When the sun poked its head out from the clouds in the east and illuminated the walls of the Rapids Castle with the first light of today, the guards of the vigil began to yawn and pushed open the dilapidated and heavy wooden door with force.

The next job is to clean the road and pour out the wood ash burned at night... These are not heavy, but they have to be completed before shift changes. So, in normal times, the guards should have run quickly. But today they are a little different. After pushing open the wooden door, the young guard stood in a daze, staring at some objects several meters outside the castle.

It was the remains of human beings. The guards could recognize them all by the visible skull. It was placed at the top of a pile of bones. In addition to the remains, there were three short swords and a worn-out handkerchief. The coat of arms painted on it was the raven owned by the owner of the Rapids Castle.

The young guard stayed there for nearly five minutes. It was not until the farmer who was up in the morning noticed the strangeness at the castle gate and gradually approached here that he suddenly woke up.

But instead of scolding these clumsy farmers like he usually did, he turned around and ran into the castle. While running, he shouted in panic, "Symptoms have appeared! Symptoms have appeared!"

Since the former master of the Rapids Castle, Baron Mike Messi, responded to the call of God's father the year before and went to the distant East to fight against evil, but ended up in a foreign land, Miss Katnis, who was only fifteen years old, has become the agent of the castle, her young brother, Richard's guardian.

In the past two years, Miss Katnis used all her skills to successfully dispel the Iris royal family's idea of ​​revoking the seal and asked her younger brother to take over the title. She still calmly defeated the many means of the "jagged" viscount next door who wanted to annex.

To this day, Miss Katnis, 17, has long been famous, and her beauty and wisdom are praised. So naturally, she does not lack suitors. Moreover, there are rumors: "That lion is also her minister!"

But although there are many suitors, no one dares to fall in love with her.

This matter is a bit strange, but it is not difficult to understand: Miss Katnis has never given those "flies" good expressions, and... Messi's "cursed" bloodline can't help but make people worry!

Just as the young guard shouted, "Symptoms are coming!" When he broke into the hall, Miss Katnis was washing and changing clothes with the help of his maid. Ashu8, the news came in through the door by the elderly butler. The child's maid was so scared that her face was still bloodless. Katnis just stopped a little, and then continued to comb his soft blonde hair in the tall dressing mirror of a man as if nothing had happened.

The housekeeper outside the door was not aware of the situation and shouted anxiously. "Miss!" Katnis responded lightly. "I understand. Please comfort them first. Wait until I go down the rest."

When Miss Katnis finished washing up and arrived at the dining table, she stood around in addition to the butler, and there were four knights under the jurisdiction of Messi's family. They were all very young. Except for the oldest one, the other three were the fiefs that Katnis had enthroned in the past two years. They were all loyal and... admiration for Katnis. Therefore, after learning the news, they rushed over without waiting for the summons.

Just as he saw Katnis, the impatient Knight of Green Grass, stepped forward and performed a solemn Knight's salute. He shouted, "Miss, please allow me to go with you!"

Katnis ignored him and asked the calm and defiant Knight. "See you guys. That sign should be true?"

"It's the land. Miss ashu8." The questioned Knight stepped forward and replied in a deep voice. "I have just seen it with several other knights. The embroidered marks on the handkerchiefs placed there are no different from those on the record. They should be true." The Knight of Radical answered. The butler on the land had taken out the handkerchiefs placed on the remains and placed them in front of Katniss.

The handkerchief is not only worn, but also covered in reddish blood. It is also full of rotten smell because it has been with the remains for many years. But Katniss didn't care at all. He twisted it up and folded it into a triangle shape. He looked towards the east of the sun.

The sun shines through the invisible hole in the handkerchief and outlines the name "Isabel". As the agent of Rapids Castle, Katniss certainly knows the name, which belongs to her aunt, her father's sister Isabel Messi.

After looking at the name for a while, Katniss sighed and put down her handkerchief. She bit her lower lip and thought for a while, "If I follow the routine, I have seven days to prepare..."

Her tone was a little unwilling and she felt tired. So before she finished speaking, the four knights said together, "Miss, please allow us to move forward with you and serve you!"

"Nothing!" Katnis scolded, "You guys don't know, doing so is just in vain!"

Of course, the knights knew that the encounter of the Irving family, which originated from the same blood as the Messi family, happened in nearly a hundred years, and was far from being forgotten. In order to protect the lady, more than a dozen knights and nearly a hundred soldiers were killed there... But so what! Did they ask them to watch their lady go there and die? The death of the loyal monarch is a great shame for every knight who survived by chance! What's more, this shame is accumulating hundreds of years of shame year after year!

So they remained silent and protested Katniss' orders in silence.

The whole hall immediately became silent, and only the elderly housekeeper was anxiously pulling his gray beard for this situation. He could not think of a good solution to persuade him, so he had to whisper and curse fiercely, "Those eunuchs of the Father God Cult! They dared to say to the master: They have cleared this curse! If it weren't for them, the master wouldn't..."

"Enough." Because of the closer, Katnis heard such a curse clearly. She comforted the housekeeper and turned around to look at the knights kneeling there alone with their necks. She sighed softly again, Katnis said softly, "I am of course grateful for you if you want that... I am very happy. You are my best and most loyal knights, and I have never doubted this..."

Katnis praised her knights like this, and she said it was emotional and reasonable, so that in a moment, even the most steady and bold knights had wet their eyes. Seeing the white lights of the white lights, she suddenly changed her mind, "But if you all go with me, what should my brother do? He is only ten years old this year. Would he let him face the royal family and the lords around him without a knight guarding it? If that is true, then how should I explain to my father and explain it to him, do I want to say to him: Because of my reasons, our rapids..."

Katniss said this, even the most impatient green grass could not continue. They could only lower their heads deeply and sigh softly, "Miss..."

Katnis looked at them, lowered his head, letting his soft blonde hair scatter on the dining table, "I'll ask you for the future..." After she said that, she turned back and said to the butler, "Let Richard sleep well for a while today...I think he's afraid he will never have such a chance again."

After Katniss Messi said that, she couldn't help but smile bitterly, and crystal clear crystals emerged in the laughter.
Chapter completed!