......

"Is that really good?"

"What?"

"Let Ife and Yuyu go to Borderland with Lian," Ash hugged Tilly at her desk from behind, "Is that what Herty Morgan asked you to do?"

Ever since learning of the existence of the "Sea Line", the Five Princesses have soaked themselves in the study almost every day, with books on the table that can never be finished, some given to her by Roland, and some found from the ruins. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info saw her body being flooded by books, and Ash always felt an inexplicable distress.

"Well," Tilly put down her quill and leaned back easily, "she doesn't want me to be left alone to keep my connection to the worldly powers, and I have no reason to turn her down. ”

"That man is your brother, why does she think she can be like you? ”

"Because she's also a member of the royal family," Tilly shook her head with a smile, "The higher the status, the weaker the family affection, which is the same in any kingdom." Hetty knew this very well enough to make this decision. ”

"She plans to compete with you for the support of His Highness Roland?" said Ash, frowning.

"Not so quickly, of course, and this time I think she's just going to find out. ”

"Then you promise her!" Ash let go of his hands and lowered his voice, "Looks like I'm going to have to talk to her." ”

It is the affinity and tolerant attitude of Her Highness Tilly that makes the witches who have been tortured and oppressed by the Church trust and unite them, but this does not mean that someone can regard tolerance as weakness and trust as the bottom line of temptation. If anyone wants to break it all, she will definitely not let the other go.

Before Ash could turn around, Tilly grabbed her arm, "Why not?" As I said before, I have no reason to refuse. Sleepy Island is our home, and all witches are free people here, and as long as they don't endanger everyone's safety, I won't stop them. And...... "it's not a bad thing to let them go to the West," she exhaled. ”

"It's not...... Bad things?" Ash wondered.

"Have you ever wondered why the Blood Fang Society was no different from other witches in the beginning, but now it's slowly coming to the fore?"

She pondered for a moment, "Because...... Why did life settle down?"

"That's right," Tilly nodded, "Before, the church weighed on everyone's hearts like a mountain, and everyone had to stay close together in order to survive. But now that the churches of the fjord islands have been eradicated, and the sleeping islands have been given a more relaxed environment, it is normal for people's hearts to fluctuate. Unlike the Mutual Aid, we are a combination of many witch organizations, so repression alone will not work. To keep everyone working together as they did at the beginning, we need a strong enemy. ”

Ash frowned, "You mean...... The devil?"

"The enemy in the depths of the Fertile Plains, the crushing defeat of the Federation, the upcoming Third Battle of the Divine Will...... It's much more effective for them to know these things for themselves than for me to tell them. Tilly smiled, "And in Bordertown, there's so much more to them than that—"

The Five Princesses stood up, walked to the door of the study to the back garden, and pushed the door open, "They will see that non-combat witches can also play an irreplaceable role, they will see that ordinary people have abilities comparable to those of witches, and they will see the amazing effect that everyone can produce when they join forces." It's like this door...... When you push it away, you will open up a wider world. ”

"......" Ash looked quietly at the woman bathed in the sun, unable to say a word. The gray hair reflects a dazzling sheen, fluttering with the blowing sea breeze, and even the back is indescribably beautiful. Time seemed to freeze here, and in this small study, only she and herself were left.

After a long time, Tilly turned around and smiled slyly, "And I also have a special reason for choosing Ife and Yuyu, Roland should be able to understand my thoughts." ”

Anna nudged Roland beside her.

"It's time to get up. ”

"Wait a little longer," Roland leaned over and embraced her into his arms, sniffing the scent from behind her hair.

After returning to Neverwinter from the royal capital, he spent the whole night with Anna, and the brief parting made the reunion even more intense, with the result that neither of them could get up the next morning...... For the first time, Anna was absent from the day's magic practice, not because she didn't want to go, but because Roland wouldn't let her go.

Of course, in the face of his request, Anna did not express refusal.

From noon to evening, the air was filled with a lingering smell, and the two of them sat at the head of the bed while resting, chatting about what had happened in the two places these days, and even lunch was brought into the house by the maid. Of course, at this time, Anna would shrink into the quilt, and when she looked down, she could see a pair of sapphire eyes shining on his chest.

Touching the other party's smooth back, Anna couldn't help but let out a cat-like soft grunt, although after a year of growth, she was no longer the thin and weak girl in the prison, but when she curled her body, she could still perfectly insert herself in her arms. Kissing her earlobe from behind, seeing her cheeks slowly turning red and her eyelashes trembling slightly, it was so cute.

It was a long time before she pushed Roland away again.

"Wendy, they're supposed to be back soon, and you'll have to wash up this time with a new witch. Anna turned around and pressed her face to face with him seriously.

"Hmm," Roland replied softly, he knew he couldn't delay any longer this time, kissed the other man on the lips, he rolled over and got up from the bed, first helped Anna get dressed, and then put on his coat.

The basin of water on the table had cooled, but it didn't bother Anna, and a trace of black fire jumped into the water, and in the blink of an eye, it was hot. After the two of them had washed up, Roland sent her back to the bedroom and then to the office on the third floor—at least until the witch returned, he could look serious.

A quarter of an hour later, Lightning and Maisie swooped into the house through the open floor-to-ceiling windows.

"Your Majesty, here they are. ”

......

"I didn't expect you to become the king of Greycastle after only a month of not seeing you," Kazukaze was the first to enter the castle hall, followed by four witches, including the familiar Lotus and Honey, and the other two for the first time, "It wasn't Wendy who told me, I can't believe it...... If Tilly had known, she would have been surprised. ”

Roland greeted him with a smile, "I didn't have an enthronement ceremony, so it's okay to call me the way I used to." ”

"But you're already a worthy king," Zephyr saluted.

Lotus and Honey also drew a scoop according to the gourd, and made an exaggerated salute, while the latter two simply stroked their chests, and the expressions of the four were completely different, full of joy of reunion on the one hand, but vigilant on the other.

Roland couldn't help but be a little surprised.

It's just that at this time, he won't show his doubts, and he made a gesture of please, and he smiled, "No matter what, it's been hard along the way, so let's enjoy tonight's feast first-you're welcome, this is also your home." (To be continued.) )