After saying goodbye to the people of the royal city, Chino prepares to return to Twilight.

On the way out of town, Solandelle stayed with Chino and insisted on giving him a ride.

Solandelle's physical condition is much better now, and she still remembers that at the third meeting of the Kingdom Plenum, when Chino was acquitted, her hard work and grievances for days were finally released, and she couldn't hold back her emotions and cried directly in front of all the councilors.

Crying and crying, Solandale suddenly fell to the ground, unconscious, frightened Perseus and the others into a big upset, but fortunately the doctor said that it was just too tired and there was no big problem.

After being sent back to the mansion, Solandale slept for two days before waking up.

After more than a month of recuperation, Solandale recovered well, and her life was also very leisurely, sticking to Chino all day long, either reading books together, or playing the piano together, and going out to breathe the fresh air by the warm lake, watching the afterglow of the sunset on the lake...

The flow of time is eternal, but the physical sense of time is fast and slow, some times are like years, and some times are blink of an eye.

Processors are very sensitive to time, after all, time is one of their weapons, a few seconds to kill people, a few seconds to make a workpiece speak... It has to be very precise, so their biological clock tends to be in step with real time, and they rarely know somatosensory time.

But in the palace for more than a month, it was a bit of a trance, and Chino seemed to have not realized the passage of time, and suddenly found that the day of separation had come.

On the carriage out of the city, Chino and Solandale sat inside, looking out the window together.

At this time, Solandelle sat closer to Chino and whispered in her ear: "No, I have a whisper for you." ”

Chino nodded, signaling that he was listening.

Solandale whispered, "You were in the dungeon... Why did you say that to me - I can sense the invasion of extraterrestrial visitors. ”

That's right, it's no coincidence that Solandale asks Chino at the Kingdom Plenum - can you sense the invasion of the Alien Visitor.

At that time in the dungeon, Chino's whisper to Solandale was "I can sense the invasion of visitors from outside the sky".

Chino told Solandelle this and it became a secret that only she knew, and she then asked the secret in the form of a question in a meeting and turned it into a public answer.

Chino stretched out his hand and stroked Solandelle's long windswept hair, a mysterious smile appeared on his face, and instead of answering, he asked rhetorically, "Why do you think I said that to you?" ”

Solandale tilted her head and gently pressed her little head against Chino's arm, looking thoughtful: "I was really scared by you at first, my brain buzzed and became blank, and I couldn't think at all. By the time I came back to my senses, I had been taken back to the mansion by Lorna. ”

"I've been thinking about why you're telling me this. I couldn't figure it out, so I didn't dare to tell anyone, not even Lorna, I was afraid that leaking this matter would make it worse for you, so I could only hide it in my heart and find another way to help you. ”

Chino asked with interest, "Then how did you figure it out in the end?" Why did you think to ask me this question in the plenary session with the answer you already know? ”

Solandale shrank her little head, and there was an expression on her face that was after the catastrophe: "I, I, I... Don't be angry... I haven't really figured it out yet. The reason why I asked it at the Kingdom Plenary Assembly was because of a gamble..."

Chino thought it was funny, and it was hard to have a bad mind, so he deliberately made it difficult for her: "You have won the bet now, and I am fine." But if you lose the bet and I'm killed by the question you asked, what do you do? ”

The question caused Solandale to bow her head in silence and purse her lips slightly.

Chino didn't bother, leaving her to think for herself.

The warm breeze was blowing, and the surroundings were quiet, except for the sound of horse-drawn carriages passing over the bluestone slabs.

I don't know how long it was silent, Solandale raised her head, her eyes were as clear as the water of a lake without impurities, and said firmly: "I can't make up for this kind of mistake. I will always remember you in my heart, and I will feel guilty for the rest of my life, but I will not be decadent and stop there. ”

This answer surprised Chino, a 12-year-old child like Solandelle, with a simple and innocent personality, if he really killed his friends because of his own problems, most of them would be grief-stricken, slumped, and even began to doubt life, his temperament changed greatly, and it was possible that he couldn't even think about it.

I will feel guilty for the rest of my life, but I will not be decadent and stop there... This kind of words coming out of the mouth of a child is really unspeakably strange.

Chino couldn't help but squint at the sun curtain outside the window, and there seemed to be a glimmer of light in his amber eyes: "You will definitely become a great person in the future." ”

Solandale leaned against the window, sighed and said, "Actually, the person who played the role in this meeting is not me at all... I was able to make a generous speech at the meeting, which was completely thanks to the teacher, who woke me up! ”

Chino pondered for a moment, Solandelle's teacher... If I remember correctly, it should be the current "Minister of Law" and "scholar" of the royal palace, Yuanwen Doguland, a knowledgeable old man with a legendary life experience but an extremely strange temper.

It is said that this person has a very bad attitude when talking to anyone, Sima face in class, Sima face in meetings, as if others owe him hundreds of gold moons, and he is arrogant and arrogant, and he does not eat soft and hard.

In the past, when Perseus was not yet the king, he was a student of Yuanwen, and with this old relationship between teachers and students, no one could help Yuanwen, and he was not afraid of anyone, even if it was a prince and princess, he had to be honest in front of him, and if he was disobedient, he would immediately serve as a ruler.

Solandale continued: "A few days before the third meeting, I really couldn't think of a way, so I had to go to the teacher for help, and I got him to reluctantly agree to help me. ”

Chino: "You told him what I said to you?" ”

Solandale quickly shook his head: "At that time, there was a little leakage, I stopped it in time, he only knew that you whispered to me, and he didn't know what exactly you said." Later, it was he who said to me that completely woke me up, and that sentence was - you have to think like a king. ”

Chino: "How do you understand that?" ”

Solandale held her little face and looked at the past scenery outside the window, thoughtfully: "At first, I didn't know what it meant to think like a king, but then I thought of a way to try to take the role of my father, and imagine how I would feel sitting on the throne and listening to the speeches of the parliamentarians in the plenary meeting." ”

Speaking of this, Solandelle pursed her lips, and her expression became a little sad: "After putting myself in my father's shoes, I only have one feeling - sadness. ”

Chino: "Sad? ”

Solandale said quietly, "Yes, sad, sad... In the eyes of my father, the invasion of visitors from outside the sky has evolved into this scale, slaughtering the border, bombing the main city, and even beginning to assassinate the prince and shake the kingdom's power... It has long since ceased to be the business of one person, or some people, but of everyone in the entire kingdom! Dogurand is facing an unprecedented threat! ”

"But at this time, the councillors are not thinking about how to defend the kingdom, but only about their own families, some want to seek benefits, some want to protect themselves... They all want to do more without jeopardizing their own interests. ”

"None of the councillors realized that this invasion should never have happened in the first place, that it was a matter of original sin and that it had to be stopped. But the result? No one sees this side, everyone only cares about themselves, and they look distracted..."

"When I went to replace my father and saw this level, I was really disappointed, sad, and extremely sad..."

Chino said lightly: "But in fact, this is very normal human nature, the vast majority of people in the world are self-interested, you can't ask everyone to be selfless saints." ”

Solandelle nodded slightly: "I understand, so that's why Father has always been silent, he is very powerless, he knows that this situation should not happen, but there is no way to reverse it, or more accurately, he has not made up his mind to reverse it."

"Because what is good for the kingdom is not necessarily good for the major families, the things that my father cares about are completely different from the things that the kings and leaders care about, at that time he was like an island, helpless everywhere, even his good brother Sting, who has played together since childhood, has been wise to protect himself and mention the right to silence, he is even more confused, and it is more difficult to make up his mind."

Speaking of this, Solandelle's eyes became extremely determined, and he clenched his fists and said, "After understanding my father's situation, I have made a decision - I will help my father speak out!" ”

"I want my father to know that no matter what others think, even if the whole kingdom is against him, at least my daughter is on his side! He's not alone! I want to tell him that there is at least one other person in the kingdom who has the same idea as him, and wants to unite the whole kingdom and no longer stick to the open and secret strife between families, but to unite with the outside world, completely eliminate the threat from beyond the sky, and put an end to the eternal invasion! ”

Chino's eyes began to become deeper: "But have you ever thought that the reason why your father didn't stand up before was because if he said such things, the interests involved were too great, and he would move the cakes of the major families and offend many people." ”

"The essence of power is not that you get power because you sit in a certain position, but that the people below are willing to give you this position, so that you have power."

"Power appears to be top-down, but it's actually bottom-up. If you are subjected to too much hostility and exclusion, even if you are a king, it will be difficult to sit in a stable position. ”

Solandale nodded heavily and said without hesitation: "I understand, but I'm not afraid!" As long as it can help my father, as long as it is good for the kingdom, as long as it is good for all people, as long as it is right in itself, I will do it. ”

"It's okay to be hated, it's a big deal that everyone hates me, alienates me, and no one plays with me. As long as I do something that makes a positive impact on everyone, what about being alone forever? I'm not afraid. ”

Chino fell into a long silence as he reached out and stroked Solandale's hair with a meaningful smile: "As I said earlier, you will definitely be a great person in the future. ”

...

Solandale turned Chino's fortunes around, no doubt.

But in fact, she wasn't Chino's only way out.

In Chino's imagination, if Solandale didn't understand the deep meaning of the whisper and didn't subtly ask it in the plenary meeting, he still had a final plan - a showdown.

The legislators had wanted to kill him because between risk and benefit, executing him was the best option.

After he threw out the concept of a "curse" and implied that the curse would be transferred, the proposal for execution was immediately scrapped, and imprisonment became the best option.

Politics is like that, it's complicated to say it's complicated, it's simple to say it's simple, if you make them think it's good, they'll do it, and if you make them think it's bad, they'll do it.

If there was no Solandelle at the time, and Chino did not want to be reduced to a tool of imprisonment, he still had one last way, and that was a showdown - to tell everyone all the information about his refusal through a language technique that would not be erased by the Supreme Being.

One of the most tempting is undoubtedly the "respect" system of triple shackles, if the real power of the kingdom knows this ability to exchange various items "out of thin air", it is not a question of whether to kill Chino or not, it is completely reluctant to kill, not only to protect well, but even to build a temple to offer him.

When the time comes, the kingdom will catch a bunch of civilians every day to come over to worship Chino, contribute respect points, and then let him exchange for various items, and the two sides will benefit each other, isn't this fragrant? Who would want to imprison him?

Therefore, Chino was not cornered from the beginning, and there was always such a retreat waiting for him.

But this road, unless it is absolutely necessary, Chino is reluctant to go.

If there is a real showdown, life is obviously worry-free, and the status must also be there, but Chino will have no secrets at all, which is equivalent to showing all the hole cards in his hand to others.

A person who can only play the cards openly, no matter how capable, will lose the strategic initiative.

When the kingdom gets such a "treasure bag", while protecting him, it will definitely use various means to control and use it to ensure that he will never escape the kingdom's grasp, and will continue to squeeze him until the last bit of value is squeezed out.

In this situation, the possibility of Chino regaining the initiative is not impossible, but it is extremely slim, almost none.

Fortunately, history has no ifs.

Perhaps Solandelle herself didn't know how meaningful she was to Chino, not only to get him out of the maelstrom at minimal cost, but also to gain unprecedented status.

The most important thing is that the most important secret of the refuser, the "triple shackles", is kept, and only the relatively inconsequential "invasion countdown" is exposed.

Now, in the eyes of the world, Chino is still the original inhabitant of this world, and he is an existence that has been protected by the gods and inherited the power of the gods.

From today on, the entire kingdom is his reinforcement against the invasion of reincarnation, and he has taken the absolute lead.

It doesn't get any better than that.