Chapter 16

The banquet began.

Araki came out wearing complicated and cumbersome clothes that met the royal standards. He walked around the venue, changed out of the clothes he didn't like and was not used to, shook off the servants, and left the venue. The servants tried to stop him and whispered, "Where are you going?"

Araki asked, "I want to go to the highest point to take a look. Is that too much? This place is ordinary. You can't just keep blocking me. It's like you're hiding something from me."

The servants lowered their heads and dared not speak.

Araki walked out from in front of them. The queen passed by here, originally intending to look for someone, and found that Araki seemed to be leaving, so she walked over, stopped him and asked: "Where are you going?"

Araki told the truth: "I want to go to a higher place to breathe fresh air."

The queen thought he remembered something, but after a closer look, she found that he did not seem to be lying, so she breathed a sigh of relief and smiled gently at Araki: "Why don't we stay here? I will find you a beautiful noble lady to accompany you to walk around the nearby garden to relax, how about that?"

Araki shook his head: "I don't need them to accompany me, and they may not know the way, it's better for me to walk alone. Go out."

The queen hesitated: "That's right."

Araki asked: "Do you need me to go out later?"

The queen shook her head: "No."

Araki said: "That's good, I can go out."

The queen thought about it for a while, relaxed her vigilance and said: "Okay. You can go out, but I will send someone to protect your safety. It's impossible for you to leave the palace alone. You also know that it is more dangerous and chaotic outside than inside, right? Who knows what will happen! You didn't like to go out before. It's impossible for me to be so relieved and let you do whatever you want! Do you understand? "

If you don't want to listen to me, I won't allow you to go out. I can have someone stop you, tie you up, and throw you into the utility room to reflect.

Araki lowered his head and replied, "I know."

The queen smiled with satisfaction and said, "Good boy, it's great that you know how to be obedient."

Araki waited for the queen to leave, looked at the direction she was going, and quickly left the palace. The people behind him could hardly catch up with him.

His speed was not very fast, but a gust of wind blew over him, and he felt his heart pounding, as if he was not leaving the palace to have fun, but to find a destined gift. He was blocked by the queen and talked about his depressed mood, which suddenly disappeared with the wind. Now he felt that he was a little happy.

This happiness came inexplicably.

But Araki didn't think there was a problem.

He had already left the palace, slowed down, walked on the street, looked around, and found that there were happy people all around, and the air was filled with a happy atmosphere. He blinked, and the happiness suddenly became a little sad, as if he had tasted a sour and sweet hard candy.

Araki pursed his lips.

The servant came over cautiously and asked: "Your Highness, do you need to buy something?"

Araki glanced at him and asked: "Aren't I not allowed to buy things outside casually? It is said that I am afraid of eating an upset stomach."

The servant smiled and said: "If you like, it won't be a problem to eat a little. Her Majesty the Queen will understand you."

Araki sneered in his heart, I am afraid she won't.

But since someone had already proposed this suggestion, Araki thought about it and didn't think it was wrong, so he nodded and said to the servant: "Okay, I want a bag of candy, you buy it for me and take it back."

The servant nodded obediently and went to buy the candy.

Araki saw that the servant was not pretending to be standing on the roadside to buy things, so he turned around and disappeared into the crowd.

The servant was shocked: "Where did they go?"

The guard who had been following Araki whispered: "Maybe they went to a higher destination."

The servant breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "It's good that they are not lost."

Araki shook off the guard who had been following him, walked on the road, looked at the sky, and suddenly wanted to change his destination. Without hesitation, he walked to the garden. It was empty here, there were few people, no sounds, and even insects and birds seemed to be non-existent.

Araki felt a little strange, walked in and looked around, but he really didn't find anything.

He vaguely realized that something was wrong, but since there was nothing here, he walked away and planned to go somewhere else to play.

After all, a place that is so quiet as if all living things are dead is really not attractive.

When Araki walked out of the park, he looked behind him for some reason and suddenly saw the place where he caught the world of truth last time. Familiar memories flashed through his mind. He tried to recall that he did seem to have caught something here before. However, he was not interested in small animals. He also knew the situation of his family. What would he catch in the park if he had nothing to do?

Araki frowned. Although he suspected that the queen had tampered with his memory, he had no evidence and could not think of the reason. He felt a little uncomfortable in his heart and quickened his pace to leave here. He did not look at the road ahead and suddenly bumped into a passerby.

He quickly whispered, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Araki reached out his hand to hold up the man who staggered because of his collision, and asked, "Are you okay?"

The man raised his head, and Araki couldn't help but open his mouth slightly, a little stunned, his eyes firmly glued to the other's face, feeling emotional, no one has ever told me that there are such good-looking people in the world! Especially these eyes.

However, he didn't dare to look directly at those eyes, always feeling that they were inexplicably familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before, and they were particularly radiant, like clear and transparent spring water, and like a mirror that can see into people's hearts.

Araki lowered his eyes, but the world of truth did not lower its head again, looking straight at him, smiled and said, "Thank you, I'm fine."

Araki blushed a little, and whispered, "Really? I'm so glad you're okay!"

He still didn't dare to look, and just let go of the other's hand.

Zhenli World moved aside to increase the distance between them. Araki noticed that Zhenli World seemed to have sprained his ankle. He felt a sense of joy for no reason, but he dared not show it. He could only lower his head and hide his expression to avoid being seen by the other party and misunderstood that he was gloating.

"I have something else to do. I'm leaving first."

Zhenli World said.

When Araki heard that he was leaving, he felt nervous and quickly grabbed him and said, "Don't go!"

The world of truth staggered again, and this time he lost his balance and almost bumped into something nearby. Araki quickly held him down, walked around in front of him, and said with his head down, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."

The world of truth replied nonchalantly, "It's okay."

He asked, "Do you have anything else to say to me?"

Araki was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say. He grabbed the world of truth's wrist in a panic and asked, "Can you please not leave?"

After saying the first sentence, it was much easier to say the rest.

Araki stared at the world of truth and smiled a little. He meant to try to express his gentle kindness, but in fact, he didn't look in the mirror, so he didn't know. Now his smile looked like a gray wolf wagging its tail after luring a rabbit.

"I hope you can stay."

Araki said to the True World, "I think you look familiar, as if we have met somewhere before. Maybe we knew each other when we were children, but we haven't seen each other for a long time, so I can't recognize you. It's not that we are completely unrelated. Since you are someone I know, you must be my friend. I have no ill will towards you, and I want to be with you.

But if you leave today, I won't be able to find you."

He said it sincerely, as if he really knew the True World when he was a child and they were friends.

In fact, of course it was not as he said, but the World of Truth wanted to build a good relationship with him, and after hearing him say that, he immediately thought that this was also an opportunity, so he smiled and whispered: "To be honest, I also think you look familiar, as if we have met before. Since you said so, maybe things are as you said. I am willing to stay, but..."

He looked to the side hesitantly and did not finish.

Araki had been intrigued by his words, so he quickly pulled him, walked around, stood in front of him, blocked his gaze, and asked hurriedly, even a little panicked: "What's the matter? What do you need? What do you want to say? How can I help you?"

The World of Truth smiled at him, as if he was not thinking about anything, but just a little worried, and said softly: "It's not that I don't want to stay, it's just that I don't know where to live. I'm not from nearby and I have no place to live. Even if I am willing to play with you, it's useless. I'm happy that you want me to be your friend, but this is something I can't help." As

he spoke, he lowered his head, as if a little sad.

Araki thought about it and said quickly: "This is not difficult. Come with me. The place where I live is very big, and many people live there. They don't live with me, but they are very close. I think they should have some vacancies there and can make a room for you to stay."

He paused, as if he felt that it was not good to let his friend live in a servant's room. Out of courtesy, he said: "There is also an empty room next to my place. You can live next to me. In this way, we can talk and play together day and night, and no one can disturb us because it is my place. We can play as long as we want. Anyway, I won't be going to school recently."

The World of Truth seemed to be a little hesitant.

Araki was afraid that he would change his mind, so he quickly held his hand and said, "Let's make it like this! I am willing to share my house with you. If anyone asks me about it, I will say that you are my guest and I cannot neglect my close guests. It is completely in accordance with etiquette for you to live there."