, who were saved from the threat of the orcs by him and Thunder Keep, and he despised them, secretly comparing them to rabbits who were bouncing and not knowing whether they were alive or dead, and who cared about the cold eyes of a group of rabbits...... He only respects Lao Wang as a brother or a father. And I thought he had the same opinion as himself.

It turned out that he was very wrong.

For a while, he couldn't even help but be suspicious and wary of everyone. Leona was one of those lists, but he soon felt deeply ashamed and sorry for his suspicions, and as a victim, Leona had sacrificed more for him than he had imagined - without her, the Elven Ranger and the mages around him would not have reacted so quickly, most likely. He died disgracefully before they could find him, and as they fled, Leona continued to campaign for him, hoping to clear his name, and when she realized that it didn't work for any purpose, she chose to give up everything—her surname, her identity. Abandon the whole of Highland Norman, just to share this terrible and heavy charge with him.

Now he saw Leona, the little girl had grown up, but that stubborn and stubborn energy had not changed, and Berdwin thought that he would have a lot to say, but when he actually knelt before the Norman princess of the Highlands, he found that he could not pronounce even a syllable, and too many emotions accumulated in his throat, like a thick ball of thread, and a piece of the ball of thread hung from his heart.

Fortunately, Leona was not prepared to let silence take over their remaining time: "Baldwin," she said calmly, "I summoned you before the ceremony, not for anything else, but in the hope of getting some answers before the ceremony." ”

"Please," said Berdwin, "I will know everything, and I will say everything." ”

Leona leaned forward, pulling Baldwin within a foot or a foot and a half of herself, and at that distance she could see a miniature figure of herself in her eyes half-kneeling, her hands folded and her knees pressed to her knees, reverently waiting on her will.

"What I want to know," Leona asked, "did you really kill my father, the Norman King of the Highlands?"

Baldwin closed his eyes, and that abominable night came back to his mind, and he was too afraid to recall every moment of it—he only remembered that it was chaos, chaos, and all the sights appeared over and over again in his nightmare like fragments in a kaleidoscope, and the nightmare ended with the old king lying on his back on the carpet with his eyes open, blood gushing from the wound in his neck—where were Duke John and Fouquet? He could not pinpoint ...... He wondered if they had cast some evil spell - they were more than willing to see the king die.

"I'm not sure," he said, the voice sounding like it was coming from someone else, and Berdwin wasn't sure if he was speaking, "I'm not sure. "Yes, a voice whispered in his ear that if Duke John and Fouquet were willing to take out their amulets to save the king (he was sure they would have a rune amulet on them that they would use at all times), then the king would not have died—it was not he who really put the king to death, but the more wicked and selfish ones.

"Tell me the truth. Leona pleaded.

"The truth is ......" Berdwin whispered, "the truth is ......" his voice grew firmer: "That's a great conspiracy, Your Highness, a conspiracy against your father and me - I am only a weapon in the hands of the vicious hand - Your Highness, this is all the truth. ”

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"What's going on?" asked Kerryben quietly.

Almost everyone in the room where the ceremony was taking place, consciously or unconsciously, looked at the young black-haired spellcaster—for no particular reason, except that he was dressed only slightly inferior to the princess—a black velvet robe covered with rubies and solid stones, which in the dim light of the moments of light looked brighter than the rising stars.

"One...... The winged hamster, who claims to be a magic pet made by a warlock, has come to me to recommend himself because he has lost his master in the plague. ”

"But I remember you already have an elemental servant. ”

"That's why," Cremar said, "they fought, ruining the room, including my clothes (thankfully, the white robe Tyre gave was just as resistant to acid flames), so ......" he tugged at his slightly shorter cuffs, "This is my mentor's." ”

"Oh," said the Ranger in a sudden realization, "yes, Beavis is the son of the lord. (To be continued......)

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