─ The first thing I thought of was "I knew it."
Katan, open the door.
There is no point in guessing "now", just zero.There were no lights in the empty living room as outside.
Instead of candles, it is troublesome to light a match, and close the door with a blocked view that you are accustomed to.It is customary to look at a place with a watch, but it is dark and I have no idea at all.
However, it turns out that at least the date has already passed.It's about this time if you finish your work and go home as usual.
When I step on the floor, I hear a gizzard.Avoid waking up families who are resting in their bedrooms at least step by step.Both parents and brother work from morning to evening, but it's bad to wake them up for a moment.My grandmother and grandpa were cared for and my mother still has a shallow sleep.
I walked a few more steps with Gishiri and Gishiri and my toes got caught.Having checked what it was, I just take off my jacket and fall into the sofa in front of me.
I screamed as much as the floor, but the hard fabric didn't make any more noise unless I turned it over.Pulled his lungs down, exhaled, slept like mud.
You're home, Keith.
A calm voice rang from behind the silence.
Ki... you can hear the door opening at the same time, and you'll soon realize that you're my brother.I thought I'd ignore it and go to bed, but before that, I was thrown with a blanket on my face.A blanket rolled up in a momentary momentum to stop breathing, and when I woke up, my brother stared at me with a candle in one hand.
Even the little lights dazzle because of the familiarity with the darkness.Looking back with a narrow gaze, my brother walked in with a sigh of breath.I'm just trying to keep my moms awake because I'm begging you to squeal.
"It's time to rethink your work.It's only a matter of time before you break your body. "
That's the story again...
Instead of answering, you get fed up and roar small, overflowing from the gap in your mouth.This is as soon as my moms are gone.My brother has been complaining a lot about my work for a long time.Sure, earnings aren't great, holidays are cluttered, and there's a lot of work to do.I know you're worried about me like that.
Recently, there has been an increase in introductions, especially to "how is this job?"But I don't feel like changing my current life or my work.
Next time you tell me the story, I'll grab you by the back of the sofa with my stretched arm, turning back into a stretch mix.
"I told you, I like my job.Well, not many people still buy newspapers. "
"It's not what it used to be.... you know best that you don't have to do that. "
... I know what you're trying to say.
My brother also knows why I started working for the newspaper.That's why I was always opposed to doing such a job, and I was told to quit even if my earnings were good.The reason I do this job is impure, and it may certainly be useless now.
But I still am.
"... I'll think about it when my brother leaves home."
"I won't answer. Can you leave Mom and Dad alone?"
"Then make her a bride for me."
Don't change the subject.
I was scolded.
I wonder if I was able to react like that to my unusual, slightly pointy brother.You always said your job was first.
I suppose you're even more worried about me.There is no way I can introduce my brother to such an unstable position.If you're going to marry me, you'll live in this house, and my parents won't be able to take care of me.... then I'll leave.
"Keith, find someone to support you quickly.You didn't come home till dawn instead of late at night. "
My mom and dad are worried.I want to keep my ears shut to my brother with such a sharp tone.
When I fell back on the sofa with a statement of intent saying, "That's how I don't even rest in bed every time."It's a good year for me, so I should just leave it alone.
I know I deserve to be told to leave the house.I came home at such a late hour, barely home... and I couldn't see Grandpa's death or Grandma's.I only have a small amount of money in my pocket.
I'm grateful to my brother, who keeps putting money in the house, and I know he's right.It would be much nicer to quit my current job and get a decent job, and find a good person to be with.But still, I don't want to quit.
"How long are you going to be trapped in your brother Eric's revenge?"
... the quiet words of Roberto's brother worked best in tonight's sermon.
I'm glad I fell asleep.If my brother had seen my face right now, he would have looked so honest that I couldn't hide it.
Hide both eyes behind your back and close your mouth."The times have changed," "There is no queen," "Eric and brother don't like it," and "Look back," but I can't find a word to return.They are words that have been said many times before.
Eight years ago, the news of my brother's death came suddenly.
My brother, who finally joined the Order of Remembrance and laughed, realizing that he was desperate about the difference in strength from the main army, "as long as it helps the people", died on the same day that he headed for the annual joint practice of recruiting to a neighboring country.
Not for the country, not for the people.One of the many other victims was my brother, who died under the cliff when he joined the other recruits.The death of the Knight Commander at that time was widespread in the castle and shook by the anxiety and mourning of the people, but it was only our brother's friends or family members who mourned in his name.
The knights at the time came to mourn me or came all the way to apologize for my brother's death, but my father, mother and grandpa could only cry.Me and Roberto's older brother didn't have time to mourn his clean-up or his house instead.
When it was all over, all I had left was my brother's room with no one to clean it up.Since becoming a recruit, I have earned less than I do now, and I just stayed in the Knights' training ground and didn't come home except for a rest day. My brother's death was surprisingly normal in our lives and would not change in a month, but... "The impact on us has always been...
The death of my brother, who had been doing it for years to become a knight, was too bleak, as he had long been incredibly generous and diligent.
My brother, who had been a knight for over a decade, was quick to die after he became a recruit.And when they told me I was dead, the first thing I thought was,
"I knew it."
When I heard that the impotent princess had become queen, I didn't think that risking my life to protect such a thing would be a bad way to die.
Still, my brother didn't ask me to fight for the people, not for the royal family, but for the knights who protect the people.
When I asked the knights who came to mourn my brother's death why so many knights died, it was only revealed to us as "accidental death".Even if I was told that my head was lowered and I couldn't reach my strength, I wouldn't be hit.Our heads were lowered by the knight of the battalion that my brother yearned for, and I didn't even have the strength to yell.
However, I can't forget that the knights were shaking down their fists and shoulders only when they asked about my brother's death.
If you're hiding something from me with a clampdown on you, you'd know if it wasn't for me.
Still, there was no way I could know more about the common folk, no way I could be questioned by a knight who lowered his head like that, and no way he had the courage to get into that tough castle.
Just after a while... it spread under the castle that there had been more and more suspicious deaths in the country.The knight is dead, he hurt himself, the guard is "killed in an accident," "killed by an intruder."More and more people working in the castle died one after the other for "unspeakable reasons".Same as when you were my brother.Some guards didn't even return the body.
That kind of thing keeps growing, and finally one day.Rare or superior Special Abilities have been collected in the castle and dropped by slaves.All those who refused were killed on the spot and abandoned to be exposed to the center of the square.Instead of being a man of the castle, the whole castle understood that the people had finally been killed by the Queen's will.... yes, at that time, it was already
Everyone knew.The queen's embarrassment is killing people for pranks.
Then I thought so too.
It's only been three years since the queen was crowned.I don't know why or why he was killed.However, I definitely thought that both my brother and the recruit were killed by the Queen.
The Knight Commander at that time was the youngest Knight Commander in history.He was famous for being a knight's mirror, and he told me that he was a knight.Then they could have taken out the recruits under the Queen's orders.I don't think a knight who even had the nickname "undamaged knight" will die that easily.
When I was thinking about that alone, it was the "newspaper" that I stumbled upon.
It's a private organization that doesn't make a good profit, and it's not privileged by the state like some kind of knight.
However, I was attracted to the word "publicly disclose the facts" and decided to do so.You don't have to write down the Queen's evil... but you just have to write down exactly what kind of damage is happening in the castle.Everyone knows it was the Queen's fault.
The castle is in danger, the knights are dead, the guards are dead, if you work in the castle, you will never come back, and if you defy the queen, you will be killed.
I thought that should be communicated to as many people as possible.
Roberto's older brother told me to say "vengeance", but if I don't warn him, someone will die again.If you don't know the Queen's damage, everyone will be fooled by the sound of the "royal".
With my vengeance, fewer people will die like my brother.Fewer people, like me and Roberto's brother, have lost their family and still have no time to mourn.Fewer people like our parents continue to regret, "I wish I had stopped trying to be a knight."
Like grandpa and grandma, it would be nice if there were no one who would die prematurely by rubbing down their energy to live because they were preceded by grandchildren.... both grandpa and grandma, even if life became difficult because of the queen, she died because if she died, she could see her brother in heaven.
I have to keep it on the record. Someday I'll weather it.Especially the black history of the royal family was a hundred years old.As if your brother's death, the death of the recruit, and the death of the Knight Commander, no one could even talk about it anymore.
"... brother, do you know what day it is today?"
Ha, ha. When I was careful, I was overflowing with dead laughter.
My brother, who keeps preaching to me, talks there once.I don't know. Anyone who lives in the castle knows everything from the lower to the higher.I also printed the interview today, so it was a job pickle.
I'm sure you know what I'm trying to say if you don't answer.
Don't touch my brother who won't say anything, dare I say it.
"It is the birthday of our proud genius, Regent Stale.... the whole country celebrates the day that the man who may have killed my brother with the queen was born. "
You look stupid.
Even if the queen dies, that man still remains.Even if I were investigated, the Queen's massacre would definitely involve the Regent.At least it was the Regent who exposed the thousands of special abilities killed in refusal of slavery.I know that if he lives in King's Landing, he doesn't have to write it in the paper.
And yet, even with the new system, I'm sitting in that seat as if it were natural.Queen Tiara's brother-in-law? Underboss? Regent? I don't care.How could that man not be punished for killing tens of thousands of people until today?Why is nobody even wondering why you're celebrating?Why, why, no one in the people.
I don't want to raise all the Queen's associates to the Blood Festival.
"Aniki... I'm scared of this country.When Queen Tiara showed up, I thought the time would finally come when no one would be killed... and many people were dying. "
The economy cannot return so easily.
Besides the Queen, there are definitely people who have done black things and done bliss.And conveniently, on Revolutionary Day, all the upper echelons are always killed by the Queen.Are you sure the Queen killed him?Didn't you get killed by a mouth seal?And yet, Queen Tiara and the Regent have been praised throughout the country.... those two royals have no decent track record.
The whole country has been convinced by force, as if they were being fished with threads from behind.
I work for a newspaper, and I start to follow a lot of information, so I think so.
I would have been happier if I had enjoyed the new era as foolishly as any other people.It makes me feel like I'm the only one left in the country because of the work I do behind and the fact that I'm more objectively looking at the facts.
Queen Tiara was confined somewhere in the castle until recently.The Stale Regent is the prince who has always retained his authority as one arm of the former queen who leaned toward the thriving Freesia.I don't know why I always praise these two.I don't know if I'm calm anymore or if I'm crazy.
Neither the Queen's blood nor those involved at the time can be trusted or forgiven.The resentment and suspicion of the royal family has grown stronger than before the queen's death.I think it was even good when all the people were scared and trembling.Now... I can't help but hate the royalties who are so glorified by so many people.Those who left their brother to die an innocent people, and were not reproached for anything, glorified as God.
"If you want me to quit the newspaper, tell me, brother... why don't you blame anyone?If there's any money for the festival, why doesn't Queen Tiara give it to the children of the castle?There are rumors that thirteen or so children have been hiding behind the poor for years, not just in the lower echelons.He is neither an adult nor a child of the castle.I don't have a job, since the queen died, the man with the money to free the castle has gone to the countryside.If you don't have the rich, you don't have a job as a servant, and if you don't have someone who spends money, you won't fall to the seller...Are you sure Eric's brother is happy in a country like this? "
The answers didn't come back with a flickering grief.
Hide the unseen face behind your hands and close your eyes to feel drowned.
I thought if the queen disappeared, it would all be like a long time ago.The newspaper on that day was printed more than 100 times the usual and sold.The times have changed, the nightmare is over and everyone's eyes shine.But how many hundreds of years will it take to become a truly peaceful country from here?
In other countries, people from Freesia are rejected even if they are not special abilities.Scared of drawing the blood of that demon, I even hear that the Freesians who had migrated as soon as the queen's eyes were gone have been expelled from other countries.Besides, slave hunting alone is still stupid due to the surface watering.
"The same clan as the queen" and humans from all over the country are more visible than those with special abilities.The only one who won't kick me out is the kingdom of the neighboring Anemone.… escapes to a country where the former queen's fiancée succeeded to the throne.That's a joke. I've never even stood in front of the people since I got engaged.
The nightmare wasn't over yet.
The surface is just beautifully decorated and the back is still cloudy and starchy.
"... you must be tired. It was my fault that I talked like this after work.... sleep properly in bed. "
A low, dark voice is returned.
I will return only one word to that word, which is not an answer.Instead of wanting to go back to my room, I pulled the blanket up to my chest without waking up.
Some of you may be quite tired.Today, the whole castle was bustling for the festival, and I walked from end to end in the interview, so I came to my feet quite a bit.
In my disgusting mixed head, I woke up to my previous drowsiness.Gishi, gishi and aniki turn around as they hear the sound of their brother returning to their room.I took my notebook out of my pocket and followed it a little thanks to my familiarity with my eyes.
I've been wearing it for a long time before I worked for the newspaper.If I wrote about the castle people, the people who were called to the castle, the people who died suddenly without any great reason, like my brother, no matter how detailed it was, the page was easily buried in black.The name, the address, the end of the family, the treatment from the castle, the more I wrote, the more painful I felt.I can't believe you handled me properly.... the knight was also involved in pointless killings during the Queen's time.After the former Knight Commander and Deputy Knight Commander were punished simultaneously, there was no stopping after the knights who did proportionally harm themselves.
"... can you do something you didn't do...?"
The bitten voice didn't seem to belong to me.
Don't forget. That there were bad times.
Not all things changed in an instant at the moment of the revolution, not all evil was liquidated.
There will be people who have been sacrificed for decades and centuries to come.
There are people who are "mediocre" and can no longer live a "normal" day for life.I'm sure I'm one of them.Not all the people who were left behind were saved, and I will never forget the untold misfortunes of a king.
I won't let you forget.
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"Keith... sleep properly in bed..."
Ha, ha. I hear a sigh.... oh, where are we?
I can only moan with my eyes covered with the back of my hand when I was asleep.My head is blurry and unclear.... I wonder if you've been dreaming about something.
Monotonic footsteps approaching the floor with tongues, tongues and tongues.
"... at all"
After a small murmur like a solitary remark, I was hung with a cloth.I thought it was a blanket because of the softness, but my head still doesn't work.
When I woke up, I couldn't move.I was supposed to be asleep, but I'm incredibly tired.Half drowned in a heavy feeling as if it had been sinking forever, thinking who the Lord of Voices was.
The name of the key does not appear.Who is it? I thought it was Roberto's brother and I stopped talking.No, not that way, this voice.Okay, I finally remembered why I'm here.
"... Eric's older brother"
I roared small and opened my eyes slightly, but my vision was as black as when I was meditating.
It's still late at night, and it's past date and time.It was about that time when I rolled on the sofa.
He rubs his eyes and wakes up only his upper body, not his head, but his body.When I leaned against the back of the sofa, there was an older brother standing in front of me without a light.
It feels strange that my brother is back because he is still blurred.I just "came home", but I knew for myself that my chest would go up and down a lot.When I said "Welcome back" as usual, the back of my eyes twitched for a moment.
Even though I live in the Knights' Exercise Stadium, I've been coming back a lot lately, and it's not strange.... or maybe I was here.
"You're going back to work, right? No matter how much trouble it is, I can't get tired unless I rest in my own bed."
"I've been waiting for you today...."
I can hear my voice hanging on my own.
Maybe now, if you light my face, you won't be able to see it for sure.My brother said, "You know me? I asked, and I stared at my brother as I was used to the night.
I was quite busy today because it was a print interview, and I was tired and it was certainly troublesome to go back to my room upstairs.My mother was always asleep about Grandpa and Grandma, and I didn't want to wake her up accidentally with the sound of the stairs.I've never had many naps on the couch before, and it's not just today that I've been warned every time my brother finds out.
But not this time. I waited on the couch to wait for my brother to come back tonight from my mother.
I twisted my neck and wondered if I had made a promise. I opened my mouth while I was drowsy.
"Give me back my notebook..."
Or else.
My brother exhaled again.Last time, I was a little soft and stolen a real treasure from my room.No, I was warned once, and I ignored it, and I'm sorry to say I'm sorry, but there's no notebook on the boulder.Depending on the latest volume, you know how important it is to me.
When I was interviewing, it was hate to leave it in the room so as not to accidentally drop it.I didn't think my brother would be really angry about that.I've never been so mad at my child.
"If I don't do anything extra until Jeanne and the others get home, I'll give it back."
"You have more than two weeks left... so please give it back.I can't calm down without it.... "
"If you want to add it, just put it in another piece of paper."
"I think it's been a habit for years... unless it's in that notebook."
"I'm going to give Jeanne and the others a little extra. Give it up."
Shit, I mean it this time.
You spit on your chest and face down on your back.If this happens, I would carry it with me.No, but if I drop it somewhere, my life will be over.... and leave it with the Knight's men.
Aniki says that nobody has seen the contents and it seems to be in the room of the Knights now, but it still doesn't settle down just because it's in the middle of the Knights.I have to check the safety and contents of the notebook regularly.Besides, I can't add to the story I want to write so much right now. Honestly, it's painful.
I have confiscated my personal belongings every time.When I met Roberto's brother, the book was confiscated, and even when I got involved in a light rubbing incident and got injured, I deceived the rubbing incident itself and hid my notebook.Instead of beating him up, he's pretty neat.
This never happened since I was an adult, but I didn't think I'd get the same punishment this year as when I was a kid.
"It looks just like your beloved pride, and you can make it a little cuter.You can't punish Jack and Philip... "
"That's superfluous.Jeanne and Pride are different because they look alike. "
"Look at that. You look alike."
I finally said it.
When I told him in retaliation, my brother's shoulders were twitching.I've never admitted it before, but Jeanne still looks like Pride.
Except for the distant eye, I only know the characteristics of listening to rumors, but my bright red hair and purple eyes.Rin's strong eyes are all true.Well, Jeanne has a slightly more suspenseful impression than Rin, but it doesn't change to a beautiful woman.In a few years' time, there will be plenty of dealers.
My older brother turned away coughing with a gohong.I don't think my older brother would do anything like that, but I wish I could make him a little better memories.You want me to praise you for stroking your head and being cute?Is it because Jeanne resembles Pride that she keeps her distance?But that's what makes Jeanne so cute.
"If you think it's someone else, don't worry about it and be cute...Aniki has been talking about Pride for a long time. "
"I'm keeping a record of Pride in my notebook. I don't want you telling me."
I can repeat my brother's words so as to cancel them out.
My brother, who seemed a little irritated, was less popular than usual.I thought you didn't have to say that, but I keep my mouth shut because I do.
Everyone in my family knows my notebook, but it makes me feel embarrassed when I say it again.I scratched my head and said back to my brother, who held his arm with his face turned away.
"It was my brother's fault, to say the least."