Fake Princess
Ccxvi Chapter
Our horse-footed steps came to a halt in front of a wooden bridge connecting a tall castle with where we stand now. Looking back at me, the rows of buildings that stood along the hill filled my eyes...
The horse we were riding moved forward slowly, turning back my gaze to the small pond that stretched under the castle bridge. I stared at a barbed tail in black swimming slowly around the bridge we were passing...
Both pairs of eyes appeared to come out from the shadow of the murky water beneath us. The pair of eyes sank when the horse we were riding reached the other side of the bridge.
The sound of iron rubbing that sounded shifted my gaze. Back I bow my head staring at the high iron fence that was in front of us raised up slowly.
The horses we rode back walked past the open iron fence earlier. My eyes refused to move towards the dark-colored castle that was in front of us...
Have you ever seen a vampire hideout castle that is often in the movies? That's the castle in front of me right now.
The two-leaved door that was also dark in color further deepened the mystical nuances surrounding it. The footsteps of our horses moved closer and closer to the door, the rose carvings that appeared enveloping the entire door were more clearly visible in the view.
Haruki stopped the footsteps of his horse, looking at Izumi, Both Eneas and Daisuke had descended from the horse they were riding in the footsteps of Niel and the little boy who had also walked closer and closer to the door of the castle.
I thrust my body down the horse as my hands clasped the clothes Haruki was wearing. Back I move my body back a few steps giving Haruki space to come down from his horse.
Haruki turned his body around following the footsteps of Daisuke waiting for us in front of the Castle door, both of my feet stepped quickly following the footsteps of Haruki who was walking beside me.
The middle-aged man who greeted us at the gate earlier walked past us. The man raised his hand to knock on the door with a tone that was heard by me.
The two-leafed door moved in slowly to slowly split into two. My eyes were stunned as the door opened completely, the beautiful nuance that was before us was truly pampering the eyes.
I don't know what they were thinking when they built this castle, but really... The castle is truly amazing.
I thought, when the door opened... I will immediately meet a dark room like a dark color that envelops the Castle. But in fact, what we meet now is a sky-roofed garden with a large pond in the corner of the wall.
"Welcome to our castle, are you surprised to see it?" the sound of a child's voice, I turned my gaze to look at the boy who had one hand still held by Niel.
"Some of my bodyguards will take you to each other's rooms to rest. They'll call you back when it's dinner time" Niel turned around and walked away.
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I thrust my palm into the comb that was on the small table beside the bed as my eyes looked back at every corner of the room, just a chair, a small table beside the bed, and looked back at every corner of the room, and the bed I'm sitting on right now that just fills this spacious room...
"Dining is ready, Your Majesty is now waiting for you in the dining room" a male voice was heard following the knocking of the door from the outside.
I accelerated my hand was moving the comb on my hair, a few strands of my brown hair that fell out seemed to fall onto the white dress I was wearing. I give both my legs to stand beside the bed while I give my palms to pat my dress so that the hair attached to it is released.
I bowed my legs to the sandals lying neatly beside the bed. I turned my body around and walked to the door of the room and opened it quickly...
"Good night" I replied, as I turned my body to look for the source of the sound.
"My guess is right," he said again, putting my eyes on the little boy who was with Niel this afternoon.
"Thank you?" reveal me as I give my body a walk through it.
"I've guessed that you're a woman" he continued, stepping beside me.
"Then? Is it a problem if I'm a girl?" I lowered my head to look at him.
"Are you here to live with my father?"
"Your father? Living together?" I said looking back at him, nodding him a few times to answer my words.
"That's not what I meant... Your papa? Who her? Are we going to see your father at the banquet?" I said to him again.
"Your fathers? But, my father is only one," he said again looking at me with puzzled eyes.
"I mean, your father and also Niel," I said to him.
"But Niel, Your Highness Niel... It was my father" he said in reply to me.
"Eh? Are you trying to trick me? I mean, she looks a little younger than my sister Izumi."
"But this year... Dad was twenty-eight years old," he said looking back at me.
"Are you fooled by the beauty she has? You must be astonished, no, my father is more amazing than you are real women" he continued.
"Now, I believe that you are father and son" I said, speeding up the footsteps of leaving him.
"I'll give you any information about this city. Information that even my own father didn't know," the boy's voice stopped my footsteps, I pushed back my body turned to look at him.
"What do you mean?" I said as I put both my legs moving closer to him.
"Unlike Dad, I have a lot of acquaintances in town. I can easily get the information I want including about the powder you're looking for," she said, looking at me who had been standing before her.
"Then, what should we do for you? I know, you wouldn't be able to give it away for free. I'm right, aren't I?" I said as I bowed my body slightly staring at him.
"Easy, you just have to..."