A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

"The night before..."

Garlan was holding little Nega and sitting next to King Kamos, teasing the little milk lion with a half-baked piece of meat, when Kamos suddenly asked him something.

"Did you sleep well?"

King Kamos asked him so.

Garlan's heart tightened all of a sudden.

The night before yesterday was when he sneaked off to find Heymos and slipped back after tossing around until midnight.

Why did Brother Kamos suddenly ask this?Does he know anything?

While thinking nervously, Garlan raised his head with an innocent expression on his face.

"what?"

He tilted his head and looked at Kamos with the eyes of "Brother Wang, I don't understand what you are talking about".

That little expression made King Kamos laugh, and he raised his hand to rub his head.

"It's nothing, I saw that you looked a little sluggish on the big instrument yesterday, as if you didn't sleep well." He said with a smile, "What? Did you change your place suddenly so you couldn't sleep well?"

That's what it was saying.

Garlan breathed a sigh of relief.

Yes, he was really sleepy at the grand ceremony yesterday. After all, he spent most of the night at Heymos's place the night before, and he didn't sleep long when he went back. He was called by the maid early in the morning because he had to prepare for the ceremony. woke up.

"Well, there is a little bit, but it was much better last night." Looking up at King Kamos with a small face and smiling, Garlan said, "It's okay, brother Wang, I'll get used to it soon. "

"Oh, all right."

King Kamos said, rubbing his fluffy little head again, and then returned to the political affairs in his hands.

After a while, when it was almost noon, Garlan stood up holding the lion cub.

Although the little Niega was already able to chew on pieces of meat, after all, it was not yet full moon and hadn't been weaned yet. This was the time for it to nurse, so Garlan wanted to send it back to the greenhouse.

When he arrived at the greenhouse, he put the little milk lion on the ground and turned to leave.

The little lion whined, grabbed his shoe, and refused to let him go.

Garlan pointed to its little brothers and sisters who were already licking loudly in the milky white milk basin, and said, "If you don't go, there will be no more."

The little lion held Garlan's shoelace in its mouth, looked at the milk that had already wafted over with its pea-sized eyes, shook its head, looked at the milk tray, and then looked at Garlan, the whole lion looked tangled no.

The tangled little expression made Garlan couldn't help laughing, and he knelt down and nodded his little head.

"Go and drink, I'll come and play with you tomorrow."

Seemingly understanding Garlan's words, little Nega let out a groan, loosened Garlan's shoe straps, ran to the milk pot with four short legs, and drank gulps.It seemed that he was afraid that his group of brothers and sisters would drink up his own and come to snatch it again—anyway, it often did so.

Seeing that Nega concentrated on drinking milk, Garlan quickly took the opportunity to go out.

He stood outside the greenhouse, looked up at the sky, thought for a while, and instead of going back to Kamos, he walked in another direction.Of course, the attendants who wanted to follow him were also driven back by him and were not allowed to follow.

When he trotted to the room he had visited the night before, he saw a few guards guarding the door. It seemed that these people still put on a show during the day.

Probably because of his appearance at the grand ceremony yesterday, those guards obviously knew him. When they saw Garlan, they all stood up nervously when they saw Garlan, and bowed their heads to Garlan. salute.

Garlan easily entered the door, and no one stopped him at all.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw the familiar figure of Heymos sitting at the stone table under a big tree in the small courtyard.

When the child ran in, the boy who was eating raised his eyes, glanced at the little figure out of the corner of his eyes, then lowered his eyes, and continued to eat slowly.

That expression, as if he didn't see the other party at all.

Garlan ran over on the bluestone road, and then unceremoniously climbed onto the stone bench—yes, he climbed, he was too short, and the stone bench almost reached his shoulders, so he could only use his hands Climbing on it, the two short legs kicked a few times below, and then climbed up and sat down.

Heymos sat there, continued to slowly tear off a piece of bread, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed slowly, as if he didn't notice Garlan's movements.

It's just that although his expression didn't change, the corner of his eye was uncontrollably drifting towards the child.

Seeing the cute little boy who was having sex and struggling to climb up, he somehow felt a little itchy in his heart, and it took him a lot of effort to resist the urge to stand up and pick up the child and put him on the stool.

Garlan, who had climbed up and sat down firmly, rested his small arms on the table and glanced at it. There were common foods like bread, barbecue, and porridge on the table.For Garlan who ate royal food with Brother Kamos every day, the food was really crude.

However, he was not so kind to improve the food for his sworn enemy.

Is it easier to kill the dead enemy by raising him tall and strong?

While thinking this way, he took out a white pill the size of a thumb from his pocket, pinched it with his fingers, and held it up to Heymos with a smile.

"what is this?"

The boy glanced at it, then continued to tear off a piece of barbecue and put it in his mouth to chew.

"Poison." Garlan said to Heymos in a provocative tone, "What? Do you dare to eat it?"

In fact, it is a good pill, a special medicine for treating bruises and internal congestion.The doctor gave him two pills and told him to take them for two days.He thought about Heymos's terrible injuries, and wanted to get another one, but he heard from the doctor that this pill was very precious and rare, and it was only used by King Kamos before. It was also licensed by King Kamos for him to use, so Garlan dismissed the idea.

This one, he secretly saved his own today's weight, after all, in all fairness, he is actually fine, Heymos' injury is much worse than his.

However, even though he brought it here, he was still a little unwilling to give it directly to his sworn enemy.

So when Heymos asked, on a whim, he deliberately said it was poison, intending to scare the other party, and when Heymos changed his face, he could laugh at Heymos unceremoniously.

After laughing, he mercifully gave him the pill.

Ok.

That's fine, that's all.

While Garlan was still imagining Heymos' embarrassing appearance, the boy who was sitting there suddenly got up and moved towards him.

Then, when Heymos bent over, leaned over, and lowered his head, the delicate black hair fell on Garlan's fingers.

The young man's thin lips moved, and he sucked Garlan's fingers inside.

Rolling the tip of the tongue, rolled the round pill into the mouth.

Swallowing, he just swallowed the pill into his throat with Garlan's hand.

After swallowing the pill in one gulp, Heymos straightened up, his understatement looked as if he had done an ordinary thing just now, and by the way he raised his hand to pat the stunned Garlan head, turned around and went out with the finished dinner plate in hand.

Everything happened too fast, from the time Heymos got up to swallowing the pill in one gulp, probably only a second passed.

Garlan, who was startled by Heymos's sudden behavior, stared blankly at Heymos, and he didn't react until the back of the other party disappeared from his sight.

He jumped off the stool suddenly, and began to shake his hands vigorously with a furious expression on his face.

Ahhhhh!saliva--

That guy's saliva is on my fingers!

Heymos, you actually suck someone else's finger, don't you think it's dirty——

…………

Garlan wanted to slap Heymos but was slapped in the opposite direction by the other party. Garlan slipped back depressed, but just as he reached the gate, he saw King Kamos who was sitting over there dealing with government affairs, rushing towards him. wave.

So the child was even more depressed.

He blinked, and while thinking about how to fool Brother Wang's question, he ran over with an expression that I was very obedient.

He stood in front of Kamos, looking up at Kamos with a cute face.

However, King Kamos didn't seem to intend to ask him where he was just now, but just looked down at him, raised his eyebrows, and then spoke.

Camos said, "Open your mouth."

"what?"

Garlan snorted, not knowing what King Kamos wanted to do, but he opened his mouth obediently.

As soon as he opened his mouth, King Kamos raised his hand and threw a small white pill into his mouth. The unguarded Garlan subconsciously swallowed it.

When he reacted, he felt miserable.

Because the little pill he swallowed just now looks familiar, really familiar...

Seeing that Garlan swallowed it, Kamos showed a satisfied expression.

"From now on, just ask for whatever you want. Remember, you are my younger brother, the prince of Aaron Landis, and you can get whatever you want—but, you should eat it yourself, you must eat it, understand?" ?”

He said, raising his hand and patting Garlan's head.

"Okay, let's rest."

Garlan didn't dare to deny King Kamos's words, and nodded obediently.

He vaguely felt that King Kamos knew everything about what happened in this palace.Those things that he thought he did secretly and others didn't know, in fact, King Kamos saw all of them, but he didn't care, so he let him go and didn't expose him.

And after he saved his medicine for Heymos this time, King Kamos made it clear and told him that he can do whatever he wants, but the premise is that what he does can't harm himself.

After leaving King Kamos, Garlan went to the side hall to sleep.

After all, this body is still a child, and it is easy to get sleepy. It is necessary to take a nap at a fixed time every day, otherwise you will be listless all afternoon.

He stretched his limbs and went to the big soft bed. Before counting sixty sheep, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

……

what is that……

... black water ... ...

It's so bright, the sun is so bright that people can't even open their eyes...the fiery red sun...

A lot of people... screaming, messy, so noisy, the eardrums are about to be shattered...

A lot of people were yelling, it was so annoying...

Huh?

red fire?

That fiery red light is not sunlight.

is the flame.

Crimson flames.

Ahh...the flame is burning, it is burning!

from where?What are you burning?This burnt stench...

……

... ... are people.

It's human! ! !

The child who was awakened by the nightmare suddenly turned over and sat up, panting heavily with his mouth open, and cold sweat was already dripping on his forehead.

what is that?

What did he dream about?

He dreamed—no, he saw, in that dream so real, he saw—

The man surrounded by flames...

The whole body was ignited and burned by the fire, the whole body was swallowed by the flames, exuding the stench of burnt flesh, the boy struggling in pain in the flames...

...Heymos? ! ! !