Chapter 5: Naked Running, the Promise of the Three Knights 5
There was a lot of noise. Before I even entered the house, my ears were already buzzing with the noise. At this moment, someone in the house was the first to see . Then, no one said a word in an instant. The whole white house, no... it should be the whole world, was so quiet that it was suffocating.
"Please come in." Qiu Qianyuan, who was standing at the door, opened the door for Zhuque. Zhuque nodded and looked at him, then released the hand that had been tightly holding mine and walked in.
He walked through the crowded crowd. Everyone automatically made way for him the moment they saw him, revealing a passage specially prepared for him, allowing him to walk all the way to the center of the Knight's Hall, to the center of the hall surrounded by a circular staircase, and to the red sofa that belonged to him.
He walked over there and stood beside his sofa, followed by Osto and Qiu Qianyuan. I followed them cautiously, and when I saw Qiu Qianyuan's gesture to me, I quietly stood in a corner of the crowd.
This almost completely transparent building has a spiral ring structure, like the Colosseum in ancient Rome. The second and third floors are also ring-shaped, surrounding the central circular hall. All the students of the Red Knights Branch, 588 people, except for Skylark, are here at the moment. Some of them are crowded in the super hall on the first floor, and some are standing behind the railings on the second and third floors, looking down at the three knights in the center of the hall.
There seemed to be the sound of regular breathing in the air, one after another, because no one in the room was speaking.
"Okay, today I will convene an emergency special meeting of the Red Knights branch..." Zhuque's Y country aristocratic accent sounded again. I am too familiar with his accent. As long as I am a student of the Red Knights branch, I can hear his Y country aristocratic accent every time there is a meeting.
But today is different.
"Suzaku!" Osto interrupted Suzaku and looked at him with an unhappy look on his face, "Please, stop talking nonsense today!"
Zhuque was about to argue when Qiu Qianyuan beside him turned around and walked over, tears still in her eyes: "Zhuque, listen to him, that tone is really annoying!"
"I..." After another silence, the handsome fellow named Suzaku, who always had an aristocratic demeanor and was always so elegant that it was annoying, raised his head under the gaze of more than 500 people, his voice trembling and no longer gorgeous.
"You all know it now! Princess Red doesn't like me. I don't know why, she just doesn't like me! I also know that you don't like me either!"
Today I finally saw what it means to be a broken jar and give up. But why is he so cute when he is like this? I don’t understand. I really don’t understand myself more and more.
"I once asked myself, have I done anything wrong?" Suzaku walked slowly, looking at everyone, "I started living alone in this academy when I was eleven years old, remembering all the rules and abiding by them. You may have forgotten, or you may not care, that I am the knight with the highest points in this academy. The points of the Red Knights branch have never been surpassed by them, even when the Demon King Sakura Ranshige was in charge of the Black Knights branch!"
"I don't understand why you all don't like me. I've suffered, but none of you have ever thought that I would suffer too. Humph..."
With a sneer, Suzaku looked around at everyone with his beautiful big eyes before continuing, "I'm telling you, I don't care about this anymore! It doesn't matter whether you like me or not, because I am your number one knight no matter what! My identity and my last name have long been determined. Whether the princess likes it or not, and even whether I like it or not, as the only heir to the Takamiya family, I am the number one knight here! No one can replace me!"
No one argues, because he is truly irreplaceable.
"So... now, we..." Suzaku smiled bitterly, bitter tears welling up in his eyes, "we actually don't have a princess anymore. Because I... because I'm really unpleasant, and the woman I love doesn't even want to look at me, because I'm really useless. Now, it's the same as not having a princess."
"You may choose to support the Black Princess and Fujiwara Hide, or you may choose to die with Cisse. But..."
Looking at everyone, Suzaku shouted out the words hidden in his chest in a hoarse voice: "Here, I beg you to give me another chance! I don't know if I can win back the princess, and I don't know how to win back the princess! The person who took her away is my brother, I don't know what to do! But, I ask you to give me one last chance, give me a month to turn everything around. Don't let the Red Knights split up, don't separate from your friends, stand in different camps, and don't let go of each other's hands. It's my fault that we have come to this point, so please give me another chance, I only need one month! One month! Please believe in me again! Believe in Takamiya Suzaku!"
No one spoke, and it seemed like no one was even breathing.
"Me!" someone suddenly said, loud enough to make the whole house shake.
"Osto, the third greatest knight of the Red Knights branch, the one who always chooses other great knights at every monthly meeting, the one !" Osto drew his sword, turned around, knelt on one knee, raised the sword to his chest and said loudly, "I hereby declare that I will be unconditionally loyal to Takamiya Suzaku. For one month, you will be my only king!"
"I!" the second person said loudly - Qiu Qianyuan drew his sword, turned around and knelt on one knee facing Suzaku.
"Qiu Qianyuan will always stand by you, Suzaku! I will never regret it!"
After the oath, they stood up and stood together. The Knights' Hall was still ruled by silence. No third person's voice was heard for a long time. Instead, the sound of small conversations began to spread in the room like the buzzing of flies.
The decision may be easy for the great knights, because they are all proud children of big families, and 5 million central dollars is nothing to them, but there are many, many students in TK whose total assets are only 5 million central dollars, or even less than 5 million central dollars, including me who was expelled twice.
I felt like I had to say something, and I was wondering if I should speak up.
Suddenly, Qiu Qianyuan swung his sword down fiercely, and his firm and sharp eyes slowly swept across everyone's face.
"What are you still hesitating about? What will you lose in a month? Many people here have been with us for a long time, some for more than ten years. Why can't you give us a month? Believe in Suzaku, believe in your great knight! Believe in us!"
"If..." He smiled. Even at such a tense moment, the smile on his face still looked reassuring and warm.
"If we really fail, if we really can't save the princess and turn the tide..."
Qiu Qianyuan smiled, looked back at the great knight behind him, and said to everyone: "The three of us will run naked around TK Academy to apologize. And you can choose your new princess and great knight then!"
"Hey, hey, hey! Jubai-san, what is streaking?" Suzaku and Osto shouted almost at the same time.
Qiu Qianyuan smiled slightly, completely ignoring them, and shouted to everyone present: "We only need one month! Let's call it the last madness! In this month, let us be together, as close as brothers and sisters, advancing and retreating together, and living and dying together!"
"I am willing to believe you! Great Knight Qiu Qianyuan, Osto, Suzaku!" Someone in the crowd said loudly. Then, as if a virus was spreading - "I am willing too!"
"Isn't it just one month?"
"I do!"
"Senior Qianyuan, I want to see you running naked!" a girl shouted.
"If you lose, you really will have to run naked! Just one month!" someone else shouted.
"I do!"
"You must run naked!"
"I do!"
Tears blurred my eyes. In the crowd, I saw Suzaku turning his head to look at me, his beautiful big eyes staring at me intently.
"You must run naked!" I shouted at him loudly, "Takamiya Suzaku, I am yours this month!"
"Suzaku, your girlfriend just said that she is yours this month." As soon as I finished shouting, Qiu Qianyuan patted Zhuque's shoulder with a gossipy look on his face and started talking.
Hey... so many people are shouting in the house, does Qiu Qianyuan have special abilities? How does he know which sentence I shouted? What should I do? In the middle of the crowd, Zhuque's face has turned red. I think my face is not much better. Come on, more people, drown me out with your voice!
"I do!"
"Three Knights! We are willing!"
"I do!"
"We do!"
"The entire Red Knight House is willing!"
