Fake Princess
DXXVIII Chapter
“Whatever gate that Palace never open?” Izumi muttered followed by her footsteps that continued to follow Amanda who led us to a crowd of many people who were crouched plucking the grass.
I crouched down next to Amanda who was also squatting by putting the bowl she held onto the ground. “I asked you!” izumi's voice came back when she had been standing beside us.
“What are you asking? I didn't hear it too much,” she said by raising her head towards Izumi.
“I asked, did that Palace gate once never open?” izumi repeated her words.
“Ah, that's right. Even if it never opens .. Didn't I say, they never care for us,” Amanda said by looking back at the grass in front of us.
Izumi turned around and moved both her legs following Haruki who had walked closer to the Palace fortress. I glanced around, when the gazes of some people had turned towards the three of them. My eyes turned back to Amanda who again plucked the weeds in front of us, then collected the grass in the palm of her hand.
Amanda stared at one handful of grass she picked up in her hand, “what do you want to do?” tanyaku who quickly held his hand that was about to approach a handful of grass earlier to his mouth.
“I, have to look for edible plants. But before that, I was very thirsty .. I, could not immediately drink the water of the river,” he said followed by another hand pointing towards the river slightly below us.
Both of my eyes widened as my eyes turned to Amanda who had moved her mouth. He again lowered his face, his mouth opened followed by a green lump that fell over his palm. Amanda threw the blob beside her, picked the grass back, chewed it and did the same thing as she did before.
Looking at it, reminded me of when we were trapped in the forbidden forest. Whether it is soil or moss, as long as it can eliminate hunger and thirst.
No, that's not true, Sachi! Just think about our purpose in coming here!
“Sachi!”
I turned to the side, towards the three of them who were walking towards the two of us. “Take it, and fill in your energy!” I immediately caught the citrus fruit that Izumi threw at me using both hands.
I hold the strong citrus fruit while standing up, “where did you get it?” Amanda immediately moved to hold the orange Izumi gave her in her hand.
“Ask him that,” Izumi said as she pointed towards Haruki who was standing behind him.
“We can't eat this. Return it, return it quickly before they realize it."
I glanced at him, his hands clutching the orange were trembling. “I did jump over the wooden fence to take the citrus fruit. I will bear everything that will happen .. Just eat the fruit,” said Haruki, he walked past us and sat down next to Izumi who had peeled the orange in her hand.
“How is it, we will all be in danger,” he said who was still bowed with a voice that sounded vibrating.
“If my brother says those words, it means they will. Anyway, look! It is not only us who eat this fruit,”, I said while pointing at several people who also hold the same orange in their hands.
“Nii-chan, she said thanks to you,” I said by turning my eyes towards Haruki who had nodded her head.
“How to eat it?” He muttered as he moved the orange before he bit the fruit along with the skin.
My hand was raised again holding his hand that held the orange earlier, “not like that, you have to peel it first,” I said while slightly pulling his hand.
I sat back with her hand. Both my hands peeled the orange in my hand and gave half of it to him as he sat beside me. “What are you, have never seen this fruit?” I asked when he had placed the orange he had previously in his hand, before he grabbed the orange in my hand.
“I am a woman, and also come from the lowly. Let alone something like this, being able to drink rainwater when I was a child has made me very grateful. Whatisthis? It was only the first time I felt this strange taste in my mouth,” she said, her two eyes widened as she bit directly on half the orange I had previously given.
“It's sweet, isn't it? And also fresh.”
“Manic? And fresh? I don't know what sweetness you mean,” she said, raising her palm wiping her chin that had been soaked with orange juice.
“It feels delicious, doesn't it?” I said it again with a smile looking at him.
Amanda nodded her head as she grabbed back the orange she had previously placed on the ground, “what outside the Kingdom has so many foods like this?”
She bit her lip again while looking at the orange in her hand, “aku, never allowed to leave the house before. Because when I grow up, I have to replace my mother's job as an entertainer. Me, just always fed with bitter vegetables to take care of my body .. I, could only see the outside world when the ground suddenly shook.”
“You said that the clothes you were wearing belonged to your father, didn't you?”
“You're right, this .. Last outfit before I take his life. I don't know what happened to me to tell you something I shouldn't have told you, ” he said, again throwing his eyes away from my gaze.
“Can I look behind your ear?”
“My gear? What's wrong with my ears?”
“Someone I want to make sure of,” I reveal back to him.
I moved a little as he lowered his head. I shake my head in turn and check behind his ears. No names of anyone there .. Or, burn scars. “You have struggled very well all this time,” I said by patting her arm slowly.
My head turned back towards Haruki, Izumi and also Eneas who had walked past us. I also moved by turning to look at those who were getting closer to some men wearing middle armor to make noise. “What do they do? The Knights will punish them, if they find out what your brother did,” Amanda said followed by the orange in his hand was released when he also had moved.
“Instead Amanda, that is the reason they really are .. That is their reason, why they take fruits that are closely guarded. We, having to meet the one who is hiding inside the Ardenis Palace,” I said smilingly before moving both legs following the three of them who had stood before the Knights.