Chapter 156 The Call from the Queen
Suzuki Sonoko felt very guilty towards him.
During the days when this young lady insisted on going out to work, but it only increased his workload in vain, Akashi had a headache all day long.
Perhaps during the month she was asleep, under the oppressive environment and the pressure of unfamiliar humans, Akashi had inevitably developed a somewhat morbid and unreal love for his only "kindred spirit," Suzuki Sonoko.
——But thanks to those three days, this bit of love was almost exhausted.
【You should continue to sleep】
[You're a hundred times cuter when you're silent, Ms. Suzuki.]
[If you keep messing around, I'll throw you away.]
Similar thoughts have randomly occurred in my mind before.
But after realizing that it was not a random prank, or rather, after realizing that this guy was able to overcome such a great fear because of his guilt towards him, Akashi unexpectedly became a little strange.
——It seemed that since then, he could easily understand what Suzuki Sonoko was doing.
It can also be said that his senses no longer reject the information from Suzuki Sonoko.
She did not go to the production area again, but instead found a thin wooden board and charcoal pencils and began to paint seriously.
Those were all commonly used herbs, and she had to draw more than a dozen of them and distribute them to different teams so that they could go to the mountains to collect them for use.
The few opportunities to take a hot shower were generously given to him.
The food distributed would not starve anyone to death, but it was definitely wishful thinking to want to eat a lot. Suzuki Sonoko just felt hungry out of habit, but she would not die without eating. For her, eating was not a necessity.
So most of the time, Akashi Seijuro could get two people's worth of food by himself, which was just enough to fill the stomachs of a teenager in puberty.
She occasionally feels greedy, but most of the time she can control herself.
How to say it.
As for the words "I will support you for the time being", she really did it.
——Whenever she eats something delicious, she can't help but stare at Akashi.
The presence and oppression of that look were first-rate. Akashi-kun was really helpless under the gaze, so he tore off a pigeon leg and asked, "Do you want to eat it?"
Yuanzi fanned around like a tiger descending from the mountain, repelling all the aroma of oil and fat. He hugged his head frantically: "Please don't tempt me, I'm so greedy..."
As she spoke, her voice started to sob: "I finally managed to hold it back, why are you tempting me again?"
Akashi-kun:......
Akashi sighed, "Open your mouth."
Suzuki Sonoko opened her mouth with despair. Before eating, she was about to cry, but after biting the meat, tears immediately flowed like a fountain.
Because his expression was too exaggerated, Akashi was speechless: "Are you... so aggrieved?"
Yuanzi held her head and was about to shake her head, but the next second, she froze in place.
"Wait a minute," she was speechless. "Akagi-kun, you're not feeling touched, are you?"
"I'm not mistaken. Your eyes mean you're very touched, right?"
Akashi held up the pigeon leg and asked impatiently, "Do you still want to eat it?"
"This isn't a question of whether to eat or not, Akashi-kun, wake up and don't be so easily moved!"
"Whenever I wanted to do something before, I always considered the price I would have to pay. But you never thought about coming to this world, so you shouldn't have to suffer like this!"
"It's me who got you into trouble!"
"If you hadn't come here, wouldn't you have eaten anything? Why are you so moved by a pigeon? Wake up and think about your original personality. Aren't you a very cool person?"
"You're almost becoming a man who can be picked up by a pigeon. Hurry up and find yourself!"
After saying that, she banged her head against the pillar next to her in a frenzy, turned around and ran out of the house.
The refugees camped very densely and their numbers were so large that it was intimidating.
It was dinner time, and the air was filled with the (to Suzuki Sonoko) very unpleasant smell of food.
She walked around but there was nowhere to go. The time periods when she fainted had become increasingly unpredictable over the past few days. If she went too far, she was afraid she would never come back.
In fact, these few days were enough for Sonoko to find out the news about [Naotaka Komatsu].
However, the wise ruler who ruled the country for more than 500 years has become almost a legend now. People in other countries know very little about him. In addition, the class restrictions of the refugees mean that they can only judge that the king has lost his way from the "displacement" and "rampant demons".
——But they don’t know why they lost their way, and where the new king is.
It's very sad.
It was dark in a short while. Miss Suzuki sighed at the starry sky and went back to her hut to sleep.
Because the place was small, she and Akashi slept next to each other.
Every time before going to bed, Yuanzi would start talking non-stop.
The themes are all related to modern society - the purpose is to prevent Akashi Seijuro from adapting to the environment.
He could always go back. Just for the sake of living a more comfortable life for a few days, he tried hard to adapt to this wandering world, but ended up losing the ability to live in peacetime. It was not worth it no matter how you looked at it.
Retired veterans with PTSD are more likely to get into car accidents. Akashi-kun's personality must not be destroyed or influenced by the darkness of the refugee group.
She would even stubbornly call out his full name "Akagi Seijuro" during the chat session during this period.
Akashi-kun probably realized this, so he patiently answered every question she asked, even the game that Luo Shan lost, and he recalled and repeated it again and again.
As a result, she was the one who fell asleep today.
Akashi Seijuro turned around and looked at her seriously for the first time.
Refugees, especially a group of refugees who don’t know when their king will return, are destined to be gray.
Even if they received certain arrangements and assistance, as long as the future was uncertain, a sense of insecurity would always linger over the camp.
But Suzuki Sonoko is bright white.
Even Akashi once had the dark thoughts that "day after day is meaningless" and "today is just like yesterday". In comparison, Miss Suzuki, who chatters a lot of nonsense every day, is more than just bright.
She is so colorful.
As the flames flickered, my heartbeat also slowed down.
——Akagi Seijuro is very clear-headed. The suspension bridge effect can create an illusion of heartbeat.
The girl's peaceful sleeping face was just a finger's length away. Akashi felt that his aesthetic sense did not show the abnormal fluctuations she was worried about, because now he still knew clearly that Miss Suzuki was not a perfect beauty.
Just looking at it...it's quite cute.
——This change is inevitable, because uncontrollable emotions are indeed easy to develop in a confined space.
The girl didn't know what she was dreaming about. Her brows furrowed a little, and she hummed slowly, still biting her lower lip in her sleep.
It's really full of light...
Akashi reached out and touched her lips; they were still shiny and soft. Just looking at her appearance, one would never guess that she had spent more than a month in the refugee camp.
How about a kiss?
Akashi quickly dismissed the idea.
——Humans are social creatures. After being isolated and suppressed for a long time, they will naturally develop a desire to touch the skin of their own kind.
With the crisp sound of the fire crackling, Akashi Seijuro fell back onto the straw on his side, his palms pressed against his chest, and looked leisurely at the low roof.
None of this is real, he thought, it's all an illusion created by the environment.
It's his physiology that's trying to deceive his psychology.
What's so cute about Suzuki Sonoko, a person who will either die or be injured if you get in touch with her?
The fact that he's lying here right now might be a retribution for repeatedly talking to her...
By the way, if you sleep together, to what extent will you be punished?
Although he was thinking about such horrifying things before going to bed, Akashi slept unexpectedly well without any nightmares that night.
But Suzuki Sonoko never got up again.
Her body temperature suddenly started to rise in the early morning, and she began to hit her head unconsciously again.
Because it was already daybreak, Akashi wasn't sure if it was his illusion.
——He saw a very strong white light on her.
It was like a glow stick that was about to run out of battery, flickering and erratic. Because the light was too dim, even his different-colored eye could not be distinguished.
This dragged on until the evening of the third day, and Suzuki Sonoko was still in a coma.
Their food was distributed again, and the one who delivered it was still the talkative young lady.
After the young lady entered the room, she stood in the corner of the room and looked for a long time before she hesitantly suggested, "Do you... want to go find some herbs?"
After saying the first sentence, the rest fell into place: "If it's just a fever, drinking more water might help. The officials from Yan State who govern nearby have sent people who can dig wells. It's very convenient to get water now. It's just—"
"unnecessary."
The red-haired boy's voice remained unchanged as he calmly rejected her.
——It would be a miracle if drinking water could help with her problem.
After hearing this, the young lady's face turned dark and she stomped her feet in anger.
"I didn't expect you to be such a heartless person!"
After saying that, he turned and ran away.
In fact, she regretted it not long after she ran out, and she felt very conflicted: You see, from the very beginning, the girl was in a coma and a burden, and the boy did not abandon her and run away, and the worry he showed when taking care of her did not seem fake.
The most accurate way to judge a person's character is to look at what he has done.
Maybe he was just worried about his loved one and didn't want to be away from him?
Or maybe he knew what kind of illness she had and knew that water was useless...
Thinking of this, the young lady turned around and returned to the thatched hut in less than a quarter of an hour.
"I'm sorry," she hesitated, standing by the door. "I talk too much, but being sick is a serious matter!"
Akashi thought to himself, of course I know that being sick is very serious, but you don’t have any antibiotics here - even if you did have antibiotics, they wouldn’t be able to cure her miraculous disease, right?
Just continue not answering.
The young lady thought he didn't believe her. Even if he was an immortal, he must be seriously ill after being in a coma for so long. She pursed her lips and said, "I know you have concerns..."
"It is said that the new king of Qing has returned from Penglai and will ascend the throne soon. The chaos will not last much longer, so the king of Yan will send a second large-scale wave of supplies tomorrow."
"There are several doctors who are said to be high-ranking officials traveling with them. You can take her to see them when the time comes..."
The young lady's voice became lower and lower, until it was almost inaudible.
Akashi grasped the information point keenly.
He now had a general understanding of the worldview and knew that the "Penglai" and "Kunlun" they mentioned referred to Japan and China in their own world respectively.
In other words, the white-haired man in black ancient costume that he saw in the teaching building was indeed the Qilin in charge of selecting the king that these people talked about day after day.
So that red-haired girl named Nakajima-something, Akashi thought unexpectedly coldly, is that actually the new Prince Qing?
When I came back to my senses, the young lady's expression standing by the door had changed from hesitation to embarrassment.
Akashi actually didn't hear what she said next.
He thought that the time was almost up and Suzuki Sonoko should start to have an attack - if she was seen in that state, she might be ostracized and isolated by people who didn't understand her - after all, fainting could be considered a relatively beautiful illness, but going insane was clearly a creepy illness.
If she was isolated in this unfamiliar place, Akashi would basically have no chance of getting her back.
So he quickly sent the young lady away.
As a result, they even gave up the worldview information revealed by the other party in casual conversation.
The next evening, Suzuki Sonoko was still unconscious.
But compared to the previous two days, she was obviously quieter.
Akashi was yawning and leaning against the thin "wall", stirring the water in the clay pot from time to time, when he suddenly heard a loud noise outside.
It’s not time for dinner yet, are you getting too restless?
As the noisy sound got closer, Akashi suddenly had an idea. He remembered that the lady yesterday evening said that a doctor would come today. He thought, no way, did that person go to find a doctor on his own initiative?
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that it was too nosy and prepared to go out to deal with it.
Although he still had a vague understanding of the worldview at this time, he was much more comfortable facing the old village chief than when he first arrived. He could fool a few people, probably -
"No problem..."
As the curtain was slowly lifted, the red-haired Akashi-kun stood in front of the thatched hut, muttering to himself and stunned.
The noise in front of the door was far from what he had imagined.
The "gray" crowd dispersed far away. At first glance, there was a long-lost sense of comfort and spaciousness, as if even the setting sun in the sky had become much bigger.
Occupying the center of vision is a procession that is both solemn and unrestrained.
The huge flying horses pulled the dark carriage frame, and the thin curtains rustled in the wind. With the shaft as the boundary, half of the carriage was on the ground and half in the sky. The soldiers and horses lined up in formation were clearly in their places and in a serious posture, but when the unruly carriage frame rushed forward, there was a magical feeling of nonchalant seriousness.
Looking at this army, I have a strange feeling that it is like its master...
The "master" was also in mid-air.
He was sitting on the shaft of the cart, which was painted black, but from his attire, it was obvious that he was not a coachman.
Next to the man stood a "horse" with soft white fur, and he raised his hand to pluck its horns as if bored - now, Akashi knew that it was a Qilin.
Then the one who can touch the Qilin and make it roar can only be the king.
Akashi thought that according to the lady who delivered the meal, they were actually staying in the land of Yan Country.
Then this man should be Prince Yan.
Prince Yan...
The rumored Prince Yan, who was quite famous, jumped down naturally from mid-air and let out a whooshing sound when he landed.
He stretched lazily without any manner, and the wind blew suddenly, lightly taking away the dissolute air on him. When he looked again, his long robe fluttered, his crown and belt swayed, and he actually had a somewhat inexplicable imposing aura.
Between the man's arms, there was a gold-plated wooden box. It looked very valuable, but looking at the casual posture of the man holding the thing, you would think it was nothing special.
But this does not affect the objective fact that it is indeed precious.
The box contains the book of earthly immortals.
——Officials in the twelve countries can obtain immortal status, and the way the king grants immortal status is to write the person’s name in the Book of Earthly Immortals.
At this moment, Prince Yan stood in front of the thatched cottage and lightly opened the lid: the books inside were ordinary, but clean and full of weight.
This ordinary book records the names of all the earthly immortals in Yan Kingdom.
And there are only two on the homepage.
The first is the current owner of this book, Prince Yan, who is in charge of the imperial edict.
【Komatsu Naotaka】
Next to it, another name whose ink had faded for nearly five hundred years was now emitting bursts of golden light from time to time.
【Suzuki Sonoko】
Komatsu Naotaka copied the wooden box, adjusting his direction step by step as the light of the name changed. After nearly a quarter of an hour, he finally strolled leisurely to the thatched hut.
"Could you please move aside for a moment?"
The handsome Prince Yan raised his hand and waved to the red-haired boy who seemed to be stunned in front of him.
"My queen seems to be in this room behind you."
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