A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 164. Chapter 164

Outside the room, Heimos, who had just pressed his hand on the door, stood in the doorway, silent, his lips tightening a little.

He stood, didn’t move, neither went in nor left, just stood at the door like this, with his eyes down not knowing what he was thinking. Scattered black hair scattered in front of his eyes, casting shadows on his eye sockets.

In the room, as soon as Gallan spoke, the whole room was quiet for a moment.

She was frowning and staring coldly at Earl’s eyes, and looked at Garlan, her face showing error and astonishment.

He never thought about it, never noticed it.

With Prince Garlan’s mind, there was such a dark thought in his heart.

Earle laughed, he laughed loudly, one after another.

“I see.”

He smiled happily.

“Sure enough, you think so too, it should be like this, everyone is like this.”

Yes, everyone is like this, not just him, everyone actually has this idea.

Everyone is the same–

“His Royal Highness Gallan,’wise prince’, is this the so-called’wise prince’ praised by everyone?”

He exhaled a long breath, as if he had vomited all the suffocation in his heart that had accumulated for many years at this moment.

“What’s the difference between you, who has the name of’wise and wise,’ and me who is despised by others?”

He said with a smile.

“There are some people in this world who are born with a halo. No matter how we chase after us, ordinary people will only be left far behind and we can’t catch up.”

“If this kind of person isn’t in front of you, it doesn’t matter if you don’t see the heart, but when this kind of person is by your side, you can’t get rid of it, and everyone has to compare you with him… once Once again, praising him, complimenting him, but relentlessly belittle you and reprimand you… even your parents, teachers, and all elders sighed again and again, “Why are you so much worse than your elder brother?” ‘when……”

“Yeah, I know, I know they said this for my own good, to make me work harder to catch up with my big brother and become better…”

As if recalling something, Earl was laughing, but the laughter clearly oozes a little sadness.

He took a deep breath and stopped laughing.

“His Royal Highness, you can understand, right? If it were you, you should be able to know how it feels.”

He looked at Garlan and whispered.

“It was like a nightmare that would never wake up…”

Xie Mu’er clenched his hands.

He suddenly felt that his chest was tight.

The scene in Earle’s words is so familiar, “You are so much worse than His Highness Huimos”,’You will never be better than His Highness Huimos’ and so on, they have all been said from his mouth. pass.

At that time, he felt that he said this to motivate Prince Garland and for the good of the prince.

But now, when he looked at Earl’s words from the perspective of a bystander, he suddenly realized how cruel he thought it was for the good behavior of Prince Garland.

“‘It would be fine if there was no older brother’… Yeah, I thought so, and then just did that. Then, the older brother who was praised by everyone since I was a child disappeared, and I became the city of Menistere. The lord of the city, thousands of people admire, look, how good.”

Earl looked at Garlan.

“But, Prince Garland, why don’t you do this?”

He asked, “Many years ago, there was such a chance. Not long ago, there was another chance. I was obviously just like me, thinking in my heart,’Hope that Heimos does not exist’, but why do you let it go again and again? Chance to let Huimos disappear?”

Garlan, who was staring at Earl, thought for a while.

“Well… this is probably the difference between me and you.”

He replied.

“Difference? No, there is no difference between you and me, we are all the same…”

“I don’t deny that people have an ugly side, and so do I.”

Gallan interrupted Earl.

“I don’t deny that in those previous times, whenever I was uncomfortable because of Huimos, I wished that there was no existence of Huimos.”

Without Huimos, he would be able to complete the task smoothly in the first life, ascend to the throne, and then return to his own world and continue his life.

There is no need to experience rebirth again and again, struggling hard in this strange world.

“I thought about it, but I didn’t do it.”

“You think about it, you go and do it.”

“Earl, this is the difference between me and you.”

“We are human beings, not gods. The ugly and malicious side is like our shadow. We have been following us since we were born, unable to get rid of it, and will follow us until death comes.”

Gallan stretched out his hand, gently nodded in the direction of Earl’s chest with his fingers, and then retracted it.

“Earl, you are right, we are all the same, and we all have a shadow.”

He looked into Earle’s eyes and said,

“It’s just that we made a different choice-you chose to let your shadow replace you, and I chose to step on my shadow firmly.”

So in the night of that day, he didn’t stab the dagger in his hand at the young man who was in a coma because of the fever.

Watched by those bright and shadowless golden eyes, Earl was lost in an instant.

“… I let my shadow… replace me?”

He repeated these words suspiciously, and his expression seemed a little shaken.

However, the shaking was only a moment, and that little doubt quickly disappeared from the bottom of his eyes.

“No, that was my decision.”

Earle said, his eyes were firm.

“I defeated my brother, so I became the lord of the city. Now, I lost to Huimos, so I am a prisoner.”

“Everything in this world is nothing more than success or failure.”

“How terrible Huimos is, I can see more clearly than anyone.” He looked at Garlan and said, “Prince Garlan, I think I still can’t understand why you are helping your enemy. I I just hope that one day, you won’t regret it when Heymos’ persecution has ended as I did.”

“…I know the horror of Huimos better than you.”

In this world, probably no one is more afraid of Huimos than him.

I was afraid to the point where I would rather give up the throne and leave.

Thinking about it this way, I was really scared.

Gallan thought so, he couldn’t help but feel funny. .

“Prince, don’t be provoked by him.”

When Gallan said this, Xiemur next to him couldn’t help it anymore.

“In any case, His Royal Highness will not hurt you.”

The corner of Gallan’s mouth raised.

You see, “Heymos will not hurt him.” Such a simple thing is so simple that everyone can see it, even Sheemur, who doesn’t know how to look at people’s eyes. Heymos’ fear, he couldn’t believe Heymos, and he chose to escape.

“Ok, I know.”

The teenager said with a smile.

“Don’t worry, Sheemur. I know that Huimos and I are different from them.”

If, when he was a child, he tried to protect Huimos just to change the fate of himself and Aaron Landis…

So now, unknowingly, whether it was Earl’s trap this time or the thing that stopped Hoymos in Menister City, he had really done it to protect Hoymos. All that.

“I know that he will protect me.”

Gallan said.

“And I will also guard him until the end.”

“…”

Earle did not answer for a while.

After a long time, he said in a low voice.

“I have also… admired my brother…”

That strong and gentle brother.

The elder brother who would teach him patiently and teach him how to practice swordsmanship.

When he was very young, when he didn’t understand anything, he admired his brother more than anyone…

The man’s voice was like a sigh at this moment.

Deep, but finally dissipated in the air, without a trace.

Just like everything that is about to end at this moment.

…………

“His Royal Highness, shall we not go in?”

The guard standing behind Huimos watched Huimos standing still at the door, waiting for a long time, and finally couldn’t help but ask.

“Ah, no more.”

Huimos said, retracting his hand on the doorknob, and turned around.

“They’re talking about things, it’s not convenient to interrupt, let’s go first.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

The young guard was puzzled.

His Highness Huimos rushed over in such anxiousness, but what happened when he got here but didn’t go in?

As he thought, he peeked at Hiemos.

This glance made his whole person shocked suddenly.

“His Royal Highness, are you laughing?”

“No.”

“But……”

“You are wrong.”

“…”

Lie to someone, the corners of the mouth are so obvious.

****

Time is like flowing water, and ten days’ time flies by in a flash.

In an instant, this day finally arrived.

In the early morning, the bright sun slowly rises above the horizon. The prosperous royal city, as it used to be, was bathed in the sun and became a little noisy.

It was the same as before, but it was very different from usual. On this day, almost all the people got up early, and everyone was smiling and beaming.

The whole city has long been cleaned up, the streets are spotless, blooming flowers filled the whole city, and bursts of fragrance permeated the streets.

All the temples opened their doors early in the morning, and the priests personally placed a bowl of water on the high platform. On this day, whether rich or poor, high or low, all the people of Aaron Landis can enter the temple and pray to the gods.

In the royal city, a high pole is inserted at the gate of each house, and a golden ribbon is flying high above it.

In front of the powerful gate is a white jade pole with exquisite carvings, a golden ribbon embroidered with golden velvet thread, with fine tassels, and small gems. It is shining in the sun and looks beautiful.

Before ordinary portals, most of them were wooden poles or bamboo poles made by themselves, and they carried gold ribbons that were dyed or embroidered.

Aaron Landis’ annual festival of the gods has arrived.

And this time, there is another important ceremony in the ceremony of the gods.

When the royal city was a little lively, dew-stained flowers bloomed under the sunlight on the sky attic of the royal palace, and green trees stood on the platform.

It is leaning against a high mountain, half of it is a hanging garden, and half is a gorgeous palace, surrounded by streams.

A high tower stands on its edge, soaring into the sky.

At the top of the tower is a platform attic, which is almost one of the highest points of the palace, standing there, you can overlook the entire royal city.

A young man was sitting on a high attic platform, his hands pressed to his side, and his dangling calves swayed gently.

He sits here, looking down at the magnificent palace below, looking down at the city full of flowers.

The prosperous royal city has criss-cross roads and numerous houses.

Countless people live in this city.

When the wind blew, countless golden ribbons in the city flew freely, as if they had dyed the whole city with sunshine-like gold.

Garlan looked down at the earth, and at the limit of his sight was the horizon where the sun jumped out.

The earth is endless, with no end in sight.

This is the land of Aaron Landis, and countless people of Aaron Landis have lived on this land for generations.

He raised his head, looked at the sky, and slowly reached out his hand.

Bright sunlight fell on his white palm, and a few strands passed through his open fingers, continuing to fall.

The boy just sat quietly and stretched out his hands.

He looked at the sunlight leaping in his palm and looked at them in a trance.

At this moment, a footstep sounded abruptly, breaking the silence here.

Someone walked quickly from behind and stood still not far behind Garlan.

Then, the slightly low voice came from behind Garlan.

“If you continue to stay here, the people below who can’t find you will be upset.”

Gallan did not look back.

“How do you know I am here?”

“intuition.”

“Um?”

“I just thought about it. If I were to change to me, where would I want to stay at this time?”

Huimos answered.

So, he came here to find someone.

Gallan smiled slightly, and his hand spread out in the sun suddenly clenched tightly, as if grasping all the sunlight falling on his palm in the palm of his hand.

Then, he retracted his hand, supported his body, and stood up from the edge of the platform.

The boy was bathed in the morning sun, looking down at the ground under his feet.

The wind blew from high in the sky and whizzed past him.

The blond hair scattered on his shoulders flew up like a cloud of golden mist.

The sunlight seemed to fall into his eyes, making his golden eyes like the golden sun in the clear sky.

He looked deeply at the city under his feet and the land that he couldn’t see for a long time.

Then he turned around.

The white cloak that slipped on his side shoulders followed his turn and flew up in the air for a moment in the sun.

——That seems to be the extremely immature wings that just unfolded.

Garlan stepped forward.

In front of him, at the end of the platform under his feet, Hiemos stood there.

He stood still in front of Huimos, raised his head, and met his gaze.

The blowing wind made his forehead sway endlessly, and Garlan looked at the familiar golden-red eyes.

How many times have these eyes appeared in his nightmare.

“Himos.”

He called the name of the person in front of him.

He had feared this man.

He once wanted to stay away from this person.

Now, he can finally stand calmly in front of this person and say these words.

He said: “I want to be the crown prince of Aaron Landis.”

Huimos did not answer, but looked at him quietly.

“And one day…”

The boy laughed, his head held up.

The sun fell on his side cheeks, making his smile at this moment brighter than anything else.

He said, “One day, I will let you serve me willingly.”