Chapter 6: Two Red Roses (474-475)

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You probably know that red roses symbolize love and passion, but you may not know that the color, number, and how roses are combined have coded meanings.

Two red roses means I am deeply in love with you.

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Your Highness! There was a large explosion in the desert!

"What?!"

Alberu subconsciously jumped up from his seat.

He was not the only one. Everyone in the meeting room could not hide their shock.

The Captain of the Kingdom's Knight Brigade walked up to Alberu and asked for permission before raising his voice toward the video communication device.

"What do you mean, an explosion in the desert?! No, how did something like that suddenly happen?"

Alberu never thought he would feel such fear in his life.

There was dead mana smoke and a huge explosion right where Cale was.

His instincts were telling him to rush to the desert and grab his sworn brother into safety, but he suppressed it. He was with other officials from foreign nations. He had to act as a Crown Prince right now, not as Alberu Crossman.

The dead mana smoke had turned into a large whirlwind, but that whirlwind is slowly disappearing! However, according to the Mage who was with Young Master Cale-nim...!

Alberu twitched and started to listen carefully. The Mage the diplomat was talking about right now should be Eruhaben. The ancient Dragon's words would be more accurate than anything else.

That's right, Eruhaben-nim is there, Alberu told himself in an attempt to calm down his erratic heart.

Eruhaben-nim wouldn't let anything happen to Cale, he told himself again.

Alberu waited for what the diplomat would say next as calmly as possible. The diplomat continued at that moment.

Apparently the foundation near the center of the desert has crumbled! The size was about the size of a mid-sized city, a-and-

The diplomat hesitated without being able to continue.

"Why are you stopping in the middle?! Hurry up and tell us!"

The person in charge of the Roan Kingdom's diplomacy started to raise his voice. The diplomat finally continued in a shaking voice.

...He said that he could not feel any living presence in the desert, including the enemy White Star's group.

Silence filled the room for a moment.

H-However... He said he found some corpses that he couldn't tell whether they were crushed by the crumbling foundation or by the dead mana smoke.

It was as if a bucket of freezing cold water was dumped on Alberu.

...I shouldn't have told him to go.

I shouldn't have let him leave.

I shouldn't have agreed to his plans.

I shouldn't have-

"Huuuuuu."

Alberu took a deep breath.

"Everybody calm down and sit back down," he calmly started to speak and sat back down in his seat. He looked very calm and collected that they wondered if he had even been shocked just now.

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