"You're going to travel far, too?"

Annan looked at the heavily armed Reiner in surprise.

"I want to carry on my teacher's last wish and find the master......" Reiner looked down at Annan, but his expression was like looking down on an elder he respected: "Is there anyone else like me?" ”

Annan sighed lightly: "Lily also set off a few days ago, but she is here to find the meaning of life. ”

"If you see her come back, please apologize to her on my behalf."

"I will."

Reiner finally saluted Annan and left the garden.

Annan put away his faint feeling. Instead of going back to the garden cottage, I went to a dungeon that was almost as familiar as home.

He was clad in gray robes, which should reduce the chances of being spotted by the shadow of that Rakor Kingdom.

"Let me out!"

The Red Witch pounced on the fence. The fence that could be broken with a little force was under the control of Mr. Evaro's magic runes, and the Scarlet Witch couldn't escape.

"Let me out, boy." The Red Witch licked her lips deliberately and looked down: "I'm willing to do anything......"

"Can you become a law-abiding citizen of Free City, train sailors, and then maintain trade between the Obiris Strait?"

"Can't do it!"

"Then keep it closed."

Annan turned and left the dungeon and returned to the garden cabin.

Lucy served him in the living room and took off his gray robe: "The princess wants to see you." ”

"I'll go over now."

Annan didn't notice the complexity in Lucy's eyes, and passed through the hallway to the outside of Princess Crimson's bedroom.

Knock Knock Knock –

"Come in......" Princess Crimson's voice sounded.

Annan pushed open the door, it was now afternoon, and the soft light was just spilling from the window to the door, and Annan, who was facing the light, squinted: "How ......?"

"Don't come here!"

The sudden scream stopped Annan, who had walked into the room.

“…… Finish? ”

Annan asked puzzled, suddenly realizing something, and his black eyes in the sun slowly contracted......

He is a human being, and sunlight is already a part of life. Even if you are careful to avoid blocking the windows with curtains and putting on a gray robe, you will still ignore the dangers of the sun......

Now, for example, he was standing in a sea of light, while Princess Crimson was standing in the shadows on the other side, her eyes down.

"Are you human......?"

"Listen to me......"

At this moment, Annan's soul seemed to float out of the shell, looking down on himself and Princess Crimson's every expression.

Cold, conscientious, and calculating.

At this moment, he thought of countless excuses to perfunctory the past, such as that this was his talent, such as that it was a blessing from the city lord, and even that the princess asked him to restore his human ......

But when I saw the eyes of the crimson princess, the crimson eyes that were once as beautiful as gems seemed to be covered with a layer of gray at this time, and the numbness made people's hearts palpitate.

A proverb from the north came to Annan's mind for no apparent reason: snow and ice don't freeze forever.

Lies can't be sustained forever.

"I ...... Sorry, it all stemmed from a misunderstanding. ”

"I hate to cheat on ......," the crimson princess interrupted, her eyes full of pain that Annan would never forget for the rest of his life, "It's disgusting......"

"At least listen to me......"

Annan didn't give Princess Crimson a chance to say "I don't listen", he went straight to bring himself back to Crimson Castle after being mistaken for a vampire by Dracula, disguised as a vampire in order to save his life, and then became an emissary to form an alliance with Skeletron and was entrusted to go to Persona City.

"I never got a chance to explain, and 'The Seventh Night'...... Actually, I secretly watched it, and it ......"

"I also tore out a few pages." Princess Crimson whispered.

"You got it?"

"I've seen it many times, and I remember every word......" Princess Crimson looked up. I hate cheating. ”

"Sorry......"

"Get out, I don't want to see you again."

Lucy appeared outside the hallway, and Annan didn't force himself to stay here, closing the door and returning to Lucy's side.

"Why does the princess hate humans so much?"

This hatred goes even beyond feelings......

"It's not that she hates humans, but she hates deception." Lucy looked at Annan with a complicated look, "Her Royal Highness has been deceived by a terrible lie for nearly a hundred years. ”

"You shouldn't hide it from her."

"I wanted to find a chance to tell her ......"

But it's too late to say that now.

"The princess is very sad...... We should be leaving. ”

"Leave? But you'll get the title deeds right away—"

"Lucy!"

From the bedroom, the crimson princess screamed in pain.

Lucy restrained her complicated emotions, and her eyes gradually became indifferent: "I'm sorry, please leave first." ”

Annan, who couldn't think of a way, had to leave here first. He enlists the help of his eldest sister, but even Editia can't interject - she is kept out by Lucy.

This oppressive atmosphere lasted all afternoon, and when evening came, there was a sudden movement in the dreary garden cottage.

The carriage of the Crimson Castle departs in front of the empty garden cottage. Annan, who would have been one of them, suddenly became a bystander, and could only watch Princess Scarlet part ways with herself.

Lucy followed the carriage firmly. Dracula, however, paused slightly, looked at Annan hesitantly, then shook his head, sighed and followed the carriage.

The goblin leader, who had already learned the beginning and the end, gloated beside him: "Haha messed up." ”

The goblins are not innocent at all in the situation they are in today.

Annan watched Princess Crimson's carriage disappear around the corner, turned his head and said to Klein, "Tell the City Lord's Mansion that the princess and the Scarlet Duke will take care of some things, and they will leave first." Let the lord of the city send a team of knights to escort me, and I will send it to Crimson Castle after the title deed is completed. ”

Klein walked away, and not long after, a group of knights drove out of the city lord's mansion and chased after him down the street.

"Are you going to chase them?" Editilea, in a wheelchair, looked up.

"No...... Let Princess Crimson calm down for a moment. I'm going to visit the goblins in the moorlands to the south myself. ”

By the way, bring back the weirdos.

……

"So, who the hell are you?"

In the carriage that shook slightly, a bloody smear appeared on the palm of the crimson princess: "I don't want to hear lies anymore. ”

"A mysterious guy has put me in your hands...... I don't know who he is, I don't know his purpose, but I guess...... He's also a member of the Bloodline, and he wants me to assist you......"

"Help me?"

"I am Victor Morrell, one of the founders of the Bloody Council, and my knowledge and wealth will give you a glorious future like sunset......"

Da Da -

A sound of horses' hooves came from outside, Princess Crimson looked up, and Lucy's silhouette appeared outside the window: "A team of human knights is escorting us." ”

"It's definitely Dai ...... Annan arranged. Dracula chimed in.

"Don't mention that person...... "Princess Crimson bowed her head and said to the being sealed in Crimson Heart, "I don't need to." ”

"And what about your mother...... Do you want to wake her up? ”

(End of chapter)