hunting light

Ian laughed out loud during the lively talk show, shaking his head while laughing.The haze that had been covering his face all this time faded slightly.

Leon watched his expression calmly, and was only slightly relieved at this time.

"Sorry, I should have warned you. Asura's degree of humanity is quite high, even I didn't expect it."

"No wonder you use 'he' instead of 'it'," Ian said. "He's quite definitely different."

"I'm also surprised that people now uninstall the emotional module in the machine." Asura interjected again, "Is it just to save memory? 4000 years have passed, man, human beings are still so stingy. A memory It's just..."

"Asura," Leon said helplessly, "please be quiet, buddy. I have something to talk to Ian."

"Enter work mode." Asura instantly became extremely serious, the talk show came to an abrupt end, and the shuttle cabin finally returned to silence.

Leon breathed a sigh of relief, and habitually went to shake Ian's hand.

Just as his palm was about to fall, Ian moved his hand away calmly.

Leon froze for a moment.Ian was extremely calm, as if nothing had happened.Leon understood in his heart, and retracted his paw obediently.

"I said I want to talk to you." Leon, "After what happened last night, are you okay?"

"My injury is fine." Ian said lightly, "As for other things, I am an adult, Leon, and I am eight years older than you. This is far from the first time I have seen death. These I don't know how many funerals I've presided over in years. So don't think of me as a weak, frightened Omega, okay?"

Leon keenly felt the slight anger in Ian's tone.The young man who didn't even frown in the face of the crisis of life and death felt his heart tense.

"I know." Leon whispered softly, "I hope you know that we didn't tell you the whole plan before, it's not that we don't trust you, but we don't think you need to take risks. We I never thought that Felix would put all his eggs in one basket to hold you hostage. And I failed to protect you, Ian..."

"A coup d'état is a thrilling gamble." Ian said indifferently, "Before the ending comes out, there may be mistakes in any link. At least, now, the emperor is lying in the coffin, and we are still breathing freely in the sun. That's enough."

The shuttle travels at a constant speed along the avenue.

Today's imperial capital is extremely gloomy and quiet.Pedestrians and vehicles on the street have dropped sharply, and shops with black cloth strips can be seen everywhere.All the street lamps along the way have hung national mourning flags and white garlands uniformly.

It's just that Chun's footsteps don't fall along with the crown.The bright sun shines on the capital, and the gloria's snow-capped mountain top is shining brightly.Heaven and earth exist forever, and they don't care about the death of a mere emperor in the world.

"Father's plan was started many years ago." Leon told Ian, "After you gave him the clue about the conspiracy to kill my grandparents, he began to investigate privately. He has a A very reliable informant, helping him to collect information. Of course, before today, I did not expect that this reliable informant was actually mine—"

"Your biological father." Ian smiled again, "Mr. Gercia is really a very interesting person. I can now understand who you inherited the lively part of your character from. But in the past, I always Saddened by his tragic life, I even thought he had passed away."

"You're not the only one who is so skeptical!" Leon got angry when he mentioned this, "I can understand that he had to leave me and my father, but I can't forgive them for not telling me the truth. Seriously, If it wasn't for you in my life, Ian. I can't imagine who I would be now."

"I believe you will still be an outstanding young man." Ian gave Leon a serious look, "I am very glad that your family is reunited, Leon. Your father seems to have a good relationship with the Duke, and he will go with you It's very different from what I said."

"Ah... this..." Leon said hehe, "I was too young at the time, and my memory will be a little biased."

Of course, he couldn't tell Ian that he kept telling the story of his parents in a tragic way in order to fully win the little priest's pity and love.

Back then when it came to the emotional part, Ian would even hug the boy tenderly and comfort him with a soft voice.In order to be able to stay in the arms of his beloved priest for a while, Leon even kissed him, but what is it to call his father a bitter little white flower?

"The Mr. Gercia you mentioned, after divorcing the Duke, lived a very wronged and unhappy life." Ian sighed.

A stream of cold sweat slipped from the corner of Leon's forehead: "Father... he really often complains that his father came to see him..."

The memory picture in reality: the Duke walked into the house, and Gercia rushed over and slapped him.The Duke grabbed the man and kissed him.Then the two kissed wildly, and both rolled on the sofa, completely ignoring little Leon who was standing aside with his homework.

"In my mind, your father has always been a lonely person playing the piano at night." Ian continued to sigh.

Leon: "Dad really... likes to play the piano and sing..."

In reality: Gercia played and sang in the moonlight, her clothes were translucent and her style was alluring.The Duke returned home in the dark, grabbed the man and pressed him to the piano cover.The two make love like crazy and completely ignore little Leon who comes downstairs in his pajamas to find his father...

"I even thought their love was a tragedy, and it had a very bad influence on you..."

In reality: Little Leon returned home with his schoolbag on his back, hungry.From the closed door of the master bedroom, the passionate cries of fathers sounded.The little boy had to go to the kitchen to look through the refrigerator by himself...

"I thought……"

"All in all, my father started to make the arrangements eight years ago." Leon forcefully turned the topic to a safe track. "The person that Archbishop Xiali hid is indeed Emperor Adam's substitute and also his best friend."

"No wonder the archbishop took the risk to hide this person." The archbishop Xiali, who values ​​friendship, even surprised Ian.

Leon said: "Three years ago, after my father was fully prepared, he launched the first step of the revenge plan. Dad lurked to the emperor's side and began to administer a drug to the emperor for a long time and in small doses to destroy the muscle and nervous system. This kind The drug is highly metabolized, so as long as the time of drug administration is controlled, the doctor will not be able to detect it."

Ian stared at Leon in astonishment.

"I know what you're thinking." Leon said calmly, "No one has ever said that revenge is benevolent and beautiful. Ian, do you know how the 'Pandora' virus destroys human life?"

Of course Ian knew.

"Pandora" specifically attacks the brain nerves, driving people into madness, doing many unthinkable things, such as attacking others, self-mutilation... Then as the brain nerves gradually die, people fall into a coma and finally die.

"My grandparents, the more than 1000 soldiers and staff members on the warship all died in this way!" Leon's face was frosty, and his tone was cold, "They will have such a tragic experience only because Felix is ​​greedy for that A crown!"

Ian bowed his head and remained silent.

Leon said: "My father got the records on the warship at that time. My grandfather, His Majesty Adam, became ill first. He locked himself in the room in order not to hurt my grandmother. Grandma Eugenie was in the next room and listened to her husband. After nearly five hours of screaming in pain, I also fell ill...the two of them never saw each other again until their death!"

Ian lowered his head and lowered his eyes, his delicate face was tense, and there were tangled lines between his brows.

"So, my father wants to make Felix sober, but watch his body weaken day by day. Let him watch his two sons kill each other, and let him die knowing soberly. The crown that I have seized will return to its original owner!"

Felix's ashen eyes broke into Ian's mind again.

Ian's eyebrows twitched fiercely.

"You should tell him where your knot is." Guang Ji's voice suddenly sounded in the sea of ​​consciousness.

Ian quickly calmed down: "No! I didn't consult him when I made that decision. Then, the consequences of this matter should be borne by me alone. Accidental death and intentional death are two completely different things. Different concept."

"Or, you are also worried." Guang Ji said: "Even if you told him the truth, because he hates Felix, he will support your approach instead. In this way, you and him will have a fierce conflict on this issue. Conflict. And you don't want to conflict with him."

Ian did not respond to Guangji.

He asked Leon: "So, the fact that your family was summoned to the imperial capital by the emperor is actually a step in the Duke's plan?"

"Yes." Leon said, "You know most of what happened afterwards."

Asura turned at the intersection and drove onto a main road.At the end of the avenue, there is a tall white tower.The Holy See branch is on the east side of the White Tower Square, which is the destination of Ian's trip.

But he knew that Leon's destination was still further ahead.

In this empire, their number one enemy finally fell, and Raphael I, who succeeded him, had mediocre aptitude and nothing to fear.

The Duke of Oran has become the ruler behind the country.Their father and son will walk down this road step by step, killing all those who stand in their way, until they take off the crown with their own hands.

Ian didn't know how far away he would be standing from Leon at that time.

The funeral of Felix IV ended on this lazy spring day.

The funeral was held at St. Miranda's Cathedral, Glory, with all the pomp and solemnity that cannot be overstated.

The real Empress Iris was probably the one who cried the most sincerely in the whole funeral.Ian was fortunate to be invited to attend the funeral with the archbishops. After seeing the performance of the real queen with his own eyes, he always wanted to present a bouquet of flowers to express his admiration for Mr. Gercia's original performance.

According to Felix's will, his body will be buried in the cemetery behind the Coleman family's ancestral home, not like his brother Adam, mother Queen Catalina, or the Coleman emperors. In St. Milan's Cathedral.

"Are you afraid of seeing them, Uncle Philip?" Duke Oran sneered at the departing warship carrying the late emperor's coffin.

"You are too naive, uncle. As long as you reach that world, no matter how you avoid it, you will meet them again. You will never escape the judgment."

The episode at the funeral was that Prince Louis, as the late Emperor's most beloved son, was absent from the funeral.This caused great dissatisfaction among the clan elders.

Under the suggestion of the Duke of Oran, Raphael has not yet publicly broken up with Louis.

Xindi claimed that Prince Louis was under investigation due to financial problems and could not meet with the public.At this moment, Louis, who was on the way to escape, was like a stray dog. He didn't even have time to breathe, and he couldn't respond to his brother's accusation at all.

After the funeral, the new Emperor Raphael I officially took office.He made televised speeches, received representatives from all walks of life and visiting envoys, attended parliament, and did charity activities...

If it weren't for the fact that the funeral of the first emperor had not yet been held, he might have held a grand court banquet night and night to celebrate that he had finally survived.

The new emperor is in his prime, handsome, and an Omega who was once famous all over the world.Thanks to Prince Louis's years of smearing Raphael, the people and ministers did not have much favor for the new emperor.

I don't ask him to be a wise king, but I just ask him not to be too lewd and lustful. This is what everyone thought at that time.

However, after getting rid of his father's shadow, Raphael finally showed his serious and steady side.Having received a good prince education, although he did not bring any special surprises to the officials, he did not disappoint them too much either.

"At least the beginning is good." The ministers chatted privately, and they all agreed with this evaluation.

"Even the Duke of Oran has changed."

"Yes, that one really impressed me!"

The Duke of Oran seemed to have become an extremely important figure in the political core of the empire overnight.

As the saying goes, once the emperor bestows color, after Raphael I ascended the throne, he made some adjustments to the cabinet officials.The biggest move was to make the Duke of Oran his chief of staff.

The Duke of Oran has thus become a dignitary under one man and above ten thousand in the empire!

The author has something to say: Asura's western accent, you can refer to "Young Sheldon", in which the whole family speaks with a Texas accent, haha.