“I’ll bear that in thoughts.”

Laslo tightened his grip on the bead Reika had given him. By means of his fingers, an exhilarating mild flowed. Little by little, his head started to clear. He realized what he wanted to do.

“I’m unsure how I can repay you for this.”

“It’s alright.” Reika coyly raised her chin and stated, “I’m not giving it to you to be paid again.”

Laslo bought out of his chair.

“Nevertheless, are you aware the place the dragon is?”

He smiled for the primary time in response to her query. Below the sunshine, his darkish inexperienced eyes gleamed.

“Kishu forest.”

***

“This doc states that you’ll inherit the Duchy of Arpad if I don’t e again in six months.”

“Brother!”

Zoltan plained.

Laslo gave Zoltan the papers and the household ring, which he had by no means eliminated.

“Why are you considering of not ing again? I can’t take this.”

“Simply take it. I’m not asking you to take over the duchy proper now.”

“Then don’t give it to me. Why are you making a will as in the event you’re about to die?”

Laslo then gave a faint smile.

“I’ll depart as quickly as Agnes’ funeral is over.”

“That quick?”

“You’ve had a troublesome time due to me. I simply really feel dangerous for you.”

He tapped Zoltan on the shoulder. As if he was going to talk, Zoltan pursed his lips.

“Brother, I, I…….”

“I don’t blame you. Agnes gained’t again down, even in the event you cease her.”

Zoltan’s eyes trembled. His long-buried guilt got here to the floor. Laslo turned his gaze to Zoltan’s wounded left arm.

“I’m sorry.”

“Don’t say that.”

“I nonetheless consider Agnes will enter via that door.”

“…….”

“She seems in my goals 100 instances, and I preserve seeing her phantasm.”

“Brother…”

Regardless of the miserable topic, Laslo was grinning.

“Zoltan. I assumed I used to be dreaming when the priest stated that the oath ritual connecting me and her had been damaged. I felt like I needed to get up as a result of this had been a really lengthy nightmare.”

Laslo began injuring himself shortly after that. Solely then did Zoltan perceive why his brother had executed it.

“Each day was a dwelling hell. Each time I breathed, I considered her and the issues I couldn’t do.”

“……Is that the rationale you’re going?”

“Maybe that is my final alternative.”

Zoltan noticed his agency resolve. He grabbed his brother by the arm.

“Go. If life is like hell. How am I purported to cease you?”

“Zoltan.”

“As an alternative, you could return with the princess. Do you perceive?”

Laslo chuckled slightly than responding.

Agnes’ funeral occurred the next day. When the funeral got here to an finish, the Marquis of Songrad sobbed in entrance of the closed casket, and Ney misplaced consciousness. Laslo stood there for a very long time, staring on the dirt-covered coffin.

Simply earlier than the funeral, Laslo went quietly to the steady and took a horse that had been ready by a servant. Reika’s voice might be heard behind him as he mounted the horse.

“Maintain it in thoughts, sir.”

“What?”

“The dragon, who controls destiny, is not going to simply grant your request.”

Laslo circled. Standing together with her arms crossed, Reika turned to face him.

“I’ll pay you again if I succeed,”

“Huh. Simply e again alive.”

Laslo stomped on the horse’s ribs. Reika briefly watched his again as he walked away earlier than she headed again to the fortress.

***

“Whoo, whoo.”

Ten days have handed since his arrival in Kishu. Laslo saved shifting ahead, slicing via the bushes in his path.

It was exhausting and troublesome to stroll via the forest for ten hours a day, however it was the hopeless ready that bothered him. When he first bought right here, he thought he would run into the dragon instantly, however it was troublesome to see anybody, not to mention the dragon.

“Eugene!”

He roared his means up the troublesome mountain path. The solar is setting. The forest rapidly turned darkish.

As soon as once more, at this time was fruitless. He made an effort to cover his displeasure. Laslo made a bonfire after which pulled out a heavy blanket to wrap round his physique. His meals provide can be working low. He could have to start out looking tomorrow.

Rustling-

Behind him, he might hear somebody stepping on a department.

“Oh, can I borrow a light-weight?”

It was a younger girl’s voice you wouldn’t count on to listen to in the course of a forest. Laslo calmed his tense body.

“It’s all proper.”

“Oh, I’m grateful. I used to be digging for herbs a lot that I pletely missed the solar setting.”

With a smile, the lady sat throughout from Laslo. By means of the flickering hearth, her face might be seen. It was troublesome to consider that she was a moner foraging for herbs within the mountains as a result of she was so beautiful. She laughed whereas squinting her eyes.