Fake Princess
Dlxxii
My eyes turned towards the few men who came out of the mansion behind the fence. They walked slowly closer with a large man full of bewok with slightly long hair touching the neck leading the way the group of men.
The huge iron fence was opened, with the large tall male I had previously intended to step forward while bowing his body before Haruki. He said words that I did not understand at all, until his body stood up again when Haruki said words that sounded similar to the man.
“They, my family,” said Haruki, the man turned his head and soon bent his body.
“Master, please come in!” the man said, raising his hand to the big house in front of us.
Haruki went down followed by one of the men who grabbed the horse harness in Haruki's hand. I also went down as Haruki's eyes glanced towards the three of us alternately. My hand was raised and I put my horse's harness to a man who had been standing next to my horse before I stepped up to follow Haruki who began to walk with the man of great stature over the fence.
The man brought us into the house, his heavy-sounding voice asked us to sit on a chair that was in a large room with him who had also been sitting on one of the chairs there. “Call him Sud, all of you!” haruki's orders when he's already leaning himself on one of the chairs.
“Sud?” tukas Izumi who replied to a nod of the head from the man.
I took a step and sat on the chair with my gaze still on the man, my head nodding as he lowered his head as our eyes stared at each other. “Sud, how many people are under your command?”
The man named Sud turned his gaze to Haruki, “about a hundred that I spread throughout the capital of the Kingdom.”
“Then, can you all accompany us tomorrow to visit the Palace?”
“Master, want to ask us to escort Master and the brothers?” Haruki nodded his head in reply to Sud's words.
“Stana, shutting themselves off from the outside world. Since then, the heir to the throne changed .. It is difficult to relate to the Palace including nobles like the Duke, and Viscount who has a high position. Are you sure, sir? Will continue after what I said?”
Haruki sighed increasingly leaning himself, “aku, can't waste any longer than this. Only, take us around the Kingdom alone .. The rest, I will take care of it,” Haruki said by raising his arms crossed in the chest.
“Alright, I have prepared a place of rest for you and your family,” Sud said as he patted his hands until shortly a young man appeared from behind a room, “dia will deliver Master and the others to the room to rest. For the rest, I will make sure it is done before morning comes,” continued Sud, he stood up when Haruki nodded his head to look at him.
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I took a breath, throwing a look around. The longer we walked, the quieter the yeng people passed by. I glanced at Haruki who still did not open his voice since yesterday, what plan he would do was.
I throw my eyes back to the front. I was stunned, amazed at what I saw now. A wall with large stones is seen surrounding a large building with its roof taper upward. I was more and more stunned, as my eyes fell on the many gold statues built solidly near the wall I was referring to.
Haruki raised his palm, when I looked back. More precisely, in the direction of Sud and some of the men who had previously escorted us had stopped their horses with their heads bowed. Haruki had lowered his hand back when my gaze shifted forward.
The footsteps of our horses that had previously walked off unhindered, suddenly stopped with about ten or twenty Knights running out of the wall while brandishing the spears in their hands towards us. I glanced over as Izumi who was beside me had done the same thing before, my eyes blinked softly a few times … Stare at the row of archers standing with their arrows on the wall.
I took my hands up like Haruki did, and I don't know what Haruki was yelling at. But when he started to make a sound, the Knights looked at each other. One of Haruki's hands fell, my sweat flowing profusely as the Knights got tighter holding their weapons as Haruki did so.
The gaze of my eyes returned towards Haruki, when a small glare was sticking out of his hand, “Say, the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Sora wants to meet him!” pinta Haruki, his voice sounded certain with his head moving towards the Knights who were in front of him.
“Your Highness, don't want to see anyone!”
“Just tell us first before deciding!” Haruki raised his voice back as a male voice rang out shouting among the Knights.
My head was down when the pain suddenly stung on my right arm. I clicked my tongue by raising my left hand, trying to grab the arrow that had stuck out of nowhere in my arm. “You brought a woman here! In the time when they are forbidden to set foot in this sacred Palace!”
“What do you think, can fool my eyesight just because he's hiding behind that cheap robe!”
I groaned a little when the arrow that stuck in my arm was released. Slowly, I raised my face .. Staring towards the voice of the previous man. “Sa-”
“I'm fine!” my exchange quickly cut Haruki's words.
“Damn it!”
I took a deep breath by firmly gripping my arm earlier, trying not to make the three of them worry after Izumi's grumbling voice sounded. “Heh, it turns out you're tough too. How ji-”
Both of my eyes widened as a huge black shadow suddenly passed through us followed by a chill that felt freezing the air. The Knights who stood before us, it had run into chaos when the sturdy wall inhabited by the archers had been destroyed in an instant followed by ice debris mixed with stone debris from the wall.
I raised my gaze upwards as the sound of male screams was deafening. “Kou?” I murmured in wonder, with a bowed back as the throbbing pain in my arm returned.