Chapter Twenty-Three: The Queen's Heart

"What is this?" Phylisty tried to approach Avi silently, but Avi could never be the first to notice. Avi hurriedly covered the bag of dried hawthorn fruits that Coral had given him, and the one in his mouth was swallowed before he could taste it.

Avi turned his head to look at Felisti, who was less than half a meter away, "It's nothing, it's nothing, I'm checking my bags, after all, this trip..."

"I've seen you eating dried fruit, and I didn't expect a careless guy like you to be ready to eat it. ”

"Ahh By the way, I was about to talk to you and Joan about the specific plans for this escort trip, actually..."

"You tell me Bradley's specific plan this time, and I'll think with you whether or not to tell anyone else," Felisti looked around, the escort party that was stopping in a village was scattered around, and no one noticed the two, "If it's just an ordinary queen returning home, there is no need to have a meeting every night." ”

Avi knew that he couldn't hide anything, so he immediately told him about his mission and most of the implementation plan of this plan, and handed him the mission creed written by Bradley himself, without hiding it at all. Felistie let out a long sigh as she read the secret letter carefully, and her face, which had not had much to smile, became even more bitter, as if something had happened in her family.

The red-haired girl whispered as she curled her long hair, "I don't think you've mastered the whole part of the plan, but as Bradley had planned, it was a terrible plan, one that would never have come into existence during the reign of King Byron." ”

"Do you think this plan is too cruel..."

"I didn't say that," Felisti looked Avi in the eye, and Avi didn't dare to look him in the eye, "but no matter what, you'll be loyal to the Lord Regent of Bradley, just need to know and recognize that, just like I do now... Loyal to Miss Goliath. ”

Avi rubbed his hands behind his back, and he felt guilty at the thought that Kesi would be used repeatedly by Bradley to serve the kingdom of Sallins like a string-pulling puppet. The life that Kesi wanted had come to naught, and she didn't expect that the people she could rely on now would also be secretly calculating everything about her. After many elaborate nights, Avi wanted to tell Koth about the plan to seize the Duchy of Deramain, and at some point, Avi would think that no one with even the slightest conscience would deceive her.

Just as Felisty put the letter back in the envelope, Keth was escorted by the maids to the entrance of Avi's village. Dressed in light armor, Avi immediately knelt down on one knee and kissed the back of Kosi's hand.

"Avi, I'm bored, why don't you talk to me for a while?" Shaw, who was a little overburdened, then took Avi's arm and walked towards a mill in the far side of the village, with no one else following.

Avi didn't expect that Kesi was really just plain bored, and she talked about everything about the Duchy of Dramain without a word. It was the place where she was born and raised, and there had been a political catastrophe, but thanks to the efforts of the nobles led by Duke Webster, the Duchy of Deramain had remained peaceful and stable for many years. Of course, there is a price to be paid for this, but it is obviously more important than dignity for the people to live and work in peace and contentment. Like her father, she was committed to making the lives of the commoners who came to the Duchy of Draman happy, so she always felt that her happiness was too small compared to the happiness of the people.

"My father was actually a kind man, although he would be ruthless to other nobles, but that was only his political skill, without him, the militarily weak Duchy of Dramain would not have been able to gain a foothold on the mainland. ”

"Is it because the people of the Duchy of Dramain don't value force?" Avi remembered the young faces who had joined the new army of the Kingdom of Salins, and Bradley rekindled the Sallins' fighting spirit.

"Force, force kills," said Koss, sitting on a wooden railing, looking up to the north, "Parents who have lost their children are sad, and children who have lost their parents are pitiful, but who is not anyone's child, whose parents? If peace can be exchanged for a price, no one wants to go to war..."

Avi listened quietly, he suddenly felt that Kesi had been completely smoothed out, Keth who used to be under Greif's protection was a curious and active mercenary, but political life changed her, in fact, Avi didn't know if this was the life that belonged to Kesi or if she was changed by life. For Avi, war is inevitable, because there is always a lot of strife between people, especially the class differences make people resentful and jealous, and he just has to protect himself and the people he cares about.

"By the way, why did that girl get on board?" said Koss, referring to Dorothea, who was dressed as an army logistician.

"She... It seems that it was the permission of the Lord Regent to restore her freedom, but in order to prevent her from doing other drastic acts, she was allowed to travel with the army. Avi felt that her excuse was rotten, but Kesi didn't dig deeper, and the other party just thought that Dorothea's eyes were very eerie.

Suddenly Avi heard a voice in his head.

"That's right... It's that twisted magic... Why is it on that girl—" Ben Nicott's voice swirled, but Avi could not answer, and could only listen to Coss's small talk and Mr. Ben Nicott's whisper.

"That girl is Goliath's person, it's normal for her to do some fur magic... But why do you suddenly have that taste... That magical power must have been lost for a long time... Unreasonable, unreasonable..."

Avi found a gap and responded to the spirit body that was "parasitic" in his body, "Mr. Bennicot, what kind of magical power are you talking about?"

"That's the hardest thing to learn about cybernetic magic... Although there is no distinction between the different types of magic, some of the magic knowledge that has been handed down is particularly difficult to understand, as evidenced by the residual smell of magic on the red-haired girl, who has already dabbled in that kind of magic..."

"Mr. Bennicott, can you tell these things at any time?!"

"If I were alive... No one who has ever studied magic has escaped my detection... You have to watch out for that red-haired girl, she's dangerous..."Ben Nicott disappeared without a trace after saying this, this was the first time Ben Nicot had appeared in the last month, and Avi noticed that the spirit body was appearing less and less. Avi couldn't understand what the other party was saying for a moment, after all, Bennicot often said things that no one should understand.

Kesi patted the stunned Avi, "Are you alright?

Avi came back to his senses, it turned out that Kesi was introducing Winter City just now, it is a city of birds and flowers, the right sunshine makes flowers and grass everywhere, and the geographical location close to the ocean also makes Winter City warm in winter and cool in summer, as long as you eat and rest normally, the possibility of getting sick is basically zero.

"Silk..."

"You say. ”

"If one day you had to choose between the Kingdom of Salins and the Duchy of Deraman, what would you choose?" Avi realized his stupidity as soon as he asked, but he couldn't think of any other way to tentatively divulge some information to his friend.

Kesi rolled her eyes, "What's the problem... I will choose the side of the common people, no matter which country it is, and I will choose the side that can give peace to the people, don't you think so?"

Avi finally let go of his worries, "I think so too! As long as it can bring real peace to the people, it doesn't matter who the country is or who the ruler is!" - but I only believe that Bradley can bring real peace to the people - Avi said to himself again in his heart.