Violet Orchestra

Elaine is 19 years old this year, and there is still one year before Crown Prince Rosaria inherits the throne. According to regulations, he cannot stay in the country for too long and must continue to go out for training.This was exactly what he wanted, and after discussing with Violet, Elaine asked the king and queen to leave the next day.

Although very reluctant, the queen still prepared luggage for him, and even kindly prepared new clothes for everyone. The men’s clothes were normal, but the few dresses prepared for the only lady were full. Rosalia-esque—Hodge would have laughed if Birkins hadn't stopped Petra stiffly as she accepted the lace blouses and sweeping skirts.

"Thank you for your care these days." Violet thanked her on behalf of everyone, with a very sincere tone, "Next time we come to Rosalia, we will bring gifts for you and His Majesty the King."

After finishing speaking, he turned to Elaine's uncle who had been standing by the side without saying a word, and nodded at him: "Mr. Brono, I have been attending the music festival in the city for the past few days to collect materials, and I haven't been able to spare time to go to the music festival." Sorry about your appointment."

"It's nothing, I hope you can write excellent works." The other party didn't seem to care, as if he was not the one who repeatedly invited Violet to be a guest.Noticing that he turned around to talk to Elaine, Violet frowned imperceptibly, and was about to follow, but was stopped by the queen.

"It's the best gift for you to come." The queen still liked him very much, and even patted his wrist affectionately, "Elaine will depend on you to take care of him for the next year, please come back with him next year , Rosalia will always welcome you."

"It seems that we don't need to find ways to make money anymore." After leaving Rosalia, Hodge counted the gold coins in the purse that the queen gave each of them in the carriage, "Go home with Elaine, we You can live comfortably until three years later——Violet, did Her Majesty the Queen give you something else? She seems to want to treat you as her second son, and I think Elaine might be very upset. "

Elaine raised her hands innocently: "I don't."

"If you look better, maybe you will get other gifts." Violet gave Hodge a white look, and drove him out to drive the carriage.

After Hodge went out, he opened the gift that the queen gave him alone. It was an exquisite and compact box, which weighed nothing, and looked like it contained some light gadgets.He originally thought it would be an ornament such as a scarf or a brooch, but when he opened it, he found that the things inside looked familiar.

It was a piece of soft and delicate sapphire blue fabric. It was cut into the size of a long silk scarf, and it looked gorgeous without being exaggerated, because the area was small Large and perfect as an addition to plain robes.

Elaine came over to look at it, and was also taken aback: "This is not..."

Although the color is different, this silk scarf looks like the champion prize of the music festival's drag parade competition. There are also tiny five-petal flowers embroidered with gold thread in the corner, which is almost exactly the same as the corner of the prize they saw that night. .

"It seems that we have a good relationship with it." Violet smiled, wrapped his fingers around the silk scarf, picked it up and put it on Elaine's shoulder, "Yes, it's still beautiful, remember to thank the queen for me if you have a chance His Majesty."

"We can come back together next year." Elaine subconsciously said, and felt that she was too eager, and quickly added, "I mean, if everyone has no objections."

His thoughts were almost written on his face, and Violet didn't try to expose it, but turned his back to him with a smile, and motioned him to tie the silk scarf on himself.

Elaine gestured with the silk scarf and found that his hair draped over his shoulders covered his neck, so after thinking about it, he tied his hair with the silk scarf and tied a nice knot at the end.

Violet looked back at him suspiciously: "What are you doing?"

"It looks better this way." Elaine let the end of the silk scarf hang naturally behind him, stepped back a little with a smile, and felt that the effect was not bad.

The blue silk scarf is a bit long, and it still hangs down to the poet's waist after being knotted, but the small embroidery and tassels at the end make it not cumbersome. Instead, it complements the pattern on the belt, making Violet even more slender .

Violet reached out and touched the back of his head before realizing what he had done, and couldn't help but smile: "You still have such small thoughts."

The two of them didn't say anything out of the ordinary, but Petra couldn't bear to look directly away, and hid in the corner of the carriage to fiddle with her new crossbow.Birkins also felt that he was a little redundant, so he got out of the door silently, but it didn't take long for him to return the same way with a serious face, and knocked on the wall of the carriage.

The three people in the carriage looked up at him.

Birkins pointed to the direction behind them and said in a low voice, "Someone is following. It looks like they are coming for us."

Violet recalled the Duke Brono who talked to Elaine alone during the farewell, with a look of "you see what I said", he put Elaine on the seat and motioned Petra to go out with him to see look.

"What's the use of you going out?" Petra picked up the quiver and gave him a disgusted look, "Just wait in the car, if the three of us can solve it, let Elaine take you away .”

Disgusted by her unabashedly, Violet had no choice but to sit down again.Elaine still hadn't come to her senses. She glanced at Violet suspiciously before saying hesitantly, "Why do you all seem to...know what's going on?"

"What else could be going on? Little sheep, your uncle sent someone to kill you." Petra patted him on the top of the head, and went out with Birkins.

Elaine looked at Violet in surprise, who shrugged and said that Petra was right.

"……what happened?"

"Wait a minute," Violet did not rush to explain to him. After all, he has no proof yet, it's just a few people's guesswork. "When they come back, we will know who has been chasing and killing you." .”

Petra turned over and got out of the car, and after discussing with the other two, she immediately started to act.Hodge and Birkins made their way through the woods on the side of the road and made a detour in the direction they came from. She hid her sleeve arrows and small crossbows in her sleeves and returned back the same way.

They were able to find someone behind so quickly, thanks to a gift from the queen to Hodge.Because she had heard that Hodge was collecting all kinds of pocket watches, she bought a small pocket watch inlaid with all kinds of precious stones from the Chamber of Commerce in Rosalia. It looked very delicate, and there would be a faint green light from fluorescent stones when opened. .Hodge originally regarded it as a simple ornament, but soon realized that he had underestimated the value of this gift—because there was a Sutrulu crystal on the dial, it could sense danger within a certain range , which can be used as a simple siren, although it can be inaccurate at times.

Just now Hodge was kicked out by Violet to drive the car. When he felt bored, he took out his pocket watch to play with. Unexpectedly, when he lifted the cover of the watch, he found the Xiutruu crystal glowing. Only then did he discover the pursuers behind them.

He leaned against a tree by the side of the road, and quietly revealed half of his eyes to observe the group of people following them.

Thanks to his years of experience as a thief, he immediately saw who was the leader: it was a man of medium height, with a hood and scarf covering his face, surrounded by others, and seemed to be making a statement speech--

While the listeners and speakers were engrossed, Hodge quickly changed to a big tree where he was hiding, and got closer to them, and he heard the leader's speech clearly.

"He is the biggest stumbling block in our plan. As long as we can get rid of him today, the plan will be half successful. Duke Brono will soon become Rosaria's new crown prince." The leader said proudly , "We can follow for a while. They are not far enough from Rosalia. When they go a little further, we can let Elaine die quietly in the field and never return to Rosalia."

Huo Qi raised his eyebrows, then glanced at the man again, and suddenly realized that he looked familiar.Based on their prior guesses, and matching the guy's physical characteristics with the people around Elaine's uncle, he soon confirmed the identity of the other party.

He retreated a distance without a sound, and met Birkins in the woods not far away, exchanged the information they got, and finally confirmed that the leader was the mustache butler of Duke Brono.

"I didn't expect them to be in such a hurry. How long have we been gone? Maybe they came here without food." Hodge pulled out his dagger from his boot, and threw it up and down, feeling sorry for the other party's professionalism. one time.

"How to solve it?" Birkins looked at him while reloading the gun. "There are a lot of them. We probably have to wait until Petra arrives before we start."

"Of course, the two of us can't eat this piece of fat." Hodge ordered the protected butler, and whispered, "There's something on him, I guess it's a magic item, I don't know the specific type, anyway, it's not easy to deal with .”

When he leaned over to eavesdrop on the other party's conversation just now, the Xiutruu crystal on the pocket watch was almost on fire, it can be seen that the living crystal was frightened by the things on the housekeeper, although the Xiutruu crystal's induction sometimes made mistakes, but it As bright as this, no matter whether it's right or not, he doesn't intend to gnaw on this hard bone by himself.

The weather is good today, with a little wind blowing in the forest from time to time, the sun shines on the treetops, casting a shimmering tree shadow.They hid their tracks well with shadows and the soft rustling of leaves.This silent waiting lasted for a while, and when Petra walked slowly from the front, they exchanged a glance, and at the same time rushed out of the woods by the side of the road, piercing directly into the flanks of the opposing team from two directions.