Chapter 180 Strange Dream
Chapter 180 Strange Dream (Part )
"What kind of weird question is this?"
The confused Prince Freckles said impatiently:
"I am my father's only son. Where does my sister come from? If you are wasting my time, it is because you want to ask this kind of question... um..."
When he said this, he seemed to remember something, and the Freckled Prince hesitated slightly, then looked in Leon's direction vigilantly.
"You...did you use some method to spy on me when I was asleep and see what I dreamed about?"
Dream? !
After hearing what the Freckles Prince said, Leon and Emma raised their brows at the same time, and then looked at each other subconsciously.
"Your Highness Joshua, although the Cleanup Bureau has cleaners who can enter dreams, our Virgin Branch does not have anyone with this ability...but we cannot guarantee that there are no such people among those rebels."
After exchanging views with Leon, Emma felt that this could be explored further. She immediately sat up straight and said in a serious tone:
"Your Highness Joshua, we now suspect that someone may have invaded your dream and is trying to use it to harm and control you. In order to ensure your safety, please be sure to tell us the content of your dream!"
"Um... it was just a very confusing dream, the kind that is so chaotic and illogical. Do I have to tell you about it?"
"Yes, this might be very important information!"
"This... okay..."
Frightened by Emma's serious attitude, the freckled prince hesitated for a moment before finally speaking out the whole story:
"Just like your question, I just had a similar dream last night. In the dream, I was not an only child, but I had a sister who was fourteen or fifteen years older than me. Her name seemed to be... Wei... Wei something..."
"Veronica?"
"Yes! Just call me Veronica!"
After clapping his hands in surprise, the freckled prince paused for a moment, then looked up at Leon who took over the conversation, and said with a suspicious look on his face:
"How do you know the name of the person in my dream? Also, your voice sounds a little weird..."
"Of course we know that name!"
After secretly pinching Leon's leg to signal him not to speak nonsense, Senior Emma frowned slightly and replied:
"Because among those rebels, there is a woman named Veronica, Your Highness Joshua. We speculate that the woman possesses an abnormal object that can enter dreams, and she actively invaded your dream!"
"So that's what happened..."
Prince Freckles suddenly realized what he had said, and then he said with some relief:
"That makes sense. I was wondering why I had such a strange dream. It turns out everything was controlled."
strange?
Emma blinked when she heard this, and then immediately asked:
"Your Highness Joshua, apart from having a new sister, is there anything else strange about this dream?"
"To be honest... this dream was weird from beginning to end!"
After frowning and recalling for a while, the Freckled Prince narrated with some disgust:
"Under the manipulation of that rebel party, I looked like a clown in the dream. Since I was a child, my father has been comparing me with her and asking me to be like her in everything. My mother also emphasized to me whenever she had the chance that she was the biggest threat to my succession to the throne, and told me not to believe her kindness to me and to be careful that she would harm me for the throne.
And then...well...then I was pretty stupid in my dream.
Although I had a pretty good relationship with her when I was young, and she often took me to play in the palace, but when I grew up a little, I liked to do everything the opposite of her. She was simple, but I was extravagant; she was gentle, but I was tough. I kept causing trouble for her, and later..."
As he continued to recall the past, he seemed to remember more details. The freckled prince's eyes gradually showed a hint of pain. Then, as if he was telling his own story, he said with an uneasy expression:
"Later... the kingdom was invaded. First, warships blocked all the main deep-water ports. Then a quarter of the main roads were blown off, and more than half of the remaining roads were occupied. Transportation in half of the kingdom was almost completely cut off. Every day, we could see airships dropping explosives overhead.
As for the troops controlled by those idiots in the military, they were completely vulnerable in front of the enemy and almost collapsed at the first touch. Only my sister and the few new troops created by the Minister of Defense had some resistance.
But they were much inferior to the enemy in terms of numbers and weapons. Although they repelled several attacks from the enemy and stabilized the situation under the command of Old Hill, I...my mother and some people from the Ministry of Finance began to hinder them..."
After recalling his clown-like behavior in the dream, Prince Freckles was unable to continue. He slammed the table hard and said angrily:
“Anyway, I didn’t do anything good!
Then the new army couldn't get paid, nor could it supply ammunition and weapons. Although my sister's prestige kept them together, they couldn't hold on any longer and most of them were trapped in Merino County.
Then the capital was captured, and there were people fleeing everywhere. My mother and I were mixed up with the people from the Ministry of Finance, and we were separated and didn’t escape. Then…then my sister came back.”
When he said this, Prince Freckles paused for a moment, then said with a complicated look in his eyes:
“At that time, no matter my father, mother, or uncle, none of them came to look for me, but she was the only one who led people to fight their way out of the siege of Merino County and re-entered the capital, and found me out of the air-raid shelter that was converted from the sewers in the old city.
I… I asked her why she came, and she said she didn’t want to come, but I had to live, my father only had two children, I couldn’t just die like this, I had to live just in case.”
“At the time, I didn’t understand what she meant, but later my father died of illness on the way to escape, and she was captured and executed because of her failed resistance. After her death, the army that was dispersed and those who didn’t want the kingdom to be completely annexed began to approach me, saying that I was the last robin of the royal family.
But I... the me in the dream was very useless. I didn't have the ability to resist like her. I could only lead my men to retreat again and again. I relied on completely surrendering to other kingdoms and signing many unreasonably harsh treaties to barely keep a small area of less than three counties.
In order to avoid being completely wiped out, we have to hand over a large amount of precious minerals and nearly 40% of fiscal revenue every year, which is almost the same as a large county in other kingdoms. But even though I work very hard every day, the situation is getting worse and worse..."
As if he felt the same way, after telling his other self’s “experience” with a gloomy look, the freckled prince said with a dazed look in his eyes:
"Just when everything was beginning to develop towards the worst outcome, and the entire kingdom was impoverished and overwhelmed, and was about to completely cease to exist, an old man with crooked and narrow eyes and a naturally smiling face asked me if I wanted to change everything.
Then he opened a door for me and told me that I could redeem my regrets if I walked in, but I would also lose everything as a price. I don’t know if I was completely desperate or felt that I had nothing to lose, so I just walked in directly…”
"..."
"and then?"
After waiting for a while without any follow-up, Emma, who was listening attentively, couldn't help but ask:
"What happened to you in the dream after you entered the door?"
"after?"
The Freckled Prince blinked and said in a daze:
"After that, there was no more. I woke up at dawn."
(End of this chapter)