first commandment

After that, a year passed.

During this year, many things happened.

The first is the resentencing of Srain Troyet's old case.

Earth and Weisser formed a court-martial to give a fair and just verdict on Srain Troyet's actions during the last war.

The stigma of assassinating Queen Atheram and starting the war has been cleared, and his actions in the war have been re-examined.

Although he was suspected of expanding the war, considering the 20-year-long secret crime, the jury unanimously believed that the injustice and torture he suffered were sufficient to make up for this fault, so they made a decision to restore his reputation and freedom.

From that day on, he was finally back under the sun.

And it was Flora who brought about this day.It turned out that she and Jung had been collecting evidence to prove his innocence since a few years ago.In addition to written, there are witnesses.For example, the prisoner Jung interrogated before the attack on the embassy was one of the people who participated in the assassination plan of Earl Zazbarum. He provided testimony in court, saying that Slein had made efforts to block the assassination plan .

After that, Srein Zazbarum Troyet was reinstated as earl.After Earl Jung, he became the second assistant to the princess.Having personally experienced a war, he has a deeper understanding of politics, and has always played a very important role in diplomatic occasions, directly promoting the peace situation between Earth and Weiser.

After the judgment of the joint military court was handed down, both Hsing and Weiser expressed their dissatisfaction with him, and his subsequent comeback caused a lot of rumors.But as time went by, his efforts to make peace were obvious to all, and the voice of opposition also unknowingly weakened, and finally disappeared.

He is recognized.

On the other hand, Flora's plan is also unfolding step by step.

Starting from a small-scale vote of the people, with the Queen's inspiration and support, she carefully launched reforms.Although there were inevitable obstacles in the process, overall it went quite smoothly.The princess' reform has won particularly high support among the people of Weiser, and the development of the political situation in this direction is also beneficial to peacekeeping, so there is no shortage of voices of approval on the other side of the earth.

Not long ago, the decision to form a parliament was passed.Before the first general election, Flora Weser Cloris spoke on it.

According to the evaluation of later generations, it was a speech of historical importance.So much so that in the Weiser National Memorial Hall established later, the video of this speech was played as a historical exhibit in the museum.

"I believe that Weiser is moving in a bright direction."

The blond girl under the spotlight stood on the high platform, looking down at the dense crowd below the stage with a pair of bright green eyes.

That day she wore a simple and capable white suit instead of a complicated and gorgeous dress.

Her short golden hair shone like a halo of holiness, illuminating the earnest expression on her face.When speaking, she stretched out her hands to the people in the audience from time to time, as if calling or pleading.

"Freedom and dreams are everyone's natural rights. It is the same in Weiser. You should have your own freedom and dreams, and the pursuit of happiness is your right."

The princess's voice was clear and beautiful, amplified through the microphone, and truly echoed in the hearts of everyone in the audience.They looked up at the girl on the stage, those green eyes were like a clear lake, pure and moving.

"Before that, you couldn't speak for yourself. But today, here..."

She put her hands on her chest, her face glowing with bright life:

"I ask and beg you, to make a decision for your own future!"

A few seconds later, there was thunderous applause from the audience.

The screen freezes.Slaine hit the pause button.

He sat behind his desk, resting his chin on his hand.Looking at the girl on the screen, he had a thoughtful expression.

A week has passed since the first general election.The final result is out.

To his surprise, he won a seat in the general election.

But what happened next made him even more unbelievable:

Parliament voted to elect him as prime minister.

……

He hesitated.

His fingertips slid across the girl's face on the screen, and inadvertently touched the play button.The video starts playing again.The next second, the girl raised her eyes and smiled brightly in the direction of the camera, her pink face brimming with happiness.

Somehow, he followed with a faint smile.

There is an indescribable atmosphere in the air.He just looked at her smiling like that, without saying a word.

But this peace and comfort did not last long.

"Boom boom boom!"

The door of the office was knocked vigorously, but before he could reply, the people outside broke in without hesitation.

"Wait, wait a minute—!"

Slein regained consciousness in an instant, turned off the video in a hurry, and hid the terminal in the drawer again.

Generally speaking, knocking on the door means asking for instructions to enter the door.But for the visitor, it was just a notice announcing his arrival.

Of course there is only one such rude and self-centered person: Jung.

"Wait! I'm so mad! I have something urgent to tell you!"

Jung walked in angrily, and before Slein asked him to sit down, he sat down on the sofa in front of the desk and put his feet on the low table.

"What's the matter? Didn't you go to the theater with Flora?"

Seeing him like this, Slein couldn't help laughing.

Although Jung said it was an urgent matter, after more than a year of getting along, Slein had already figured out his temper.Most of the things that can make Jung jump in anger are trivial matters. If it is a serious matter, his anger will cool down instead.

As Slein had expected, what Jung was complaining about was not important.

It turned out that when I went to the theater with Flora, someone yelled "Mrs. Jung", which caused the audience to burst into laughter.Jung was so smart, he immediately realized that it was a joke between him and Flora.

Then he blew up.

"Mrs. Jung!" Jung said angrily, "someone called her that!"

"..."

Jung protects Flora so much, and Si Lei is very touched by their sincere friendship.

□□Ge's next sentence directly crushed his emotion into slag.

"How could I marry her!? Stop joking!"

"..."

Jung was so angry that he had no time to care about Slein's reaction.He went on to complain a lot about Flora, and finally even brought up the fight between the two of them over cakes when they were children.

Jung's insulted look made him dumbfounded.He is obviously a good friend, but at this moment, he looks extremely disgusted with her.Ke Slein understands that Jung complains and complains, and these will not destroy the friendship between him and Flora.

I just don't know how Flora will feel.Being so disliked by a close friend of more than ten years, you will probably turn red with anger, and fight like the time you grabbed the cake.

Slein couldn't stop laughing as he imagined this scene.

After chattering a lot, Jung finally calmed down.He finally remembered Slein beside him, and his expression became more serious.

"Seriously, you should marry her soon."

Jung suddenly said something.

Just as Slein took a sip of tea, he was choked and coughed non-stop.

Now he couldn't be funny anymore.

During this year, the relationship between him and Flora stagnated only at the level of working partners.After the crisis a year ago passed, everything returned to calm like boiling water cooling down again.

Maybe that's the right thing to do.he thinks.

After getting the news that he was elected prime minister.The mood that had been settled down was once again churning.

If he chooses to agree, it means taking another path.As council leader, he was no longer part of the princess' deployment, no longer her knight.As a result of the gradual distance between the two, not only are they strangers, but they are more likely to stand on opposite sides, unable to reconcile.

Flora also understood the consequences of such a choice, but she didn't stop him, or even ask him about his choice.I don't know if she means she is willing to accept all his choices, or has he lost his weight in her heart after a year has passed?

Slein hesitated, and expressed the above thoughts to Jung.He tried to cover up his anxiety with more ambiguous words, but Jung was still keenly aware of the true meaning behind his words.

"At that time, I clearly said that I chose her. But now that this happened, she didn't even ask me..."

"...I really can't take it anymore."

Jung cut him off impatiently.Then he stood up from the sofa, walked to the desk, and clapped his hands on the table.

Slein was taken aback by him.

"No kidding, really," his expression was serious, even a little angry, "do you think she doesn't care about you anymore? What a joke."

"Do you think she is a child, and her relationship is cloudy or cloudy? Let me tell you, since she was five years old, she has been talking about you to me for most of her life. If she wants to If she had changed her mind, she would have changed a long time ago. Not to mention that she is still such a stubborn person. "

But in that case, why didn't she try to keep him?Slein still couldn't figure it out.

"As for why she didn't keep you, don't you understand? Slein," Jung said, "because she is more afraid than you."

Afraid his feelings would ruin his future.It was hard for him to restore his reputation, and he couldn't lose his place in the political arena because of himself.

I am even more afraid that I will become his bondage.Now a great opportunity is in front of him, he can get rid of her shadow and create his own history.She didn't want to selfishly drag him into the impenetrable royal family, and just be a silent knight all his life.

"Now do you understand? She is waiting for you." Jung said anxiously, "...she has been waiting for you."

Yes, she is such a person.

Jung's words untied the thread entwined in his heart, and Slein finally sorted out his thoughts.While suddenly understanding, he felt extremely sad for her actions.

……

He made a decision in his mind.

Not long after Jung left, an angry Flora also came to visit him.

As he expected, Flora, who was rejected by her friends, was furious and her face was flushed.

"To be honest, I was very moved when Edgar jumped up from his seat and shouted, 'Who is talking nonsense believe it or not, I'll kill you!'"

Flora was also sitting on the couch, but she didn't put her feet on the low table like Jung did.Slein sat next to her, smiling quietly and listening to her.The distance between the two is not far, not close.

Seeing her so alive, he felt alive too.

He used to follow in the footsteps of Atheram without stopping.But up to now, that kind of desire has made him exhausted, and the hand that stretched out to the empty ceiling has also lost its strength.

He decided to give up.

What he wanted more now was the light blue paper card with forget-me-nots on it.

The little girl outside the cage handed it to it timidly, and from then on, the fantastic flower bloomed again in his dream.

It turned out that from then on, everything was doomed.That rough meeting gift from a child actually foreshadowed his fate.

Somehow, he wanted to laugh.Not because of the absurdity of fate, but like a prisoner who has gone through untold hardships and finally escaped from the maze, showing a relieved and relieved smile.

Beyond that maze is an endless ocean.The sunlight slowly revealed his figure from the golden sea level, and under its light, his discouragement, self-abnegation, and stagnation with nowhere to vent all became so small.

This is the direction destiny should take.

He thought, immersed in his own thoughts, he had long lost hearing what Flora was saying.

Following the torrent called "necessity", he was propelled to take a step towards her.

Flora was complaining about Jung, and didn't notice the change in Slein's mood at all.

So when the man beside her suddenly interrupted her and asked a weird question, she was puzzled.

"Flora, what would happen if the night sky lost its stars and the jungle lost its breeze?"

That's what he asked.

"Ah?...Why did you ask this suddenly? Is it a riddle?" Flora was puzzled, and gave him a tentative look, "...Do you have to answer it?"

Slein nodded.

……Oh fine.

Flora thought for a while, imagining what that would be like.Finally she gave in with a long sigh:

"I can't figure it out."

"Is it? I can't imagine it either."

Slaine agreed with satisfaction.Then, he took her hand.

"So I don't want to lose you."

……

He, what did he just say?

Flora's eyes widened, as if doubting her own ears.

But he didn't repeat it, just smiled and stuffed something cool into her hand.

Flora's mind went blank, and she opened her palm very slowly.But when she saw clearly what was in her hand, her eyes widened in astonishment, and she looked up at Slein.

In the girl's pink and tender palm, there was a silver emerald ring.

It was something he had already prepared, and he had been hesitating whether to give it to her.Just after talking with Jung, he finally made up his mind.

Before she could ask, Slein took her hand on her lap and kissed it.

Then he looked into her eyes, her beautiful eyes were like a pool of water reflecting green trees.

Suppressing the anxiety that was beating wildly in his heart, he said words that seemed to have been heard in the most sincere tone of his life:

"Excuse me, am I qualified to ask you to be my wife?"

……

What else could Flora say?

She answered him with a warm embrace, weeping with joy trembling on his shoulder.

In her heart, she repeated ten thousand times:

"I would. I would."

A month later, the wedding took place as scheduled.

The people who greeted the bride waited anxiously on the tarmac.

"Why is it taking so long? What is she doing?"

Jung checked the time for the one hundred and first time.It was almost half an hour late from the scheduled time, but the metal door still didn't mean to open.

The only one among the crowd who was not in a hurry was probably Slein.

He was wearing a white suit and his hair was combed back neatly, making him look even more handsome and upright.Different from the irritable Jung, his expression was always calm, and he looked towards the door intently, for fear that he would miss the first sight of Flora.

"Women really have a lot to do."

Jung complained softly, but was poked by Whitehead's elbow behind him.

Just then, the door opened.

The bride in a white wedding dress slowly walked out of the gate accompanied by Edellizo and other maids.

The veil covered her face, only a pair of green mysterious eyes could be seen faintly.

Seeing the people below, especially Slein standing in the front looking up at her, those eyes dodged for a moment.

The sense of happiness was almost overflowing, and her dishonesty heart beat faster and faster.

All the suffering and grievances she had suffered in the past were nothing to her at this moment.

There was no more misfortune, and she felt that she was the happiest person in the world.He is her happiness.

Thinking of this, Flora didn't want to wait any longer... She had waited for too long.

Now she wants to touch her own happiness.

The eager mood at that moment urged her to throw away the bouquet in her hand and leap forward in the weightless environment.

The flimsy dress fluttered up, like a white goldfish, she jumped over the railing and swam down.

"His Royal Highness, Princess!"

Edellizzo frantically grabbed the floating bouquet, trying to stop Flora, but it was too late.

Everyone watched her jump down in dumbfounded, unable to react for a while.

"—Flora!"

Slein, who had remained calm all this time, became tense instantly, and rushed forward with his arms outstretched.

Jung behind him patted his forehead helplessly:

"...I really can't do anything about her."

After all, she was just a girl who had just given birth.

Since she was born, she has been bound by rules and etiquette. At this time, she doesn't want to suppress the joy in her heart, doesn't want to be hindered by red tape, and just wants to rush into the arms of the one she loves without hesitation.

This freedom can be considered a luxury.

Slein caught her firmly again.

"Bullshit."

He blamed half-truth, and flicked her forehead through the veil.

Flora sat on his arm, held firmly.

"Hmph," Flora smirked, "do you regret it?"

"how is this possible."

As he spoke, he lifted her veil.

Then kissed her.

Many years later, whenever Flora recalled this scene, she would show a happy smirk again.

That was the happiest moment of her life.

On the desk was a photo taken at that time, which happened to be the scene one second before he caught her.She was holding the skirt with both hands, and the corner of the veil was blown up, revealing her happy smiling face.Slein was full of panic, and stretched out his hands to try to catch her.

With a smile on the corner of her mouth, she watched carefully, her fingers unconsciously sketching the profile of that person.

At that time, Flora didn't know that when the stories about them were spread by later generations, they actually gave this absurd moment a name:

【Century Leap】

Because that means the beginning of the legend.

【Finish】

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The synopsis is from the lyrics.

The story behind this song is somewhat similar to this article.

On June 2010, 6, in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, a wedding of the century between Princess Victoria and commoner Westerling was held. It is reported that a total of 19 million people around the world witnessed the wedding.Because of the wrong family, the love story between the princess and the common people also had twists and turns, but they still entered the palace of marriage in the end.This song was created specifically for this background.

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