[The Chronicles of Narnia] Sin

"Your sister and 'Qiu Shui' are both very good." The Justice King was digging into the course when he was poked on the back suddenly by Elvis who had just taken a shower behind him.

"Can you put something useful in your mind?" Edmund gave him a contemptuous look, not wanting to talk to this playboy who has no capital and insists on spending money.

"I'm pretending, aren't there enough troublesome spells?" The young man flicked the towel around his neck back and forth, with a mean tone, "But I can't figure it out with all my magic, the love in your mind How did the line work?"

After marking the nautical blueprint in his hand, King Justice slapped the quill on the table again: "Don't mention this again, I warn you!"

Elvis didn't expect the young man to be really angry, and immediately wilted into a frost-beaten eggplant: "All right, you are the captain, I dare not offend you."

He exited the room embarrassingly, thinking that Edmund and "Compass" were really a strange pair of men and women.

Calculated according to the direction in which the red ribbon extended in the previous voyage records, the "Soul Slayer" quickly chased after it.Strictly speaking, it can no longer be called the "Red Ribbon" - the area covered by magic is getting wider and wider, forming a red stream.The magic carried around it has also become stronger and stronger, so that the fleet has to keep sailing ten meters away to ensure the crew's mentality is stable.

The Justice King and Edith stood side by side on the bow deck of the ship, blowing the wind. This was the first formal conversation between them after they left the desert island.

"I guess there are at most three days before we can reach the island of the root of the red ribbon." Edmund put down the telescope in his hand, "I don't know what is waiting for us."

"We'llsee." The short-haired girl squinted her brown eyes, seeming to be preoccupied.

King Justice didn't know how to continue the conversation, and his expression was a little hasty.He weighed it for a long time, and finally said: "Promise me to protect Lucy."

The sea breeze stroked Edith's chestnut hair, revealing her snow-white forehead and sharply twisted profile.Her nasal bone was tough and straight, her lips were clean and clear, and she had a unique beauty in his eyes.

The girl stared at the red waters in the distance, and replied without squinting: "Of course, you have my word."

Her words were still so short and concise, she seemed to be his most capable helper and most trustworthy soldier in the Intelligence Bureau.

He didn't want to stop there, but didn't know how to create that different feeling.

In order to hide his identity from non-members of the establishment, everyone on the ship began to call him "Edmund" instead of "Justice King".Logically speaking, this is conducive to making Edith feel her new identity as equal to her.But he still felt that she was far away from him, or in other words, put her figure very low: she was willing to be a loyal and obedient person, and never had any intention of presumptuousness.Although she often quarreled with him and hurt each other, she always kept the bottom line consciously—she knew the weight of the word king, and she was always the one who gave in first.

"What I said when I was caught by the bandits that day..." He hesitated, hesitating.

"——It's a fake, to save my life." Edith said quickly, and after she finished speaking, her expression seemed to be much more relaxed.

King Justice shook his head again and again.That's not what he wanted to say.What he wanted to say was that he hoped that she would regard that sentence as a promise for the future.

"My stupidity and recklessness led to my whereabouts being exposed...I'm not worth your lying to save me." She was discussing the matter, lowering her eyes in self-reproach, as if she had never had those ambiguous emotions.

A wave of restlessness burned from the chest of Justice King.He didn't know what to do to break through that damned frozen barrier.

"Don't use yourself as a tool, Edith Onassis!" He left the deck with a half-raged remark.

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Elvis was not alone in discovering the strange atmosphere between Edith and Edmund.Lucy realized that the former happy enemies hadn't quarreled for three consecutive days, and Saknur felt that the "compass" looked at him with more regret than before.He didn't know what happened during the five days they were alone, and he was afraid to know—even thinking about this fact made him feel bad.

The straightforward boy decided to ask Edmund directly.Although he has decided to withdraw from this tortured competition, he is unwilling to let Edith's emotions be consumed by the capricious King of Justice.

"What did you do during the few days on the desert island?" Saknur stopped beating around the bush, and cut to the point at the first second when he asked the King of Justice.

Edmund knew how the little love rival guessed them.If you think about it in another way, if he is the one who is alone, he probably has a brain hole as big as the Milky Way.

"Look for food, find water, cut wood and build ships, and fight bandits." He replied flatly, knowing that this was not the answer the other party wanted.

"—Do you like her or not?" The werewolf boy's clenched fists were ready to go.If Edmund dared to say "no" shamelessly now, he was guaranteed to break his fragile bridge of nose with one punch.

As long as he is not forced to confess his love, the King of Justice is very smart in other respects and knows how to judge people. "She doesn't like me enough... well, at least I don't think so."

"Have you ever touched her?" Saknur asked again.

Edmund shrugged helplessly: "Doing this without asking her consent is tantamount to suicide."

The anger of the werewolf boy subsided a lot, he took two steps back and frowned and said, "You are more cowardly than I imagined, Your Majesty the King."

He glanced at the bright moon hanging high in the sky, sighed and prepared to go back to his room to sleep.Before leaving, the boy patted the young man on the shoulder twice, and gave him the most sincere advice: "She likes you—at least I think so."

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On the 11th day of the official voyage, the weather was fine and cloudless, and the warm sun and spring breeze wrapped the skin of every crew member on "Soul Slayer".

In the far eastern land, the red color can finally see the end of its convergence.

The heroic queen Lucy just woke up in a good mood, stretching her back on the deck while greeting the sailors and soldiers.

"Morning, 'Qiu Shui'." She smiled brightly at Mona who was tidying up her belongings, "How did you sleep last night?"

The Dryad girl smiled back. "Not bad, but I still miss the hard beds in the soldiers' quarters in Cair Paravel."

She was planning to rearrange the swords and other weapons according to the size, and the long sword in her hand was grasped by Elvis who suddenly appeared.

"You shouldn't bother Ma'am with things like arranging weapons." The young man said in a gentlemanly manner.

"Hey..." Lucy pierced him mercilessly, "You didn't say anything when Compass was doing this job yesterday."

Mona stared at the magician and smiled, which quickly embarrassed him.

Elvis waved at the girl impatiently: "Go, go, little girl, don't meddle in the affairs of adults."

It had been a long time since anyone had dared to speak like that to the Valiant Queen of Narnia.Just when Lucy was about to have a seizure, she suddenly realized that she was only a distant relative of the king in the eyes of the other party (Edmund prevaricated him in this way), curled her lips to resist the urge to complain, and wandered to other places on the ship.

Edmund seemed to be sleeping late and kept his head hidden.Edith was sitting among the wooden barrels piled up at the stern, and she was playing cards with Furiel and a few soldiers from the Intelligence Bureau, her legs crossed high, and she laughed heartlessly.

When she turned around and returned to the bow, the black-haired young man was walking out of the cabin while buttoning his shirt with long legs.

"You're studying wild outside." Lucy commented with a grimace, "If Susan finds that your clothes are disheveled, she dares to go out, and she can talk about you for three days."

King Justice didn't take it seriously: "I rather hope she's on the boat now."

Lucy remembered why she was looking for him, and pulled him into a relatively secluded corner: "I have a question to ask you."

Again?Edmund was disturbed by Saknur's interrogation last night, but he didn't expect a troublesome Lucy to appear today.

"You and Edith, what's the matter?" As expected, the girl came to inquire about gossip.

"It's nothing wrong." King Justice randomly grabbed his bangs that were covering his eyes, "Why do you all only come to ask me and not her!" He said dissatisfied.

"You?" Lucy quickly grasped the point, "Who else has looked for you?"

Edmund patted his sleepy head, regretting that he had accidentally slipped his mouth.

"You answer me first, why don't you ask Edith." He bargained.

The heroic queen spread her hands together: "She's playing cards!"

Edmund had not expected Lucy to come up with such a plausible and irrefutable reason. "Then she has such a big heart..."

"You fell out on the desert island?" Lucy was not as thoughtful as her brother, and she forgot who "you" were in a blink of an eye.

"No."

"Hug with a feverish head? Hold hands? Kiss?" The girl asked here, and she couldn't believe it.

"Strictly speaking, no."

Lucy was about to explode when she heard this: "Strictly speaking? You were coerced by others? Jesus!"

Edmund was on the verge of a nervous breakdown by his sister, who had opened his mind to the sky.After confirming that the door was locked again, he finally let go of his voice and said earnestly: "I like her, but I can't marry her...do you understand?"

The heroic queen was not at all psychologically prepared to be treated so frankly all of a sudden, and she couldn't answer a word.

"Peter has been trying to keep us away from the palace and politics, but the fact is that as we grow older, no one can escape." The Justice King said hoarsely, "Edith is not suitable to be a queen, Peter was a long time ago Just told me, and I know this in my heart.”

Lucy didn't know much about these things, and wanted to ask why it wasn't suitable, but she stopped talking in the end.

"It's a good thing to be away from court, me, Peter and Susan . . . we're tired enough."

"Pete and Sue in particular need a partner, a sharer. But do you know why they haven't found the right one? — Royal marriages are always entangled with national interests, it's not just a personal choice."

Edmund's mood gradually stabilized and he began to remain silent.

I am simply crazy to tell this to the youngest girl in the family... There are so many clues that even adults may not be able to understand.

But he didn't expect that the 16-year-old girl looked back at him with clear eyes, and her tone was flat and light: "But as long as you like her, you should tell her everything."