Atlas Double Star Book

The author has something to say: [Summary]:

The teacher decided to leave Neil and go to the library in the mountains.

Neil returned home and found that his home was searched and the Knights were under control.But Trand was inexplicably arrested.

It doesn't make sense... It doesn't make any sense at all, Trand was captured, the Knights were controlled, and they didn't know why!The more Neil thought about it, the angrier he became.

Just when Neil was walking through the cold alley in a trance, a golden streak captured him.

The two dirty boys looked up too, and through the darkness and layers of drying sackcloth, the scene was fixed—the golden dome of the Night Palace was dazzling.

Neil was stunned for a few seconds, reminding himself not to be distracted.But the fluttering golden snake and the blue imperial flag immediately made him angry, and the twin tail-biting snakes symbolizing imperial power?It's ridiculous. Trande and the knights wore golden snake rings on their chests. They fought hard against the barbarians for a whole year in that kind of icy and snowy place where birds don't lay eggs. They only came back victorious yesterday. Today, they were told that they had sinned deeply and had to hand over the snake rings. And saber, awaiting judgment in a dungeon?Neil never bothered about why they fought, after all, Trander had warned him time and again that knights were thugs raised by nobles and lords, and they were not qualified to pick and choose who they fought with.

But now, he was angry from the bottom of his heart.Those people are not qualified to treat Trand like that, no.

Neil wanted to go back to save Trand, but he just ran two steps and then turned his head. This is not what he should do now, and the Knight Commander would not want him to do this.

How to do?

As the strong wind blew through the narrow alley, the washerwoman hurriedly held down the quilt that would not be able to be clamped in time, and the two children grabbed each other's short coats with torn pockets, the door slammed shut, and the palace remained intact.

An old servant wandered around the corner, with a basket full of fresh oysters and green shells in his hands. I'm afraid that even if his down-and-out master doesn't earn [-] gold shields a year, he can't even afford to hire a new housekeeper. It is still necessary to maintain the extravagance of the appearance, and to buy seafood at least [-] gold shields when holding a banquet.Behind the old man were two young girls with flowers in their arms, both wearing starched white smocks, the one with the black hair looked very unwell, as if he had been poisoned by seafood?Maybe she was pregnant, Neil thought. It is not easy to be a maid, especially in the north... warlike races do not value weakness.

The old housekeeper sternly said: "You are really going to be a princess, and you can't even hold a few bouquets of flowers! Be careful, the flowers you hold are four times more expensive than these oysters... It's almost winter, except for those who buy them from the south Where can I find it?"

It seems that they have just returned from the Golden Horn, where Omega merchant ships gather. Neil and the Duke both like to go there. Omega merchants seldom sell novelties like Western Plateau merchants, but they The quality of the goods is not to be picked.Neil suddenly had an idea, at least he didn't have nowhere to go now.

The young men stalked the way, hiding from patrols and knights like thieves and drug dealers.It was the same with him in the past. Compared to going out to fight, Neil prefers to patrol the city. This will give the illusion that he is guarding people.Neil understands that this is an illusion. Knights are just tools of the nobles, and they are the pawns of violence. He has personally seen the burning barbarian villages, and seen those light-haired children being driven into the ice field...Neil doesn't want to think about it anymore, he is not Now that I have a child, I shouldn't have expected anything from this job.

"But..." Neil spread his hands.

He came to the Golden Horn Port in the southwest of the imperial capital. The bay was as noisy as usual, with large sails everywhere, pedestrians coming and going, all kinds of goods were put into wooden boxes, ox carts, and baskets, the smell of the sea mixed with the smell of wine and flowers, dark skin The West Highland women traveled among sailors, merchants, priests and beggars.The merchant ships in the country of the archipelago all use the same color of sails—Omega blue, and the bows are all carved with narwhals, which symbolize royal power. However, it is not easy to identify Omega merchants from their appearance. Their appearance is not special. , and pay attention to do as the Romans do, always like to wear local clothes to hide their southern accent.Only when they are with their kindred do they reveal their true nature.

Neil is still observing, he has to choose the most powerful Omega businessman among them, only this kind of person knows the importance of the name he is about to announce.

It's a pity that the Omegas don't use coats of arms, except for the royal family.

Neil paid attention to the sailors and cargo, trying to find out which merchant ship the servants of the Sybyl nobles went to and from.He saw a big black ship, and the sailors were loading, sable, weasel, beaver, fox, and wool... It could be seen that they were all the best goods from the Empire, but these were by no means It's going to be sold to Omega, after all, it's hot in the south.Another ship was unloading flowers, and the buyers demanded an astonishing amount, probably enough to fill the living room of Neil's house. Could it be that they were preparing for a wedding?Neil narrowed his eyes and saw the family crest - the golden lion of holy light, which belonged to the Coronet family... then it's not surprising.

In the end, he chose a medium-sized Omega merchant ship, because it didn't look like a cargo ship, more like a passenger ship.The boat was moored quietly in the corner, and the noise was never disturbed.Neil took a closer look, and became even more certain that the ship was a residence for high-ranking people.

So Neil came to the front of the boat and told them, "I'm a friend of Mr. Kaloyalo."

Eggben planned to go to see Trand, but the Duke was preoccupied and insisted on rushing to the Golden Horn.

He received a confidential letter.

The carriage stopped at the port.The Pisgah lay where she was, plain as a shepherd in the heavy shadow of masts and sails.This is the boat that Amir prepared for him.Kaloyalo was very happy to see it again, and the familiar Omega merchants saluted him one after another.

"I'll wait for you here," said Egg.

"No, come with me this time." Kaloyalo said to the black knight.

Sure enough, the cabin is decorated with black iris, mountain stream Lycoris, and pure black-striped tulips that Kaloyalo loves.Usually these dark flowers would please him, but now he just felt overwhelmed.The Duke sighed, and sat on the soft sofa he was familiar with, where several blue thistles that are common in the south were planted.They are still alive?These wild flowers were given to him by Amir himself when he left Omega last year.

Egg folded his arms and admired the flowers all over the house, but it was just out of politeness, and he was used to this kind of ostentation since he was a child.

They did not wait long before the captain led the man out.

"Neil...?" Egg looked at the greasy-clothed young man with ashes on his face, as if he was a cook in a tavern.

Neil's face was pale, and he asked Egg hesitantly, "You don't know... do you?"

"Say." Egg was inexplicably irritable.

"Someone's trying to kill Trand, they're going to take him..."

After a few seconds of silence, Egg asked, "Where is it?"

The Duke was so frightened that he hastened to hold back his knight, because Egg had even drawn his sword.

"Egg, you, calm down!" The Duke was so frightened that he kept touching the knight's back and said anxiously, "You can't go over there and kill them, you don't even know who is killing Trand, and..."

"It's nothing more than my father's old party," Egg paused, "I'll fix it."

"No, no, master, calm down, calm down, and... Mr. Kaloyalo was the one who guaranteed you at that time, and now if you commit a crime, the Duke will be implicated!" Neil hurriedly blocked the black knight.

"..."

Taking advantage of this time, the Duke told them all the known news: the magic flag was dead, and Trand was accused of murder.

Neil just found it incredible, it was difficult for him to connect Sybil with death.

"They said that the magic flag was killed by a woman, a female body collector. She was preparing specimens for the crown prince in the dungeon, and then the magic flag came without guards, and the woman took the opportunity to assassinate him. They said I found a letter from Trande at the murderer's residence... saying that Trand ordered this woman to kill the magic flag."

Egg interrupted: "It's nonsense. Would Trand be such an idiot? To kill someone and write a letter? Huh."

The duke said: "They can make as much of this so-called 'evidence' as they want, don't you know? But...Trand is also the head of the Royal Knights after all, and he is directly subordinate to His Majesty. Power judges him directly... Besides, I have some friends too, don't I?"

Neil wanted to know what else he could do to help, but the Duke asked him to take shelter on the Omega merchant ship, and Ego looked like he was about to leave with a sword at any time.The three of them couldn't agree on what to do, like writing and deleting a play, deleting and writing again.

Eventually they all get tired.In order to deceive others, the Duke could not stay for a long time, Neil had no other place to go for the time being, and Egg was ordered to stay on the ship with Neil.The Golden Horn is busy and exhausted. Flowers are bought and sold by Omega merchants. Homeless children bend over to pick up rotten fish. Patrollers count over and over again the ships that are about to leave the port.

The cabin shook slightly, and the two knights impatiently made small movements, doing nothing.

Egg had no expression on his face, but he kept pulling the iris leaves with his hands, almost stripping the surrounding plants bare.He suddenly asked, "Where's Pelias?"

"he's gone."

"Oh." Egg was absent-minded.

Neil waited for a while, feeling that the other party didn't listen to him at all, and he was a little angry.

"Pelias has returned to the academy, right?"

"Almost..." Neil replied vaguely, neither of them wanted to talk, so they just let it go.

As for what to do next, Neil hasn't figured it out yet, and he can't act rashly in this situation.Just as he was thinking, Egg got up and said that he would go to the deck to blow some air, the Sibyls hated the humid air in the cabin.Neil didn't have the time to ask more questions, so Egg went out.

The black knight disembarked and loitered about the port, pretending to buy for his master.He found that the Royal Knights hadn't chased him here. It seemed that Neil was indeed a negligible little man to "them".Egg was listing those names in his mind, when a carriage passed by him, and he happened to see the family crest on the carriage: a golden lion wearing a pure white corolla on its head, a dancing skeleton on its feet, and a red background holding a A warm atmosphere.

Ha, the Keluoang family is really out of tune with Trande.Egg suddenly found it interesting, so he followed.

He smelled the scent of a young man in the carriage.

So Egg waited for the noble boy to get off.When the young master was lingering in the noisy market and the servants were distracted, the black knight walked towards him and took the boy away.He has his own plans.

Yi Ge did not return to the ship, but temporarily took the unconscious boy to an abandoned warehouse.

The boy was about twelve or thirteen years old, but he was not small.If he remembered correctly, this should be the youngest son of the Ke Luoang family. To be precise, he was the only "surviving" son of that man.He forgot the child's name, after all he had been away from court and society for so long.

"Just in case..." Egg gently opened the boy's eyelids.Emerald green pupils, unmistakable.

Trande's half-brother.

"Hey, I picked up a little lion and it's mine." Egg smiled and stroked the boy's neck.

Neil was hesitating. Now that Egg came back, he only said that he met an old acquaintance temporarily and wasted a little time.

It was getting late, and they waited until late at night for the Duke's letter:

The lion is in the cage.

"They've got Trand!"

Egg didn't respond, and sat silently, wiping his sword carefully.

The night was destined to be unsettled, and the pier became noisy again in the middle of the night, and many people searched around with torches.Through the porthole, Neil observed them quietly. These people didn't seem to be looking for him. There were not many knights among them, and they looked like ordinary servants.They didn't even find the ship, and the Omegas wouldn't mind their own business.

"Slow." Egg was examining the quills of the short arrow.

Neil felt strange.

Before dawn, the Duke himself arrived.As soon as Mr. Caroialo entered the cabin, he rushed straight to the two knights, and he had no time to hang up his coat.He was out of breath, coughed dryly for a while and couldn't say anything, so he raised his index finger and asked his friends to give him some more time.The captain hurriedly handed over the peppermint wine to soothe his throat. Mr. Kaloyalo drank it all down, and finally said: "The matter is troublesome..."

"Who escorted you here," Egg interrupted.

"Ahem, Ishtar, listen to me..."

Hearing his sister's name, Yi Ge perfunctorily said: "Tsk."

"How is Trand doing now?!"

"Hey, you two, let me finish!" The Duke held his chest and said in a hurry: "The matter is troublesome. The witness died tonight. It was the male body collector. He said he saw the demon Banner was beheaded by a female assassin."

"Ah, it really is dead." Egg squeezed his fingertips.

"how come?!"

"More troublesome things are yet to come... I asked someone to find out about the murderer earlier this night. Wasn't she caught? She was locked in the dungeon in the outer castle. My... well, I was told that this The girl didn't look like she could kill people, she seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen years old, her arms were so thin that someone could pinch them, and she had no training in force at all. How could an ordinary little girl kill a Sibyl knight? Or beheading...By the way, the head of the magic flag is still not found. And the girl seems to be mentally abnormal, she keeps repeating one sentence, no matter how those people torture her, she will only say one sentence."

"Ok?"

"How could it be... It is impossible for her to kill the person, she was also wronged!"

"The girl repeatedly said: 'The tiger's head is not dead, it ate the magic flag'."

The three fell silent.

It was Neil who spoke first: "Impossible... Could it be that the tiger she mentioned is the head of the monster we brought back? Impossible, I killed the white monster. I'm sure it's dead, and we brought the monster back with it." The head has been marching for more than a month, and Trander still plays with it every day, he is absolutely dead."

"And what about the barbarian's head?" Egg asked.

"It's gone too, and now the two enemy heads brought back by Trande are gone... Ah, right, I haven't said anything important yet! The girl who was considered to be the killer is also gone now, as if disappeared out of thin air It's like being in a dungeon. A 'friend' of mine went to see her in the afternoon, but she disappeared in the early morning, and none of the guards found anything unusual."

"How could an ordinary human escape from the dungeon..." Neil rubbed his chin, "and there are Sibyl knights guarding her around, she is a little girl, there is no way she can escape..."

After thinking for a while, Neil said firmly, "Someone took her away."

"How can you be sure?"

"Mr. Kaloyalo, you also said that the only witness died inexplicably tonight, right? At that time, there was a magic flag in the room, and two body collectors, one of whom claimed to be a witness and the other was called a murderer .If that girl doesn't go...she, too, will probably die soon, too."

Egg turned his head and said to himself, "Troublesome, childish."

The Duke noticed this detail, pulled Neil over and asked quietly: "Are you sure you are optimistic about Egg? Why is his attitude different from before?" The Duke quietly looked at the black knight, and then asked: "There is no blood on him. Bar?"

Neil sniffed and said, "No, I'm watching him and won't let him mess around."

"Okay... Egg is... usually so calm, oh no, indifferent, but when something happens to Trander... I don't know what he will do." The Duke took off his spectacles and wiped it. He rubbed it again, kept breathing on the lens, and tried to put it on before hanging up the chain, but his hand shook, and the lens fell to the ground and shattered.Kaloyalo snorted in frustration, bent down to pick up the pieces, and said, "It would be great if Peleas was here, we have nothing to do with the monsters, if only we could ask him. I'll send someone to Pick him up."

Neil held the Duke, and knelt down to pick up the debris.

Egg folded his arms and said, "It's useless, Peleas has already left."

When the Duke heard this, he jumped up and said, "Where are you going? Go back to the academy? Didn't you say that you didn't go back until the end of the month? Why is this man so capricious! Didn't he leave me a letter before leaving?"

"It must have stayed, you just didn't see it."

"Then why didn't you tell me!" the Duke lost his temper.

Seeing the excitement in the Duke's red pupils, Yi Ge became inexplicably excited, and said with a smile, "It's not you who lost love, why are you so angry?"

When Neil heard this, he was so depressed that he didn't even want to stand up.

The Duke was about to refute, and wanted to complain to Neil, but in the end he just gestured to give up impatiently: "Ahhh——you bad-natured bastards, I won't be friends with you anymore!"