The Duke in the Spire of Thorns

Noyce was very confident at the beginning, but after a week, Escrit still did not reappear, and he believed that Celeste had really pissed off his loyal knight commander this time.

"Don't put on such a sad expression, okay?"

Noyce sighed, "If I don't come back, I won't come back. Let's find another one, and I promise to be better and more obedient than him."

"……don't want."

Celeste said listlessly: "I won't look for it anymore, anyway, I live quite comfortably by myself."

Noyce looked at Celeste in disbelief—is this comfortable?My little brother, you can really open your eyes and talk nonsense.

But now that Celeste has said so, Noyce will no longer mention Escrit. Anyway, he is just a servant. The last time Celeste and Miss Darthwick fell in love He recovered quickly, he was just a servant, and his recovery speed would only be faster.

"Be happy," said Noyce, as they were on their way to the hunting grounds. "I'm trying to make you happy, so why don't you smile a little?"

Celeste smiled reluctantly after hearing this.

Noyce's plan is to take Celeste to hunt. In the eyes of this hunting-loving king, there is no trouble that can't be solved by one hunt. If there is, it will be twice.

Think about it, riding on a horse, with the wind blowing in your ears, the loyal hound running beside you, raising your bow, and knocking down the prey with an arrow, what a sense of accomplishment it is!There is nothing like this kind of happiness!

Although Celeste didn't have the same views as him, he didn't want to reject Noyce's kindness. It happened that he also wanted to relax, and hunting happened to be a good choice.

"Come on, pick one yourself."

This is Neuss's racecourse, and the domesticated horses are all the best horses, with shiny fur and full of energy, more than enough to take them to races.

The horse that Escrit gave Celeste was still in Bradley Castle and had not been brought to the palace, so now he needed to choose one of these horses.

"This is Ellie, she has a more docile personality... This is Kerry, this young man has a bad temper..."

The attendant who was usually in charge of looking after the horses was dutifully introducing these horses to Celeste. Celeste looked around among the horses and finally chose a pure white horse.

The horse looked very much like Bill Escrit had given him.

"She is Roy." The attendant introduced enthusiastically: "She has a good temper and is a good girl. You will definitely like her."

Celeste was noncommittal. He took a piece of sugar from the attendant, slowly approached Roy, and gently raised his hand. Roy was obviously familiar with this method, and she approached it without any unfamiliarity. , rolled up the sugar cube in Celeste's hand with his tongue, and began to chew.

After chewing, she snorted and lightly bumped Celeste's hand.

"Ah, it seems Roy likes you very much."

The attendant complimented at the right time, he untied Roy's rein, handed it to Celeste, and took a few steps back.

Celeste led Roy, Noyce had already got on the horse, and a large group of Scottish terriers were hovering at his feet, "Get on the horse," he urged.

Celeste patted Roy on the head. According to the habit, as long as he patted Bill like this, Bill would obediently kneel on the ground so that he could get on the horse, but Roy didn't know that, she just shook Tail, standing impassively in place.

"Stop shooting." Noyce understood Celeste's intentions very well, "This horse doesn't know how to do that, Hill, you have to climb up by yourself."

Celeste: "..."

When he learned to ride a horse, he didn't seem to learn how to mount a horse?

"I don't ride anymore," he said dryly. "I don't want to hunt anymore. I just want to go for a walk."

Noyce and Celeste grew up together, and now he noticed the unnaturalness in Celeste's expression, he froze for a moment, and then laughed loudly: "You don't know how to mount a horse, do you? "

Celeste refused to admit it: "...How is it possible, I just don't want to ride."

He didn't pay much attention to Noyce, and simply walked into the woods.

A pack of hounds followed him obligingly, and Noyce rode up to him, lifted him straight onto the horse, and seated him in front of him.

"Sit down." Noyce said with a playful smile, "Let my brother take you to a real hunt."

Celeste sighed and grabbed the horse's mane.

Noyce hunts all the year round and is a good rider. As soon as he raised his whip, the horse under him galloped quickly. In order to show his superb riding skills in front of Celeste, he also specially chose those difficult roads. Galloping, manipulating the horse to jump high, is very thrilling.

Celeste was very nervous by Noyce's actions. He held the horse's mane firmly, for fear that he would accidentally fall off the horse.

Noyce had been on guard against this for a long time. He held the rein with both hands, and surrounded Celeste with his long arms, completely eliminating the possibility of Celeste falling off the horse, but he didn't say it clearly—see Hillest It's kind of funny how Sturt panicked.

Half an hour later, Noyce finally had enough of his equestrian show addiction and planned to start a formal hunt.

It didn't take him long to find his first prey: a resting pheasant.

Noyce signaled Celeste to be quiet, he bent his bow and shot an arrow, and the arrow quickly rushed towards the pheasant, the unlucky pheasant fell down in response, and was picked up by a hound.

Noyce had won the first kill, which made him feel good and happy.

Celeste didn't comment, he looked around quietly.

Soon, Noyce found another potential victim, a brown fox, and he handed the bow and arrow to Celeste, "Here, you have a try this time, I promise, that kind It feels great!"

Celeste dubiously took the bow and arrow handed over by Noyce, holding the body of the bow in one hand and the bowstring in the other. He aimed at the prey, aimed, drew the bow, and shot the arrow, all in one go!

"—hahahahaha!"

Noyce let out a laugh that startled the lucky one away.Celeste shoved the bow and arrow back into Noyce's arms in embarrassment, pretending nothing happened without saying a word.

A hound rushed out courteously, and brought back the arrow that fell not far away.

"Sorry...sorry, sorry..." Noyce suppressed a smile, "I forgot that you are not strong."

The arrow shot by Celeste, let alone the prey, fell to the ground less than halfway away from the little lucky guy, without even scratching the opponent's oily skin.

Noyce fell silent, but his face was still full of smiles, he poked Celeste's face, "Okay, okay, don't sulk here, I didn't mean to laugh at you, that's it I can swear it."

Celeste ignored him.

Noyce is going to continue looking for the next prey. No matter what, he must let Celeste hunt one himself today, so that he will understand the beauty of hunting.

He turned his horse's head, intending to go on, when the hounds surrounding them barked uncomfortably.

They lowered their bodies, bared their teeth, and made a fierce look, but with their tails between their legs, they backed away slowly.Looking very disturbed.

Noyce looked serious, he knew exactly what the behavior of these hounds represented: something ferocious was nearby.

He became annoyed, obviously he had ordered those attendants to clear out a "safe area", leaving only some docile animals suitable for hunting, and driving all the things that might pose a threat to the other side, why? Now there will be something ferocious?

This sudden accident made Noyce very angry, and he made up his mind to reprimand those servants who did not do things wholeheartedly.

"Forget it, let's go back."

It would be fine if he was the only one, but now he is still carrying a small oil bottle, and Celeste is not at all like him, so it is better to go back first for safety reasons.

Next time, after he personally confirms that there is no danger, he will bring Hill over.

Celeste had no problem with Noyce's decision: he didn't find hunting interesting now anyway.

At this moment, the group of well-trained Scottish hounds barked wildly. Noyce was startled. He followed the sound and saw a black leopard standing on a tree with a dog in its mouth. A fox with brown fur happened to be the one released by Celeste just now.

It stood silently on the tree, looking extremely dangerous, as if it would deliver a fatal blow to the humans below at any time.

Noyce backed away slowly. He didn't want to provoke the panther, but the panther didn't cooperate very well. Noyce backed away for a while, and it jumped forward, onto a branch that was closer to them.

Neuss was on the verge of a formidable enemy, while Celeste looked at the panther dubiously, wondering if it was an illusion, this panther gave him a very close feeling, his instinct told him that it might not be Don't want to hurt them.

But after all, it was just a feeling. Celeste didn't speak, kept quiet, and cooperated with Neuss to retreat. However, no matter how they retreated, the black panther always followed them, and it was not far away. At such a close distance, it seemed that they neither intended to hurt them nor gave up following them.

Noyce smiled wryly and said to Celeste: "Look, your dear black kitty is here to find you. It seems that it really likes you very much."

Celeste's face darkened immediately: "Don't say any more!"

Noyce shrugged.

In any case, although the process was a bit thrilling, they finally came out successfully.Noyce got off his horse, breathed a long sigh of relief, then walked aggressively towards the attendants, and scolded them severely.

Celeste returned to his room. He opened the door and stretched himself, preparing for a comfortable afternoon nap. However, his vision suddenly froze and his body became stiff.

——The black panther that followed them all the way just now is lying leisurely on the carpet in his room!

what happened? !How on earth did it get in here? !

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