Chapter 5: Naked Running, the Promise of the Three Knights 4
Today was a sunny day, but no matter how bright the sun was, it could not penetrate the almost transparent Red Knights Hall in the rose field . The three-story white house was filled with people wearing red school uniforms and golden swords that they would only wear on major holidays, filling up the not-so-small Knights Hall.
Osto had a white bandage on one side of his face, and he seemed to be in a bad mood, with his red hair standing up. Qiu Qianyuan was coughing and looking pale, standing opposite Osto. When he saw Osto, his face became worse and he turned around.
Passing through the woods, the white road ends at a flower field with withered flowers in winter.
Qiu Qianyuan and Osto were waiting at the end of the road, one on the left and one on the right, waiting for the arrival of the first knight of the Red Knight Branch.
Suzaku had been walking in a hurry, but he slowed down when he saw them at the end of the road.
Qiu Qianyuan glanced at me, smiled a little, and said, "Hey, now you have to admit that she is your new girlfriend, right, Dahong?"
"Qianyuan, are you kidding me? You still have the mind to gossip at this time!" Osto suddenly got angry, staring at Suzaku with red eyes, "Did you see? The knights of the entire Red Knight Branch are in that house! Do you know what is going to happen? Do you know? We are going to split up, the first knight!"
"The Red Knights' House is the house with the highest total points among the three Knights' Houses. It is the only house among the three Knights' Houses that actually has a princess. Why are we split? Why are we in this predicament? Takamiya Suzaku, are you mistaken? It's just a woman, isn't it? If you can't handle a woman, are you still a man?"
Osto's angry accusations seemed to be full of thorns. Those thorns might not hurt me, but I knew who they would hurt.
But the man seemed unmoved, his eyes slowly moved to Osto, and a smile seemed to appear on his face. How could he still smile at this moment?
"Osto, why are you telling me this?" Suzaku asked calmly, his eyes unimaginably gentle.
"Why?" Osto showed an incomprehensible expression and shouted even louder, "Why? Of course it's because you, an idiot, messed up everything! Aren't you the most powerful knight in our academy? Aren't you the smartest person in TK? You can't even handle a woman!"
"Osto, what does all this have to do with you?" Zhuque suddenly interrupted Osto, and all the expressions on Osto's delicate face were instantly frozen.
"Tell me, what does all this have to do with you?" Zhuque roared again, his body trembling and his shoulders shaking violently, as if he had used up the last of his strength.
"Don't you despise TK? Don't you look down on the Queen's Game? Don't you think we are all idiots? So, what does all this have to do with you? Tell me! Tell me!"
"I..." Osto couldn't say any more, he opened his mouth and looked at Suzaku. The two men, both with red eyes, stared at each other, as if they were going to stand against each other forever.
until……
"Because we are brothers!" The voice was so loud that Qiu Qianyuan started coughing violently, but he still insisted on continuing to speak, using his voice to break the last wall.
"Because we are brothers! Suzaku, Osto, we are brothers! We... are the three great knights of the Red Knights branch, and we have been like this since we were very young! You..."
Qiu Qianyuan looked at Osto and smiled, with sadness in his smile: "I remember that you became the third knight ten years ago. You were only ten years old at that time. And I was only twelve years old. Suzaku, you..."
"I was eleven years old. My parents died that year. Since that year, I have been with you. In this nasty TK Academy, I am the first knight! The first knight of the Red Knight Branch!" He said in a trembling voice. I didn't know if I should do this, but I couldn't stop myself from walking over, standing beside him and gently holding the trembling corner of his clothes. Because like him, I was also forced to come here at a very young age, taking on things . So, I thought he needed someone to accompany him, just like I needed someone to accompany me.
He looked at me with an emotion in his eyes that I couldn't identify. It frightened me and made me hesitate, but it couldn't make me let go of his hand.
"No matter how boring this game is, no matter if I want to be that ridiculous king or not, but... you are my brothers, and everyone in that house is also my brothers and sisters. I have no parents, and I have lived here since I was a child. No matter who they are, they are everything to me! You are everything to me! Everything I swear to protect!"
"So..." He choked, and suddenly, I found that the world in front of my eyes was blurred, as if covered with a layer of tears.
"Maybe I'm really annoying, but..."
"Shut up! Firebird!" Osto suddenly turned around and strode towards the rose field in front of him. "You are not just annoying, but your whole body is annoying! I hate you, hate you, hate you! But... I will not leave you, at this moment and at this moment!"
"But I swear..." Osto suddenly turned around, and I found crystal tears in his eyes.
"If you screw up this time, I'll make you disappear!"
"Me too!" Qiu Qianyuan smiled and turned to walk towards the rose field. "If you can't turn the tide, I will make you and your girlfriend disappear!"
"She is not my girlfriend, you bad guys!" Suzaku yelled, but his face was full of smiles.
"You are not my girlfriend, have you figured it out?" He said to me, lowering his head before heading to the battlefield. I looked up at this really annoying guy, and before I figured out what I was going to say, I said to him, "I know I am not your girlfriend, and I have never thought of being your girlfriend! But, from that night on, I am your bodyguard, so I will not leave you, until you personally cancel my bodyguard qualification, Master Takamiya Suzaku!"
"Okay, very good." He nodded and smiled, with a look in his eyes that made me addicted. Turning around, I felt my hand being held tightly, and then I was pulled by the hand and led to the white house in the flower field.
There, waiting for Suzaku will be a tsunami, but he seems unmoved, he never seems to be afraid, he seems...
He never seemed to back down.
