Go back? There's no going back.

With Queen Krenna's efforts to smooth things over, the almost tense atmosphere finally eased a little.

Everyone sat down, and the maid dressed in blackboard colors came to the table in due time, placed the newly unpacked cups one by one, and brewed steaming hot tea for everyone.

"...So, three more people will come over soon?"

Sitting upright again, looking at the slightly different sweet drink in the cup in front of him, then glancing at the three empty teacups on the table, Su Wei seemed to be thinking about something.

"Speaking of which, when was the person from Loulan originally scheduled to arrive?"

At this time, Su Wei heard an inquiring voice in his ears, and the Queen of the Empire seemed to be confirming the time.

"Two o'clock in the afternoon."

The Royal Knight took out the magic device used for communication and confirmed the time: "There are about forty minutes left."

"Yeah."

Nodding, the queen turned to look at Su Wei beside her, a thoughtful look on her face.

"Then, I'll send him back first."

The next second, she suddenly grabbed Su Wei's hand and pulled him up.

"Hmm? Are you going back now...? Aren't you going to meet them?"

Hearing this, Jon, who was sitting in the opposite chair, was stunned for a moment: "This time, not only are there envoys coming, but even the King of Loulan is coming..."

"It is precisely because the so-called King of Loulan has also come that we need to do this."

Raising her hand and rubbing her temple, Klenna glanced at the knight, her beautiful face unusually serious: "Don't you know how many male concubines the King of Loulan has?"

Having said this, the Queen turned around and looked at Su Wei with an inexplicably gentle gaze: "What a pity! I don't want the student I just accepted today to be bullied by a weirdo."

As the queen of Tirantia, Krenna naturally knew it very well.

The reason why same-sex de facto marriage is prevalent in the slums outside the royal city today is not just because there are no opposite sexes.

"..."

On the other side, after being reminded so bluntly by Krenna, Jon stood there in a daze, his pupils trembling.

The King of Loulan...took many male concubines?

Why, he, who had been in close contact with the other party for several months... had no idea about this?

As his thoughts became confused, a large number of scattered memories suddenly emerged in Jon's mind.

About half a year ago, he finally found the way back and escaped from the world on the other side of the Church of Eternal Night with wounds all over his body. He was eventually rescued by the King of Loulan who was traveling by and seemed to be looking for revenge on a witch.

For a period of time afterwards, he was taken care of by the other party.

The two had a very pleasant conversation. The king of Loulan was very concerned about his injuries and did not ask for anything in return. He even offered to help him contact the empire.

There is no doubt that most of the words and deeds of the King of Loulan were very normal.

However, thinking back on it now, there were indeed some strange things when the two of them were together.

For example, every time when he had just taken off his clothes and was about to apply medicine to the wounds on his body, his door would always be knocked unexpectedly by the other party.

There were two people looking at the map and discussing which route to take to return to the empire, when the King of Loulan was also unusually close to them.

In addition to these, he would often suddenly hug me from behind and put his arm around me...

At this moment, the details that Jon had subconsciously ignored before suddenly came together bit by bit with the words of the Queen in front of him.

Is it possible... ?

hiss? !

Jon shuddered violently.

Subconsciously, he turned to look at Su Wei, staring at Su Wei's face carefully.

After a second, he silently withdrew his gaze and nodded solemnly: "Indeed, your student is not suitable to observe the next meeting."

"Right?"

Nodding, the Queen of the Empire looked at Su Wei: "Well, let's go? Brother Jun, you are now in the training camp where Klina's child once stayed, right?"

“…Uh, yes.”

Looking at the Empress of the Empire who had just made shocking remarks, although Su Wei was still a little confused, the voice deep in his heart told him that the upcoming meeting was indeed not suitable for him to watch.

However, thinking of this, Su Wei subconsciously turned his head and looked at the princess beside him with an inquiring look.

However, he found that the latter was staring at him in a trance.

The beautiful slender eyebrows were tightly knitted together, and the green eyes were gloomy.

The princess had a contradictory look on her face, and at this moment, she seemed to be constantly thinking about something.

Noticing this, Su Wei became inexplicably nervous.

Because he had realized that ever since he had been questioned by the Royal Knight and had failed to give a satisfactory answer to the princess twice in a row, the princess had suddenly become quiet and had not spoken again.

I always feel like... this seems a little bad?

"Let me take him back."

Just as Su Wei thought of this and felt a slight chill on his back, he suddenly heard the voice of the princess in his ear: "Your status is not suitable for doing this kind of thing."

"Hey, junior?"

Hearing this, Klenna immediately turned her head, puffed up her cheeks slightly, and looked at the First Princess with some dissatisfaction: "This is the first time that our master and disciple have been alone together, right? How about letting us improve our relationship alone?"

"...You are still the reigning queen, not his teacher. Besides, I have something else I want to say to him."

Not paying attention to the Queen's complaints, Celsia turned her head slightly, looked at Su Wei, and asked calmly: "Who do you want to take you back?"

"..."

Su Wei felt a little numb when he was suddenly stared at by two people from the front and the back.

He inexplicably felt that the princess now had an indescribable sense of oppression.

Well, to be honest, he actually doesn't want to choose anyone, and would rather go back by himself.

However, although he thought so, after meeting the princess's gaze, Su Wei immediately broke away from the Queen's hand and quickly returned to the princess' side.

After all, he had just heard clearly that the princess had something else to say to him.

"I'm sorry to trouble you. Please, take me back."

Su Wei lowered his head slightly and spoke like this.

"……Um."

However, quietly looking at the obedient Su Wei, Celsia was silent for a moment, and a layer of frost appeared on her face.

A few moments.

The maid had already prepared the carriage. Su Wei followed the princess, walked out of the courtyard one after the other, and got into the luxurious carriage with the first royal seal engraved on the back of the carriage.

Wheel, wheel——

The maid sat outside the carriage, closed the door curtain, waved the whip, and the animal carriage began to move smoothly.

Inside the carriage, Su Wei and the first princess sat opposite each other.

However, what was different was that the princess had her legs crossed, her chin supported by her right hand, leaning against the car window, looking calm and indifferent.

As for Su Wei, he placed his hands flat on his thighs, his whole body tense, and sat motionless.

He didn't know if it was Su Wei's illusion, but he always felt that since he came to this palace today, his whole body had been tense for almost most of the time.

The scenery outside the car window kept receding, but Su Wei had no time to watch. He swallowed silently, said nothing, and waited quietly.

But gradually, he began to feel strange.

Blinking, he glanced cautiously at the princess out of the corner of his eye.

At this moment, the road to the training camp was almost halfway gone, but for some reason, the princess in front of him... had never spoken a word.

Huh……?

Su Wei became more and more confused.

Didn’t she just say that she had something else to tell me?

Could it be that he heard it wrong?

"Elsie, stop here."

At this moment, Su Wei suddenly heard the princess's order, and soon the moving animal cart slowly stopped by the roadside.

The scenery outside the window stopped receding and the entire carriage fell into silence again.

"..."

Seeing this, Su Wei opened his mouth and subconsciously wanted to ask something, but in the end, looking at the princess who fell silent again, he remained silent.

Although he did wonder if the princess had anything else to tell him, but... if the princess didn't say it, he didn't dare to ask.

"Su Wei, stand up."

At this moment, the princess in front of him suddenly gave him this instruction.

"……OK."

Su Wei was stunned at first, but after he realized what was happening, he quickly stood up.

Fortunately, the interior of the royal carriage was spacious enough so that he would not hit his head when he stood up in a panic.

"Go and stand over there."

Next, under Su Wei's slightly confused gaze, the princess did not explain much, but just pointed to a corner in the carriage.

"..."

Su Wei immediately walked over quickly.

However, for some reason, even though he had obediently followed the princess's instructions, the princess' mood detection radar in his head... was now madly sounding the alarm.

There is no doubt that the princess's mood is visibly falling.

Before we knew it, the atmosphere in the entire car...had dropped to freezing point.

But, unlike before, at this moment Su Wei had no idea why the princess was in a bad mood.

"Don't you find it strange?"

After a while, Celsia, who was looking out the window with her chin in her hand, turned her head again and looked at Su Wei: "I clearly said before that I had something to tell you, but you haven't said anything until now, and I asked you to stand in the corner as punishment."

"Yes...it feels a little bit strange."

Hearing this, Su Wei was stunned for a moment, then nodded subconsciously.

By now, he had vaguely felt that the series of instructions given by the princess just now did not have any special meaning.

This meaningless instruction was indeed a bit strange, and it did not match the princess who adhered to the principle of high efficiency.

"Really? That means... you clearly felt that something was wrong, but you kept silent about it."

Staring at Su Wei's face quietly, Celsia's tone became more and more dull.

Come to think of it, today in her own palace was the second time she met this fired kid.

If she only vaguely felt a sense of disharmony when communicating with the other party in the hospital before, then today, she finally noticed the essence of that disharmony.

——He's my younger brother, but we even have different hair colors? What should I do?

Not long ago, when she asked Su Wei this question, she tried to put herself in his shoes and think about how this little kid, who was as helpless as a mouse seeing a cat after seeing that person, would answer.

She had thought of standard answers like "I don't know", or "I'm not your brother", or "It doesn't matter, you'll always be my sister in my heart".

But she never expected that this kid... would suddenly say "I just want to dye my hair."

She just couldn't understand why a person would... be submissive and try to please others to such an extent?

"…I want to ask you something."

After a long silence, she shook her lips and looked at him.

"Good, good."

Hearing this, Su Wei straightened his already straight back even further.

At this moment, Su Wei thought of many things.