Fake Princess
CCCLXXVII Chapter
I walk in the footsteps of Izumi who was touching Haruki's body, Izumi occasionally glanced at Haruki who was walking beside her. I glanced back at Cia who was walking beside me, and I felt the grip of the hand she was holding in my hand strengthen as the wooden masks worn by the villagers looked at us as far as the road.
The wolf-masked woman walking in front of us stopped her footsteps, we followed her kneeling in front of the old woman who was previously wearing a lion-shaped wooden mask before. “Thanks to your head,” the voice of the old woman is heard again.
I raised my face to look at her who was sitting on a chair made of woven tree roots, the old woman raised her hand holding Haruki's golden slab towards us, “do you guys meet my brother?” He spoke again, saying the same words as before.
“No, we only met his Daughter,” Haruki joined his voice, “you boys, met the child of my Brother?” The woman looked back at Haruki, I looked at Haruki who nodded her head at him.
A male? The kid? What are they really talking about?
I looked back at the old woman who had glanced at me, “can I see the ring in your hand?” The old woman raised her hand towards me, I slightly glanced towards Haruki who had nodded her head looking at me.
I let go of my hand to Cia, my body moved and walked up to the old woman. The woman raised her head to look at me who had been standing before her, slowly moving both my legs to her knees before her, “your hands,” she said softly as she continued to stare at me.
Slowly, I placed my hand on the palm of his hand that was pointing at me. The woman closed her eyes as her hands clasped my palms, “so like that,” she said again opened her eyes to look at me.
“You are here, to ask us to help you in the war right?” The old woman looked back at me, I slightly frowned looking at her, “sorry, but is..”.
“I am actually one of the Princesses in the Kingdom, Her mother Queen Alelah is my Brother,” he said again staring at the iron ring given by Queen Alelah on my finger.
“This ring, is the ring belonging to the first Queen. I didn't expect that Alelah would give the ring to a stranger, but after I saw the contents of your heart,” he said by slightly stroking the iron ring that was in my hand earlier quietly.
“But we, will not help you,” continued the old woman released her hand to me, “since I, expelled from the Kingdom by my Mother. I, do not have any relationship with that Kingdom anymore. We, living in a remote place like this, just because I don't want them to go meddling with the problems of the outside world,” said the woman bowed.
“I, really do not understand what really happened,” I said, I glanced back at Haruki who was kneeling behind, “aku, will tell it from the beginning, I said,” the voice of the old woman turned my attention back.
“The mother of Queen Alelah, actually my sister, there .. The name of Brother and Sister, not based on who, who was born first. Me, hating my own mother .. All her treatment made my heart ache.”
“I was forced to give my status as heir to the throne to my Brother because of my body condition. Every day, I was compared. Everything I did, all the effort I put in .. Doesn't mean anything in her eyes, and it really breaks my heart.”
“I don't hate my sister, because I know it wasn't her fault. Me, just hating myself, because I felt like a child, I was useless. At its peak, I was very frightened when someone called my name, I do not know.. Maybe it was because, I was always called My mother just to receive her anger,” said the old woman again bowed her head.
“I decided to flee the Kingdom, escape from my home, as you can see now .. This place is my home,” he continued with a gaze to look around, “what is it? Is something stuck in your heart?” I looked back at her as my cheek was touched by the palm of the old woman earlier.
“There's a part I don't understand, grandma ran away .. But how my sister got to know this place,” I said a little glance avoiding her gaze, “maybe, Queen Alelah told my place to take refuge with your brother. We were born from a sacred waterfall, as long as it was in our bodies. The Queen who leads the Kingdom will still be able to find us wherever we are,” he said looking back at me.
“We?” I asked him again, “all of whom are here, some of whom are servants who escaped with me. And she, my granddaughter,” said the old woman clasping the hand of the wolf-masked woman standing near me.
“As we fled, we met some Knights who were banished by the Empire. Every single one of those Knights must have lost their limbs including him being my husband, I can even speak fluently like this because he taught me,” he said back to me.
“Because of that, we can't help you in the war. I know if your intentions are good, but .. I, do not want to interfere with the problems of your world,” he said again looking towards the back of my body.
“Omong blank what kind of you say Old woman?!” Lux's sudden powerful voice in my ears slightly convulsed my body, I slightly glanced towards Lux who had flown from my hair-covered shoulder, which was covered in hair, “what do you say if you will not interfere with the problems that exist in this world?!”
“Lux,” I said slowly as Lux raised her voice in front of the old woman, I glanced back at the residents who were moving closer and closer, “do you not know what will happen?!” Lux's voice again sounded stronger than before.
“What because your husband used to be an Imperial Knight, that's why you rejected us before we offered cooperation?!” Lux spoke again loudly with her index finger pointing at the old woman, “this is why I hate humans! You're selfish, you're just selfish. Is it because your life here is so comfortable that you close your eyes to those out there!”
“Listen to me old man! If we fail, we are not the only ones who die. But you, him and all of them,” Lux said pointing her index finger back at the residents who surround us, “ will follow the dead, even though you hide the body at the end of the world even once,” connect Lux back to her.