Chapter 583: Strange Dream (Part 2)

"What kind of weird question is this again?"

The freckled Prince, who was confused, said impatiently:

"I am my father's only son, where would any older sister come from? If you are wasting my time, just to ask this kind of... um..."

When he said this, seeming to have remembered something, the freckled Prince hesitated slightly, then looked vigilantly toward Li Ang's direction.

"Did you... use some method to peep at me while I was asleep, to see what kind of dreams I had?"

Dream?!

Hearing the freckled Prince's words, Li Ang and Ai Ma's brows raised in unison, and then they subconsciously exchanged a look.

"Prince Joshua, although the Cleanup Bureau has cleanup personnel 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 the rebels."

Exchanging opinions with Li Ang through their eyes and feeling that they could dig deeper here, Ai Ma immediately sat up straight, her expression somewhat serious:

"Prince Joshua, we now suspect that someone may have invaded your dream and tried to use the dream to hurt and control you. In order to ensure your safety, please be sure to tell us the content of the dream!"

"Uh... it's just a very messy dream, the kind without any logic, do I have to tell you too?"

"Yes, this might be very important information!"

"This... alright..."

Being bluffed by Ai Ma's serious attitude, the freckled Prince hesitated for a while, but still told everything:

"It was just like your question, last night, I happened to have a similar dream. In the dream, I was not an only child, but had an older sister who was fourteen or fifteen years older than me. She seemed to be called... Ve... Veronica or something..."

"Veronica?"

"Yes! Just called Veronica!"

After clapping his hands somewhat happily, the freckled Prince paused slightly, then looked up at Li Ang, who had taken over the conversation, his face full of suspicion:

"How do you know the name of the person in my dream? And, your voice sounds a bit fami..."

"Of course we know this name!"

Secretly pinching Li Ang on the leg and signaling him not to speak randomly, Senior Ai Ma frowned and answered:

"Because among those rebels, there is a woman named Veronica. Prince Joshua, we suspect that the woman possesses an anomalous object capable of entering dreams and actively invaded your dream!"

"So that's how it is..."

Hearing this, the freckled Prince suddenly realized, and then actually said somewhat relaxedly:

"Then it's reasonable. I was wondering why there would be such a strange dream. It turns out everything was controlled."

Strange?

Hearing this, Ai Ma blinked, then immediately asked:

"Prince Joshua, besides having an extra older sister, does this dream have any other very strange content?"

"If you want to talk about strange... this dream is very strange from beginning to end!"

After frowning and recalling, the freckled Prince recounted with disgust:

"Under the manipulation of those rebels, I looked like a clown in the dream. Since I was a child, my father kept comparing me with her, making me follow her lead in everything. My mother also emphasized to me whenever she had a chance that she was the biggest threat to my succession to the throne, telling me not to believe the kindness she showed me, and to guard against her harming me for the throne.

Then... um... then I was quite stupid in the dream.

Although my relationship with her was considered okay when I was a child, and I was often taken by her to play in the Wang Gong, later when I grew up a little, I liked to go against her in everything. If she was simple, I was extravagant; if she was gentle, I was tough. Later, I kept finding trouble for her. Later..."

Accompanied by continuous active recall, seeming to have remembered more details, the freckled Prince's eyes actually gradually surged with a touch of pain, and then, as if telling his own story, he said with a difficult expression:

"Later... the Kingdom was invaded. First, they let warships blockade all major deep-water ports, then a quarter of the main roads were blown up, and more than half of the rest were occupied. The traffic of half the Kingdom was almost completely cut off. Every day, airships throwing explosives could be seen overhead.

As for the army under the control of those trash in the military, they were simply vulnerable in front of the enemy, almost collapsing at the first touch. Only the few new armies created by my older sister and the Minister of National Defense had some resistance.

But regardless of numbers or weapons, they were much worse than the other side. Although relying on Old Hill's command, they repelled the enemy's attacks several times and stabilized the situation, but I... my mother and some people in the Ministry of Finance kept holding them back..."

After recalling his clown-like behavior in the dream, the freckled Prince couldn't go on, then slammed the table, his eyes full of anger:

"Anyway, I didn't do anything good!

Then the new army couldn't pay their salaries, and ammunition and weapons couldn't be supported. Although relying on my older sister's prestige, they were still holding on and hadn't scattered, but later they really couldn't hold on, and most of them were trapped in Merino County.

Then the Capital was captured. There were refugees everywhere. My mother and I were mixed in with the people from the Ministry of Finance, got separated, and didn't run out. Then... then my older sister came back."

When he said this, the freckled Prince paused slightly, then his eyes were very complex:

"At that time, regardless of father, mother, or uncle, no one came to find me. Only she brought people out of the encirclement in Merino County, fought back into the Capital, and found me in an air-raid shelter converted from a sewer in the old city.

I... I asked her why she came. She said she didn't want to come either, but I still had to live. Father only had two children. I couldn't just die like this. I had to live just in case."

"At that time, I didn't understand what she meant. However, later father died of illness on the road of escape, and she was also captured and executed because the resistance failed. After she died, the army that had been scattered, as well as those who didn't want the Kingdom to be completely swallowed, began to lean toward me, saying I was the last robin of the Royal Family.

However, I... the me in the dream was very useless, had no ability to persist in resistance like her, and could only retreat again and again with people, relying on completely submitting to other kingdoms, and signing many harsh treaties that were unlike anything, to barely preserve a small piece of land of less than three counties.

And in order not to be completely eliminated, I had to hand over a large amount of precious minerals and nearly 40% of the fiscal revenue every year, which was almost the same as a large county of other kingdoms. But even if I was working hard every day, the situation was getting worse and worse..."

As if feeling the same, after finishing the "encounter" of another self with a dim expression, the freckled Prince's eyes were somewhat blank:

"Just when everything was starting to develop toward the worst result, the entire Kingdom was poor and unable to bear the burden, and was about to cease to exist, an old man with squinting eyes and a natural smiling face asked me if I wanted to change all this.

Then he opened a door for me, telling me that walking in could make up for regrets, but as a price, I had to lose everything. And the me in the dream didn't know if I was completely desperate, or felt that there was nothing left to lose, so I really walked in directly..."

"..."

"And then?"

After waiting for a while and not waiting for the follow-up, Ai Ma, who was listening intently, couldn't help but ask:

"The you in the dream, what was the situation after you entered the door?"

"After?"

The freckled Prince blinked, somewhat distracted:

"There was nothing after. I woke up when it was dawn."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 584 =====