Dragon and knight Ji gl

At night, in a certain room on the second floor of the castle in Dansai Desert.

Three people, one oil lamp.

"You should have heard, right? The relationship between me and Eldest Sister was not harmonious before. I tried many ways to escape, but every time? I was caught by the people she sent Bring it back. In order to get rid of her control, just last year, I decided to go to a place that most people dare not go to, that is, here, the Dan Sai Desert.”

The speaker was Princess Alicia, a 17-year-old southern girl, who leaned forward and poked her head toward Leif as she spoke, "Speaking of this, my eldest sister seems to be talking about this too." The blame is on your head, thinking that this adventure of mine was learned from you, Leif."

Lev thought about it, "Indeed, at this time last year, I was still herding sheep in the village." There was Natia Vida in the middle, so it was inconvenient to speak like this, so she moved the chair forward One point?, "My first mission started this spring. And the day I debuted as an apprentice knight is almost summer. If? There are rumors that come out, it should be at a later time."

Even before Princess Alicia broke into the Danse Desert, she had already taken many adventures. What happened? Can't blame Leif.

This little princess looks quite weak and easy to bully, but she really has a lot of guts.Princess Sabrina is quite like a parent with a strong desire to control. When she sees a child doing something that doesn't go her way, she must find a scapegoat to teach the child badly.After Princess Alicia was bullied by Princess Sabrina, she went to watch adventure stories, always fantasizing about a hero who could lead her to escape, but waited? Waited?, The hero still didn't come, so she had to run away by herself.

It's just that Princess Sabrina was most impressed by a protagonist named Leif in these adventure stories, so Leif became such a scapegoat.

"Please get back to business." Natia Vida turned sideways, blocking Alicia's sight, "Aren't you going to tell me what you saw and heard on the winter solstice last year?"

Alicia rubbed her nose and leaned back: "It's like this. I sneaked out with a maid. I know she always obeys my elder sister. If she is by my side Well, the eldest sister will not come to chase me for a while. I revealed that I was going to a certain country in the north to play, and then I got rid of her the next day. She went back and reported the direction to the elder sister. What did I really want? The direction to go is just the opposite. My real destination? Is in the Dan Sai Desert. Before Mr. Wang was alive, he once mentioned his travels when he was young, and this experience in the Dan Sai Desert. I don’t know this? Is there really someone living in this desert where no one dares to enter, so I brought enough water and? dry food, and? sold a camel.”

Natia Vida kept smiling, maintaining a sideways posture, listening to Alicia's narration.

"Oh!" Princess Alicia suddenly remembered something, stopped, and ran to the door with her skirt in her hand, picking up the box she had just left at the door when she came in—she had to know Leif is also among those looking for her. When she came to see Leff, she did not come empty-handed, but prepared a gift.

"Speaking of dry food, I brought you something to eat." Alicia moved a chair and sat on the other side of Leif, "I went to the kitchen to make the dessert myself, is it local? A famous specialty, Leif, try it."

It is a snack made of tapioca flour, shaped like a petal, sweet and springy to the bite.Lev took a sip and remembered that one day before, Natia Vida seemed to have made food for her with similar ingredients.The taste of the two foods is different? In comparison, she actually prefers the one made by Natia Vida.

"Delicious. But can you come into the kitchen?"

For the Alicias, any place with a lot of people is a forbidden area.Except when Mr. Leander accompanied him out of the room, he was confined to the cabin almost every day.

"Of course I can." Princess Alicia said, "Not only can I enter, but all the materials I need can be ordered to find me by the servants. They are still very respectful to me and always want to help me. , but I wanted to do my best, so I did it myself."

Leif asked, "Can you still talk to the valets?"

"Of course," Princess Alicia said, "as long as it's not flirting."

"You entered the desert, what will you do next?" Natia Vida took Leif's hand and led the latter to stand up, and the two exchanged positions.She leaned next to Alicia and asked urgently, "What's next?"

Alicia thought that Natia Vida was so curious about what happened next. Seeing that the latter was not as timid as she imagined, her disgust towards her gradually disappeared, saying: : "That camel entered near the edge of the Dan Sai Desert, so what? It refused to leave. It is said that animals can predict danger before humans. This should be true. Only after passing through Only trained horses dared to go in. I had to go in with my own dry rations and water. After walking a short distance, I regretted it. Staying in the desert is dry and boring. Compared with It was worse being around Sabrina.

"But when I wanted to turn back, I found that I couldn't find the way I came here. The dust cloud rose up, and countless foul-smelling powders filled the air, almost suffocating me to death. After this... a person appeared , took me out of the dust and mist to a castle. He asked her to marry his future daughter to his master, and then he said something like a ballad. He said he would marry the name of the Leander family. The word "actually" happened to be the name of me and my sister. At that time, I only felt "excited and happy, but not the slightest bit of fear, because it proved that what my father said was true. That period was like a legend." The experience is actually true.

"They treated me very kindly. Apart from the only request that I should not go out at night, I can go wherever I want in this castle. What do I want? Just order, manservant They'll send it to me. It was the most carefree, happiest time I can remember. No hunger, no work, no need to see Sabrina's face. I know that according to the agreement, I will marry into this castle, so I feel very happy, because I like living here. Living here is better than living in the palace Be comfortable, but I didn't tell them I was Alicia.

"I can't wait to marry here right away, thinking that if I see Mr. Leander, I must question him. Why didn't you marry me earlier, so that I can suffer less. Only The only thing that makes me hesitate to reveal my identity is that I haven't seen my future husband yet, I don't know his temperament, and I guess he is old, maybe I will regret it. I Curious who these Mr. Leander are, but he never showed up. I've been waiting, waiting. I think Mr. Leander must be here. It's just that the servants don't want me to see him. But during the day, I have searched all the houses, but I don't see Mr. Leander.

"While I waited for him to show up, I suffered from curiosity. Perhaps this curiosity was so strong that I hallucinated at night. I always felt that there was something behind the door. The voice, that voice was calling me, urging me to open the door quickly, and Mr. Leander was there. So on that night, three days before the winter solstice, which happened to be tonight last year, I I opened the door. What's outside the door? Nothing, only a mass of cloudy fog, I can hear footsteps, but what? , then came back by touching the wall again.

"After I went in, I went to sleep. No one knew I had been out. I thought it would be a night, and nothing would change. But in the morning, everything changed. Mr. Leander appeared. I asked the servants when Mr. Leander came back. They said that Mr. Leander lived in the castle all the time and never went out. I finally met In the face of Mr. Leander, his appearance is exactly the same as that in the portrait drawn by his father, and he is still the same handsome and young. I am so happy.

"I was about to tell him that I was his future wife. But at this moment, I discovered that there was another Alicia in the castle. This Alicia was his wife. I Very angry, my father and I have been deceived. He already has a wife, and he has no intention of marrying me, and he does not take the agreement with his father seriously. I am not willing to let this I was fooled and wanted to find a chance to take revenge on him, so I continued to live in the castle. In the process, the servants gradually ignored me, and their attention was only directed at me. Another Alicia.

"But I soon discovered that the other Alicia was not having an easy time. Mr. Leander seems to be more controlling than Sabrina. Once the valet approaches her, I would yell at her, and then quarrel with Alicia. I hated this woman a little bit at first, but gradually I felt sorry for her. I had a good impression of Mr. Leander at first, and then I became more and more Think? He is a big fool——Since he is so? Jealous of the servants, why? Why not simply replace the servants with maids, but he chooses to continue to be suspicious, and his wife quarrel.

"But those male servants are indeed worthy of suspicion. They treat Alicia more than a servant treats a mistress. Then...these male servants disappeared one by one, at the winter solstice The night before the solstice, there wasn't even one left. By the time of the winter solstice, that Alicia couldn't stand Mr. Leander, so she said she was going to get out of here. Mr. Leander I begged her not to leave me, but Alicia refused, and then a horrible scene happened..."

When Princess Alicia said this, she frowned in embarrassment.

Leif listened and listened, the chair slowly moved towards Princess Alicia, together with Natia Vida, the three of them sat around to form a triangle.She vaguely? Guessed what was going to happen? Things.Although she didn't see Mr. Leander's killing process with her own eyes, she had personally seen the final appearance of the corpses of those who died at Mr. Leander's hands after treatment, and then... Listen to Medra vividly? I have described it, and I can probably imagine it.

A normal person like Princess Alicia is certainly not willing to imagine the same kind of death, and can discuss the death method with relish. Lev has only met Medra and Natia Vida , they are not human beings, and lack the ability to empathize with human beings.

"Some things are difficult to say even if you have seen them with your own eyes. If you don't want to say, just skip it. I can probably guess it." Lev said and shook Alicia Princess hands.

Alicia nodded, "The sand kicked up and turned into blades... and then, facing the piece by piece. Mr. Leander picked it up and put it aside. Then he came to In front of the cabinet, I changed into a dress that Alicia once wore. I put on the ruby ​​necklace that Alicia often wore, and painted my lips and eyebrows in front of the mirror. Don’t mention how weird it was. Then? , he just hugged...that piece of stuff, sat at the place where Alicia used to sit and sew, and slowly started to sew.

"As he sewed, he cried, 'I'm sorry, Alicia.' It sounded very painful, as if he regretted what he had done, and he was going to... sew it up?, and? He stabbed himself in the heart with an awl and said, "Let me die, I will die with Alicia." As if he really wanted to follow Alicia, he stabbed himself ?I was dying, and it took me a while to recover. After recovering?, I looked at the ... stitched thing and said, "Next time, next time I will definitely not do this. Let's start over." , Alicia.' Said? So? Sincerely, as if one more time, he could be a good husband.

"I'm glad I saw his true face earlier. After I went back, less than a year passed. Mr. Leander actually came to ask me to marry me. I can only follow him here A castle, watching him do it all over again, but in the process of doing it all over again, everything didn't get better. During this process, some people came in to find me, this ?I know that the people sent by Sabrina—I don’t know how many people there are already—some of them sent me a few words, just like Natia Vida and you ? I send word.

"They said that the Mr. Leander in the daytime is not the same as the Mr. Leanderel in the night. The Mr. Leander in the daytime is stabbed and bleeds like blood. But the Mr. Leanderel in the night Sir, sand oozes from the punctured area, and as long as there is sand around, his wound will heal in no time - this Mr. Leander at night, and the Leander I've been seeing all this time Mr. Mr. is the same person, because I have also seen the strangeness of his wound. The other one is only Mr. Leander's imitation."

Alicia stopped at this point.

Leif knew that Mr. Leander always picked the night when he dealt with the servants.I thought that a puppet could die with a single stab at a wedding, but at night it was able to cast such a strange and powerful spell, the difference was too great.Now that I know that Mr. Leander at night is the deity, and the puppet is not so powerful, I can't help but feel a little comforted.But behind these simple messages, there are already countless sacrifices in it.

Natia Vida said: "What you mean is that Mr. Leander cannot be killed even if he is stabbed; There is hope to get rid of him."

"Yes." Alicia grinned, "In order not to let other people continue to suffer from his poisonous hands, maybe I have to let him kill him."

"No way," Leif raised his head, "I still don't want you to do this? Our mission here is to take you out."

Princess Alicia shook her head: "So many people have sacrificed for me. If I can stop Sabrina, I will persuade her not to send someone to find me. It's not worth it. I have to do it." What?, to be worthy of these sacrifices, if someone in the future can be saved from suffering because of me, I will feel... I am like the heroes I yearn for..."

"Princess Alicia..." Leif was quite moved, and was about to say something?

"Princess, you haven't finished yet." Natia Vida picked up a dessert that Alicia made for Lev, and took a bite. "How did you leave the desert smoothly?"

"I..." Princess Alicia's aspiration and pride just ebbed slowly, "I...Didn't I just say that? I promised to marry my daughter to Mr. Leander, so they let me I have lived here for a while, and have always treated me very politely... Even after I met another Alicia, I was still a guest in this castle. Other promises A person who is going to marry his daughter to Mr. Leander should not be able to see 'Alicia' and Mr. Leander. The reason why I can see it should be because I want to be both at the same time. Whoever marries Mr. Leander is also his mother-in-law."

Alicia later said that on the night before the winter solstice, she would bring everyone into her time and space, and then reluctantly left.

Leif still couldn't react to Princess Alicia's last words: "So? Say, 'marry your daughter to the Leandre family'. This kind of request, which seems to be a trap, is actually It's a life-saving talisman. If you don't agree, you will suffer, but if you agree, you will be safe..."

Natia Vida stuffed pieces of the dessert left by Princess Alicia into her mouth: "It seems that those stories that scare children are not completely unreasonable. Go out and obey the master's request , you will be safe; if you make your own decisions, you will be in trouble. An obedient child will have a good ending."

Dessert in the box? Leif only tasted one piece when Princess Alicia took it out, while Natia Vida kept stealing it.Now that Princess Alicia is gone, Natia Vida began to eat openly.

"Is it delicious?" Leff reached out to take a piece.

Natia Vida raised the empty bottom of the box: "It's all gone." She stuffed the last piece into her mouth, her cheeks bulging.

Leff doesn't care that Natia Vida eats her a little bit. Thinking of the strange attitude of the magic dragon towards Alicia just now, he said: "You have been a human being for a long time, what is it? You know the world..."

"What's the matter? If you eat some of your food, do you mean I don't know how to understand the world?" Natia Vida smiled slightly, "Miss Knight has only been a person for more than ten years, so I'm afraid she can't teach me. .”

Leif said: "I won't mention anything else. Princess Alicia is thinking about dedicating her life. Why? Suddenly, she got involved in other things. What if? She really wants to do this? ..."

"But in the end," Natia Vida's smile continued, "you? You won't let her die, and neither will I."

"You can't say it like this." Lev saw Natia Vida laughing all the time, and only then did he realize that the magic dragon would laugh when he was angry, so he whispered the next words Get up, "When humans eat other people's food, they usually want to say a few soft words... This? It's also the way of the world..."

"Miss Knight, have you forgotten that I am a magic dragon?" Natia Vida raised her hand as she spoke, and tapped Leif's forehead.