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Ebastian looked at the confused crown prince.

"Left." Kimi pointed in a random direction. Blake was not worried that he would get lost. He should let him follow his instincts, but his horse didn't obey. No matter what instructions he gave, the horse named Liz The horse just refused to go to the left, but led him to another road.

"Where are you going, didn't you say go to the left?" Sebastian also couldn't understand such a situation.

"It's none of my business, the horse doesn't listen to me anymore." Kimi remembered that Blake touched his horse that day, "Blake said, I will know how to go when the time comes."

Sebastian had to steer the horse behind him, and now he was almost sure that the mysterious aura about Blake had something to do with magic.

It was too late the next morning when Hakkinen found Kimi's room was empty, and although he ordered a search party to go out of the city, it would be very difficult for them to find it in other lands.

"What if Blake makes you do something you don't want to do?" Sebastian wobbled beside him on his horse.

Kimi also walked slowly in order to take care of him, they still have two days to not worry, "I didn't expect it to be easy, that's why it's called a challenge."

"Then you'll do whatever she asks?"

"What I promised her was a matter of honor." Kimi didn't want to guess what the woman would have him do because it wouldn't help at all.

Sebastian was curious about it, "What if she asked you to do something meaner than breaking your promise?"

"Can you stop guessing, we have reached Haug's territory now, and we will be attacked at any time." Although Kimi took care of the killer sent by Haug last time, he was not sure that the old man who lost his son would stop there.

"I just find it weird to agree to do unknown things," Sebastian said, still to himself.

Kimi was a little distracted by his thoughts, "If you read any more, I will kiss you until you are speechless."

As soon as he finished saying this, an arrow shot right next to Sebastian's body and into a nearby tree pole. Sebastian's horse was startled, and Sebastian's horse jumped up and knocked him to the ground.

At this time, a few soldiers sprang out from the nearby bushes and surrounded them with swords. Seeing that they were indeed Haug's subordinates, Kimi immediately got off his horse and drew his sword to fight them.

After knocking down a person, he took a look at Sebastian's situation, and found that there was someone behind him who wanted to attack him, so he threw his sword at the attacker, and the person fell down, but Kimi forgot about his situation, fortunately Sebastian helped him out with magic.

After knocking down all those people, Kimi happily kissed Sebastian on the cheek, "Honey, we really are the best partners."

"Maybe we should go back, the woods might be full of Haug people." Sebastian wasn't as optimistic as he was.

Kimi turned her back to him and remained silent.

"You don't know anything about Blake, you don't know what she's going to ask of you." Sebastian always had a bad feeling about that woman.

"Blake said she knew my mother."

Sebastian has no way to persuade him, he lost his mother when he was very young, the two of them are very similar, if someone tells Sebastian that he knows his mother now, he will definitely look for that person without hesitation, no matter how dangerous the road is.

At night, they found a farmhouse in the village to stay overnight. The farmers were more enthusiastic, but after all, the conditions were limited. There was only a small bed in the room for them, but two people could sleep in a crowded room.

Sebastian wanted to sleep underground for fear of crowding him, but Kimi insisted that he sleep in the bed together.

The bed here was about the same size as Sebastian's single bed at Bernie's house, and the two of them, big men, could only lie side by side on it, and if they moved a little, the other would be in danger of falling off the bed.

The two of them faced each other, and Kimi held Sebastian tightly in his arms. He knew he didn't sleep well, so he hugged his baby tightly so that he wouldn't fall.

"What kind of person is your mother?" Sebastian whispered into his arms, unable to sleep for a while.

"I don't know her, she died before I can remember, I know almost nothing about her." Kimi has only seen her portrait, she is beautiful, and she looks very similar to her.

"Can't you ask your father?" Sebastian wondered, given Hakkinen's knowledge of his queen, he couldn't be ignorant.

"It must have been too painful for him to refuse to talk about her." Kimi asked about her mother more than once when she was young, but she never answered except for scolding.

"At least you still have your father, I lost my parents in a few months." Sebastian thought of his childhood, only with the help of his uncle and the villagers, "the uncle said they died to save Esper , without their sacrifices Espoo would have ceased to exist in the avalanche that winter, my uncle only knew about my father, but I would like to know something about my mother, because she was the one who brought the magic Passed it down to me."

Kimi finally understood why the villagers in Aishibo treated him so well. He was the orphan of a hero. He bowed his head and kissed him on the forehead, "Don't be afraid, I will be your dearest person from now on."

"Every once in a while I'd see her in my dreams, she was a blur, just those familiar blue eyes, my uncle said my eyes were exactly the same as my mother's." Sebastian confided in his arms about his mother Missing, gradually fell asleep.

The next day, the horses were still leading the way for them. At dusk, they came to a lake. The waterfall was on the other side of the lake, and there was no other way to go.

"Looks like your horse has led us to a dead end." Sebastian wished there was no road so he could take the crown prince back.

However, things in the world are often not as people wish, and the horse named Liz walked towards the lake with its head held high.

"What is it doing now?" Kimi couldn't stop it from yelling.

"I think you're going to get wet." Sebastian watched his horse swim towards the waterfall on the other side of the lake, and could only keep up. "Looks like I'm going to be wet from head to toe too."

Passing through the passage behind the waterfall, the field of vision suddenly widened, and they saw a majestic, ancient and dilapidated castle on the vast grassland.

"Where are we?"

"I do not know either."

Under the old castle, the master and servant looked up at its dilapidated and gloomy condition, and the gradually sinking twilight made it look even weirder.

"I suspected that Blake was a witch before, but now I'm sure." Sebastian dismounted and followed him into the castle.

Kimi welcomed the conclusion, "That's why she beat me, she was using magic."

"She shouldn't have used magic when she dueled you." Sebastian corrected him professionally.

"It's so far away, how can you be sure if she's useful?" Kimi pouted, feeling a little upset that the steps he had just found were removed by him.

Sebastian finally realized that his crown prince was still not convinced that he had lost to a woman, so he changed his words, "I didn't stand at a very good angle that day, and I really didn't see it clearly."

Kimi raised the corners of her lips in satisfaction, his baby is getting smarter and smarter under his teaching, not bad.

mother's secret

After entering from the side of the castle, they saw that there was only a wooden stake and an ax nailed on it in the center of the open space, surrounded by pillars wrapped with green vines, and the seasons were not so distinct in this castle.

"What should we do now?" Kimi swung the ax on the stump, asking him to chop wood?

"Maybe we should ask your horse." Sebastian thought the witch's magic might be strong enough to make animals talk.

"You kept your promise."

They followed the sound and saw Blake walking down the steps behind the pillar in a dark red dress. She looked more like a weak woman without armor, making it hard to imagine that she had just been in the hospital a few days ago. Lapland beat more than a dozen well-trained men.

"What's your challenge for me?" Kimi was relieved to see her.

Blake walked towards him slowly, easily picked up the iron ax weighing more than ten kilograms on his shoulder with one hand, "Put your head on the stake."

It never occurred to Kimi that she would say that, to chop off his head?She could have done this two days ago in Lapland.

"You promised me to do everything I asked." Seeing him hesitate, Blake reminded him of his vow.

"Kimi, don't." Sebastian tensed up. Did they come all this way to give Kimi's head away?He will never let this happen.

Kimi ignored him, but went to the stake and knelt down.

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