Legend of Eudemons

That being said, Shiratori didn't have any expectations about whether Corban III could find out the murderer, and there weren't many clues in the first place.The phantom beasts in the palace were summoned immediately, and the atmosphere in the palace was highly tense and full of people.The guards have increased their manpower, and groups of them are pacing up and down in the palace, and they can be seen within a few steps.

"Ah, it's really uncomfortable, a large group of sullen people." Kena frowned, watching another group of guards walk past aggressively.

A voice behind him said heartily: "It is His Royal Highness Antonio's claim."

"You are... cypress?" Shiratori watched Sara cypress approaching coldly. With a refreshing smile on his face, he grabbed Kena's neck and leaned against Kana's ear: "The two consecutive attacks on the prince made me He's very disturbed, it's just whispered - he's terrified that he'll be next."

Kena raised his eyebrows, he had some complaints about him suddenly hooking him, but he didn't resist: "Are you so free? Aren't you going to be on duty with your father?"

"My current job is to wander around the palace. Your Majesty has Mr. Seattle." He patted Keina on the shoulder, "I personally don't support His Royal Highness Antonio's actions. Too many people will easily get mixed up with other people. Many of these new guards are unfamiliar faces, and there is no way to remember which unit they are from. However, people of my status can’t make any comments, so I can only bear with it.”

Shiratori looked at him with indifferent eyes, but he smiled at Shiratori: "Please protect him well."

He slapped Shiratori's butt suddenly, ran away briskly, and waved his hands back to say "Come on".

Shiratori baring his teeth unhappily and Kena smiling apologetically were left behind.

"That guy...you have a great relationship, right? Can a chief guard hook up with the prince?"

"No in theory. But I'm a little special with him." Kena rubbed his forehead: "...It may be a bit late for the introduction now, we are cousins."

It felt like I should have told him sooner, but I never got a chance to say anything.Besides, Sarah and Shiratori are not officially approved names.

Shiratori was stunned for a moment: "Cousin brother? Is he your cousin?"

"Well. He's the son of my mother's sister, Makalo." Kaina said as they walked. "Makalo and my mother are half-sisters. She is a concubine born in the concubine, so she cannot marry into the royal family. In the end, she was introduced to the Hinoki family, a lower-level noble in Olga. The Hinoki family has been out of the court for generations. Chief of Guards. Sarah is the fifth generation."

"Ha." Shiratori snorted coldly.She was still angry about Sarah's sudden slap on her butt just now.

"If it can comfort you a little... Sarah hooks up with everyone. The Seattle Fourteenth... the one you know very well is a very cold person, and he has to accept his shoulders."

Shiratori touched his butt, mumbling in a low voice: "It's not just hooking shoulders and back."

When they returned to Kaina's bedroom, Luo Jie had already been waiting there.Such a major event happened to Kaina this time, and it was immediately reported to his mother.She was shocked by this incident, and furious that Shiratori failed to protect her precious son.In fact, she has always been a little afraid of Shiratori, but this time she put on a straight face and glared at him uncharacteristically.Although Shiratori had never been afraid of her, he felt responsible for letting Kena slip up this time, so he let her stare.

"It's unbelievable, with you here, why would such a thing happen!"

"Forget it, am I okay? Thanks to Shiratori's timely disposal, I'm fine." Kena persuaded, but he didn't speak very forcefully—he also knew that this matter was not trivial, and he couldn't just fool around.The father's side is okay, but the mother's side must be relentless, and she must not tell the story of her encounter with the tomb robber, otherwise she will make a big fuss and stir up trouble in the city.

"Aren't you missing anything?" Luo Jie touched his body up and down, as if he was afraid that he might lose a piece of flesh.

"Everything is fine."

"Won't the poison/medicine remain? Hey—" she stared at Shiratori: "Have you called a doctor to check?"

"It won't remain." Shiratori said uninterestedly, "This kind of drug works and metabolizes very quickly. After poisoning a person, even if an autopsy is performed, the toxin cannot be found. As a poison/drug, it has such a superiority."

As a poison/drug, it is indeed a superior property, but the person who is assassinated will look more pitiful because of it.

Luo Jie frowned: "Are you sure?"

"I've been selling this stuff for more than ten years when I was young. You say I don't know clearly."

Shiratori found a place and sat down in a comfortable posture.Luo Jie was very dissatisfied with his attitude.

"It's all because you didn't perform your duties seriously!"

Shiratori was noncommittal.

"I said you—" Luo Jie walked in front of Bai Niao and looked down at him, while Bai Niao also looked up at her from below, the atmosphere was quite menacing. "You don't take it seriously at all, right? At the beginning, you actually said that you were Kaina's assistant officer, and you even went to the selection meeting. I was still wondering why you would suddenly do this—"

"But you're not serious at all, right? It's just a whim. To you, you don't care about Kaina's life or death, the duties of the assistant officer, the safety of the royal family, or even the survival of our country. You're just playing. Lian Ji When you die, you feel cut off from everything in the world. Everything in the world seems to you to be a plaything to pass the time!"

Shiratori was silent for a while, and said: "You may be right. She has been the only thing connecting me to this boring world since before. After she died, everything was dark." His voice was faint, Slow and ethereal. "But I'm not playing."

He spoke lightly, but seriously, with undeniable courage.

Luo Jie bit her lip, as if to avoid embarrassment, she softened her tone: "I hope so too. Then what's next? Can you catch the thief?"

"I have already reported to Corban III. Didn't he tell you that he will investigate?"

"He said. But you have to do something here, too?"

"I won't investigate. Keina is in danger at any time now. I can't leave his side. So you just wait for the results of the investigation from Corban III."

This reason seemed to convince Luo Jie enough, she didn't say anything more.He gave Kaina a few nagging words and left.

Keina and Shiratori were left sitting opposite each other in silence.

The silence was longer than expected.Normally, Kaina would definitely find something to talk about, but today it was just quiet, Shiratori finally couldn't sit still.

"... Strange, you didn't say anything today?"

He blinked his big eyes and said in a pretendingly relaxed tone.

"say what?"

"Anything, find something to say."

He had a casual attitude at first, but when he saw Kena's silence, he couldn't help but become serious.

"...Don't want to talk because too much just happened? There are times like that." His voice softened.

But just now it was obviously very eloquent, and there was no difference from usual.In fact, Shiratori has always felt that Kena is a bit slow, which is not derogatory, but his reaction to things that ordinary people would make a fuss about is also very ordinary.

"Maybe it is." Kaina said quietly, and paused for a while: "Do you think life is boring?"

"what?"

"After the death of Queen Lian Ji, do you feel that there is nothing in the world that can make you happy?"

Shiratori frowned: "Ah, do you care about what I just said to Luo Jie?"

Keena didn't answer directly, but there was no doubt about what he said next.

"Aren't you happy? Didn't you have any happy moments? But you still pretend to be very casual. Are your usual emotions deliberately made to adapt to the atmosphere at that time? Because you have lived for a long time, you can easily do this Let's do something..." His voice gradually lowered, "...When you are gentle with me, do you also do it?"

Shiratori felt uncomfortable, but it wasn't because of being questioned by him, but because of his dull look when he spoke.

Seeing that Shiratori didn't answer him, but kept staring at him as if looking at something strange, Kena showed a gentle smile that eased the atmosphere: "No, please pretend I didn't say anything."

He got up and fiddled with some things he could get at hand to hide his confusion.

"No." Shiratori said, "It's not like that—"

He was uncommonly anxious, but Keina didn't notice with his back turned. "I'm not pretending to care about you, so don't think about it—"

"Speaking of which, you said before that you promised Lianji to do something for her, right?" Kaina said suddenly, still fiddling with an ornament casually in his hand. "Staying in the palace is the way you chose to fulfill her wish. Indeed, it seems that you said so."

Shiratori remembered that he had said such a thing, it was on the day he and Kaina met, facing Luo Jie's questioning.But even he himself can't fully remember the sentences he said at the time, so he was a little surprised to hear Keena say that.

"What's that about? A wish to be fulfilled for Lian Ji."

There was a gentle smile on Keina's face, and his tone was not harsh, but it made people feel an invisible pressure.Shiratori spent more than ten seconds considering whether to answer or not, and finally answered with a deep breath.

"It's a simple thing. It's not worth mentioning." He rolled his eyes: "She wants me to protect this country."

The air was quiet for a few seconds.

No matter how you try to speculate, this answer is not within the expected range, is it?

Keina felt that the "simple" he said should refer to the answer itself rather than the difficulty of the matter, because protecting the country is not something that can be done casually, right?No matter how strong Shiratori is, this requirement is too difficult.

Shiratori sneered: "Lianji married here, and she regards this as her own country. She doesn't want to see the people here suffer from war, and hopes that this country will always prosper - she is too easy to worry about others, and she will take care of others wherever she goes. Where do people worry—if it weren't for this, she wouldn't have died so early, right?"

Keena looked at him silently.

"A plea like an idiot, it's something you can't do. But there's no way," Shiratori showed a warm expression for a moment, that kind of expression would only be shown when he mentioned Lian Ji. "Because it's Lian Ji's request, there's no way to refuse it."