Fake Princess
Ccxl Chapter
"I thought you guys were acting like that last night," I said bowed with my palm rubbing Egil's head still asleep lying on his lap.
"He's fine. His breathing had stopped last night, but he suddenly breathed back after a while," Lux moved his body sitting on Egil's chest.
"What about my two brothers?"
"They were trying to find something in the rubble. I didn't expect the castle to be destroyed overnight" he said, turning his body back.
"Nee-chan," said Eneas, turning to her as she moved her arms to help Niel sit up.
"What's going on?" Niel looked at me.
"You've been unconscious since then..."
"My castle" he said, I bowed my head with a few breaths of air.
"My beloved dragon destroyed it, when he fought with the creature that attacked you last night," I said, looking back at him.
"Dragon?"
"I mean, the white-winged creature that fell asleep over there," I turned my eyes to Kou who was soundly asleep beside the castle walls.
"Egil, what is he..." His speech was cut off, I looked back at him who was down with one hand tightly grasping his arm.
"Egil is fine. He's just asleep, don't worry too much" I said.
"You're aware of Niel?" Haruki's voice, I stared at him walking towards us with Izumi and Daisuke behind him.
"What's going on?" Said Niel with a slightly stammered voice staring at Haruki.
"We returned to the castle as soon as possible last night, because we were convinced that something had gone wrong last night. By the time we got back, you were unconscious in your son's lap" Haruki said, moving his body to sit in our midst.
"I don't understand what you mean" he said bowed.
"Daisuke!" At Haruki's command, Daisuke stepped forward and threw the head he still held tightly before.
"Head," he said, looking at the head that had fallen down on him with two slightly enlarged eyes.
"Head Tem. Your bodyguard and personal adviser" Haruki told him.
"Did you kill him?" He returned Haruki's gaze.
"How dare you!"
"He's traitor!" Tukas Haruki stopped Niel's clasping.
"You think why the enemy can enter the castle without damaging anything. The main door of the castle opens, as if to give a welcome to the enemy to go inside."
"You, tricked by him. Your son, used by him. The man, taking advantage of the trust you put in him," Haruki said again, moving his legs straight against the ground with his face raised upwards.
"Did you remember? The night you summoned all your Knights. Was it not only Tem who did not do this, for you believed him so much..."
"And when Egil ran to avoid me, Tem suddenly appeared and acted as if to protect him. Maybe some people will consider it natural, but I understand clearly the gaze he casts on me."
"Me" said Haruki, chiming in on my words.
"Before we go to the enemy's hideout, I command Daisuke first to finish off all the enemies when he senses an awkwardness. As for the three of us, going straight back to the castle to help you if what I was worried about was true," Haruki continued, appearing to be heard several breaths of air as his head stared straight at the sky.
"Every night" Daisuke said to Haruki.
"Tem ordered your Knights to attack us when he realized the Prince and the Princess had disappeared from the forest. We got into a fight because Aeneas and I were holding them back from the woods" Daisuke said.
"Then? Wouldn't it be natural, if he wanted to return as soon as possible... He, must want to protect me immediately," Niel said looking back at Daisuke.
"Don't joke! He didn't come back to help you, but he came back to kill my three brothers. He said, if we were bullies, he should have directly killed my brother Sachi while he was alone in the inn room," Eneas said in a slightly raised tone beside Niel.
"You think why my brother was found in the same prison as you back then!"
"Because when he tried to kill my brother, his wound healed miraculously again. And he thought, if my brother was going to be a very good exchange so that he could occupy the position that you had when the Emperor's subordinates managed to kill you," Eneas continued, Niel still bowed speechlessly.
"Where are you," Niel said in a soft, almost inaudible tone.
"I'm a poison master, I've been used to making poison since childhood. A little poison for someone to get out all his heart before death picks him up, it's very easy for me to make" said Aeneas as he stood up and left Niel.
"Dad," came Egil's voice, I turned my gaze to look at him who had turned his head to look at Niel.
"What they say is all right, Dad. I, once, saw Tem enter your study and check all the cabinets in your study when you disappeared for a few days" he said, giving me a hand to help him sit up.
"When Dad disappeared. All Knights act like nothing happened, I think it's because Dad ordered them like that. But, I accidentally heard one of the Knights say... The leader with the body and face of a woman is so disgusting to serve" he said in a quivering voice.
"And one of those Knights was Tem. I'm sorry Dad, but Tem is, Uncle I meant. Uncle asked me to betray you... Because he said, he would help me to reunite with Mom if I managed to do so," he said again with both hands covering his bowed face.