【Gillay】Beauty and the Beast

After the third stroke of midnight, the red-haired boy finally sat up.He felt that he was too awake, and even the sound of his heartbeat echoed in the room like a drumbeat.

I don't know if it's because the owner here has also fallen asleep, but the melodious music like a quiet river has stopped at some point, and the room is filled with soft and soft music that is opposite to the extreme gorgeousness seen before. Dim light.

Gilfies stared at the particle-like light source flying in the air for a long time.Then he made a decision and began to dress neatly.

When he gently pushed open the heavy door and stepped onto the soft carpeted corridor, the dull light suddenly lit up.Gilfies blinked, his steady eyes were a little lighter against the light, and the color was very close to the blue of the sky.

Just like that, the red-haired boy arrived at the stable without any trouble, even without the lantern swinging the candle.The light on the traces he walked would not dissipate immediately, but floated sporadically, which made Gilfies feel like a snail.

While comforting the girl who had just woken up from sleep, he lightly led her out.Although he thought not to disturb the other two residents inside, he was not surprised that when he looked back, two pairs of eyes full of wisdom and reason were staring at him.

"I'm so sorry."

The young man apologized softly.He knew he was acting recklessly, and in a way, was running away.

So he bowed again and apologized: "I won't be away for a long time, then Bazaar and I will disturb everyone again."

Then he closed the door softly, holding the rein at this time, he was the same as when he came, he could be regarded as a fully armed hunter.

Siegfried Gilfias is an excellent, top hunter.

But it doesn't mean that Gilfies should be a hunter by nature. If he could choose, he thinks he would not take this path.But the main premise is that before the family moved to such a remote area, the little Zig of the Gilfies family had never even played with the little boy's favorite little crossbow.His temper is mild enough to keep him away from blood and violence for a long time.

Gilfies himself also didn't feel a thirst for blood or violence.If you ask him what his ideal life is like, I'm afraid he can only answer a stable life without worrying about how to survive.

But if you have to say it, carefully judge all kinds of footprints and traces, judge the direction and time through the direction of water flow, the direction of moss and the stars, chase deer, circle with wolves in the forest, and even fight with underage black bears This kind of experience also made the young guy's blood boil.

It's not boring and it's not painful.If their family had to follow the crowd in order to stay in Kyoto, and embarked on a path where they had to flatter others in order to survive, then it would be the future that really made Gilfies feel lost.

In any case, Gilfies was prepared to give up his life in extreme powerlessness when he came here.Now riding on horseback, walking slowly in the woods, he knows that the current self needs not to lose such determination.

In a trance, he felt that something was tormenting him, but now only the rare and clear moonlight shone on him.

After entering the strange forest, the red-haired hunter dismounted and led his girl to a bare ginkgo tree.

This dense forest is full of conifers, sleeping seeds and tiny sprouts under the thick snow, which means rabbits, deer and very occasionally, bears who wake up from sleep for a short tour. .

Gilfies has no target.

He is rarely so aimless, he is always very busy, even if he has precious rest time, he will always help his mother, or read a book for a while.And now it seemed that he suddenly had a lot of time.

The fact that he was suddenly withdrawn from a life of work, hunger, taxes, disease, never enough medicine, and the cold that accompanied death seemed to require a process to digest.

But for Siegfried Gilfies, he thinks he needs to accept another fact.

There was still a while before dawn, Gilfies finally cleared his mind, and the sound of his footsteps seemed to be absorbed by the snow. The red-haired hunter knew that he still hadn't felt the excitement he had been having since yesterday evening. Calm down.

But now that he has walked out of the quiet and solemn manor, he must face the threat of hungry animals.

Not long after he entered the forest, he found that besides the sound of his own heartbeat, there were other sounds of footsteps.How strange, thought the red-haired boy as he moved nimbly through the forest, which was almost untouched: would wolves be present in this area.

Maybe no one knows, Gilfies doesn't hate a life where he will die if he doesn't give it his all.

"Looks like you've come back with a rewarding reward, brave hunter."

"You are joking."

When Gilfies came back riding a horse with the corpse of a strong silver wolf, he met the owner here in the huge courtyard by accident.

When he came back, he found that the sun in this realm was shared with the outside (or maybe only the sun), and the day was already climbing over his head.Since there was still fresh prey on his horse, he did not pass through the red rose forest in the middle, but deviated from the road, wanting to go to the stables to let the girl who was inexplicably called up by the master in the middle of the night rest.

At this moment, he met a golden lion on the path so white that one could suspect it was ground from pearl powder.

"It may be too late to say good morning, I'm really sorry, Lord Reinhardt."

"It's too early to say good morning, Mr. Hunter."

The only dictator of the domain responded, he didn't seem to have anything more to say to the hunter, so he stood up.When he moved his graceful body, the gorgeous golden lion's mane swayed around like the rays of the sun, which made Gilphiaise unable to say any more, and could only look at the other party in place. The ground jumped up as if without weight, and disappeared into the balcony on the second floor with a marble fence.

It took a while for the boy to come back to his senses, driving the reins to continue moving forward.

After Gilfies simply disposed of his booty, he finally found the person he wanted to talk to in a sunny room that looked like a living room.

Although he walked around the castle and took some extra detours when he wanted to say something, he saw that the other party was lying on a huge cloth cushion, the sun was leaning on the giant lion's body, and he was lying in front of him. When placing a thick book, I don't feel surprised at all.

"Did it bother you to read, Master Reinhardt?"

The golden lion didn't lift his head when someone knocked on the door, and replied after a while: "No."

His full attention seemed to be on the complex text.But just after Gilfies took a seat beside him, he said,

"Although you hunted strong prey, you failed to take down the wolf, Mr. Hunter."

"Yes, I am ashamed to say that my ability is limited...

"is it?"

The golden lion immediately asked back: "Then Mr. Hunter, as a hunter who has become a hunter, can you answer me a question?"

"Of course, Lord Reinhardt."

"Generally speaking, what qualities do you need to be a wolf?"

"As far as I know, Lord Reinhardt, to be a leader of a complete group requires strong strength, sufficient experience, the ability to respond to emergencies, and the ability to lead the group to hunt for food."

"In this winter, if the leader is still lost, then the life of the wolf pack will become quite difficult."

"Eh,?"

Gilfies couldn't react, and subconsciously made a sound.

"You are such a kind hunter."

The red-haired boy didn't know how to answer for a while, so he paused, and then said: "Thank you for thinking so, but if I were such a good person, I wouldn't have gone hunting last night."

"Oh?"

The nature was obviously brought up, and the golden giant lion asked, "Why do you say that?"

"Because I didn't go hunting with the necessary purpose to take a healthy life from the wolf pack."

When Gilfies realized that those icy blue eyes that would make all the gems in the world look inferior were beckoning him to continue, he felt a new energy injected into his sleepless body, which made his heart beat faster than today Morning was even faster when surrounded by wolves.

"If it is normal, a male wolf is precious. For my family, we need its flesh and blood and even its teeth, but what I need to do now is to be able to love and repay you, so it does not need to die Nope - I'm out hunting just because I want to clear my head.

"Of course, I'm not such a hypocrite, Master Reinhardt. At that time, if I didn't kill a wolf, I definitely couldn't escape. But killing a wolf doesn't make me feel painful."

"Hey, it seems that brave hunters don't reject fighting powerful enemies."

"You are overrated."

Gilfies continued, he knew what the other party wanted to explain by himself: "What I said before, I want to clear my mind, because I don't think you don't need these prey that I can catch..."

"Indeed."

"I don't think you need any wealth or rights."

"There is no king in this world richer than me."

"—and you rule the land."

"Status is nothing more than a marble slab to me, Mr. Hunter."

"How great you are."

Gilfies seemed to have forgotten what he should say all of a sudden, when the golden lion answered him in a casual tone, the boy could only sigh sincerely.

"I'm afraid I don't agree with you, sir."

But the golden lord rejected such eagerness, and his cold tone seemed to be suppressing something: "As you can see, I am an ugly monster."

The icy blue eyes stopped the young man who wanted to speak: "You seem to have found virtues like greatness, wisdom, or gentleness and tolerance in me, but I want to tell you, sir."

With a slap of the huge lion paw, the thick books immediately turned into particles of starlight like a butterfly and dissipated around.

"It's just a trick like this. The so-called human part you see is just the reflection of your eyes in my pupils."

"Lord Reinhardt."

The young man took the words. Considering his age, it is very brave to be able to make a sound, but the hunter's courage is obviously more than that.

"Master Reinhardt, I cannot agree. I—

He let out a long breath, and looked at the lion's eyes as clear as ice with gentle jade eyes.

"As people think, I am a murderous demon king, and I am just a cowardly and vile beast."

"Lord Reinhardt!"

Lifting his golden head, he saw the boy stand up excitedly, disapproval spread from the boy's brows.

"Master Reinhardt, I'm just a small existence that has to hunt for a living. I can't judge you with my abilities and opinions, but I think you are-you are a very good person from the bottom of my heart. "

The lion laughed all at once, and when he laughed, the sound he made was like a bronze bell in an ancient city.This made the young man feel a wave of heat spreading from his cheeks, he really felt this way from the bottom of his heart, but he felt that he was very pale when he said this.

"I don't know about your past, and you don't need to explain anything to me. It's just what I know. You saved my father's life."

"You seem to have made a mistake, sir. I wanted to kill him."

"Master Reinhardt, without your approval, my father would not have been able to enter here."

The teenager seems to have prepared the draft for this paragraph, and said it fluently: "If you hadn't accepted father here, he would have been submerged in the heavy snow or attacked by animals. You also prepared food, bed and new clothes for him. guns. Most importantly, you gave Dad a chance to atone for his grievous mistakes."

"I don't think picking a flower is a 'serious mistake' as far as you're concerned."

"I think that's just about 'us,' Lord Reinhardt."

The boy who was expelled just for having red hair replied.

The golden lion lowered his head, and he noticed that the standing boy was holding his hands tightly, the knuckles between his fingers were almost white.

"I believe there is a reason for this that 'we' don't know."

"So to you now, I seem to be a kind and broad-minded lion?"

"I think from the bottom of my heart that you are much more than that."

"Mr. Hunter."

The golden domain lord lowered his voice: "I killed very, very many people. Millions of people died."

"Lord Reinhardt, I'm just a person with shallow knowledge, but as far as I am concerned, only Ren Jun would evaluate himself like this."

The young man said in a steady voice, and he shook his head: "And tyrants never smell the stench of corpses from their own thrones."

"you--,"

"My lord Reinhardt, I've been thinking about what I can do for you all night, walking through the snow.

"I can neither bring you wealth, nor can I obtain status and rights for you. I can't dedicate to you all kinds of desires in the world. But,"

The young man took a step forward, his clenched hands had already been released, and he knelt down on one knee towards the golden lion emitting unparalleled light.

"Please allow—please allow me, Siegfried Gilfies, to follow you."

The deeply bowed head prevented Gilfies from seeing the other person's expression, and he continued talking.

"I will, and I desire, to follow you wherever you want to go."

Gilfies knew that the opponent stood up, even if he didn't raise his head, he could still feel the huge sense of coercion. The huge golden presence made the golden lion approach like the sun falling down to his side, Gilfies Stan felt his eyes sting like looking straight into the noonday sun.

The boy felt that the lion's voice sounded in his ears.

"Oh, what made you feel that way?"

"Isn't this castle a golden cage for you?"

At this moment, the boy's sight was completely covered by golden mane.

The lion that had come across him was so huge and full of oppression, his heavy breath scattered between the boy's neck.

"For what?"

"In order to repay you."

"What do you give me in return, Mister Hunter?"

Gilfies felt the warm golden head resting on his left shoulder, the lion's mouth was already open, and the tusks as long as rose stems lightly touched the skin on the boy's neck.For a moment, Gilfies felt that the other party was chewing on him.

"In return for meeting me, Lord Reinhardt."

At this time, a breath came from the depths of the lion's throat, which was a deep, depressing and releasing sound.But when the voice reached the air, the tone was very gentle.

Said the golden lion.

"Gilfies."

"……Yes."

The Lion closed his eyes, and leaned against the young hunter's head.This made Gilfies also have to close his eyes to prevent himself from being stabbed by the golden hair.

He felt the lord pressing his forehead against his cheek, and when he leaned back slightly, the other's neck also leaned over, just rubbing against his.The lion's gorgeous mane made the young man itch, and he subconsciously stretched out his hands to encircle him. To his surprise, the touch between those hands was quite soft.

"Has anyone ever said that, your surname is very poetic, like a breeze."

Reinhard's words made the boy suddenly realize, and he let go of his hand, apologizing for his recklessness.

The lion smiled at the bewildered boy.

"It seems that it is not a top hunter who wants to stay by my side, but a complete knight."

He seemed to have remembered something, and continued: "Then Mr. Knight, the time is just right now, and it's time for lunch."

"Yes, Lord Reinhardt."

The boy immediately got up and followed, and the golden lion continued to stride forward until he reached the other side.

TBC