Pilgrimage [Western Fantasy] - Chapter 25

Everyone thought they heard it wrong.

But after Estelle repeated it again, they couldn’t comfort themselves that this was an illusion.

“this. . . . ”

Several of the great priests looked at each other in embarrassment, and then all looked at Wilder Stoker.

Estelle is so free to fan the flames: “ what happened? Since several people have vowed like this, they must be convinced that I am a monster. Don’t you even have the confidence to accept this bet? ”

“is this too much to disdain other people’s self-esteem? ”

Estelle retorted: “ Then isn’t my self-esteem? If I am forced to verify my ancestry, because of this suspicion, I have to prove my human identity in front of everyone? ”

The scene was in a stalemate for a moment. The high priest did not dare to step forward, and the crown prince remained silent. The banquet that was supposed to be noisy was as silent as a slaughterhouse at this time.

“If you agree to my request, then we will enter into a contract now. If you don’t agree, I have no reason not to doubt whether this is a long-planned frame-up. ”

Once again she lost her smile, and that cold and distant look appeared on her face again. She looked as far away as the North Star in the sky: “ Doesn’t even dare? ”

Abel Stock, one of the instigators behind the scenes, had already seen the suspicious eyes of many people. Wilder’s hesitation made many people start to sway, and the more they dragged on, the more they became less confident.

Orlando held Estelle’s hand, and the elf did not speak, but stood silently on her side, speechless to express his attitude.

“don’t waste time. ” Estelle asked again: “ whether to agree or not? ”

“just do what you say. ”

Estelle’s proposal was approved: “ signed the fairest contract in the presence of all of them. ”

It was not the voice of anyone present.

The owner of the voice walked into the palace. His body was covered with a crimson cloak, and his golden hair had turned slightly white because of the years. He had already entered his twilight years, and his face had wrinkles. But his face is still majestic and handsome with vicissitudes of life.

The emperor waved his hand to stop the salute from those around him. This action was very similar to the crown prince. To be precise, the crown prince was very similar to him. Estelle did not salute. She raised her head: “ in front of the sun of the empire, sign a contract, I’d love it. ”

Abel Stock, and the crown princes and Hibel who wanted to watch from the wall, felt the emperor’s glance. Abel bent down and saluted to hide the expression on his face, and the crown prince and Hibel’s backs oozed cold sweat.

The emperor sneered in his heart and looked at Estelle and felt more pleasing: “ then start now. ”

Estelle handed a hand forward, and a contract drawn with magic gradually appeared in the void. The magic texts appeared on the paper one by one: “ drop your bl00d on it, Wilder Stock. ”

The girl who pushed the other party to the edge of the cliff step by step looked at the face that was exactly the same as her brother, without any empathy. She felt sad and disgusted in her heart, as well as missing her relatives.

She suddenly discovered that she was feeling homesick.

She misses her brother who would touch the top of her head and silently accompany her when she was in the most pain of losing a close friend, he would say —— over and over again

“Ace, I’m here and my brother will always be with you. ”

She reluctantly removed herself from memory □□, Wilder had already taken over the contract and used a dagger on her waist to scratch the bleeding mouth with bl00d. Estelle bit her finger and pressed it on the contract, and the paper made of magic turned into a bl00d-red color ——. The contract was signed.

All conspiracies became nothing under the emperor’s gaze. The great priest, who was still somewhat thoughtful, completely gave up the idea of taking action. The chief priest took out a crystal ball: “, now please ask Miss Adelaide to enter her magic, if it matches Miss Estelle, ” the great priest behind him also has a crystal ball in his hand, with Estelle engraved on it Stock,“ that crystal ball will glow. ”

【Why are you so unhurried? 】 An inexplicable voice appears 【 is your current body indeed her body? 】

【not in a hurry.】

【I have a conjecture and we will know it soon. 】

Orlando followed Estelle closely, and the circle composed of nobles moved closer to the center. Estelle reached out and pressed her hand on the crystal ball without changing her color. The blue light representing the ice attribute lit up, and everyone looked at another The crystal ball in the priest’s hand —— has passed for half a minute, and it is still dim.

After a quiet time, there was a sound of discussion around, and everyone knew that the highlight was about to begin.

Abel’s heart beat faster, and he had not had this inexplicable tension for many years. He stared closely at Estelle’s smiling face. At this moment, she turned her head and faced her. He showed a very strange smile.

His eyelids jumped.

Wilder’s palms were sweating, and several great priests took out a magic scroll and slowly spread it out on the ground. Just when Wilder wanted to stand on the other side of the formation, Estelle stopped: “ wait, but your words are still not enough, Earl Stoke, aren’t you going to step forward? ”

“she is right. ” His Majesty the Emperor agreed and nodded, “ Abel, come forward too. ”

The count seemed to pause for a second and bend down to salute: “ follow your wishes. ”

Due to the special status of the crown prince and himself, Primo, who could not move forward, could only watch silently.

‘At this time, I can’t do anything. ’

Estelle let go of Orlando’s hand and smiled softly: “ I’m fine, don’t worry. ”

The three people stood in the triangle of the magic circle, and several great priests recited cumbersome spells. After the magic circle lit up, the three people raised their daggers and slashed their wrists.

Bl00d fell on the formation, everyone stretched their necks, the crown prince stared closely at the magic formation, and even ignored his fiancée. Hibel glanced at him and looked at the magic formation with ridicule.

All the bl00d slowly flowed to the center of the formation, and the magic circle became brighter. Abel’s eyes lit up slightly, Wilder’s gloomy face cleared, and the corners of his mouth were raised.

“is it really a monster? ”

“thanks to His Excellency Wilder! ”

“where is the guard! Where is the magician! ”

The voices around him became louder, everyone started to commotion, and Estelle’s face was still smiling without fear.

【Your Highness! We are not as good as we are now. . . . 】

At this moment, the light of the magic circle disappeared instantly, three streams of bl00d dispersed and flowed back. The expressions on Wilder and Abel’s faces were funny and fixed. The crown prince’s eyes froze, and Hibel almost blurted out “ how could it be ”, reached out and covered his mouth and barely pressed down.

Bl00d magic has proven Estelle’s innocence, and she is indeed not the dead Miss Stoker!

【this, what’s going on? 】

【wait until I go back and tell you. 】

Now, Estelle would rather see this scene ——

Estelle slowly withdrew her hand, raised her chin, and said to Wilder: “ kneel down. ”

*

How is this possible? How is this possible!

Abel could still barely hold his mind, Wilder could no longer think, the one-time magic circle had disappeared, and after hearing the sound “ kneeling ”, his limbs were uncontrolled and his thinking was blank. After coming back to his senses, he was already kneeling. in front of her.

In front of Wilder’s eyes were her shoes. Estelle raised her feet, passed Wilder kneeling on the ground, and smiled at Abel Stock: “ Is it surprising? ”

She walked around him: “ I really like the way you look now. ”

Abel Stock finally realized his mistake. The girl in front of him was not indecisive, let alone impulsive. From the beginning, she waited for her to frame her proudly, and then watched them fall into their own trap. Set a trap.

He regretted his greed and insisted on wooing her. This magician was powerful and had nothing to worry about, because he acted unscrupulously and had no scruples and allowed himself to do things according to his own will.

Just like now, she dared to expose this fig leaf and pointed the knife at herself without hesitation.

Abel, who had always been accustomed to living in seclusion and using countless people as agents of his own plans, already felt that the emperor’s eyes fell on him, which was unpredictable.

The Crown Prince glanced quickly at Wilder, who was still kneeling on the ground, and felt a strange comfort in his heart. —— At least she never allowed herself to kneel in public. . . . . .

Selective forgetting of the Crown Prince’s rescue from a near-fracture ankle she had just stepped on a few days ago: “ Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, Lord Count, don’t forget to go to the door and apologize. ”

“does not have to. ” Estelle closed the fan, “ Your Highness, you’d better take care of yourself. ”

Without looking at the crown prince’s uncontrollable face, Estelle saluted the emperor slightly and left the palace with her skirt.

His Majesty the Emperor smiled and said to Luke next to him: “ This Miss Adelaide does have a different kind of magnanimity. After the banquet, you remember to send a few gifts. ”, the emperor looked at the crown prince, “ as an indemnity to the royal family. ”

The smile on the face of the crown prince, who had been cheated by his father, could no longer be hung up. Several great priests were stiff. After many years, the Temple of Light, which had been treated with courtesy, once again felt the majesty of this imperial lion.

All the surrounding nobles were human spirits, and upon seeing this, they quickly left the palace.

Seemingly deserted for a moment, the emperor glanced at Wilder, who was still kneeling on the ground: “ get up, she is gone. She can’t see you kneeling here either. ”

It was obvious that the Miss Adelaide did not take these people to heart at all, and she lost interest in one breath.

Hibel unknowingly let go of the arm holding the crown prince, and the saint with cold sweat oozing from his back curled his knees and saluted. The emperor looked at her with a smile: “ the saint has not been to the village near the imperial capital for a long time to perform the salute. ”

Hibel controlled his voice that wanted to tremble: “ this is a dereliction of duty on my part, and please punish His Majesty. ”

Estelle didn’t know that His Majesty the Emperor was settling accounts after autumn. After she walked out of the palace, she couldn’t help but ask in a silent voice why 【 bl00d magic failed? 】

【because“ Estelle” is dead.】

【Didn’t you tell me this? 】

Coupled with a little bit of deception magic, it’s actually not difficult.

Moreover, the biggest hint is the sentence —— said by the exact same voice

The main character is bound to hate the malevolent female match. This also tells it that there is indeed a so-called plot line in this world. In this case, the “ Estelle ” that has died in the plot will definitely not appear in the plot.

Estelle thought back to the scene of Wilder kneeling, a little boring: “ is really boring, I thought I could make some big noise. ”

Is this the result?

Wearing this expensive piece of clothing, she took out a large bag of candy and put it on the roadside stall. The children chased her and wanted to give her a gift, but she walked too fast and could only see her back from a distance.

“this time.” Estelle took off her shoes and stood barefoot on the ground:“ was the best time to go to Stoke’s house to find out. ”

“let’s go and see what Abel Stock was trying to tell us at the time. ”

*

A night that was no different from usual, the guard outside the manor passed down by the Stoke family for generations couldn’t help but yawn.

In today’s manor, neither owner is here, and they all go to the banquet. The guards can’t help but feel lazy, and several captains even lost their lives to their subordinates.

Relaxing his mind, sleepiness gradually took over his head. There seemed to be a vague fragrance floating by, and the guard’s eyelids became heavier and heavier. He let go of the spear in his hand and fell to the ground and fell asleep. The same scene takes place in every corner of the estate, where everyone falls into a dark sleep, and outside the gate, a girl in a green dress enters the estate in a grand manner.

Now, it’s her back garden, and Estelle has free access to all corners.

【I thought you would sneak in. 】

“is no longer necessary. ”

Estelle went straight to the study: “ the frame-up failed, he could definitely guess that I would come here, but now he has no choice. ”

【Do you think he will put the information you need in his study? 】

“he will, on the one hand, be bait, and on the other hand, in terms of Abel Stock’s almost perverted desire to control, he will not let these things out of his sight. ”

Abel Stock’s study was draped in pitch black velvet, and the house was dark. Estelle pushed the door in, as if pushing open the beast’s closed mouth. She turned on the magic lamp and locked it on a black-covered book on her desk at first glance.

She picked up the book, looked at it for a few seconds, and opened it.

This is a book with flower types written on it. Estelle roughly flipped through it, looked at the catalog again, closed the book and turned around, quickly swept through the rows of bookcases, and then opened the book again: “ should there be another one. ”

【is similar to a password? 】

Estelle quickly turned over the accumulated books at the table and pulled a thin booklet from the mezzanine of the two books: “ counts. ”

After looking at the contents of the booklet, she closed the book and walked to the bookcase, picking out three books in sequence.

Estelle trembled, and three bookmarks appeared from all three books, drawn exactly like the bookmarks deliberately dropped by the Count.

Looking at the contents of the book, Estelle’s face darkened.

One of them records the lives of successive descendants of the Stoke family. After a certain line, the handwriting will be covered with black ink. After that, no matter what character characteristics these people once had, whether they were wandering or timid and shy, whether they were elegant and self-sustaining or proud and arrogant, it will become a characteristic —— cold, interests first, and perhaps the previous character characteristics will remain But everything has become a ruthless profit machine.

The time when this situation occurs is also not fixed, and it is possible from adolescence to old age. Estelle opened the other two books, one of which was continued from the previous one. Estelle quickly turned it over, the remaining pages after reaching the middle were all blank pages. She turned forward and turned to the last page with handwriting.

She first saw Abel Stock’s name, followed closely by the last person recorded ——

It clearly reads “ Estelle Stock ”.

But the difference is that after being blackened, Estelle’s subsequent life was not recorded, and the only few lines were also outlined by the black pen. She saw Abel Stock’s handwriting, written next to it: Doubtful.

【doubtful? what does it mean. 】

Estelle is silent, and she opens another book, this time different from the previous two, and the one she was looking for in the first place, or half of it.

There is no record of the name and function of the magic circle, only the rituals and required materials of the magic circle.

—— is different from the cumbersome materials required by other powerful magic circles, but what is recorded here is quite simple

“the total bl00d volume of an adult, goat’s head, moss, and. . . . . ”

“negative emotions such as hatred, despair, jealousy, etc. strong enough. ”

Estelle’s fingers stopped at the last line and did not speak for a long time.

【Your Highness? 】

As if waking up from a dream, she retracted her finger: “ Let’s go and see the rest. ”

Estelle stepped across the door and fell to the ground sleeping soundly, walking downstairs.

The Earl of Stoke’s study was located on the top floor of the manor. Estelle walked down the stairs and saw a hanging goat’s head at the entrance of the stairs around the corner.

She frowned and suddenly felt unwell.

‘I remember correctly, there was never any of this stuff at home. The books are also not on my father’s bookcase. ’

Estelle’s father put everything he had in front of her and let her choose, including the books and confidential documents in the bookcase. Estelle had already read them all. She was very sure that these books were not available at home at all.

She walked down the stairs to an extremely remote place on the first floor, ending with a stone wall. Estelle walked to the stone wall, groped around, pushed according to a stone, and the wall that merged with the room boomed backwards, revealing a staircase leading underground.

Estelle picked up the lamp hanging on the wall and walked down the stairs step by step. At this moment, the wall behind her rotated and returned to her position, but there was no other light except the lamp in her hand.

【here is? 】

“said it was an interrogation room, but in fact many shady things were in this secret room. ”, Estelle rubbed her arms: “ The temperature here is indeed much lower than outside. ”

There was a faint cold wind blowing by, and the stairs could not see the bottom, as if they could swallow up all the light. Estelle tapped, kicked hard from the stairs with her back foot, jumped down, landed on a step, and repeated the action again, probably jumping down more than ten times, Estelle finally saw the ground.

Estelle takes a breath: “ should have a vent, otherwise this depth would be hypoxic. ”

The moment her feet landed on the ground, the girl raised the lamp and looked at the walls on both sides: “ see, is this a magic text, his function is to magnify the weakness in the human heart and make it easier for him to collapse. ”

It was a long corridor, and Estelle was walking and observing the walls in both places. When she was about to reach the end, there was a sudden gust of wind behind her. Estelle turned back suddenly, far beyond ordinary people’s eyesight. Enough for her to capture a dark shadow that disappeared quickly, as if blending into the wall.

Estelle looked at it thoughtfully for a few seconds, turned around, and continued toward the end.

At the end is a heavy stone door. Estelle easily breaks the stone lock above and raises her hand to push open the door that weighs a thousand pounds.

Estelle’s eyes fell on the door and her pupils shrank ——

“this is? ”

*

Orlando, who had left the banquet, was so anxious that he wanted to go to the manor outside to find Estelle, but was held by the guards on the side.

“you don’t want to go now. ” The appearance was somewhat similar to Orlando’s, but the older elf persuaded him, “ this happened, and the lady probably didn’t want to see the rest. ”

Orlando stopped and after thinking about it had to admit: “ you are right, cousin, I should wait until tomorrow to visit. ”

Estelle, unaware that her absence from the manor had almost been exposed, was looking behind the stone door with a shocked face. The first thing she saw was the behemoth —— tied to the center of the venue

Dark scales covered His whole body, and scars were all over His wings. Estelle even saw the wounds on His back deep enough to peer into the bones. Falling scales scattered around Him, shining like black diamonds, This Colosseum-like building is surrounded by hundreds of night pearls, making the ground as bright as day.

【oh my God. . . . 】

Estelmai moved her legs, and she passed through the stone door and walked step by step to the center. He contracted the wings of his bones and rested his pointed head on the ground like a horse, as if dead.

【they turned out. . . . . 】

Estelle stood beside him and raised her head, and he opened his eyes, his vertical pupils reflecting her figure.

【they actually suppressed a dragon in the basement! Is the Stoke family crazy? 】

A beautiful black dragon. Estelle couldn’t help but want to reach out and touch the wound on his body. The dragon spread its bone wings and slapped it weakly. He seemed to have no strength anymore and was just lingering.

Her palms were placed on his scales, which were supposed to be as smooth as a mirror and covered with dust. Suddenly it rained on Ai’s Colosseum, and the rain fell on his wounds. The dragon’s wounds healed slowly, and the rain washed away His scales fell into His mouth. The water representing the source of life was poured on him, and the dragon blinked faster.

Estelle gasped quickly. She was not very good at water magic, especially since the wounds all over his body were very resistant to magic, and she now felt a little strenuous.

She simply knelt next to the dragon and pressed against him. She heard his gradually strong heartbeat and couldn’t help but laugh: “ is great. ”

Estelle wiped the sweat from her oozing, and the voice in her mind was very uneasy. 【 Your Highness, we can’t waste too much time. 】

There was a neighing sound deep in the black dragon’s throat, and he moved his head to stick it to Astell’s arm and arched it. The next moment, a ring spat out of his throat, and he was caught off guard by the black dragon’s saliva. Wetting his skirt, Estell became sluggish and looked down at the ring and then at the black dragon.

“mmm? ”

The black dragon’s red pupils stared at Estelle, opened his mouth, lowered his head and struggled to bite the ring and swallow it, then opened another mouth and spat out a wand.

Estelle:?

Estelle:. . . . . .

“I don’t want these. ” She wrinkled her face, took out a bottle of potion from her pocket, became bored, then raised her hand and pressed it on the dragon, closing her eyes.

She saw, saw the intricate magic circuit connected to the magic circle on the ground. The lines extending from the magic circle actually went around a circle. First, they formed a magic circle on the foundation of the manor and returned to the secret room underground. Finally, entangled, Estelle tried her best to see ——

【Your Highness?!】

The girl kneeling next to the dragon groaned, bl00d flowed out of her closed eyes, Estelle covered her stinging eyes, and the darkness, she saw boundless darkness: “ miscalculated. . . . ”

“Estelle ” is just an ordinary girl with a better physical fitness than her own body that has been tempered by many hammers.

The black dragon wanted to move his body, but the magic circle that suppressed him did not allow him to make this movement at all. Estelle soothed his bone wings, took a breath, and took out the key, a crown, from the space.

Estelle put it in His mouth: “ take it, maybe, He can help you get out of trouble. ”

She can’t stay here anymore.

【Your Highness? Do you want to continue? 】

“continues.”

Estelle covered her eyes, which were blind, but the spreading gnosis was far better than □□’s vision: “ going that way. ”

She had a feeling the answer was there.

She stepped open her legs, and the black dragon suddenly opened its mouth and bit her hem, preventing her from moving forward. Estelle turned around: “ I know, but I have to go, sorry. ”

She slit her skirt and continued walking forward.

The dragon began to roar, Estelle turned a deaf ear. She dragged her legs, took a step and advanced more than ten meters. The dragon’s voice was almost a whine, a whine that was about to witness death.

But Estelle’s heart was very calm. She didn’t know that this was “ her” emotion, or her own emotion. She held down the switch of the secret door and slowly walked into this last room.

She saw a huge magic circle. The figure sitting in the room slowly turned around. He carried a sickle and walked over slowly.

“sacrifice, sacrifice. . . . ”

The sound became sharper and sharper, and the sickle slashed down!

*

Unexpectedly, Estelle felt no pain except for the click.

The dragon’s whine grew farther and farther away, and then came to an abrupt end.

The voice in her mind also disappeared at this moment, and a sense of weightlessness forced Estelle to open her eyes. The scene in front of her was so familiar with the endless rift in time and space, the fragments of time flying past her.

It was the turbulence in the space that entered after leaving the Exile Paradise. A crack in the distance exuded a familiar atmosphere. The spirit of Estelle, who won the bet, flashed quickly in front of the crack and stepped in.

“Ace? ”

Wilder, who was guarding his comatose sister, saw her fingers twitching rapidly. He reached out and helped her hold her in his arms. Her lips moved slightly. In his expectant eyes, the long-diverged pale girl spread. slowly opened your eyes——

Estelle’s body weighed as much as she could through the cracks in time and space. She stretched out her consciousness as much as possible, broke free from her confused state, opened her eyes, and saw Wilder. Her brother looked at her with concern with his head lowered, and there were even bl00d in his eyes. thread.

Exactly the same face as that Wilder, but Estelle was relieved, she knew, she was back: “ brother, didn’t you rest? How long have I slept? ”

As soon as she opened her mouth, Estelle heard her voice hoarse and speechless. Wilder helped Estelle up, took the water glass on one side and brought it to her mouth, and shook the bell next to the shaker with the other hand.

Estelle, who had not finished drinking, saw a group of doctors and priests almost surrounding her bed. She couldn’t help but cough and almost choked.

This familiarity was so close to treating her like a glass product that Estelle wrinkled her face without complaining, because she knew that these were the only people who checked and said to her brother that there was nothing wrong with His Highness’s body. ——“ The great priest who was born in the Temple of Light could not hide the smile on his face: “, just take a little more rest. ”, Estelle finally relaxed his eyebrows and exhaled when he saw his brother who had been frowning. Only by saying this can he feel relieved.

Wilder, who had devoted himself entirely to his newly awakened sister, asked the servant to send away the doctor and priest. He picked up the comb and combed her long hair: “ you slept for about a day, hungry or not, and the kitchen was prepared. You love to eat meals, and porridge made of east rice? ”

This Dongmi was also cultivated from the seeds and seedlings brought back by the fleet invested by Estelle and Cizel. It won her favor in one fell swoop, and the count deliberately cultivated paddy fields in the fiefdom to plant Dongmi.

“a little bit.” Estelle looked around, “ father not at home? ”

“my father went to the temple and will probably be back soon. ” Wilder looked at her face with great pity: “ you just woke up, the person who came to visit. . . . ”

“is missing.” Estelle doesn’t hesitate, “ especially Arnold. ”

Wilder smiled a little distressedly: “ do you hate him so much? ”

Estelle curled her lips a little childishly: “ well, he was so aggressive and always said let me. . . . ”

“lets you? ”

My sister finally woke up, and it was even rare for her to show such a lively attitude. Wilder’s mood became better and better, deliberately pretending not to understand to tease her.

Estelle looked embarrassed, glared at Wilder in his joking eyes first, and then closed his eyes: “ You all know that he is always asked to choose him as his male favorite. What on earth does he think? ”

Arnold desperately wanted to use him as Cizer’s stand-in, but Estelle wouldn’t do that at all.

The relationship between her and Sizer is not what outsiders think, and even if she really has a crush on Estelle, she will not find a stand-in.

Sizer is Sizer, just like in his heart, Estelle is Sizer. No matter how similar others are to him, no matter how good or perfect they are, they are not Sizer.

Her mood was depressed again, and she looked at the water glass in her hand: “ Sizer put the title into his hand, not to let him do these things. . . . ”

Wilder’s heart skipped a beat, and he was in a hurry to comfort his sister. But at this time, the door of the house was knocked, and the housekeeper stood outside the door and motioned for Wilder to come out.

“The living room now has a group of guests who have just visited. ”

The count’s eldest son had a headache for a moment. He looked at the sky outside and then at the clock. Yes, it was 2 o’clock in the morning. He hesitated for a moment: “ I’ll go and take care of Ace. By the way, bring her the kitchen meal. ”

The housekeeper smiled and watched as he sorted out his appearance and then changed to a cold-faced Wilder and went away:“ Phoebe. ”, Estelle’s valet, Phoebe Herman almost flashed behind the housekeeper:“ has sent someone to notify the chef. ”

What was brought to Estelle was a meal cooked by a chef who had mastered her tone for many years. The chestnut porridge was cooked soft and sticky. Estelle dug up a spoon and stuffed it into her mouth. Unknown, he was extremely disliked by his own name and was banned from entering Arnold, who is now in the living room of her home.

—— also includes Hibel and Edwin.

Wilder stepped into the living room. There was no one sitting on the sofa in the living room. Wilder glanced at them. These three people were in the three corners of the living room. They disliked each other so much that they even pretended to sit on the sofa. There is no intention of pretending to maintain superficial peace.

The three of them who heard the footsteps cast their eyes at the same time, extremely eagerly, but instantly became indifferent after seeing that the visitor was Wilder.

Wildpi smiled and went straight to the point: “ Ace doesn’t plan to see anyone, please come back. ”

Hibel, who stands in front of the mural, can’t even care about her image: “ Your Excellency, how is she doing now? ”

Because Estelle’s awakening has slightly reduced her murderous intent, Wilder will finally be able to answer Hibel’s question: “ has just woken up, but needs to rest for a long time. ”, he stared at Hibel in front of him: “ Your Highness, Ace can’t help you during this time. ”

Hibel, who heard the knife threat hidden in the other party’s smile, smiled bitterly: “ I understand, Your Excellency Wilder. ”

Even if Wilder doesn’t say it, Hibel won’t allow Estelle to stay involved. She and Edwin did have some other thoughts, and they did think about whether to take this opportunity to keep her in the temple. But after this incident, the two of them felt so guilty that they went crazy and never dared to do this again. Thinking about calculation.

The same goes for Edwin. He really wanted Estelle. This was his long-held expectation and the deepest secret he kept in his heart. He may have never imagined that he would love someone so almost crazy and without self-esteem.

When Estelle was with Sizer, he even had a mental breakdown and told his father that he hoped to sign a marriage contract with Estelle. Of course, the result was that his father chased him to the martial arts field without any surprise. Beaten up.

Naturally, the emperor could not agree. After so many years of love and affection, it would be better than Jin Jian. In which round did you, a person who was not even a familiar friend, get involved? These two men were still juniors whom His Majesty the Emperor greatly admired, and it was even more impossible for him to ignore their wishes.

Edwin lay on the martial arts field gasping, his blond hair wet with sweat was blurred on his face. The emperor could not see his face or his expression. He didn’t care what expression he had now. The emperor just stated a fact: “ you know clearly that she doesn’t like you at all, ”

Edwin closed his eyes and gasped: “ You don’t want to either, can you help me? ”

This was the first time in Edwin’s more than ten years of life that he lowered his head and begged others. The emperor sighed: “ Edwin, this kind of thing cannot be successful if you force it. You should know better than anyone else. ”

He clenched his fists, yes, he did understand, and it was precisely because of his clarity that he became even more desperate. He chased it so hard all these years. But Estelle and Cizer went further and further. He wanted to defeat Cizer and tell Estelle that he was the one most worthy of her. But after losing again and again, Edwin suddenly discovered that the so-called victory or defeat was meaningless, and Estelle didn’t care at all.

The emperor looked at him with his head drooping, sighed, shook his head, and left the martial arts training ground.

Edwin raised his hand and wiped his face. His eyes were already red and his chest was rising and falling violently.

Like a joke, like a bedbug in a place where the sun cannot shine, Edwin learned about love, longing, respect, looking up, and selfless happiness only for the sake of others, but he also learned about jealousy, pain, powerlessness, frustration. He loved her so much, so he also had the pain of love.

Just like now, Edwin rushed to the manor wearing a star and a moon. He was exhausted and ignored his body. He just wanted to get news that she was safe. He just wanted to take a look at her and see how she woke up.

He tried his best to hide it, but Wilder, who had extremely vicious eyes, still caught a trace of pain in his eyes. The cold-hearted eldest son of the earl has finally given birth to some normal empathy because of his sister over the years, but now he has no sympathy for Edwin at all, and Hibel on the other side. He doesn’t know what this unmarried couple who have been engaged to do. What are you thinking about, are you afraid that others won’t be able to tell that they are playing tricks on each other?

Wilder could naturally see that they had a love for their sister, and because of this, he would not allow some corrupt customs of the nobles to harm his sister.

As for Arnold. . . . .

Wilder caught a glimpse of the new Grand Duke, who looked quite similar to Sizer but felt completely different. The other party didn’t seem to see him, but just looked behind her in the direction of Estelle’s room.

Edwin, who saw the other party’s plan at a glance, diverted his attention. The malicious crown prince was the first to attack because of the other party’s face similar to Sizer’s: “ Your Excellency Juggernaut has just woken up, so we will take our leave first. ”

Wilder, who saw that the crown prince was handing him a message to take the opportunity to see him off, finally did not deduct points from him in his heart. He waved his hand and the door opened instantly. Hibel gritted his teeth and looked at Edwin. Edwin looked to Arnold on the side, Arnold, Arnold, he didn’t move.

In the eyes of a group of people who were gradually unhappy and even attracted murderous intent, he took a step and focused on the direction of Estelle’s room: “ Your Excellency, is she crying? ”

Wilder’s smile remained the same, but the coldness in his eyes deepened: “ what do you mean? ”

Arnold finally looked at Wilder and said slowly: “ As a loyal dog, all I should do now is comfort my master. ”