Chapter 69: Little Slipper and Alex (Part II)
"Defection?"
"Wait...... With great power," Tails looked at the sloppy little girl in front of him, but his mind had drifted back to the past: "Defection from the side of the calamity?"
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"Is that what this is written in this book?" Tails took a deep breath, "Is there anyone who wrote about the defection?"
"No, not in this book. The little girl shook her head, she raised her dirty little face, and her green eyes blinked under her thick glasses: "But another political book, "The Founding of the State: Stars and Dragons", said about it, but it did not write in detail, nor did it write about who defected. ”
Tails frowned.
In Chapter 6, "The Influence of the External Forces on the Establishment of the Two Sides," the little girl seemed to be a little afraid that Tails would not believe it, and she hurriedly put down the thick book in her hand with great difficulty, stretched out her immature fingers, and skillfully pointed in the direction behind Tails: "The book is in the sixth row after entering the door, on the fifth floor of the bookshelf on the left, between the Collected Works of Rudor Gangat and the Book of Death: The Testament of the King of Wrath." ”
"Wow, such a precise location," Tails rolled his gaze away from the stacked shelves, his eyes rolling in surprise, "the books here...... Are you familiar with it?"
This girl...... What kind of person can have the opportunity to learn, read, and cherish the books in Valhalla?
Is it really just a servant?
"Ah......h......h
"I have a pretty good memory," Tails said suspiciously, looking around the large library, "Are you the caretaker here?"
The little girl was stunned for a moment, then shook her head timidly but resolutely.
"Okay," Tails shrugged helplessly, "So this is the Walton family's library?"
"Well, sort of," the little girl's eyes lit up again, and the dimple on the left side of her little face reappeared: "Legend has it that Her Majesty Cleres liked to read very much, so after the war, King Nekaru collected all the books that could be found for her in the whole territory, the whole country, and even the whole continent, which are recorded in the "Collection of Warrants of the Grand Duke of Longxiao City......"
Necaju Aix.
Tails was in a state of flux, remembering the majestic warrior statue on the top of Valhalla, on the stone bridge leading to the Sky Bluff.
So, many of them were collected after the War of the Ends, before the nations began to remove traces of magic on a large scale.
No wonder there are so many works in the ancient imperial languages here, and perhaps many books in other languages, even in non-human world languages.
So, even after a massive purge, these books will contain more clues about disasters and magic than anywhere else.
I wonder how the famous Bright Star Library compares to here?
The little girl seemed to be very happy when she talked about these things, and forgot about her own nervousness and fear, and listened to her continue to chatter: "...... Until the time of the reign of Grand Duke Solon, Longxiao City stopped collecting books and filling the library room, because no one had seen Her Majesty the Queen for many years, and this place was originally a corner of Valhalla, so it became more and more desolate......"
"Wait a minute, Chroresis?" Tails reacted, his expression surprised, "You mean—Necajou's...... Queen of the Skies?"
"The female dragon who married a human?"
Hearing Tails' call, the little girl seemed to regain her nerves.
"You can't be disrespectful to Her Majesty the First Queen," she shook her head, and her glasses were about to fall off, and the little girl was so frightened that she hurriedly raised her little hand, protected her cheeks, and pressed the frame of the glasses: "Use the honorific title of 'Your Majesty' and call her first name." ”
Tails was stunned.
"Don't worry, she's ...... anyway The queen can't hear either," Tails said amusedly, looking at the funny girl who was covering her little face, and said indifferently, "It's not too late for me to see her in person." ”
"No, if you see Your Majesty for the first time, it's a different set of etiquette," the little girl shook her head and muttered, "Dragons are noble and sacred, and naturally averse to rudeness and disrespect. ”
"If a mortal is fortunate enough to see him, he must kneel down on one knee, bow his head, and respectfully give his full name, and wait until the other person has agreed before he can get up. ”
"Or else?" said Tails, amused.
"Otherwise, the dragon will hate you. The little girl with platinum hair and glasses stared directly at Tails, and there was a serious expression on her cat-like little face.
Tails burst out laughing.
In the little girl's half-angry and half-aggrieved eyes, Tails tried his best to restrain his smile: "Okay, okay, if I really meet ...... Will definitely do as you instruct. ”
"But Cleracese...... Queen, hasn't anyone seen it for more than six hundred years? How do you know if the legend of the dragon is true?"
The little girl looked displeased, but said nothing.
Tails narrowed his eyes: "If they ...... Nekajou and his queen really fought that earth-shattering ending battle, at least there should be some evidence, such as what enemies she has defeated?"
Enemy.
Like what...... Ashida?
"Not so! Her Majesty the Queen is real!" the little girl covering her face seemed a little angry: "The evidence is behind you, in that glass case!"
Tails turned his head to look at the glass case he had just seen—the pact between Tormond and Necajou.
"This is the "11th year of the end of the calendar, Necaju and Tormond, Exter and the stars agreed to deal with the border issue". The little girl leaned on her glasses and stepped forward: "It was signed by two monarchs in the lord's longhouse of Hankeep, and it is the earliest treaty ever made between Exeter and the Kingdom of Stars, and the two kings agreed not to interfere with each other and expand separately. ”
"Eleven years after the end of the calendar, Necaru and Tomon ......" Tails finally gave up repeating the awkward title and frowned: "Such a long name?"
"The appendix to the treaty is longer," the little girl pouted, pointing to the long glass case, "and there are three feet of paper—the signature of Her Majesty Cloresis, just before the two kings." ”
Tails walked through the appendix of the first formal agreement in the history of the two countries, loaded in three glass cases, and the "Covenant" laid down and explained everything from the land on the border, the people, the time of hunting, the faith to be honored, and the relationship between the lords.
Just as Tails' eyes were about to be spent, he finally came to the last glass case and found several names in various handwritings, apparently signed by himself.
[Witness: Cleracese Numen Dara Dossal from across the sea. 】
"Look," the little girl pressed her face against the glass case, "this is the autograph of Her Majesty the First Queen." ”
It's a thick and powerful signature, and the connection between each letter is natural and fluid.
But another witness next to it signed, which caught Tails' full attention:
[Witness: Bran Quireth Tebuck from the Tower of Souls.] 】
The same skilful and elegant floral font signature, however......
Tower of Souls.
Tails remembered Ramon's words and kept the name in his heart.
And.
Tebak?
One of the six great families of the stars, the Blade Lord, who has ruled the southwest of the kingdom for generations, has a blood moon as the family crest - Tebak.
Tails saw the cold and arrogant figure in the Hall of Stars, the heroic young duke, Lyanna Tback.
Then, his gaze went down again.
It was the signature of the two kings.
【Contractor:
The Kingdom of Exeter has a king, a king supported by the Northlanders, and the lord of Longxiao City
Necaju Brewster Aix
Contractor:
The Supreme King of the Kingdom of Stars, the Orthodox Imperial Legacy of the Empire, and the Lord of Eternal Star City
Tomond Comora Carloser Bright Star】
Both signatures have one thing in common:
Ugly.
Unsightly.
It's not your average ugliness!
Necajou's signature, like a child who has just learned to write with a pen, stroke by stroke, slowly pulled out of the paper, immature and stiff, as if afraid that if you write quickly, you will make mistakes.
Tomund's signature is a quick ligature, scribbled so hard that the spelling is barely legible, like a man who is self-aware of his own handwriting and conceals it with a quick ligature.
Tails looked at his ancestor's tentacle-like scribbled signatures, and suddenly felt that he could at least read the handwriting he had learned in more than a month.
"King Nekajou came from a mysterious background, but many people think that he is a commoner, so there is no opportunity to get an education, and his handwriting is ......" The little girl noticed Tails' gaze and said curtly: "And King Tormund is only an illegal illegitimate child of the imperial family, it is said that he was quite ostracized when he was young, and he is probably ......"
Tails laughed dumbly.
It seems that the founding monarchs of the two countries are rough people who can't even write their own names.
Compared with the neat and beautiful signatures of the witnesses in the row above, Tails can even imagine the hesitation and confusion of the two kings when they put pen to paper, and the feeling of confidant and sympathy in their hearts after seeing each other's signatures.
But at this moment, Tails was slightly stunned.
Tomond Comora Carlose Bright Star
Tormond's full name.
Despite Tomund's scribbling, he could barely read the initials of each name.
T-Tormond
C-Comorra
K-Carloser
S-Bright Star
Tails shuddered!
The little girl noticed that Tails was abnormal, she reached out to wipe the stain on the glass that was stained by her own face, and then looked up strangely: "What's wrong?"
Just then, another voice came from afar.
"Little slippery! little slippery!"
Hearing this voice, the little girl with glasses trembled and trembled uncontrollably like a mouse in a cat.
Tails looked up in surprise.
It was an impatient childish voice from behind the bookshelf: "How are you grinding?
As the voice drew closer, its owner appeared in front of Tails and the little girl.
It was another teenage girl who looked a head taller than the scruffy girl with glasses.
The new girl had brown hair and blue eyes, a delicate face, and was dressed in a gorgeous handmade children's dress, with beautiful trim on the sleeves and neckline, and a beautiful hair accessory tied in her hair, which would have been almost a perfect doll from a previous life if it weren't for the angry look on her face.
The new girl saw Tails, but she only glanced at the latter's dusty clothes from wrestling, and then turned to look at the shivering, skinny girl in glasses: "Little slippery head!"
The face of the little girl with glasses was full of panic, "Miss......"
"The etiquette homework assigned to me by the teacher is due tomorrow, why haven't you finished writing it yet! If I find out that you are secretly reading idle books again......" The new girl was dissatisfied, and her eyes glanced at the pile of books behind the two of them.
She first made a "sure do" expression, then frowned and stared viciously at the girl with glasses that she called Little Slippery.
The little slippery head trembled, and cast a look of help at the unknown Tails.
"Okay!" The new girl pulled up her neat dress and stepped forward with an angry face: "You are really peeking at idle books!
The next second, in Tails' surprised eyes, the new girl raised her hand high.
Hit the head of the glasses girl named Little Slippery Head!
The little slippery head screamed in pain, her lips trembled, her eyes closed, and she squatted down with her head in fear.
"You should obediently write tomorrow's homework for me!" Tails looked at the new girl in shock with a look of disgust, she stepped forward and raised her hand again: "Instead of ......"
"Leave the master's homework alone, and be lazy to read idle books!"
This time, she hit the little slippery head directly in the face!
"Boom!" the little girl's black glasses fell to the ground.
"I didn't...... Miss Alex," the little slippery head seemed to be accustomed to this kind of encounter, and did not resist at all, but only snorted and cried, "I don't ...... Homework ...... for Etiquette Class To find ...... The topic has to be checked...... The establishment of the stars and Exter ......"
"You're still talking back!" the new pretty girl cocked her mouth angrily, "You're just my maid!
But her hand raised again was grabbed by Tails.
"Wait!" Tails looked dissatisfied: "You are a nobleman, and it is not the right behavior to beat and scold a servant at will!"
The brown-haired and blue-eyed girl glanced at Tails disapprenantly, "Who are you!"
The black-haired boy let go of the girl's hand and looked angry: "Tails Bright Star!"
The poor little slippery head crouched on the ground with fear, squinting his eyes and trembling towards his glasses.
"Oh, the prince who came to beg grandpa for mercy," the new girl was stunned for a moment, then looked at the boy, who was a head shorter than herself, and smiled contemptuously, "I'm giving my maid the punishment she deserves, you'd better stay away!"
Damn it.
Tails frowned and looked at the brutal lady in front of him.
I thought that after escaping from the abandoned house, I would be able to escape the bear child from now on.
Right now.
"Miss Alex!"
Tails and the new girl froze.
Lord Michael, the Valhalla magistrate who had led Tails into the council chamber, appeared before them, and stopped the clash between the children with a cold face.
"Your Highness Tails," Lord Michael, first saluting Tails, and then said slowly, "you have gone too far. ”
Mielke's presence seemed to make the girl hesitate, only to see her pouting and turning her head to look to the other side.
"Your Excellency," Tails nodded, he turned his head and looked worriedly at the sloppy little slippery head who had just touched his glasses, "...... here"
Mielke frowned, and the worry in his eyes as he looked at the brown-haired girl.
"This is Alex," Mike sighed and held out his hand to the beautifully dressed little girl, "Miss Alex Walton is the granddaughter of His Majesty Nunn. ”
"Miss Alex, and this is His Highness Tyles Bright Star, son of King Kessel from the Kingdom of the Stars. ”
With Michael's introduction, and his urging eyes, the little girl Alex first raised her head haughtily, and then snorted from her nose before reluctantly pulling up her skirt and reluctantly saluting Tails.
Tails nodded, frowning: Alex Walton?
Sounds like a boy's name.
And the granddaughter of King Nunn? Have you ever heard that Prince Moral had a daughter?
Didn't King Nunn say that the Moral prince was not married?
Afterwards, Mielke turned to Alex and carefully persuaded his master's granddaughter: "Miss, what you have done is not appropriate, especially in front of His Highness Tails of the stars......"
"Michael!" Alex, the granddaughter of Nunn VII, pouted in dissatisfaction: "This is my maid, and our family is responsible for her food and shelter......"
"And this prince is going to ...... anyway"
"Miss Alex!" Mielke gave a rare stern look in his eyes, and his words hinted at anger, "This is not your bedroom!
Alex was startled, and she winced, as if she was a little scared of Michael.
"Hmph," Alex tugged at his hair ornament, his eyes were on fire, and unceremoniously pulled up the little slippery head that was still squatting on the ground, "Come with me, little slippery head." ”
The little slippery head was pulled and slipped a step, and she clutched her glasses tightly, her eyes red.
"Let's go back to the bedroom and settle this!" Alex said fiercely, glancing at Tails and Mielke, and turned to leave.
With an uneasy expression, the little slippery head lowered his head and trembled to follow, and glanced back at Tails, his eyes full of fear.
Tails clenched his fists.
Looking at the neat and sloppy, distant figures of the two girls, Mielke sighed.
He picked up the books on the ground that he didn't have time to put away, and stuffed them into the bookshelf one by one: "Miss Alex is the elder brother of His Royal Highness Moral, the widow of His Royal Highness Susel, the eldest son of the king who died early, because she lost her parents prematurely, and His Majesty Nunn was too favored, so she ......"
Mielke shook his head.
Tails smiled ugly.
I see.
Is it King Nunn's eldest son, who died young?
So, plus the assassination of the Moral prince......
The lord of Longxiao City, the Walton family of the dragon lance in the clouds, really has no direct male heir.
"How did he die?" Tails looked at the coat of arms of the dragon's head in the glass case, and said silently, "That ...... Your Highness Susel?"
Mielke lowered his head, his brow furrowed.
"More than ten years, a hunting accident," Tails's eyes, Mielke's eyes were gloomy, and his tone was decadent: "I was still in the White Blade Guard at the time, and I was supposed to be responsible for his safety, but I failed to protect him." ”
Mielke shook his head numbly.
Tails looked away.
"Follow me and go back to your bedroom," Mielke seemed reluctant to say more, and he quickly adjusted his expression, turned around, and added with a serious expression, "I believe that your attaché is already in a hurry—and you have a banquet for the evening." ”
Tails looked up in shock.
By the way, he had to go to Putirai.
Tell him exactly what is going on here, and then ask for his wisdom to help.
Especially......
"And, Your Majesty has entrusted me with a word in reply to what you have conveyed through Nicollet. Mielke let out a faint voice.
Tails stared.
King Nunn?
I saw Lord Michael's eyes narrow:
"Your Majesty has agreed, and he will put aside his original plan for the time being. ”
"Please do it, as long as your Majesty's wishes are achieved. ”
"Find the killer and avenge his blood relatives. (To be continued.) )