Violet Orchestra

"Don't you want to ask me why?"

After calming down, Violet asked Elaine.

He knew that he was out of control, which was very abnormal, not only Elaine, but others should also be very curious about the reason why he was out of control, because he hadn't had such abnormal behavior for a long time.Although a long time has passed, when it comes to some things that even he thought he had gradually forgotten, his reaction has obviously not met his expectations.

It's a terrible feeling, like when you think you're an adult, and then out of nowhere a guy who witnessed all your embarrassment as a kid tells the world that you were actually bedwetting at seven - he thinks it sucks.

Elaine sat quietly beside Violet, and when he sighed for the third time, he reached out and hugged him: "If you don't want to say it, I won't ask it first."

He had never seen a poet so lost and at a loss. Even when she was bullied on the bed with tears in her eyes, Violet was always in high spirits, like a flower in full bloom.

But...he looked down at Violet. Although his appearance hadn't changed, she seemed to have aged a lot suddenly. Even the light in his eyes had dimmed, reminding him of stars that were gradually dying out.

He guessed that the mirror Hodge found had something to do with Violet's past, but he didn't want to ask too much, because the way the poet saw the mirror made him feel that it must not be a good memory. More bad content, he hoped that Violet would be in a better mood.

After all, he did not participate in Violet's past, but he can change the present and future of the other party.

The young man thought he was considerate enough, and planned to find an excuse to divert the poet's attention and make him think about something happy, but to his surprise, Violet spoke up after a long silence.

"I saw that mirror a long time ago." He leaned in Elaine's arms with a calm tone, as if he was telling a story that had nothing to do with himself, "I was as young as you at that time, full of all the new things in the world. Enthusiastic and curious, I wanted to explore more interesting things on my own, thinking that it would be easy to insist on myself—until that mirror ruined everything for me.”

The room was very quiet, only his voice telling the story, and between his own pauses, Violet heard Elaine's slight breathing.It made him feel warmer for no reason, and let himself sink into the young man's arms more relaxedly, recalling the past in this peace that even he didn't expect: "It took me a long time to get out, and it took me a long time after that." It’s been a long time, so long that I thought I had forgotten how I felt at that time... But when I saw that mirror just now, I still couldn’t control my emotions.”

Elaine's chin rested lightly on the top of his head, hearing the emotional fluctuations in his voice, she lowered her head and kissed his hair tenderly.

"You've done a good job," he said softly.

"No," Violet shook her head. "I've been worse than I thought I was, and I've been doing nothing. I've been a useless bystander. I thought I had Forget it, but something still reminds me of what happened in the past and what will happen in the future.”

For a moment, he even wanted to tell Elaine his story from beginning to end, but immediately held back.In the story, he is neither honorable nor likable. He is clearly the complete instigator, but he is not the one who is punished in the end, so that today, a long time later, he almost forgets whether he is the perpetrator or the victim.

"It's not a good story." In the end, he just ended in such a hasty way, without mentioning more details to Elaine, but made a promise with an unknown time limit, "If you want to hear it later, maybe I will tell you about it." I'll tell you the details, but I'm a little tired now, so I'll stop here tonight, okay?"

Of course Elaine didn't mind, after all, in his opinion, Violet's emotions were more important than the story that didn't know when it happened.

"Then you have a good rest." He pressed a kiss on the forehead of the poet, and carefully closed the window for him before leaving, "Good night."

Violet watched the door close behind him, then completely relaxed and threw herself on the bed.

He was almost about to ask Elaine to stay, the memory was so heavy that it almost overwhelmed him, it was his little Romeo who pulled him back, and he didn't let himself indulge like he did many years ago.Thinking of the conversation he had with Petra one night after leaving Yasuo, he had to admit that maybe Petra was right.

Maybe someday he'll actually tell Elaine his story, if he doesn't like her anymore.

The mirror was finally buried in the wilderness outside the city. Violet insisted on doing it himself, so Elaine, who was familiar with the environment, chose the place. He personally put the wooden box containing the mirror into the dug pit. Here, he used tools to shovel the soil and cover it, and this was considered to be completely processed.

"No one usually passes by here, and it should not be discovered for a long time." Elaine said.

Violet looked back at the well-disguised new land, and smiled: "I hope so."

Since the hand mirror that was retrieved with great effort was useless, Hodge and Birkins had to retrieve the scrolls found from the butler, and sneaked out to Lord Brono's manor again— Fortunately, Mr. Brono doesn't seem to have the habit of checking the secret room every day. The strength of the manor's guards is the same as yesterday. Hodge, who has figured out the route, successfully entered the secret room again, and brought out a lot of manuscripts and old books from it. .

It took them half a day to sort out the manuscripts with strong traces of time, and finally Violet found a suspicious letter among them.

"It looks like someone wrote it to him. Judging from the ink traces, it should be something from a few years ago." The poet looked at the words on the envelope, then opened it casually and took out the letter paper inside. The letter was not long, but he saw After a few glances, he became interested, and raised the letter paper to signal to other people who were still flipping through the book, "I think I found what we need."

No matter who wrote the letter to Lord Brono, it contained a lot of means against Elaine, some of which were circled with different colors of ink, obviously written by Lord Brono.

"It looks like he's been treating you badly since you were born." Hodge turned his head to look at Elaine in disbelief. "So you still tell us that your uncle is nice to you?"

"Obviously we have some deviations in our understanding of the word 'nice'." Petra shrugged, "Keep watching."

They also wanted to find out evidence that Brono used public magic to deal with Elaine, but most of the contents of this letter were just ordinary methods, only one or two sentences vaguely mentioned "invisible methods" and "make him invisible." There is nothing more obvious in the strange words such as "disappearing without sound", "excessive brilliance will only displease the gods".Fortunately, the existing part is enough to prove Duke Brono's attempt to murder the prince. They only need to hand over this letter to the king and queen.

The matter seems to have been resolved satisfactorily in this way, but Elaine obviously kept something on her mind and didn't say anything until they handed the letter to the king and queen, and after being cared about, Violet found some free time to come Ask him why.

Elaine thought for a while, and still told him: "Do you remember that Hodge said my name?"

"Remember, he laughed at you and said it was a girl's name, but you said that in Rosalia, the name Elaine is unisex." Violet was a little puzzled, "What's wrong?"

"In Rosalia, the word Elaine has a beautiful meaning, and I told you that at the time."

Violet nodded: "And then?"

"Besides, there is also the intention my mother used when she named me, 'Elaine' in ancient Rorshalia, and the symbolic meaning is 'brilliant person'."

After saying it, Elaine felt that he might be thinking too much, so he touched his nose and laughed first: "I couldn't help but think of this when I saw what was written in that letter just now. Maybe it's just a coincidence."

He said it easily, but Violet immediately remembered the words in the letter that obviously meant something, and his face became serious.

"Excessive brilliance will only displease God"... He remembered very clearly that the word "brilliance" in the letter was in the common language, not Elaine's name, but this originally unclear sentence was related to the meaning of Elaine's name Suddenly it seemed to make sense.

Violet grabbed Elaine's hand suddenly, and the young man was taken aback by him: "What's wrong?"

"Let's leave Rosalia as soon as possible," said the poet. "I don't feel well."

"But the uncle's case..."

"Let's leave it to the king and queen, and we'll set off as soon as possible." Violet made a decision involuntarily.

Elaine's uncle was eventually deprived of the right of succession to the throne on charges of murdering the crown prince, but they left Rosaria in a hurry without waiting for this result.Before leaving, the queen gave them some new gifts. This time, Violet didn't accept all the orders, but only picked out the seemingly harmless parts. He rejected all gems and gold ornaments. Qi had some opinions, but because of Violet's attitude, he had no choice but to protest by refusing to drive the car.

In fact, Violet didn't care about him, because there were too many things to do—he was still worried about the "excessive brilliance will only displease the gods" in the letter, and left Rosalie. Empress Ya has also been looking for various materials, and even asked a few linguists to inquire about the meaning, but she has never been able to know its specific meaning.Even Elaine felt that he was a little anxious, and tried to find a topic to make him happy several times. Violet also responded, but her mind was still on that sentence.

He was very concerned about that sentence, because its tone made him feel inexplicably familiar, and it might have something to do with Elaine, so he had to investigate.

But this overwhelmed investigation is quickly interrupted by a new letter, because they received a letter in a small town that was rested and recuperated.

From the Dark Forest outside Yasuo.