Twilight War

Chapter05 Valkyrie

I like the streets in the twilight, everyone is like a shadow walking between the sky and the earth.

01

Huang Xuanjin ran down the spiral staircase of Sheng Qiangwei Palace.

Several people around Cardinal Gregory also walked up the spiral staircase. Huang Xuanjin ignored Gregory, but ran sideways from Gregory's side.

"stop."

The two people behind Gregory stopped Huangxuan Jin on the spiral staircase.

Gregory walked slowly down the spiral staircase covered with thick red blankets towards Huangxuan Jin, his eyes were contemptuous, "Did people in Donghuang never learn etiquette?"

Huang Xuanjin turned his head, raised his head and glanced at Gregory.

"Speaking of which, I'm really surprised why the queen still keeps someone like you by her side, and even let you join the Knights of the Garter." Gregory's voice was deliberately slowed down by the superior.

"By the way, where is your Knight's Badge of the Garter Guards?" Gregory looked at Huang Xuanjin and twitched his lips with a bit of sarcasm, "Does it mean that you don't feel ashamed to wear it?"

"I have no money, I pawned it." Huang Xuanjin looked up at Gregory and said casually.

"Pawned? Is the young master of the Huangxuan family so embarrassed now?" Gregory said as if he was very surprised, his voice suddenly became like an annoying jester, "ah, I forgot, now You are no longer the young master of the Huangxuan family."

The wind outside the window blew up the heavy curtains, and the black-haired boy on the dark spiral staircase was hidden under the flickering light.

Gregory took out a bag of gold coins from his pocket and waved them in front of Huangxuan Jin, "What? Do you want it?"

Huangxuan Jin half-closed his eyes and looked like he was still asleep. He looked at the embroidered money bag dangling in Gregory's hand with his mouth raised, "If you give it, of course I will."

Gregory slowly handed the money bag to Huang Xuanjin, Huang Xuanjin looked at the money bag in front of him, he didn't seem to want to accept it, but he didn't seem to refuse it either.

After watching for a while, Huangxuanjin sighed, and stretched out his hand as if to take the money bag.

However, Gregory provoked a malicious smile, and then slowly dumped the money bag down, dozens of gold coins branded with double roses fell on the steps covered with thick red carpet.

He didn't look at the falling gold coins, but kept looking at Huangxuan Jin.

Huangxuan Jin sighed, shook his head and squatted down helplessly, took off the military cap on his head, picked up the gold coins that fell from the stairs, and threw them into the cap one by one.

When he picked it up in front of Gregory, Gregory stretched out his foot to step on the gold coin, bent down and said: "Huangxuan Jin, you are just a waste who can only live on various drugs. "

"Her Majesty once asked the diocese to ask for crows to kill grass. If I guess correctly, crows to kill grass is used on you." Gregory deliberately suppressed his voice, gloomy and malicious, "crows to kill grass. If you touch it, you will not be able to get rid of it in this life, and you can get rid of other things, but those who want to quit killing crows and weeds will have to pay for their entire lives."

"If you haven't taken the medicine now, I'm afraid you don't even have the strength to pick up a gun."

"The queen just treats you as a useful dog. Whenever you become disobedient, she will be cut off from the neck with a knife."

Huang Xuanjin drooped his eyes and shook his head as if bored, "Raise your feet, okay?"

Gregory didn't move, Huangxuanjin didn't struggle, turned to the side, the purple-clothed bishop behind Gregory bent down, picked up the gold coin that had rolled under his robe, handed it to Huangxuanjin, then stepped back and drew a picture on his chest. made a cross.

Huang Xuanjin raised his head and glanced at the assistant teacher in purple, and raised his eyebrows. The bishop in purple looked only twenty, not very handsome, but he had the dignity of a devout saint.

After picking up all the gold coins with double-twisted roses on them, Huangxuan Jin stood up slowly, flicked a few times from the military cap, took out three gold coins, and handed the general cap together with the rest of the gold coins. to Gregory.

"I only choose one out of ten offerings from mortals."

Seeing that Gregory had no intention of taking over, Huangxuan Jin didn't force it, and raised the corner of his mouth, flipped the general's cap down, and all the gold coins in the cap were overturned on the spiral staircase.

General Huang Xuanjin put his hat on his head, turned around and looked at the two priests standing in front of him, and said, "I still took medicine today, and I still have the strength to hold a gun."

Then he passed between the two of them sideways, and ran down the spiral staircase nonchalantly, except that he had three more gold coins in his hand, and his expression was the same as when he came down just now.

The gold coins rolling down the spiral staircase landed on the marble tiles below, like rain splashed at night.

02

Huangxuan Jin leaned against the door of Isabel's bedroom, rolled the meat sauce noodles in his hand with a fork, and was in a daze while eating.I ate one at Visper's in the morning, and I didn't think I had enough, so I asked for another one from the kitchen.

He doesn't know what's wrong with him now, sometimes he doesn't seem to feel hungry for two or three days, and sometimes he doesn't seem to be able to eat enough.Several maids from the Palace of the Holy Rose walked past Huangxuan Jin holding the Queen's evening gown.

As the queen of the Vana Empire, Isabel needs to change her clothes three times a day. In the morning, she wears a loose and comfortable cotton robe, in the afternoon, she wears a formal and solemn skirt, and in the evening, she wears a complicated and exquisite evening dress.

The maid put the evening gown in the Queen's bedroom and withdrew. Isabel never liked having other people present when she changed her clothes.

Huang Xuanjin licked the sauce on the corner of his mouth, the fading sun was outside the window, and Isabel didn't come out after a long time.

He knocked on the door with the exquisite rose relief, but there was no sound from inside.

Huangxuanjin knew that this meant to Isabel that she needed help, otherwise she would directly say — no entry for idlers.

It sounds formal and awkward, after all, except for the former knight, everyone here in Isabel is idle.

He pushed open the door and walked in. Sure enough, as soon as he opened the door, he saw Isabel entangled in ribbons.

Isabel saw Huangxuan Jin walk in from the rococo-style copper-framed full-length mirror. She didn't speak, but was still pulling the ribbon on her body.

Huangxuan Jin walked behind Isabel, and tore off the ribbon that Isabel had made into a mess. The ribbons on the evening gown were complicated and exquisite. After all, this evening gown was supposed to be worn by a group of maids at the beginning.

Those beautiful maids should surround Isabel like a group of butterflies, flying and shuttling, arranging the brooch on the queen's chest, folding every fold of the lace, and tying the long ribbon into a margarita knot, and draped a white organza blouse over Isabelle's shoulders.

But no, the girl was always getting dressed in the empty bedroom by herself.

"You look like a kind of food now." Huang Xuanjin said while fastening the ribbon.

"what?"

"You probably haven't eaten Donghuang's. You don't know if you tell me, but the inside is white, and the outside is wrapped with a layer of leaves, and the outside is tied with red thread."

Isabel: "...so abstract, why does Donghuang eat such strange things."

"It's not all about eating, sometimes I throw it into the water to feed the fish." Huang Xuanjin tilted his head and frowned, suddenly thinking of the picture of throwing Isabel into the water to feed the fish.

Isabel thought for a while and said, "Donghuang people are so strange."

"The Vana people are also very strange. They use so many ribbons on one piece of clothing."

"I don't like this kind of clothes either. I heard that many girls have started to wear Greek-style dresses recently, but if I wear them, those aristocratic ladies with white powder on their faces and black taffeta We're bound to start bickering again." Isabel said with her head down.

"Speaking of which, what color is your dress, nun's red or women's red?" Huang Xuanjin tilted his head and smiled, looking at Isabel's skirt and said.

"They said it was Sister Red." Isabel said, "Okay, we should get out."

"I'm really surprised how they differentiate nun's red from women's red."

"Don't forget there are Young Girl Hong and Maiden Red." Isabel turned her head and said to Huangxuan Jin.

03

Isabel and Huangxuan Jin walked in the long corridor, the white marble floor was illuminated by the light through the stained glass windows into a mottled appearance.

"Do you know what we discussed at yesterday's meeting?" Isabel asked suddenly.

"do not know."

"Arthur wants peace, Gregory wants to, but I don't."

"You guys talked all afternoon, and that's all." Huang Xuanjin said with a smile.

"That's right." Isabel continued to walk forward, "When I was very young, my father once said to me, politics or something, that's it - it's like an arm wrestling between men, and the onlookers feel that the two Individuals didn't even move, but the two people who were really wrestling had already put in all their strength, even fighting for their lives. Because once they lose, they will be killed by each other."

"So you broke your wrists all afternoon?" Huang Xuanjin swept Isabel's thin body up and down, "If this is really the case, you should give up."

Isabel ignored Huangxuan Jin and continued: "But now it seems that it will be difficult for me if I insist on not negotiating a peace. After all, one-third of the right to use the Silver of the Great Abyss is in the hands of the diocese, and since' After Alfonso's conversion', the power of the diocese grew."

"Is there any benefit to Vaner if there is no discussion?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"No." Isabel said bluntly: "In fact, the most correct choice for Vaner is to negotiate a peace. After all, the second battle at dusk consumed too much of Vaner's combat power. And no one knows what we will face in the end." What a terrifying existence."

"Then you..." Huang Xuanjin frowned and asked.

"Huangxuanjin, are you an idiot?" Isabel looked back at Huangxuanjin, "Why should I do the right thing."

"Then kill Gregory." Huang Xuanjin said, "Be straightforward."

Elizabeth ignored Huang Xuanjin and said, "You know what happened to Alfonso's conversion."

"En." Huangxuanjin nodded, "It is said that Alfonso XIII was seriously injured in the battle of Iron Stone Castle, and when he was alone in the bloody battle, he saw the man who had beheaded him in the burning thorns. The god-like dragon of the dragon came, gave him a long sword to destroy the enemy, and said that when he returned to Corinth, he would make the royal family of Vanir long. State religion, theocracy and kingship became the pillars supporting this empire."

Isabel snorted coldly, "Those are just empty words of the superiors. Alfonso XIII just announced that he will become a believer in God, and then built the Palace of the Rose in a blink of an eye. This is not what a monk should do."

"At the end of the day, it's still about power. Varner used to have the same beliefs as Arthur."

"Odin and his eleven little friends," Huang Xuanjin said, "take away a locked up Loki."

"That's right, but now Odin and the gods are more called ancient gods in Vana. In the system of ancient mythology, the gods of Vanaa are always secondary gods, while the gods of Arthur are the main gods. Ah Fonso XIII will not tolerate this, so he ushered in a new god for Vanna."

"However, the wolves fed by the royal family of Vana have already broken free from the shackles, and even sharpened their sharp teeth to devour the flesh and blood of the royal family," Isabel said.

"What does this have to do with Gregory?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"He will die, but his death should be more meaningful." Isabel said: "On the day he dies, Vaner's theocracy will succumb to the shadow of the king's authority."

The girl stopped in front of the huge latticed window in the atrium, watching the shadow of the statue of Goddess Gullweger cast over the square paved with white marble.

"Even a god shouldn't be on an equal footing with me."

"But I haven't figured out how to kill him yet." Isabel said, "Do you have any ideas?"

"No."

"By the way, you should really want to kill Gregory." Isabel looked back at Huangxuan Jin.

"Not really."

"But he really wants you dead."

"Varner wants me to die a lot."

"Then kill them one by one." Isabel said nonchalantly.

"If you kill them one by one," the black-haired boy looked up at the street shrouded in fog in the distance outside the window, and thought for a while, "...I will be tired."