Chapter 10 Those who follow me will prosper, those who go against me will perish 1
The gate opened in front of me, and inside the gate were all the knights of the Red Knights Lodge standing in neat rows with solemn expressions.
Under everyone's gaze, I took cautious steps and walked into the snow-white Knight Hall of the Red Knight Branch.
They all looked at me, and then their eyes slowly moved past me and fixed on Suzaku behind me.
"You are my bodyguard. I warn you again, if anyone wants to hurt me, you must protect me!" Zhuque whispered in my ear the words he had repeated many times this morning.
I looked at the crowds of people staring at me on both sides, swallowed, and felt that even if I were a real gorilla, it would be difficult to save his life today!
On both sides of the sofa that belonged to Suzaku, Osto and Qiu Qianyuan had already arrived. However, the feeling they had standing there today was a little different from the previous times they had stood there.
In the past, they stood there as if they were the kings of the room, but now it looked more like they were coerced by the knights in the room, as if the two of them were collectively kidnapped by the group of people around them.
"Tomorrow, I have something I must tell you!" Just as I was walking with Suzaku to his "throne", he suddenly pulled me, looked down at me, and whispered to me very seriously. I looked up at him, and became nervous because of his serious look.
"What's up?"
"Actually... have you heard the story of Cinderella and the Prince?" He blinked and spoke seriously, which made me feel that what he was about to say must be very important, so I also became serious.
"I've heard of it. What's wrong?"
"If you have heard of it, you must have dreamed of Cinderella and the prince being together, right? Have you ever dreamed of being kissed passionately by the prince in the flowers under the attention of the whole nation, and then the audience applauded, and everyone was so moved?" Suzaku continued to ask seriously. Because he was too serious, I was also given a headache by the strange scene he described, so I nodded as if to deal with it.
"Then you have to believe that the prince might like Cinderella! So..." Suzaku's voice trembled, and at this time the group of red knights surrounding the big knight also began to shout: "Streaking! Streaking! Streaking!"
Amid their earth-shattering, ghost-crying cries, Suzaku grabbed me pitifully and said to me, "Don't let them catch me and make me run naked! I still have the potential to be your future husband, tomorrow!"
Excuse me, did someone confess to me just now? Did someone confess to me?
Did the guy named Takamiya Suzaku confess his love to me?
I'm sorry, the noise around us is too loud, Lord Suzaku, I can't hear what you said!
"Wait, wait..." Osto's face turned red. He stood up and gestured for everyone to be quiet while hesitating, "It's not even a month yet. Can't you wait until a month is up before talking?"
"The Red Princess has been expelled by Suzaku!" someone shouted in the crowd, and then more people followed up, saying, "Yes, the Red Princess has been expelled and will not come back!"
"That's right. The Red Knights branch was originally the academy with the highest TK points, with a princess and money. Now we are like those black birds and have no princess. What is this?"
“Wait… wait…” Osto’s face turned even redder, and he kept shaking his hands. His face, which never smiled before, was filled with a stiff smile. “Classmates, friends… let’s talk it over…”
I've been in TK for so long, but I've never seen Osto smile. He really smiles... "Classmates, do you really want to see your great knight running naked? Can you bear to let me, who is seriously ill, freeze outside in such cold weather without clothes on?"
Well, after the "pleaser card" was played, the "pity card" appeared. Qiu Qianyuan said to the female classmates around him sadly, looking as if he was about to cry.
"Senior Qiu Qianyuan is so pitiful..."
"Yes, Senior Qianyuan is not feeling well..."
"Senior Qianyuan..."
It seems that the "pity card" is still somewhat useful, but unfortunately the atmosphere soon changed.
"But, I really want to see Senior Qianyuan's figure..."
"I want to, too..."
"want to see……"
The expression on Qiu Qianyuan's face gradually became stiff.
"Aren't we classmates? Aren't we..." Osto looked like he was about to cry. To be honest, I never thought I would see a tearful expression on his face.
"My health is really not good...crack, crack, crack..." Qiu Qianyuan began to cough pretending to do so, but the other knights were not moved at all.
"Gentlemen, please keep your promise and run naked!"
"grown ups……"
"Shut up!" Zhuque finally spoke. He stood up and slowly looked around, his face serious and arrogant, but as soon as he opened his mouth, his expression immediately became so pitiful.
"Students, have you ever thought about the TK scoring method? If a knight exposes his body in a public place other than a swimming pool, he will be deducted points! And the whole school will be deducted points!"
There is also this one? As expected of Suzaku-sama, who knows the rules of TK Academy by heart.
His words seemed to have finally had some effect. The noisy sound disappeared, replaced by the sound of many people talking quietly. Seeing that everyone's attitude had finally changed, Zhuque looked around and threw me a smug look. Did he really succeed? Just as I was thinking about this, the noise started again, and this time it sounded much more united.
"Lord Suzaku, our academy's points are much higher than others, and you three are also the ones with the highest points among the great knights, so it doesn't matter if you deduct a few points! Please abide by the knight's promise and run naked!"
"You guys..." Zhuque was about to argue when a voice from the crowd immediately interrupted him: "Lord Zhuque, it was you who wanted to expel the princess! It was you who expelled the princess, not the princess who ran away from home. Because you expelled her, she can now be with Yunque in peace, without having to worry about being caught! It's because of you! It's all because of you!"
"I am not because of her..."
His words were interrupted again, and several voices said at the same time: "Even if Suzaku-sama expelled the princess because she is incompetent, the princess is not willing to sacrifice for us, the princess has never cared about our princess, even if Suzaku-sama expelled the princess because of the Red Knight branch..."
“Even if…” I saw a girl who was closest to us, she was smiling but tears were streaming down her face, “Today I learned that we have the best knight in the world. He is willing to give up the princess for us and even turn against his relatives for us…”
"Even if..." In another direction, a tall boy with red eyes laughed with the people around him and said, "I now know that the most annoying person in TK has actually been running with us all the time, taking care of everyone, and never stopped to rest no matter how tired or hard it was."
“Even if…” More voices gathered in the crowd. As if they had rehearsed, they all said to Suzaku, “We don’t hate you that much anymore! But Lord Suzaku, you were the one who expelled the princess. So…”
"Please run naked!" This time almost all the knights in the Knights' Court shouted together.
"Do you know how to write the word 'friendship'?" Osto looked like he was about to cry. At this time, Qiu Qianyuan sighed and took off his coat.
No way!
"Dahong..." Qiu Qianyuan turned around and said to Zhuque expressionlessly, "Those lines just now would be too disgusting and corny if put into an idol drama. To think that the nobles of the Red Knights branch had the heart to say such disgusting lines just because you messed up something. It's worth a naked streak at all!"
"But Qianyuan——"
"Suzaku!" Qiu Qianyuan interrupted Suzaku and laughed. The proud smile made him look really handsome.
"I believe that when you are old, you will regret not running naked with me when you were still in good shape. Come with me, Suzaku."
"Qianyuan..." After hesitating for a moment, Zhuque laughed. Amid the laughter of everyone, he unbuttoned the buttons on his clothes one by one, took off his coat, looked at Qiu Qianyuan, and then glared at Osto together with Qiu Qianyuan, and then threw his clothes hard on the ground.
"Isn't it just a deduction of ten points? I'm number one in TK, and even if I deduct ten points, I still have three thousand more points than Fujiwara Eiji!"
No way!
With the shouts of the entire Red Knights, another piece of clothing was thrown to the ground. At this time, the door that had been tightly closed was pushed open from the outside.
A man walked in, taking off his coat as he walked.
"You three seem to have forgotten that there are four Grand Knights of the Red Knight Branch, not three!" Hibari threw the coat in his hand to Suzaku.
Suzaku took the coat. The badge on the coat still represented his "GG" instead of "YQ" for Yun Que.
"Give it back to you, brother! Your badge is disgusting, I don't need it anymore!"
"Hmph..." With a slight smile, Suzaku raised his head, took off his clothes, and shouted to all the knights in the branch in his signature Y country aristocratic accent, "Open your eyes! Please remember today, today the 588 knights of the Red Knight branch will create a miracle. This miracle is that we don't need to communicate in advance, we don't need to notify each other, just a glance, as long as we are together, we can feel each other's thoughts and breathe the air that each other breathes. We can shout the same sentence at the same time, there is no need to ask what we want to shout, no need to tell each other what we want to shout, we can shout it together, right now! 588 people together!"
"Right now, that sentence is..."
Zhuque took off his shirt and threw it on the ground. 588 people's voices also rang out at the same time, magnificent, working together, and in an unimaginable order.
"Streaking——"
They were not touching words, or even normal words, but at this moment, my vision was blurred, completely blurred by the hot tears!
