Chapter 631: Chapter 567: Painting (Part 1)
"Feiliya."
Hmm...
"Feiliya, wake up."
Who? Who’s calling ?
"Feiliya, stop sleeping, you need to wake up."
Stop it, stop it, I’m getting up now!
At the call of the familiar voice, the girl with erald eyes unconsciously rubbed her eyes and then sat up from the ground, looking around bewilderedly at her surroundings.
Lawns, fountains, ponds, open terraces... stone paths patterned with moss, beautifully sculpted statues with chipped edges, untended greenery with withered yellow patches, a garden in decay and ruin overgrown with weeds, everything appearing so unfamiliar, yet so familiar...
This is... the old garden behind the palace?
"You’re finally awake."
Looking at Feiliya, sitting dazedly on the withered grass, her hair in disarray, Prince Andre behind her couldn’t help but chuckle softly. He continued setting up the easel, speaking with a hint of nostalgia:
"You used to love lying on the lawn to sleep, especially when it wasn’t too hot in sumr. You’d always pester
to bring an umbrella and take you to play in this garden.
After playing till you were tired, you wouldn’t even wipe off your sweat, you’d set up the umbrella and lay on the ground, snoring away, rolling around in your sleep, your little face getting all muddy like a little monkey, which got
scolded by mother more than a few tis."
"Andre brother..."
Seeing the gentle expression on her brother’s face, Feiliya’s previously flustered heart relaxed unconsciously, and she couldn’t help but ask:
"Just now..."
"Just now I controlled that troubleso Cleaner and rescued you from his hands, you’re safe now."
"Ah... that’s good..."
"..."
Watching the erald-eyed girl, who had asked a question but was standing still, not coming over, Prince Andre blinked in surprise. Then, as if understanding sothing, he frowned and said:
"Did he say sothing to you?"
"Mm..."
Feiliya, of course, understood who Andre was referring to. Rembering Leon’s previous words, the erald-eyed girl bit her lip, but finally chose to speak directly and honestly:
"That person told ... you had at least two intentions to kill .
When attacking the Director of the Scorpio Branch, you probably didn’t know that I wasn’t with them, but to prevent the Scorpio Director from taking
away, you ordered a bombardnt on Administrative Zone 38 where the Clean-up Bureau was located.
And, you had Atifie00 replace , gain control of the Kingdom’s long-range weapons, and initiate a saturation bombing once any suspicious targets left the Royal Capital... are all these true?"
"..."
After listening to the erald-eyed girl’s questions, Prince Andre fell silent, then nodded slightly.
"Mm... I did give those two orders."
"..."
"But you know, I had no choice."
Seeing the disappointed expression on his beloved sister’s face, Andre sighed and explained sincerely:
"Feiliya, you’re also a recognized official mber of the Slaughter King Association, aware of the situation there, both you and I have constraints, we must ensure the bloodline of the Crolock royal family is severed, and I only had one chance to ambush the Director of the Scorpio Branch.
If, because of your situation, I had held back during the attack and not managed to keep him there, if he had discarded other Cleaners and forcibly taken you out of the Crolock Kingdom, both of us would have been ’restrained’ and executed."
"Mm... I know."
The erald-eyed girl nodded, responding in a low voice:
"I’m not blaming you. After all, things turned out like that because of my mistakes. If I hadn’t let my curiosity get the better of , and insisted on daring to approach Leon, you wouldn’t have had to deal with such choices. It was too reckless of ."
"It’s not your fault."
Hearing this, Prince Andre shook his head, looking troubled:
"I agreed when you decided to go, after all, my previous actions didn’t show any flaws. In the eyes of the Clean-up Bureau, the entire royal family should have still been alive, they had no reason to act against you.
But that Leon..."
Recalling the person at the Royal Palace Night Banquet, who, even turned into a clown, could seize on Andre’s vulnerabilities with frenzied attacks, the corners of Prince Andre’s mouth twitched. He then said helplessly:
"He’s just not normal.
Feiliya, after you were captured by him, I seriously pondered for a long ti but still couldn’t understand, even though he knew nothing about the situation, why he unhesitatingly captured you..."
"..."
After hearing her brother’s complaints, the erald-eyed girl subconsciously raised her hand, touching the back of her head where Leon had cut her, and fell silent.
Indeed, that lunatic was indeed outrageous.
Before she decided to approach him, she had conducted repeated calculations with an intelligent core, and no matter how she calculated, the result was always that he wouldn’t harm her. Yet that lunatic just dared to act like that, after a couple of sentences, he imdiately seized and captured her.
As for how to evaluate this person... after much thought, only one word seed appropriate, and that is "abnormal."
...
"Alright, let’s not talk about this now."
Exhausted by Leon’s "abnormal behavior," the two siblings remained silently for a while. Then, Prince Andre broke the silence and, while organizing the easel, comforted:
"At the ti, the trap against the Scorpio Director hadn’t been sprung, my goal was to stabilize them, so whether it was
or you, one of us had to encounter Leon.
If you hadn’t wanted to go, then it probably would’ve been
who got captured, and the situation might have been worse. Anyway, being captured isn’t your fault."
"Mm..."
After nodding and accepting the comfort, the erald-eyed girl looked at the easel before Andre, hesitantly asking:
"Andre brother, are you planning to paint my portrait again?"
"Yes."
After stretching the canvas on the easel, Prince Andre nodded, and while cleaning his paintbrush with turpentine, he replied with full focus:
"In the past, when I painted you, it only resembled you in form. Technically, it was fine, but I could never capture that elusive quality. But now it’s different. Now I have confidence to capture the most complete you."
"That’s good..."
Upon hearing this, the erald-eyed girl nodded, then gently pressed her lips together, and asked:
"Andre brother, could I know, why you couldn’t paint
well in the past but now you’re confident you can do it?"
"..."
Upon hearing Feiliya’s inquiry, Prince Andre, who was sketching, paused for a mont. Then he lifted his head to look at the erald-eyed girl.
"Why do you ask that?"
"I just want to know the answer..."
Feiliya’s small fists clenched slightly. She raised her head and looked directly at the Andre Prince in front of her, asking softly:
"Andre brother, the person you’ve been painting, is it really ?"
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