Act 86 Redemption I
The Amber Sword, Act 86 Redemption I
When Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess of Eruin walked into the second floor of the hall, she seemed to be followed by the two ice queens, 'Elather' or 'Lonina'. The hall of Love Can Jaw is as quiet as the silence of winter, and like a ghost passing through the crowd, the sound rustles down and freezes into powder, just like what the Miner people on the glacier said: 'Ghosts can swallow human voices. ’
Brando's eyes retracted from the flashy balcony, and they happened to meet Griffin's eyes. The Elf Princess was holding the railings, her eyes as sharp as swords, looking at him condescendingly, which made his heart skip a beat.
Brando vaguely felt something different in Princess Griffin's eyes, just like the eyes of an executioner looking at a prisoner on death row, cold and cold.
"What's wrong?" Whether it was the previous life or this life, he had never seen the princess look at him like this.
The strange silence only lasted for a moment. Princess Griffin looked away, and then officially announced the start of the banquet on the second floor. The musicians seemed to have come back to their senses, and the melodious sound of the xylophone was in the hall again.
Everything before seemed to be an illusion, but Brando watched Her Royal Highness turn and walk downstairs, feeling something was wrong in his heart. He turned around, looked at the little prince next to him who was dressed as Princess Bedis and asked: "Haruze, you What else did sister tell you?"
"Teacher..." Haruze hesitated, his white and slender neck shining under the light, but it was covered with fine beads of sweat, making him look a little nervous.
It was at this moment that a sinister voice came from behind the two of them, interrupting Haruze's words: "Your Majesty the Viscount."
Brando turned around and saw an elderly female officer standing behind him and Haruze. The female officer wears a light blue ceremonial dress. His hair was gray, and every wrinkle on his face seemed to be a bit majestic. Only when he saw them did his serious look melt away slightly, revealing a programmed smile: "Viscount Cardel, Miss Bedis, the Princess Palace is looking for you. ."
"Your Highness, Princess? Are you looking for us?"
"Yes, Her Royal Highness the Princess is waiting for you and Miss Bedis over there." The female officer replied.
"What does Her Royal Highness have to do with us?" Brando suddenly felt suspicious. He always felt that Princess Griffin's cold eyes meant something. What's more, Haruze just left his sister's place, and Her Royal Highness the Princess is now looking for them again. It is obvious that she is not here for her 'sister'.
Everything now is completely different from what happened in history. Brando knew that there must be Cadel's own memory causing trouble, but he had to remove these memories from the dream and find the target behind them. Not an easy task.
Brando suddenly thought of a possibility: "If in this dream,
What will happen if Viscount Caddell is the enemy of Her Royal Highness the Princess? "If Viscount Cardel was on the opposite side of Griffith, then perhaps Her Royal Highness's look would be easy to understand.
"But if Viscount Cardel is on the opposite side of the eldest princess, then who is he most likely to be?"
Although dreams are just myths, myths do not automatically generate. Just like it is impossible for people to imagine things they have never seen out of thin air. Even fantasy creatures, dragons and ghosts are mostly born out of people's experiences in the real world. Observations, such as horses with horns. The bird of prey with the head of a griffin and the body of a griffin, which means that Viscount Cardel appeared in this banquet, and he should have replaced another person in this banquet.
"Who could that person be? Kader's remaining memory will definitely pick someone with a similar experience to him in this scene. This person will definitely not be unknown, because he should at least be the same as Princess Bedis represents. Lu Ze has a certain connection."
Brando suddenly remembered something. Before Haruze finally married Elara, he actually had a marriage contract. The betrothed was the adopted daughter of Grand Duke Anlek, a woman named Essai. This woman was really unknown in history, but Brando knew that she was actually a wizard with enlightened elements. Her private identity was cultivated by Anlek. Assassins and spies.
That is to say. If Haruze turned into Bedis and became the sister of Princess Griffiin in this dream, then his identity is probably Aise in this dream. A spy and assassin belonging to Duke Anlek.
Brando suddenly felt shuddering. He thought about what Viscount Cardel's unfulfilled wish was. Is it the regret that the assassination failed? Or the regret of a successful assassination?
If it's the former...
He shuddered and looked back at the second floor again. The closed door seemed to be haunting him as an ominous omen. Brando looked back at Haruze - if they had to kill Princess Griffin to leave this dream, could the little prince accept it?
He shook his head inwardly.
"Lord Viscount?" The older female officer saw that Brando was distracted and asked again.
Brando then turned around, nodded to her, and motioned to take them to the princess. Just as the female officer said, Princess Griffin was waiting for them on the side of the hall. She was standing under the oil painting of Anson XI. This ancestor once brought a brief renaissance to Eruin, just like her. Same.
The endings of the two seem to be similar.
The princess looked up at the oil painting. She didn't look back until she noticed the two people approaching. Brando noticed that the cold look in her silver eyes was no longer as if the scene he saw before was just an illusion.
When the eldest princess saw Brando and Haruze, a gentle smile appeared on her face: "I kept you waiting for a long time, Viscount Cardel. Now the situation is critical, and Bedis is still young, so I have to explain to her in advance. Issues."
"Nothing." Brando replied, but what he was thinking about was his previous speculation. If Kader is really an assassin, then his identity may have been exposed before this, otherwise Her Royal Highness would not have shown such a look before.
But what he was curious about was what the eldest princess had asked him to do now. If she wanted to counterattack, the best chance would be when Haruze was separated from him, rather than letting her sister return to him again.
Princess Griffin glanced at them and asked softly: "Mr. Viscount. Do you still remember what I told you before?"
"...What did Her Majesty Princess say?" Brando was slightly startled. As a substitute for this dream, he had no memory of everything before this. He could still guess that everything before was in line with historical developments, but now the entire banquet was completely out of his control.
Princess Griffin glanced at him with a mocking look in her eyes: "Grand Duke Anlek will be here soon, and I know he has plans tonight. But I plan to disclose your relationship with Bedis before that. I once told You - if something bad happens to me, you and Bedis can take over the inheritance of the throne and stand up to openly oppose Anlek."
"Although the nobles have never stood with me, they may not stand with Anlek sincerely. Since the battle of Ampelsel, Alek has also made many enemies and even enemies. Once I die, they will definitely not sit back and watch. Anlek ascended the throne; the Sifah family had an old grudge against him. I once spared my brother. When I die, although he may not be your ally, he will definitely be Anlek's enemy. In addition, The old friends of Llantonilan will be your firm backing..."
"Sister..." Haruze couldn't help but said.
"Bedis, please don't interrupt." Griffin looked at his 'sister' with some seriousness: "From today on, you must learn to be patient."
She sighed again, a little tired: "I don't want to come to this point, Madara is watching eagerly. Eruin has actually lost his last chance. But the Cruz people may not be willing to face the undead, so they may turn And to support you, this is Eruin’s last chance—”
Brando listened to these words quietly on the side. He was a little strange. He had subconsciously regarded Viscount Cardel as the assassin in history. He knew that Princess Griffin probably already knew the identity of Viscount Cardel. But what surprised him was why did she say this in front of him?
"Isn't she afraid that she will leak the secret?"
"Or does she completely regard herself as a dead person?"
Brando couldn't guess what the princess was thinking for a while, but the dream had developed so far that it had completely escaped his cognition. Viscount Cardel's dream had overlapped with his dream and Haruze's dream. Together, he could even smell the thick smell of blood in the air.
He looked back at Haruze, and the 'little princess' also looked worried.
Princess Griffin seemed to have finished her last words. Then he smiled slightly and raised his glass to the two of them - Brando knew that the eldest princess in history could not be unaware of her death, otherwise she would not have safely transferred Haruze out before that. , the words she said today were actually said to the core members of the Crimson Traveler that day, but they were not so straightforward.
Thinking about it now, the meaning of the eldest princess's words that day was very obvious, but unfortunately only the senior sister noticed some clues.
Brando couldn't help but feel depressed for a moment. He saw the princess's actions and picked up the wine glass from the silver plate on the side. Although he never paid much attention to it, after several months of assault training by Antitina, He can now be considered to have mastered some etiquette among nobles.
"Mr. Viscount, for you, for Bedis, and for Eruin, cheers." The eldest princess looked at him with silver eyes, raised her glass, and when she said 'for Eruin', she became slightly more emotional. Out of control, but still quite naturally, he put the wine glass to his lips and took a sip.
Brando was about to raise his glass, but at this moment, Haruze on the side suddenly reached out and knocked the glass out of his hand, and it fell to the carpet.
"You can't drink it, teacher, the wine is poisonous." the little prince reminded in a low voice with some excitement.
Brando was slightly startled, but there was not much surprise on his face. He raised his head and looked at Her Royal Highness the Princess in front of him. Now that he had guessed the identity of Viscount Cardel, he already knew that there might be something wrong with the wine. He had no intention of drinking the wine, but he didn't expect that Haruze would dare to disobey his sister's wishes.
Although it is just a myth, it is already rare for this little prince.
"Bedis!" Her Royal Highness the Princess was completely stunned by her sister's actions. Brando saw him clenching his fists and his thin brows almost frowned together. She took a deep breath and then asked coldly: "What are you doing?"
"Sister, Mr. Brando can't possibly harm you... You, you are mistaken, he is not that person!" Haruze did not dare to contradict his sister, so he could only lower his head and defend in a low voice.
"Brando?"
Princess Griffin was slightly startled. She looked at her 'sister' and then at Brando: "Who is that? Bedis, what are you talking about?"
"No, it's not..." Haruze then realized that he had slipped his words, and quickly changed his words: "Viscount Cardel, he is a good man."
Brando inexplicably won a good guy card. The key is that this good guy card was given to him by a boy, which made him feel a little embarrassed. But he did not speak out to defend, but quietly watched this scene happen, because at that moment, he could already feel something turbulent deep in his heart.
This is the throbbing of dreams.
In other words, Viscount Cardel may have personally experienced this scene in a certain era and at a certain banquet.
Bedice was arguing with her sister.
This scene brought back the memories of Viscount Cardel, and Brando seemed to feel that the disgraced knight was returning to the era to which he belonged.
He raised his head and saw that the entire hall was changing, from the architectural style after the Eruin revival to an older era. The relief style of the glorious Anson XI era has disappeared, and the balustrades of the stairs seem to have turned into more primitive woodwork. All the surrounding decorations and people's clothes are changing, eventually regressing to a style of Brando - no, to be precise, a certain elf sister in Brando's body is very familiar with the style of the period.
A time when the honor of the sylphs returns.
It’s an elf——
Brando had heard St. Osol mention the era in which she lived many times, and everything he saw was so familiar, almost exactly the same as what he heard.
He turned around and saw that Haruze had stopped in front of Princess Griffin.
"Badis, he is Anlek's assassin! He is no longer the Kader you know. He has betrayed you long ago."
"Sister, no, it will never be like this, because Brando...Mr. Cardel, he -"
Haruze defended in a low voice, but he suddenly thought of a terrible possibility, and his beautiful face suddenly turned white. He turned back and stared at Brando with some fear, "Mr. Brando, you..."
At the same time, the throbbing in Brando's heart became more and more obvious.
He seemed to hear a voice echoing repeatedly in his heart: "Kill her!"
"Kill her!"
"Kill them!"
At that moment, he already knew that that was Viscount Cardel's identity. Brando put his hand on the scabbard of the Sword of the Earth. He lowered his eyelids slightly, and his palms were covered in cold sweat.
"what to do?"
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(PS: I’m back. I caught a cold when I went out to play. I’m so heartless. I’m going to write a chapter today. I feel pretty good. I’ll see if I can get back into shape tomorrow. = =, ugh, I feel so guilty. Why can’t I code like this? It’s so difficult, and it’s so painful for everyone to follow... I really want to write a lot of it smoothly.)
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