Everyone in the secret passage was anxiously awaiting the outcome of Nicolai's negotiations.

Tails did his best to induce one of the few sins of the Prison River and improve his ears.

The conversation between the two at the entrance of the cave finally barely reached his ears.

"What?" said Nicola's voice, "Is the Scarlet Witch going to do what she does best?"

"Tell me to surrender?"

The Scar Witch just looked at him quietly.

Her gaze was calm, but also serious.

Even Tails, who was hiding in the distance and eavesdropping, had the illusion that he was on his back.

"I said you were on the wrong side," Kasan's expression suddenly turned cold, "The Whiteblade Guards are supposed to be loyal to Exeter, not to some king. ”

"Don't you think so?"

The eavesdropping Tails frowned: What exactly does the Scarlet Witch want to do?

Do you really want to say that Deni Kolai?

The Starfall clenched his sword.

Nicolai snorted, "As a traitor to the king, isn't this sentence too harsh. ”

The Scarlet Witch lifted her chin.

"Traitor?" Lady Kassan's eyes flashed, "Do you really know what the Gongju King to whom you are loyal is going to do in order to continue his family?"

Nicollet shook his head slowly, and Tails guessed that he smiled with uncomfortably disdainful as he always did.

But the Starfall soon stopped laughing, and neither did Tails.

I saw Kasan look behind him, and said coldly: "For example, ......"

"Pretending to be a child without any Walton blood, as the heir of Longxiao City?"

Nicolais's back froze.

He is not alone.

A bolt from the blue.

That's how Tails is feeling right now.

He opened his mouth wide in shock, and couldn't help but look at the little slippery head that looked down in worry.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

The Red Witch She ......

Miranda noticed Tails' abnormality and frowned, "What's wrong with you?"

Tails kept his mouth wide open, his face full of shock.

His eyes widened, and he reached out in embarrassment and pressed his chin: "That...... Active jaw ......"

Miranda raised an eyebrow and turned her head away.

But for Tails, the Red Witch's cold words continued: "He also put his hope on the power of the Star Kingdom, put the handle into the hands of the Bright Star Family, and send the initiative of the inheritance of Longxiao City to the Fuxing Palace?"

Nicolais's back was unresponsive.

But Tails guessed that his expression must be getting more and more ugly at the moment.

"Waiting for the Kingdom of the Stars, waiting for the secret department, waiting for that weird boy to turn Longxiao City into their inner correspondence in Exeter," Kassan's tone was extremely cold, contrary to her former smile: "Become a puppet of the Bright Star Royal Family?"

Tails, who was in the distance, closed his eyes and covered his face in pain.

"It's okay," Tails' voice was weak, and he waved his hand at Cohen, who was looking at him suspiciously, "My face is numb, rub it." ”

The Scarlet Witch snorted coldly.

"These things, as the leader of the White-Bladed Guard, the King's most trusted captain of the guard, Lord Seri Nicolai," Kashan turned her head with a complicated look in her eyes, "Do you know all about it?"

"Or do you think it doesn't matter?"

Nicola's back remained frozen in place.

His hand rested on the hilt of the knife and did not move for a long time.

The Meteorite exhaled with difficulty, and the voice reached Tails' ears, "You know. ”

"The Dark Room has indeed collected these things," the Red Witch's eyes narrowed slightly, "Isn't it enough?"

"That's it...... Is that why you killed the king?" Nicolai's voice was incoherent, like something was hindering his trachea.

"It's a pity, but this kind of thing ......," Kashan sighed, "If Your Majesty had put a little trust in me and asked me to help him figure it out, instead of making a decision on his own, it would have ended differently." ”

Nicolas did not speak immediately.

If Tails could see his face, he would see that the Meteorite's eyes were calm, and his pale face was slowly reddening.

If Mielke were here, he would recognize it: it was a precursor to the old man's anger.

And since the young Nicolai became commander twenty years ago, he has rarely been angry again.

"A little trust?" Nicolai sneered, "Why aren't you 'a little' loyal to Your Majesty?"

Hearing this, Tails exhaled and shook his head slowly.

Old King ......

You...... Is it a death from the disloyalty of a courtier, or a death from the unbelief of a king?

Kassan's eyes narrowed.

"Why do you think he doesn't trust you?" the Meteorite's tone became colder and colder, "Do you think his vigilance and suspicion of you came suddenly?"

The Scarlet Witch did not speak.

"Twelve years ago," Nicolas said in a stiff voice, word by word, full of anger as he bit the words out of his teeth, "Your Highness Suril, when the couple were assassinated, the assassin who lurked in ......"

Kasan remained silent.

But from the moment Nicollet spoke of "Assassin", her eyes instantly released a different complex color.

Hearing this, Tails was slightly stunned.

Suril's death?

Assassin? The Assassin sent by the stars?

"That handsome little white face, remember?" said Nicolai fiercely, "I had already intercepted him......

"If it weren't for your dark room," Nicolai's words trembled slightly, "If it weren't for your people getting in the way, I would have chopped that assassin to pieces!"

Tails raised an eyebrow.

He understood Nicola's words and gasped subconsciously.

The Assassin ...... An assassin sent by the stars.

The Assassin turned out to be ...... Protected by the people in the dark room?

Kasan bowed her head slightly, staring at the ground, and fell into a long silence.

Nicolai gasped fiercely: "Yes, I found out later, but His Majesty told me to keep silent. ”

Tails noticed that the Meteorite's legs were trembling slightly.

Only the Meteorite himself knew—they were two untreated arrow wounds.

"You knew it before then, didn't you?" said the Starfaller, gritting his teeth, "You knew about the existence of that assassin, and you probably even knew that the stars would send an assassin!"

"Or is it just a scene arranged by your dark room?"

"Until the death of His Highness Surir, will it be over?"

Listening to all this, Tails's face changed several times, and his heart was in turmoil.

What's going on?

It was the stars who sent the Assassins, but listen to Nicolai......

Why?

Twelve years ago...... Witnessing in the dark room, and even acquiescing in the death of Prince Suril?

At that moment, the Red Witch's eyes moved slightly.

"Now," Nikolai sneered, his words sharp as a knife, "do you know why Your Majesty doesn't trust you?"

"By your cheap and fickle so-called 'loyalty'?"

The Scar Witch opened her mouth slightly, but did not make a sound—the old woman, who had been answering her questions fluently and calmly, seemed to suddenly get stuck in her throat.

"That ......" a few seconds later, Ms. Kasan spoke softly, her words filled with deep exhaustion: "It was an accident. ”

"I was also caught off guard. ”

She was met with Nicola's disdainful snorting.

"Your Majesty is silent about this, I don't know what tricks you're playing, maybe that assassin is your undercover agent in the secret department, maybe it's not ......" The Meteorite said viciously:

"Maybe it's for the future of Exeter, for the good of the king, for the excuse to go south to war—you always have an excuse anyway, and no one knows if it's true or not, maybe only the Black Prophet can tell the difference. ”

The Scarlet Witch's expression hadn't moved in a long time.

"But!" the Starfaller said with a chill.

Nicolai's voice was as angry as a torn bellows: "The king and his bloodline, what are they in your eyes?

Kasan looked up slowly, her eyes subtle.

"Don't say that. ”

Kashan shook her head, her words filled with deep melancholy, "We're not secrets after all. ”

Tails' face changed again.

He heard what Kasan meant.

[If it doesn't match your expectations, you can clear ...... casually]

[We are not secret ...... after all]

These two sentences.

These two sentences...... What is the meaning?

Tails stood still.

Nicolas did not speak.

The Starfaller's face turned pale, and there was an undercurrent in his eyes.

"Scavenge everything, suspect everything, remove hidden dangers, and show no mercy," he snorted, "and there's nothing wrong with them calling you 'witches.'" ”

"If you have doubts, you will always have the means to see the light of day. ”

"This is the instinct of you people who live in the shadows—trust and loyalty are worthless to you," the Meteorite said sinisterly, "whether you or the Mystic, the scars and pus of your empire. ”

But at this moment, the Red Witch dissipated her indifferent expression.

I saw her smile slightly.

"Very well," Karshan said softly, "and now, let's start talking." ”

The tone was like she had just grabbed the biggest chip.

Nicolas shuddered slightly.

Hearing this, Tails frowned slightly.

He began to understand it.

"After the tragedy of twelve years ago, His Majesty Nunn in his later years has tried his best to find a balance between country and family, territory and blood," the Scarlet Witch smiled, and there was an inexplicable sadness in her faint tone, "Now I can be sure." ”

But Tails was really confused.

Why?

Why did Kassan's style of speech suddenly change?

Nicolais's shoulders began to heave.

"What do you mean?"

Nicolais's voice came slowly, "What do you really want?"

Tails held his breath, trying to hear the Scarlet Witch's answer.

Kashan looked at his expression for a full three seconds.

Then the Scarlet Witch smiled.

"I'm looking for an answer. ”

"And," she said calmly, "something I don't have." ”

"For example," the Scarlet Witch walked up to Nicolai without hesitation, not caring in the slightest that he might take advantage of his own danger, and a look of solemnity flashed in her eyes, "Your unconditional loyalty to His Majesty Nunn. ”

"And his unreserved trust in you. ”