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"Ah, this. Marquis Slys bowed slightly to the returning Putile, and exhaled: "Marquis, hehe." ”

[Yes, not repeated!] 】

"In fact, the position of power in the country of Comas is roughly equivalent to that of a count who governs a city and a place...... Even in Shanliu City, it's not me who has the final say," Marquis Slys smiled slightly: "But as a businessman, you must often visit those dukes and kings to have a good relationship, and your status can't be too shabby...... After all, not every country has the courage to send barons or even lords as emissaries like Stars and Exter......"

"Oh?" Tails scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "So, it turns out that it is not the common practice in the world to send barons and lords as envoys to each other?

"Exactly," Shreis shook his head, "I could name a basket of jokes about the mutual contempt between the Northlanders and the Imperials." ”

"The relationship between the stars and the dragon is a special case," Putile, who rode in front of the prince, turned his head and shook his head slightly, "You may not find another pair of countries that despise and hate each other like this, except for Suye and Humble." ”

"So, for a little lord like mine, whose territory is close to the great powers, and therefore has to visit from time to time," Marquis Slais blinked, revealing a humble and amusing smile:

"The Council of Commath passed a resolution to make him an 'Honorary Marquis,' which appears to be one rank higher than the Earl, but not more than the Archduke and the Duke—a way to make the person we visit feel valued without feeling oppressive to him, but in fact we are no different from ordinary Earls. ”

Putile nodded: "In contrast, both Xingchen and Exeter inherited the noble feudal system of the empire - from the noble duke or grand duke who guarded the four frontiers, followed by the earl who was the lord of a territory, to the slightly lower viscount, the local baron who passed down from generation to generation, and finally the lord who only had property but no title inheritance. ”

Slais smiled bitterly: "Only the Comas Alliance has a strange 'Marquis' level, it is really due to the current situation, don't care." ”

Tails nodded.

He turned his head and stumbled upon the white-cloaked figure in front of him, representing King Nunn's Meteorite Nicolai.

Nicollet seemed to sense Tails' gaze, and he jerked his head back, his sharp eyes shooting at Tails like the blade of a sword, as if warning of something.

Tails couldn't help but frown.

"Lord Nicolai...... It's not very easy to deal with, is it?" Srice on the side noticed Tails' gaze and smiled understandingly: "Northlanders, simple and direct, but stubborn is also a deadly existence. ”

Tails turned to the strange foreign nobleman.

Putile replied lightly to the Marquis of Slys: "It seems that you have a lot of experience, I remember that the territory of Goodflowing City is adjacent to the territory of Qiyuan City in the west of Exeter, and you often have contact with the family of Grand Duke Ronnie?"

"Trust me, I understand how hard it is to be neighbors with the Northlanders," Shreis sighed, "I've dealt with them a lot, and sometimes you love their cheerfulness and integrity, and sometimes you hate their rigidity and inflexibility. ”

"Behind the scenes," a cold voice interjected, "this is not a good way to do business, Lord Marquis. ”

Tails was startled.

I saw that Nicolai, who was still in front of him on the left, had already ridden to his left at some point.

"What are you doing?" asked Putirai, politely but solemnly, "Your Excellency Lord Nicolai?"

Seeing the White-Bladed Guard's Starfall approaching, Wya, who was walking to Tails' left side, held the hilt of his sword vigilantly.

"Stand back, Starfall," Waiya pulled out half of his sword, his face was not good, "I accepted your greeting, but Your Highness doesn't need you to escort you." ”

Nicola snorted, unconcerned.

Rolf quickened his pace and caught up with Tails' mount, his face nervous.

Edda, who was following Tails to the right, clasped her arms and got closer to Nicolais, intentionally or unintentionally: "Boy, if you want to fight, you can accompany you at any time." ”

Tails had to raise his hand to signal to the stars that they were calm and not to worry.

"You know each other?" Tails frowned, "Commander of the White-Bladed Guard, and Marquis of a city in Commas?"

Nikolai's eyes were deep and noncommittal, while Slais smiled slightly: "The fate of several faces." ”

Tails shook his head.

But then he raised his head, looked at Nicolai, and then at the smiling Marquis of Slacles, and couldn't help but be stunned.

"Your Excellency Marquis Slais," Tails asked with a hint of confusion, "When you just came last night, you said that you were also here as an envoy to Exeter?"

"Yes, the contract between Shanliu City and Longxiao City is about to expire, and at the same time, I have to develop other businesses," Marquis Slais blinked meaningfully, "Actually, my envoys and I have been around Longxiao City for a month, and we have negotiated several big deals with several lords...... Hearing that the prince of the stars was in the territory of Wilan, he came to visit. ”

Longxiao City.

Tails' heart moved.

"Specially traveled from Longxiao City to Weilan to visit me?" Tails drew in his mind the map of Exeter that Putile had told him in the past few days, and said suspiciously: "You really have a heart, as far as I know, the road in between is not easy to walk. ”

"That's why I said that the Commaths must have a plan," Eda snorted disdainfully, "who would have nothing to do to run such a long way to see an unlucky little hairy boy?"

Tails rubbed his head in embarrassment.

Putile reacted, pondering the relationship.

"Haha, there is a saying among the elves, 'Love is worth overcoming obstacles, friendship is worth climbing mountains and mountains'," Srice blinked, "And I'm here for friendship, and of course for future connections." ”

"Disgusting. "This is Edda's reaction.

"Wait," Tails' suspicion deepened, "If Your Excellency is from Longxiao City......

He looked up at Nicolas in front of him, only to see the Meteorite staring at him fixedly, expressionless.

“...... The White Blade Guards are the personal guards of the Gongju King, and you are also from Longxiao City. Tails frowned and looked at Marquis Sleiss: "His Excellency the Marquis and the White Blade Guards arrived almost at the same time, but they didn't meet before?"

Nicolai and Slais looked at each other.

The latter smiled and said, "Maybe it's because of the wind and snow?

"No," Tails narrowed his eyes, "they're the best elite in all of Exeter, there's no way they didn't find you." ”

"Of course not. Putile took his prince's words and nodded abruptly, "That's the White Guards, the famous and powerful army of the Northlands, and the 'Glacier Lookout' that held the northern Quegul Glacier in ancient times - although both have undergone many destructions and reconstructions...... It's easy to spot a cavalry team so close. ”

Nicolas snorted

Slais laughed.

"And," Tails said word by word, "you are one after the other, almost at the same time......"

"It's too suspicious. ”

Shrees raised an eyebrow, shaking his head and smiling.

Tails looked at him in amazement, and looked at Putilla.

"Enough, Marquis," said Nicolai, with a flat face, "it is time to fulfill your majesty's request." ”

Your Majesty's entrustment?

Tails looked at Nicolai and then at Slac, and his conjecture became clearer and clearer.

"You're in a bunch. ”

Tails figured it out.

He looked around, and the Black Sand Leader army in the distance marched in an orderly manner.

Tuleha still led the scouts to the scout road.

Kambida was deliberating with one of his subordinates about the next route.

The soldiers of the Black Sand Collar dutifully guarded the surrounding area.

Tails took a slow breath.

"Your Highness," Putile, who understood something, said lightly, "It seems that we are in a terrible situation again. ”

"Alas," Tails sighed, raised his head, and looked at the Exeters and Commas in front of him with burning eyes, "that's what King Nune meant, isn't it?"

"Since it's all here," Srice said with a smile, "Your Highness might as well guess again?"

Tails looked at him steadily.

After a few seconds, Tails said calmly, "Lord Nicolai...... You didn't come to the army of the Grand Duke of Black Sand by chance, and you didn't come into conflict with us by chance. ”

His gaze fell on Nicollet, who continued to look straight ahead, as if he didn't pay any attention to him.

But after a second, the Meteorite reversed his previous coldness and slowly spoke.

"Of course not," Nicolas said coldly, "one of the things I hate most in my life is stepping into the military camp of Rumba, and ......"

The Meteorite turned his head, his gaze like a knife: "How can I have the leisure to kidnap a little kid who doesn't have any teeth?"

Tails ignored Nicolai's irreverence, his heart pounding and his brain racing.

If not by chance...... That last night......

Putile gently pulled out his pipe, his brow furrowed.

Nicolai and Slais looked at each other.

"I've heard, you're a fastidious and thoughtful prince?" Marquis Sleiss blinked slightly meaningfully, "A genius who can be a man of astonishment at the age of seven, Your Highness Tails?"

Tails was slightly stunned: "That's what people say about me?"

Not so good.

Is your words and deeds at the national meeting already so famous?

"You are more famous than you think, boy," said Nicolais, who was calm on his horse, but with a disturbing delusion, "the stars have recovered their only prince and heir, and then announced your existence to the whole kingdom. ”

Marquis Sleis, who was on the side, nodded and smiled.

"So, Marquis Srice from the Commas Alliance," Tails frowned, turning to the middle-aged marquis with blonde hair and ponytail: "It's not as simple as you want to visit me, the reason why you came to the military camp in Rumba at that time is only for one purpose!"

Srice smiled and bowed slightly on his horse.

"As an envoy of a third country, to stop the White Guards from clashing with us!" Tails looked at Slais with a determined gaze.

"As for you, Lord Nicolais, as an enemy of the Bright Star Royalty, you were specially sent to provoke us, right? Tails turned to Nicolas again.

"We should have fought," Nicolai said coldly, "the White-Bladed Guards will beat you all down." ”

"Before things get out of hand, I'll show up, and for the sake of the Comas envoys, the White-Bladed Guards will retreat," Marquis Slys smiled mysteriously and picked up Nicolai's words, "But the bad relationship between His Royal Highness Tails and King Nunn will be seen by everyone in the camp." ”

Both Wyaa and Rolf looked at Tails in disbelief, and then at Nicollet.

"Keep your hostility up, Wya, Rolf," Puttillet figured out something, he lightly lit his pipe, his expression unchanged, "Let the Black Sand Collar see that we have a very bad relationship with Lord Nicolais—very poorly. ”

Waiya's eyes widened.

"Lord Nicolai, you originally planned to use provocation and conflict to show the others King Nunn's attitude towards me," Tails lowered his head and said silently, "but I made a mess of it, and it made you uncomfortable, didn't I?"

Nicolas did not answer.

"To be honest, when I arrived as planned, I saw such a peaceful scene between you," Srice nodded, "I thought it was strange, and I even wondered if my watch was going fast and came a little earlier." ”

"What's going on?" Tails asked calmly, "why do we have to put on such a scene at the camp in Rumba?

"It's not just for him," Srice said lightly, "but for those eyes and ears in his army." ”

"Go on. Tails said solemnly.

"The news that you are coming to Longxiao City has reached almost all the lords and nobles of Exeter with the letter crow," Nicolai coldly took over: "The visit of the Star Prince is the biggest event at the end of the kingdom - for this reason, Your Majesty has sent invitations to the nine Grand Dukes outside Longxiao City, and at least five Grand Dukes have responded to the invitation, and have already arrived or are about to arrive in Longxiao City, waiting for your arrival. ”

"What do you mean...... For my arrival," Tails slowly straightened out his chaotic thoughts, "King Nunn specially invited these Grand Dukes to Longxiao City, why? What does this have to do with the eyes and ears of the Rumba army?"

"The one who plotted to murder our Royal Highness the Prince of Moral," Nikolai tightened his white cloak and said lightly, "It's not just the Grand Duke of Black Sand. Charman Rumba used his proximity to the stars to collude with Aaron abroad, but at home, there were other forces that conspired with Rumba, and even led the plan to murder His Highness. ”

"Your Majesty Nunn, who has lost his last heir," Tails frowned, "...... His enemy, Rumba's collaborator, is among the several Grand Dukes who are about to come to Longxiao City?"

"Careerists can rest easy, but with His Majesty's character, he will not sit idly by and watch his enemies remain at large after committing such a crime. Srice nodded slightly and sighed: "Walton's revenge anger is more violent and simpler than imagined, and someone must take it." ”

"He wants revenge?" said Putirai slowly, "Revenge on the real murderer?"

"I thought it would be me. Tails said self-deprecatingly: "An angry father killed the murderer's son to pay for his son's life...... Isn't that normal? ”

This is what the enemy wants, and it is what we want the enemy to see. Srice blinked, "Your Majesty Nunn is a wise king, he knows who is responsible for this, and he also knows that if a war breaks out between the stars and Exter at this time, it will be a great unwisdom to fall into the hands of the ambitionists." ”

"But how could the Marquis, how could he join in. Putile looked at Shreis intently, "I thought you were a Comas." ”

"I'll do your Majesty Nunn a favor," Marquis Slys smiled heartily, showing his white teeth, "and he'll do me a favor in the trade between the two countries." ”

Eda snorted.

At that moment, Nicolas sneered.

"All in all, this is the message that Your Majesty has entrusted me to bring...... His Royal Highness, the Second Prince of the Stars. ”

"For the common good of Your Highness and Your Majesty Nunn, he invites you to join him in his vengeance," a flame burned in Nikolai's eyes, "The hunter has sharpened his sword, the trap and the trap are in place, and the prey is doomed." ”

"Can I say no?" Tails frowned, looking at Putile, who had a complicated face.

"You know," said Nicollet with deep meaning, "there must be a place to vent the anger of revenge." ”

Tails drooped his head.

"I think I understand what you mean," Tails exhaled with a sad heart, "His Majesty Nunn is the hunter, the White-Bladed Guard is his sword, yesterday's drama and attitude are a trap, the meeting in Longxiao City is the final trap, and Rumba's collaborators are the prey." ”

"So what are you, Lord Marquis?" Tails turned to Slys, his expression indifferent, "The pickaxe that dug the trap?"

Slais coughed in embarrassment.

"No wonder King Nunn is coming to invite me," Tails said with a grimace, "and after all, he only lacks one thing, does he?" ”

Tails turned his head to look around at Nicolai and Slais.

But neither is silent.

One of them looked at him playfully, the other with a grim look in his eyes.

Tails sighed, closed his eyes and sighed to the sky, and spat out the last word himself:

"Bait. ”

――――

Exeter, Longxiao City, westbound gallop road.

A Far Easterner saw off the last guest and slowly closed the door to the house.

He turned his head slightly, looking at the new uninvited customer in the store.

"I didn't expect you to come so quickly. ”

In the butcher shop that had just closed, Gu looked at the young man in white in front of him with a solemn expression.

"I'm in a hurry. The young man said indifferently.

"What do you call it?" Gu took off his apron and stared at the young man.

"Raphael," said the young man briskly, "or, according to the custom of the Far Easterners, you may also call me Ra." ”

"That's not what the single surname of the Far East is called. Gu said coldly.

Hum.

Morat's little cub.

However, even if the snake cub is young, as long as it comes from the kingdom's secret family.

Gu secretly reminded himself.

It's all extremely poisonous.

"yes, forget it, it doesn't matter anyway," Raphael sat down slowly in the chair next to him, "Let's get down to business." ”

"Boom!"

A dull sound.

Gu slashed the boning knife on the cutting board.

He hated the feeling.

Raphael waited unconcernedly for a reply.

"I have already led the black sword to Longxiao City according to your request," Gu closed his eyes painfully, "Use the news you gave." ”

"Oh?" Raphael's eyes lit up, "what about his whereabouts and status?"

"I don't know," Gu Qiang endured the unhappiness in his heart: "But Hei Jian just came yesterday, and he said that he wanted to find a doctor, but I don't know how long he will stay in Longxiao City...... Maybe you'll leave when you find it. ”

"He won't," Raphael chuckled, "and he'll stay long enough until he finds his purpose." ”

(To be continued.) )