under the field

Scarlett

When they arrived in Wellsburg, another part of the team was immediately sent out to support Nigel and others.Colin put me down and hugged me tightly.

He touched my face and pressed the kiss, but I knew he had to go again at this moment, and only when I was truly safe could he leave without fear to support Nigel and Shay.

"They need you, go quickly." I let go of him first, even though I was extremely reluctant, I looked at him and said, "I'll be right here, waiting for you to come back."

The man I fell in love with was always back and forth in a bloody storm, and we were forced to spend more time together, even now that we were finally back with each other, after days of being apart.

"Let the doctor in the fort come to examine you." He rubbed my face and whispered.

I nodded in his warm palm, "Don't worry, just go."

Before he left, he kissed my forehead again, and followed the serious-looking Carl to lead the team out of Wellsburg again.

Selena brought the doctor up to the study room, she let people stay outside the door first, then turned around and stared at my distressed appearance, as if about to poke a hole.She hesitated to speak, but said, "...I hope Reggie didn't do anything bad to you, otherwise I don't know what I would do, I swear I will kill him for you , chop off his life and throw it to the dogs... If that Nottingham doesn't want you because of this, I'll chop him too..."

"No, Selena!" I said quickly. "He didn't succeed."

Selena's eyes finally slowed down, and the clenched hands in front of her opened. She pretended to sigh relaxedly, "I wanted to comfort you, but I just wanted to kill that person, but it didn't help. If you really It happened and I want you to know it's not your fault, he's just out to destroy your pride, it's ok..."

She suddenly came up to me and hugged me tightly, "Damn it, I always thought that if I was strong enough, I would make all these ugly people disappear, and if something happened to you, I would Kill him, I swear I will!"

I hugged this girl, and suddenly felt the warmth of my shoulders and neck, and I wanted to comfort her with a sob, "I'm fine, Selena... nothing happened to me, nothing will happen to anyone..."

She whispered in my arms, "Everyone will come back, right?" I nodded and hugged her tightly.

She finally calmed down, regained her composure, and remained silent for a while.After the doctor took off my clothes, she looked at the welts on my body calmly, stood there without saying a word, and didn't say anything.I just took the plaster from them at the end and applied it myself.

Her fingertips are soft, which is the complete opposite of the fortitude she presents.I know that the softest girl in her heart has not completely disappeared, but has been hiding behind a strong and indifferent individual. She has always been there, but this does not seem to be a necessary thing for a ruler.

And I just happened to be lucky enough to know that soft soul before that.

She took me to the training area in Wellsburg after I had recuperated. When I saw the barracks full of black heads, I was deeply shocked.

She looked at them below, "There are still some that will arrive tomorrow. With the addition of 30 Duke's guards, we were originally scheduled to capture the Imperial City the night after tomorrow." She pointed to one of the areas, which was crowded with people , "They are the Duke's Guard after the surrender. After Colin escaped from the Holy Hospital and knew that you were taken away by Reggie's people, he made a brave decision without hesitation, and it was that decision that allowed us to In one fell swoop, he took down all the troops in the Sander Territory, in exchange for an opportunity to negotiate with the royal family."

Selena sighed, "But I didn't expect that crazy woman would not bother to negotiate with us, so we will have to outwit the Hasting girl."

A man saw us from below and came up the stairs, and Selina looked at him and said, "Ed led them to Jacob."

Ed saluted Selena, and then asked me with concern, "It's great to see you okay."

"Thanks for your hard work." Thousands of words were reduced to this sentence, and I looked at him: "Thank you for everything, Ed."

"I just hope everyone's ending is a 'happy happy' ending," he said with a laugh.At this time, the door behind me opened, and I realized that Duncan and others who had been in the New Sierre District Medical Center had also arrived, and he was standing with Jamie.

The men are all looking down at Jacob's Barracks, I think it's all coming together, as I said, everything is about to start, the battle is about to start, the unknown belongs to tomorrow, the dawn begins now.

……

Anxiety started when the bell in the lobby began to strike the sixth.

The men stopped laughing and chatting, and Otis began to pace uneasily at the door. He wanted to go out and look for them, but Jamie persuaded him to sit down.

"You are not as calm as these two women." Donken commented incidentally.

When the gate of the fort outside was opened, almost all of us rushed outside to meet them.I began to look for that figure in the crowd.

"A doctor is needed here!" I heard Shay's voice, and I almost couldn't suppress my crying and tension in all the rustling and moving environments.I pushed past the crowd in front of me and ran towards the figure.

He stood in the shadows, with his head down, and I couldn't see his expression clearly.

His body was covered with blood, I grabbed his arm and checked anxiously, only to find that it did not come from him.

"Colin..." I tried to look into his eyes. He saw me and opened his mouth to speak, but he didn't. His eye circles were scarlet, and his palms were trembling slightly.

I just saw the man being carried in by the crowd behind me, and my first reaction was to shake my head, no, even though I didn't want to believe it was Nigel.His face was pale, his eyes were closed tightly, and Shay followed him, anxiously following the doctor into the castle.

I suddenly felt that the world was out of balance and collapsed in the direction of the crowd. Colin approached me and hugged me tightly. His head was buried in my ear. I could clearly smell the gunpowder smoke and blood on his body. His trembling body was shaking. Tell me about his inner fears.His spirit and fortitude are tearing apart, as when he told me about the family falling apart, when he explained Anna, father and mother, all the family members who were close to him, those who had left him one by one...

"Xiao Scar, I'm scared." He whispered in my ear. "I'm scared."

When Colin, Carl and others rushed to Nigel and Shay, they provided military support for the outnumbered team, and the royal guards who had turned into disadvantages were about to evacuate in a blink of an eye.

No one loves to fight, and Xie Yi has been taught not to love to fight.It's just that after Shay recognized the guards who were violent to his mother and sister back then, these rationalities turned into thoughts that drove people to die together regardless of their own lives.

He broke away from Karl who was pulling him, and stared at the group with red eyes.They once laughed wildly in front of him, their younger sister was brought into the warm house where their family lived, his mother still did not close her eyes in a pool of blood, they whipped him, during those days he humiliated Lying on the bed in the hospital, how many nights he angrily shed tears for his family members who died in vain, leaving only a dying body.

Shay didn't hear how his partner behind him called him. He was blinded by hatred and memories and stood there. The cannon barrel under the guard looked to him like his mother's black pupils, lingering without a trace of life until Nigel He threw himself down, using his strong body to block the incoming shells, and then resolutely pulled the kid to stand up.

His grip on Shay's collar was so hard he didn't even let go, dragging him back to their camp.Until Colin realized that something was wrong with him, Nigel had fallen on the horse unconsciously.

"We saw him fly a long way by the shells." Carl was exhausted after the fight. "We even thought he was fine when he stood up." Because it was Iron Blood Nigel, the fighting champion in everyone's eyes , Nigel who will always stand on the edge of the knife and die without fear of death.

He was lying on the bed and fell into a coma at the moment, because his body was hit hard by the shells, and he would even bleed black and red nosebleeds during the coma.

Shay buried his head in his knees and sat on the ground outside the room, while everyone stood outside the room in silence.

When he woke up at the last moment, the doctor in Wellsburg just shook his head at us, and I know what that means, we all do.

"I fucking feel like there's a ball in my head that's going to pop my head." He lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling.

"Maybe it's just your brain." Jamie teased him with his usual look.

He snorted dissatisfied, "Damn, the most annoying thing is not dying by the knife."

Donken laughed along with him, "This is Brother Cannonball."

"It's not bad, isn't it?" They laughed.But Jamie and Donken didn't laugh too loudly, because that would have drowned out Nigel's weak, barely audible voice.

Shay walked to his bedside, knelt down, and looked at him with disgust: "What's there to cry about, boys?" But he no longer continued to teach him as in the past, "I once had a boy..." He looked at Shay and said,

"If he had been born, he would have been about your age... Do you remember that little girl who was waiting for you back in New Shell? She should have thanked me..." said Nigel.

"Don't let hatred corrupt you...you can't forget, but you have to look forward, don't let them eat your beautiful heart, otherwise you will become like them." He then looked at Selena, " So I also bless you, the future queen of Carolina." Selina silently nodded to him.

He turned his head, grunting as if in some discomfort. "If you think you're not dying fast enough, keep messing around," Jamie snapped at him.

But he still looked at the person by the door with a smile. "Ah... these three men..." He looked at Colin, Otis and Carl standing side by side.

"How long has it been since I saw you brats standing together..." He looked at Carl with a smile, "Your temper is the worst."

"Did you finish the 'Voyager' in my wine cellar?" Carl responded, making Nigel laugh, "Ask Otis, he always teases me to drink it together..." He smiled He snorted again.

"If you continue to lie here, I won't tell you where another good wine is hidden." Otis didn't smile, but said the usual joke.

Nigel laughed again, the sound escaped from his weak lips, and he stared at the three of them for a long time.

"Don't let hatred corrupt your hearts, children," he said softly.

Nigel looked at Colin one last time and said with a smile, "The Nottingham boy." Colin stepped forward and took his hand.

"Have I followed the Nottingham family for half my life?" He looked into Colin's eyes, "When I see your father, I will definitely show him that I have lived ten years longer than him..." Colin clenched his hands His hand, Nigel looked at him with a final sigh, "Forgive me for not being with you to the final battle."

Colin said to him, "That's enough, Mr. Brontë."

He laughed, "Hahahahaha, Mr. Bronte, it's been a long time since anyone called me that..." He rolled his eyeballs and slowly slid them onto my face.

When I looked at him, he frowned feigning displeasure, waved his other hand at me, and lowered his voice, like a knife scraping gently on my heart, bringing blood and pain, " Don't cry, baby... come, come..."

I couldn't hold back my tears, and moved closer to the bed, imitating Colin's grip on his other hand. His hand was cold, and he looked at my face carefully with his eyes wide open.

"Hasten girl... Obviously Nigel can't take you to see any more, maybe I haven't seen a little Nottingham turnip before my eyes..." I bit my lip to keep the cry from leaking a little bit,

"Shh...don'tcry..." He frowned again, but I just couldn't help it, I kept nodding to him, my shoulders were trembling, and I held him tightly in my hand.

"My brain is about to explode, as if someone is messing with my internal organs..." There was an uncontrollable sharp breathing sound from his throat.

"I've done too many wrong things in my life, should I go to hell?"

"But every time I see you, I feel that the world is not too bad."

"Nigel..." I looked at him and stroked his browbones lightly. "It's okay..." I told him.

"Don't be afraid..." he said to me, "It does eshurta bit to die."

He finally put my hand on Colin's and turned back.

He began to bleed, black blood from his nose and ears, and he began to convulse in pain on the bed, eyes wide, and we could only watch him struggle in bewilderment.

Jamie put his hand on Colin's shoulder. "Let him go," he said.

Colin held Nigel's and mine's hands in his, his head bowed, his shoulders shaking violently, his head buried in Nigel's arm, whose body was still like a fish's tail on a deck struggling to twitch...

Colin finally straightened up. He pulled out the knife from his waist, leaned over Nigel, hugged him, and gently pressed his painfully convulsed body.

He whispered something in his ear, and quickly plunged the dagger into Nigel's body until he gradually stopped moving...

There was no other sound in the room, only the cry of Colin lying on Nigel's body, suppressed as if to destroy all hearts.

All the candles were burning in the room, but we were plunged into unprecedented darkness.

……

Nigel, Mr. Nigel Bronte.

He didn't die the way he wanted, but he died in a place that was at least marginally satisfying for him, a castle filled with Jacob's soul, where his body would find its final refuge and his soul finally set free .

The above words come from Nigel's lifelong friend Jamie.

"Welcome to the new world, Hastings girl."

Nigel.