Chapter 3: Swing is a friend 3
She slowly walked towards the "White Pearl" in the flower field. Osto and Qiu Qianyuan stopped talking almost at the same time, stood up, and stood behind Suzaku.
I glanced at Zhuque, and he lowered his head and gestured for me to go to the red sofa that belonged to him. I hesitated and didn't go over, because the person who walked in at this moment was Yaoyao.
"Princess!" The three of them bowed and saluted the moment Yaoyao came in.
As far as I can remember, I have only accompanied Yaoyao to the Knight's Hall of the Red Knight Branch more than a dozen times, and all of them were at special times and for special reasons.
This was the first time that Yaoyao appeared in the Red Knight branch without any reason.
Yaoyao saw me and stretched out her hand to me with a trembling hand. I immediately rushed to her side without hesitation. Zhuque glared at me fiercely, but said nothing.
"Mingri, I'm sorry, I couldn't do anything that day, I was too worried about Yun Que, his condition was so bad, I couldn't do anything..." Yaoyao said painfully. I quickly told her to stop talking: "Yaoyao, I understand. I understand your difficulties."
"Mingri, aren't you mad at me?" Yaoyao looked at me and I quickly shook my head: "Of course not! I won't!"
"Tomorrow, I only have you. Only you can help me." After saying that, she looked at me again, turned her head painfully to face Suzaku.
"The reason why I came here..." Yaoyao choked and bit her thin lips. She glanced at the other three people and finally stopped at Suzaku. She said, "You should know it very well."
"I..." Before Zhuque could finish his words, Qiu Qianyuan beside him suddenly laughed, walked to the sofa at one side of the hall, and said, "Princess, do you like coffee or milk tea? I have a collection of black tea from my home!"
"Don't bother, Master Qiu Qianyuan." Yaoyao politely rejected Qiu Qianyuan, staring at Zhuque and continued, "If you don't know, then... I don't want to play this kind of pretend game with you anymore."
Suddenly, I saw a trace of sadness in Zhuque's eyes, which shocked me. Yaoyao seemed to feel nothing, glaring at him with gritted teeth, and continued, "Please don't drive Yunque out of the ranks of the great knights, please don't embarrass Yunque."
"None of us said we wanted to chase him away, Princess." Qiu Qianyuan said with a smile. Although she was rejected by Yaoyao, she still poured a cup of milk tea and walked over.
"Have a cup of tea, Princess. You look a little weak." Qiu Qianyuan said, glancing at Suzaku. "Suzaku, there's your favorite coffee, freshly brewed."
"No, Master Qiu Qianyuan!" Yaoyao refused loudly again, with a firm attitude that made people dare not look directly at her. I knew that she must have made a great determination to protect Yun Que when she broke into the Knight's Hall alone.
"Alas, we haven't discussed that point yet." Zhuque suddenly sighed. After that, he slowly walked back to his seat, picked up the coffee that Qiu Qianyuan prepared for him, and after taking a sip, he seemed to have finally found the strength, and looked at Yaoyao again, "Princess, you worry too much."
"Well, let's just assume that's all you have discussed!" Yaoyao clenched her fists and stood in the middle of the hall, looking up, and said firmly, "Please don't drive Yunque away. You have taken away everything from me, even my tomorrow. What else do you want from me? I have been your princess since I was a child, isn't that enough? Isn't it enough to pretend to be happy every day?"
"You have been our princess since you were a child, and we have always been your knights..." Osto protested in a low voice, but was stopped by Qiu Qianyuan before he could finish.
Yaoyao glared at him fiercely, her whole body trembling. Her trembling appearance made me feel heartbroken, but Suzaku did not take me away, but protected me.
"Yaoyao, Lord Suzaku didn't do anything to me, perhaps..." I really don't want to say this, but I always feel that Suzaku won't hurt Yunlark. The way he protected Yunlark that day was not an act.
"Mingri, you don't understand...you don't understand." Interrupting me, Yaoyao raised her head and said to Suzaku again, "Please don't hurt my Yunque, Gaogong Suzaku, even if I beg you, okay?"
Yaoyao was talking about "my Skylark" in front of Zhuque, her fiancé. The atmosphere in the room became very strange, and the three men who were talking and laughing just now suddenly stopped talking.
Qiu Qianyuan looked at Zhuque, Osto looked at him, and I looked at him, and saw that his hands were clenched on the armrest of the sofa, as if he was trying to suppress something.
After a while, he spoke to Yaoyao in a gentle voice, "Yaoyao, Yun Que is now in the negative points. His average score last semester did not exceed the average score line for the Grand Knight, so even if someone suggests revoking his Grand Knight qualification, it is reasonable."
"But the real reason you're considering is not this, is it?" Yaoyao stared at Suzaku and said in a trembling voice, "Skylark's grades are the worst among the twelve knights. Didn't you know this a long time ago? The reason why he became my Grand Knight is because his surname is Gao Gong? Even you, Qiu Qianyuan, and Osto, which one of them didn't become a Grand Knight because of a prominent family background? Isn't the Grand Knight of TK someone who has money? When did you look at the grades? When did the Grand Knight have any special meaning ? Skylark is also a member of the Gao Gong family, he is your younger brother, you are doing this just for yourself!"
"You didn't..."
"Xiaoao! Shut up!"
Osto seems to be really impulsive. He looks like he is about to explode. If Qiu Qianyuan hadn't stopped him, I really don't know what he would do. Thinking of this, I quickly stood between him and Yaoyao, and at this time, Suzaku spoke again.
"Yaoyao, I hope you won't look down on the great knight like this. I also hope you can understand my..." Before Suzaku could finish his words, Yaoyao interrupted him again excitedly.
"Well, I don't look down on the Grand Knight. According to Article 4 of TKG, I have the right to appoint my own Grand Knight! And among the four of you, only Skylark is the one I am willing to appoint. As for the others... hum... As a princess, can't I keep the only Grand Knight I like?"
"Princess, please be careful..." Qiu Qianyuan finally couldn't help but whispered, but he glanced at Suzaku and stepped aside. Osto was silent, but his expression had changed significantly just now. I sensed the danger and couldn't sit idly by anymore, so I quickly explained: "The princess meant that Lord Yunque is a great knight that she values very much, and she didn't mean to look down on the other two great knights..."
"The princess hasn't spoken to me in all these years and has treated me like a stranger. I've known this for a long time! What's so great about it? What's there to hide?" Osto sneered, and his expression made me very worried. "Anyway, the Queen's Game is just a boring game for rich people. Didn't everyone understand this when they came to TK Academy? We are just a group of people who have nothing to do after eating!"
"Osto! Shut up!" Suzaku suddenly yelled. I turned around in surprise. I didn't expect that Takamiya Suzaku would be so scary when he got angry. It was also the first time I saw him angry.
"That's right, even the princess said so! What are we arguing about?" Osto argued. Suzaku's tall figure immediately covered him.
Zhuque stood up, glared at him fiercely, and said word by word: "If you think that all the great knights are just rich drunkards, if you think that your title of great knight is not an honor, you can leave here immediately!"
"You..." After glaring at Zhuque fiercely, Osto turned around and was about to leave. Qiu Qianyuan stopped him at the door and seemed to use brute force to push Osto onto the sofa on the side.
The atmosphere became even more tense. I wanted to break the awkward atmosphere and help Yaoyao, so I thought about it and mustered up the courage to say, "Lord Suzaku, Lord Yunque is the great knight appointed by the princess. I hope you can reconsider his issue."
Zhuque glanced at me with a complicated look. At this moment, a man pushed open the glass door and walked in slowly.
"I seem to remember that I have expelled you, classmate." Takamiya Naoto's voice made me tremble. I didn't dare to look back, but at this moment, Yaoyao let go of the hand that had been holding me tightly.
Takamiya Naoto was accompanied by a young girl who accompanied Yaoyao during piano lessons and other art classes. Takamiya Naoto made a gesture and the girl immediately ran to Yaoyao's side and hugged her tightly, just like I often do.
Looking at this scene, my heart seemed to suddenly fall from the sky and my body temperature dropped a lot.
"I thought you would expel him today. If not, before next Wednesday, I hope you can do something that is truly beneficial to the Red Knight House. I'm talking about you - Suzaku, Qiu Qianyuan, Osto and the princess!"
Gao Gong Naoto called out their names one by one behind me, and I saw that the faces of the other people in the room changed slightly when he called their names. They seemed to have something to say, but in the end they didn't say anything.
