[comprehensive] dear king

Xiangori looked at the old woman who stretched out her hand to wash the broken limbs, then looked at the three people who were immobilized over there, and finally bravely walked over to the old woman and said, "Excuse me, is it ours?" Did anyone offend you?"

The old woman put aside the bloody stump and reached out to grab another piece, ignoring Kaori's inquiry.

"Excuse me, why did you stop my companions?" Kaori was not angry at her ignorance, but asked meekly again.

"Yes," the old lady finally answered her, "I held them because the bald man stepped on the dead body I had washed, and the fool didn't notice it. His feet and his sins again These bodies are dirty, and I have to clean them again." The old woman looked up, her face was covered with wrinkles and hideous tumors, and her hands were like old witches with nails like sharp claws.

The old woman grabbed Kaori's hand, "What a beautiful hand." She praised.

When she was caught, Kaori couldn't help shaking, "Excuse me, how can you forgive them?" The hand holding her was icy cold, and the touch was very scary.

"You have a pair of beautiful little hands," the old woman let out a giggling laugh, "yes, stretch out your hands and do my work, and you will wash these pieces of meat before the sun rises." Clean, wash them of sin and blood, and put them back together, and sew them well, so I can take them back to where they belong."

"Of course, you can also leave these three idiots behind and run away by yourself. The horse is not far away. Leave them and run far away. In this way, the three of them will be my slaves." The old woman's laughter was sharp and hoarse, as if there was a mouthful of phlegm in her throat.

Kaori withdrew her hand, stared at the old woman for a while, then turned her head to look at Finn, rolled up her sleeves, took off the hood of her robe that was in the way, and tied her hair behind her head, "I'll do it .”

The blistered, swollen and whitish feel of the flesh of the corpse was terrifying to the touch, especially when the fingers were about to touch it, it made people feel even more creepy.

Under the whitening moonlight, the girl's fresh fingers covered the body that had lost its life, and every time she touched it, her heart would tremble.

The dead man's hair was wrapped around Kaori's fingers, and the old woman hummed softly in her hoarse voice while washing the dirt off the man's head.

come back, come back

warrior on the go

by the stream

on the beach

like a mother touching your cheek

wash your blood

wash away your sins

The melody of the ancient ballad is weird and faint, like a child's babbling in a dream, but the old woman's hoarse voice makes me feel a little creepy.

Finn did know who the old woman was, but he couldn't speak.

Conan stared at the girl washing the corpse on the shore, and the old woman beside her with those copper bell-like eyes—this girl is indeed beautiful, with glossy black hair like crow feathers, and snow-white skin— — No wonder Finn is obsessed.

Carter closed his eyes tightly.

He promised Finn not to read it, not to read it, never to be curious.

Listening to the content of the ballad, Kaori gradually understood what she was doing from the original fear. She was washing the corpses of the warriors who died on the battlefield, and the ballad was calling the lost warriors to return to their hometown .

The old woman stopped singing after singing once, she looked at Kaori, as if she was quietly waiting for something.

"Return——" Kaori opened her mouth and tried to sing a syllable. When she was under Kirei's care before, she also participated in the choir. At least she sang gospel songs very well. The girl looked for the sound, Slowly singing along with the woman's voice, "Come back—come back—warriors on the journey—"

Following the girl's singing, some translucent and wobbly figures floated from the river bank. They moved forward in confusion, and their faces changed from the original hesitation to satisfied smiles.

They waded across the beach and disappeared on the other side of the creek.

Kaori kept singing, her voice was a little hoarse, until the dew covered her hair, and the last piece of body was pieced together, Dawn refused to shed a ray of light.

The old woman was still standing where she was. The young girl's hands were soaked in the river all night, her knuckles were numb from the cold, and her hands were white and wrinkled. Kaori rubbed her hands on her arms to keep warm.

When the sun shone on the three Fenian warriors who stood all night, they finally "thawed". Finn ran to Kaori's side immediately, picked up the cloak on the ground and covered her.

"How are you?" he asked anxiously.

"I'm fine-"

"How could it be okay! The river is so cold." Finn grabbed her hand, frowning with distress.

Carter ran in front of Finn, looking at the witch in front of him vigilantly. The witch suddenly changed shape, from an old woman with wrinkled face and warts to a woman with hair like burning blue flames. Tall woman.

She is slender and beautiful, with a cruel and noble temperament all over her body.

The goddess looked past the three warriors and landed on the girl, "I like you very much." The beautiful goddess stretched out her hand and said to Kaori.

Finn stopped Kaori, "Great goddess Morrigan, please forgive us for being unreasonable." He bowed his head to the goddess and saluted, "We passed by here, but we didn't expect to disturb your work, you are kind and noble, and you don't hesitate to give us gifts Queen of Ghosts, forgive us."

Morrigan's eyes fell on Finn, "You are good." She still stretched out her hand, "Come on," she said to Kaori, "You are brave and persevering, my beloved girl, I I like you very much."

"Come with me to my country, where you don't have to worry about being robbed by others, and you don't have to worry about men's encroachment like a frightened chipmunk." The queen of ghosts issued an invitation.

This is a very charming invitation. In the kingdom of the queen, there is really no need to worry about these things. Kaori hesitated for a while, and when she was about to reach out to hold the pale and cold queen's hand, she was grabbed by Finn. Stopped him, "What are you doing!" Finn, who had eaten the fish of wisdom, of course knew what Morrigan meant by "going to her country". Jumping up, "Calm down, is there anything you can't talk about? Why do you want to die—"

Morrigan glared at Finn angrily, but Finn did not intend to shut up, he said to Morrigan, "Great queen, mistress of ghosts and death, please grant your mercy, this child is too young She should not go to your country."

"Looking for death?" Xiangori blinked, not quite understanding what he said.

"Your Highness Morrigan is the goddess of death and war. Where is her country? Can't you use your own brain?" Finn was so angry that he almost knocked her on the head.

"You!" Morrigan glared at the young man angrily, "I know you, Finn the blond, Finn the glorious and beautiful, you are certainly a brave warrior enough to win my favor, but—even if you eat You don’t know the value of this child, and the noble status, you are just one of the people who are confused by the characteristic of “loved by all living beings” and want to snatch this child!”

She sharply pointed out the heart of the little group leader, "And I, I will provide the protection of 'princess' and keep her away from you snatchers."

She reached out to Kaori again, "Come on, my princess, you don't belong to the mortal world."

This time it was Carter who spoke, "Wait," he stood in front of Kaori, "Although I don't understand what's going on, but since Finn said he couldn't leave, naturally he couldn't just sit and watch her being taken away." Let's go, I promised Finn to send this child back with him."

Morrigan's temper seemed to be at its peak, and she pointed at Carter: "You," the queen cursed at the person in the way with an angry face, "you will live until your sun goes down, and you will use your song Singing about the glory of the sun before it fell, but can only watch it sink into the sea, and miss it until death, without the glory of burning with it."

"Please wait a moment—" Kaori stopped, "Please don't do this."

Finn grabbed Kaori's hand, "If you are worried about being taken away by others, I will protect you, I will protect you until the end of my life, don't promise Morrigan, once you step into the kingdom of death, you will I can't go back to the ground again." He turned to Morrigan, "If you are really annoyed, please curse me, I kept her by my side for my own desires, and refused you to take her away, please Pass your curse on to me!" He said, looking firmly at the terrifying goddess in front of him with emerald green eyes.

The goddess glanced at him indifferently, "Your fate is not in my hands." Morrigan stretched out his hand for the third time, "Come with me, princess, don't refuse me for the third time before the sun rises." Second-rate."

Finn gripped Kaori's hand tightly, as hard as if he wanted to crush her wrist.

"Yeah, don't promise her, I've already been cursed anyway." Carter shrugged, with a relaxed and indifferent look on his face, "Don't let me be cursed for nothing, 'princess'?" He didn't know why Mo Regan was going to call the girl a princess, but he didn't mind any curses anyway, as long as he didn't make him dumb who couldn't sing.

Anyway, he didn't understand what the curse meant.

"Please revoke the curse." Kaori said.

"Once the goddess' curse is spoken, there is absolutely no reason to take it back." Morrigan said.

"Then I won't go with you." Kaori shook her head.

Visible sullenness appeared on Morrigan's face, "Do you know what you said? I warned you, don't reject me for the third time before the sun rises."

"Please withdraw the curse from Carter." Kaori still asked.

Morrigan finally had no patience to wait, she reached out to grab Kaori's hand, and snatched her directly to her own country, but the first rays of the sun finally fell on the earth, and the queen of the dead in the night Looking at the rising sun, she gave a "tsk". Before the sun rose, she was rejected three times. Now that the sun rises, she can no longer take this child away.

The queen disappeared into the light of the morning sun.

Carter shrugged, "Wow, I didn't say that, this Lord is really capricious."

You are also very willful, Conan, who didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, complained in his heart.

"I'm sorry. I caused you to be cursed." As soon as she came out, she caused this kind of thing to happen to others, Kaori bit her lip and almost cried.

"It's okay." Carter wanted to reach out and pat her on the shoulder, but after thinking about it, he finally didn't do so. Instead, he comforted with a smile, "Anyway, I didn't curse me to become dumb or die this evening, and I didn't understand that curse. What are you talking about?" He showed a youthful look, "We Fenian warriors swear to protect every woman, and no one will be afraid of this unreasonable curse."

He paused, then looked at the frowning Finn, and showed a smirk, "Of course, if you're really sorry," he had the narrow smile that a boy of this age would have on his face, "Then give me a kiss." He nodded his cheek.

"Eh?" Kaori looked at him stupidly.

"..." Finn silently took out a piece of cheese from the grain bag.

Come, buddy, come here, I'll add some decorations to your head.

The author has something to say:

Let me tell you about the legend of Carter. Carter, the son of Ronan, was one of the only two survivors after the conflict between the Fenian Knights and the king’s army (the other survivor was a man who was not in Fenia at the time. Osian, son of Finn), for Carter, Fenia is his sun and home. After Fenia was destroyed, he wandered and sang all the way, telling what the knight order looked like in its glorious past.This curse is actually very cruel to him, and the one left behind will always be the saddest.

To Kaori, the loved one is no different from a disaster.

The one she loves doesn't eat the one she loves

And he who eats the beloved suffers because of her

So she is less and less afraid to contact people later.

until Uruk

Compared to the "love" between humans and ancient gods

The love of all things in nature is much purer

As long as the "princess" touches them

They can happily chase their tails all day

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