Chapter 56: Have I become a demon spy?
Nalia woke up almost an hour later.
Lying on the bed, she only felt that her head was very dizzy, as if she had had the longest nightmare in her life, in which the nightmare was chasing and eating away at her will, making her feel like she could not escape the dream.
However, Nalia's willpower is still much stronger than that of normal people, so she has not completely forgotten everything at this moment as Jim thought.
On the contrary, there were some very vague memories in her mind, as if she had fought with someone, and the process made her despair.
The opponent seemed to be her reflection in the lake, and every move had a familiar and frightening feel to it. She seemed to never be able to defeat the other party, but equally she felt that the other party could not defeat her.
Yes, fighting yourself is the result, isn't it?
However, when she carefully recalled the appearance of that person, she was a little surprised to find that the other person seemed to be her brother Sirius.
"Come here."
Because it was not yet time to rest for the night, the maid who was on call outside the corridor walked in after hearing the sound, and then looked at Nalia who had woken up with some surprise.
"Your Highness."
"Did you send me back?"
"Yes."
Nalia nodded, then slowly walked towards the maid, and asked with a careful look:
"What happened just now? ?"
The maid did not hesitate and told Nalia all the words she had heard from others, including the process of Sirius's assassination and its motives, as well as the final result of the empress surviving.
But the more she explained, the more strange Nalia felt. The maid's words seemed to corroborate her vague memories.
"What about Sirius?"
"The second prince has been treated as an assassin and has been imprisoned."
"..."
There are many doubts troubling her now, although the first thing she can be sure of is that someone must have caused her to suddenly lose control of her emotions. He was doing something behind his back, and it was most likely the eldest prince’s intention.
But the more problematic issue is the true identity of this "Sirius".
From her trip to Anka to her final conversation with Luther, everything gave her a wonderful feeling that her brother had never left, and that the pretended Sirius was actually his brother.
This idea was a little too absurd, but she couldn't help but want to confirm it.
The easiest way, besides finding Luther who was pretending to be dead and asking for the truth, is to find an opportunity to obtain Sirius' blood and then verify his lineage.
"Your Royal Highness, I have one more thing to tell you."
"Yes."
"The eldest prince has asked you to go to the council hall if you wake up. He has something to announce to everyone."
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Sirius felt like he was constantly moving.
If he were still conscious, it would probably be difficult to describe how his body felt to the outside world during this period of time. After all, he had never experienced this kind of extreme exhaustion without any injuries on his body, but with all his mental energy exhausted. And when Sirius inexplicably recovered his mental strength quickly and opened his eyes, he looked at where he was now and felt confused.
No, why was he locked up?
Although this place of detention does not look like a dungeon at all, and it can even be said that the conditions are quite good, the shackles on his hands and the guards at the door that look like they are guarding him rather than protecting him prove that he is now The situation is not very good.
Of course he knew that this must be the fault of the eldest prince, but the question was, hadn't the empress been resurrected by him?
Could it be that that crazy thing actually killed his mother after he fainted?
"You guys should step aside first. I have something to say to the second prince."
"...Yes."
Just as Sirius was sitting on the bed thinking, the sound of conversation came from outside the house, and after the sound disappeared, inside the house All the guards outside the house retreated one by one, leaving only a middle-aged man who walked in alone.
The man was wearing a purple robe with symbols symbolizing various magical elements tattooed on it. You could tell at a glance that he was a magician.
In other words... the other party is the magician who is hiding in the corner and controlling Nalia.
"There is no one else here, so I won't call you Second Prince. Of course, I don't know your real name, so I'll continue to call you Sirius." "
So why don't you introduce yourself first?"
Sirius' words made Jim slightly dissatisfied, but when he thought about the high probability that he would not be facing ordinary civilians, he could only suppress his emotions and said calmly:
"Jim."
"Oh, Jim... so you are looking for What's the matter with me?"
"..." Jim was silent for a moment, and then he spoke with a tone of anger and helplessness, "Sirius, do you think there's any point in continuing to pretend?"
His words made Sirius a little confused. He was confused, but Sirius was not prepared to talk at this time, but chose to remain silent and wait and see.
"Of course I want to kill you. After all, it's because of you that I was questioned by the eldest prince. I can't convince him that the scene I saw an hour ago is not because of the effect of my mind control magic. Too bad, but because there is a variable like you.
In the eyes of everyone, you are the same waste as the former second prince, so no one will doubt you. Even your poor acting skills are only seen by me. They see All I saw was that you finally found the right position and fell down, pretending to be dizzy!"
"Me? Pretending to be dizzy?"
"Yes, yes, that's the confused look. You really know how to act, except for the fact that you pretended to be dizzy just to trick me. The moment Nalia forced a tie, you can really say that the acting is flawless at other times.
Even if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it."
Jim's words made Sirius feel both funny and helpless in his heart, but Before he could say anything, he suddenly heard Jim quickly reciting a chant that he didn't understand, and then a blazing fireball came towards his face.
However, the fireball was too slow in his eyes at the moment. Sirius also released the water magic that he was not supposed to control in an instant, intercepting the fireball from the air.
However, Sirius found that what this button said about forcing a 50-50 split was a bit misleading.
Yes, the power of the water ball he released just now can only offset the fire ball summoned by the opponent, but the problem is that he directly skipped the singing part!
Can this also be called a "tie"?
The collision of water and fire produced water vapor, and the hazy feeling made Jim even more certain that this was all Sirius' disguise.
"Is there anything else to explain? A demon spy whose magical talent far exceeds that of humans and can release any magic without chanting!"
(End of this chapter)