Kingdom’s Bloodline

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As early as six years ago, Thales, who had not yet become a prince, was told by Gilbert in the Mindis Hall:

The history of the stars has never been lacking in blood.

color.

This is, the real blood color?

Thales stared fixedly at the emotional Semir.

The other party reminded him of a long time ago, the roar of the former Duke of the North who was almost hopeless to vent in the Fuxing Palace.

Same hate.

Same pain.

Equally bleak.

And the same... all-or-nothing.

The atmosphere in the storage room reached the peak of depression, and even Belletti, who was standing in front of Thales, put down her weapon in a daze.

Samir's panting was full of resentment that had not subsided for a long time, Naki bit his lower lip tightly, and little Barney looked up in a daze like a lost traveler in the fog.

As for Sackel, he just held his forehead tightly and lowered his head deeply.

No words.

Even Kuai Rope, who tried his best to act as if it had nothing to do with him, inadvertently showed a deep thought and surprise that a low-level mercenary did not have, and looked at Thales.

what you up to?

But Thales ignored him, and just stared firmly at the focus of the field.

Finally, after the extreme noise and the extreme silence, the once-disappeared voice reappeared tremblingly:

"What are they talking about, Sackel?"

Thales, who was in a complicated mood and couldn't express his taste, turned his gaze.

I saw little Barney kneeling on the ground, staring at a pair of eyes that seemed to have been devastated by a storm, and asked blankly:

"Father? Canxing? They..."

Saker didn't speak.

The knight trembled and turned his head slightly.

He hid his face for a moment, so that his colleagues could not see it.

This is not what he wants.

no.

never was.

But from Sackel's silence, little Barney has already sensed something.

"They are loyal to...another Canxing? Another...His Royal Highness?"

Little Barney repeated in a trance, ignoring the disappointment on Naki's face and the resentment in Samir's eyes.

"answer me!"

The other party's unusual silence irritated little Barney, and his tone became more and more urgent.

Naki snorted.

Little Barney turned to him as if asking for help.

"Ask your father, ask our respected deputy captain," Naki said softly, the sarcasm and accusation in his tone still lingering: "He is the one who came out secretly, instigated orders from his superiors and made promises to his subordinates." By."

"It's a pity he didn't tell you."

Little Barney's slack eyes focused.

On the other side, Nai sighed resignedly.

"enough."

Finally, Sackel's boring and mechanical voice sounded hollowly, and he loosened his tightly pressed forehead, exposing his face to the firelight again, his pupils faintly reflecting the burning torches on the ground absently.

insensitive.

Like a dead man.

"Why can't you let go," the punishment knight said in a daze, "let go of everything in the past."

"Keep everything as it is, no more, no less, no more, no less."

In the end, there was still a wave of fluctuation in his steady but empty tone: "Let them end here."

"why not."

These words caused many colleagues to change their expressions slightly.

Naki's shoulders trembled, he looked at little Barney, and showed a sarcastic wry smile:

"Yeah, why not?"

Crash!

Little Barney jumped up from the ground!

The senses devastated by the alchemy ball made him stagger for a second before he could barely stand still.

"Because... Sackel, because if that's true..."

At that moment, the embarrassed little Barney showed rare excitement from his numb eyes:

"If the Bloody Year is really a... that means... means..."

He looked eagerly and longingly at his other colleagues: Cannon sobbing, Bree sobbing, Tardin desolate, Belletti and Nay exchanging glances.

It seems to want to get some support.

But none of the colleagues responded, only Samir sneered disdainfully.

Thales sighed softly.

He cleared his throat, and spoke in the unbearable silence and darkness:

"That means, Barney, those who swore allegiance to the Canxing royal family back then, including your father, maybe they didn't treason."

The prince's words lingered in the dungeon, making little Barney's eyes more and more radiant.

Feeling the exhaustion and pain all over his body, Thales tried his best to make his voice sound stable and friendly, so as to comfort the traumatized poor man in front of him a little:

"At least not so absolute and thorough."

The voice of the prince made the guard members react differently. Some bowed their heads and remained silent, some opened their mouths to speak, and some closed their eyes and sighed.

But Thales ignored them, he just spoke slowly, with a sense of loneliness and sadness that teenagers never had before:

"They are still loyal to Canxing, just obeying orders..."

"In the infighting of the royal family, choose sides."

"Each choose their own master."

Then fight to the death.

Thales buried this sentence in his heart.

Little Barney's expression relaxed slightly, as if he had found some kind of relief.

The members of the guard fell silent, regardless of whether they knew it or not, regardless of their titles.

The dungeon fell into silence again, but Kuaisheng, who was watching, felt that the silence this time was no longer so uncomfortable.

"Yes, yes," Little Barney nodded quietly, repeating blindly:

"They're just...they're just..."

On the other side, Sackel let out a long sigh.

"Don't blame them, Barney," said the punishment knight with sadness hidden in his eyes:

"Especially your father."

"In that chaotic era, family, oath, righteousness, loyalty, tradition, kingship, relatives, kingdom, Your Majesty, Your Highness... They just, they just don't know among so many objects..."

Sak El paused, as if organizing his own language:

"What should you pledge your allegiance to?"

After saying this, the penalty knight closed his eyes desolately, and let go of his clenched fists.

Little Barney stared blankly at the floor tiles. He was filled with contradictions and stunned, and seemed unable to speak anymore.

But at this moment, Naki sneered again with disdain.

"Heh heh heh heh..."

Everyone raised their eyes.

"You're too optimistic, Sackel."

Naki shook his head, his eyes were gloomy:

"You left out a part of it."

"For us, the worst part."

Little Barney was taken aback.

Thales' expression tightened.

What?

Nucky's voice was choked with pain:

"If this is the truth of the Bloody Year, it means..."

"It means we..."

Naki paused, as if he couldn't speak any more.

Sackel didn't speak, but his numb facial muscles began to tremble.

Samir seemed to understand, and he took over the conversation.

"I understand."

Semir's resentment disappeared without a trace, and what followed was depression:

"If the Bloody Year is a bloody internal strife in the family, where blood relatives kill each other..."

"Barney, even if I try my best to escape from captivity and seek help and revenge tirelessly, even if you work hard to atone for your sins and send this prince named Canxing back to the capital..."

After a few seconds, Barney figured out something.

His originally blood-colored face froze again.

The slack on his face disappeared, followed by lingering fear.

The guard members reacted differently. Some expressed relief, some shook their heads numbly, and some frowned.

"Even if we find out who is the mastermind and internal agent of the coup..."

"Even if we prove the innocence and loyalty of ourselves and the rest of our colleagues..."

"Even if we..."

Speaking of this, Samir choked up a bit, lowered his head, and spoke in a lonely voice:

"It doesn't make any sense either."

Little Barney's body shook violently as if he had been hit hard.

"For the stability of the rule, for the reputation of the royal family, and even more for the authority of the Fuxing Palace, neither King Kessel, his successor, nor the entire Star Kingdom will ever allow the ugly truth of the Bloody Year to be revealed , let alone make it public, in broad daylight."

Semir glanced at Thales from a distance.

That look contained too many things: hatred, resentment, desolation, despair...

Thales felt more and more heavy.

"On the contrary, those whom we have sworn allegiance to, they will exhaust all means to bury the truth, cover up the truth, and distort justice."

"Because in people's impressions, the noble and wise Canxing family cannot be the person in charge of the Bloody Year."

"The 'true culprit' back then will always and will only be the rumored mysterious 'mortal enemy' of the Canxing royal family. 'It' will only hide behind the curtain and never show itself."

Little Barney was like a walking dead, listening to Samir's words in a daze.

"And our...colleagues who died in battle will never wait for justice. The thirty-seven people who died in the battle cannot be rehabilitated, and the survivors can only bear the shameless stigma for the rest of their lives."

"As the royal guard of the Star Kingdom, we can only and must be traitors collaborating with the enemy!"

Sackel trembled violently, as if struck by a bolt of lightning.

His colleagues were all pale, with miserable eyes, as if they were accepting the final judgment.

Samir's words became more and more urgent, more and more ruthless:

"We can only be dereliction of duty sinners, incompetent cowards!"

"Never reverse the case, until death."

Except for Semir's voice, the dungeon was eerily silent.

Semir gasped for a while, and slowly regained his composure, but the desolation and despair in his tone could not be added:

"No matter how innocent and pitiful those who don't know are, no matter how pure and loyal a lonely minister like Barney is, no matter how wronged someone like me is."

"No matter how miserable a chess piece like your father is, you can't help yourself."

"No matter how unfair it is to us."

Little Barney's hands began to tremble uncontrollably.

"because……"

Samir's eyes are fascinated:

"Because as the royal guard, we are destined to be victims...and scapegoats under the nine-pointed star emblem."

Thales listened silently.

He remembered the numb and frozen expression of King Kessel V standing in front of the stone urns of the Canxing family in the Canxing tomb.

[I don't know how much you know about us, and I don't know what kind of imagination you have about the name Canxing. 】

Thales took a deep breath.

He just felt that the air in his lungs was getting colder and denser.

Sackel turned his head away, as if he couldn't bear to listen any more.

No one could see his face.

Samir raised his head:

"That's why Sackel prefers to keep silent and accept the scapegoat, why Naki doesn't want to seek justice and just wants to leave silently, why everyone is pretending to be deaf and dumb and numb when the prison is broken today. "

Semir sadly said:

"Because they know, it doesn't make sense at all."

Little Barney looked at his colleagues in disbelief, and many of them bowed their heads in shame in the face of his gaze.

Saker still didn't speak.

"Barney, in the past eighteen years, those things that have supported us to live—whether it's clearing up our grievances, returning justice, or even the ridiculous so-called revenge are all vain."

"All the struggles we do, all the hopes we hold, all the wishes we place on our hearts, all the answers we seek: justice, justice, truth, innocence, freedom..."

Semir's words were accompanied by breathlessness, intermittently, and contained indelible pain:

"It's all in vain."

Little Barney turned his head mechanically, the expression in his eyes becoming more and more stiff and numb.

Samir took a deep breath, looked at the bottomless dark corridor, and ended his words with a wry smile:

"In a corner of history, we, the former royal guard, are doomed to be buried in dust and never see the light of day."

thump!

The few words that were light and fluffy, but seemed to have unprecedented strength, knocked the little Barney who had just stood up to the ground again.

Nye exhaled softly, and Belletti remained motionless.

Tardin, Curry, and Cannon seemed to have fallen into eternal rigidity and silence.

There was silence in the dungeon.

Naki stared at a torch next to him with a half-smile, turned his cheek unaccustomed to its flame, and let out a muffled sound from his throat.

"You know what I envy and hate the most about you, Barney?"

Naki said in a low voice.

"Eighteen years, although you foolishly lived a lie."

"But at least you're still living in the hope you've woven."

"In this bottomless dungeon shrouded in darkness, you live in the only... place where light can shine."

With a soft muffled sound, the torch on the ground was extinguished.

Naki's figure was brought into the terrifying darkness again.

Thales closed his eyes gently, not to look at Barney's bloodless expression.

[The history of the stars has never lacked blood. 】

In the past, Thales' understanding of "scarlet" was still superficial. The scene he could think of that best matched the word was the beggar ecology of the abandoned houses in the lower city and the gang struggle in the underground world.

With the change of identity, traveling, and increasing knowledge (whether he wants it or not), Thales gradually feels the pulse of the bloody year from different angles:

The deep silence in Canxing's tomb, the desperate roar of the Duke of the North in the Fuxing Palace, the silent condolences at the Lehmann Pass, the nostalgia for the old days in the eyes of the veteran Genard, the bright and heavy eyes of the flower of the fortress, The little soldier Willow talked about the lost soul of his dead sister, the lonely back of the Kingdom's Wrath under the setting sun, the coldness and loneliness of the Ghost Prince's Tower, and Marina's paleness and trembling when expressing love.

Too many people are trapped in it, unable to extricate themselves.

Thales thought that he had begun to understand the cruel side of the bloody year.

until now.

Until the members of the royal guard who meet again in the prison of bones, the cruel and ruthless suspicion and confrontation between them.

This is the year of blood.

An eternal nightmare that covers everything and seems to never wake up.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Little Barney's desolate laughter broke Thales' heavy thoughts.

Unexpectedly, there was no grayness and sadness on Barney Jr.'s face.

Only a smile remains.

"Hahahahahaha..."

Numb, stagnant, fake and indifferent smile.

Like a clown in a circus.

Like the smiling faces they paint on.

An uneasy smile.

No one knew what was hidden under the arc of that smile.

Seeing Thales' heart tingling.

"I see!"

Little Barney laughed and said loudly.

"Alan, Walker, Bobby, Morian, Raleigh, Kim, Skeleton, Rogo..."

He nervously murmured a name that made Thales feel unfamiliar, without even looking at the people around him, he just stretched out his arms towards the dark ceiling, and laughed wildly:

"Eighteen years of imprisonment, so much bloodshed, and persistence for so long... It turned out that it meant nothing at all."

Little Barney smiled until the marks on his face curled up a little:

"We, what are we fighting for? What are we living for? What are we dying for?"

No one could answer him.

Naki stared at him coldly, while Samir snorted lightly in his nose.

Sackel seemed to have turned into a sculpture, silent in the midst of Naki's accusation, Semir's confession, and Barney's questioning.

Tardin and the others lost their expressions and lost hope.

Thales shook his head, and gave a negative answer to Kuai Rope's questioning eyes.

Little Barney's laughter gradually became sluggish, and he fell down again.

"for what?"

Belletti stared blankly at the appearance of the former Chief Pioneer Officer.

"Barney..."

He opened his mouth in embarrassment, as if he wanted to comfort the little Barney who seemed to be completely out of control, but he couldn't speak at all.

But the next moment, little Barney's actions shocked him!

clack!

Little Barney, who had had enough laughing, retracted his arc, and grabbed his long sword that fell to the ground!

Everyone was shocked.

Even Thackel looked up.

I saw little Barney's eyes were red and his whole body was trembling.

He lowered the blade to his palm.

He fixedly stared at the sword with a curled mouth and a missing edge after several battles.

Then turned the blade to...

own neck.

At that moment, Thales, who realized what he was going to do, suddenly changed color!