Fake Princess
CCCLXXV Chapter
Both of my hands move rubbing Haruki's left arm using a white cloth that has been moistened with water, “it is likely that he will have a fever, if Haruki can pass it .. He will be fine,” Lux said, I slightly glanced at him who was flying closer with Eneas walking behind him.
I turned towards Aeneas who had stopped his footsteps beside me, “for Haru nii-san,” said Eneas directed the bowl made of coconut shells at me, “what I should give it in one time or.”.
“Just give it when he has a fever, make sure you drink the potion to him until it runs out,” Lux words stop me.
I looked down at the medicinal herbs that filled the bowl, “I understand,” I said I moved and walked over to the small table near the entrance of the room.
The bowl I had in my hand, I put it on the small table earlier. I turned back to move my legs closer to Haruki who was still lying unconscious in bed, “I will take care of him. You can rest,” I said staring at Lux and also Eneas alternately.
“How about yourself?” Lux asked back, let my eyes look at him, “I will rest after you rest,” I said smilingly looking at him.
“We understand, we will rest in front of the room. Call us if something happens,” Lux continues flying past me.
I sat down on the side of the bed again, looking at Eneas who was still down, standing up, “you why Aeneas? Did something happen?” Aeneas raised his head to look at me, “don't push yourself too hard nee-chan,” he said looking at me, I returned his gaze with a small smile that I did.
“I didn't push myself, nor did Eneas .. Please tell Izu nii-chan, give the dried fruits that were in the bag to Cia, as well as honey to Uki, please,” my words grabbed and then firmly grasped his left hand.
“I understand nee-chan,” she said smilingly looking at me, Aeneas walked out of the room as I let go of my hand at her.
I lowered my head, reaching for the bowl of white cloth and also the water that was still lying on the bed. My body stood up again and walked with the bowl in my hand, putting the bowl in my hand earlier next to the bowl containing the medicinal herbs that Lux and Eneas had made before.
I walked back to the bed, I gave both my hands grabbed the blanket at the end of Haruki's feet, I opened the fold of the blanket cloth and then quilt it to cover half Haruki's body. I sat on the edge of the bed with dry straw, I gave my body to lean on the head of the bed while my eyes were still fixed towards the scars that filled my brother's body.
I slightly moved, I pulled a little blanket cloth earlier to cover his stomach that was not covered with a cloth before. “How is it?” Izumi's voice that sounded averted my gaze.
“Lux says, it's likely Haru-nii will have a fever, but the rest ... He will be fine,” I said looking at him who had also been sitting beside the bed looking at Haruki.
Izumi moved her hand to grab the blanket that covered Haruki's stomach, then pulled the blanket to cover her chest, “she had always forced herself since childhood. I, already can not count it .. How many times he was unconscious because of the poison,” said Izumi again pulled his hand from the blanket earlier.
“Nii-chan, since when? Since when did you start doing it?” Izumi raised her head, then smiled at me, “I don't know if it's Haruki, but .. I've started learning to take poison since you were a baby. Initially, I only consumed toxins that only made my stomach hurt,” Izumi bowed to stop her words, “I even forgot, how many times I had to go back and forth from the bathroom because of it, Izumi said,” he said again followed by a small laugh that he let out.
“When Haruki was little, she almost died being poisoned by Mari as well as her servant. Before you were born, Let's be the only Princess in the Palace. I don't really understand what happened, because I wasn't born like you. All I know is, long ago .. Dad hired a lot of female servants to serve Mari. Then Mari ordered some of her servants to poison Haruki who was confined in his dark palace, Haruki could survive thanks to Tatsuya who immediately responded to help him. From then on, she asks Tatsuya to make her strong from poison, and from then on too. Haruki stops trusting someone except Tatsuya.”
“Why did Tatsuya tell you this nii-chan?" I asked him back, “because my relationship with Haruki was very bad as a child. Tatsuya pleaded with me not to hate the Prince he served, he told me so that I could save Haruki from everything he was worried about," Izumi replied, she bowed down with a strong bite on her lips.
“I envy her because she got all the affection from Mom, and Haruki herself envies me because she thinks I got everything she should have. Imagine, if the relationship between us used to continue until now .. Maybe we can not protect you like now, Sachi,” he said again accompanied by a sigh he let out.
“Then, how about Mari? What happened to him after that?”
Izumi again raised her face to look at me, “Dad executed all the female servants who served her. Therefore, until now there were no female servants in our Palace, Tatsuya said if Dad was worried if he returned to hiring female servants, Tatsuya said, the servants will be envied by Mari's incitement and then again endanger Haruki, so Dad raised his Uncle Mari as a servant and bodyguard for her,” Izumi said with a slight scratch on her head.
“While Mari was alone, she got pardon from Dad. Tatsuya said, if Mari begged Father for forgiveness by saying that she was jealous of Haruki because Dad had been paying more attention to Haruki since she was born, that's about what I remember,” he said by moving both hands massaging Haruki's feet wrapped in the blanket.
“I, did not expect if it would happen like that,” said I bowed, again let my eyes look at Haruki who was still sound asleep.
I raised my hand to grab Haruki's hair that covered his forehead and then I rubbed his hair up until his forehead was seen, “would you like to know the truth that is very closely kept by Father?” Izumi's words averted my eyes.
“Do you remember? When you kneel before Dad, which is where you say you don't want to end up like Mari?” I nodded in reply to Izumi's words, “actually, Mari was executed not because of her engagement, her age was not even enough at that time. Let's be executed for direct orders from Dad,” said Izumi smilingly looking at me.
“What did you say nii-chan?” I asked him back, “actually, Dad asks everyone who knows this to shut their mouths, but I think .. I don't need to shut this thing off from you, I don't need to shut it down from you,” said Izumi again raised her head to look at me.
“Daddy loves her children so much, do you think Dad will stand by to see his son executed before his own eyes?” I shook my head in reply to her words, “when you were almost a year old, Mari and her uncle were planning to kill you. That's why,” Izumi's speech came to a halt, I moved slightly closer to her as she moved her index finger towards me.
Izumi approached her face towards me, “Father ordered her Knight secretly to kill her fiance Mari, so .. Mari was executed because her fiance lost his life before their marriage,” Izumi whispered softly to me.
“I'm so grateful that the plan they did failed, even though it took us a long time to wait for you to get up again by the potion they gave you. Tsubaru even told Tsutomu, if he wanted so much to cry for seeing you wake up again, if only that time was not the day Mari was executed.”
“I even then wanted to jump directly from the chair and take you from Tsubaru's sling, when I saw that I had been holding you watching the execution process,” Izumi raised her palm touching my cheek, “thank you, because it has come back to us again, my sister,” she smiled back at me.