Apocalypse Flower (4)

  No matter how luxurious the St. Michael's College High School is, no matter how many slaves are serving their masters in those palaces, it has nothing to do with me! Life must go on, Mephisto is just an ordinary Mephisto, like a star in the night sky that can't be brighter than the moon...

  241 Mosley Street

  "Sorry!"

  "I'm sorry, brother. It's my fault. I was fine until Lord Xinzhen entered the Ryūōkan and didn't come out for a long time. Then, a beautiful older sister appeared out of nowhere and kept me company while we waited together. But she couldn't wait any longer and left. I was waiting alone for a long time, but Lord Xinzhen still hadn't come out. I don't know what happened, but my head started hurting and when I woke up, I found myself lying on the side of the road..."

  Sorry, brother! I feel like a fool! I feel like I can't help you with anything!

  "It's okay! Zaiyiyuan, because I had something to attend to that day and left for a while, so I asked you to find Xinzhen. Since it's like this, there's nothing we can do about it, after all, it's not anything important!"

  Acting as if nothing is wrong...

  Pretending to be indifferent...

  Walked to the desktop, took out a bread stick from the paper bag, broke off a piece and handed it to the boy with a smile: "It's okay! Eat first! The beef soup is not ready yet, eat some bread to fill your stomach!" Mingming was smiling, but why did his eyes have a meaning that made people heartbroken to death...

  When Zao Yi was eating bread with his head down, his hair covered his eyes: If that's the case, if it really brings pain to his brother, then he might as well have been beaten to death by those children of the same age at the beginning. He shouldn't have been born in this world anyway, looking at how his mother was rejected alive, and he often received criticism. He would rather drown in those gossiping mouths than make the young man in front of him feel useless...

  The bread was devoured mouthful by mouthful with such force that Lotts couldn't help but be taken aback.

  The sky is beautiful, and occasionally some pigeons come to the Royal Plaza of Saint-Martin in front of the Lothian Empire. The statue of Apollo stands tall in the center of the square's fountain, with many nobles dressed in finery passing by. A knight youth rides a horse here and slowly dismounts...

  "Haha! Is that so? Miss Moi De is getting engaged next month! How delightful and congratulatory!" Several noblewomen who had just stepped down from the carriage were being respectfully escorted by servants, holding fans to half-cover their faces as they smiled and chatted with each other.

  "I heard he's a pretty good young man! Is he Prince Kaito of the small country?" "Yes!"

  "It's really wonderful! Is that prince currently attending St. Miroku Academy's high school department? He's in the same school as our prince!"

  The young man smiled slightly and led the white horse elegantly through the crowd...

  Upon hearing the horse's neigh, they all made way for the young man...

  All the ladies and gentlemen seemed to be amazed, this was a young man more beautiful than a fairy, a light more precious than the stars in the sky and those luxurious diamonds on their hands! This light...

  Almost made everyone on the scene unable to open their eyes...

  If the entire land is an ocean, then hasn't it evolved into a sea of flowers now? It seems like many fragrant and colorful flowers are dancing in mid-air, the air is filled with fragrance, the young man in front of me seems to be from another world, his eyelashes are slightly moist and slightly curled up, the curve of his lips is forever perfectly raised...

  Several heavily armored soldiers guarding the square came over on horseback...

  "Lord Loki, it's been a long time since you've returned. His Majesty has always missed you!" Suddenly, all eyes were filled with astonishment, and it turned out that this was another unpopular prince of the Luo Empire. No wonder he had been so arrogant from the beginning! But...

  Will his sudden appearance affect the succession of the throne under Lord Lothar? The magnificent palace...

  Those dreamlike backyards similar to those in fairy tales...

  Gothic-style building...

  The corridor stretched on and on, seemingly without end...

  There were quite a few people wearing slave-like skirts walking around, and when they saw the young man, they would still bow slightly before continuing with their own business...

  There are quite a few rooms in buildings that are empty...

  And then there's that almost forgotten tower, where his own birth mother is inside...

  "If you meet that child, be sure to take good care of her!"

  ……

  "Mother, why must we leave the palace and live in this tower! I'm so envious of Roz's mother who lives in such a nice place!"

  ……

  "Mother, you said if we stay here often, will Father forget about us?"

  ……

  "Mother, why did you marry Father in the first place!"

  "Idiot, why are you suddenly asking this question?! Of course it's because I like your father!"

  ……

  Time seemed to be a wind that brought some uneasy memories, Loki's horse was led away by someone else after saying goodbye, and he came alone to the place below, looking up at the high place, suddenly feeling the sunlight on his head piercing his eyes painfully...

  Is your mother still alive?

  The backyard where I played with Luo Zi as a child is still there...

  While playing and leaning against a corner of the tower's wall, watching the butterfly-filled garden, I suddenly had an illusion that everything in front of me became hazy... as if everything was covered with a layer of fog, vague and indistinct.

  A child pushes away his past self...

  "Scram, I'm your older brother, you have to listen to me. What's the big deal about picking a flower? I'm going to be the king in the future!"

  "But... Father won't allow it, Father loves this flower the most, will this make Father angry?"

  "What a coward! I'll take it then!"

  Magnificent palace, the king's bedroom...

  Several slave girls wearing long skirts knelt on the ground one by one...

  "Your Majesty, please spare Lord Loth! He's still young and ignorant, he'll become better when he grows up!"

  The person sitting on the throne has an austere appearance...

  "Since he was young, Ze Yu has been arrogant and domineering. How can he become the master of the Luo Empire in the future?"

  No matter how you begged for mercy, in the end you were still punished... No matter how loudly you boasted on the surface, but with an unwilling expression...

  "Roki, I'm almost out of breath, not free at all. Why can't I have my own life? Why can't I fly out of the castle walls and see those people wearing thick, cold armor, and why does the word 'undead' come to mind when I think of their inner selves?"

  But despite being so detestable, he's still so arrogant and will never easily let others get close to him. If he's going to be called the "Detestable King", then why not just go all out and be detestable? Why is it that even though he says he's not free, when others try to approach him, he still says with a look of disgust: "Get away from me, you're filthy!"