Heroes, at first, just wanted to be mortal. - "My Flame"

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When he was in the royal city, through a conversation with Sting, Chino learned that the archbishop of the Crimson Church intended to marry the royal family, so that his son would marry Solandale, and form a political bond with it.

There is no cure for the beastly disease that broke out 27 years ago, in 486 years of the Huoyao calendar, only salt crystals can purify the epidemic area, but if you want to suppress the infectivity of the infected, you can only rely on the blood therapy of "purified blood".

As for the secret recipe for purifying the blood, the royal family has never been able to grasp it.

For the Crimson Church, coercion, temptation, and even killing to deter this road, Perseus walked through, but did not go through.

The royal family used force to coerce and exterminate the church without blood treatment, in exchange for strong resistance from the church's epidemic doctors, who even threatened to cut off the supply of purified blood, causing panic among the people.

In those years, the kingdom was already in turmoil due to the animal epidemic, the regime was unstable, and the royal family was worried that the intensification of the conflict would lead to a popular uprising, so in the end they had to make a compromise, and the two sides sat down to talk about cooperation.

In the end, the Crimson Church agreed to fully assist in the control of the animal plague, and the royal family promised to give the church epidemic doctors special treatment, which led to the later signing of the "Church Special Asylum Law" - the epidemic doctors, as a privileged class, did not need to kneel to any nobles; Anyone who harms a doctor does not need to be handed over to a local court, but can be tried directly within the Church, as is the case with the doctor.

Although the Hitch family, one of the royal families, has been secretly exploring the principles of blood healing in an attempt to free the royal family from this bondage, the learned alchemists have never found anything to understand the mystery of purifying blood or other ways to control the plague of beasts.

Therefore, the Crimson Church is an indispensable existence for Doguland, and once the purifying blood provided by the Church is lost, the beast plague breaks out and spreads again, it will be a disaster for the destruction of the country.

This means that even if Perseus is a king, no matter how much he cherishes his little daughter, he will have to make compromises before the kingdom is safe.

Solandale's marriage to the archbishop's son is a foregone conclusion—at least for now.

But it was clear that Perseus had never told Solandale about it, perhaps out of guilt and not knowing how to speak. Or maybe she felt that Solandelle was still young and didn't want her to be under this kind of pressure too soon.

Chino didn't know what to say, but picked two more apples, one for Solan and one for himself.

"Click." Chino took a bite of the apple, but his brow furrowed suddenly.

Why is it not as sweet as it was...

Chino silently ate the not too sweet apple, and quietly began to knock on the side: "Solan, if... I said if, in the future, for some reason, you have to marry someone you don't like, will you accept your fate? ”

Hearing this, Lorna was the first to be anxious: "Then I'll ride Scarlet Night to the door and snatch Solan back!" As long as she doesn't like it, even if the other party is the Sun King! ”

Solandel looked at Chino with some confusion: "No, why did you suddenly ask me this question?" ”

Chino said lightly: "It's just a casual question, it doesn't mean anything special." ”

Solandale didn't think too deeply, raised her head to look up at the starry sky, and said to herself: "This is the scoring situation, such as... I was kidnapped, robbed back to the mountains by bandits, and asked me to be his wife, then of course I didn't accept it, I would rather cut myself off than suffer that kind of insult. ”

Solandale pursed her lips, and her tone began to lengthen: "But if it is my father who wants to do this, and for the sake of the kingdom, I will accept my fate." ”

Chino was slightly stunned, thinking that Solandelle knew something, and his eyes narrowed unconsciously: "What you say... What is the meaning? ”

Solandale tilted his head innocently: "For example, I said for example, oh - in the future, the Far East will invade again, and we have lost the war, in order to quell the war and keep the people of the kingdom away from the war, my father has to accept peace and marry me far away to Gyeonggi." ”

"At that time, I will not have any complaints, because this is the responsibility of the royal heir, whether it is a prince or a princess, everyone must pay for the kingdom and the people."

Lorna has a strong sense of substitution, and she has a picture in her mind, so she is so anxious that she keeps buttoning on the grass: "It's impossible!" No way! As long as Regnome is here, as long as I'm here, the dragon won't let Laurel take any harm! Our dragon's breath will burn all over the battlefield! Definitely not going to go that far! ”

Solandelle was amused, pounced on Lorna, and said with a grin: "Didn't I say 'for example', why are you so excited~"

When Lorna heard this, she seemed to be amused by her clumsiness as well, smirking and touching the back of her head.

Only Chino knows, it's not a joke, something like this is happening, it's going to happen in 4 years, it's like a rolling torrent, no one can stop it.

At least for now.

Solandelle and Lorna lay on the grass together looking at the stars, and said abruptly: "Actually, since I was very young, I didn't like my status as a princess, I just wanted to be an ordinary person." ”

Chino: "What do you say?" ”

"Because... Princesses are not free. Now, for example, lying directly on the lawn like this is not allowed in the palace, and my father will think that I am like a wild child, and will pick me up and scold me. Solandale stretched out her little hand and spread it above her head, as if to grab this bright starry sky, "How nice it is for ordinary people, there are not so many rules, there are no constraints, you can eat whatever you want, lie down wherever you want, and sleep when you want." ”

"If it were an ordinary person, I could always lie on the lawn like now, without worrying about the ancient texts that the university scholars would memorize tomorrow, and I wouldn't have to learn those tiring mental arithmetic, and if I wanted to look at the stars, I could just raise my head at any time!"

"Just now that we are talking, there are still so many ~~ people in the north and south of the world who are looking up at the same starry sky like me, this feeling is amazing!"

Chino is unremarkable, whether it is a commoner or a nobleman, the world of little girls is often very simple, and most of their wishes are like this.

Some people have been innocent all their lives and have always been stupid girls.

There are also those who are constantly changing because of reality and eventually fall into the world.

No one can predict what will happen in the future.

When it came to her ideals, Lorna suddenly became interested: "I'm different from Solan, I don't want to be an ordinary person, I want to be a big man!" My dream is to beat Denisha and become the King's Blade! ”

After hearing this, Chino smiled helplessly: "What kind of grudge do you have with Denissa, why do you always want to beat her?" ”

"You don't understand! My mother used to be the King's Blade, and after she died, the villain Dinisha took advantage of the situation and took away her title! Lorna clenched her little fists at this point, looking rather indignant.

Chino was a little puzzled: "Your mother was a 6th Sequence Natural Disaster when she was alive, and Dinisha was the 7th Sequence Akarin, and she is also the strongest person in Doguland today, so it is not unreasonable for her to inherit your mother's title of King's Blade, right?" ”

As soon as this topic was mentioned, Lorna was extremely resentful, and as she spoke, she thumped on the grass: "Hmph, it's not a question of whether it's strong or not!" Let me tell you, you don't know her, Denisha either drinks or sleeps every day, and can sleep up to 20 hours a day, the gods are above! 20 hours! Pigs can't sleep like this! Is this the King's Blade or the King's Pillow?! ”

"My mother was dutiful in her life, and she spent her life worrying about the kingdom and solving problems for her people, what about Denisha? There is no sense of responsibility! There was a war on the border, and she was never seen to make a move, and it was Solan's brother Bolton who went to pacify it. On duty, she also thinks of a way to escape, just to sleep a few more hours. ”

"And patrolling the city, you haven't seen this person too much! Last time, she saw someone fighting on the street, not only did she not stop it, but she also coaxed onlookers on the side, and even opened a village to let everyone bet on which side would win. This kind of person is the king's blade, it is simply an insult to my mother! ”

Solandelle patted Lorna's head and comforted, "But Denisha is really strong, Akarina of Sequence 7!" The title of the king's sharp blade has always been given to the strongest, this is the rule, there is no way. ”

After hearing this, Lorna became more and more angry: "Akarin? Heh, isn't it just that swordsmanship is higher than people? What's the big deal? I started fighting with her when I was 4 years old, and I fought with her so many times, although I couldn't always win against her, but I could feel that her strength was completely exaggerated. ”

"Let's just talk about her shortcomings, I can find a lot of them casually - drinking too much and causing slow reactions, perennial sleepiness, lack of concentration, lack of training, floating pace, bad attitude, often take it lightly... As long as I practice hard for a few more years, it will be a matter of time before I defeat her! ”

Chino: "So confident? ”

Lorna said confidently, "Of course! My heads-up record with Denisha is 69:823, and I told her last time that I would practice hard and stop bothering her before I became stronger. In the next duel, I will change the score to 70:823, and I will take back the title of King's Blade with my own hands! ”

Chino didn't know much about Denissa's strength, so he didn't say much, and asked casually: "If you really win against her in the future and become the new King's Blade, then what are you going to do?" ”

"And then?" Lorna was stunned and said, "No, what should I do?" ”

Chino smiled helplessly, Lorna was not ideal, she just had an obsession.

He thought for a moment and said, "Lorna, your father is the left hand of the king, although I don't know about Sting, but under normal circumstances, he should be very eager to train you into a qualified general, and even hope that you will take over the position of his commander-in-chief." ”

Lorna snorted heavily, and her tone was quite indignant: "I have my life, how can he hope, what does it matter to me?" The person I hate the most in my life is him! That year... If he hadn't done that kind of thing... My mom won't either..."

"Humph! Anyway, whatever he wants from me, I don't! Everything has to be reversed from him! When he's uncomfortable, I'm happy! When he's angry, I'm happy! ”

Chino didn't expect that Lorna was still a rebellious girl, but she said that Sting did "that kind of thing", which means...

Chino glanced at Solandelle, who shook his head at him and signaled not to ask, he deliberately ignored those words, and casually helped Sting with a few words: "I have talked to Sting a few times, and I feel that he is not a bad person, you are his only daughter, if you hate him like this, he will probably be very sad as a father." ”

Lorna suddenly became energetic: "It's sad and good! I wish he was sad! Chino, don't be deceived by my dad's appearance, this person is actually very mean! Since I was a child, he asked me to do this and that, and drove me to the path he had set down, and if I didn't listen, he scolded me and beat me! ”

"As for me, you know, it's impossible to convince me with your fists! The more he beat me, the more I was dissatisfied, and the more I had to fight against him, I don't know how many fights I had with him at home! ”

When Lorna said this, her expression was still a little proud: "He is now in the prime of life, and I can't beat him yet." But it's okay, he's always getting old! When he is old and can't shake his fists, I have to hit him every day! dragged him out of the hospital bed and beat him violently, and beat him until his nose was blue and his face was swollen! Just like he used to beat me! ”

"Then you are really a father and a daughter!" Chino was ridiculous when he heard it, and he didn't know what this Sting had done to make his only daughter hold a grudge to such an extent.

Solandale blinked and asked curiously, "No, we've said so much, what about you?" What is your ideal? ”

"Alive." Chino's answer was unthinking, but felt very inaccurate, so he added, "Interesting to live." ”

Solandale and Lorna looked at each other and asked curiously, "What do you mean to be interesting to live?" ”

Chino looked at the night, as if he was looking at some being outside the galaxy, and the corners of his lips slowly raised a sharp arc: "Just like now." ”

"Hmm... I can't understand it~" Lorna shook her head with a big grin.

Solandelle's eyes rolled, as if she had an idea, she grabbed Chino's hand with her left hand, grabbed Chino's hand with her right hand, stacked them together, and smiled sweetly: "Let's make a wish to the gods together!" ”

Chino and Lorna said in unison: "Make a wish? ”

Solandelle's pupils reflected in the glow of the moon, clear and pure: "The three of us are friends, and we will always be as good as we are now!" ”

Lorna coaxed excitedly without thinking about it: "Okay, good! I agree! ”

This time, it was Chino who was silent.

For a person who does not have the ability to empathize, friendship does not exist, just like love and family affection.

When Chino first met Solandale, he told her that he had wolves, cats, dogs, superiors, subordinates, trading partners, but no friends.

It's not a question of whether you want to make friends or not, it's a question of not being able to understand their existence, just as a three-dimensional human cannot understand a four-dimensional space.

At this time, Chino quietly withdrew his hand and said silently: "Out of politeness, I should cater to you now and not spoil the atmosphere." But I think there are some things that maybe it's time to make clear. ”

Solandale sensed that the atmosphere was not quite right, and cautiously asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Chino: "Little princess, I know you treat me as a friend, and I don't resist that. But as you may recall, when we first met, I told you that I had never been friends. ”

"It's not because I'm withdrawn or anything, it's because I can't understand the relationship between friends. If you don't understand it, it doesn't mean to me, can you understand what I mean? ”

Solandale hurriedly said: "This is very understandable, like us, we are friends!" When Lorna and I run out to play, you're the first thing that comes to mind. When you meet us, we will also be generously received. That's what friends are. ”

Chino: "For me, it's necessary to be polite to receive guests. Whoever comes, even if Grabo says he wants to stay for dinner, I'll cook for him myself. ”

Solandale pursed her lips with a very lost expression: "You mean, don't you want to be friends with me..."