After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

Looking down, he saw Heidi's hand slip out from under the quilt beside the bed and grab the edge of her clothes.

Heidi, who was lying on the bed, had her eyes slightly opened.

It seemed that during the time she was thinking, she had regained some consciousness.

"woke up?"

The red-haired princess narrowed her eyes and nodded slowly with an unusual tiredness.

He also tried his best to squeeze out a wry smile:

"How can I...sleep in this situation...what time is it now? How long have I been unconscious?"

"It was just after noon, less than two hours."

As Aize spoke, he sat back in his seat.

"The doctor and the healer have checked it out. It's nothing serious. It's just overwork and too much stress. You just need to lie down for a few days and you'll be fine."

Looking at Aize's face, Heidi was stunned for a moment.

He slowly moved his arms from under the covers in front of him and covered his eyes.

"I can't handle such a small matter... Haha, I'm really... unreasonable..."

Overwork?

pressure?

That's it?

Even if we count from the time when the blood plague just broke out until now, the work he has done is not even a fraction of what he did when Aize was in the team.

As for the pressure, let alone the pressure.

Now I have Aize to back me up and take care of most of the work.

What did Aize have before?

Is there anyone in the team, including himself, who can make him feel even a little bit relieved?

He had carried it all by himself, yet he collapsed so easily.

Heidi was increasingly reluctant to imagine how Aize had gotten through those two dark years.

Guilt and self-loathing are also gradually increasing as cognition is refreshed.

Not to mention that I was thinking about helping him with practical actions, but this is the result?

Laugh to death.

Of course, there are more important things to do right now than feel sorry for yourself.

"Arthur, did he... catch him?"

"No, according to Guild Master Gregory, he left the guild in the middle of the night after issuing the assassination mission, and his whereabouts remain unknown."

Heidi shook her head.

"Arthur, like me before him, values the honor and responsibility of the royal family above all else. But beyond that, he is undoubtedly a wise man. No one knows more about the affairs of the capital than he does. Finding him... is not easy."

This is also what Aize is worried about.

Because of his aristocratic filter, Arthur is very radical and irrational when it comes to his own problems.

But filters are just filters after all. When it comes to issues without filters, he/she will become extremely smart.

Taking this incident as an example, Arthur's radical and irrational assassination shows that he really hates himself.

On the other hand, it also shows that he doesn't care about his identity being exposed or the Adventurer's Guild being dismantled.

This means that no matter what his ultimate goal is, it is still going on at this moment.

The time left for Aize may not be as abundant as it seems.

Before Aize could respond, Heidi had already removed her hand and stared blankly at the ceiling:

"Eze, tell me, what on earth does Arthur want to do?"

"Well..."

"He's been the regent of this country for five years. During these five years, no matter how the situation changed, he's always been diligent and uncomplaining. Why would he suddenly do something like this now? Usurping the throne? Impossible, right?"

In terms of traditional aristocratic concepts, Arthur's ideological imprint is far deeper and more stubborn than Heidi's.

It is hard to say whether he was a factor in Heidi's later becoming so crazy.

But on the other hand, the deep-rooted aristocratic ideas also brought about extremely firm loyalty.

When Heidi had just taken over the throne and had not yet grown up, Arthur had countless opportunities to kill her and take the throne himself.

But the Regent did not do so.

He even tried his best to educate Heidi on various matters related to aristocracy.

After Heidi grew up, he did not resist at all and simply returned all the remaining power of the Arte family, including military power and political power.

Such a person, to say that he had changed so drastically in just five years that he was willing to kill his master and seize the throne?

Heidi didn't believe it.

Aize didn't believe it either.

Besides, if someone wants to usurp the throne, they should target Heidi herself.

Unleashing a blood plague and massacring a city is meaningless from the perspective of usurping the throne.

It will only further weaken the power of the royal family. Even if they really come to power in this situation, they will be quickly driven out by the dukes within a few days.

Thinking of this, Heidi laughed out loud in self-deprecating manner.

Do you value traditional aristocratic concepts?

Go to hell.

If they really valued aristocracy, how could they commit such atrocities as slaughtering civilians like livestock?

Perhaps, during the time he was away from the capital fulfilling his duty as a hero, he had truly changed.

"Aize."

"how?"

"sorry."

"What's wrong? Apologizing again out of the blue?"

Before Heidi lost consciousness, she spoke a lot of nonsense in a daze.

Apart from anger and confusion about Arthur's behavior, all that was left was endless apologies.

Aize didn't quite understand this.

"It's just... all kinds of things. I'm sorry... for what happened before, and this time... my family, my uncle, my family... I've done things that let the people down, and I've let you down. I... I'm sorry..."

Heidi said this, covering her face deeply.

For the affairs of the royal capital, Aize devoted all his energy and even risked his life.

In the end, it turned out to be a family misfortune, and one of his closest people was responsible for it all.

How could she not break down?

How could she face Aize again?

Tears seeped out from between her fingers, silently and continuously sliding down her cheeks, leaving a puddle of water on the gorgeous pillowcase beneath her.

Chapter 86 It doesn’t look like acting

Looking back at the events that happened over the past month, for Heidi, they were a little too brutal.

From Aize's injury and leaving the team, to his various mischief in the Tafia incident and then being plotted against by Brian, he endured extreme physical pain and almost died.

After finally saving his life and returning to the royal capital, he had no time to respond to the Duke Alliance's attempt to force him to abdicate before the blood plague broke out.

After days of tossing and turning, and watching the territory slowly turn into hell, in extreme despair and powerlessness, he finally made up his mind to ask for help.

Who would have thought that what she saw and heard on the road would completely shatter her long-held belief in the rights and obligations of the nobility.

In addition, after completely losing Aize, she realized the fact that she liked and could not live without him.

If Heidi were mentally fragile, any of the above would have completely knocked her down and she would have been unable to recover.

But she carried it through.

Just like the super strong defense given to her by the Hero's Divine Protection, Heidi was not defeated.

After just a few days of being in a daze, I even sorted myself out and decided to take responsibility and start all over again.

As a result, at this time, a fire broke out in the courtyard.

Arthur, the relative whom he had always trusted, suddenly became the mastermind behind all the tragedies.

Heidi's spirit, which had not yet recovered, suffered an unprecedented blow again.

This time, she couldn't resist.

And it has become what it is now.

In the spacious bedroom, under the cover of the quilt, faint and dull sobs continued to echo.

Heidi Yalter, the princess of the Yalter Kingdom, the first heir to the throne, and the chosen hero of God.

But apart from that, she was just a girl two years younger than Aize.

For five years, in order to protect herself and to fulfill her father's instructions, she used strength, faith, arrogance and arrogance to build a shell to protect herself.

This shell has now completely collapsed.

This not only means the loss of protection ability, but for Heidi, even the past five years seem to have evaporated without a trace.

Even the mentality has deteriorated.

Now, she couldn't stop crying.

Why are you crying?

There are so many things that have accumulated that even I can’t tell them all.

Faced with such a situation, Aize could only remain silent.

Compared with the tragic facts, any words of comfort seem too pale and powerless.

I can only sit here quietly and watch.

Time passes by every second.

The sun outside the window quickly rose to the highest point in the sky, and then slowly sank.

A few hours passed by quickly without us noticing.

Heidi, who was curled up in the quilt, finally calmed down as her sobs gradually subsided.

It’s not that her emotions have stabilized, but she was so tired from crying that she lost consciousness again.

I didn't say I fell asleep because it was more like I fainted from exhaustion rather than falling asleep.

In short, there is no point in staying here any longer. If the situation in the royal capital is not resolved, Heidi's spirit will only continue to be exhausted.

Aize stood up gently and walked out of the room.

When he reached the corridor and closed the bedroom door, a hand suddenly rested on his shoulder.

"!?"

Aize, who was thinking, was suddenly frightened and almost jumped up.

Turning around, he found that Villian had left the treasure house below at some point and was waiting for him here.

"…What are you doing here?"

"What do you think I'm doing?!"

Miss Witch crossed her arms, her face full of displeasure.

"You, were almost assassinated last night, right?"