A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

The room suddenly fell silent, and the conversation between the two ended with someone looking away guiltily.

In fact, Garlan just remembered that Heymos had pressed him against the mirror and said that he violated him in his dream when Heymos was talking about dreaming about himself.

Then, without holding back, he asked that sentence.

Heymos' guilty expression made Garlan very angry.

Just now he felt sorry for the hardships Heymos had suffered in these three months. Although Heymos said it lightly and covered up his experience in the past few months with just a few words, Garland He knew in his heart that he was seriously injured and had to escape from the remote and cold Garstad snowfield all the way as a slave in the arena. This process was absolutely frightening every step of the way.

Even Heymos may have struggled on the verge of death several times.

but--

People are full of food and clothing and lust, but this guy has not forgotten when he has gone through hardships——

Garlan was very angry, and couldn't help but want to slap someone who looked away.

But when the hands were lowered, he couldn't bear to see Heymos's skin which was much rougher than before and the scars at the corners of his eyes.

Although the hand still slapped Heymos on the face, the force was not heavy at all. To someone with thick skin and flesh, it was like being bitten by a mosquito.

Heymos instinctively held the hand that patted him, and his eyes fell on the angry Garlan's face again.

The boy's face was sullen, his fair cheeks were a little red, and he didn't know if it was because of anger or something else.

His face was itchy after being slapped.

For no reason, even the bottom of his heart was itchy.

"You bastard, you are in such a dangerous time, don't forget——oo!"

In the middle of speaking, Garlan suddenly covered his throat with an uncomfortable expression.

His throat hadn't recovered from the beginning, and although it recovered a little overnight, he was barely able to speak, and when he spoke a little faster and higher, the pain would start again.

Heymos raised his hand, sat up and supported Garlan's shoulder, and looked at Garlan nervously.

Garlan closed his eyes and endured for a while, feeling the pain in his throat gradually disappearing, and then opened his eyes.

As soon as his hand came down from his neck, Heymos reached over and gently unwrapped the bandage around his throat.

"Don't move, don't talk, I'll change your medicine."

Heymos' tone was like coaxing a child.

Even though he knew that Garlan was not squeamish at all, but he was reluctant to be a little louder towards him.

The boy was like the softest flesh in his heart, just touching it could make him go crazy with pain.

The golden eyes looked at him and blinked.

After hearing what he said, Garlan obediently did not move.

Suo Jia is a very considerate subordinate, always able to properly consider all the small details for his superiors.

When he came over just now, he brought new ointments, bandages and warm wet wipes, put them on a plate and put them on the low cabinet beside the bed.

After removing the bandage, Heymos wiped off the original ointment with a wet tissue.

After applying the medicine all night, the shocking purple color from last night was slightly better.But the circle of bruises branded on the snow-white skin was still extremely glaring to Heymos.

When he thought that it was the marks left by other people on Garlan's body, a surge of hostility burst out from the bottom of his heart uncontrollably.

Resisting the urge to kiss and lick all the bruises carefully, and to lick off all other people's marks, Heymos gently re-applied the translucent ointment.

Finally, the bandage was rewrapped.

While he was doing this, Garlan remained very quiet.

The teenager put his neck into his hands without defense.

That is the most vulnerable part of the human body.

If Heymos wanted to, he could break this slender neck with just a little force in his hands.

Heymos stroked the bandage on Garlan's neck with his fingers, but he couldn't hold it back after all, lowered his head, and kissed Garlan's side neck lightly.

Half of his lips fell on the tender skin, and half fell on the snow-white bandage.

The boy shrank reflexively, but did not avoid his lips.

"Feel sorry."

Holding the person in his arms, Heymos said.

"Actually, I went to the city yesterday afternoon. I just heard about your attack this morning, so I didn't show up right away, because as soon as I showed up, those who secretly wanted to harm you would retreat."

"I don't want to leave a hidden danger around you, so I decided to follow you secretly first, find out that hidden danger, and then meet with you."

"and……"

Having said that, Heymos suddenly stopped, showing a hint of embarrassment.

"and?"

The man coughed, as if to hide his embarrassment.

"I was in a hurry to come back all the way. I didn't take care of myself very much. I was in a mess. It really didn't look very good. I thought I should tidy it up first, and then..."

He didn't want to appear in front of Garlan's eyes with that embarrassed appearance.

How could Garlan see that bearded, dusty, shapeless appearance?

Garlan was stunned for a moment.

He could understand why Heymos wanted to secretly protect him and find out who was behind the scenes, but it never occurred to him that another reason was this.

He suddenly wanted to laugh.

But he knew that if he really laughed, Heymos might not be happy.So he held back, stretched out his hands, and touched Heymos' cheek.

Even though there was an extra scar at the corner of his eye, the man's face was still extremely handsome, and even because of this scar, he felt a little more fierce and ruthless, and that dangerous aura was even more attractive.

Garlan looked at the handsome face in front of him, and imagined the other's bearded and downcast appearance.

"So you shave your beard first, then go wash yourself, and then come to see me?"

After saying this, Garlan still couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

Heymos looked at Garlan with raised eyebrows, and suddenly grabbed his wrists, turned over, and pressed Garlan on the bed.

He pressed his whole body on Garlan, pressing his hands to his side.

A long length of jet black hair fell down from his cheeks, and he leaned over and kissed the boy under him.

Compared with the light kiss that was just a touch of water not long ago, his kiss this time was a little bit longer, and he even bit the other's lips as if he wanted to punish the other party for laughing at himself.

"Didn't you ask me what else I did in my dream besides kissing?"

He lowered his head and brought his lips to Garlan's ear.

A trembling deep voice rang in Garlan's ears, and the man even licked the pink ear tips around his lips unsatisfied.

"Let me tell you bit by bit...all of it?"

"Uh, wait a minute, h—"

Heymos was caught off guard by this hooliganism, and Garlan was taken aback, subconsciously wanting to struggle to get up.

But his hands were tightly pressed to the sides of his head, and he couldn't break free at all.

Heymos blocked his lips again, forcing him to swallow the name he hadn't finished calling.

Seeing that the tip of the other party's tongue has unceremoniously opened his lips, and he is about to attack the city——

"King Garlan, Your Excellency Kareni has arrived at the gate of the city, and I will go to meet him now."

Suddenly, a high-pitched voice came from outside the door.

That was Suo Jia's voice.

He was fulfilling his duty to 'remind the two of you after Kareni's arrival'.

With the disposition of this veteran, he must have come to see King Garlan as soon as he entered the city.

That's why Suo Jia bothered to remind the two people in the room.

Shouting loudly, Suo Jia turned around and left, never expecting his words to interrupt the ambiguous atmosphere in the room.

The suppressed Garlan pursed his lips and stared at Heymos.

Heymos clicked his tongue, and let go of his hand somewhat unwillingly.

Garlan, who had finally escaped a crisis, heaved a sigh of relief in his heart, got up quickly, got out of bed and began to tidy himself up.

Carleni will come over soon, seeing the veteran, he can't be in such a disheveled appearance.

This room was changed temporarily, without his clothes, but fortunately, Suo Jia also sent two sets of clothes when delivering the medicine.

This person is really careful, even if you don't explain, everything is done with extreme compromise.

It's no wonder that Suo Jia has firmly occupied the position of Heymos' confidant for several lifetimes, and no one can shake his position.

Garlan praised the careful priest so much in his heart, but Heymos, who was at the side, showed a subtle look when he saw the two sets of clothes.

That guy Soga is really...

Forget it.

Seeing Garlan with an expression of ignorance, Heymos silently buried it in his heart.

If he dared to reveal this conjecture, Garlan, who has always been thin-skinned, would definitely become angry and get into trouble with him.

So he just silently picked up his own set of clothes, changed into them, and casually threw the changed rough coarse cloth clothes into the waste basin beside him.

"sit down."

Just after changing clothes, Heymos heard Garlan's voice from behind.

He didn't look back, and sat down obediently.

A hand reached out from behind and stroked his hair.

In the past three months, his hair has grown a lot, covering his ears, blocking the back of his neck, and the ends of his hair are messy and scattered on his shoulders.

The boy's fingers penetrated into his hair and combed it one by one.

"Why don't you try to grow your hair long?"

While fiddling Heymos's hair, Garlan said on a whim.

After thinking about it for a while, he vetoed it himself.

"No, it's inconvenient to have long hair on the battlefield."

After saying this, Garlan stopped talking. He quietly combed Heymos' black hair with his fingers, and tied it neatly into a bunch at the back.

Heymos closed his eyes, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The soft fingers behind him kept touching his cheeks and the back of his neck, stroking his hair.

The warmth transmitted from the touching fingertips penetrated into his skin, as if small streams of warmth slowly melted into the deepest part of his body.

Only by Garlan's side can he feel calm and satisfied.

The boy's unique breath faintly came from behind, surrounding him, like the fresh and warm wind in early spring.

The room was quiet.

All is well.

Heymos closed his eyes.

All he wanted, he thought, was for this moment to last forever.

…………

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Originally, Kareni would lead the army to arrive in the afternoon, but he was shocked when he heard about Garlan's attack on the way, left the army, and rushed to the Kanal King City with a team of confidantes.

He rushed all the way to the city aggressively, with a square stone face, he went straight to see Garlan without saying a word.

He was not relieved until he saw that King Garlan was safe and sound.

He had just said a few words to Garlan, when the veil on one side of the room was suddenly lifted, and a person he absolutely could not have guessed appeared in front of him.

When seeing that person, Kareni froze for a moment.

"Master Heymos?"

He looked at Heymos in astonishment, with an expression of disbelief.

"Didn't you already—"

Halfway through the sentence, probably because the word 'death' was too unpleasant to hear at this time, Kareni swallowed the remaining half of the sentence back into his throat.

He stared at Heymos for a long time, looked up and down several times, and then let out a long breath.

A rare expression of emotion appeared on that tense and serious face.

The untimely death of King Kamos had already made him extremely uncomfortable.

When he heard that Heymos had died in an accident, he felt his breath stuck in his chest, and he was so stuffy that he sat in the room for a whole day, unable to swallow a mouthful of food or water.

he thinks.

He is old.

The heart that was as hard as iron when I was young has already softened a lot, and I can't bear so many life and death.

And he is so uncomfortable, the young king who lost his family one after another in the royal city...how sad will it be?

Kareni has always been so worried.

Now, seeing Garlan's appearance with his own eyes, and Heymos returning alive, he didn't know what to say for a while.

"It's fine...it's good to be back."

After holding back for a long time, the old man who had been hardened for half his life managed to choke out such a sentence that he thought could comfort people.

The corner of Suo Jia's mouth twitched when he heard it.

In order to hide his clumsiness in this regard, Kareni quickly changed the subject.

"King Garlan, are you planning to temporarily conceal the news of Lord Heymos's return?"

Waking up from relief, the veteran immediately noticed that there was no news about Heymos' return outside.

After thinking about it again, he guessed Garlan's plan.

"Yes."

Garlan nodded.

Suojia is very smart. Although he was shocked when he first saw Heymos, he guessed that Heymos wanted to hide his identity from the fact that Heymos was wearing a large cloak and a hood. In his mind, he just didn't call Heymos' name.

After that, Suo Jia also kept the identity of Heymos tightly sealed.

In other words, except for Garlan, Suoga, Kareni, and a few confidants that Suoga arranged to guard outside the room, no one knew about Heymos' return.

This arrangement is very convenient for them to implement the next thing.

…………

The news of King Garlan's attack had already been spread throughout the entire city of Kanal.

Although everyone saw it that night, a hidden guard rushed out to rescue the fallen King Garlan.

But they also clearly saw that when King Garlan was taken back to the hospital for emergency treatment, although his appearance could not be seen clearly from a distance, his people did not move at all.

And since then, a day and a night have passed, and King Garlan has been staying in the room, never showing his face again.

On the contrary, the entire Aaron Landis army went to war, tightly controlled the entire city, and began to hunt for assassins.

The faces of those Aaron Landis soldiers were all very ugly.

As a result, the news that King Garlan was seriously injured and unconscious spread like wildfire, and some people even secretly said that King Garlan was actually dead, but the people of Aaron Landis kept it secret.

As time passed day by day, King Garlan never showed his face, even the veteran Carleni who came with the army never showed up, presumably he stayed by King Garlan's side every step of the way.

The rumors became more serious day by day, the atmosphere in the royal city of Kanal City gradually became agitated, and the residents in the city became more and more anxious.

The Kanals have gone through hardships in the past few years. First they were destroyed, and then they were oppressed by alien rule. Finally, the aliens were driven away. King Garlan, who came here, was assassinated in the royal city, and his life and death were unknown.

They only felt terrified, for fear that King Garlan would really die here, and the people of Aaron Landis would retaliate against them for this.

A few days later, veteran Carreni suddenly appeared. He looked a bit haggard, and seemed completely indifferent to those who asked him to inquire about the situation. He just hurriedly escorted King Garlan out of the city, where he was already stationed. The Sixth Army also went out of the city to guard the king's side.

And the King Garlan who was escorted by him has never shown up in the carriage, and someone vaguely saw that he seemed to be lying down all the time.

Everyone felt that King Garlan must be dying, so Kareni hurriedly escorted him back to Aaron Landis.

At this time, Aaron Landis didn't care about Kanal at all.

In this way, the dark forces felt that this was a great opportunity.

It is dominated by nobles from the old forces of Kanal, and firmly opposes Kanal's incorporation into the kingdom of Aaronlandis, and even more against the rule of King Garlan.

When the hearts of the people were scattered, the old aristocratic forces began to stir up the so-called "uprising" under the banner of righteousness such as "never surrender to foreign races" and "Kanal can only be ruled by Kanal people".

The army under their command that originally helped the Gastades oppress their compatriots was transformed into a so-called 'rebel army' that resisted alien rule.

Taking advantage of the fact that Aaron Landis's army was in a hurry to escort King Garlan back to his country, and his power in Kanal was greatly reduced, these people jumped out one by one.

This is especially true for a key city like Wangcheng.

The old nobles of Kanal proudly led their "rebel army" to "revolt" against the "brutal rule" of the Aaron Landis in the royal city.

For a moment, the people in Wangcheng were at a loss, resentful but at a loss.

At this moment, the Aaron Landis army facing them split into two like a tide.

Among the army, the picturesque young king riding a white horse appeared in front of everyone.

The long golden hair shines bright like gold in the sun.

Tens of thousands of majestic Aaron Landis cavalry are behind him.

He looked up and smiled.

So that day, the sun was shining.

So on that day, the King City of Kanal knelt at the feet of the Young King ever since.