Chapter 19. Brother (6)
After a casual birthday greeting and a formal thank you, Lemain spoke first to his three sons. However, the content was different from the dinner we had together a long ti ago.
“Calian. I heard that you left the palace yesterday even though it wasn’t your usual day to go out. Because I know you can protect yourself, I allowed you to go outside the palace, but it seems like it happens too often.”
He said this with the sa facial expression as a typical father.
“And Planz. Lord Hertz is a man of outstanding ability. Should I even hear that you fight with soone like that every day?”
In addition, he also expressed concern to Plantz, who continued to fight with Arsene.
So, in short, LeMaine ended up doing sothing called nagging. It seed that because he listened to Alan’s nagging so much, he started nagging himself.
Because of the strange feeling of seeing the king of a country nagging his sons, Calian forgot about Chase for a while and was having a hard ti suppressing laughter.
Lemain opened his mouth again, whether he knew this or not. This ti it was towards Randel.
“Let’s go for a walk together soti soon. Lots of roses will be blooming soon.”
“I understand, Your Majesty.”
Of course, it’s about roses.
Randel answered in simple words without any special expression.
After the conversation ended, everyone stood up and was about to leave, but Lemain opened his mouth as if he suddenly rembered sothing.
“Planz, wait a mont. I forgot what I wanted to say.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Kalian and Randel got up first and went out, leaving Planz behind.
However, Kyrie’s expression, who had been waiting for Calian all this ti, was not very good. So, as I was about to ask what happened, I heard a voice calling Calian from behind.
“Calian. Let’s go for a walk.”
It was Randel who told the sa story as Lemain.
* * *
– I forgot sothing I shouldn’t have forgotten. I.
Sothing Chase shouldn’t have forgotten, but ended up forgetting.
It had taken two months to visit Alan, and it took another ti to talk about him. Chase took another mont to choose his words.
“I don’t know if you believe this.”
It took so long for the subdued voice to co out again, and before I knew it, steam was no longer rising from the coffee cup.
“Still, I thought Lord Manasil would listen.”
“You tell . I will listen.”
Alan nodded, having so idea of what was going to be said, and Chase, with his eyes on the coffee, opened his mouth and started talking.
“Do you rember what I said about the axis of ti disappearing?”
As expected, the axis of ti was ntioned.
“Yes. I rember.”
“I was there the day the axis disappeared last spring.”
It must have been referring to the very day when the dead Bern woke up with Calian’s body. Alan waited for his next words without answering.
Chase touched his head and opened his mouth.
“But a few months ago, unfamiliar mories started coming to one by one, as if I was dreaming.”
I didn’t ntion how horrifying I felt as mories of things I never experienced were engraved in my mind one by one.
“It was hard to believe, so at first I thought it was just a long dream. Then, after I felt the events in my mories repeating themselves, I started to doubt. Of course, there were a few tis when I thought I was going crazy.”
It was a fairly harsh expression to co out of Chase’s mouth. Chase, who let out a weak laugh as if he rembered the ti when he was alone and confused, continued.
“And then in the end, I had no choice but to believe that it wasn’t just an illusion or that I was going crazy. It was that I was already rembering what I had been through.”
As Alan well knew, Chase was a cautious man.
Even though he experienced changes after the axis of ti disappeared before his eyes, it must have taken a long ti for him to fully believe that his mories were not re illusions.
“As if I had seen what was to co.”
Alan massaged his temples.
The phenona that Verne and Chase said they experienced were different.
So Chase couldn’t have gone back in ti on his own. I’m just rembering things that the axis of ti erased.
I didn’t know if it was because I was in a place where the axis of ti disappeared, or if there were other reasons. In any case, the important fact was that Chase recalled mories of things that had already disappeared.
“Do you rember from when to when and how much?”
Chase’s expression changed slightly at Alan’s question.
Alan wasn’t surprised when he heard Chase’s words. I didn’t even ask back what I heard. I was just asking about sothing that needed confirmation.
Chase laughed softly.
“You should have co a long ti ago.”
Chase laughed like that for a mont, feeling relieved that he didn’t have to worry about it alone.
“As I said, the axis disappeared last spring. I started dreaming in the winter, and I rember almost everything from the past. Sotis I rember things from the future, and sotis I don’t.”
At those words, Alan barely swallowed a question that was sticking out of his throat. It was because I couldn’t bring myself to ask if I rembered Bern.
Chase saw that and opened his mouth.
“Because of that, I felt like I had to see it with my own eyes.”
One thing to celebrate.
And there is one person to et.
That was Chase’s purpose in coming here.
“What are you saying you wanted to check?”
“Anyway…”
Chase’s words didn’t continue for a mont.
It seed like he was recollecting a mory that he ‘shouldn’t forget,’ so Alan watched quietly.
Chase opened his mouth after a long ti.
“I think my brother is here.”
Alan laughed out loud.
I laughed because I could neither confirm nor deny it.
How can we not know that the prince, who should have already died, lives on like that and is walking a path that is exceptionally different from what Chase rembered?
“Did you try to save your younger brother through the axis of ti?”
Calian, who had heard the information from Sispanian, had already said that it was not the case, but it was a question he brought up to hear the answer directly.
“It was a war started to take it away, and a war I accepted to protect it. My brother died to prevent from using the axis of ti. My thoughts are not short enough to use the axis of ti to save what I left.”
It was the sa as what Cispanian had already answered.
“So I just kept it until the end. I didn’t touch it.”
If the situation is that bad, isn’t it worth giving it a try?
Alan barely swallowed those words from coming out.
Chase smiled softly at Alan’s face, which looked full of dissatisfaction and frustration. And then he changed the topic as if sothing suddenly occurred to him.
“Looking at your reaction when you saw yesterday, I don’t think you should know that I rember. I don’t want you to tell what I know.”
It was a story about Kalyan again.
“I confird that you are okay, so that is enough.”
Alan, who couldn’t find anything to say in response, just nodded after a while.
I was so embarrassed and surprised by Chase’s sudden story that I didn’t realize that I had forgotten two things.
I forgot the Silent that I always brought out when talking about these things with Calian, and I forgot that there was an attendant standing quietly outside the door.
So, this ti too, Kirie heard everything.
* * *
Calian nodded when asked to go for a walk.
Kirie, who was standing in front, looked like she wanted to say sothing, but things with Randel ca first.
Therefore, Calian calmly followed Randel.
Since ti was running out until the next schedule, the two went to the back garden of Arpia Palace for a while.
Randel didn’t say anything for a long ti.
Because of this, Kalian was seriously worried about whether sothing had been discovered this ti. But no matter how much I thought about it, there was nothing else other than the ability that had already been exposed.
‘Or did you know that I didn’t turn my back on Plants?’
But even after that, Randel continued to remain silent.
So when I wondered if he really ant to just take a walk like this and then go back, Kalian couldn’t wait any longer and opened his mouth.
“Do you have sothing to say?”
It was a voice that clearly conveyed an uncomfortable feeling.
Not only did I not know what kind of plan he had, but it was difficult to treat Randel in a good manner unless I knew how he had regarded Calian.
“I have sothing to ask.”
“Please speak.”
“We want to find Lennon Brissen.”
Because they were walking side by side, Randel couldn’t see Calian’s expression. Therefore, Calian frowned calmly.
Following Thirty Priests and Gray, it is now Lennon Brissen.
There was so little correlation between the three that one wondered if they were all related to Randel.
“Why are you asking about that person?”
“Didn’t I know how much profit the Whitlin estate made? I also don’t know how you got rid of Viscount Briesen. So didn’t I know his whereabouts?”
Even though they knew how much influence Calian had, they just kept watching.
“… If you knew that, why did you pretend not to know?”
“There’s nothing that can harm .”
If you leave it alone, it will automatically eliminate Silike and reduce Briesen’s tallurgy, so Randel would have had a reason to stop Calian.
In any case, Randel already knew the whole situation, so he couldn’t just ask. If I did that, I would have to listen to Alan’s endless nagging again, asking if I had been caught again. Because of this, Kalian took a step back.
“I don’t know much about Lennon Brissen’s whereabouts.”
“There’s no need for you to be this alert. I don’t understand why you’re hiding it.”
Calian laughed at those words.
It was truly aningless.
“There is no need to be on guard, but it is Brother Randel who made sharpen my guard to this point.”
Calian turned his head and looked into Randel’s eyes.
And he said, recalling the day he climbed the stairs of Chermil Palace.
“Didn’t you think that I had crossed the line that you had set for ?”
Randel said without much denial about it.
“Viscount Briesen’s matter is my personal matter. I just have sothing to confirm and it has nothing to do with the fight for position, so don’t set up like that.”
With Randel’s words, Calian’s feet stopped for a mont.
‘personal. ‘Not related to the fight for position.’
That’s because those words reminded of one fact.
Randel called out Calian, who had made it clear that he would turn his back on him, and asked about Lennon’s whereabouts. Although it was not related to the fight for the crown prince, it was said to be very important to Randel.
It was still unknown why thirty priests were brought in.
But I had a feeling I knew what Landell wanted to check by calling Gray and Lennon.
Calian imdiately started playing with his feet again. Because of this, Randel did not notice what he had just reminded Calian of.
‘no way. ‘I don’t think you’re trying to confirm the death of forr Queen Aisha.’
Thinking of that, Calian bit his lip slightly.
If Randel finds out about this, a war with Tensil may begin.
Of course, that was sothing that had never happened in Bern’s past.
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