Everyone’s memory of the night of the V-Day Ball is different. Please remember
What Ling Shuang and Ling Xue remember most clearly is what Mo Ya said to Scarlett after she and Roy walked out of the woods...
"I'm sorry..." Mo Ya, who returned to everyone's sight with a cold mask, announced: "Although I have tried my best, he does not agree to cancel the bet..."
As soon as they heard this, the crowd exploded. Everyone knew what Mo Ya was doing when he called Roy aside. In their view, it was impossible for Scarlett to really be a slave with her status.
Therefore, offer Roy a price so that both he and Scarlett can get off the ground, and that's the end of the matter.
But no one expected that Roy refused!
At this moment, everyone, including Ling Shuang and Ling Xue, thought Roy had gone crazy, while the faces of Scarlett, Fernand, and others turned livid in an instant.
Amid the uproar, Mo Ya said calmly: "I respect his wishes. After all, the knight's contract is sacred. Its effectiveness comes from the promises made by both parties in the challenge, and the winner has all the rights in the promise. Even the Pope and Edward
Your Majesty has no right to interfere, and of course, I can’t..."
The crowd's uproar gradually died down, and everyone looked at Mo Ya in disbelief - according to her, is Scarlett really going to be Roy's slave girl?
Mo Ya walked up to Scarlett and whispered: "Dear Princess Scarlett, you have done a stupid thing..."
"You don't need to be pretentious..." Scarlett bit her lip, glared at Mo Ya fiercely, and said coldly, "I never thought about your good intentions."
"Princess, what you said makes me so sad." Mo Ya also looked angry and bit her lip.
Scarlett is young, and the way she bites her lips naturally has a girlish charm. Mo Ya, who is eight years older than her, is as mature as a peach in both temperament and body. At this moment, she is deliberately teasing Scarlett and trying to imitate her.
Biting her lips, there is a rhythm that makes people's hearts beat.
Scarlett, who had known Mo Ya's character, simply turned her head away. She knew from a very young age that if she wanted to quarrel with Mo Ya, she would just be humiliating herself.
She turned to look at Roy with contempt and hatred: "So, you are ready?"
The threat in Scarlett's words couldn't be more obvious. Many people who knew her true identity couldn't help but feel a cold sweat for Roy.
"What else do you need to prepare?" In the eyes of everyone, Roy raised his chin slightly and scolded coldly, "Hang welcome flags, blow horns, flowers and red carpets to spread the floor? Don't forget, you are a female slave,
Not the Queen. When speaking from now on, think about your identity first!"
At this moment, Roy looked very much like the way Scarlett, Xia Li and other aristocratic children spoke to him before. Moreover, his attitude was more arrogant and domineering.
But unfortunately, no one could scold him anymore.
"Okay," Scarlett gritted her teeth and raised her head and said, "I'll go with you. I hope you don't want to go back..."
"Wait, wait..." Before Scarlett could finish her words, she was interrupted by Mo Ya's leisurely voice, "Scarlett, you are too anxious, they haven't said they will take you away yet...
..”
Then, she turned to look at Roy, "...At least, you have to see if they are willing."
"Want to come with me?" Roy frowned.
Ling Shuang's heart skipped a beat, and she had a bad premonition. Back in Meiding City, this kid looked like this when he was angry at himself and a group of suitors in the weapon shop.
Sure enough, Roy shook his head and said, "Although I am just a commoner, my family background is clean and my family tradition is strict. Not just any woman is qualified to enter the family.
Those who behave badly and have low moral character are not allowed, even if they are just slave girls doing rough work." As he spoke, he looked Scarlett up and down, shook his head and said, "You are not worthy."
The nobles around were all dumbfounded, and Scarlett was so angry that her eyes were dazzled and her whole body was shaking.
At this point, everyone has actually understood the final result of this matter - nominally, Scarlett is still Roy's slave girl, but in fact, Roy will not really take her away.
However, with this result, Roy and Mo Ya teased Scarlett again.
The dignified princess has become "just any woman" and is not even qualified to be a slave girl doing rough work for the Roy family. This makes Scarlett very angry.
Looking at the way Roy and Mo Ya looked at each other and smiled, it was obvious that they didn't take her seriously at all!
They were just having fun with her!
Ling Shuang and Ling Xue remembered that Scarlett looked at Roy hatefully for a long time, then suddenly turned around and led Fernan, Xia Li and others away quickly. Until several carriages came with the rapid sound of horse hooves.
He drove out of the castle with the sound of wheels angrily grinding against the ground, and there was deathly silence all around him.
On the other side of the crowd, Anne's most profound memory was of the subsequent dance.
After Scarlett left, the farce also came to an end.
Nobles are very good at covering up embarrassing and lively atmospheres. When the music started, even though everyone had not recovered from the afterglow of this conflict, they still naturally concealed their shock and uneasiness.
, dancing gracefully with a smile on their face, chatting and laughing happily.
A grand ball of this level was something that Anne had never even dared to think about when she was in little Bolabel.
A castle that is a thousand times more gorgeous than my own home, a hall that is more spacious than the entire Borabel Castle, as well as the bright lights, the colorful dresses, the wonderful music and the walking waiters, make up a perfect combination for any girl.
It's like a dream paradise.
However, on that day, the protagonist of the ball was not her, the young lady from the Baronial Palace, but the one who always looked confused as if she was not awake, and kept saying "Yes, young lady, yes, young lady."
Little handyman.
Although he only wore a summer shirt that was inferior to that of a waiter, and although he was not the most handsome and tallest among the boys, he was the most dazzling one.
At the dance, Mo Ya announced in public that from today on, Roy will be a member of the Mo family and the Supervision Department. Her smiling eyes and voice asking for everyone's attention did not hide the meaning of warning.
Later, as the biggest contributor to the Battle of Medding City, Roy received a belated reward - Sophia danced the first dance with him. This is actually the attitude of the Lullian family. It is unmistakable.
After that, people were even more surprised to find that Philip from the Hongye family was also chatting and laughing with him. The two seemed to have known each other for a long time. And the Prince of York had no intention of revenge for Scarlett. Instead, under the introduction of Mo Ya,
After looking at him in surprise, she hugged him.
The scene where the instructors from the second and third training camps tried to contact him several times, but were stopped by the eager instructors from the first training camp, was perhaps an interesting episode at the dance that day.
That was the first time Anne saw the pudgy Dean, glaring at the instructors of the other two major training camps like an aggressive rooster. It was also the first time she saw the always strong Vice Dean Di.
Yara and the Pali instructor from Team S looked restless throughout the night.
All because of Roy.
No matter where he went or who he was talking to, people's eyes were always on him.
There was still hatred and disgust in these eyes, but more of them were admiration, curiosity and awe. Many girls would even blush when they peeked at him.
As one of them, Anne is very aware of the psychology of her female companions of the same age. Perhaps they do not dare to risk offending Princess Scarlett to openly show their kindness, but Roy's performance tonight has already
Their longing and fantasy left too deep a shadow in their hearts.
From an unknown boy to the hero of Meiding City, from an ordinary student to a magic genius, from an ordinary civilian to a guest of Archduke Adolf... Just like a play in the opera house, no girl can resist this
Everything. They knew he was dangerous, but this just made them feel excited.
When seeing the looks of many girls getting bolder and bolder, Anne couldn't help guessing that as long as Roy nodded, they would wear nightgowns at night, leave a crack in the bedroom window, and put the ladder on the opposite side.
A conspicuous place. Or simply sneak out of the house and meet him in the garden.
Anne was a little restless all night.
She didn't know why, but she always felt sour and a little bitter in her heart. She didn't like Roy now. She would rather he was still the little handyman lying on the pile of grain and hay, being kicked down by her giggling from time to time.
.
However, time will not go back.
At that moment, Anne suddenly remembered the conversation between Roy and him in the woods of the college on the day when the conflict broke out between Roy and the noble children. In her ears, only the decisive voice of the black-haired boy covered in blood echoed.
"No! I will never apologize!"
At that time, she thought that Roy would pay the price for these words sooner or later. But she never dreamed that when that day came, the result would be like this.
After the dance, Anne herself didn't know how she got home. She only remembered that when the carriage drove out of the Grand Duke's Castle, she saw many students from the First Training Camp standing on the roadside.
They gathered together in twos and threes, watching each carriage that drove out with excited eyes, whispering to each other from time to time. As the carriage moved forward, they quickly retreated. Each young figure and the glorious castle behind them
It was condensed into a microcosm and engraved in Anne's memory.
After returning home, under questioning from her brother Les, Anne almost numbly told everything that happened in the Duke's Palace castle. Then, she left the stunned Les and returned to her room.
Compared with Roy, Les took the completely opposite path, which made her feel sad. What was even more sad was that blood and family ties destined her to have no choice.
Roy stood on the suspended corridor between the main building of the Grand Duke's Castle and the city wall, staring at the brightly lit city of Munich.
The dance was over, and as the guests said their goodbyes, the lively castle gradually became quiet. Only the sound of horse hooves and wheels could be heard getting further and further away.
"What are you looking at?" A cold voice sounded in Roy's ears.
Roy turned around and saw Sophia, dressed in plain white, standing quietly less than five meters away from him. He didn't even know when she came.
"Munich." Roy cast his gaze into the distance.
When they were in Borabel, what he and Tom longed for the most was the city of Munich. They heard that it was the capital of the Lulian Province, a huge and prosperous city with a population of millions. There were countless knights and mysterious knights.
Magicians, there are three major training camps and other holy places for knights.
For these two little country bumpkins, the city of Munich is synonymous with paradise.
But now when he was actually standing here, Roy felt a little dazed. Looking back on his experiences over the past year, he suddenly felt as unreal as a dream.
One and a half years after the great changes in Polabel, I stood here as Polabel's little handyman, Aleshia's guardian knight, and the hero of the Battle of Medin City.
In another year and a half, where will I stand with the dragon claw necklace on my chest and the secret of the Hanshan family bloodline in my body?
At that moment, did he fall under Augustus' lance, or did he stand in front of Alessia alive and tell her his true identity? Was he already riddled with holes from open and dark arrows, or was he so powerful that no one could touch him?
Will I die with all the questions, or will I uncover the secret of the Frost River murder case fourteen years ago?
This road is really long.
There was a fragrance in the night wind, and Sophia walked to him and stood side by side with him.
"When you danced with me today, your posture was very stiff." Sophia said quietly, "Is it because you just learned it?"
"No," Roy said without looking back, "That has nothing to do with whether you can dance or not."
"So, is it because I sent the ragtag army to fight in the battle of Meiding City?" Sophia turned to stare at him, "Do you think I am too cold-blooded?"
"Yes!" Roy said, meeting Sophia's gaze.
The two looked at each other for a long time, and Sofia suddenly said: "I'm sorry."
Roy was stunned. Although he had no contact with Sophia, after living in Munich for such a long time, he had some understanding of this Lulian flower.
She is beautiful and intelligent, but cold as ice. She is the most beautiful daughter of the Lulian family, but she is also a formidable military commander. She is calm and rational, never emotional. No one can influence her thoughts. As long as she
Even Archduke Adolf couldn't make her change her mind.
But now, she actually said sorry to herself?
"Why?" Roy asked.
"From the perspective of a commander, I did nothing wrong. There is no tenderness or mercy in war. If sacrifice is necessary, then even if it happens again, I will still do the same thing," Sophia said, "However, from your point of view,
From a perspective, I do owe you and all the ragtag soldiers an apology."
She remained silent and turned her head: "There is no reason."
Roy looked at Sophia's profile and felt relieved.
In fact, he also knew that under the circumstances at that time, if Sofia did not use a ragtag army to cut off the rear, then Lulian's main force might face the danger of being annihilated.
War cannot tolerate the existence of any emotion. From this point of view, Sophia did not do anything wrong. If she was wrong, then the whole Lulian might be ruined.
All of his previous views on Sophia actually came from his instinctive distrust of nobles.
He would never forget the night in Polabel when the nobles abandoned the common people and fled away, and he would never forget the sight of old Maxim and Aunt Mary lying in a pool of blood. Because of this, while he understood Sophia, he also felt the inevitable
Stay vigilant and resistant to her.
And Sophia's apology instantly lifted the haze in his heart.
In fact, she didn't have to apologize, but she said it anyway. This at least proves that her choice was based on a rational judgment of the situation at the time, rather than a cold-blooded disregard for civilian lives.
Thinking of this, Roy felt a little embarrassed.
"Actually, I also know."
"The captain of the Knights of the Third Legion of the Fei Lie Empire's Silver Order is named Darni." Sofia looked into the distance and suddenly interrupted Roy's words, "I killed him."
Roy's cheek twitched and he said angrily, "The ax I threw hit his face, and everyone saw it."
"It's useless to see him." Sophia said calmly, "Before your ax hit him, his heart was already shattered by my battle ring."
After finishing, Sophia turned and left, leaving a cold figure behind.