Fake Princess
CCCLXXIV Chapter
Little by little the body of the woman wearing the wolf mask had left the water, she turned to look at us by raising her right palm before she again walked towards the village I mentioned earlier. Haruki's grip on my hand grew stronger when one by one the humans who were also wearing masks came to us.
My eyes were distracted by the carved brown wooden box carried by the eight people carrying it, just like the others. Slowly, the eight men wearing the mask moved down the wooden box they were carrying.
The woman wearing the wolf mask stood by the wooden box and slowly opened the curtain that covered the wooden box. I turned back, I saw that the soldiers who were accompanying us from behind had bowed their heads. Haruki's hand grip that suddenly strengthened made me turn my eyes back to the wooden box earlier.
A person, with a face covered in a Lion-shaped mask had been sitting inside a wooden box carried by the eight people earlier. Haruki slowly pulled my hand as the woman wearing the wolf mask moved her palm back towards us. I walked slowly forward, the water soaking in my clothes and robes made my body a little heavy as my legs walked up a ramp by the river.
I clasped Haruki's left arm tightly with both of my hands as the ground we poked felt slippery by the dripping water on our bodies. I followed Haruki who had been sitting on his knees in front of the person sitting inside the wooden box earlier, Haruki again said the same words when he said to the wolf-masked woman earlier, Haruki, “Sa-chan,” whispered softly as she finished saying those words I did not understand.
“What's up, nii-chan?” I whispered softly nearby, “can you take that golden slab behind the bag on my left chest , and then give the slab to the woman wearing the mask,” he said back slowly heard.
My eyes turned to look at the palm of his left hand that he held firmly, it seemed that his palm was shaking if we did not take our eyes off him, “I understand nii-chan,” said I follow what he ordered.
I directed my palm to slip into the robe he was wearing, I grabbed the slab of hard, thin objects hanging behind his cloak. I opened the bond on the cloth bag in my hand, I stood up by dropping the object in the bag over the palm of my hand. I pointed that palm-sized piece of gold metal at the wolf-masked woman earlier as my legs stopped in front of her.
The woman grabbed the gold plate from my hand and gave it to her who was sitting in the wooden box. The man sitting in the wooden box had lifted the slab over his face, twisted the slab earlier and directed the slab again to approach the mask he was wearing.
“Did you guys meet my brother?” The voice of the Woman suddenly sounded, my eyes slightly enlarged when he who sat in the wooden box raised the wooden box that covered his face, “did you meet my Brother?” The old woman asked again as she put the lion mask she was wearing to the side.
“Did you guys meet my brother?” The woman spoke again, I moved my head to look towards Haruki.
Both of my eyes grew bigger followed by my feet running towards her, “nii-chan,” I said strongly, I immediately knelt beside her with one hand touching her pale cheeks.
“Nii-chan, look at me,” I said slowly as I gave my palm just now a little pushing her face towards me.
“Can, I hitchhike taking care of my Brother. She ... She,” I said stopped for a moment, “She was hit by a poisoned arrow. I have to take care of him immediately,” I said in a trembling voice.
The old woman inside the box directed her gaze towards the wolf-masked female, the wolf-masked female earlier nodded as they stared for a long time. I immediately stood up, helping Haruki move his body closer to Izumi's back. Izumi stood up and followed the wolf-masked woman with Haruki in her arms.
“Actually what poison did they give him? It's the first time for me to see him like this,” said Izumi again tightened her hand grip on Haruki's thigh, “hold Haruki, you hear me?!” This time Izumi raised her voice slightly.
The woman brought us to a stop at a stilt house, I walked beside Izumi with both hands tightly holding Haruki's body as Izumi slowly climbed the stairs on the stilt house. The sound of a wooden squeak rang out as we got closer to the last few stairs, “ber .. Hati..Hati,” said Izumi with a little restrained as we approached the wooden floor of the house.
Izumi walked quickly past the woman as she opened the door to the house. I moved to follow what Izumi was doing, “open the door," Izumi glanced at me as we stopped at a white door.
I opened the door, Izumi slightly glanced towards the room at the door earlier, “don't be here, Izumi,’ said Izumi again by stepping back his legs approaching a brown door full of carvings.
I walked up to her again, and I gave her my hand to open the door. Izumi entered very quickly into the room that was behind the chocolate door. I stepped behind him as my legs turned closer to the sunlight that was slightly penetrating the wall. I pushed the wooden window in front of me until the light could freely fill the room.
I again stepped closer to Izumi who had laid Haruki's body on the straw-floated bed, “Haruki!” Lux's voice followed by her shadow flying past me.
I turned towards Izumi who was slowly undressing the clothes Haruki was wearing, “I will try to check on her. Eneas, remove all the antidotes we brought!” Lux again shouted loudly as she had flown around the wound on Haruki's arm.
“How can he be like this? I mean, Haruki's body is already immune to toxins,” this time Izumi voiced out with a vibrating voice heard, “Haruki has been consuming a lot of toxins lately. As strong as he is ... He will still collapse,” said Lux chimed in Izumi's words.
“What you need to do now, is just pray .. Hope, so that nothing happens to him,” Lux said again heard in the ear.