September 23, 1917 was a crisp autumn day with clear skies.

In the Yellin region, a harvest celebration is held on this day. There are also many people in the kingdom of Aura who worship the goddess of light, will they also take to the streets, wearing colorful dresses, dancing fruit tree branches that symbolize the harvest, and taking their children to sing and play in the square where the statue of the goddess stands?

In any case, Rey in the White Maple Pavilion did not feel a pleasant atmosphere.

In the morning, the music teacher came to the White Maple Pavilion according to the scheduled schedule, Angel was said to have caught a cold again, and had not woken up yet, and Carlo stayed outside the door as usual. Wray practiced a song in praise of the goddess that his mother, Lily Yale, loved and heard the church band play at a celebration in the City of Light when he was seven years old.

Yes, on September 23 of that year, Lily collapsed in a pool of blood and never woke up.

- Rey, your mother...... Not killed by robbers.

- As long as King Charles is around, he will continue to hunt us down, and this is the only way to stay alive. King Charles is a cruel and ruthless monarch, and as long as he is alive, many people will suffer.

Vincent's words still appear in Rey's nightmares from time to time, and Vincent's gloomy face, sad but desperate gaze, are all like the mark of the devil. As he left the Yellin region, Vincent, dressed in the old white robe of a priest, raised his head, lowered his brows, and smiled dismally.

It was the first time he had smiled at Rey since Lily was killed.

"Rey, my life...... I'll leave it to you. ”

He murmured in a voice that no one else could hear, and his mournful voice, like a dripping tear, sank into Rey's heart like a cold undercurrent.

On September 23, 1917, Vincent Mitchell Elikrix, who had been preparing for a long time, led tens of thousands of soldiers to Oder.

As an itinerant priest, he got in touch with his father's supporters, and with his father, King Aubrey, and his own former prestige, almost all the nobles of the frontier fiefdom were persuaded by him to lend the family army to Vincent. Coupled with the fact that Charles ignored the poverty in the country and blindly started the war, many people became dissatisfied with Charles. Many people also left their farm tools and took up arms to join the crusade against the tyrant.

At that time, King Charles was preparing to wage war against the Kingdom of Phaedland, and his army was all on the southern border. By the time he found out, Vincent's army had rushed into the heart of the kingdom of Aura like a sudden tidal wave.

Caught off guard, King Charles was like crazy, and he didn't have time to make any preparations, so he rushed into the White Maple Pavilion with four guardian knights. The knight drove away all the people of the White Maple Pavilion, including Carlo and the teacher who was teaching music in the White Maple Pavilion at the time, and the four knights held the hilt of their swords and surrounded Rey, who was still holding a violin in his hand.

"Your Majesty, what's going on?"

That day, Rey looked at the panting King Charles with a stunned expression. Charles ripped open his sumptuous gold-trimmed collar and roared in a furious voice like a wounded lion.

"Your father is afraid that he has forgotten about your son's savings!bastard, he actually rebelled against me!" Charles held out his fingers trembling with anger, "You have to stop him, Rey, or you're finished!"

Rey was stunned, as if he didn't understand what Charles was saying. Charles gasped for breath a few times before he calmed down a little.

"You don't know what your father did!"

The muscles on Charles's face twisted hideously, "Your father is a shameless liar, you have deceived me, you have deceived the church, you have deceived the goddess! Now, you must honestly send me to the front! I want to see if Vincent remembers your son!"

Rey was still in a daze, but his originally innocent eyes slowly cooled down.

"Take him away!" Charles decisively ordered.

The knight's cold hand pressed against his shoulder, Rey bit his lower lip tightly, and the violin fell from his hand with a dull thud on the scarlet carpet. The black violin case leaned against the back of the chair, and the darkness hidden in it emitted a scream of anger that only Rey could feel.

"陛xià......"

Rey's voice trembled violently, "I, can I ask you a question?"

"What a question!" shouted Charles, who didn't want to answer Rey at all, just venting his suppressed feelings, but Rey said the question slowly, word by word.

"If you go back to seven years ago, would you still send someone to kill my mother?"

- Rey, my life...... I'll leave it to you.

It wasn't just Vincent's life that was in Rey's hands, but also the priests, nobles, and commoners who helped Vincent. But when that time comes, faced with an enemy whose love is almost out of control, Rey throws his head up and asks a question in a voice that seems to be about to cry out and probably never get an answer. Charles was stunned for a moment, his emerald green pupils, which were the same as Rey's, constricted in horror.

"How do you know?" he said, his eyes wide, "what did Vincent tell you?"

Rey's lower lip was bitten out of blood, and his mouth was filled with a slippery, salty taste. He stared intently at Charles, trying to discern a little, if only a little guilt, in his expression.

But no.

Charles panicked, and he suddenly changed his mind.

"Chop off his hand for me! I'm going to let Vincent know—"

Charles's voice stopped.

Before he could finish his sentence, blood spurted out in front of his eyes.

The strong knight who grabbed Rey's shoulder fell silently, a pitch-black dagger inexplicably stabbing his throat from the side before flying out of its own accord and slicing through the neck of the other knight.

The Knights of the Kingdom were all top-notch, but in the face of an attacker they couldn't understand, they were all subconsciously stunned. The dagger disappeared into the shadows, and then flew out from a tricky angle, and the long sword and armor could not protect the knights who were in disarray, and in the blink of an eye, all four knights fell to the ground.

- Just be patient until Charles says something like that to you. He said, "Tell you to stop me, because I forgot your save......

It's not that Vincent forgot Rey's existence, and in the five years that he couldn't be contacted, he rebelled because he believed that Rey's was still alive in the palace to raise troops. The black elf laughed wildly and cheered as it flew back into its master's hand, and after five years it could finally reach its master's palm. Rey gripped the black elf's hilt and looked up at the enemy who had killed his mother.

"Your Majesty, as a result, you still lost. ”

The dagger flew out excitedly, and the sharp blade sank into Charles's chest, and until the last moment Charles had an incredible look on his face. He probably never understood what was killing him, that poor man, who had been living in his own world, self-righteously deciding the fate of others, but not knowing that his own fate had already been pinched in the palm of his hand.

Rey's ability to control mana has not diminished.

For five years, Rey had been communicating with the Black Elves every night, and how could the Aura people who didn't know about the new magic understand? They even drove Carlo away. They don't even trust Carlo. Charles is a person who lives a really sad life.

Rey didn't feel like he had anything to regret.

Before Angel suddenly ran in, he just stood there without saying a word, staring at Charles's stiff, blue face. Between his fingers, the blades of the black elves fell bright red.

Then, this qiē was all reflected in Angel's eyes.

......

"- How did you get to catch this little assassin?"

With a mocking smile on her face, Christina held her chin and admired Star's expression from the bottom up, Star lowered her eyes as if she was speechless in response to Christina's gloating.

"It's not a catch. He passed out in the Mitchell Forest in the southwest of the kingdom of Orra, where he was picked up by the Holy Flame that happened to pass by. ”

"Fainted?"

Christina's mouth opened exaggeratedly, "How could he faint? He succeeded! He was the hero of this coup, how could he faint in such an outrageous place? Mitchell Forest, far from Ode City...... It's hundreds of kilometers!"

"Well, I passed out...... He probably hadn't eaten for more than ten days, and he was faint from hunger. Star slumped his shoulders, his expression was very helpless, and he couldn't laugh or cry, "Flame noticed that his clothes were the clothes of the nobles of the Aura Kingdom, and they looked like King Vincent, and guessed that he was the legendary Prince Rey. The Holy Flame said that he was probably punishing himself for not wanting to eat, but he didn't refuse the food we gave him, and it didn't seem like he wanted to starve himself to death. ”

"Uh-huh, the thief bird is a madman. Christina commented harshly, "Did you know then that he killed Charles?"

"I didn't know at the time. After all, there is the Augustus Chamber of Commerce under the Holy Flame, and there are more ways to get the news, knowing that he was adopted by Charles. Flame felt that he might feel guilty about his adoptive father's death, or that his biological father had cheated on him, but that wasn't, and that Rey would run away just because he didn't want to stay in the palace, didn't want to see Vincent, but didn't know where to go. He walked a long way by himself, and he fainted from hunger. ”

“...... If he goes two more days south, he'll be on our territory. Christina pouted, "And then, if you give him something to eat, he'll mess with you?"

"I sue him that we are illegal magicians. Xing curled the corners of his mouth and smiled lightly, "I told him that we wanted to build a big ship that could fly in the sky, and he didn't believe it at first, so I told him, me and Holy Flame...... What kind of person. ”

"Oh. Christina rolled her eyes as if in an epiphany.

Christina had also heard of Star's Wish. When she understood what Star's wish meant, she decided to join Star without hesitation, and presumably the same was true of Raven. In fact, Raven is a bit like her, and in the years when he lost his mother, he was not free.