Violet Orchestra

Since the theme of today's concert is "Drag Parade", Violet made some disguises for Elaine and herself before going out, trying to make them look more in line with the theme as much as possible, so as not to look out of place on the street.

Elaine sat in his room and let him smear on his face with various tools, feeling very uncomfortable: "Uh, it seems a little sticky?"

"Don't move around." Violet stood in front of him, lightly dabbed some powder on the corners of his eyes with his fingers, as if he was repairing a work of art carefully, "I have spent a lot of thought, and if I make a mistake, I have to do it all over again." gone."

Elaine didn't dare to move anymore, and obediently followed his instructions to look up, obedient like a puppet.The poet painted the last stroke on his face with a brush, admired his favorite work, then lowered his head and kissed him: "Okay, stand up and let me have a look."

Although it was a whim, he did put a lot of thought into designing Elaine's makeup—based on the totem of the God of the Wild worshiped by demons and wanderers, he painted a dozen dark blue marks on Elaine's face, Since these zigzag totems deliberately avoided the facial features, instead of appearing fierce, they emphasized Elaine's facial lines and beautiful blue eyes.In addition, the deliberate outline of the corners of the eyes is also more slender and sharper than before, which makes him less childish and looks much more mature.

"It's pretty good." Holding his face and checking it carefully, Violet nodded with satisfaction, "Go and change your clothes first, and I'll come after I put on my makeup."

"You already look good." Elaine looked at him puzzled, "Is there anything else to add?"

"Since it's a drag parade, I should at least cover my face." Violet laughed because of his unconscious praise, couldn't help but kissed him again while avoiding the place where he put on makeup, and then urged Said, "Okay, let's go."

When Elaine went to change into the clothes he had prepared, Violet sat back in the chair and began to put on makeup for herself.He does this all day long, and there is almost no time when there is no camouflage on his face. Even if he takes a bath and washes his face, it will not be completely removed. It is certainly not difficult for him to put on an exaggerated makeup.Before Elaine on the other side of the room figured out how to get dressed, he quickly finished his makeup and washed his hands to help.

The sun had already set when they changed their clothes and went out, lights were lit up everywhere in the city, and there were many passers-by dressed in exaggerated clothes like them on the road, Violet dragged Elaine into them, feeling that she had finally done When you arrive, do as the Romans do.

"Petra and the others went to the concert hall." He asked Elaine as he walked, "Should we go find them or go shopping first?"

"It's up to you." Elaine didn't care, anyway, he had passed this kind of festival more than a dozen times since he was a child, and he mainly wanted to show Violet, "If you want to go around, I can take you there A few more interesting places."

Violet glanced up at him through the light on the side of the road, thinking that of course it would be more interesting to date two people.So he held Elaine's hand through the cover of his wide sleeves, and pulled him forward along the crowd, towards the opposite direction of the concert hall.

"Violet?" Without getting a response from him, Elaine called his name suspiciously.

"Ok?"

"Aren't we... going to the concert hall?"

The poet raised his eyebrows: "Do you really want to go?"

"But we're not here..." Elaine suddenly understood what he meant in the middle of speaking, and said pleasantly, "I'll take you to a place, follow me."

He was pleasantly surprised that Violet would rather stay with Violet than to listen to the concert with everyone. It was as if a lamp was suddenly lit in his heart. He was so happy that he didn’t know what to say. He led the poet and walked out of the crowd. squeeze.

He was so strong that Violet was pulled like a kite by him, angry and funny: "What's the rush? You won't run away where you want to take me."

But I am afraid that you will run away.Elaine said in her heart.

He somewhat guessed what Violet thought of him, and knew that he was indeed immature, but he wanted to convey his feelings to the other party as much as possible, and there was nothing wrong with that.

Violet was finally taken by him to a secluded path far away from the crowd. Elaine took his hand and walked forward. The road was so quiet that only the footsteps of the two of them could be heard.Violet looked at the flower beds on the side of the road and confirmed that they were far away from the center of the city. She couldn't help asking Elaine, "Should we continue walking? It feels like we're almost leaving Rosaria."

"It's almost there." Elaine turned the last corner and led him into a garden. "This is the place where I practiced swordsmanship when I was young."

In front of him was a small two-story wooden house with a small garden in front of the house. There were no flowers and plants in it. Instead, the land was flattened and various weapons and protective gear were placed.Elaine picked up a wooden sword and waved it. The sword seemed a little small to him, but it was wiped clean, and it seemed that someone was still taking care of it: "This wooden sword was given to me by the teacher. Yes, it has been used for many years, but I never thought it would be broken.”

Violet was not interested in weapons at first, but he thought it was cute to imagine Elaine trying to swing a sword when she was a child, so she followed his words and asked, "Did you learn swordsmanship here when you were a child?"

"Well, this is the teacher's residence. He has not been able to integrate into the atmosphere of Rosalia, so he lives in a remote place." Elaine put the wooden sword back to its original place, and continued to walk inside with him, "I was I follow him all the time, and I don’t want to go back at night, I often spend the night here, so I keep a lot of my clothes and daily necessities in the house.”

"Does Your Majesty the King and Queen not mind?"

"My mother was reluctant, but I insisted on staying, so she had to ask people to come and take care of me." Thinking of those past events, Elaine couldn't help smiling, "But those people were scared back by the teacher's bad temper in the end. .”

Violet remembered Birkins telling him that Elaine was a student of Figo the Warrior.That "Dragon Slayer Figo" was indeed famous for his bad temper, and he didn't expect that the other party would live in Rosalia in his later years and even teach Elaine swordsmanship.

"I've heard of him, your teacher." Thinking of some rumors about the warrior Figo, he couldn't help laughing, "I didn't expect him to come to Rosalia after leaving Renzo City. You must know that he once refused The marriage proposal of a certain Queen of Rosalia was spread all over the continent at that time—"

"Marriage proposal?" Elaine's eyes widened.

It is rare for Rosalia to have a queen. The last queen was his father's aunt. She had died many years before the warrior Figo came to Rosalia. There seems to be no relationship between the two. If Violet Not to mention, he would never connect them together.

"I've also heard that, you know, there are always these scandals spreading among homeless people." Violet shrugged, pushed open the door and walked into the room, and was immediately attracted by something on the table Attention, "...But it seems that this is not entirely a scandal."

He picked up a wooden frame on the table, and pressed a dry rose inside. Because of the age, it had completely lost its moisture and color, and the withered flower branches were stuck on the frame, which could no longer support the weight of the withered petals.He carefully held the wooden frame and motioned Elaine to look at its side, only to see two letters written in slender fonts on it, namely F and R, which were tightly attached together.

"What's the queen's name?" he asked.

"Looks like...Roxie?"

"That's right." Violet put the wooden frame back on the table as it was, and tapped the two letters lightly with his finger, "Figo and Rosie, it seems that the story of the dragon slayer and Her Majesty It's not as simple as what I've heard."

Elaine still couldn't believe it, and looked at the dried flower for a while before gradually accepting his explanation: "This flower was brought by the teacher... So, the teacher came to Rosaria to find my father's aunt ?"

"He was very old when he left his dragon slaying team, and no one knew where he went. Many people said that he wanted to find a place where no one knew to wait for his death." The poet also looked at the suppressed A wooden frame of dried flowers, with a smile in his eyes, "But if there were no special reasons, I don't think he would have picked Rosaria on purpose, and even taught you his sword skills."

Elaine blinked, still feeling that this discovery came too suddenly, and he was a little unresponsive.

The most respected teacher may be a lover with his father's aunt. It sounds like a funny story with little credibility, but it seems reasonable, so he can't find a reason to refute it.

"You may look a bit like that queen, maybe it reminds him of her." Violet continued to guess irresponsibly.

When he said this, Elaine suddenly remembered something.

"...Rosalia's royal family all have blue eyes."

"..."

Violet didn't expect that the conjecture he said casually could be verified, so he looked up at him in surprise, only to find that Elaine was more at a loss than him.

Obviously, she looks a lot more mature after makeup, but her eyes are still exactly the same as before.Violet reluctantly motioned him to lower his head, then reached out and patted his face: "It's just a conjecture, but it hasn't been confirmed. Why are you so flustered?"

"I..." Elaine was at a loss for words, and after watching him for a while, she struggled to squeeze out a few words, "I just think... If this is true, then the teacher must be very sad."

Violet froze.

He thought that Elaine would feel sad that the warrior Figo might not really like him as a student, or that he might find this story too unbelievable and unwilling to believe it, but he didn't expect that the other party would think this.

"You..." He hesitated and opened his mouth to say something, but found that he didn't seem to know how to comfort Elaine.

In his view, love is a race against time. As long as one party misses the time to catch up, it may never catch up.Sadness and sadness are unavoidable, but time will always wash away all of them—even he himself feels that such comfort is powerless, let alone used to appease Elaine.

But so what?The race has been lost, and it is impossible to return to the starting line and start again. The goddess of fate has not left such a chance for anyone.

"He chose to come to Rosalia, which means that this is not a story without beginning and end." In the end, he could only say this, "At least this rose returned to its hometown, didn't it?"