Fake Princess
Cdxli Chapter
“I found it,” Lux's voice that came out of nowhere.
I raised both my palms as the flying figure of Lux got closer and closer, “bottle of this potion? Did you find my bag?” I stared at her as Lux had landed on my palm with a bottle that was almost the same height as her body.
“What is the poison powder we used to make to dry the throat?” Aeneas's voice chimed in Lux's words.
“What poison?” Izumi asked.
“When Sachi was kidnapped, she once told me that her voice had suddenly disappeared. Therefore, I and Aeneas secretly made almost the same potion. We thought, there's no harm in us making the same poison potion, who knows? In the future we intend to kidnap someone.”
“But I did not expect, if the elixir that is difficult to make it will be used for something unimportant like this,” continued Lux again by directing his eyes to Eneas.
“You said if this potion could shut someone's mouth. I think it's a very deadly poison when you give it. Therefore, I almost never use it,” I said reaching for the ceramic bottle he placed on my palm.
I glanced at Izumi who had been standing up, she grabbed the bottle as I passed it to her. “Use a little bit, Izumi! It is very difficult to find the plant,” Lux said when Izumi had walked past us with a bottle earlier.
“Lux,” my tukas called him. Lux turned her eyes to me, “what is it?” His mouth also looked back at me.
“It is very difficult to find the plant. Tell me, where did you find him?”
“We bought it in nee-chan market. The market we invited Haru-nii to meet his friend, Costa,” Lux nodded her head, as if agreeing with what Aeneas said.
“What do you think, if the potion we made. Same with the ones made by the kidnappers?”
I stood up, “that's it, the thought suddenly flashed through my head,” I turned around, looking at Izumi who was carrying the body of the man on her shoulder.
Izumi stopped her steps with one of her hands pointing at me, “I just took it a little,” Izumi said as she placed the bottle back on the palm of my right hand that had been opened before.
I turned around and put my feet behind her, “give me the bottle!” Tukas voice Haruki who suddenly knocked on the ear.
I glanced at him who had walked beside me, I placed the bottle containing the potion in my hand on him as his palm that was pointing at me moved. “Lux!” Again his voice was heard again, this time higher than before.
I stared at Lux who had flown in front of him, “take back this bottle. Put this bottle back where you picked it up, make sure .. Nobody sees you,” Haruki told him.
“I ... Bring back this heavy bottle,” Lux said as if she couldn't believe what Haruki said.
“The four of us ran away from training, then returned home simultaneously with him,” Haruki said with a glance at the man on his shoulder Izumi, “he who suddenly can not move will make the residents suspect we hurt him. If they find that bottle around here, or it's in one of us. The relationship of the residents and Father will be split,” Haruki continued to Lux.
Lux flew closer to the bottle, “I understand,” he said, hugging the bottle tightly and then slowly flying away from us.
“Izumi! Eneas!”
Izumi slowed her footsteps, “what's the matter?” He asked with his head towards Haruki who was walking beside me.
“Smoke a little mud that sticks to his body to your face and arms!”
“Follow my words. However, we cannot leave a bad impression on them. And also, do this if later we are questioned by the tribe leader,” Haruki said again which made the four of us stop footstep.
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We went hand in hand, the longer we walked, the clearer the village was. The cry of a man using language I did not understand, made the footsteps of the four of us stop.
“Where have you been?!”
I lifted my head, long as my eyes fell on a horde of horsemen who ran up to us. The faster the troops ran closer, the thicker and higher the turbid smoke from the ground flying around them.
“Where have you been?!” Grandfather's voice immediately felt deafening as the figure with the horse he was riding on had stopped before us.
I glanced at Qadan who was looking at me sharply from the horse he was riding on, I again threw my eyes away from him when Haruki's voice sounded. “Im sorry our Grandpa. But, because I worry too much about my sisters. So, I looked for them,” Haruki said by bowing her body towards him.
“So much as I am Grandpa, even more so Sachi who often almost lost his life every time we took his eyes off him. As a brother, it's very unsettling for me. So, I'm sorry, Grandpa,” Izumi chimed in on Haruki's words by bowing her body.
Why is everything being left to me?
“Grandfather,” I said slowly, I clasped my hands firmly forward with my head bowed, “maybe I look fine from the outside. But I, really can't linger far from my brother. So, forgive my attitude that is still childish,” connect me again by bowing my body towards him.
“Don't punish my two brothers, if you want to punish someone. Punish me, who always makes my brothers worried,”, I said again with my head down.
“Then, how will you guys explain about Chinua who is on Izumi's shoulder,” I raised my head back to look at her who has directed a glance towards Aeneas.
“When he trained me Grandpa. She had suddenly fallen into the mud, I tried to help her . But, my little body could not lift her. So I tried to find help, lucky .. I met my three Sisters,” said Eneas following the words Haruki taught him earlier.
“I heard that if you're very good at concocting poison, are you trying to trick me?”
“How can you say those words to my sister, Grandpa? Did Grandpa accuse him of poisoning Chinua?” Tukas Izumi cut his words.
“I only carry clothes attached to my body for practice. How could I do it, Grandpa .. Poison can't be made as quickly as a wink,” said Aeneas chiming in on Izumi's words.
“Good. What do you think, Chinua?”
“Dia, somehow .. Can't speak.”
“What did you say?!” The grandfather responded to Izumi's words by raising his voice.
“Do we all have to know all the things, Grandpa? We are not Deus, who can know ... What really happened to him? We are also not healers who can know, what causes him like that.”
The grandfather lowered his head followed by a hand that moved massaging his own head, “Qadan, take Chinua to his tent! Then, ask the Physician to check what happened to him!” His orders were still bowed on his horse.
The man named Qadan riding his horse in front of Izumi, Aeneas took a few steps forward, helping Izumi put the male body on the horse. “And for the four of you, clean your body and rest,” said the grandfather before the horse he was riding turned around, stepping his feet away.