Fake Princess
DLXXVIII Chapter
The four of us went hand in hand splitting the crowd, occasionally Haruki stopped by putting his palm on my back as the crowd we passed by grew more and more crowded. We kept going, while sometimes stopping at some sales pitches that caught our attention. “This is the first time I have seen the fruit,” I murmured slowly while still throwing a glance at a trader who was peddling orange-skinned fruit like an orange with a smaller size.
“Do you want to taste it?”
I raised my head, then shook my head slowly returning Haruki's gaze, “then. I'm more interested in looking around,” reply me who again threw a glance forward.
I don't really count how many weeks we've spent on the ship. I glanced back at Haruki when my hand was suddenly grasped tightly by him, he pulled me along following him towards a sound of music that was increasingly heard coming into the ear.
Our footsteps moved closer and closer to the crowd, Haruki's grasp tightened as we slipped amidst the crowd. “You are walking so fast,” Izumi's voice mixed with the boisterous screams from the crowd made my gaze towards her who was standing beside Eneas.
My eyes were turned back when the sound of music was heard again. Along with the music, some women walked and lined up neatly in the middle of the crowd. They wear hairy headdresses with clothes that, I think, are a little open.
As the music goes, along with it the hips of the women move. Every now and then I glanced towards a wooden stage with a few seats on it, on the wooden stage was a middle-aged pair wearing a crown with three men and a woman sitting on the right and left of the couple.
“Nii-chan,” I whispered weakly, I tightened my grip on Haruki as the look in my eyes fell on the young woman sitting next to the middle-aged woman.
“I know, no need to pay attention. Although they are the same face, they are different people, ” Haruki's ear-tapping speech made me turn to her who was still staring at the dance.
I was stunned again to see the woman's face that looked very similar to Luana's. Are they twin brothers? Is there something I don't know? If a woman's face is similar, then they are
The sound of music stopped, the women who danced earlier ..Reparably disappeared from the crowd being replaced by several men standing in white pants without wearing clothes that covered their upper body. The music continued again, different from before.Put the hands of those who crowded accompanied the sound of music that breezed in the ears.
I applauded the others, as Haruki, Izumi and Eneas did. The men standing in the middle of the crowd started to move, the dance moves mixed martial arts that they did without interlocking with the sound of music and also the claps that filled the surroundings. The roar of screams exploded even more when there was a man who was singing in unison from the side of the crowd that was on the right to the side of the crowd on the left.
“That's cool,” the murmur from Eneas that sounded beside me made me turn towards her.
I glanced at Izumi who was smiling broadly staring at the appearance that was in front of us, the clapping he did faster when the music that accompanied the appearance of the men also grew faster. “I want to learn it,” the voice of Izumi who muttered a little drowned by the fanfare that existed.
A state of silence as all entertainment ceased, replaced by a middle-aged man wearing a crown rising from the chair he was sitting in. “Happy birthday, Your Grace. Good luck!”
“Long live, Your Highness!”
“May Deus always take care of you, Your Majesty!”
“Do you think?” Haruki asked back with his gaze still pointing forward.
You must have calculated exactly what was going to happen. It's scary when something goes according to his will.
“His entertainment is over. Hurry on! There's still something we have to do.”
I turned around, looked at him who had walked and disappeared into the crowd. My eyes turned to Eneas and Izumi who had returned my gaze. Izumi walked forward and then took my hand, we walked in tandem followed by Eneas who also walked beside me.
Our footsteps continued despite being out of the crowd, “aku, there was an appointment with him who worked for me. Because, he is a very quiet person.Taking all of you will make him uncomfortable. So, you guys go back to the inn, I will come back after everything is done,” Haruki said, he again turned around, put his foot away from us.
I glanced at Izumi, her head moving as if asking me to walk after her. I held my hands together across my chest all the steps, occasionally raising my head up. Staring at the clear sky with thin clouds.
Forget about the forest for a moment. This is Haruki I mean, he .. Won't say what the clear purpose of him is why we should visit this place. Is there something here? Why, my feeling is asking not to go home now?
“Sachi!”
I was a little taken aback when Izumi's voice could be heard knocking on the ears. “Nii-chan,” I said, the more I wanted to open my voice, the more it was also my heart like a stifled gurgle.
“Can we follow Haru-nii secretly? I, worried about him,” I said back, I still look at Izumi by biting my own lips softly.
Izumi walked over, “hurry up! Or we'll lose track of him!” Izumi said as her footsteps walked past me.
I glanced at Aeneas, his head nodding as our eyes met each other. The footsteps of the two of us got faster and faster and faster to walk with Izumi's steps, occasionally Izumi stopped by glancing around before resuming her steps splitting the crowd. “Lux, lead me!” I whispered as the crowd we were passing through grew so dense that it made it difficult for me to move.
“To the right, Sachi!”
I followed Lux's whisper when Izumi's or Eneas's shadow was out of sight. I breathed a sigh of relief, as my own body had come out of the crush of the crowd, I pulled the cover of my head further forward with the body spinning slowly.
“Nee-chan!”
I looked back when the screams of Eneas were heard coming into the ears. I quickly ran over to her who was standing by waving her hands at me. “Eneas, are you alone? Where, Izu nii-chan?” I asked, when my steps had stopped in front of him.