Skeleton King

When the last white of the sky disappeared in the west and the stars shone in the night, the banquet at the Pansy Palace officially began.

"A toast to our great king! May my father, His Majesty Ludwig IV, be in good health!" Prince Xiben stood in the center of the banquet, with golden liquid rippling in his transparent wine glass, and most of the pansy empire's imperial capital The nobles surrounded Prince Nishimoto, holding their wine glasses high, and congratulated their majesty, "Raise a glass to our great king!"

If His Majesty Ludwig IV, who lived alone in his bedroom "in poor health", would find it ridiculous if he saw this scene.

"Now I announce the start of the banquet." As Prince Xiben's powerful voice fell, the musicians on both sides of the banquet hall of the Pansy Palace played music together.

Prince Nishimoto looked in the direction of Angelica inadvertently. Angelica was smiling softly at him with a glass of orange wine in her hand.

Prince Xiben couldn't help but feel flustered.But tonight is not only the first banquet after spring in the imperial capital, it will kick off the curtain of this year's social season, it is also the first appearance of Princess Bernadette on a formal social occasion in the imperial capital, which is undoubtedly very important to Princess Bernadette .Prince Xiben knew that Angelica had a good relationship with Princess Bernadette, whether it was to win over Nou or Angelica, he would not mess up today's affairs.

Under the eyes of everyone, Prince Nishimoto walked up to Princess Bernadette and extended his hand to her, "I don't know if I have the honor to ask the beautiful lady to dance?"

Duchess Bernadette gracefully placed her hand on Prince Sibbon's.Whether it is Prince Xiben or Princess Bernadette, their etiquette is impeccable, and their dance moves are extremely moving.

Nou was watching them from the sidelines. From time to time, a nobleman would come to him for a chat, pointing to Prince Xiben and Princess Bernadette, "It's a match made in heaven." Nou couldn't help but frowned.

Gradually, more and more people entered the dance floor.Prince Xiben danced three dances with Princess Bernadette before leaving the dance floor. He stood on the edge of the dance floor and swept the dance floor inadvertently.

Only then did Nou realize that Ace had gone somewhere.Coincidentally, Angelica is also missing.

Angelica's status at the banquet was somewhat embarrassing.She is nominally the maid of Rose Castle, but Prince Xiben's pursuit of Angelica is an open secret in the upper class of the Pansy Empire. Except for a few people who know that Prince Xiben has not succeeded, most people regard her as Prince Xiben's. How could anyone dare to invite Angelika to dance with a secret lover?

Normally, Angelica would not show up on other occasions except for the banquet at the Rose Castle, and everyone didn't know why she came to the Pansy Palace this time.

Could it be that Prince Nishimoto is going to disclose the identity of her lover?

No one thought that Angelica would marry Prince Nishimoto.

In their view, being the lover of Prince Nishimoto is already the greatest luck for this girl from a farming family.I didn't see how many people congratulated Nou when Prince Xiben invited Princess Bernadette to dance.Prince Nishiben's ascension is just around the corner. Not only did Nou stand in line early, but my dear sister is going to be the princess again. Who else can be more stable than Duke Green?

Ke Nuo didn't think so.

Seeing Prince Xiben's face getting worse and worse because he couldn't find Angelica, Nou quickly invited the noble ladies near him to dance.When he entered the dance floor, Prince Nishimoto would not drag him out.

……

Ace has never liked banquets, and the first banquet he attended at Butter Soden Manor was Caroline's funeral, which did not leave him with any good memories.

Ace walked outside the banquet hall, which was a huge terrace facing the garden of the Pansy Palace.The trees in the garden are very close to each other, usually when the sun is the hottest, it is cool under the shade.At this time, it looked gloomy and cold again.The large floor-to-ceiling windows isolated the hustle and bustle of the banquet, and only the pale yellow light shone through the windows onto the terrace.

"Master." Just like 12 years ago, Ace was standing on the second floor of Bad Soden Manor, and Angelica stood behind him and told him the names and family backgrounds of those who attended the banquet; now, 12 years later, in the Pansy Palace , Angelica appeared behind Ace again.

Ace turned sideways and looked at Angelica. He hardly remembered the first time he saw this girl.

Angela showed amazing beauty when she was very young, even if Ace didn't care about girls, he couldn't help but pay more attention to her.Angelica was silently by the side, silently taking care of Ace and cleaning up the mess for her clumsy sister.After Angela went to the dead world, Ace kept more and more secrets, and it was not suitable for newcomers to be around him. Angelica still took care of everything in an orderly manner.

Caroline dug countless holes for Ace, but she also left Ace the best gift.

The girl in front of Ace is already slim, she is in the best years of a woman's life, her long brown hair is draped softly on her shoulders, her facial features are not very bright but they are very attractive, people can't find the slightest difference Flaws, the smile at the corner of the mouth is always just right.If it weren't for her family background, Angelica is really suitable to be a princess.

"The hero slays the dragon with a sharp sword in his hand. At dawn, his girl is still waiting for him in his hometown." The music is transmitted to the terrace through the French windows.

In this night, the half is loud and the other is silent.Ace suddenly felt that there was no need to talk about the anger in his heart just now.

Angelica is independent.She is not Ace's slave, nor is she an accessory to Ace.Does she not know what she is doing?Angelica is not Angela, she is so smart, she must know.

It is against her will that Ace orders her to leave now.

Ace asked, "Don't you regret it?"

Angelica said lightly, "No."

It has been more than a year since Ace left the capital of the Pansy Empire. Angelica must have considered the consequences of what she is doing now.Ace said: "Are you still in contact with Angela? If you need any help, you can tell Angela, and she can contact me."

Angelica smiled softly, and the smile made her eyes intoxicatingly beautiful, "Yes, Angela will come to see me every week."

Instead, Ace sighed, "I can ask General Arnold to send someone to you, just follow your orders. Angela stays in the alchemy room all year round, so the news may not be timely."

Angelica rejected Ace's offer, "Angela is fine."

"It's up to you." Ace said coldly, "You've always had an idea."

Ace knows that things have come to this point, Angelika's wishes, and Princess Mary's help.If he forcibly took Angelika away, he would definitely have a bad relationship with Prince Xiben now, which none of them wanted to see.

Angelica said with concern: "Master, your forehead."

Ace's eyebrows were still a little red.Angelica once witnessed the awakening of Ace's pansy mark with her own eyes. Later, she arrived in the imperial capital and met Prince Nishimoto. At that time, she already understood what the pansy mark meant.

Rose Castle has too many legends about Mrs. Caroline. For Angelica who grew up in Bad Soden Manor, it is not difficult to deduce what happened that year.

"It's nothing, don't worry." Ace was talking, but his eyes turned to the banquet hall. Princess Bernadette was sitting on the sofa and eating pastries, and Nou was dancing on the dance floor with a lovely noble lady. dance.

Ace was about to push open the door of the floor-to-ceiling windows, "Let's go back, it's not good to be found out."

At this moment, Ace felt abnormal fluctuations in the magical elements on the east side of the Pansy Palace.

Angelica followed Ace's gaze. She didn't know what happened, but said, "That direction is the bedroom of His Majesty Ludwig IV."

Ace stood there without moving for a moment.

"Master?" Angelica was wondering, when she felt a gust of wind blowing in front of her, and then, Ace was gone.

……

The light of the milky white magic lamp shines through the window, and a figure can be seen dimly from outside the window.

A shadow covered in pitch black jumped out of the bushes without a sound. The shadow still held a very thin long sword in its hand, and the long sword was aimed at the figure in the room and was about to stab down.

"Boom-"

Fighting spirits of three colors burst out from the room at the same time, but none of them could withstand the ordinary blow. The people in the room only had time to use their last strength to throw the vase on the shelf in front of them, barely making the long sword crooked. Accurate head.

The sound of the vase breaking broke the peaceful night on the east side of the Pansy Palace.

However, because His Majesty Ludwig IV was under confinement, there were not many knights guarding the area. Even if some knights discovered something unusual, it would take time to come over.

The black shadow outside the bedroom knew that he had alarmed the guards of the Pansy Palace this time, and would never have such a good opportunity again.He was not in a hurry to escape, it could even be said that he gave up his escape plan and directly kicked open the door of the bedroom.

In the dormitory is a middle-aged man with black hair. He looks like he is in his early forties. His hair is not long and his eyes are sharp. The most striking thing is his brow, which is a pattern of three petals, and the color of each petal is different. Different, the colors of the petals are purple, white and yellow.His right hand was bleeding profusely at this time, and it seemed that the injury was serious.

All the people in the Pansy Palace will be able to recognize him when they see him—the ruler of the Pansy Empire for 20 years, before Prince Nishimoto launched the palace change, he was known as the Bright University after the Pansy Empire The greatest monarch - His Majesty Ludwig IV.

At this moment, the appearance of the killer who visited in the middle of the night has been fully displayed in front of Ludwig IV. He is a man with dark brown skin, and all his exposed skin is densely covered with runes.The sword in his hand was trembling slightly like a needle.

"Has the people there already come out?" His Majesty Ludwig IV murmured, this didn't seem like a question, because he didn't expect the person in front of him to answer.

Sure enough, the uninvited guest had no intention of speaking. After the door broke open to reveal his figure, his sword stabbed at Ludwig IV's vitals again, determined to put him to death.

Ludwig IV has been busy with government affairs these years, and has seldom practiced. Even back then, his strength was only at the level of ordinary noble children.

At this time, Ludwig IV was already injured, and the guards of the Pansy Palace arrived and did not know how long it would be.

The attack was imminent.

Even Ludwig IV had a thought at this time, "I haven't created an immortal foundation for the empire, am I going to die at the hands of this unknown guy?"

At the last moment when the long sword flashed white light in front of his eyes, he actually thought of the figure that had haunted him in countless nights.

Wearing a long red dress, she appeared in the garden of Rose Castle. Looking at the person who walked into the garden casually, she smiled brightly and playfully, "Do you know that people are not allowed to enter here?"

Casual and willful, beautiful and scorching.

It easily became the catastrophe of his life.

Pansy flags were raised as far as the North Sea in the north, the Finger Empire in the east, and the Magic Island in the south. He thought it was his ambition.But until now, he clearly knew that this was not his deepest obsession.

He just wanted that bright person to live in a certain corner of this plane in a pretty, proud, and bright way.

After the white light passed, Ludwig IV felt no pain.

The killer who had stopped in front of him had already fallen into a pool of blood, and in front of him was a young man with the same black hair and green eyes as him.The young man turned his eyes casually from the corpse on the ground to him.

The pupils of Ludwig IV dilated slightly, and an impossible idea came out of his mind, "You are?"