first commandment

Jung knocked on the door of Slein's room.

Seeing that it was him, Slein couldn't hide his surprise on his face.

"Earl Jung?"

His surprise was not without reason.After all, it was the first time he saw Jung after a week.

The chestnut-haired young man outside the door had a gloomy expression, completely missing the previous high-spirited appearance.He frowned, looked up and down Slein with dark red eyes, and then spoke.

"Slein...can you do me a favor?"

It was not common for him to speak to anyone so politely, and Slein was a little puzzled for a while.Jung's abnormal attitude and serious tone seemed to be entrusted with a heavy responsibility.But what can I help him with?Slaine had no idea.But not to mention Jung's sincerity, just relying on sympathy for the haggard him... Slein felt that he had no reason to refuse.

"Of course, Count Jung."

Hearing the satisfactory answer, a faint smile finally appeared on the young man's face.His dark red eyes brightened a little, and his voice also took on a relaxed tone.He patted the shoulder of Slein, who was slightly taller than himself, and said:

"Just call me Edgar."

……

After seeing Jung off, Slein walked back into the house.

The vases in the room were replaced with freshly picked flowers.There are a few blue-purple anemones hanging their heads alone in the corner.In the dimly lit interior, they were so colorful that they seemed to be glowing, attracting his attention.Thoughtful, he slowly walked over while unbuttoning the tightly buttoned collar with his hands.

He felt a little better after unbuttoning it.With a sigh of relief, he lifted the listless flower with his hand.The water droplets on the petals, the cold liquid flowed from his fingertips to the crevices, and then dripped down the back of his hands.

"These flowers need some sunshine." The coolness almost seeped into his heart, and he couldn't help thinking to himself, "Such a depressing space is not conducive to the growth of plants. They should be in the sun, with the wind, stretching their bodies in the endless grassland." posture……"

……

His eyes stayed on the soft petals, but he sank into a deeper sea of ​​thoughts.

...For some reason he suddenly thought of Flora.

A week has passed since the launch ceremony.The verdicts concerning Count Jung and Freiburg reached an impasse, but Flora's 17th birthday celebration was gradually put on the agenda.The ball will be held in Earl Jung's Yanglu City, and guests from the Earth side and the Wether side will be present.

Everyone is very busy.Whether it is Jung who is the host of the ball, or Flora who is the protagonist.

When he had lunch with Flora the other day, she had mentioned it.She also sneered that it was ridiculous to have a birthday party under these circumstances.But in fact, she understands better than anyone else that at such a turbulent moment, it is more important to save the face of the royal family and make the illusion that everything is as usual to make people feel at ease.

"At the end of the day, I'm deluding myself," she said at the time, flipping through the invitations on the table. "If this dance is delayed because of the two of them, it means that this matter has a certain seriousness. People can't let It’s a small thing to make them feel like that’s happening.”

"Indeed," he nodded approvingly, and looked up at Flora, who was holding up the teacup.Her complexion was very bad, her skin was originally as white as a bone china cup in her hand, but there were two faint shadows under her eyes.He understood that since the last incident, her mental state had not been very good.Edellizo also whispered that she has always lost her appetite recently, and she doesn't take a few bites of food.

But he saw it, but he didn't know how to speak.

The hand that lifted the bright purple lowered, and a thought came to his mind.At the same time that this idea was born, he couldn't help the urge to take immediate action, so he immediately walked towards the door.But just as he was about to step out of the door, he paused again. Thinking of something, he turned around, took out an anemone from the vase, and left in a hurry.

After asking Edellizo, he came to the garden of Yanglu City alone.

"Princess Flora, are you there?"

He let go of his voice a little and called, entering the maze of bushes.

He had thought that by going to Flora at lunchtime he would be sure to see her.But when I got to the restaurant, I didn't see her, only Edellizo.Edellizo looked worried.

"His Royal Highness still doesn't have much appetite today. After eating a little, I went to the garden by myself. I wanted to go with her, but she said she wanted to be alone, so she went with Amber alone."

Amber is Flora's cat.It took Slein a few seconds to react.

"Do you have anything to do with her? Lord Slein," Edellizo continued, "She is usually in the pavilion in the garden maze, which is a good place for an afternoon nap. You can go there to find her."

Slein hesitated: "Nap? Will I disturb her if I go now?"

"No. It doesn't have to be a nap," Edellizo tried to persuade him, showing a playful smile, "and if you go... Her Royal Highness should be very happy."

That's why he's here now.

"His Royal Highness?" He looked into the depths of the pavilion covered by creeping vines, but Flora was nowhere to be seen in the dark green shadow.

It doesn't seem to be here.

He started looking elsewhere in the garden.

It is said that this garden was specially built by Count Jung for Flora.While looking for her figure, Slein watched the beautiful scenery here, and felt more and more the deep bond between the two.It can be seen from the details of the landscape in the garden that it was arranged after some careful planning.There are even flowing clouds on the blue sky background above the head. If you don't look carefully, it is indeed the same as the real sky.Lush green plants, flowers of various colors exude a refreshing fragrance, and sometimes colorful butterflies cross the field of vision.The most valuable thing is that this courtyard is not only very delicate in details, but also very grand as a whole, which can be said to just reflect the delicacy and magnificence of nature.

For example, the slightly raised hillside in the distance and the green grassland extend to the end of the field of vision.At the highest point of the hillside there is a rather magnificent old tree.Its thick branches and leaves stretched wantonly as if they didn't know how to shrink back, finally forming a wide dark green dome.From Slein's point of view, it looks like a hand of a god protruding from the ground.

And in these huge and powerful hands, Slein saw a familiar figure.

He took a step forward, like a believer attracted by a sacred altar, and walked towards the ancient tree eagerly.

A girl in a pure white knee-length dress is lying on a tree trunk.I don't know how she climbed up, but while carefully maintaining her balance, she was reaching out to the kitten squatting in front of the tree trunk.

"Amber, come here, come here!" She said softly, luring the pure white cat towards her, but the cat kept looking at her indifferently with a pair of pure aquamarine eyes, squatting in the same place without moving.She stretched out her hand and kept greeting it, and tried to move her unstable knee to get closer to it.She was so focused on doing this that no Slein had already come under the tree and watched her slowly smile.

The girl shrouded in the shadow of the green tree is like an elf with eternal youth in mythology.Her legs under the white dress were bare, and a pair of small feet were wrapped in socks, and her toes tensed and relaxed with her movements.The black leather shoes she was wearing on her feet were now placed upright under the tree, with the toe facing outwards, as she would do before going to bed.

"Amber! Come here!"

She was a little impatient, her delicate brows were frowned, and a vivid expression appeared on her pink face.She seemed to have spent a lot of effort climbing up the tree, and she was sweating finely on her temples.At this time, she looked like a naughty and lively child, completely losing her usual dignity and elegance.But Slaine looked at her and thought she looked like a kitten, a mysterious and graceful creature, much like the one she was trying to catch.There is a wonderful sense of grace in her unceremonious movements, deft and natural, full of life and wildness.Light leaked through the leaves, illuminating her face, her somewhat tousled blond hair, and her eyes.Under the smudge of the light, her eyes were as fresh green as young leaves.And her figure reflected in Slein's eyes was just like this, just like the new branches from this ancient tree, pure and beautiful.

Pale green leaves spread a curtain behind her, embracing her in the embrace of nature.Her inadvertent beauty was like a breeze, and that was the only thing missing in this man-made garden.

He just looked up at her without saying a word.It seemed that as long as she didn't find out, he would keep watching her like that.But unfortunately, she finally noticed his gaze.

The blond girl turned her head and found that the man in the dark blue military uniform was looking at her.

She was stunned, and her lips, which had been pursed out of impatience, were now parted in shock.

OMG!what to do?This rude look was seen by him!

The unbearable sense of shame immediately occupied her whole mind, so that she didn't even notice the comfortable smile on the corner of his mouth.She immediately reacted and didn't care about the cat, she got up from the tree trunk in a panic, and at the same time dodged her eyes and said hastily:

"Ah! S, Slein!? Why are you here... Woohoo!"

However, before she finished speaking, she lost her balance in a flash and fell off the tree trunk.

"Flora!"

Slein's expression changed in an instant, and he opened his arms quickly, and then...

"Wow--!!"

"Boom!"

"Meow——!"

The scream of the girl, the sound of the collision when it landed, and the scream of the cat sounded at the same time, breaking the silent air of the courtyard.Following the girl's fall, the ancient tree shook without pain, dropped a few leaves, and then quickly returned to calm.

"Well, it hurts..."

Flora fell hard.After spinning around for a while, she dazedly tried to support her body with her arms, but found that she had no strength at all.

She slowly opened her eyes, still a little dizzy, she couldn't see very clearly.But she can still vaguely judge that the scene in front of her eyes and the touch under her body are very different from her imagination before the fall.She didn't touch the grass, and what caught her eyes was not a piece of green, but...

"Um……"

At this moment, she heard a muffled humming in her ear.

She realized that the sigh was very close, and even the warm breath touched her ears, and she regained consciousness almost instantly with a shiver.Only then did she realize that she had flung herself on Slein's body, pressing him firmly, and their faces were just staggered, and his lips were only a few centimeters away from her ears.

……

The sense of shame exploded in her mind again, Flora blushed, and the temperature spread all the way to the tips of her ears.

...Oh my god my my god my my god let me disappear in place like magic!Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

She screamed silently in her heart.

But at the same time, she couldn't press the pause button for her senses... There was a good smell in his arms, as refreshing as the blue and flawless sky after the rain.His soft hair touched her cheek, her breath lingered in her ears, her hands were still pressed on his broad shoulders... She gasped nervously, and slowly described all this with her body that made her feel Jumping wildly.

And this pulsation was transmitted to Slein along the chests where the two were close together.He mistakenly thought it was Flora's reaction after being frightened, and seeing that she hadn't gotten up for a long time, he even thought she was injured somewhere.So he turned his face a little worriedly, wanting to see if she was okay.

"Princess Flora, you didn't... um."

The girl got up quickly like the wind, and covered his mouth.

"me……"

Her pink lips opened and closed, and her face was flustered, as if she had made a big mistake.His fingers resting on the lawn moved, and he wanted to grab her wrist, but after thinking about it, he gave up.

"I'm fine..."

She finally managed to piece together a sentence, and her breathing was a little short due to her panic.At this time, she was sitting on him, looking at him from top to bottom.

The girl's body was very soft and light, and it was like a ball of cotton when it was pressed against him just now.But when he changed his posture at this time, the point of stress was concentrated in one place, and he felt that the place where she was sitting on his stomach was a bit heavy.

The white skirt was like lily petals, running down from her waist, falling on his waist, and part of it touched the lawn.

This state is really too bad, even if he has experienced the storm, he can't help being stunned for a long time, let alone the little girl who is underage.Her face was flushed and she looked like she couldn't do it, but she kept looking into his eyes.He didn't know what to do for a while.

"your Highness……"

He tried to break the silence.

"!!"

The exhaled breath accompanying the voice caressed Flora's palm.

The light movement of her lips under her palm made her heart skip a beat. She withdrew her hand as if on fire, and then hurriedly grabbed the corner of her skirt to get off him.

Slein also propped up his body and sat up.

After another awkward silence, Flora, whose back was turned to him, spoke in a much calmer voice:

"That... I'm so sorry, are you okay?"

"It's okay..." He murmured and rubbed the back of his head.

At this moment, the white cat Amber, who had been squatting obediently on the tree just now, jumped down from the tree with a "boom", and looked back and forth at the two silent humans with a pair of curious blue eyes.

The man-made courtyard returned to silence again.

However, in the still air, the girl's heartbeat could not return to calm for a long time.

The author has something to say:

BGM of this chapter: Next2U--Aimer

The lyrics are superb!Very fitting!I suggest everyone to listen to it.

[Part of the lyrics:

I had to be the Queen anywhere I went any time I talked

Wherever I was, whenever I spoke, I had to be a queen

It's been a while

I don't pretend to be mature anymore

sinceI'venotpretendedtobeagrownup

it's been a while

Cuz you make my makeup's off

Because of you, I let go of my disguise

Take off my dress and crown

Take off my finery and crown

Then I can fall sound asleep

put me to sleep

We had paced back and forthall that time

We've been walking in place all this time

You don't ever know that love Ifelt

you never realized my love for you

IcanbeanordinarygirlWhileI'vebeenrightnexttoyou

Whenever I'm around you I can be a normal girl

……

When Ifeelyourstare

when i feel your eyes on me

Myheart's like flying high above the phase

It's like I have a rabbit in my arms

Maybe we'll overcome the scars

Maybe those pains will be erased by us

You want to be free

you want me to be free

Free from legacies, free like meteors

Unfettered

That'swhyIcried

I burst into tears of happiness

since I've been attended to so kindly

because you are always by my side

You're who makes my makeup's off

Because of you I let go of my disguise

Take off my heels and gown

Take off your high heels and dress

Then I can breathe in deep

let me breathe

……

Won't you promise me?

promise me

Nomatter how farapart

even thousands of miles apart

Always keep thinking of me

Do not forget me

We must be heart to heart

Our hearts are together]

The result of the project application came down~passed~

So rushed to update.

There are still some manuscripts left, but there is no time for double updates today.

Let me see your message and sincerity! !mwah! ! ! ! ! !