first commandment

"Sure enough, I'm still not used to such occasions..."

Looking at the venue gradually filled with various guests, Inaho Kaizuka couldn't help but think to himself.

Half of his face was covered by a white frosted mask, and the mask painted with black patterns hid the blind eye behind it.

The originally empty venue became lively, and the voices gradually increased, creating a scene of harmony and joy.

Under the bright crystal lamp, men and women in bright clothes were chatting and chatting, and the almost unreal light circulated around them.And on their masked faces, there is also a fake smile, which seems real and fake.The masks of various shapes and colors are colorful, forming a fantasy and gorgeous dreamland, which makes people get lost in it.

But Inaho is of course an exception.

... To see through this false gathering, through these various nobles or dignitaries, you don't need two eyes.

He lowered his eyes and took a sip of the champagne in his glass.

Jie Zhongxue, who came with him, kept talking in his ear from the very beginning, telling him the true identities of those people who were hidden behind the masks.

"That fat old man with the white beard is the Minister of Agriculture."

Xue said and took a sip of the champagne in his hand.Seeing her slightly flushed cheeks, Inaho took the wine glass back silently.She wore a dark green night gown today, her black hair was coiled up high, and she had no decorations except for a necklace around her neck, but overall she was elegant and decent, and she looked much more eye-catching than most of the women who came to the meeting.

"The one with the red hair? Oh, it's Weiser's Earl, what's his name..." Xue continued.

"Randall." He prompted calmly.

"Oh...! Yes, Randall."

"..."

In fact, he noticed it one step earlier than her, but he still listened patiently until a figure passed his sight and caught his attention for a moment.

Of course, Xue was keenly aware of the change in her younger brother. She followed his line of sight and showed a puzzled expression.

"Eh? I haven't seen that person just now..."

At this moment, the band played a cheerful movement, and under the illusion of peace, Flora's 17th birthday dinner kicked off.

First, a few trumpets were blown softly, as if waking up a beautiful dream in the early morning.People couldn't help lowering their voices.Then, accompanied by the sound of the harp lightly falling on the water, the slender and moderate stringed instruments flowed throughout the venue like flowing water.

The person who attracted Inafan's attention was dressed in a dark gray military uniform, with chestnut hair and an outstanding temperament.With a silver mask covering his face, he walked among the crowd, like a pale ghost who had strayed into a dreamy fairyland, wandering around, looking out of place.Occasionally, he passed by someone and cast a curious look at him, and he would return a polite smile, and then move on, as if he wanted to get rid of this place that didn't belong to him as soon as possible.

Inaho and Snow never left his eyes, they found that his wandering didn't last long.After passing through the crowd to the window, he stopped and looked up at the dark night sky outside the window.

They saw him put his hand on the window, and Inaho, who was holding the iced champagne, also felt the coolness rushing into his palm.There was a ring on his little finger, a lady's, which looked very abrupt... Looking at the ring, Inaho suddenly remembered something.

"Do you know who that person is? Inafan." Xue turned her head and asked him, "... I feel like I've seen it somewhere."

He smiled faintly, "...Indeed, he is an acquaintance."

Xue was stunned: "Huh?"

The sudden interruption of the music interrupted the conversation between the two.Together with the crowd, they looked at the slowly opening door...

The brass-yellow trumpet sounded like a golden morning glory. After a few high-pitched blasts, the whispering in the venue stopped instantly, and the guests naturally bowed their heads to salute.

Appearing behind the door was a young princess in a light champagne shoulder-length gown.With a beautiful appearance and a slender figure, she is like a blooming yellow rose.Facing the crowd saluting her, the princess with dazzling blond hair smiled slightly, her petal-like lips and cheeks glowing a healthy pink.

She wore a diamond hairnet, with gemstones gleaming in her hair.A well-tailored silk dress glowed with soft luster, fitting her body gently, and the layers of three-dimensional folds on the chest were also dotted with fine gemstones, like dew falling on flower petals in the morning.This attire made her skin fair and translucent, and her bare|exposed slender arms were as bright as pearls.

A golden butterfly-shaped mask covered half of her face, and the green eyes behind it were shining with a satisfied smile.

Flora, who walked out of the gate, did not speak. She took in the sight of everyone saluting to her in the venue, and then took steady and slow steps towards the dance floor in the center of the venue.She straightened her back, raised her chin slightly, and walked as if walking on water, followed by Edellizo and Count Jung.The crowd automatically parted to make way for her, and when she passed by, the guests bowed their heads more deeply like flower branches blown by the breeze.

When she came to the center of the dance floor, she turned around steadily holding the hem of her skirt.All the guests returned to their original standing postures and cast their gazes at her one after another.

Jung bowed to her, took her hand, and the two stood still in a dancing pose.Then, the silent band played the dance music again.

The sound of the violin is layered like a soft cloud, and occasionally the sound of the flute shuttles through it, and then with the flying skirt, the music gradually rises.

At the same time, there were also the small voices of the guests.The discussion was nothing more than admiration for Jung, cynicism about his precarious status, and gossip about the relationship between the two.At that moment, they seemed to have taken off their masks, and the two slowly spinning on the dance floor became the target of public criticism, and invisible malice rushed towards the two shining on the dance floor.

"I didn't expect the first dance to be performed with Earl Jung..." Xue couldn't help sighing, "The matter between him and the old Earl of Freiburg has not yet been decided? Her Royal Highness seems to be on Earl Jung's side." gone."

Inaho didn't know if he was thinking about something, or he was listening to the gossip of other dignitaries around him, so he didn't answer Xue.

"Hey, tell me," Xue pinched his arm, "I heard that they are childhood sweethearts, could they be..."

"No." Inaho answered quickly this time.

"Ah?" Xue was stunned again, "Why?"

Inaho frowned: "It's hard to say, I just have this feeling..."

He looked at the two young men on the dance floor.The blond girl just turned around in the arms of the young earl, she turned her head the moment her back was turned to him, and looked at him with green eyes.They laughed.

In the face of the surging undercurrent of malice, they were calm and composed, as if these words seemed insignificant.Like the stars in the night sky, the youthful and vigorous vitality seems to never fade away.They flickered almost indiscriminately, illuminating the dark starry sky.

But it wasn't love that drove them.

Inaho was so sure for no reason.

And Xue next to her is also convinced that there is an unspeakable love between the two... She doesn't believe in the intuition of her brother who has been single for a long time at all.

Xue looked at the girl spinning on the dance floor, and murmured to change the subject: "But... no wonder young people on Earth like her."

Youthful enthusiasm was on her face, and she smiled contagiously.Beautiful new things are always fascinating...

At the same time, the two of them thought of those almost crazy netizens... The start-up ceremony some time ago ended, and Flora disappeared for a while.During this period, various photos, animations, and videos about her emerged on the Internet. Inafan, who occasionally looked at social networking sites, was even swamped by her news for several days in a row.

At first, he was still in the mood to read the comments, and found that apart from praising her for her courage in persevering in the initiation of sexual intercourse, and her lenient attitude after the assassination, the main topic of discussion was... face.

Reposting of the animation: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

The barrage on the video: "Pause succeeded! The princess is looking at me and smiling ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. wife's face

……

Inaho silently closed the web page.

A song didn't last long.After Jung saluted and stepped back, the people fell silent again, guessing who the second person to dance with the princess would be.

However, the little princess who was the party concerned didn't even hesitate for a moment, she turned her head and walked straight to the window.

"Eh? That person isn't the one just now..."

The princess walked towards the mysterious man without hesitation, holding her skirt through the respectful crowd, and stretched out her hand to him.Seeing this scene, both siblings were surprised to varying degrees.

Before being interrupted by Flora falling from the sky, the man standing by the window was talking to someone beside him.When Inaho recognized the person who was talking to him as Edellizo, he felt his suspicions confirmed once again.

Not only Jiezuka and his brother were surprised, but Edellizo obviously hesitated for a moment, and it was the man wearing the silver mask who was even more unbelievable.He finally reacted when Edellizo surreptitiously elbowed him.

"Can you dance with me?" Flora tilted her head and asked with a sweet smile.The light changed colors on her.

Lost for another moment, the man held her hand nervously as if bewitched by the girl's smile.

"Mm, um...very happy." The man replied unevenly, and saluted her.

Flora seemed to think his appearance was a little funny.She couldn't help lowering her head slightly, showing a childish smile, a strand of golden hair mischievously escaped from the hairnet and fell on her lips.

The index finger of Inaho's right hand suddenly twitched slightly.

The gentle movement was played again, and this time the guests also started dancing.

Inaho and Xue stood aside quietly, their eyes always on Flora and that mysterious man.

The man dressed in dark gray was tall and straight, with his hands half-empty and half-solid around Flora's waist, and the other hand carefully led her to spin.The girl's golden heels took a step forward, just as she stepped into the space avoided by the military boots.The distance between the two of them is always the same between chasing and dodging, not far or close, as if they are afraid of breaking the moderate distance between them.

The corners of the skirt fluttered, and the girl's white instep flashed from time to time.The man moved away a little, pinched her slender fingertips, and watched her turn around lightly.The champagne-colored skirt swirled up with her movements, like a slowly blooming flower, and the soft petals just passed his trousers.After she stopped, the raised skirt didn't stop, because of inertia, it wrapped around her waist, like the petals were closed again.Flora smiled innocently like a child, took a step forward and walked back into the man's arms.

Her joy and energy are infectious.Under her leadership, the man's originally restrained movements gradually relaxed.But the vaguely mysterious atmosphere that surrounds the two is like lilacs releasing a delicate fragrance in the night, which has never disappeared.The more the dance music is played, the stronger the fragrance will be.With an intoxicating atmosphere, even Inaho, who is a bystander, can feel it.

The distance between dream and reality is blurred.

Be cautious, like being afraid to burst the colorful bubble of dreams.

I want to get closer, but I am afraid and want to stay away...

Her steps were so light that she seemed to be floating, and her heart probably did the same.She stepped into his concession, and the two of them played the game of chasing each other like two pale butterflies under the moonlight. The breeze carried their wings across the silent water, stirring the illusory moon in the water.

Turn, turn.

that feeling...

……

Inaho watched, narrowing his eyes.

He vaguely felt that the atmosphere surrounding these two people was the feeling Xue had mentioned.

The music gradually died down, and the brightly lit venue finally merged into the darkness outside Yanglu City.

"Can you dance with me?"

Her voice echoed in his ears, and the scene under the crystal lamp was relit before his eyes.

Following the parting crowd, she strolled towards him who was hiding in the corner, and the lights changed colors on her body.She suddenly became very strange to him, but she was particularly attractive to him.

He didn't move, just watched her slowly walk in front of him.

It felt as if there were only the two of them left in the entire venue, only staying in each other's eyes.In the stillness of time, she was blown to him by a gentle wind, so light, so sudden.She was so dazzled and unreal with a smile, like a butterfly crossing the field of vision in a dream.

Before she came to him, he had been looking out the window at the dark night sky, where a few stars twinkled.The earth is also a blurry blackness, the emptiness caused by the fall of Yanglu City still remains the same, and there is no sign of life everywhere, it is no different from floating in the universe.But outside the window and inside the window is also lonely, the scene of people chatting and drinking is no different from the cold wind blowing outside the window.

He looked up at the starry sky, and suddenly remembered the laughter and laughter of him and his father under the same night sky before immigrating to Mars a long time ago.The stars that his father pointed out to him at that time can't be found now; the warmth of the hands holding his shoulders has long since passed away.I can't remember anything.

He thought he would never find the star his father had pointed out.But now, the star came to him by itself.

His figure melted into her smiling eyes.At that moment, he seemed to be back under the starry sky of his childhood, her smiling eyes were shining brightly, pure and beautiful.Her temperature passed through the glove evokes the memory, and the temperature lost on the shoulder at that time also returned to his hand.He couldn't help but tighten his grip.But she never noticed, whether it was the strength of his hand or the slight touch in his heart.

The dance music started.He stepped back again and again, leading her into his arms.He could feel the fragrance lingering on her body, and his eyes followed him uncontrollably, looking at her, watching her spin, and the golden hair scattered on her pink lips.The colorful clothes of the male and female guests flashed behind her and gradually blurred, leaving only her figure engraved in the eyes.

Her gaze followed him reluctantly all the time, and when she looked up at him, her slender eyelashes trembled slightly, and his figure was reflected in her eyes like new green shoots.He liked her looking at him like that, it was a feeling he had never had before, which filled his whole mind.

The bright dance scene seemed to be the only two of them left...

"Slein?"

A call interrupted his recollection.His light steps returned to the solid metal ground again.

The cold light in the corridor of Yanglu City has a metallic luster, which is different from the natural light of the crystal lamp in the venue.This kind of light shines on Flora, leaving the dreamy background, she becomes extremely real in an instant.

After the dance was over, Jung, who was troubled by complicated things, couldn't find time to send Flora back, so Toslein sent Flora back.

At this time, she had taken off her mask and her bright smile at the same time.She said to him worriedly:

"Sorry, I was too thoughtless just now..."

"...what?" The apology came out of nowhere.He didn't realize what she was saying for a moment.

"Just now when I invited you to the second dance, you froze for a long time, were you worried about being recognized?"

"Ah, no," he finally came back to his senses and explained, "It's just a little sudden... Don't worry, there are holographic projections and masks, so you won't be recognized."

Slein said so confidently that he almost patted his chest.

"I'm really happy today." The smile returned to Flora's face, "It would be great if I could do this every day...but there will be all kinds of troubles after this."

She spoke nonchalantly, as if the predicament surrounding her were insignificant.

"...I will be with you."

After a brief dream, her words made him touch the haunting shadow again.With sympathy and admiration for the bird in the cage, he solemnly said the oath, but his words seemed weak.At this time, he couldn't sort out his thoughts, he was a little confused, and felt that he couldn't grasp himself.

Flora gave him a reproachful look.She, who was hiding the secret in her heart, only felt mixed feelings of joy and sorrow upon hearing this oath.Does he know what his words mean to her?Sweet shackles.With her, how long?Does he know what companionship means?

And how can she be satisfied with being with her greedy, she wants more...

Whenever this happens, there will be an urge to tell her everything, but every time cowardice prevails, she always chooses to keep her mouth shut.

"Thank you for taking me back...good night."

Embarrassing silence enveloped the two of them from time to time along the way, and when they finally reached the door, Flora breathed a sigh of relief.Not wanting to experience that embarrassment again, she suddenly felt like running away.But before she entered the room, she was stopped by Slein with a worried face.

"Your Highness, please wait..."

"Well, what?"

She turned around impatiently.

He didn't answer, but took something out of his pocket.When Flora saw what it was, she couldn't help but froze.

He stepped forward and handed the silver amulet into her hand.

"Happy birthday... Flora." He smiled, "I have nothing to give you, only this... If you like it, please accept it."

"..."

A look of surprise flashed across Flora's face.

Slein thought it was because she didn't like it, and suddenly felt a little nervous.

Flora lowered her head, silently clenched the pendant with his body temperature in both hands, and pressed it to her chest.

"Your Highness, don't you like it?..."

"No, I like it very much, it's just...forget it, it's nothing."

She knew how important this amulet was to him, and he gave it to her now...

Slein was a little puzzled, but seeing that she was not disgusted, he continued:

"You said you wanted to change Weiser, so you must face many hardships from now on. I hope it can protect you, I..."

But he couldn't finish.

Because the girl who kept her head bowed in silence suddenly took a step forward, held his face in her arms, and then...

A soft kiss fell on his lips, stopping his words.

It happened so suddenly that he didn't even have the time to take a step back.She walked away from him slowly, opened her closed eyes and carefully observed his expression.He was so surprised that he even forgot to breathe, his eyes of the same color as turquoise were full of puzzlement.His appearance made her feel a little sad, but she also had the pleasure of succeeding in a prank.With a smirk at the corner of her mouth, she approached him again and kissed him more closely.

……

"The loser is always me."

Flora left such a sentence with a self-deprecating smile.Her hand rested on his cheek for a moment, and then quickly withdrew it.She turned and ran back into the room, her golden figure was cut off by the cold metal door.

Only Slein remained in the same place in a daze.

……

He stared at the door, slowly raised his hand, and touched his lips as if confirming.

……

Just... what happened?

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Update last night before the internet was disconnected... all kinds of panic _(:зゝ∠)_

It's been so long again...yes, I'm stuck again.

Originally, this chapter was written on the second day of the last update (of course not so much, only 3000 words).

Want to update the result after writing → what the hell?Why did I drop a book→Self-doubt→Run to read a book→Accidentally finish reading the book...

Looking back at the chapter I just coded, I felt that it was not good, and this chapter is very important, so I changed my mind, and I just finished it today...

Various reasons make this chapter a bit long... I hope you don't dislike _(:зゝ∠)_I don't know how to divide chapters, so you should treat it as a double update!

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Do you like the appearance of Inaho?He always sees through everything (.

And... earth netizens eat jujube pills.

Slein was kissed forcibly and achieved a three-hit combo, combo!