I! Cleaner!

"Your mother is dead."

Looking at the tin queen on the ground, Leon couldn't help but sigh.

This sentence is not a curse, but a simple statement of fact.

The tin queen fell from the sky and fell directly on the stone slab next to the garden. She was broken into pieces, and some parts even collapsed into the garden. On the treetop not far away, there was a big iron butt in red shorts hanging. It was estimated that she was dead.

"..."

How...how could this happen...

Looking at the tin queen broken into seven or eight pieces on the ground, Joshua, who had just woken up and was still confused, couldn't help but move his lips and wanted to cry a little.

But he brewed his emotions, and after turning down the corners of his mouth twice, he couldn't cry. He could only stare at the fragments of the tin queen and stare blankly.

Even after listening to Leon, he already understood that this tin doll in bright red might be the real queen, but... the difference between the tin doll and the human was still a little big, which led to the fact that the emotions were not well prepared, and he couldn't cry for a while.

...

This was really... a completely unexpected development.

Although he had a very bad impression of the queen and a rather ordinary impression of Joshua, after all, death was the greatest, and Leon, who had a decent moral level, did not say bad words after all, but helped pick up the queen's tin head and stuffed it into the freckled prince who was confused.

"Take it."

Due to the special senses of the tin guards, Luke, who temporarily borrowed Joshua's body, did not recognize Luke's plan to replace the guard leader, and his plan had already failed.

But the good news is that although the tin guards did not recognize the prince's body, their obedience to their own prince was surprisingly high.

It seems that after being turned into iron, for these iron men, the priority of "labels" such as identity, status, and occupation has been directly raised to the highest level. Their own duties and the orders of people with higher status have become things that cannot be disobeyed.

If they were normal guards, it would be impossible for the prince to transfer them from their posts, but for the guards who have been turned into iron dolls, as long as they do not conflict with the orders of people with higher status, their orders must be completed.

So now it seems that Luke is not needed, and I can also command these guards to evacuate their posts, giving the rebels ambushed outside the palace a chance to rush in. It can be regarded as a blessing in disguise... or a blessing in disguise?

Looking at Joshua who took over the iron head of the queen and sat on the ground in a daze, Leon couldn't help but sigh helplessly.

Although it is a bit cruel to think so, for me, the queen's death is indeed a good thing, and if she died of an abnormal object, it would be even better.

However, although Joshua and his mother were annoying, it was still a bit cruel for the freckled prince who was only in his teens to witness his mother's sudden death.

"My condolences."

Since they were all human, Leon patted Joshua on the shoulder to comfort him, then turned and walked towards the door of the palace, ready to check on the princess, but...

"Ah!!!!!!!"

Accompanied by a hysterical scream, the iron head in Joshua's hand suddenly opened his eyes, and said angrily:

"I'm going to kill you! Damn Veronica! How dare you push me down from the upstairs!"

"Fuck!"

No... You didn't die even when your butt was hanging on a tree? Your soul didn't move just now!

Leon turned around with a startle, looking at the iron head that had strangely come alive and was cursing in Joshua's arms, and couldn't help but say in extreme speechlessness:

"Are you still alive?"

"Of course I'm still alive! She's not dead, so why should I... Are you... the Duke of Lionheart?"

Blinking her ruby ​​eyes, the face of the Iron Queen couldn't help but reveal a hint of resentment, and she suddenly opened her mouth and shouted maliciously:

"Come on! I order you now! Go upstairs immediately and strangle that person..."

Wait! You want to order me? !

After hearing the words of the Iron Queen, Leon's eyebrows suddenly raised, thinking of the iron guards at the door of the palace, who were unusually obedient to him, the prince.

Not good!

Although he looked like a person now, he was only a person in his own eyes. In fact, he had been affected by the abnormal object. In the "Tin Man" rules that he had figured out, the Tin Man with a higher status could easily command the Tin Man with a lower status.

In terms of status, the Queen, who was second only to the old king, was obviously a head higher than the prince chosen by the princess, so he must not let her finish the order!

Go!

In Joshua's stunned eyes, Leon, who had turned around and was about to leave, suddenly twisted his body and raised his legs like a rabbit, and kicked him directly on the head with a powerful and heavy volley, and kicked the Tin Queen directly out.

With a ten-point immersion value, Leon's physical fitness has greatly exceeded the scope of ordinary humans. The power of this kick was amazing, and the speed was also quite terrifying, and even kicked out an extremely sharp sound of breaking wind.

Faced with this volley that exceeded human limits, the Iron Queen, whose eyes were filled with resentment, didn't even scream before she was kicked on the bridge of her nose. Her entire body... her entire head turned into a meteor and flew high into the palace garden with an afterimage, completely disappearing.

"?!?!?!!!"

The unfortunate Prince Freckles was completely stunned when he saw his mother being kicked away and disappearing in the iron garden.

From the iron queen landing with a bang, to taking off with a bang, although it only took two minutes, it was an unparalleled strange experience for Joshua.

In these two minutes, Joshua's emotions were so up and down that I really don't know how to describe it. If I have to summarize it, it can be roughly divided into three stages.

My mother is dead?

My mother is alive? !

My mother flew!!!

"Plop!"

Until there was a sound of heavy objects falling into the lake from an unknown distance, and within two minutes, his mother died and then came back to life. Then the Prince Freckles took off on the spot. He came back to his senses as if he had just woken up from a dream, and hurriedly climbed over the fence in panic, screaming and running towards the artificial lake in the garden.

"Mother!!!!!!!!!!"

"..."

You can't blame me for this, it was your mother who did it first.

Looking at Joshua who rushed into the garden crying, Leon couldn't help but shook his head helplessly.

Kicking someone's mother in front of her was really excessive, but if he didn't kick her and let the Iron Queen give the order, it would be more than just excessive. This kick was purely her own fault.

"Let me ask you a question."

After walking quickly back to the door of the bedroom, Leon said to the iron guard who was still guarding there:

"What will happen if you iron men go into the water? Will you die?"

"That won't happen."

The iron guard shook his head and said:

"It will just rust. If you stay there for too long, it will be difficult to move before it is polished again."

That's it.

Leon nodded and ordered:

"Help me do something. The queen fell into the lake. Go and call all the guards in. Ask them to go to the garden and help Prince Joshua fish out the queen. After that, stay in the garden and swim for a while before coming out.

Also, find two fast guards and ask if there are any rebels lying in ambush in front of the palace. If there are, tell them that you can lead people to rush into the palace now."

"Okay, I'll go now!"