Fake Princess
Cdxxxii Chapter
“Nii-chan, did you not hear what I said?” I hurried my horse to approach him.
Haruki stopped the footsteps of the horse he was riding, “I heard it. But that doesn't mean we should back off, I'm right?” He said it without looking at it one bit.
“Do you two can't stop talking! Someone is approaching!” I slightly closed both of my eyes as Lux's voice sounded strong beside the ears.
Izumi pulled the sword on her waist, followed by Haruki who also did the same. I grabbed the bow with the arrow on my back, I placed the arrow until it stuck to the bow I was holding as more and more black shadows sprung from the pile of rocks resembling the hill before us.
I again lowered the bow I had raised when my eyes fell on a middle-aged man riding a dark horse emerging from the sidelines of the row of riding men in front our.
Haruki riding his horse approached the man I meant earlier, “Duke Masashi, what are you doing here?” Haruki asked who had also lowered back his sword.
“I was assigned by Kudou to take Princess Sasithorn and Cia here,” he said with a glance towards Izumi.
“Ke here? What do you mean? Dad asked you to drive him to Leta, didn't you?” This time Izumi rode her horse forward getting closer to the two of them.
“What a spy the Emperor would release Princess Sasithorn just like that after what happened -” Duke Masashi stopped his words with a slight glance towards Haruki, “ back then,” he said back very slowly heard.
“Leta, Yadgar, Balawijaya, or the Kingdom that once dealt with the Empire. Emperor, will not stop before Kudou and his children lose their lives,” Duke Masashi glanced sideways, trying to avoid our gaze upon him.
“What do you mean? Sasithorn, after all, was not the Princess of the Kingdom of Sora.”
“She is indeed not the Princess of the Kingdom of Sora for now, but someday .. She will be the mother of your children, Prince Izumi. Do you want, what happened to Princess Luana, also happened to her?”
Duke Masashi moved his horse back to us, “aku, did not have much time to answer all your questions. Compared to that, follow me! They were all waiting,” he said, the horse he rode forward followed by the horse ridden by the Knights who were directly under his command.
Duke's horse kept walking through the forest, not a word came out of one of our lips, what was clearly heard in the ears was only the sound of the footsteps of horses followed by the sound of goats mixed with cows that were increasingly heard from a distance.
I raised my head upwards as the puff of smoke rose more and more clearly in the distance, “so cold,” Lux whispered in my ear making my eyes glance to the left.
I looked at Aeneas who alternately raised his palm close to his mouth and then blew air into his palm. My eyes slightly turned to the palms of Haruki and Izumi who looked paled grasping their horse harnesses.
“Of course, you're lucky because right now Kou is enveloping a powerful magic all over your body. I almost froze, sorry if I pull hard your hair,” she whispered back in the ear with a vibrating voice heard.
The sound of the footsteps of the horse in front of me suddenly came to a halt. I raised my face straight ahead, my eyes fixed on the black sand with a huge mountain far away before us.
“What has my grandson arrived?”
My head swiftly turned to the right as a male voice sounded near me. My eyes grew when an old man, dressed in fur, was sitting next to a brown horse mixed in white. The man was carrying a large bird on his shoulders, his gray eyes were seen looking at us below him in turn.
“Dad, what are you doing up there! Get down now!”
I turned my eyes back to the front as the sound of the male snapping slightly shocked my heart. “What are you doing? I was just giving my grandson a surprise!” The old man on the flat stone shouted back until the bird on his shoulder opened its wings.
He moved his horse back down the high flat rock beside us. His horse slowly walked past the stone and stopped in front of us, “we, have long been waiting for your arrival. Kudou said, if my grandchildren will come visit their grandfather,” he said he was looking at us alternately with his gray eyes that look a little hidden in his eyelids that are slightly wrinkled.
“Izumi,” she switched to staring at Izumi, “you look very similar to my Daughter. Isshin must be happy to see her son has grown into a strong handsome man,” he continued with a smile to look at Izumi.
“And you, Haruki, right?” This time, his eyes turned to Haruki, “ before Isshin died, the letter he sent me, always telling me how amazing Haruki was. It's like I knew you before we met, my grandson,” he said again while still staring at Haruki.
“What are you, Sachi?” His eyes turned towards me, “Masashi often told me about you every time he came here. She said, Youngest princess Kudou, it is amazing. You will see the brave figure of Isshin when you know him,” he continued with a smile looking at me.
The old man looked back, “you guys, come closer!” He shouted by waving his hands at the six people, two of whom were women riding horses far behind him.
The six men rode their horses closer and stopped just behind the old man, “, which is on the right end,” he said by pointing towards the big man who glanced at us with his gray eyes, “is, the older brother of Isshin, which means if he is your uncle, he is,” continue the old man is back.
“Which is next to him again, he's Isshin's younger brother, which means he's also your uncle. Meanwhile, the other four .. They are the children of your Uncle, you could say they are your cousins,” he said looking back at us alternately.
“Kudou said that his children are still weak and easily injured. So, he asked me directly to make my beloved grandchildren become very strong by living as hunters with us.”
“Those vice-captains you are proud of,” said the grandfather by crossing his arms in front of his chest, “always come here to strengthen their bodies. Therefore, welcome to the Azayaka tribe, my grandchildren. Take off all the weapons you carry, get off the horse you are riding, then follow me .. To attend the welcoming ceremony,” he smiled with a wink at us.