Fake Princess
Dlxx Chapter
I lay my body on the bed with my empty eyes raised towards the ceiling of the room, I grabbed one of the pillows while placing the pillow against my neck. I took a breath by trying to get back up, my head was down for a while when the pain was still a little whack when my legs started to move.
The door to my room closed again, followed by my footsteps walking down the palace. As long as I walked, I could find no knights standing guard. I took a deep breath and exhaled again, as the cold suddenly swept across the skin.
My footsteps, I'm moving faster than ever before. I drew my breath back very deeply, when I stopped and opened the door of the library before me. I continued walking closer to the secret room, pushing the large painting aside to get inside, “does there be someone?” I murmured weakly as my eyes fell toward the door that had opened.
“Haru-nii, are you here?” I asked, I walked into the room with a look at him who was focusing on reading a book in his hand.
Haruki raised his head, “what are you doing nights like this?”
“Same question, what are you doing here, nii-chan?” I asked back by pulling up a chair nearby and then sitting on it.
“I, can't sleep. Therefore, I came here,” said Haruki, his gaze back down staring at the black-bound book.
“I am the same. What book are you reading nii-chan?” I raise my hand, grabbing one of the piles of books nearby.
“A postbook from my teacher,” she replied, she still reads without lifting her eyes.
“Your guess?”
“Teacher, who taught me the ancient language. I'm not you Sa-chan, who was born mastering that language-”
“Nii-chan,” I said, I looked at her by putting the book in my hand back on the table.
“From long ago, I was always curious .. Who is it?”
Haruki's eyes blinked at me before he smiled by re-connecting his reading, “he's an acquaintance of Duke, this is the last book he can give me-”
“Eh?”
“Which I mean, he's dead. From now on, I won't get any books from her,” she continued, Haruki threw his gaze aside before continuing his gaze towards the book.
“Do you want to visit her, nii-chan?”
Haruki glanced up, “actually, I want to invite you to visit him later, but that too .. If we are indeed passing through his hometown.”
“More important than that, how is your wedding?” Haruki closed and placed the book in his hand onto the table.
“We are fine.”
“Do you guys already do it?”
“Eh?”
“Don't forget to ask for potions to the Palace healer, because we will continue the journey in a few more days. You heard it, didn't you?”
My head nodded softly answering his words, “aku too, wants to become an Uncle. I, will not be too forbidding, as long as you understand the risks.”
“So, which Kingdom will we visit later? What is nii-chan, already decided?”
“I've decided, most likely we will visit Robson-”
“Robson? If I'm not wrong,” I said that stopped his words.
“That's the Kingdom of Luana, you're right,” Haruki replied, he got up from the chair and grabbed a book arranged on the shelf.
“In the book, containing the letters that Luana sent first,” he said, he put the book in front of me by sitting back in the chair that he sat before.
I grabbed the book, I slowly opened the ties to the book as I read very slowly every writing engraved there, “why do you want to ask me to read your love letter?”
“That's not what I meant, but try reading from the last page. Because the more backward, the longer the letter.”
I bowed while doing as he commanded. Page by page I turned back, until it stopped at the last page. “I, used to maintain our engagement, because his Kingdom belongs to the great Kingdom. I used to think, I did not bother to marry her, as long as her Kingdom would fall in the hands of Sora.”
“So, you asked him to spy on his own Kingdom?”
Haruki nodded his head, “that's why, when he did a very upsetting act first. I tried to take it as a form of gratitude. We only sent letters, but never met each other before.”
“I understand,” I said slowly by re-opening another sheet, “so because of that, he was not too nervous when I met him. Slightly different from the first impression I got on Sasithorn's brother,” muttered back while still reading the letters per letter that was there.
“Nii-chan, what does the river mean that will draw lives? Is the river very dangerous?”
“You're questioning something proper. Can you take a wooden tube with a blue ribbon behind you?”
I turned back, my body moved by putting the book back on the table. I stepped closer to the arrangement of the wooden tubes on the shelf, one by one I noticed before pulling out one of the tubes with the blue ribbon Haruki was referring to. “What is this?” I asked, I gave the tube to him before I sat back by looking at him.
Haruki opened the cover on the tube, I stared at the paper roll that came out, as he slightly waited for the tube. “Read this!” haruki said, he again put the tube by giving the paper roll in his hand to me.
I opened the paper scroll when I reached it, “there said, if in Robson Kingdom there is a big river. The river where, even fish can kill you, and also ... Around the river, there is a tribe that even his father Luana, did not dare to disturb him. Hows it? Sounds challenging, doesn't it?”
“River, with fish that can kill. The river, with fish that can kill. Is that river really?” I muttered while biting my lips staring at the painting on one of the scrolls.
“Nii-chan, what are your spies besides Luana who gave this?”
Haruki nodded his head as I looked back at him, “different from the forest belonging to the Emperor, or the forest in Ardenis. The forest around the river, has been created dangerous without magic .. I was really curious, actually what is in there,” he said while leaning with both arms crossed.
“Alright, I want us to leave as soon as possible,” I said as I put the sheets of paper I held onto the table.
“Are you sure? Why, do you look so excited? Is it because your husband left you?”
“I don't want to discuss it,” said I was met with a soft laughter from Haruki.
“Alright, I will soon arrange the trip we will do. I thought, I will lose my sister after she gets married and becomes a grown woman, but it turns out .. Sachi is still Sachi. If you really can't sleep in your room, go to my room, because I also .. Want to spend all night in the Library,” he said who again grabbed one of the books and read it.