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Lanser followed the guidance of the magic cycle, getting closer and closer to the center of the White Bone Forest where no one can set foot.Because of this, the monsters they encountered became more and more ferocious, and the combination of Evan and Lancer was also somewhat powerless.

After being attacked by a group of ninth-level double-headed ligers, the two were finally separated because of the impact of the monster.

Lancer had to go on alone, and when he realized that he was getting closer to Terrence, he gradually found that the path he was walking became more and more familiar.

Five years ago, he left his hometown where he had lived for more than ten years in this direction and came to the outside world, and met Terrence because he got lost halfway.

Going forward is his hometown.

Lancer stopped in his tracks, and looked at the unknown place covered by the forest with complicated eyes.

Drilling through a hidden path known only to the Chevelier family, the low bushes that had been everywhere suddenly disappeared without a trace. Walking out of the narrow and dark cave, there was a tall and straight fir in front of me.

Lancer caressed/touched the rough tree trunk, and what was surging in his heart was the eagerness and joy of seeing Terrence soon, as well as the nostalgia and melancholy for his homeland.Two contradictory emotions were rampant in his chest, and finally they all turned into deep and astringent timidity.

He took a deep breath and walked into the fir forest - on the other side of this forest was the village where Chevenlieu's ancestors lived for generations.

Lancer's sudden appearance brought an unquenchable commotion in the village - no one thought that this man who had vowed to leave his hometown would return here one day.

Ivan, who had been being taught by Chris, was the first to discover Lanser's existence because he was patrolling around with the guard captain.

The tall young man himself was like a sharp wooden thorn piercing into Ivan's eyes, making him show a fierce grin like a cat whose tail was stepped on for a moment.

The young swordsman stood up from behind Chris, gritted his teeth and shouted at Lanser, "How dare you come back! Didn't you just die when you were about to leave? Why are you coming back now?"

Lancer looked at the young man not far away in a daze, and he came back to his senses after a few seconds, his eyes suddenly became complicated: "...Ivan."

The blond knight's whispered call did not reach the boy's ears, and Ivan continued to sneer and sarcastically said: "Oh, I see, you must have had a bad time outside, and now you have escaped with your tail between your legs?"

When Terrence came to the entrance of the village with the female swordsman, what he heard was Ivan's increasingly outspoken humiliation towards Lancer.

He frowned and walked quickly to Lancer, turning his head to look at the young man with twisted and angry expression.He didn't know what was wrong with Lancer and Ivan, and he didn't know why Ivan was so angry, but at least one thing——

"Please don't be so unreasonable to my knight."

Terrence fought back with a cold face.

"..."

He has been very gentle in front of Ivan these days, and this is the first time he has seen such a full-bodied appearance, so he can't help but startle him.Ivan looked at Lanser, then at Terrence, suddenly a steady stream of grievances rose in his heart, and he bit his lower lip tightly.

"Terrence..." Lancer's fingertips couldn't help trembling as the face he had missed for so many days was close at hand. He must have hugged the boy's body tightly as usual, but now the atmosphere is embarrassing, he whispered After uttering Terrence's name, he couldn't help but cast his eyes on Ivan again.

Ivan noticed Lancer's gaze, snorted endlessly, turned and ran away.

The elder who came with Terrence sighed and waved to the crowd, "Let's all go, what are you doing standing here?"

He dispersed the crowd, and then looked at Lancer. Under his gaze, Lancer couldn't help but look away slightly.

The old man showed a tolerant and kind smile, and said: "Okay, be happy when you come back. You and Mr. Terrence will stay with Chris first, and I will ask Chris to find a place to sleep."

Lancer quickly refused: "This is not appropriate, I'll just go back."

The old man reassured: "After a few years outside, I have matured a lot-but, you and Terrence live with Chris, and it is not appropriate to ask you to go home now."

"...Yes." Lancer's tone suddenly dropped.

Terrence noticed the unusual mood change of the knight behind him, patted him on the back and remained silent.

When Terrence and Lancer returned to the place where he lived a few days ago, Chris had disappeared.

Terrence walked into the room, poured two glasses of water and put them on the table, looked at Lancer who was standing at the door and asked, "Why don't you come in?"

"..." Lancer tensed his face, and suddenly knelt down on one knee. "I'm sorry, it's because I didn't do my best that I made you suffer like this. Please punish me."

"What are you doing, you idiot!" Terrence was so startled by his lack of greeting that he nearly knocked over his teacup, and walked over to pull the blond knight up. "If someone outside sees it, they might think I'm a pervert."

Although it is an ancient legacy, Terrence felt that the people in the village would not be used to this kind of strict etiquette since he had been hiding for so long.Lanser didn't seem to have a good relationship with the people in the village, and Terrence didn't want the other party to be excluded because of his actions.

Lancer stood up with Terrence's hand. In the wooden house that shielded the familiar homeland and old people, his worries, hesitation and fear of Terrence rushed out of his heart all the time, as if he was fighting someone. After three days and three nights of exhaustion and the peace of mind that finally came to an end, Lancer almost cried while hugging Terrence.

In the end, he just held Terrence's hand tightly and raised it to his forehead, closed his eyes devoutly and thanked God for everything to be fine and his important person to be safe.

Terrence sighed in relief and let Lancer's actions go.

When Lancer's mood calmed down, Terrence handed him the water glass: "Drink some water."

He plucked the blond knight's hair that was disheveled due to his hasty journey, and said, "You don't need to apologize to me. Instead, I want to thank you for everything you have done for me."

And, if the god still exists, I also want to thank him for allowing me to meet you in this life.

The two were surrounded by a warm atmosphere they had never had before, but Terrence gradually felt awkward for some reason.He coughed, changed the subject and asked, "What happened between you and Ivan? He seems very hostile to you."

Hearing Ivan's name, Lancer's eyelids fluttered, but he stiffly kept his downcast posture and did not speak.

Seeing his appearance, Terrence comforted him, "Leave it alone if you don't want to say it."

He is not without curiosity about Lanser's past, but he has no bad intentions to get to the bottom of it.So he stood up and said, "It's getting late, go to bed early."

"Wait." Lancer grabbed his wrist.

"What's the matter?" Terrence's temper and tone were surprisingly good today, perhaps because of the reunion with Lancer after a long absence.

"...I'm afraid that you will spurn me, if you know what happened to me before." Lancer said in a low voice.

"What?" Terrence was stunned for a moment before realizing Lancer's weak words.He noticed that the other party had been depressed since returning to his hometown.What surrounds him is not the humility of being a knight, but the inferiority complex with guilt.

Terrence squatted down and looked at Lancer from bottom to top: "Why should I judge you by the past, I know you are my best knight now, isn't that more important?"

It was the first time that Lancer looked at Terrence's face from such a perspective. The black-haired boy looked at him under the warm light, as if he had lost all the layers of identity and status, revealing the purest and purest form of an ordinary boy. look like.

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Lancer couldn't help touching Terrence's cheek with pity, and finally said, "Ivan is my younger brother."

"What?" No wonder Terrence was so surprised, because he had never heard Lancer talk about his family.

"Although our family has been living in the depths of the forest, we have never forgotten the glory of being a knight. Since I was a child, what I have learned every day, apart from martial arts, are those old chivalry rules." Lancer's eyes became distant, The childhood and youth buried in his heart seemed to be in front of him, things he hadn't recalled for a long time.

"I was actually very rebellious at that time, and I didn't care about the code of chivalry. Because in this forest, there is no one who needs my allegiance except my companions who don't understand anything."

Terrence couldn't help laughing when he heard Lancer's evaluation of himself. He stood up and sat down again, and said, "I don't think you are rebellious at all. But..." He remembered the first time he met Lancer, The smile grew bigger, "You really can't be considered a qualified knight at first."

"Because you slowly changed me. If I want to be trusted by you, I can't do it without strict requirements on myself."

Terrence raised half of his eyebrows, thought for a while and said meaningfully: "Let's be each other."

At the beginning, Terrence would never have imagined that he would have such an uncontested relationship with this man, but after all, five years have passed in the blink of an eye.They run into each other like gears, and finally they can mesh with each other. Who said that Lancer is the only one who has changed?

Lancer continued: "I was always thinking, is it right for us to stay in this tightly isolated place? What's the point of learning the useless knight code? No one can tell me the answer, and finally I finally couldn't bear it anymore and sneaked out of the village - leaving my brother behind."

"I still don't think my decision was wrong, but my guilt towards Ivan will not disappear because of my belief. Maybe he will never forgive me in his life." Lancer said with a frown.

As long as a person makes a choice, he must bear the part he lost.

Lanser looked at Terrence - whether it was Ivan or the person in front of him, they were all the same.

Terrence was silent for a few seconds, and finally replied: "I don't have close brothers, so I can't say whether what you did was right or wrong. However, I know that I didn't try to understand each other's thoughts, guilt or hatred. It will not change. But when you are willing to confess yourself to the other party, who knows what the ending will be like?

He stood up, leaving the thinking Lancer alone: ​​"Go to rest early."