Little Priest's Cat Diary

On this day, the city of Schulte fell into silence, and a black flag was raised over the city.

Black cloths were hung in front of every house in the city to commemorate King David who died in battle.

The people spontaneously went to the temple to mourn the passing of the king and pray for the dead king.

The king who took over the throne urgently when he was young, he saved Portoyas, which was almost torn apart. During his reign for decades, he galloped on the battlefield and guarded his people.

For the people of Portoyas, he is a great king worthy of their admiration and memory.

The night was already deep, and in the spacious bedroom, Mia was sitting cross-legged on the soft bed, rubbing her head.

His short pale blond hair was messed up by himself.

He tried hard to recall the whole afternoon, but only remembered that he had to use high temperature to remove the carbon element in the iron and reduce the carbon content in the iron, so that it could be smelted into steel.

He still remembered that the heat of burning wood was not enough during refining, so coal that could burn at a higher temperature had to be used.

As for the specific forging process...

As a liberal arts student, Mia said that she didn't know, didn't remember, and never learned.

Uh, I may have learned it, but after becoming a pure arts student, I have long forgotten it completely.

hateful.

The main reason was that he was thrown into this world too suddenly. If he had been notified in advance, he would definitely go to the library to memorize all the technologies of iron and steel making, ship improvement, crop production increase, etc. in his mind.

Mia was rubbing her head and complaining in her heart, when the bedroom door was pushed open, and a familiar figure walked into the room.

Sardis returned from the night, bringing coolness all over his body.

The black eyes under the mask on the other side revealed the sharpness of metal, with the chill of deep winter, but when the figure of the young man in the room was reflected, the sharpness and coldness in the eyes dissipated.

His gaze softened as if infected by the warmth in the room.

Mia looked at Sardis who had been busy until late at night and was about to speak, but before he could speak, he saw Sardis walking towards him quickly.

While walking, he pulled down the thick cloak behind him and threw it aside. Sardis walked to the bed in a few steps, leaned over, and hugged Miya with his outstretched arms.

Still maintaining the posture of sitting on the bed, Mia was hugged suddenly. He raised his head, exposing the upper half of his face from Sardis' shoulder, and blinked his blue eyes.

"... Sadie?"

Sardis, who was standing by the bed, leaned over and hugged him tightly, his long golden hair slipped from his eyes.

The blond hair soaked by the chill of the late winter night was cold.

Not just the hair, perhaps because of staying in the cold night wind for too long, Sardis's whole body felt a chill.

"That person is really dead."

The voice close to the ear is very low.

"I thought about it, I want him to see me take the throne with his own eyes."

"I don't need him to give it, I will get it myself."

"But I didn't expect that he would die so early."

There was a bit of confusion in Sardis' voice.

He has never liked that person, even if the other person is his biological father.

He never thought of him as his father.

They knew each other well, and the relationship between them was not even as good as a stranger.

"I always thought I didn't care about him, but at that time, I almost killed him."

"At that time, I thought you already...I hated him, so much that I almost couldn't help but kill him with my own hands."

He hated the blood that he inherited from that person.

But he couldn't deny that he was indeed terribly similar to that person.

He thought he didn't care.

But in fact, hate is a kind of concern.

When he heard the news of that person's death, his heart was suddenly empty at that moment.

I can't tell why, maybe it's because the hatred hidden in my heart has nowhere to go and lost its target.

At that time, he stood there with a blank mind.

At that moment, he just felt confused.

Until his hand was held by Mia's hand stretched from behind.

The temperature from the tip of that finger spread to his palm, waking him up from his confusion.

When he held Mia's hand back, his empty heart suddenly felt at ease.

He felt the boy in his arms raised his arms around him, and patted his back lightly, as if to comfort him.

A smile appeared on the corner of Sardis's lips.

Just like now, as long as this person is still in his arms, and he can only feel the familiar warmth, his mood will calm down.

"I have you, Mia."

He says,

"I have you always by my side."

"As long as you're by my side, I can do anything."

Sardis said softly, he didn't notice, when he said this, the hand that patted his back suddenly paused slightly.

…………

"Actually, I've always felt that whether it's Treya or that person, they both deserve it."

"They fought and robbed, but the woman never looked at them again. She didn't care about them at all."

At this moment, Sardis had already taken off his armor, put on soft pajamas and lay beside Mia.

He lay on the bed, put his hands up behind his head, looked out through the skylight at the clear sky with bright moon and few stars and said so.

"When they died, that woman must not shed a single tear for their death."

"Although I can already understand their feelings now, why must they keep that woman despite knowing that they don't love them?"

"Because I can't stand her not being by my side no matter what..."

As Sardis said so, with his hands still resting on his head, he looked sideways at the boy sitting beside him.

Soft eyes and a smile on his face.

He stared at Mia and said with a smile, "Fortunately, the person I like also cares about me and likes me."

Mia: "..."

I really care about it, but I really don't like it.

Being convinced by others that you like him is really a headache.

He sighed, and said, "Sadi, actually..."

"So, Mia, I will not become like King David."

Sardis looked at Mia, and reached out to hold Mia's hand.

"As long as you're here."

He brought that hand to his eyes, lowered his eyes, and gently kissed the white fingers held between them.

"As long as you're by my side, I won't be them."

"........."

"What were you trying to say just now?"

"It's nothing... I just remembered what Faer said before, King David was defeated, so wouldn't the king's city be in danger if the people of the sea went all the way south along the coastline?"

"The royal city cannot be defended."

"what?"

"That person probably knew that the king's city could not be defended after the battle with the people of the sea, so he made a series of arrangements before his death, including changing me as the crown prince and letting the people of the coastal cities evacuate to the inland."

Sardis said, "He used the royal city as a bait to lure away the people of the sea, in order to preserve most of the national power of Portoyas."

Sardis' words made Mia dumbfounded.

"Then, isn't the royal city—"

"Well, he gave up the royal city."

"........."

After the initial astonishment, for some reason, Mia suddenly remembered someone.

The black-haired young man who used to play the lyre in the Shaoji Temple.

Mia was stunned for a moment.

It seemed that he hadn't heard that beautiful piano sound for a long, long time.

That person... probably received the news of the death of the crown prince and King David one step earlier than Schulte City.

How would he feel when he knew that he and Wang Cheng were regarded as abandoned sons by his beloved father and mercilessly abandoned?

The people of the sea will soon attack the king city, what will he do while staying in the king city?

he……

Sardis's sense was extremely keen, and Mia just lost his focus for a little while, and he noticed it immediately.

He sat up, pinched Mia's chin with his hand, and raised her face to himself.

He stared at Mia without blinking, a deep light flashed in the depths of his eyes.

"What are you thinking?"

"what?"

Mia, whose chin was pinched, came back to her senses, and looked at Sardis blankly.

"You're thinking of someone other than me."

Sardis stared at Mia with deep eyes, and said, "Is Pastor? Are you worried about him?"

"Well, I just thought he..."

Before Mia finished speaking, the other party's upper face had already fallen.

His lips were blocked.

The lips that were too late to close were deeply invaded.

Sardis's kiss was extremely strong, as if it could swallow it together, making it almost impossible to breathe.

"Mia, I don't like you thinking about other people."

His lips were blocked so tightly that he couldn't even breathe, let alone make a sound.

The uncomfortable feeling of lack of oxygen made Mia subconsciously push Sardis's chest, but the movement of his refusal made the other's arms hug him even tighter.

The kiss that occupied his lips also invaded more urgently and deeper.

That kind of kiss was too persistent and eager, every time, every time, it gave him the illusion of being forced to a dead end.

"Just look at me."

"Just think about me."

In the nostalgic kisses again and again, that low and gentle voice lingered in his ears all the time.

The man holding him greedily seemed to want to take everything from him.

"You promised me, Mia, you said you would always be by my side."

The love that surrounds him is like a cluster of burning flames, fierce and fiery, as if it can burn everything up.

Incomparably gentle, yet extremely dangerous.

"...I will never let you leave me again."

…………

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The city of Schulte was silent that night.

In the southernmost city opposite to it, the night in Wangcheng, which is thousands of miles away, is not calm at the moment.

King David died in battle.

The warships of the Sea People were like a broken bamboo, heading south along the coastline.

Seeing that it will soon be under the king's city.

Even in the middle of the night, this huge city is shrouded in uneasy clouds.

I don't know how many people tossed and turned in the night, worried and unable to sleep at night.

King David died in battle, but they still have His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Now, the citizens of Wangcheng have pinned all their hopes on the crown prince.

Little did they know, the crown prince they pinned their hopes on had not stepped out of the room for a whole day.

In the courtyard of the royal palace, the gray-haired old general Nart stood in the night.

He had been standing here for a long time, his snow-white hair was stained with dew.

He stood upright in the yard with a straight face and a cold expression.

But he stared fixedly at the closed door with unconcealable anxiety in his eyes.

His lips were pressed tightly, and he was holding back.

If it was before, if it was something else, he would have barged in with his temper, unceremoniously and harshly reprimanding Pastor who had been staying inside.

But now he can only stand outside, waiting anxiously.

The room was very dark, the lamps on the walls were not lit, only the faint moonlight cast into the room from the skylight.

Pastor sat quietly on the chair, letting the moonlight shine on his side cheeks.

He's been sitting here for a long, long time.

Motionless, like a stone statue.

No one knows what he is thinking at the moment.

His right arm was resting on the arm of the chair, and a piece of parchment was clutched in his right hand.

After holding it for a long time, so tightly that the parchment has become a crumpled ball.

Under the moonlight, one can vaguely see the traces of the bright red coat of arms exposed on the paper.

It was a royal decree that Pastor received a few days ago to abolish his crown prince.

For a moment he couldn't believe it.

But the document had a handwriting that he was all too familiar with, as well as the dazzling red king's coat of arms stamped on it.

He has already started to deal with government affairs, and he knows the authenticity of this document better than anyone else.

After receiving his abolished documents, he was in a daze for several days.

why?

he thinks.

Why should the father take away from him what should belong to him and give it to others?

In order to keep it, he gave up too many things.

In order to keep it, he has even become no longer himself.

……

why?

He doesn't understand.

If the father thought it didn't belong to him, why didn't he take it from himself earlier, but didn't until now——

Great resentment could not be suppressed from the bottom of his heart.

Resentment, anger, dissatisfaction... All kinds of negative emotions were entangled together, and for the first time in his life, he felt strong resentment towards his father who had always admired and admired him.

But now, all the resentment has been vented to nothing.

Father is dead.

Died in Dimez City.

He didn't know how long he had been sitting in the room.

The spacious room was empty, like his heart at the moment, empty.

Father is dead.

He couldn't even ask him one more question—why should he abolish his crown prince?

Pastor closed his eyes, and the shadow of his forehead cast a deep shadow in front of his eye sockets.

His right hand clenched vigorously again.

His clenched fists were almost shaking.

The nails have even pierced the parchment and dug into the palm.

He closed his eyes, and his breathing gradually became rapid.

From an early age, everyone told him that he was the Dauphin, the future King of Portoyas.

Learning how to be a good crown prince has been all his life so far.

He doesn't understand the way of life other than the Dauphin.

He never knew the future beyond the crown prince.

The Crown Prince is his name.

But now a piece of Wang Ling document negates his entire first half of his life, telling him that all his efforts are meaningless, making everything he does a joke——

What about him?

What the hell is he—

Suddenly there were hurried and chaotic footsteps outside.

"Your Highness!"

"His Royal Highness—"

The room was pushed away, and Pastor opened his eyes.

Outside the door, countless figures knelt on the ground, and the air was filled with nervousness.

"Your Highness, the Sea People are attacking!"