Chapter 5: Naked Running, the Promise of the Three Knights 1
"Tell me, how does Suzaku plan to deal with Hibari? Tell me... Please, Tomorrow, tell me... Tomorrow, you are my only hope. Tomorrow, help me. Only you can help me, help me!"
"Yaoyao, Suzaku is planning to expel Skylark..."
The conversation on the phone last night was like a vulture circling over my head over and over again, and I stumbled to keep up with Suzaku's steps. The boys' legs were much longer than mine, so I almost had to jog to barely keep up with them.
The direction they were heading was a small lake behind a forest on the east side of the rose field in the Knight Hall of the Red Knight Branch.
When the weather is good, that place is where the knights of the Red Knights Branch go for a walk and leisure.
I don't know what Yaoyao is going to do. However, the guard who came to call us said a lot of panicked words and then led us to this place.
"I can't let him do this tomorrow, I can't !"
"Skylark, only Skylark is my great knight! Only him!"
"I won't let them push me around this time, no!"
"Tomorrow, you must help me! You are my friend, you must..."
Every word Yaoyao said to me kept replaying in my mind. I felt so confused that even the energy to run was gradually exhausted.
"Don't TK have a princess who is worry-free? When I have the money to buy TK, I will drive them all away!" Osto complained as he ran. Qiu Qianyuan glanced at him and sighed softly.
I followed Suzaku closely, looking at him from time to time, but he never looked at me again. I violated his will, or more seriously, I violated the promise I made to him.
"Sir, the princess seems to be a little emotionally unstable. We don't know what to do. Sir..." The member of the royal guard who led the way spoke to us worriedly from time to time.
A deep baritone voice came from the throat of the person next to me: "It's going to be fine, it's not going to be fine. The Red Knights branch will be fine, it won't be fine."
"Won't……"
Zhuque's voice suddenly cut off in the cold air. I followed his footsteps, stopped beside him, and followed his gaze. I saw Yaoyao's slender figure standing alone on a milky white boat on the cold lake.
"What is she going to do ? What is this woman going to do? What is she going to do? She..." After yelling a few words uncontrollably, Suzaku suddenly rushed to the lake, tightly grasped the railing and shouted, "Yaoyao! Yaoyao! Come back! You can't swim! Come back!"
I've never seen Suzaku so panicked. He's completely out of control. In the past, even in the most urgent moments, his voice was perfect, as was his manners, but now his voice was hoarse, and his whole body was leaning against the railing, roaring, the veins in his neck bulging.
Qiu Qianyuan and Osto stopped at a distance from the lake, looking at the center of the lake with complicated expressions on their faces. Although the guards were maintaining order by the lake, a large number of people had already gathered.
Among the crowd of onlookers, there were not only people from the Red Knights, but also people from the White Knights and Black Knights. So many people just watched the princess of the Red Knights standing alone on a small boat in the middle of the lake.
Suddenly, another person's scream was heard from the other side of the lake: "Yaoyao! Yaoyao!"
Is Yun Que here too? Did Yao Yao ask him to come?
"Ah? It's Lord Suzaku!" Seeing Yunque coming, Yaoyao gestured to threaten the people on the shore not to get close, raised her head towards me, and said loudly to Suzaku, "I heard that you are going to hold a meeting of the Red Knights Branch to discuss the abolition of Gao Gong Yunque's status as a great knight. So, since you already have such a plan, I will help you hold such a meeting."
"Yaoyao, what are you talking about? Come back, let's talk about it when you come back." Zhuque stretched his arm towards the center of the lake, as if Yaoyao would come over and hold his hand. However, Yaoyao in the center of the lake sneered after seeing his anxious look.
I suddenly felt heartbroken, but it didn't seem to be because of Yaoyao.
I could still vividly remember how Suzaku had just appeared in the Knight Hall of the Black Knights Branch. Even the wound on Osto's face hadn't stopped bleeding. His angry look, the way he swore to protect the Red Knights Branch, and now the way he tried to reach out his hand but was laughed at, made my heart twitch.
"Yaoyao! Yaoyao, come ashore first and listen to me, listen to what I have to say, okay?" I also rushed over, stood beside Suzaku, and shouted to Yaoyao in the middle of the lake.
Yaoyao glanced at me and smiled, as if to reassure me. Then, she turned her gaze to Suzaku again and said in a loud and proud voice, "The TKG says that only the princess has the right to appoint and dismiss the Grand Knight, but I won't talk to you about the TKG today. May I ask you, Lord Suzaku, what is the first duty of the Grand Knight?"
"The first duty of a great knight..." Suzaku suddenly stopped talking in the middle of his speech, and spoke after a long while, "is to protect the princess."
"So..." Yaoyao smiled slightly, her smile was like a meteor across the sky, dazzling and heroic, "Anyone who protects the princess is qualified to become a great knight, and no one can deprive him of his glory, right?"
"..." After a moment of silence, Suzaku gritted his teeth and answered, "Yes."
"So..." Yaoyao turned her body towards Yunlark and stretched out her hand. After turning towards the person she loved most, her sad voice startled several migratory birds nesting in the woods.
"My knight, protect me." After shouting, Yaoyao's slender figure drew a deep red streak in the air and fell into the lake.
"Yaoyao!" screamed Suzaku, holding his hands over the railing. He was in great shape, and he was one of the best swimmers in TK. If he had to protect the princess, he would be the best and fastest one.
Then……
He froze right in front of me, standing on the other side of the railing. He was about one step away from jumping into the lake. He was neither moving forward nor backward, as if he was frozen in place.
On the other side of the lake, Yunlark jumped into the lake and swam towards the princess under everyone's gaze. He hugged Yaoyao tightly in the center of the lake, as if it were a scene from a movie.
In the lake, the big knight swam towards the shore holding the Red Princess in his arms. Under the gaze of everyone, he walked out of the water step by step holding the Red Princess in his arms.
At this moment, I seemed to hear applause, cheers, Yaoyao's laughter, and beautiful sounds that only appear at the end of a movie, but all of that did not belong to Suzaku. Everything was so far away from Suzaku, and so far away from where I was standing.
"Are you a fool? Are you an idiot? Aren't you the 400-meter swimming champion? Aren't you a hundred times better than that lark?" In the cold air, Osto's uncontrolled cursing was instantly drowned out by the sound of happiness.
"Won't you go and snatch that woman from him? You clearly know that woman is the key to everything. You clearly know that no matter what we do, it ca n't beat a word from that woman! Aren't you very powerful? You have to be unreasonable wherever you go, and you are so outstanding that people hate you? Takamiya Suzaku, say something! Say something!"
"You..." Suddenly, Ostu exhaled heavily, covered his face with his hands, the wound had cracked and blood was flowing again, and left angrily.
On the other side of the lake is a happy scene that moves people to tears. The knight who rebelled for the princess and the princess who risked her life for the knight, surrounded by knights in school uniforms, hugged each other and smiled in the sun.
On this side of the lake is the lonely Suzaku, me behind him, and the swing.
"Suzaku."
Qiu Qianyuan suddenly spoke, but Zhuque interrupted him and shook his hand: "The weather is too cold, Qianyuan, and you are in poor health. Go back."
"Suzaku, you..."
"I'm fine, fine." Zhuque shook his hands a few more times. Qiu Qianyuan sighed and finally chose to leave.
On the other side of the lake, I saw Yaoyao waving at me. She was soaked and shivering, but she smiled triumphantly at me and waved me over to enjoy victory and happiness with her.
I should go. Yaoyao is my only friend, the only person in this college who considers me a friend. I am Yaoyao's tomorrow, and I try to stay in this college for Yaoyao. I...
