Chapter 9: The Promise Made Ten Years Ago 3
"Stop! Stop it right there!" Skylark shouted and rushed to the front of the excavator, running back and forth on both sides, using his body to block the excavator that was about to rush over.
"Stop! Suzaku, stop!" Yun Que turned and looked at Suzaku. The sound of the excavator was roaring and rumbling, as if thunder was rolling past us.
Yun Que was standing between two smoking excavators. His body became very small in front of the tall machines, as if he could be crushed at any time. Yaoyao rushed to Yun Que again and hugged him tightly.
"Takamiya Suzaku, I don't allow you to do this. If you want to continue, go ahead. But do you want to kill the Red Princess? Do you want to kill me?"
"Yaoyao, this is none of your business, please leave." Zhuque said loudly. I looked at him, then at Princess Red and Yunque. I didn't know what the outcome of what was happening now would be, but when my mind became clear again, I had already walked to Princess Red, hugged her, and pulled her aside.
Yaoyao screamed and struggled desperately in my arms.
"Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!" she yelled at me. Every word was like a knife stabbing into my heart, but I didn't let go. I didn't know if what I was doing was right, and I didn't know why I trusted the man named Takamiya Suzaku without hesitation.
All I know is that no matter how painful it is, I have to hold the person in my arms tightly.
all I want……
"Let Suzaku do it. He is the one who loves Yun Que the most in the world. He won't hurt Yun Que. He won't..."
"What do you know? What do you know? Yun Que will get hurt. He knows nothing and can do nothing!" Yao Yao yelled, her hands turned into fists and she punched me desperately, "Traitor, you traitor! You don't listen to me, you are not my friend! I don't need you anymore! I don't need you anymore!"
Her fists landed on my face, shoulders, and body. The beatings hurt so much, but not as much as her words.
"Yaoyao, I am your friend, believe me, please believe me..."
"You are not my friend! You are just my guard, a servant, a servant!" Such words kept coming out of her mouth. Suddenly, my brain seemed to be hit hard and I fell into a brief coma.
Yaoyao said more hurtful words to me. Her words became blurred in my ears and her appearance was no longer clear in front of my eyes. Instead, the cry of the skylark and the expression of the red bird in the distance seemed to be right next to me.
"Don't touch my books! Don't touch my library! Don't..." Pushing away the cold mechanical bucket with his flesh and blood, Yun Que retreated step by step to the door of his library and used his body to protect the door, as if he could protect his library in this way, as if no one would ever take his things away.
"Protect our great knight, Takamiya Yun Que is our great knight! Great knight!" Suddenly, someone in the crowd shouted, and several young men in red school uniforms rushed out of the crowd. They were members of Yun Que's personal guard, and they were knights who swore to protect Yun Que.
Holding hands, the boys and girls divided into two teams and stood in front of the large excavator. Facing the machine that could easily crush them, they shouted in unison: "If you want to get through, go over us! Gao Gong Yun Que is our great knight, our great knight!"
"You guys..." Yun Que froze at the door of the library, his eyes slowly sweeping over the knights who stood in the most dangerous place for him.
"Perhaps you have forgotten us." One of the young men turned to look at Yun Que and said to him with red eyes, "You have forgotten you and us, the members of the Royal Guard, but we will not forget you, and we will not forget the oath we once made, which is to protect you! We..."
"Knights of the Red Knights Branch!" Suddenly, a louder voice took over and said loudly to Skylark, "We will not forget any promises we have made, and we will not forget any knight who has held hands with us! Protect our friends, protect all those who need us, this is what a great knight should do!"
"So..." The person who spoke at this time, the person whose voice was louder than anyone else, was none other than Suzaku.
He waved his hand again, his movements were elegant and gorgeous, and his voice was that strange aristocratic accent of Country Y. He held his head high, and said loudly with his usual annoying arrogance: "Before I crush their bodies, cherish your time! Great Knight Gao Gong Yun Que! Prove that their choice was not wrong, prove that you are a true knight! Prove it to them... Prove it to me!"
"Why? Your...brother..."
After hesitating at the door for a few seconds, Yun Que suddenly rushed into his library, and when he ran out, his hands were full of books. He rushed out, threw all the books on the ground, and rushed back again desperately.
When he rushed out again, his arms were full of books again, so many and so heavy that his wrists were red. But he put the books down and rushed in again without even taking a breath.
My brain gradually regained clarity as Yunque took out book after book and threw it on the ground, and my ears gradually began to hear what Yaoyao, who was hugging me in my arms, said again.
"Let me go! I want to help Skylark. Skylark can't do it. Skylark..."
"Skylark can do it!" I lowered my head and met Yaoyao's eyes again, even though she didn't want to see me anymore, even though she would never be gentle to me again.
"Takamiya Hibari can do it!" I said loudly to the person in my arms, "He can do it! Can't you see? He is fighting now! He is fighting for himself and for you with everything he can! Believe in him!"
"You don't understand, you don't understand..."
"You don't understand! Yaoyao!" I heard my voice trembling, and I felt my heart pounding. "Give him a chance to fight, okay? Don't even deprive him of the chance to fight! Xisai can trust him, Suzaku can trust him, why can't you? You are the person he loves most in the world, why can't you? You can disrespect anyone, but how can you disrespect him?"
Looking at Skylark who was desperately moving the books, I said to the person in my arms again: "Believe in him! Believe that he can do it. He is not an idiot, nor is he an insignificant knight. He is the Skylark you chose, the person you chose! No one in this world is insignificant, no one! He is proving this with his life. Believe in him! Believe in him!"
Believe me! Yaoyao, why don't you believe me?
Why don't you even give me a chance, a chance to prove that I am worthy of your trust and that I am your best friend?
Believe me!
Were those words said for Takamiya Hibari or for myself?
I raised my head and looked at Suzaku again, and saw that his eyes were determined and his upright body carried an extraordinary aura that no one in this academy could underestimate.
He always knew he could do it, he always knew he could fulfill the promise he made ten years ago.
