After his conversation with Rhys, Kazuya tried to get some sleep. The only reason he came here was to search for Lyn, anyway..As Kazuya walked around, he found himself purged into deep thoughts. Even though he knew Lyn was safe and sound now. He still regretted what had happened.
He truly is sorry; he could not keep his word. He said, "until the day comes, I will protect you." Kazuya heard the full story from the others, and although he was surprised. He figured as much. From the start, the knights of order since coming to the castle seemed to be completely unedge. So one of the knights who were tortured ended up turning against Lyn and is most likely perpetrator of the attacks. What a complicated situation, but indeed it isn"t something they could easily broadcast out loud. After all, it would place suspicion on all knights of order from any side.
Even though Kazuya had his suspicions, he couldn"t act on it. How could he?
She had been taken. Even though he was in the area close by, and he had done nothing to keep her safe. Being praised for his agility and martial arts… and for what exactly? What use did those skills have if he wasn"t even able to put up with one man?
A deep sigh escaped his lips instead of wallowing in his failure again. He should figure out how to contact Lyn. A couple of hours had gone by already, and it was nightfall.
"If there are soldiers there will be fame.
If there is fame there will be fraud.
Soldiers know fraud. Soldiers know fraud.
Where there is trouble, there are heroes.
There are beautiful women. . .
. . surviving the turmoil and disaster.
If there are soldiers there will be fame.
If there is fame, there will be fraud.
Soldiers know fraud. Soldiers know fraud."
Kazuya followed the direction of the voice and spotted auburn mid-length hair by the sh.o.r.e playing the Qin. His footsteps were too loud since the King turned in his direction.
"Forgive me. I did not intend to eavesdrop. I shall take my leave," Kazuya didn"t want to end up having yet another awkward conversation with the King. The one who brought him back to the Mist castle was King Daichi. He felt very embarra.s.sed after what happened last time.
Daichi shook his head and pointed to the bottle, "Kazuya, care to join me?"
Kazuya awkwardly nodded and sat opposite the auburn colored haired man. From what he heard from the others, Lyn was quite close to him. But, even her father, who cares for her, couldn"t save her from being isolated. The King opened up a new bottle. It seemed like he had been out drinking for quite some time now.
"Do you drink? You handle yourself quite well." Daichi commented. Though he just started to drink, Kazuya drank three cups right away.
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Daichi smiles, "Indeed, your current one would say the same too. You know that soldiers fraud and even this Qin? It belongs to Lyn."
"Lyn"s?"
"That"s right. Although she had no interest in her princess lessons, she was already showing strange signs of musical talent then. Whenever she was playing the Qin, she looked simply beautiful and dazzling. She shamed her elder sister quite a bit on that department."
Now that he thought about it, Lyn always went on about how she strangely had musical talent.
As the King began to tell the tale of how she first started playing, a sudden thought - no something he had always been thinking about returned to him. He wishes he could have seen her growing up, how she was like when she was a princess at a young age. How beautiful was she, and if even back then, she showed such interesting expressions. It"s something he has always been thinking about, especially when one by one, all the original knights of order showed up.
If he remained with her at that time, if he didn"t escape, could he have seen more? Would he have learned more about her?
His thoughts broke when he found the King scanning him up and down. What he"s doing is extremely rude, but Kazuya didn"t want to start a fight since he invited him over.
"Is something the matter?"
"No, no, I just thought that your my daughter"s type aren"t you?"
At that, he could not hide the issuing red color in his cheeks. "What are you saying…." Kazuya stammered, completely embarra.s.sed.
"Because I asked her before, "What kind of person would you like to marry?" And she answered with, "Of course I would like a brave, charismatic and modern-day hero.""
". .that description fits any other knight." he murmurs.
"True. But calling those other men heroes doesn"t seem to click. Especially, Allen, he isn"t the hero type."
Kazuya sweat fell at that comment.
"Kazuya, I believe you are such an existence to my daughter. Although I haven"t seen your interactions with her, from what I"ve heard from others and how you"ve been acting since her disappearance, I can tell that you two had something special."
"But I could not protect her. I"m sure you"ve heard from the others already. But I failed." Kazuya said as he clenched his fist, "I do not deserve to be her knight."
Even now, Kazuya couldn"t forget the image of what happened that day. How could he have allowed himself to get poisoned? Poisoned or not, he should have stopped her. How could he have allowed her to fight, and get herself badly injured doing so?
"And that"s where you"re wrong."
Kazuya blinked in confusion at the King"s words.
"All of us failed to protect her," Daichi stood up and extended his hand out, "Only she can decide whether your worthy or not. And if we"re going to ask her opinion when she gets back, the answer is obvious, isn"t it?"
Kazuya doesn"t say anything and yet clasped hold of his hand. "Are you considering me as a candidate now?"
The King laughed. "I"ve always considered you as one."