A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

The head of the royal knights finally lost to the shameless... no, the wise prince.

Heymos will be held in his own palace instead of the underground prison under the temple.Of course, he still can't move freely, and there will be a team of royal knights stationed in his palace to guard him at every step.

However, before that, according to Prince Garlan's request, Sage first brought Garlan and Kyhors to the place where the remains of the two dead knights were stored.

Although he compromised, his face was very ugly along the way, as dark as a dark cloud.

Knowing that Sage and his subordinates were being aggrieved by him, Garlan also became very obedient along the way, following quietly without saying a word.

Soon, Sage led Garlan to an underground ice cellar behind the temple.

The remains of the two knights were stored deep in the ice cellar.

According to the head of Sage, after the murderers are punished, a prayer ceremony will be held for their funeral. Before that, the remains will be kept here.

Therefore, even though more than ten days had passed since the incident, what Garlan saw were still two relatively well-preserved remains, which were placed in a long box filled with ice cubes.

When he stood beside one of the boxes and looked down, the dead knight lay quietly in the ice, as if he was in a deep sleep, but his face was so pale that he was obviously not alive.

Kyhoes was examining another dead knight.

"Someone cut his throat, this is a fatal wound."

he said, pressing his fingers against the knight's throat and looking down.

"He should have fought before he died, and there were more than one opponent."

He looked at the knight's flaming armor and came to a conclusion.

Because there are several obvious sword scratches on the armor.

These two knights were wearing hard armor and helmets on duty, which blocked most of the vital points of their bodies. If they wanted to deal with them as soon as possible, the only vital point was their throats.

Presumably another knight's fatal wound was also in the throat.

Thinking about this, Kaihos walked to Garlan's side, and then heard Garlan ask a question strangely.

"Why is there no wound?"

As soon as Kaihos heard it, he looked over, and indeed did not see a wound on the knight's throat.

He was also a little strange, so he looked at it a few more times, then stretched out his hand to caress the throat, and suddenly he knew it.

However, before he could answer, the stern-faced Captain Sage spoke.

"He died when his neck was broken."

"……I see."

"We have checked the remains. One died with a broken neck, and the other died with his throat cut."

Perhaps thinking of the scene at that time, Captain Sage said with a heavy expression.

"The people who killed them didn't leave anything behind, and the method of killing was so common that there were no leads."

"The palace was sealed off after that, wasn't it?"

Garlan asked again.

"Yes, that morning I notified the guards to seal off the entire palace. No one is allowed to leave the palace without the warrants from me and the chief guard."

Sako said that as the head of the Royal Knights, he has this power.

"You mean to say that the murderer is still in the palace."

After the palace was sealed off, although important noble ministers could still enter and leave the palace in order to allow the normal operation of political affairs, according to the palace regulations, noble ministers were not allowed to bring their servants into the palace. At most, they could only let the servants stand outside the palace gate .

In other words, those noble ministers can only enter and exit alone, so it is impossible to take people out of the palace.

Sage gave Garlan a cold look, and slapped him unceremoniously.

"After that incident, before we could react, the only person who left the palace with his subordinates was Prince Heymos."

Garlan pretended not to understand.

"In other words, the murderer is still in the palace."

Sage snorted, as a tacit consent.

Garlan thought about it carefully, and then raised his hand to touch his own neck.

"Kayhos, if it were you, how would you break the opponent's neck?"

"It's almost..."

The one-eyed knight thought for a while and answered.

"In order to prevent the other party from yelling, usually behind the other party's back, cover your mouth with one hand, wrap your arms around your neck, and then turn around hard, just..."

In order to facilitate understanding, he also raised his hand to demonstrate the action.

"Is there any other way?"

"If it is a sudden attack, it is also the most appropriate way to ensure that the other party will not make a sound. Other methods will alarm the other party and cause the other party to make a sound."

Garlan snorted for a moment, then pondered for a while.

Then, as if he remembered something, he leaned over, put his hand into the ice that wrapped the knight, groped for a while, and pulled the opponent's two hands out of the ice.

He looked at those two hands carefully for a while, then nodded slightly.

"Captain Sage."

He straightened up and looked at Sako.

"I think I have a way to find the murderer."

"what?!"

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As the head of civil servants, Prime Minister You has a separate government affairs room in the royal court that handles the government affairs of Aaron Landis.

It was still in the morning, and he was sitting in his seat, slowly looking through the parchment papers, and then slowly wrote the comments on them.

Obviously, the entire palace is still under emergency blockade, and the atmosphere is extremely tense. Everyone in the palace is in a state of anxiety because of this matter, but the old man looks relaxed and sits in his seat There was no sign of panic.

After a while, one of his young civil servants came in and brought him a cup of hot tea.

The old man put down the quill in his hand and picked up the hot tea with both hands, still in that unhurried manner, took a sip and showed a satisfied expression.

The young official who brought him tea showed a hesitant expression, which was so obvious that the old man could understand it at a glance.

He took another sip of tea, then put it down, and smiled.

"What's wrong? What do you want to say?"

This young civil servant who has just joined the office is a nephew of his family, and he is quite smart and hardworking, so he brought him here.

He is old and won't be able to stay in this position for long, so he will patiently teach capable juniors.

"Master Prime Minister, do you think Prince Heymos really killed the royal knight?"

The old man smiled.

"Your thoughts?"

He asked rhetorically.

The young man shook his head.

"I don't think so...Although all kinds of unfavorable evidence point to him, no matter how I think about it, I don't think he should do such a thing. I think, I am afraid that someone intentionally killed Prince Heymos after he left. Kill the royal knight and put the blame on him."

Prime Minister You looked at him, nodded, showing satisfaction.

"Since you already have an idea, why are you asking me?"

"I just……"

The young civil servant hesitated for a moment and lowered his voice.

"I just want to ask, can you guess who framed Prince Heymos?"

He said, "Yesterday, the Chief Secretary has been acting very eagerly, wanting to convict Prince Heymos...I always feel...is he..."

Halfway through the conversation, he shut up.

He only dared to say this secretly in front of Prime Minister You, who is the elder of his family, if someone else heard it, it would be troublesome.

The old Prime Minister You took another sip of tea.

"You're still too young."

He patiently taught his younger generation.

"What you can see, do you think that the chief director is not clear?" He said, "The reason why he dared to be so presumptuous and acted so eagerly was because he was very sure in his heart, and that matter and He's okay, that's why he dared to do that."

"He is arrogant in his behavior, but he is clear in his heart."

"If you have a ghost in your heart, it's too late to hide it, so how dare you make such a big fanfare."

"Hey? But, since it has nothing to do with the Chief Secretary, why did he do this? After all, he is a prince, so there is no need for the Chief Secretary to offend him for no reason?"

"Heh~ In this world, nothing happens for no reason."

Although the old man who was drinking tea looked old, the light in his eyes was still full of vigor and vitality.

He smiled lowly, waved his hand, and sent the young official away.

There are many things, it is better for young people not to know too much.

For example, the matter of Tozes City is not that simple.

For another example, the consul and wealthy merchants in Tozes City were escorted back by Prince Heymos.

Also, the Chief Secretary is now at a critical moment of whether he can ascend to the position of Prime Minister Zuo, and there is no room for any stains... and things like that...

After drinking the last sip of tea, the old Si Xiang turned his head to look at the bright sunshine outside the window, narrowing his eyes slightly.

However, that Prince Garlan...acted quite unexpectedly.

He thought with interest.

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It was almost noon, and Garlan once again came to the dungeon under the temple of the Royal Knights.

This time, it was personally led by the head of Sage.

In the empty dungeon, at a glance, there was only one figure.

Sako walked up to the cell and opened the door.

Heymos, who was still leaning against the wall and sitting on the ground, closed his eyes, as if he was resting his mind. Even when he heard the dull footsteps from the boots coming towards him, he still closed his eyes and remained motionless, as if he didn't know anything about it. Someone is coming.

The head of Sage standing at the door looked at Heymos and saw that Heymos was awake, so he spoke directly.

"Prince Heymos, you can come out now."

When Sako said this, Heymos, who had kept his eyes closed, suddenly opened them.

But he didn't even look at Sage who was standing at the door of the prison, and when he turned his eyes, he fell directly on Garlan on the other side.

"Garlan, what did you do?"

Heymos asked, he looked at Garlan with sharp eyes.

"It's nothing, I just persuaded the head of Sage, saying that you are still injured, and let you go back to the palace to recuperate."

Garlan shrugged, then turned to look at Sako.

"Captain Sage, don't you think so?"

He looked at Sako and said with a smile.

"……Yes."

The word Sage Captain was smashed out like a stone.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see how reluctantly he said 'yes'.

Obviously unwilling to say more, he looked at Heymos and said with a blank expression: "Prince Heymos, I will send a team of royal knights into your palace. Before the matter is over, I hope you can stay quietly Resting in the palace, don't leave their sight."

He said, "Now, please come out first."

Heymos sat without moving, his golden-red pupils just stared at Garlan.

He said, "Garlan, come in."

"what?"

"I'm injured and can't stand up, come in and help me."

"........."

You hurt your hands not your feet.

The young man slandered inwardly.

However, he knew very well in his heart that if he didn't go in, Heymos, who had been extremely capricious in front of him since he was injured, would never come out by himself.Therefore, he could only walk in helplessly, walked up to Heymos who was sitting, bent down, and stretched out his hand to him.

Heymos didn't grab his hand immediately, staring at him with golden red eyes, those deeply probing eyes made Garlan feel a little guilty.

Fortunately, Heymos didn't stare at him for too long, and reached out to grab his hand.

But, to be precise, Heymos didn't grab his hand, but his wrist.

The palm that was bigger than him tightly clasped Garlan's entire wrist like this.

………Big brown hands covered his arms…

Fingers wrapped around his wrist...

The hot and uneven fingertips, like charcoal fire, slid on his skin... A little tingling sensation was transmitted from the nerves to the whole body...

...It should be extremely painful, but the extreme pain is mixed with extreme pleasure...

Makes people tremble, makes people collapse...

near death--

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With a sudden wave of his hand, Garlan slammed Heymos' hand away from him.

He takes a step back.

The moment Heymos' fingers clasped his wrist, that familiar feeling made his dream of that night suddenly appear in his mind...

Garlan felt that his face was on fire at this moment.

At this moment, he couldn't even look directly at Heymos in front of him.

He bit his lower lip tightly, trying his best to control his strange expression, his heart was beating like a drum, for fear that Heymos would see something.

Fortunately, at this time, Heymos didn't look at him, but his eyes fell on his arm.

In the next second, Heymos stood up by himself.

As soon as he reached out, he grabbed his hand again and forcibly pulled his left hand out of the cloak.

Heymos stared at the freshly cut scar on Garlan's forearm.

"what happened?"

He asked, "Garlan, what did you do to get me out of here?"

"It's just a small wound, I accidentally rubbed it, I..."

"Do you think I can't see that the wound is a knife edge?"

Heymos abruptly interrupted Garlan's words.

"answer me."

"I really didn't do anything..."

In the middle of speaking, his shoulders were suddenly grabbed.

Heymos clasped Garlan's shoulders tightly, staring at Garlan with sharp golden-red eyes, and there was a dangerous aura in his eyes.

"Two options."

Heymos said,

"Either you answer my question immediately."

He stared at Garlan, lowered his head, and moved his face closer.

He lowered his voice so low that only he and Garlan could hear clearly.

"Or, I'll just kiss you right here."

"you--!!"

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……and many more.

I always feel that this scene, this dialogue, this threatening mode... has an inexplicable sense of déjà vu?