Chapter 583: Strange Dream (Part 2)

"What kind of strange question is this again?"

The freckled Prince, who was confused, said impatiently:

"I am my father's only son, where did this older sister come from? If you are delaying 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 toward Leon's direction vigilantly.

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

Dream?!

Hearing the freckled Prince's words, Leon and Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's brows rose in unison, then they subconsciously looked at each other.

"Prince Watching Watching Qiaoshuya, although the Cleanup Bureau has cleaners who can enter dreams, our Virgin Branch doesn't have anyone with this ability... but we can't guarantee that there are no such people among those rebels."

Exchanging opinions with Leon through their eyes and feeling that this could be dug deeper, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma immediately sat up straight, her expression somewhat serious:

"Prince Watching Watching Qiaoshuya, we now suspect that someone might 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 that is messy and has no logic, do I have to tell you too?"

"Yes, this might be very important information!"

"This... alright..."

Intimidated by Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's serious attitude, the freckled Prince hesitated for a while, but still swallowed and told the whole story:

"It's just like that question of yours. Last night, I happened to have a similar dream. In the dream, I wasn't 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 pleasantly, the freckled Prince paused slightly, then looked up toward Leon who had taken over the conversation, full of suspicion:

"How did you know the name of the person in my dream? And, why does your voice sound a bit fami..."

"Of course we know this name!"

Secretly pinching Leon's leg lightly, signaling him not to speak randomly, Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma frowned and answered:

"Because among those rebels, there is a woman named Veronica. Prince Watching Watching Qiaoshuya, we suspect that woman holds 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, so it turns out everything was controlled."

Strange?

Hearing this, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma blinked, then immediately asked:

"Prince Watching Watching Qiaoshuya, may I ask, 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 for a moment, the freckled Prince recounted with some 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, letting me follow her lead 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, telling me not to believe the kindness she showed me, and to guard against her harming me for the sake of the throne.

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

Although my relationship with her was 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 constant active recollection, seeming to have remembered more details, a look of pain actually gradually appeared in the freckled Prince's eyes, then, as if he were telling his own story, he said with an uncomfortable expression:

"Later... the kingdom was broken into. 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, and airships throwing explosives could be seen overhead every day.

As for the army under the control of those trash in the Military Department, it was simply vulnerable in front of the enemy, almost touching and collapsing. Only the few new armies created by my older sister and the Minister of National Defense had some resistance ability.

But regardless of number or weapons, they were much worse than the other side. Although relying on Old Hill's command, they repelled several attacks from the opposite side and stabilized the situation, but I... my mother and some people in the Ministry of Finance started to constantly drag them down..."

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 its wages, and ammunition and weapons couldn't be supported. Although relying on my older sister's prestige, it hadn't scattered yet, but later it really couldn't hold on, and most of it was trapped in Merino County.

Then Wang Dou was captured, and there were refugees everywhere. My mother and I were mixed in with the people from the Ministry of Finance, were 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 to kill their way out of the encirclement in Merino County, fought back into Wang Dou, and found me from the air-raid shelter converted from the sewer in the old city area.

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 that, I had to live just in case."

"At that time, I didn't understand what she meant. But later, father died of illness on the way to escape, and she was also captured and executed because the resistance failed. After she died, the army that was scattered, as well as those who didn't want the kingdom to be completely swallowed, started to lean toward me, saying I was the last robin of the royal family.

However, I... the me in the dream was very useless, didn't have the ability to persist in resistance like her, and could only retreat again and again, relying on completely surrendering to other kingdoms and signing many harsh treaties that were unlike words, to barely preserve a small piece of land with 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 forty percent of the fiscal revenue every year, which was almost the same as a large county of other kingdoms. But even though 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, and the entire kingdom was poor and unable to bear the burden, and was about to cease to exist, an old man with curved and narrowed eyes and a natural smiling face asked me if I wanted to change all this.

Then he opened a door for me and told 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, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who was listening somewhat fascinated, couldn't help but ask:

"The you in the dream, what was the situation after entering 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 =====