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"lie."

The king sitting on the throne did not accept his greeting, but spit out a cold word.He raised his head slightly in astonishment, the king on the high seat only said these two words, but he didn't know what he was describing, whether he was describing his personality or his words.Anyway, this was the first time he heard someone criticize Vichy so bluntly.He said tactfully, "I don't understand what you mean."

"I don't understand either." The Demon King laughed at himself. "You faintly smell like lies, but you are the truth. I can't find your flaws, and this is your biggest flaw."

"The king is overwhelmed, everything about me is already under your control. Otherwise, why did you ask me to come here?"

"Before we get to the point, I really want to know a question." The devil said, "Whose student are you?"

"The king doesn't need to understand this, my teacher is just an unknown pawn, you won't hear about it."

"Oh? An unknown pawn? Can teach students like you."

"Wang Mi praised it."

Seeing that he didn't mention the teacher's name, Arcadia didn't force others, and went straight to the point: "What do you think of my son? Is it up to the level of a good husband?"

"His Royal Highness Leicester handles things well, is elegant and courteous, and is deeply loved by the people." He paused, and continued: "As for the husband, I can't comment on it, but I think he will be a good husband like the previous king in the future... ..."

Before he finished speaking, Arcadia interrupted him with a smile: "Vichy, aren't you tired of using an official tone like this? Who taught you to use such a serious tone to perfuse others? You look like a dull old man."

Tired, of course he was tired, he didn't even know what he was talking about, if the devil could not talk to him, he wouldn't be tired.He sighed softly, and replied, "What kind of tone does the king want me to answer? I don't know whether Lester can be a good husband."

Arcadia did not answer, but slowly talked about her own story: "You just said that I am a good husband, but I am not. I don't love Lester's mother, and I just married her for the benefit of the family. After marriage I didn't take good care of her either, she died after giving birth to my son. I didn't take good care of her, I wasn't a good husband."

"You are the devil, and it is inevitable to get married for better interests. I feel sorry for the death of the former queen, but from another perspective, the queen is just reincarnation, looking for someone who loves her, herself Happiness."

"I really liked a human being." Aradia spoke slowly, as if trying her best to compose words to describe the most beautiful pictures in her heart, even though those pictures had already been fragmented after the washing of time. "She has fiery red hair, wearing a red dress and red high-heeled shoes, like a flame burning in my life. I was attracted by red, and I insisted on bringing the fire back to the palace, but I just watched from a distance and dared not touch it. , Alienated like a guest. The demon clan was full of gossip, and finally she burned the house angrily, destroyed the ridge, and burned blazingly on the plain alone, and then extinguished, leaving no ashes, as if she had never appeared in the past. in my life."

Red, bright red came to his mind, mixed with blood and dress.Could it be his teacher that Arcadia was talking about?Other than Lilith, he couldn't imagine any other human beings who were so daring and desperate.Could it be that Lilith also did the same thing as him, but got regrettable results?His current situation is considered to be a teacher's inheritance?He asked, "I don't know which human being you are talking about?"

"You don't need to know, the predecessors have passed away, so there is no need to mention the past." Arcadia smiled irrefutably, "I only hope that you and Lester will not repeat our path."

So?

He refused righteously: "His Royal Highness, your son and I can't get along in three views. There is no way he and I are on the same road."

"Are you talking about the war between the two races? I heard my subordinates report it to me." Arcadia pointed out the biggest difference between them, but said: "You and Lester have discussed it many times. But just say, You didn't come up with a specific plan to impress him. I admit that Lester has followed the hegemony idea that the Demon Race has always had, but that doesn't mean you have no chance to try it."

"So, the problem now is that you dare not try."

Maybe he has to convince Versailles first, then quarrel with the Senate, and finally use his position as the president of the night walk to gamble, so that he can pass the proposal of a comprehensive reconciliation with the demons.Then he'd have to pry open the heads of the daedric nobles and the senate to unearth the idea of ​​world unification, and finally he'd have to try to win Lester's heart, perhaps by offering himself.If he really intends to try, he will encounter many, many unexpected problems, which he may not be able to solve.The human race traded Lilith's death for a long time of stability, and he has been stable for too long. The impulsiveness of young people is rare in him. He thinks about everything rationally, and he is unwilling to do things that he can't see hope for. matter.

He is extremely bold and extremely conservative.

His mind was in a trance.What to do is right.

If only Lilith was here.

"Vichy, concentrate."

Arcadia stepped down from the throne, came to him and held his hand: "The Walking Corridor will read your memory when you are distracted. Otherwise you will reveal to me more about your teacher Lilith Things. I remember that the only student Lilith disclosed to the public was Nuoning, I guess you were the loser in the election of the president of the Night Walk, right?"

"Yes."

He had no choice but to answer like this.But his heart palpitated, just now he was distracted and let Arcadia read his memory?It's still about Lilith's memory, what a stupid thing he did.He looked at Arcadia, wary of what he would do to him next.Arcadia let out a huff, pulled out his hand and messed up his freshly combed hair, patted lovingly like all the elders, and said, "Do you want to go back and try?"

He couldn't give an answer for a while: "I don't know."

"You have one more afternoon," he said, "and the dance will begin tonight."

If he goes to the ball, he will be pushed to the forefront, and there is no way to promote the peace negotiation process.If he doesn't go, he can try to negotiate a peace.But in addition, there may be a third way.

He raised his eyes and asked, "If I want to go back to the human world to spend the rest of my life quietly, what do you think, Your Highness?"

"Oh." Arcadia's voice lowered, and he answered him word by word: "I will help Lester and you make the most correct choice."

Lester hurriedly walked on the road leading to the horse corridor.The matter of the ball was already prepared, and he was in a hurry to go back to see Vichy, but when he pushed the door, the room was empty.The guard said that he hadn't seen where Vichy had gone, and for a moment he thought that Vichy had left calmly, so he came to the gate of the palace angrily and asked the guard that no one had left the palace.He searched the entire palace, but still couldn't see Vichy.

He thought of a place.It was a place he hadn't set foot in for a long time.The palace of the former king Arcadia.

He was not familiar with his father. At that time, the war was not over yet, and Arcadia was always at the forefront of the demon defense line.Most of his memories of Arcadia are told by his grandfather. After his grandfather died of illness, Arcadia was stationed for a while, and then went to the battlefield.After the Red Witch Lilith died in battle, Arcadia returned to the Demon Race to declare an end to the war, and handed over the Demon King to him, and hid behind the scenes.In his heart, he is a very incompetent father who does whatever he wants.

He pushed open the door of the corridor and walked down the steps, only to see Arcadia sitting reclined on it reading a book.

"Father." Although he was anxious about Vichy's whereabouts, he still greeted him according to the proper etiquette: "Good evening."

Arcadia jumped off the throne, closed the book, looked at him and laughed jokingly, "Son, why are you free to visit me now? It's already seven o'clock, shouldn't you go to a dance party and communicate with young people? "

"I was busy with government affairs some time ago, so I couldn't visit you on time. I am deeply sorry."

"Why do you have time to see me now?"

"Now that the affairs of the human race have come to an end, I want to deal with the internal affairs of the demon race first."

"Speaking of internal affairs." Arcadia paused, as if thinking hard for a while, before saying, "I heard a guard say that you bullied Ai'er for a human, right?"

Arcadia's eyeliner has been arranged around him, and what he and Vichy have done in the past two days will be known.He was anxious about Vichy's safety: "Father, where is Vichy? I heard from the guard that you invited him here today."

"Vichy?"

"That's the human being."

"Oh, you said that human being." Arcadia suppressed his smile, lowered his head and opened the closed book. The page with the bookmark was marked with all the information of Vichy.Arcadia moved his gaze to the bottom column and said: "I had a good chat with him at first, but then we talked about you. He is a staunch national interest. damage, and sent him home."

gone back?

Bad thoughts flashed through his mind, and he heard himself swallowing deeply before slowly opening his mouth: "Father, do you mean that Vichy has returned to the human world?"

"He didn't return to the human world." Arcadia said, "He went where you want."

It's like a thunderbolt falling from the sky.

Where is he thinking about, his first thought is hell.In the devil world, the metaphor of death is to go home.The dead make hell their home, and it has never changed since ancient times.And Arcadia said it so bluntly, he also believed that his father would really kill a person's life for his future and the future of the devil world without hesitation, even Lilith he liked , what else can't be killed in Arcadia.

He really couldn't let Vichy alone.It was he who personally caused Vichy's death.

If he hadn't insisted on bringing Vichy to the Demon Realm, if he hadn't been confident that he could handle everything well, Vichy wouldn't have died at all.

"What?" Arcadia saw that he hadn't answered for a long time, and his voice faintly revealed a dissatisfied coldness: "My son, are you going to hold a sword at me for a mere human?"

Arcadia's cold reprimand made him pull back a little thought, yes, even if Vichy died, he couldn't hold a sword against his father.

He suppressed the last bit of reason and asked, "Where is he?"

"Your room."

The door to the corridor closed heavily behind him.He will never step in that day again.

He walked back to his room and stood at the door without entering.He couldn't imagine what it was like in the room. Perhaps Arcadia had already ordered someone to wipe off the blood on Vichy's body, and put it on the bed in a neat manner, so as to leave a last impression on him, and then he would bury him himself.His hand stayed on the doorknob for a long time, and finally he cleared everything in his mind and pushed the door open.

Wei Xi sat on the bed wrapped in a bath towel, her hair was still wet as if she had just taken a shower, she looked at him with bright eyes, and said with a slight frown: "Sorry, the previous king just sparred with me, clothes It's dirty, I'll come back and take a shower."