Pharaoh

"Speaking of His Royal Highness, I think of someone."

Isis seemed to remember something again.

But this time, there was a tinge of sarcasm in her normally dignified and beautiful smile.

"In this way, the woman at the beginning, you didn't know because you were training in Lower Egypt at that time... she was indeed a rare beauty. That was something after the king succeeded to the throne, probably because of her beauty and body. It’s quite satisfactory, and that girl’s temper is very gentle, and she treats others very considerately and kindly, and she won’t be arrogant and cause trouble like other women, so the king also pampered her a little longer.”

"At that time, everyone thought that the girl had won the favor of the king. Many people said that she would become the princess soon... The reason why I said that is because I feel that she is quite similar to His Royal Highness now."

"Isis! That should be just the daughter of an official, how can you compare her with the prince."

Seth interrupted Isis, frowning.

"Besides, it doesn't look like it at all just to hear you say that."

he said, looking displeased.

"That brother Wang is simply a troublesome guy who is arrogant and likes to cause trouble everywhere!"

Facing Seth's complaints, Isis just smiled and didn't answer.

At that time, although everyone said that the girl would become the princess, Isis, who was closest to the king as the pharaoh's confidant, knew it in his heart.

The reason why Wang showed such an attitude was that he was too lazy to change people, and this girl was quite clean by her side.Moreover, not long after the king succeeded to the throne, there were signs of instability in Lower Egypt, and it was rumored that this girl, as the daughter of an important official in Lower Egypt, might become a princess, which would make those who disagreed in Lower Egypt much more secure.

Later, probably hearing rumors about the ceremony vaguely, the girl expressed the hope that she could also participate with the priests.

It doesn't matter, let her go if she wants to go.

At that time, facing Isis's question, the young Pharaoh who was playing with the golden blocks boredly answered in this way casually.

Then the maiden, who was said to be a hopeful princess of Egypt, saw all of the horrific sights previously described.

"That kind of scene will give people a sense of destructive fear. It is natural for people who see it to feel scared... That woman was obviously pale with fright, but for her self-righteous thoughtfulness, she still suppressed her fear Make calm, take the initiative to go forward to comfort the king, and say that no matter what happens, your feelings will not change... Yes, it stands to reason that such words should make people feel very warm."

Speaking of this, Isis half-covered her lips with her slender fingers, and she smiled even more strangely.

"Seth, guess what happened to this woman in the end?"

At that time, the young Pharaoh just glanced at the beautiful girl who tried hard to suppress the fear of getting close to him and seemed to have been doted on by him for a while.

He looked around casually, and casually clicked on a guard standing near him, and bestowed the girl on that guard.

The maiden almost recognized as the default Egyptian princess became the wife of a lowly humble bodyguard.

Because it was bestowed by the Pharaoh, even if the girl's father was an important official in Lower Egypt, it would not help. What's more, the young king who was gradually using his methods at that time had firmly controlled Lower Egypt in his own hands.

"That woman is so stupid to have the audacity to treat Pharaoh in a gesture of conferring and pity for what she thinks she is."

Isis sneered, it could be seen that she had extremely little affection for that girl at the beginning.

"Indeed, the king's magical power is too shocking to make people afraid to approach."

"However, for the frightened gazes and behaviors of others, at most, Wang will only feel a little bit of displeasure."

"He doesn't care at all whether those humble servants of purple crystals will fear him or not—or rather, as a Pharaoh, it is right for his subordinates to fear him."

"It's impossible for him to hate the power he possesses. On the contrary, the king will only be more proud because he has such a powerful power."

"As the supreme pharaoh, it is natural to be different, and the king is proud of this."

"However, that stupid girl embraced the disgusting thought of 'This person who is different from others and feared by everyone must be deeply lonely and hurt' with self-righteous tenderness, in a kind of 'Only I will accept you, only I will not be afraid of you' to treat the king with such a superior and compassionate attitude... It is really ridiculous to pretend to be 'I understand you' when you obviously don't understand anything."

"Originally, even if she was useless, the king probably wouldn't do anything to her because of her beauty and docile disposition. But that stupid woman actually did something like contempt for the king's pride—the king didn't order her to be executed immediately. She probably looked at it because she had been serving her for a while."

"That woman was..." Seth asked.

"Who knows?" Isis said, with a nonchalant expression on his face, "How can the wife of a humble guard deserve my attention as a great priest? I don't even remember who the guard is."

She looked at the dark-skinned priest beside her.

"Actually, every time this kind of ceremony is held, the relationship between the king and us will become more and more distant. Although Mahat and I grew up with the king, we were still close when we were young...But since the beginning of this ceremony Since the ceremony, although the king has increased his trust in us, the relationship between us has become more and more distant."

"That's just because the pharaoh has begun to become a mature king. As a king, he doesn't need feelings."

Seth said, "Isn't that nice?"

"Maybe that's one of the reasons."

This time, it was Mahat who had been silent all the time who answered Seth's words, with a wry smile on his face.

"But with each ceremony, the king clearly distanced himself from us more and more."

"Because after each ceremony, the king will become more aware of the difference between him and us, and realize the fact that he is a descendant of God."

Isis said, “[The powerful and incomparable magical power is because he is a pharaoh, a god of Egypt, and is different from humble human beings]——such a realization made the pharaoh subconsciously pull him away from him. The distance between us ordinary people draws a clear line between him and us."

"In other words, after each ceremony, the pharaoh will take a few steps in the direction of Seth, the ruthless, lustless, supreme god who rules Egypt."

"As a god, he disdains the approach of us mortals."

Having said that, Priestess let out a deep breath.

"So, what will His Royal Highness do?" She looked at the young prince in front of them with her beautiful pupils like oasis, "If it's just tolerance and gentleness——do it like that stupid girl, it's impossible Gain [the king's trust]."

That's the end of the conversation.

Perhaps it has been a long time for Seth who needs to digest what he heard suddenly.But for others, this time is very short, so short that Wang Di, who was standing there in a daze, hadn't made any action yet.

Following the eyes of the three great priests looking at Wang Di, at this moment, all eyes on the scene were focused on the young Wang Di.

It was an eerie silence.

In the ruins of broken bricks, there was an almost breathless silence.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the young prince who was shocked by the horrible scene just now finally came to his senses.

He moved.

Everyone watched helplessly as he raised his right foot, as if he was about to walk forward—as for whether he was running away or walking towards the Pharaoh, it was unknown—after all, the younger brother just raised his foot to make a gesture to go.

The crimson pupils of the young pharaoh moved slightly.

The beautiful priestess was silent.

The dark-skinned priest looked at him.

The handsome young priest frowned.

In the end, the younger brother will...

Snapped!

This sound was especially loud on the land that was extremely silent and empty because of everyone's silence.

Everyone watched helplessly as their Egyptian brother tripped over the uneven ground that had become choppy due to the earthquake the moment he lifted his foot.

His body fell forward violently, and he fell to the ground with all five bodies thrown to the ground.

Atum: "..."

Asis: "..."

Mahat: "..."

Seth: "...Isis, do you really think this prince can do anything?"

The young pharaoh subconsciously stood up the moment his brother fell and took a few steps in his direction.

Then, he stopped.

Standing only a few steps away from his younger brother, he stared at his younger brother with crimson pupils without saying a word.

The redness in the depths of the pupils is icy cold, without the slightest human emotion.

He stood, condescending.

Probably because of the pain from the fall, it took a while for the young Egyptian Wangdi to support the ground with his hands and prop up his upper body.

He coughed hard several times, coughing up the dust in his mouth.

He was not in a hurry to get up, just knelt on the ground like this, rubbing his eyes, his immature face was dirty and covered with dust.

Probably sensing the tingling pain in his body, he lifted his left arm and looked at it, and then looked at his right hand. Both places were scratched due to rubbing against gravel when he fell, and a little blood oozes out. .

After seeing his wound, Brother Wang hesitated a little, and then gently blew on the scratch on his left elbow.

Probably feeling very painful, he frowned and stopped such futile actions.

He put his hands on the ground and seemed to be planning to get up by himself.

At the moment when he was about to stand up, when he looked up, he saw the young king standing in front of him only a few steps away.

Then, his hand that was supporting the ground loosened.

The body that was moving slightly upwards sat down on the ground again.

The young Wang brother opened his arms and stretched towards his brother Wang.

"Brother Wang..."

Looking at his brother Wang with big light purple eyes, that immature and lovely face was dirty with dust and full of grievances.

He said, "...It hurts so much, Brother Wang."

Under the blazing sun, the young Pharaoh still didn't speak.

The golden forehead hair brushed his handsome cheeks from time to time, and his crimson pupils were as beautiful and red as rubies, but the condescending coldness seemed to have dissipated a little bit.

He took two steps forward, bent down, and touched the ground on one knee.

He embraced Wang Di's body with his outstretched hands, and the young Wang Di's arms naturally wrapped around his shoulders, "Brother Wang, it hurts so much."

Probably the fall was really hard, his younger brother's dirty cheek with white stripes and black stripes pressed against his light brown chest, making a small sound.

"……Um."

Gently wiping the dust off his young brother's tender cheek with his fingertips, the young Pharaoh whispered.

"I'll call the doctor right away."

"But it hurts right now."

"..."

"Woo... Brother Wang..."

"People in the royal family should not be so worthless, it's just a little injury."

"Pain is pain, it has nothing to do with success or not!"

Not knowing whether to say whether to fight with reason or to make trouble without reason, the Egyptian prince immediately regretted it in the next second.

"Brother Wang..."

"Ok?"

"You'd better let me down..."

"Didn't you say it hurts?"

While standing up, the young pharaoh who hugged his brother and let him sit on his right arm and put his arms around his neck felt that there was nothing wrong with this.

Both of Wang's knees were bleeding, and he couldn't walk by himself until the doctor took care of it.

"But it's embarrassing..."

"Don't you know it's embarrassing to scream for pain just now?"

"Brother Wang, I was wrong."

"Ah."

"So let me go?"

The big light purple eyes looked at his brother Wang with full expectation.

"No."

The young Pharaoh answered simply.

"...let me go!"

"Hold tight, don't fall."

……

The sun was setting, and half of the bright red sun fell to the horizon.

The shadows of the young Egyptian king and his younger brother stretched very long on the uneven gravel ground.

On the other side, the beautiful priestess who was a little dazed watching the situation develop in a strange direction burst out laughing at this moment.

"I see."

Isis said, her crooked eyebrows filled with a smile.

"As expected of His Royal Highness... In this case, he didn't ask the king for [the king's trust] over his own means, but just sent [his trust in the king] to the king without hesitation. .”

"The younger brother who can monopolize the pharaoh's favor for such a long time is much more powerful than I imagined... What do you think, Seth?"

Mahat has hurriedly followed the young pharaoh and left.

The other attendants also left.

At this time, the only handsome priest who stayed by Isis's side glanced at her lightly.

"Isis, I admit that you are very smart, but sometimes you really think too much. I really think that brother Wang is not as complicated as you think."

Seth frowned.

"That idiot brother Wang is really so clumsy that he could even fall while walking, maybe he was frightened by the scene just now... He was clearly planning to stand up by himself just now, but when he saw the Pharaoh in front of him, He refuses to get up by himself, and insists on acting like a baby to the king and letting the king coax him."

said the young high priest, with an indisputable look on his face.

"Like a toddler, what an embarrassment to the Egyptian royal family."

Priestess who possessed beauty and wisdom at the same time was taken aback.

Then, she smiled.

Thousands of calculations and all kinds of scheming were dissipated in this shallow smile.

"You're right. Many things are actually very simple. I think too much."

she said, smiling.

"However, Seth, it seems that you are going to be disappointed."

"what?"

"The king won't let you snatch brother Wang away from him so easily~"

"... Isis!"

"Don't you want Brother Wang to stay away from the king?"

"Don't give me a sneaky change of concept!"