Legend of Eudemons

So everyone dispersed, waiting for Corban III's decision and investigation results.Keina has been feeling very tired all night. It should be said that he has been very tired since the morning.It was already early morning, he was a little top-heavy from sleepiness, and he just wanted to lie down on the bed and have a good sleep.What about assassins, tomb robbers, and poisoning? I don't even have the energy to think about these things.

however.

When they returned to Kaina's bedroom, no guards were found at the door.There were 4 people standing guard when we left.But they were so sleepy at night, they didn't care too much.The problem was discovered only after entering the room.

I couldn't believe the sight in front of me.The room was in chaos, everything was turned upside down.As if a typhoon had passed through, all the furnishings in the house fell apart.

Normally, the first thing that comes to mind at this time is of course "recruiting a thief".But here is the palace!How could a thief come in casually?What's more, it was the first day of martial law in the entire palace. There were soldiers walking around everywhere, and there were guards alternately guarding the door of Kaina's bedroom.There were still four guards on duty at the gate when they left.They had only been away for a few hours, and a thief came in so quickly and turned the entire room upside down very efficiently, and no one noticed in the process?There's no way this is going to happen...

What's more, if it is really a thief stealing things, why not go to the place where treasures and antiques are stored in the palace, but go to the bedroom of an inconspicuous little prince to steal things?Opening all the cabinets and boxes in the room that could hold things, such a blatant, blatant, brazen theft...?

Kaina's drowsiness subsided for the most part.Stare at the crazy sight in front of you.Suddenly a white cloth covered his head, he took it off and found that it was the white bird's coat.

"Wear this on your body. If you smell something strange, or feel something strange, wrap it tightly around yourself."

Shiratori said flatly and dullly.Stare at the mess.

"...You don't suspect that...someone poisoned you again?"

After Kanna finished speaking, he wrapped himself tightly in his coat and stopped talking.Only a pair of eyes were exposed and turned around, watching Shiratori turn over the things that had been messed up again.Check everything and every nook and cranny for anything out of place or suspicious.He silently checked carefully, and Kaina had already started to feel sleepy again, feeling like he could fall asleep sitting on the chair.

White Bird remained silent.Until Kena was already drowsy on the chair, suddenly felt light and woke up.It turned out that Shiratori picked him up from the chair.

"What's wrong? Have you checked and made sure it's safe?"

"Well. You can go back to sleep."

I don't know if it was because of sleepiness, but he always felt that Shiratori's speech was a bit weird.

"No one poisoned it? The green one from before - Earth Dragon Turtle Carbon~? No?"

"No. There is a limit to the way of poisoning poison. It is difficult to use it a second time if it fails once. It seems that this time it is just stealing."

The fact that stealing isn't something that can be taken lightly with "just".But compared to poisoning and assassination, stealing is really light.Thinking that even entering the palace and stealing has become a "just" now, Kaina felt that these days are really crazy.

"Is something missing?"

"I can't tell exactly what was lost... There are too many things on display. I just checked their safety and didn't put them all back to their original places. It may take three to five days to finish all of them. .”

There are too many objects, antiques, and utensils displayed in the palace, and even the owner himself cannot remember everything.I may not even remember what I lost.If it's just missing some jewelry and antiques, it's not a big deal.However, Shiratori still had a serious face, with tightly closed lips, slightly wrinkled brows, and slightly narrowed eyes.Keena felt ominous.

"Is there anything I don't know? Or should I know?"

Shiratori put Keina on the bed and sat down on the bed himself.Silence, no answer.

"Speaking of which, the guards at the gate are gone. My father probably hasn't ordered them to leave yet." Seeing that he didn't answer, Kena said to himself.

"Even if there are no guards guarding it, it's impossible for thieves to enter the palace casually. What's more, the entire palace is under martial law since yesterday. If it's a phantom beast like Rose, maybe it can sneak in without causing much commotion. But if It is impossible for the guards at the door not to notice such wanton rummaging in the room. If found, it will definitely cause a fight. ... The possible idea is that the thieves killed the guards or locked them in place so that they cannot move. But the two sides fought There would have been some signs of damage or blood. None of that. Very peaceful. Just messed up."

Shiratori stared at him, waiting for him to come to any conclusion.

"So I thought so. Could it be that the guards came in to rummage things by themselves? They have all discussed it. There will still be guards at the door while rummaging things inside, so there will be no surprises. After stealing the things you want to steal Just run away."

"Hmm. Yes. This is the most likely. They waited for an opportunity to leave among the other guards. Anyway, there are guards with unfamiliar faces dangling around in the palace now. There are too many guards to tell who is who. Taking advantage of the convenient status of a guard, it is also very easy to leave the palace."

"Maybe they have escaped from the palace by now." Keina said, "It's really puzzling. There are many treasures in the palace, but they come to my poor place to steal things. If they are Taking advantage of the trend and directly choosing the place that is the easiest to steal recently, that is really an easy-to-satisfy thief."

"You seem to have something to say. Anything to say?"

"It's nothing. I just find it strange. Generally speaking, thieves are of course for money, but the decorations and utensils on the bright side are thrown aside as useless things. On the contrary, the whole house is opened, as if in Look for a certain little thing of some kind. Seems to assume I'm hiding it deep. Something that's going to be hidden that deep unless it's a diary. But I don't keep a diary. I don't think thieves would steal a diary. It's amazing."

After finishing this sentence pretending to be understated, he turned his face and looked directly at Shiratori with a smile: "You probably didn't hide anything here, did you?"

The sides of Shiratori's nose moved, and remained silent, as if considering an answer.Keena already knew, however.If he didn't do it, he can deny it.Being silent means something is wrong.

He stared and grabbed his wrist: "—what is hiding?"

Keina is very imposing, and is actually a questioning.This was the first time he spoke to Shiratori with such confidence.

Shiratori brushed back the hair that fell to her face, and said lightly, "I brought out the thing from the cemetery."

"what is that?"

Kenna didn't react when he heard "something in the cemetery", and felt a little uncomfortable reflexively.But after thinking about it again, he realized that it belonged to the Ascension Hall—in his heart, Kaina never saw it as a cemetery.Once he reacted, he couldn't wait to know what that thing was.

Kaina originally thought that Shiratori would play tricks again this time, or confuse the past with nonsense.But he actually answered seriously, with an upright and frank expression:

"That 'weapon'."

The hairs all over Kaina's body stood on end immediately.Scalp tingling.After a while, he said in a dull voice: "That 'weapon'? The one that the tomb robbers were looking for?" He took a deep breath, moved his dantian, and then shouted loudly: "You said that it wasn't there !!!”

"I just said that casually." Shiratori turned his eyes sideways and said in a glib tone on purpose.

"Say it casually?!" Kena jumped up from the bed, almost going to strangle his neck.In fact, Shiratori himself knew that this kind of remark was obviously perfunctory, and Kena would not let it go.Then he said: "Otherwise, what should I say? Say to the grave robber, 'Yes, yes, the thing is here, but I won't give it'?"

"You—" Keina's voice was choked in his throat, thinking about the context of the whole thing.What Shiratori said was absolutely correct, and it was not surprising that he would lie under the circumstances at the time.No—but Kaina had doubts at the time, so I recalled everything after such a memory——At that time, Kaina also thought about whether the treasure was hidden in the cemetery. the words said.Later, they chatted about the weapons at the appointment ceremony of the adjutant officer. Kaina also asked Shiratori if he knew the real whereabouts of the weapons, and Shiratori replied seriously that what he said in the cemetery was the truth .

He thought for a while, and finally said weakly: "But why didn't you tell me when I asked you before? You said that what you said to the tomb robbers was true, remember?"

"The fewer people who know about this matter, the better. If it's not necessary, even you can't do it."

Kanal was full of thoughts at the moment, and there was a fire, and it was hard to tell whether it was anger or resentment or something else.But now is not the time to do this, he calmed down for a while, carefully resisted the impulse, and suppressed his voice: "And then? The most important thing—is that thing not lost?"

Shiratori took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "I lost it."

What a concise and clear answer!Kayna wanted to scream, but ended up letting out a few gasps.His eyes were wide open without his noticing, and his expression was very scary.

"Then what should we do? Go tell father and king? Go now!"

He jumped off the bed and ran straight to the door, but was caught by Shiratori.

"Why? Hurry up—"

But the white bird didn't move.Sitting there motionless like a statue.Kenara passed him, thinking that he might have something in mind, so he sat back and waited for him to say something.

"Your father built that weapon, but he had no choice but to destroy it after the war. We had to keep it in a place where no one knew." He said suddenly, but what he said didn't seem to help the status quo.Kenna thought that maybe he would get to the point while he was talking, so he listened carefully.

"The peak of the Pillar of Heaven I mentioned before has also been considered, but hiding things is to put them where you can find them to be at ease. The Pillar of Heaven is too far away, and I don't know what will happen on the way to send it. I’m also afraid of being picked up by others. It’s better to keep a weapon in your own hands even if it’s a burden than to be picked up by others. What if you use it against yourself? ——People have this kind of mentality. So they hide in the palace under their noses .”

"He was still worried, and hoped that I could watch over him. I was not his subordinate, and I did not obey his orders. So he proposed to build a tomb for Lian Ji, and put Lian Ji's body and weapons in it. Lian Ji came to tie me down. In exchange for guarding Lian Ji's tomb, I agreed to his three unreasonable demands, the first being to guard the weapon while guarding the tomb."

"Um……"

Kaina responded unconsciously.

"Actually, he and I both understand that there is only Lian Ji's body in the tomb, and there are no treasures. Why do we need a tomb guard? Even if I knew this, I wanted to protect Lian Ji more. I was too sad at the time, and I didn't want to live. If It’s not that I was asked to guard the tomb, I might have committed suicide at that time.”

He smiled self-deprecatingly.Kena felt a little pitiful and couldn't help reaching out to touch his head.

Shiratori continued: "Burying the weapons together in the Ascension Hall increases the risk of being stolen. I agreed to his second request, leaving the cemetery after someone enters it and taking the weapons with them. It is hidden in the Ascension Hall Things are only temporary, once you know how to get in and how to get out, the cover of the cemetery is useless. It will only become dangerous. So as soon as someone enters, I will take the weapon and hide it somewhere else. Corban III's The original intention is to hope that it can be delayed for a while, and it would be the best if people find out after his death, so that he doesn't need to clean up the mess."

Kena was silent for a while, and said: "At that time, you let those thieves go out alive, and they would know how to get out of the cemetery. If you killed them at that time——um..."

Killing them didn't seem too good either.As a prince, Kena had heard a lot about killing people since he was a child, but he was still young after all, so he was still a little uneasy when he said this.

"Yes. If they were killed at that time, it would definitely be able to last for a while. But in the final analysis, as long as the location of the Ascension Hall is known, it will not work after all. But these are actually not important."

He took a breath, and said with a dreamy expression: "Even though I know it will cause trouble, I still don't want the dirty corpse to pollute Lian Ji's cemetery."

Kena frowned and took a deep breath:

This guy is beyond help! ! !

As long as it is related to Lian Ji, he will become a fool.No matter how cautious, meticulous and sensitive he is, no matter how much life experience and combat ability he has, as long as he faces Lian Ji's affairs, he will ignore everything.

True, Kayna also thought it would be a bad idea to kill the grave robbers.However, the lesser of two evils, the death of a few tomb robbers is nothing compared to the theft of dangerous weapons.The weapon was stolen, and it might cause a war!What's more, running into the queen's tomb to steal things, and even trying to kill the prince who ran into them, is a capital crime.Shiratori let them go so cheaply.

... No, that's what he thinks now, and he didn't want Shiratori to kill those people at the time of the incident.It was naive to think about it now.At that time, he still felt that Shiratori was ruthless, and Kaina really wanted to scratch his own ears.

"...So you took it out with you when you came out and hid it in my room?"

With a straight face, Shiratori said calmly, "Actually, it's right under your bed."

Keena jumped up again.After a while, he sat down again.

"Although it's good to know the ins and outs of the matter, but now everything has been stolen... You are so slow, is there any way to get it back? Or do you have any clues about the person who stole the things?"

Just as Shiratori was about to answer something, he suddenly heard a chaotic sound outside the door, the footsteps of a group of people followed by shouting and yelling.It is now the middle of the night, and this is a well-ordered palace. Normally, this kind of situation cannot happen.But with so much going on recently, Kayner has become more or less immune to "abnormal" things.

The door was flung open.A group of palace guards can be seen from the door of the bedroom, there are dozens of people, some of them are obviously phantom beasts.They swept around the room and went straight to the bedroom.

Shiratori grabbed Kena's wrist.