God seal

After saying this sentence, almost everyone understood who the "she" in the elf's mouth was referring to.Anyone who can be compared with their great ancestors should feel honored.

However, unexpectedly, Hani still looked like he was about to cry.

"I... I'm not like her," Harney said. "I'm a boy."

Searle glanced at him up and down, focusing on a certain part.

"I can tell."

"I don't look like that either." Hani said in a crying voice, "And I'm useless, I can't practice swordsmanship well, I'm not even an apprentice knight. If you think that way, you will be very disappointed... I'm sorry .”

The boy lowered his head as he spoke, as if he was afraid of facing the eyes of the other party's accusation.To him, that was more terrifying than any mountains of swords and seas of fire.

Searle sighed softly. He noticed the disappointment and contempt in the eyes of the Rose Knights around Hani when they looked at Hani, and finally understood the meaning of the words "he doesn't have that kind of courage" from the head of the delegation, Victoria.

Hani Lisibetan is a kind-hearted child who is willing to consider others. If he was born in an ordinary family, he should be happier, but he was born in this era of overlapping power, and he is burdened with burdens that he should not bear.Even if he chooses to give up, others will not easily let him go.

When Hani heard the elf's sigh, he felt even more sad.I let someone down again, he thought, it's all my fault, for occupying a position that doesn't belong to me despite being incapable.

"Haney."

But at this moment, he heard Searle speak again.

"I'll change the condition." Searle said, "I can lift Reid's confinement, but the premise is that you have to pass the inheritance test a week later."

"what?!"

This time it was not only Hani who yelled, but even the rose knights were stunned, thinking that they had collectively hallucinated.

"How can you do this! It's agreed that as long as I accept the punishment instead of Red." Hani looked at the elf accusingly with a sad expression of being deceived.

"Yes, I backtracked." Searle said coldly, "but what can you do? Do you have the ability to defeat me? Do you have the ability to liberate Red? Everything you desire depends on me to achieve it, you What qualifications do you have to negotiate terms with me?"

His cold voice was completely opposite to his previous amiable appearance. Hani turned pale, lowered his head, and said in a deep voice, "...I didn't."

"I'm glad you're aware of this." Searle said, "So if you want to realize your wish, no matter what conditions I set, you have to meet it. This is the end of being under the control of others without power. Do you understand?"

"But you said you'd only confine Red for a week." Harney retorted, "After a week, Red's confinement time is full. Even if I pass the test, it doesn't mean much. It's not fair to me. "

Oh, this little guy still has a little bit of cleverness, so it's not like he's completely hopeless.

"If you can pass the test." Searle said with a smile, "then I will give you another reward besides lifting Reid's confinement."

Hani didn't seem too interested in the reward.

The elf had to threaten him.

"On the contrary, if you fail the test, I will not only detain Red for a week, but the confinement will be extended indefinitely until I am willing to release him."

Hani looked at him in surprise, with an expression that didn't expect you to be such a person!

"I know what you want to say. I changed my promise to you at will, but do you know why I can do this?" Searle asked him.

"I know." Hani said dejectedly, "Because you are stronger than me." He seemed to understand a little bit of reality.

"No, it's because you are too weak." Searle looked directly at him, "It's not wrong to be weak, but it's your fault that you can't protect the person you want to protect because you are weak." Hani scolded his former self, "Thinking that you can just give in? Hani Lisibetan, you are just escaping from reality!"

The elf finally warned: "Two days later, if you fail the inheritance test, I will impose a new punishment on Red."

Hani left in a daze.

Searle stared at his thin figure as he left. Against the backdrop of the towering walls of the Knights' residence, Hani was like a young seedling that could not be tortured by the wind and rain.

"What are you doing!"

There was a roar behind him.

"If you push him to this point, you will completely destroy him!" Victorian hurried over, showing his disrespectful expression to the elf for the first time.The tall and handsome head of the delegation seemed to be completely irritated by Searle. It seemed that he had just learned of Searle's agreement with Hani from the other rose knights.

"I thought you would be angry because I entrusted the future of the Knights on the shoulders of an 'uncompromising' person." Searle stared at him, "I didn't expect you to care more about Hani."

"...He is a good boy. When he was young, he would go to the knight order with other nobles to receive training every year." Victorian rubbed his brows and sighed, "But he is not suitable to be The heir of the Rose Knights. If you force him like this, you will only destroy him."

"When Nanni chose to become a knight, everyone thought she was crazy." Searle said suddenly, "Her father and elder brother were assassinated to death one after another. For the sake of the family, the most important thing she should do is to marry a well-matched The aristocrats of Lisibetin continued and protected Lisibetin's bloodline through marriage. But she chose a path that everyone thought was unfavorable, and she went to the end."

Victorian disagreed: "But that's the path Nanny Knight chose!"

"Then do you think she has a choice?" Searle roared back, "A noble girl who has never received a day of warrior training, suddenly picks up a long sword and becomes a knight, do you think this is the life she wanted to live in the first place? Nanni is just an ordinary girl, when her family is intact, what she thinks about every day is the same as other girls, how to attract the attention of a handsome knight like you!"

Victorian was speechless.

"But the world makes her no choice. If she doesn't want to marry and become someone else's puppet and reproductive machine, she can only fight on her own."

"You mean it's the same for Harney," Victorian asked.

Searle said in a deep voice: "No. For Hani, the situation is more serious. If he fails the test, all he will face is death."

……

Hani wiped away tears as he walked.

I didn't expect Salanduil to be this kind of person!No, I didn't expect him to be this kind of elf!He was sad and sad, not only sad for Red, but also sad for the shattering of the hero in his mind.

"What are you crying for?"

Back at the family's temporary residence in Wangcheng, Roni saw his mournful expression and was filled with anger.

"I heard that you went to the Rose Knights?" the girl asked him, "Do you know what time it is? The test is coming, how many people want your life? I came here from the royal city to protect you, don't you want me What a waste of time!"

"Sister Luo... Sister Roni."

"You don't need to go to the inheritance test a week later, in case you are being targeted." Roni said, her beautiful eyes filled with displeasure, "I will take part in the test for you, when the time comes, you only need to..."

"Sister Roni!" Hani summoned up his courage, "I want to participate! I will pass the test."

Ronnie was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that it was the first time that she looked at her half-brother with such serious eyes.

"you sure?"

Her voice became icy, and after seeing Hani nodding her head in fear but firmly, the girl turned and left.

"It's up to you, you can do it yourself."

Ronnie Lisibetan turned around the corner in a few steps, and at the moment when the people behind her could no longer see herself, she thumped the wall angrily.

"Oh, my dear little bee, why be angry with that weak coward?"

Her mother, Mrs. Lorena, came out from another corner, holding her daughter's hand and taking care of it carefully.

"If you don't look like me, I have plenty of ways to prevent that weak kid from participating in the test in a few days."

"Don't bother you, mother." Roni shook off her hand, "Haney is the son of the family, and he is qualified to participate in the inheritance test. I will get what I want through my own method. And you, It's best not to do anything extra."

Ronina smiled slightly: "As long as you don't want to, I won't do anything, my dear."

"hope so."

……

Hani was hit even harder after his breakup with Ronnie.That night he didn't even have dinner, so he lay down on the bed.

"Why am I so useless?"

Since his birth, Hani asked himself this question countless times.

Ever since his mother, the former Countess of Lisibertain, passed away, Hani had faced his father's disappointed eyes and mocking eyes from the people around him time and time again.Especially against the background of Ronnie, his incompetence is even more clearly revealed.And he, who is so incompetent, has taken over what should belong to others, how shameless he is.

The first time I realized this was when I went to the Rose Knights for training for the last time.At that time, he could clearly feel that the eyes of the rose knights who loved him since childhood had changed, and even Teacher Victoria was no longer willing to talk to him any more.

Ronnie told him: "Father has already applied to the king to hold a test of succession when you become an adult. Do you think that as the current head of the Knights, Victorian will still look at you in the same way? Do you think those who are free and accustomed Rose Knight, do you really want someone to be their master and be bound by others?"

It turns out that it's as simple as making people who were close to you hate you.

Since then, Harney has dreaded going to the Knights of the Rose and fearing seeing Victorian again.In his imagination, the rose knights should hate him, so much so that he thought so after being assassinated.

"Would it be better if I hadn't been born in this world?" Hani murmured so exhaustedly that he fell into a lethargic sleep.

The window of his room was open, and after Hani fell asleep, the evening breeze would blow the fallen leaves in from time to time. After a while, when another leaf was swept and was about to fall on the window sill of Hani's room, someone sneered and said.

"Attacking an underage child at night is not what a druid should do."

The druid who was hiding in the night paused and asked sharply, "Who?!"

Under the stars and the moon, a little silver poured out like running water.