Violet Orchestra

"Actually, you don't need to save him. The lord of Yasuo City is looking for us, didn't you hear that?"

"But you saved me today, I can't watch Mr. Captain being taken away by them." Elaine said.

Petra smiled, and took out the pendant worth 500 gold coins to show him: "We saved you, you have already paid us, you don't owe us anything."

"Then..." The young man was at a loss for words, and finally hesitantly glanced at Violet, "Just take it as me saving a friend and doing a small favor. Is there any problem?"

Violet didn't meet his eyes, pretending to suddenly have a strong interest in the tip of her shoe - of course there is a problem, I don't want to be friends with such a pure guy like you.

Petra didn't expect Elaine to say that. She looked at Birkins as if asking for advice, and then at Violet who was studying the toe of her shoe. She voted with two votes in favor and one abstention. The results lead to the final conclusion.

"Do you have somewhere to go?" she asked Elaine.

The young man turned to look at her with some doubts, and shook his head: "I am practicing around by myself, and I am just staying here temporarily."

Petra nodded, and said bluntly: "Actually, we lied to you today."

Her words were astonishing, and Violet finally realized what she wanted to do, subconsciously wanted to interrupt, but she pinched her wrist.

"We escaped from Yasuo City. As you can see, we are currently being hunted by Yasuo's guards for various reasons. Staying with us is asking for trouble, but you still saved Violet." Under Elaine's perplexed gaze, she said, "Since you have nowhere to go but rest at Desnope, why don't you join us?"

Violet: "...are you kidding me?"

He wanted to talk to Petra, but the other party was still holding on to him, making it look like he had no majesty as the head of the regiment.Violet sighed secretly, and turned to look at Elaine: "She's always been like this, I'm really sorry, please don't mind."

"Petra, have you been single for too long and want to find a man?" Hodge couldn't help asking, "This kid looks like he's not weaned, we're not babysitters with milk at all times—"

"Can I?" Elaine looked at Petra expectantly, he remembered Petra's name, which is a bit awkward for mainlanders, and pronounced it like a poem, "I really can With you, Miss Petra?"

"As if I were..."

"Yes, you will be responsible for protecting our regiment leader in the future." Petra readily agreed, and pushed Violet to him, "Now go back and prepare. We will set off in the middle of the night and go to the north."

Elaine looked at Violet in her arms, smiled at him a little embarrassedly, and helped him up.

"Then I'll go back to my residence to pack my luggage, and I'll come find you later."

"No, actually..." Violet considered his tone and said as gently as possible, "You see, there were four of us originally, and the division of labor and cooperation are very skilled, and after you join, you will be dismissed because of the trouble we caused. Wanted together, Petra was just joking..."

The young man looked down at him. Although he was tall, Violet actually felt a little pitiful: "Mr. Commander, I'm fine. Look, I was chased and killed before, and it was you who rescued me." Please give me the chance to repay you.”

"You have already repaid enough, and if you continue to repay me endlessly, do you still have to warm my bed?" Violet blurted out.

As soon as the words fell, Hodge, who was packing his things in the corner, whistled: "It turns out that you want the boy, I understand."

Violet: "..."

I'm used to flirting outside, but I would take it seriously just by casually flirting, what should I do?

There was a suspicious silence in the room, and it wasn't until there was a sudden commotion downstairs that they came back to their senses.Birkins looked outside through the crack of the door, with a serious face: "Some guards have searched this way, let's go separately."

"Is there anything important you haven't taken?" Petra asked Elaine.

"No, I just want to take some clothes for a change." Elaine saw that they were on alert and understood the urgency of the situation, so she took the initiative, "It's okay if you don't take them. I'll figure out a way at the next destination."

"We are about the same size, you can wear mine first." Birkins threw him a big bag, "Here, you take Violet first, Hodge and Petra together, I will cut off the back."

Elaine responded, and without waiting for Violet to protest, she put her arms around Violet's waist and led him to jump out of the window.

Half an hour later they met near the hidden carriage.

Hodge and Petra came later than the broken Birkins. Petra walked ahead with fresh water, and Hodge followed behind her. The two climbed into the car one after the other, and looked at each other first. Violet condemned.

"What are you doing?" Violet was packing her bottles and cans to make room for the newcomers, looking up at them innocently.

"I just eavesdropped on the conversation of those Yasuo guards." Hodge said in a normal tone as if he had eaten bread tonight, "They don't want to search us here at night, but who made the city lord furious and said to find us? How about firing all the guards before we arrive?"

Violet froze.

"...Is it that serious? Didn't you steal his sword?"

"They said Miss Brienne was missing and suspected 'the red-haired poet' had abducted her."

Now even Birkins, who was driving outside, poked his head in. Everyone looked at Violet meaningfully. Only Elaine, who didn't know the situation, sat beside him with a puzzled face: "What red-haired poet?"

"Do I look like such a gutsy guy?" Violet said angrily, explaining to Elaine in passing, "They're talking about me."

He still had his greasy light brown hair on his head. The chaos of the night made him look a bit embarrassed, but when the moonlight came in from the car window, his helpless side face was still as beautiful as a painting.Elaine only thought about the hair for a second, then quickly gave up thinking and indulged in the beauty of Mr. Leader.

"To be honest, that Miss Brienne doesn't seem to like me very much." Violet was still defending herself, "I usually don't say such embarrassing things, but you all seem to think I'm a shameless person." A man of integrity..."

Petra raised her eyebrows: "Aren't you?"

Violet felt the need for a moment of silence in honor of her image.

Hodge took a sip of water and said: "By the way, I heard that when Miss Brienne was taken away, the necklace her mother left her was also torn off and fell on the window sill. There was a huge shoe print on the window sill. Nobody taller than a foot has such big feet."

"Then it's even less likely to be me. My feet are not as big as Petra." Violet looked innocent.

This is a fact. Although his height can be regarded as a normal adult male, it is still far from the height of a hunk like eight feet. Even Petra is a little taller than him, but it is not obvious when he usually wears shoes.In Violet's view, as long as mixed races like Petra are excluded, his height matches most beauties, and there is nothing wrong with that. If he really wants to make him look like Elaine with overnutrition... ...Well, there's nothing wrong with it, although it doesn't suit his liking, but I have to say that the young man he picked up on the way has a face that can't be hated.

They left Desnop overnight, and instead of going north as planned, they made a big circle and headed towards the east of Yasuo, which is the direction of the Black Forest.

Regardless of whether Brienne was taken away or left by herself, in short, her father seemed to have spotted Violet, and somehow kept chasing after them until dawn, when Hodge, who was in charge of reconnaissance I have to admit: "They have some kind of tracking method, and I can't get rid of it."

"It should be magic, or some kind of alchemy tool." Violet leaned listlessly against the wall of the carriage. The carriage bumped all night, and he didn't fall asleep at all. There is a mage..."

Not far from him, Elaine fell asleep with her legs curled up. The young man was tall and long-legged, huddled up aggrievedly, covered with a Birkins coat——Violet had too many things , I couldn't find an extra blanket for a while, so I could only wrong him temporarily.

"Although I don't know what's going on, it seems that Miss Brienne is really not at home." Petra adjusted the bowstring of her short bow under the sunlight outside, and then let go of her hand suddenly after tightening it. The arrow just hit the hind leg of a hare on the side of the road, "Whether spells or props must cost a lot, Yasuo City is not such a rich place, and the city lord doesn't need to spend a lot of money to track us little bugs. Since we can't hide , we simply go into the Black Forest to hide for a few days, and find a chance to go back to the city to listen to intelligence."

Except for Violet, no one deliberately lowered the volume. Elaine was awakened by their voices, and opened her eyes in a daze: "Are you going to the Black Forest?"

"This is the decision for the time being," Petra gave him a chance to speak, "We are being chased to nowhere, you are more familiar with this area than we are, do you have any other good suggestions?"

Elaine listened to her rough statement of everyone's inference, frowned and thought for a while, then shook her head: "Sorry, I can't think of a better way. But the Black Forest is not a good place in the legend of Yasuo City , although usually no one will approach, but there are reasons..."

He didn't make any meaningful suggestions. Instead, he talked about a bunch of strange stories, from the Midnight Revenant to the ogre monster, and from the forest banshee to the headless horseman. After remembering the story, everyone realized: Aren’t we running for our lives?

"Ah, I'm sorry, I forgot that now is not the time to talk about this." Elaine scratched her head and consciously brought the topic back to the original place, "Actually, I went to the Black Forest for a mission, but I didn't go deep into it. Judging from the peripheral situation , there are at least five kinds of large monsters living in it. They hunt each other for food, and to be honest, even if there are no forest banshees and headless horsemen, it should be considered relatively dangerous."

He spoke earnestly, but he didn't mean to force it. Instead, he showed an attitude of listening to everyone's opinions.Everyone was silent for a moment, and finally Hodge sneered and said, "I'm not even afraid of going to the guillotine, it's just a story to scare children..."

"No matter what's in there, it's always good to be careful," Birkins said.

Petra nodded too.

They reached a consensus, parked the carriage outside the forest and hid it, got out of the carriage with the necessary luggage, and planned to find a cave where they could spend the night first.Elaine fulfilled the obligation of "protecting the head" and carefully protected Violet behind her along the way. Fortunately, they didn't encounter any monsters, and they entered the Black Forest safely after passing through the surrounding bushes.

"Isn't this nothing, just some bones."

"It's a human bone." Birkins looked at the half of the bone protruding from the ground. "From the cross section, it looks like it was bitten by a wild animal."

Petra squatted down and pulled out the bone, brushed the mud on it twice with her hands, and nodded: "I guess it's a forest bear, it's been dead for a while."

She is an expert in this field, and everyone basically listens to her when they go into the jungle, and this time is no exception.They bypassed the range that Petra thought might be haunted by forest bears, and entered from the side of the Black Forest. Petra led the way, and Birkins followed as usual.Violet walked in the middle of the team, picking up strange things from the side of the road from time to time, and everyone else was surprised, only Elaine followed him curiously.

"Mr. Captain, what are you doing?"

Violet waved his hand: "Call me by name, these are luminous flowers. Although they are not very eye-catching during the day, they will glow under the roots of trees at night, and they can be made into a kind of hallucinogen..."

He reached out and picked off a luminous flower, and flicked the leaves with dewdrops lightly with his fingers. The tiny water droplets rolled down from the green leaves the size of pearls, bringing a little shimmer that was not obvious.

Elaine had never paid attention to this humble plant, and he knelt down beside Violet to help put the glow-in-the-dark flowers into the cloth bag.When his gaze fell further away, he suddenly found a hint of red in the dense green luminous flowers under the tree.

He got up and went to pick it up, and found it was a small ruby: "Look, this..."

"What's the matter?" Birkins walked over to him.

They couldn't understand things like rubies, so they finally called Violet, who was squatting on the ground and digging grass. The poet didn't take it seriously at first, and after wiping the mud on his hands, he came over and looked at it, but his face suddenly became serious: " This is the pendant from Brienne's necklace... let's go, let's find it in the forest."