king and queen

The stars are far away ①

The sound of sharp blades colliding came from the courtyard, and the piercing murderous aura was chilling.

"Stop! Lancelot! Aggressive!"

What an absurd scene this is. The knights serving under Arthur's throne are fighting together, engaging in a merciless fight. It seems that they will never stop unless they take the life of each other and cut their colleagues under the sword.

"Didn't you understand me telling you to stop!?"

Ever since Wang completely abandoned her humanity and sacrificed herself, Guinevia has never seen her again.

King Arthur's eyes no longer reflected anyone.

That is also a matter of course, who can stop her from going further and further?

Guinevia couldn't do anything about it, there was nothing she could do, she... couldn't do anything.

Anyway, anyway... She has failed completely, she can't get close to the king, let alone pull King Arthur back to her side.However, even if it fails, even if it is separated, the queen does not want to cast any stain on the king's career.

If someone really wants to take someone's life, it should be an incompetent person like her.

Paranoid thoughts were implanted in her heart, and the pain that had been going through her heart for a long time, Guinevia almost didn't even think about it, and dodged in front of the holy sword.

The tip of the sword sank into the queen's body, bringing out a beautiful flower of blood.

She blocked the knights' private fight.

"Do you want to betray the king—" the queen asked in a stern voice, questioning the loyalty of the knights, "do you know what you are doing!?"

Since the sentence "the king doesn't understand people's hearts", how many people have started to doubt the king and gradually distanced themselves from her, Guinevia no longer wants to count them.

She just wanted to ask a question——

"What do you guys think of the country that the king is fully supporting!?"

Guinevia would never admit to something she hadn't done.

She loves Wang, even if Wang can no longer become a "human" again, she will never allow herself to tarnish her reputation.

Agguiwen's pupils trembled violently, his eyes widened in shock, and he stared at her in disbelief, as if he had never known her before, looking straight at her like that.

Guinevia suppressed her smile for the first time, looked at him, she lost her external gentleness, revealing a cold edge.

How could she just trample on her ideals like this, her dedication?

Unforgivable, unforgivable!

After he heeded Morgan's plot, he was no longer an innocent victim.

"Bright knight, I ask you, Morgan—does she hate the king that much?"

Although they are relatives connected by blood, they still have to confront each other.Even though she was once such a glorious princess, she insisted on letting herself fall into the abyss.

"His Royal Highness, Queen!!!!"

Lancelot's voice seemed to have never been so stern. He was always gentle and silent, standing behind the queen, encouraging her, comforting her, and accompanying her.

He is her most faithful sword.

Agguiwen was at a loss. After watching this scene, he finally learned the truth about why this false couple could support each other until now.

There are only others in my heart, and there is absolutely no personal relationship——

She is such a woman.

"Are you calm now?"

The queen's face was pale, and she looked at these knights with burning eyes, these heroes who had sworn to serve the king.

The pain running through her body was forcing her consciousness to gradually blur, but no, she couldn't fall down like this.

"Come on! Come on!!" Time seemed to stop at this moment, the world suddenly changed color and faded into black and white, Agguiwen came back to his senses, wondering whether he should draw his sword, he had never been so flustered like today Guo: "Her Royal Highness has been assassinated!"

"It's nothing."

Every second of breathing was agony, and her body became a hotbed of pain.

In the end, Guinevia tried her best to express her meaning.

"...It's okay, it can't get any worse."

"But--"

"Knight, this is an order."

Guinevia's lips were pale, and fine cold sweat oozed from her forehead, wet her sandalwood-like black hair.

She had to use extremely strong control to suppress the trembling of every nerve in order to maintain a superficial calm.

One after the other, the holy sword submerged in her body obeyed her thoughts and left her body.

Because the queen lost her support, she immediately knelt down on the ground. The dizziness caused by blood loss made her dizzy. She gritted her teeth and tried to support herself, but it was in vain.

"His Royal Highness!!"

I don't know who was yelling worriedly and excitedly in my ear, but Guinevia didn't seem to hear it.

"Sorry, sorry..."

Agguiwen shed tears, dropped his sword in bewilderment, and knelt down beside her.

Lancelot could no longer take into account his existence. He carefully touched the Queen's cheek, and it seemed that only her could be seen in his eyes, "...Are you in pain? Why are you doing this?"

As a knight serving the round table, Lancelot did have the awareness to dedicate everything to this country at first, but when did he start, even an impeccable hero, the perfect incarnation of chivalry, would have his own selfishness? ?

Guinevia could no longer control the contortion of her expression. She shed tears because of the severe pain. She lay in the knight's arms without any resistance, persistently grabbed his sleeves, and stared at the two of them. .

"I said you guys, what kind of idiots you are...you are such glorious knights, how could you die here for such a ridiculous reason...Age, Guiwen...you really relied on your own will , do you want to... expose the king's secret?"

"I'm sorry, Your Royal Highness...Your Highness, I..."

"The king trusts you very much."

Guinevia tried her best to express her meaning: "...Please, don't let her be alone..."

His Majesty the king is more gentle than anyone else, and Arturia who loves the people more than anyone else can't let her heart be buried. If the king is not understood, it is too terrible.

That is absolutely impossible.

The darkness swallowed Guinevia's consciousness, and she closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

"The injury is too serious, and it seems that she has been cursed... I can only stabilize her condition temporarily, and cannot save her."

In the haze, it seemed to hear someone's voice, which was unbelievably soft, with a sigh.

"Merlin...?"

Guinevia dully remembered that the king was out of the city for inspection and was about to return to Camelot. Suddenly she gained some strength, and she struggled to wake up, panting quickly.

"—keep it from her!"

"Mei, Merlin, please... Please help me hide it from the king, you will definitely have a way, won't you?"

The court magician stared at her pale face, and shook his head wordlessly in refusal.

"Don't let her see me like this, please—" Guinevia was almost pleading: "Please tell her that I couldn't stand the boring life in the palace, betrayed her, and fled privately... You are Wang's most respected teacher, and she will definitely believe in you."

"...Sorry, Your Highness, I can't do this."

Hearing his rejection again, Guinevia was almost desperate, "Why...?"

The queen didn't want the king to see her embarrassed appearance, even though the king had stepped on the clouds and was far away from the world, she was still the gentle king.

Because she made up her mind to become an "ideal king" because of "the happiness of the people".

Guinevia will never forget this for eternity.

The hand that grasped Merlin's robe was released, and the queen fell into a coma again.

This is simply appalling.

Magicians think so.

It is simply a "miracle" existence, and the ideal king will fall into the mortal world because of this.

"She will bring disaster to you, and you must remember not to force her to stay."

Recalling the words he had warned the king, extremely complicated emotions appeared on the face of the Magician of Flowers, which seemed to be pity and embarrassment.

"Your Highness the Queen..."

Agguiwen stood stiffly by the door, the conversation with Morgan just now seemed to be echoing in his ears.

"I won't save her."

"Wouldn't it be nice if King Arthur could suffer when she died?"

"Morgan, is that throne really so important! I want you to fight for it even if you don't hesitate to hurt everyone!"

"What are you talking about, Aggavin, King Arthur took away my country." The charming witch said indifferently, with a weird and subtle smile on her face, "You are really my country!" good son."

"..."

"I want to overthrow his rule."

This hatred can never be eliminated, unless the enemy dies, unless the world is destroyed.

"Agge..."

The weak call made the knight wake up suddenly, and he knelt down beside the woman's bed in bewilderment, hearing his almost docile voice.

"I am here, Her Majesty the Queen."

Guinevia's breathing was weak, her voice was intermittent, and she couldn't hear clearly, and her vision was gradually shrouded in mist and became blurred.

She stretched out her hand hard, and her pale fingertips touched the knight's armor, but she couldn't tell which side had the lower temperature.

"Your Highness, do you have anything to tell me? I'm listening. Please rest well."

She shook her head wearily, rejected his kindness, pulled herself together, and called out the names of the knights who participated in the brawl in the courtyard one by one.

"...Lancelot, Mordred..."

"I'm dying."

"So, give me your cross, I'll just have mine."

The knights who were kneeling in front of her were shocked by this terrible fact, and raised their heads in panic, "Your Royal Highness!"

"Give it to me and back off."

Her command cannot be questioned.

"……Yes."

The knights bowed their heads stiffly, took off the cross on their bodies with trembling hands, and handed it over to the woman who was about to die, with mournful and desolate expressions, as if they were repenting and redeeming their sins.

Guinevia turned a blind eye and waited for them to return the item.

The names of the knights are engraved on the silver cross, and the coat of arms representing the supreme glory of being a knight is branded on it—it was the cross presented by the king and queen on the day they joined the round table, which is of great significance. than usual.

Inside the round table, everyone will have two, and Guinevia only took the one she gave herself.

"You are extremely trusted knights, don't let the king down."

—she took away her trust.

This cruel fact is hard to face.

"Stand back, the queen needs quiet."

Seeing the knights staying in the royal city wanting to approach but not daring to approach, the magician spoke like this with an extremely gentle tone.

The bone-deep cold made Guinevia tremble all over. It was obvious that she had been unable to show her face in the past few years, but at the moment of death, Guinevia smiled.

"I'm such a vengeful woman."

Knights who trample on glory will eventually be abandoned by glory, I hope they will understand this truth.

But Guinevia is doomed not to see that future, and she will win eternity.

The fingers holding the cross lost their strength, and she let them fall to the ground, which seemed to symbolize the irreparable crack of the round table.

"Whether it's the collapse of the round table or the crisis in Britain, it's all part of our destiny, we just need to accept it calmly."

"—But it seems that you don't think so, Your Majesty the Queen."

Half asleep and half awake, Guinevia seemed to hear the magician's sigh, and her consciousness gradually blurred.

Some things are worth sacrificing her life. She did everything she could, but she was a little bit regretful.

This palace was the place she yearned for when she was young, but it was also the place where Artoria was buried.

She brought the round table, watched it form, watched it prosper, and finally watched it decay.

...Then let's stop here, Guinevia must admit that he has lost completely.

She can't beat fate, because Wang chose fate.