Chapter 203 White Knight
The sky and the city.
Cersei Lannister knelt before the altar of Our Lady, bowing her head in prayer.
And the coffin of her son Joffrey rests under the altar of the Stranger - the one who guides the dead to the other world.
There is a strong scent of incense in the air, and hundreds of burning candles light up the hall.
"Kingslayer" Jai Lannister stood behind his sister, but his eyes were out of focus.
His right hand was broken at the elbow, his hair was ssy, his clothes were disheveled, and he looked like he hadn't taken care of it for a long ti.
"The convoy is ready." Jas said with a hoarse voice, "Let's take little Joe back to King's Landing for burial."
Cersei got up slowly and ca to her son's open coffin.
According to custom, the dead king will wear gilded armor.
The golden light flickered in front of her eyes, and Cersei couldn't help but think of Toad Witch's prophecy about her fate—
"You will marry the king and have three children, and they will be crowned with gold and shrouded in gold."
No!
This is not true!
Cersei is suddenly overwheld by fear.
When she was young, Toad Wu Ji once sucked the blood between her fingers and prophesied her fate.
She refused to believe the prophecies until they ca true one by one.
She did marry the king and had three children.
Joffrey once wore a golden crown, and now he is shrouded in golden armor.
Tomn is about to wear the golden crown, and will also be shrouded in golden armor in the future?
And Myrcella...
no, I can not!
“…you will be mothered until another woman cos. She is younger and more beautiful than you, and she will overthrow you and take everything you hold dear…”
No! Will not!
Cersei began to tremble.
However, the eerie and weird voice of Toad Wu Ji still echoed in my ears—
“…one day in the future, when you are drowned in tears, your brother will strangle you by the pale neck and take your life.”
"No! Never!" Cersei exclaid.
"Cersei, what's wrong with you?" Jas quickly stepped forward to hold her shoulder.
She turned her head suddenly, looked at Jas with red eyes, and said in a roaring tone:
"Jas, promise ! Promise that you will avenge Xiao Qiao if you kill that man!"
Jas smiled wryly and raised his severed hand, as if to let Cersei see clearly: "How can I kill people like this now? And..."
A pained and terrified expression appeared on Kingslayer's face: "And even if my hands are intact, I'm still no match for that man. You saw it at the ti, his sword..."
"Then you let that man run free!" Cersei yelled angrily. "No matter how powerful he is, how can he stand up to an army? Is your brain broken if your hand is broken? Can't command Have you fought yet? Don't forget, Xiao Qiao is also your son!"
I really almost forgot. Jas thought to himself.
He tried to recall Joffrey's face, but found it was a little blurry.
Yes, that was his child, his blood, but at this mont, he was surprisingly calm.
If the Seven Gods gave him the chance to choose between his son and his right hand, he knew he would choose his right hand without hesitation.
Joffrey was his son, but he was never a father.
He didn't hold the baby even once.
At the beginning, he had made a request, but Cersei bluntly refused, saying that they were too similar and would arouse suspicion.
After all, all he wanted was Cersei, and as for the three children, they were all incidental gifts, and they were gifts with the last na of Baratheon.
The mont Ed Stark revealed the truth to the public, Jas didn't panic in his heart, but was relieved.
He actually wants to bring Cersei and the children back to live in Casterly Rock. As for the Iron Throne, whoever wants to sit on it can sit.
Unfortunately, my father refused to admit defeat, and my sister refused to give up.
"I will avenge Joffrey." Jas didn't want to see Cersei sad, "I will."
As he spoke, he turned to look at Joffrey's open coffin.
I have to say that Joffrey looks quite handso when he is quiet. After all, he inherited the appearance of the most outstanding pair of couples in this generation of the Lannister family.
But whenever he opened his mouth, Jas couldn't help but cover his ears.
"Then you go now!"
Cersei's words stunned Jas for a mont: "Now? But didn't father have ordered the withdrawal of the troops..."
"No!" Cersei interrupted screaming, "I want you to lead an army to Eagle's Mouth and hang the man who killed my son, our son!"
Cersei's request upset him for a while: "Where did I get the army? The army of the North has already left with Eddard Stark. Although Mace Tyrell has a friendly attitude, he will soon lead the army of the Riverbend." Evacuate, as for the nobles of the kingdom, how could they obey , a Lannister?"
"Then you follow Mace Tyrell, he has promised to marry his daughter to Tomn, and that Margaery is now taken captive by Samwell, you go with him to the Eagle's Mouth, and find Go back to Margaery, and kill that kingslayer and kidnapper by the way!"
Jas frowned and did not speak.
Cersei was so angry that she gritted her teeth, but she, who was familiar with the man's temperant, didn't get angry again, but walked forward and reached out to stroke his face:
"Jas, my heart aches."
Cersei tiptoes to kiss Jai on the lips.
He trembled suddenly, then hugged the woman tightly into his arms, and responded frantically.
"No, don't." Cersei struggled instead, "Don't be here..."
However, Jas ignored her at all, ripping off her clothes roughly, demanding greedily.
Just when the two were about to beco one, the door of the room was suddenly opened.
"Damn it! Who let you in!" Jas cursed as he put on his clothes in a panic.
But when he saw who was coming, he froze on the spot.
"Kingslayer, Cersei." Barristan Selmy, Captain of the Kingsguard, stood at the door, looking coldly at the pair of brothers who were doing their best, "Lord Eddard did not wrong you! "
"Get out! Get out!" Cersei yelled angrily.
"I will go." Barristan said coldly, "and will go far."
Jas finally put on his pants with his only remaining hand, but he was a little dazed when he heard the words: "What do you an?"
"It ans that my duties have co to an end." As he spoke, Barristan Selmy reached out and unbuttoned his shoulders, and the snow-white cloak imdiately fell down, forming a heap on the ground.
Imdiately after a "clang", his helt fell to the ground.
"I, Barristan Selmy, resign today as Captain of the Kingsguard," the old knight announced, unfastening his breastplate.
"No!" Jas retorted subconsciously, "The duty of the Kingsguard is for life! Barristan, you have sworn that only death can release you from duty!"
"Whose death?" Barristan took off his armor. "The king I served has died four tis. I should have taken the initiative to lead them to death when I was on the banks of the Trident River. However, Robert Baratheon's deanor moved I would serve him with all my heart, but that **** Joffrey of yours..."
"Kill him!" Cersei scread. "Jai! Kill the old thing!"
Jas didn't move.
How dare he kill Barristan Selmy.
Don't say whether you can beat it or not.
Even if he could fight, but that was Barristan Selmy, the "fearless".
The Captain of the Kingsguard, the terminator of the Blackfyre Rebellion, has been a White Knight for forty years, has served four kings successively, and has almost beco a symbol of royal power. The bards in Westeros all praise his na In the minds of the people of the Seven Kingdoms, he is a legendary existence on the sa level as "Mirror Shield" Savin and "Dragon Knight" Aemon.
Kill him, and the reputation of the Lannister family will be ruined imdiately.
So, Jas didn't dare to move at all.
No matter how my sister roars.
Barristan untied his sword indifferently, threw it on the ground, and said in a sigh:
"What a glorious title the Kingsguard used to be. Of the white knights of the previous generation, which one was not a legend known in the Seven Kingdoms. 'White Bull' Jeno Hightower, 'Dawn Sword' Arthur Dayne, Le Prince Ving Martell, Sir Oswell Hoan...even you, Jai Lannister—
But before you stain your sword with the blood of the king you swore to protect, and beco a 'Kingslayer'.
But now, what kind of rotten fish and shrimps are there in the Royal Guard!
Shit white knight!
Each one is dirtier than the sewers in King's Landing!
I am ashad to be with you! "
Barristan Selmy gave the two a contemptuous look, then turned and strode away.
Cersei was still yelling and cursing, but Jai bowed his head in silence.
Yes, what an honorable title the forr Kingsguard was.
Jas was also one of them.
At that ti, the world was so pure and beautiful, and everyone around was as sharp and bright as a newly cast long sword.
And now, they all go to the grave.
What about ? Jas thought to himself, when did the once high-spirited boy, the boy who wanted to be the greatest knight in the Seven Kingdoms, enter the grave?
When he slit the throat of "Mad King" Aerys?
The teenager who wanted to be Arthur Dayne since he was a child, sohow, his life took a turn, and he ended up becoming a kingslayer.
The footsteps of Barristan Selmy had faded away.
Only the white cloak, white armor, and white long sword are left on the ground... pure white like snow, like clouds, like an unsullied oath.
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