Little Priest's Cat Diary

A certain new crown prince unabashedly showed his dislike for the "promise with his body" that the high priest said.

He glanced at Yitit's hand that was still holding his long hair.

"Compared to those messy things, how about at least letting go?"

The moment he was pulled just now was uncomfortable.

Itit smiled.

"I offended you, Your Royal Highness. After all, when I opened my eyes, I saw a bunch of hair dangling in front of my eyes. I thought my family Irna was doing bad things secretly, so I caught it subconsciously."

While apologizing, he let go of his hand.

It's just that what he said seemed to be an apology, but it meant something.

And, Irna was the name of his dark brown horse.

Probably because there was still more to say, he continued to add a sentence.

"Speaking of which, Your Highness Sardis, your vigilance is not as sharp as before, and you were caught so easily by a seriously ill person."

He looked at Sardis with a half-smile.

"If I have evil intentions, you will be in danger."

The last sentence is not so much a kind reminder as a naked threat.

Sardis: "..."

He couldn't refute a person who was accidentally caught by the pigtail.

Fine.

The color makes the mind faint, he admits it is.

The two pointed their needles at each other, just staring at each other.

When they were refusing to give in to each other, Mia, who was hugged by the high priest, suddenly snorted softly, and moved her eyelashes, as if she was about to be woken up by them.

The two looked at each other and stopped the confrontation in a tacit understanding.

As a result, the young man who felt the surrounding atmosphere quiet down stopped blinking his eyelashes, raised the corners of his mouth in satisfaction, and continued to fall into a deep sleep.

Seeing the sleepy look of the little disciple in his arms, Yitit couldn't help laughing. He put Mia on the bed, and then got up and got out of bed.

The wound bandage and ointment had to be changed.

Also, even if he is quite displeased with the behavior of a certain new crown prince, he has to tell him all the things that happened before as soon as possible.

Because she didn't close her eyes for almost two days and two nights, Mia fell asleep and slept from morning to evening.

When he finally opened his eyes with a yawn, a glass of water was handed over, and he drowsily took a few sips of the water glass.

The water inside is warm, just right, and honey is added, which tastes sweet.

After gulping down a glass of honey water, Mia finally woke up.

He stretched himself, thinking happily, if the teacher had woken up, he would show him the Luna Bow, and tell the teacher that he got a peerless bow.

As long as there is this bow, the teacher will no longer be able to reprimand him on the grounds that the arrows he shoots are short and weak.

Just thinking about it in her heart, Mia raised her eyes and saw Faer standing beside her.

He looked around and found that he was lying on the bed where Yitit was lying on, but Yitit had disappeared.

As he handed over the empty water glass, he asked Faer, "Where's the teacher?"

After thinking about it, he still had a vague memory of the morning and continued to ask: "Did Sardis come back in the morning?"

Why are they not there?

Faer took the empty water glass and replied, "Your Highness and Your Excellency Antiste are welcoming people outside the Santo's Mansion."

"what?"

Mia was taken aback.

Those two people came out of the house to greet them in person?

Which boss has such a big face?

"Princess Opelilla."

"what--?"

Mia was even more surprised.

Wait, isn't Wangcheng surrounded by sea people?

How could the princess in the royal city thousands of miles away suddenly come to Schulte City?

…………

Outside the city lord's mansion, a dusty carriage that had been driving for a long time slowly drove across the bridge and headed for the gate of the city lord's mansion on the other side of the river.

A middle-aged general in white armor followed on horseback, guarded by a group of knights.

The general's face was gloomy, and he looked preoccupied.

When the group came to the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, they stopped.

The middle-aged general and all the guarding knights got off their horses, knelt down on one knee, and saluted the figure in front of the gate.

Sardis, who was standing in front of the gate, stared at the carriage with deep eyes and a glimmer of glimmer in his eyes, making it impossible to guess his thoughts.

The compartment of the carriage is very tight, and even the windows are covered by thick curtains, so that people can't see the scene inside the compartment at all.

Even in front of Sardis, there was still no movement in the carriage, and the people inside obviously did not intend to get out of the carriage to show up, not only that, she was silent from beginning to end.

She didn't even say hello to her son whom she hadn't seen for a long time.

And similarly, Sardis, who was standing in front of the carriage, never greeted her.

It was obviously supposed to be the meeting of mother and son who are close relatives, but the scene was extremely silent.

The atmosphere was as cold as the winter that enveloped the Ston prairie at the moment. In this weird atmosphere, the other people present were all silent, not daring to speak out.

Sardis glanced at the carriage indifferently, and said, "Princess must be tired after a long journey, let her go to rest first."

The carriage started moving again, heading towards the direction led by an attendant.

It's just that after driving for more than ten meters, probably the person in the carriage said something, and the driver of the carriage stopped the carriage again.

The thick cloth curtain on one side of the window moved, revealing a little gap.

From that gap, you can vaguely see the flowing gold-like long hair.

A voice that was as pleasant as a low-pitched piano string, but so indifferent and emotionless came from inside.

"I heard on the way that Shaoji is here, is that true?"

Sardis, who had already turned around and planned to leave, paused in his footsteps. He turned his head and stared at the long golden hair similar to him exposed in the gap in the window with strange eyes.

After a while, he answered Princess Opelila's words.

He said, "Yes."

He just said yes without saying a word.

The princess who got the answer didn't speak again.

The curtains came down and tightly blocked the window again.

The carriage started to drive again and gradually moved away.

…………

Night has fallen, and the lights in the political affairs room have been lit.

Nadia stroked the scar on her chin with rough fingers and stared at Mia for a long time.

Mia was uncomfortable being watched by him, and couldn't help but ask, "Why are you staring at me?"

Nadia said puzzledly, "I've been looking at it for a long time, but I can't see any similarities between you and the princess."

"what?"

"However I look at it, I feel that you are more like the biological son of the princess than this prince over here."

"........."

Mia looked away speechlessly, too lazy to talk to this nonsense guy.

Nadia spread her hands.

"I'm not talking nonsense, she really treats you differently from others. Antiste, don't you think so?"

Sitting on the cushioned wooden chair beside him, Antiste pondered for a while, and it was rare that he didn't refute Nadia's words, but nodded.

"Yeah." He said, "Although I don't know why, the princess's attitude towards Mia seems to be different from other people's since before."

As a high priest, Itit, who is easier to contact the princess than others, can understand this better than Nadia.

He raised his head and looked at Mia.

"Mia, do you know the reason?"

Mia was about to shake her head when she suddenly shook her head.

……

In the silent room, that soft white finger held his cheek.

A very light kiss landed on his forehead.

An inaudible voice rang in his ears.

She said: [You are... 'Hope'. 】

…………

"Mia?"

The cry of Sardis awakened Mia of Lost Mind.

Mia woke up from the memory that suddenly emerged, and when he raised his head, he met the strange-colored eyes that were staring at him tightly.

He remembered what the princess had said to him.

He remembered the prophecy that the old priest of the moon god had told him.

【hope】.

What is that...?

Mia, who was thinking about it, was just about to say something he couldn't understand, when suddenly a dull footstep came from outside.

A middle-aged general in white armor walked into the political affairs room.

His brows were tightly wrinkled, forming deep lines of Sichuan characters.

His face was gloomy, there was a trace of fatigue between his brows, and deep worry in his eyes.

Shalam, commander of the Knights of the Spear.

Son of the old general Nart.

He is also the uncle of the deposed Crown Prince Pastor.

After entering the room, he raised his eyes and glanced at Sardis and Mia.

At this moment, his eyes revealed an extremely complicated look.

He and the two people on the opposite side were supposed to be enemies.

The battle for the throne is destined to be impossible to stop the struggle between them.

With his and his father's temperament, even if they die together, it is impossible to bow to Sardis.

But now...

Shalam took a step forward, he bent down, landed on one knee, and knelt in front of Sardis.

He lowered his head and said in a deep voice, "Shalam is ordered by His Majesty to lead the Knights of the Spear under your command."

"Not long ago, I went south to Dimez City for rescue, and received a secret order from His Majesty on the way, forbidding me to go to Dimez City."

Having said that, Shalam paused.

He clenched his hand on the ground into a fist, clenched very hard, obviously trying to suppress himself.

Taking a deep breath, trying to suppress the unwillingness in his heart, he closed his eyes and continued.

"It is also forbidden for me to continue going south... to rescue Wangcheng."

The moment he received King David's secret order, he understood His Majesty's plan.

Your Majesty has abandoned the royal city.

Abandoned the crown prince in the royal city.

At that time, he was angry with King David's decision.

His heart was filled with unwillingness and disappointment uncontrollably.

But at the same time, he had to agree with King David's decision.

King David made the right decision.

Rescuing the royal city desperately will only drag Portoyas into an endless war, and eventually exhaust its national power and die.

As a son and uncle, he wanted to lead his troops to the royal city desperately.

Even if he died in the royal city with his father and the crown prince!

Only in the end, he chose his identity as the commander of the Knights of the Spear.

All for the future of Portoyas.

Sardis looked at General Shalam who was kneeling in front of him, and asked about the situation without saying anything unnecessary.

"Why did the princess come here?"

"There is a secret passage leading to the underground river below the palace. My father sent someone to escort the princess out of the palace and send it to my army."

"How is the situation in Wangcheng?"

"It has been completely besieged by the people of the sea."

The two sides were asking and answering, when suddenly there was another rush of footsteps outside, and a guard rushed in.

He didn't even care about saluting to the generals present, walked quickly to Sardis, and presented a two-finger-wide copper cylinder with both hands.

The guard who ran all the way gasped and said, "Your Highness, urgent information from Wangcheng."

The atmosphere in the room stagnated.

Shalam looked up sharply.

All eyes were on the little cylinder.

Sardis took the cylinder, removed the sealing wax, and poured out the thin parchment inside.

The guard bowed and stepped back.

Sardis looked at the unfolded note.

General Shalam, who was still kneeling on the ground, raised his head, his eyes fixed on the note in Sardis's hand, and he almost held his breath.

Swish, Sardis clenched the note in his hand tightly.

His eyes were full of evil spirits, and his voice was as cold as ice.

"Some of the nobles in the royal city defected to the enemy, resulting in the fall of the royal city."

Everyone was surprised.

Mia couldn't help but asked, "The people in the city..."

"Paster is captured."

Sardis glanced at Shalam who was staring at him firmly, and said,

"General Nart, die in battle."

General Shalam swayed, and he almost fell because of his strong body.

With one hand on the ground, he barely stabilized his body.

He lowered his head and closed his eyes in pain.

His hands were clenched tightly, his nails pierced deeply into his palms, the heart-wrenching pain of the fall of the royal city and the death of his relatives made him unable to speak a word at this moment.

The room was silent, and no one spoke for a long time.

After a long time, Nadia let out a long sigh.

That sigh seemed to be a mourning voice for the old general who had secretly taken away his position as the commander of the Knights of the Sword, drove him to the frontier, and made him swear that he would never stand against him for the rest of his life.