The King's Follower [Rebirth]

William kept raising his head, looking at Edward who was sitting by the fire reading a book, then lowered his head, and continued to do his homework absent-mindedly, but he didn't realize that his handwriting became more and more crooked, and had already penetrated the horizontal lines printed on the paper.

"William?" Elizabeth whispered. "Look at your homework! What are you thinking?"

William hastily withdrew his attention, only to realize that he had written crookedly. There was no chance for this kind of homework to be corrected. William had to pull out a piece of parchment again, dip it in a quill pen, and re-write it. .

Now, the entertainment time in the evening has completely turned into the time for reading and studying. The servants on duty and the crown prince are reading or doing homework in the small study together. crackle.

"Wait and write." Elizabeth put down her pen, "if you would talk to me about why you are so flustered."

William glanced at the crown prince again.The crown prince's body was tightly wrapped in a wine-red thick velvet robe. The long sleeves and the feet of the robe hang down to the ground, and the cuffs will cover the slender wrists.The crown prince is holding a black leather-covered book in his left hand, pointing at a sentence on the page with his right hand, with a focused expression, as if he is thinking about something, on the ring finger of his right hand, a pure gold power ring is shining under the soft light, On the huge ring surrounded by blue gemstones, half was carved with the royal emblem, and half was carved with the Crown Prince's Crown and the Somerset County Standard, with a small ruby ​​set in each triangular point of the Crown Prince's Crown, Extremely delicate.

William looked at it, and suddenly wanted to go over, kneel at the crown prince's feet, hold his hand, kiss his ring, and pay his allegiance to him.

"I think..." He lowered his head with some difficulty, and unconsciously pinched a corner of the parchment with his hand, "Tomorrow there will be a final exam at the training ground, and I want to invite the crown prince to watch my exam."

"Then invite him," said Elizabeth. "It's not a big deal."

"But..." William hesitated. He really wanted Edward to watch how he beat all the other little orcs in the class and won No.1 in the whole grade. Several times of duels between level [-] powerhouses, and the data room of the practice field contains magic scrolls of duels between level [-] powerhouses. After watching these games, William naturally knows how boring and unappreciative the fights between underage orcs are. Sex, as soon as he thought of this, he didn't want to invite Edward again.

Elizabeth is a sub-orc, so naturally she didn't understand the complicated thoughts in William's mind, so she just asked, "But what?"

"He's just afraid that His Highness will see him defeated." Matthew, who was sitting at the same table with them, suddenly said, seeing William and Elizabeth looking up at him, Matthew immediately raised his chin, Shi Shiran put down the quill, rolled up the homework he had just finished, and said with a smirk, "Be careful tomorrow, Mr. William, the highest grade does not necessarily mean that you can get the No. .1, the scene where Michael was defeated by Sophia, I think you should remember it vividly. A real strong person relies on his mind."

Michael and Sophia are two civilian students from Somerset County who are eligible to enter the practice field. Michael is two-thirds higher than Sophia, but in the end he is defeated by Sophia's dexterous tactics.This matter was taken out by the teachers as a model and talked about for two full months.

William didn't respond to Matthew's provocation. He watched Matthew tie a blue ribbon on the rolled parchment and tied it with a beautiful bow, and then said with pity: "Your Excellency Matthew, no Do you know if you waited for the ink to dry when you finished your homework just now?"

Matthew gasped in horror, he could hardly maintain his sluggish aristocratic demeanor, and quickly tore off the ribbon to start his homework—it was too late, and the wet ink was rubbed off by the motion of rolling the paper Everywhere, his homework had to be reworked.

He glared at William angrily, opened his mouth, but said nothing. The dirty homework was entirely his own responsibility. Although he hated the immoral illegitimate child in front of him, he would not arbitrarily put the blame on others , but angrily crumpled up his homework and threw it on the ground. When he pulled out a piece of paper again and prepared to transcribe the homework, he realized that he still needed the homework paper he threw on the ground.Matthew's face was flushed, and William was sitting opposite him, and he didn't want to pick up the ball of paper.

Elizabeth shook her head.After Edward wrote a long letter about Matthew's education to the Duke of Shiring, Matthew restrained his pretentious behavior, but he was still very awkward, even though it had affected his popularity among the valet.But Elizabeth knew that this arrogant little orc had no bad intentions. Although his behavior sometimes made people uncomfortable, he acted frankly and sincerely. Look past his haughty exterior to see what's inside him.

"Go and invite His Highness." Elizabeth said to William, "You are His Highness's younger brother, and His Highness's love for you is obvious to all. He must not want to miss your final exam. Maybe His Highness is waiting for you to invite him. "

William's eyes lit up, his face was a little hot, and he approached and asked in a low voice, "Everyone...everyone knows..."

Elizabeth nodded amusedly. William sometimes likes to show off to others the special treatment that the crown prince's brother treats him.So William happily jumped off his chair and went to invite the Crown Prince.

Seeing William walking away, Elizabeth also stood up. She picked up the ball of paper that Matthew threw on the ground, spread it out and laid it flat in front of Matthew, then turned and left, pretending to look for books on the bookshelf, leaving space to Matthew.

The awkward little orc looked at Elizabeth's back, bit his lower lip, and suddenly felt his eyes a little sore.

William walked to Edward's side, only to find that Edward's eyes were not focused on the pages of the book, his fingers tapped the paper lightly, as if he was thinking about something.

"Your Highness?" William called softly.

Edward woke up from his contemplation, looked up at William standing beside him: "What's wrong?" He asked with a smile.

"Do you have time tomorrow?"

Edward immediately understood what the other party wanted to do, nodded, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will go to your final exam tomorrow."

William's eyes widened immediately, and his golden pupils shone with surprise. He quickly grabbed Edward's right hand, kissed his power ring heavily, and whispered: "Thank you!" Rubbing Edward's fingers, he complained softly, "Your Highness, your hands are so cold, do you think the room is too cold?"

"It's just that I haven't moved my fingers for too long. I'm so hot that I'm sweating." Edward said evasively, pinched his fleshy face, put aside the thick theology book in his hand, and asked, "What do you do with your homework?" Is it finished?"

"No." William quickly added, "But the homework is due in the day after tomorrow, and I have already written two-thirds of it!"

Edward nodded, moved his body inside, and said, "Go and get a book you like."

William's eyes lit up, and he ran towards the bookshelf at a trot. The etiquette teacher sitting beside him coughed immediately. William stopped hurriedly, walked steadily to the bookshelf with his head held high, picked out a collection of poems, and slowly Walking back to Edward's side, I finally couldn't bear the last two steps. I rushed over with a hop, jumped onto the sofa, sat down beside Edward, retracted into his arms, and watched Edward open the door with his slender fingers. The collection of poems, turning to one of the pages, began to read it softly:

"I have no desire but to love you

A storm fills the valley

a fish fills the river

I made you as big as my loneliness

the whole world so we can hide

Let's get to know each other day and night

In order not to see anything else in your eyes

only see my imagination of you

only see the world in your image

And the days and nights controlled by your eyelids. "

In fact, William wasn’t interested in poetry either. What he liked was Edward’s voice, with its ups and downs and ups and downs. Especially when reciting poems, it was like the warm luster of gemstones. The keys of the piano in the attic were lightly touched. The crystal cup shattered, and a box of pearls fell on the gold teak floor.

Half a year later, William's pronunciation is still not standard, but just enough to allow everyone to understand what he is saying without any effort.The teacher advised him to listen more and learn from others. After all, in the entire castle, even the cleaning servants can speak a specious aristocratic accent.Elizabeth and William had the best relationship, and they often read to him. When Edward saw him, he often read some poems to William when he was free at night, firstly to correct his pronunciation, and secondly to enrich his literary quality.But no one knew that William was afraid that Edward would never read poems to him again if he learned an aristocratic accent, so the speed of improving his accent was extremely slow.

While Edward was reciting poems softly, William felt his head getting heavier and heavier, and his eyelids getting heavier and heavier. Finally, when Edward read the tenth poem, he tilted his head and fell asleep.

Edward glanced at the little orc beside him, gently closed the book, sighed, stroked his black hair, put the poetry collection aside, and picked up the theology book again.Inside the book was a letter from the king's most beloved and highest-status lover, Viscount Defines. In the letter, the Viscount respectfully asked about the Crown Prince's current situation and when he planned to leave for the palace for the New Year, and then Talk about your nephew.The viscount's nephew fell in love with the queen's family, the sub-orcs of the Ablos family, and the viscount asked the crown prince to speak well for his nephew in front of the queen, so as to facilitate a happy marriage.

In fact, the real meaning of this letter is to inform an assassination operation: the invigilator of William's final examination has been replaced by the Queen's person, and this assassin will take the opportunity to attack William when he is duel with his classmates.

The king wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to cut off an arm of the Abros family, but William's status was noble, so it was impossible to take the risk anyway.So the time to reflect Edward's value has come. The assassin has been replaced again, replaced by the king's men. During the assessment the next day, the top three will be awarded by the crown prince himself. The king's men will be in Edward Assassinate Edward when awarding the top three.Of course, Edward will not die, but will suffer some injuries. For the sake of realism, the injuries will not be too slight, but they will not be serious enough to endanger life.

Edward stared blankly at the jumping flames in the fireplace. He couldn't help touching his lower ribs. Tomorrow, a sharp knife will penetrate here. He will lie on the bed for several months, and during these months, The king will do a political purge because of the assassination of the crown prince.

He shivered for a moment, thinking of the explosion before his death in the last life, the severe pain when the flesh and blood exploded.It shouldn't hurt that much.He was thinking uncertainly, and when he lowered his head, he saw the soft little orc huddled in his arms, his mouth slightly opened, and a faint trace of saliva flowed out.He suddenly relaxed and closed his eyes.It's better to stick to yourself than to stick to William.Thinking of this, he felt that courage gradually accumulated again, and his hands and feet were not so cold.