first commandment

The young earl crossed his legs leisurely, and carefully trimmed the edges of his nails with a nail file by means of the strong light shining on the prisoner in the interrogation room.

Not far in front of him, where the light concentrated, a half-length middle-aged man was hung from the ceiling.He was covered in wounds, apart from the bloody wounds of different shades, there were also black and purple welts.Sweat dripped from the ends of his silver-streaked hair.He didn't move, as if he couldn't bear the pain of the interrogation and had already lost consciousness.

Also motionless were the soldiers standing beside Earl Jung.Among them, the one closest to him was holding a long whip. He did not receive instructions to continue, so he stood still in place.The soldiers, like robots, stared firmly in any direction with emotionless and lifeless eyes. The hanging prisoners and Jung, who was concentrating on grinding his nails, formed a strange scene against the background of the cold and damp prison cell. .

This is what the soldiers from Yanglu City saw when they entered the interrogation room.

The smell of blood in the air made him tremble involuntarily.Unlike Earl Jung's close guard who didn't know when, he was just a handyman, and he had never seen such a scene.He swallowed, and whispered a few words in Earl Jung's ear.

Only then did Jung look up at the prisoner, his reddish-brown eyes were covered by the broken chestnut hair, like the bloodthirsty eyes of a man-eating monster protruding from behind a dead tree.

He waved away the guards who came to report the news, raised his face, and changed his cocked legs.

"I'm losing patience with you," he said coldly to the prisoner who was hanging there.

The height at which the prisoner was hung happened to be at a height that could barely be reached by his toes. The feeling of wanting to touch the ground but being unable to reach it would increase the psychological pressure of the prisoner.

Seeing that he was silent, Earl Jung winked at the soldier with a whip beside him.The soldier had to make his way to the power button on the wall...

After a burst of violent trembling and hissing, the prisoner was dangling in mid-air, his feet stretched but unable to touch the ground.

"I don't have time to waste on you." Jung rubbed his hands and walked in front of him, "His Royal Highness is looking for me urgently. If I can't ask you any more questions, she will come here. Don't let her see your picture." Honor."

Earl Jung squatted down as he spoke.He looked down at the prisoner's feet, then up at the prisoner's staring, terrified face.

"Whitehead, come here and help me grab his feet." Earl Jung said with a stern smile.Under the strong light, the red-brown eyes look like blood red.The prisoner watched him pull the sharp-pointed nail file from his pocket and suddenly understood what he was about to do.

"Stop, stop! Wait a minute!..." The prisoner shook his head and struggled.

"Eh? I've been electrocuted, so I'm afraid of this? It's really strange."

Count Jung looked at the prisoner's pale face and smiled.

Flora went to see Jung after changing her dress.

In the living room of the embassy, ​​Jung stood beside the leather sofa, wiping his wet hands with a handkerchief.

When he saw Flora, he quickly put away his handkerchief and bowed to her.Flora ignored him and walked up to him and grabbed his wrist.

Without careful observation, Flora found an obvious bloodstain on his cuff.

"His mouth is so strict?" She let go of her hand, and smiled unnaturally, "I think he's just an idiot, thinking that he can speak just by bluffing."

Compared to her, Earl Jung's smile was even more unnatural.

"I spoke out to scare you. But we want more than that, Your Highness."

Flora looked at him with a cold face, and knew that his old disease of tormenting people had fallen again.Earl Jung was six years older than her, and they had known each other since they were young.When Jung did not inherit the title, he lived in the palace all the time and became Flora's playmate as a matter of course.So the two knew each other well.

"Your Highness is soft-hearted? No way. You asked me yesterday if I was ready," Earl Jung asked in surprise, "It is not easy to save him. Apart from witnesses, evidence is also very important. .”

"I know." Flora quickly recovered, "I'm not worried about him. It's about my companion being arrested. Will they make a move tomorrow."

"Yes," Jung nodded satisfied with her answer, "Even if it's not tomorrow, I will do it. The time you are on Earth is the best time, and there are quite a few people who want to kill you." .”

Flora was silent.

"Even now, it is possible for someone to rush in from the window and shoot at us!" Earl Jung became excited for some reason when he said this.

Flora put her hand to her forehead.

"...shut up, Jung."

"Oh! You don't like to hear it, that's fine."

Earl Jung also didn't look disappointed, and sat on the sofa opposite Flora.

"No matter how stupid they are, they will not be so stupid as to do something in the heavily guarded embassy." Earl Jung patted his knees with a calm face, "In short, we just need to see the tricks and start our plan after they launch the attack." Well, tomorrow you..."

Talking about the future plan, Flora, who felt tired of Jung, became motivated again, and carefully reviewed the process of the parade on the second day.

However, things backfired, or maybe Jung's words came true.

A sudden attack was actually launched at the embassy.It was activated that night when Flora was asleep.

"..."

When Earl Jung helped her up from the bed, Flora had the words "speechless" written on her face, and she looked at Jung with ashen eyes, and at the same time his team of personal soldiers rushed into the bedroom. .

Didn't you say they wouldn't attack here no matter how stupid they are?

Flora asked him with exhausted eyes.Earl Jung felt it, and felt that she almost lost trust in the IQ of herself and the enemy army in an instant.

"Cough," he coughed in embarrassment, "they... are smarter than we thought. We chose the embassy when everyone thought they would never attack the embassy. We took it lightly."

……

He has a good point.

Flora chooses to believe this explanation.

While Flora was wrapped in a quilt by Jung and carried out of the door to escape, the tranquility that lasted for nearly 20 years was broken by a sudden gunfire in a secret prisoner's detention center that they couldn't see.

Under the guise of terrorists attacking the princess at the embassy and injuring her, the nearby military base belonging to Earl Jung, who has not yet returned to Earth, called it an armed demonstration in an attempt to bury the real purpose of the operation.

This was a fairly smooth operation. The unexpected force attack, coupled with the calmness of the captivity over the years, to a certain extent led to the laxity of the guards, so that all plans were completed within 10 minutes.After all, after such a long time, the prisoners held here have long been forgotten, and no one thought that they would be robbed at this time.

A prison robbery that was almost 20 years late as a joke.

Trisolarans participated in this event, and the original buildings were completely destroyed. After the flames swept through, there were almost no traces of its existence.

Inaho Kaizuka, who was awakened from his deep sleep, received a series of news that gave him a headache:

[-]. The first princess of Weisser, Flora Weisser Cloris, was attacked at the embassy where she was staying and was slightly injured.

[-]. Earl Edgar Jung, who was still stationed on Earth, was furious after hearing the first news, and rushed to the embassy to protect the princess while launching an armed demonstration.

[-]. The secret prison where Srein Zazbarum Troyet was held was affected by this armed demonstration, and the whereabouts of Srein Zazbarum Troyet became unknown.

Jie Zhongxue, whose dream was disturbed with him, looked at him nervously after reading the news, as if this terrorist attack, which was quite similar to the one 20 years ago, would lead to war again.

As for him, although he could already foresee that the big media would explode tomorrow, he still kept a trace of calm in his heart.

There was always a feeling telling him that this attack was not to start a war.

and……

Under the cover of Earl Jung all the way, Flora safely arrived at Yanglu City where he still stayed on the surface of the earth.

It would be a lie to say that she wasn't flustered at all. She managed to maintain her calm appearance and went to the room with Jung's help.Edellizo, who was then escorted to her, burst into tears when he saw her.The soldiers still guarding the room were waiting for Jung's return, their faces as determined as a solid and cold wall.Seeing them, Flora felt a lot more at ease in her heart. She patted Edellizo's shoulder reassuringly. The other party was trying to remove the quilt from her body to see if she was injured.

"His Royal Highness Princess Flora, are you alright?" Edellizo looked up and down carefully, and suddenly found a long scratch on Flora's calf, and gasped immediately.

Flora was nervous just now, and didn't pay much attention to the wound, and only then did she feel obvious pain.She frowned, and sat on the sofa with Edellizo's support.The soldier who went to fetch the medicine box happened to be back, and Edellizo quickly squatted down to treat Flora's wound.When Flora was disinfecting the wound, she was in excruciating pain, but she kept silent and suppressed the pain, her face was pale.

Jung came back in a short while, seeing Flora's appearance, his rare face was a little more dignified.

"Your Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen has heard the news, do you want to get through?" He asked possessively.

Fearing that she would cry out as soon as she opened her mouth, Flora nodded.

When Atheram with a sad face appeared on the terminal, Flora said first:

"I'm fine, don't worry."

Atheram frowned, and the extremely nervous look made Flora feel colic in her heart.Although Flora said so, seeing her extremely pale expression, Atheram only felt more worried.

Not only that, but it also aroused her distant memory: the war 20 years ago was also provoked by a terrorist attack on Princess Weiser.Before getting in touch with Flora, she had had a brief conversation with Count Jung in advance, and she proposed to stop his rash act of armed demonstration.At that time, Earl Jung's unhappiness almost overflowed from the other end of the screen, but Atheram just pretended not to see it.The Earl Jung of the previous generation, the father of the current Earl Jung, was one of the factions who opposed the armistice.He was very dissatisfied with Atheram for interrupting the war that was about to be won, and he didn't even give her a good face until his death, and he didn't obediently give up the territory of the earth.But at the same time, he was also afraid that she would take back the right to use Aldnoah, so it was just a stalemate with her all the time. At that time, he also had some considerations about sending his son to the palace.

After learning that Flora was injured, Atheram's expression became even worse.Considering that it was midnight, Flora was still in shock and could not rest well, so she hurriedly ordered a few words to end the communication.

Flora had a pleasant face and nodded obediently, but couldn't help but let out a soft sigh after Atheram cut off the communication.

"What's wrong? Do you feel guilty?" Jung, who didn't want to see Atheram or be seen by her, kept hiding outside the range of the camera, and then walked back to Flora and sat down.

"No," Flora was concerned about Edellizo, who was still staying beside her, and didn't say it directly, "it's just... Mom hasn't been in good health because of the old injury, so I'm a little worried."

"Well, well, after giving birth to you, the body is even worse, right?" Jung stretched out on the sofa, looked up and observed his nails, "You have said this hundreds of times."

Edellizo glared at him and said, "His Royal Highness Princess Flora, you should go to bed early."

Flora agreed with a smile.

Seeing that she seemed to have something to say to Jung, Edellizo packed up the medicine box and went out even though she didn't want to. The soldiers also looked at Jung's color and left together.

Flora turned her head to look at Jung, and saw him smiling slyly like a fox, as if he had already expected what she was going to ask.

"I'll take you to Srain Troyet."

He spoke first.

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BGM of this chapter: Yellow FlickerBeat--Lorde

The synopsis comes from the lyrics, and applies to Slayin who is forgotten in the corner (.