Fake Princess
Dlxxix Chapter
Eneas shook her head, “I only met you, Sachi nee-chan.”
I exhaled with my head up when Aeneas said it, “where are they?” I muttered, I lowered my gaze again while biting my own thumb.
“How, Lux? Do you know?”
“I don't know, too many humans are swarming. I know Eneas, because her body faintly smells of poison,” Lux replied whispering in my ear.
“Eneas, we have to find them,” I said, I grabbed Eneas' hand by pulling her to walk after me.
The two of us, walking hand in hand split the crowd. Every now and then, I glanced around with continued footsteps. “Nee-chan, should we shout? I thought, we'll easily find them if yelling.”
“Haru nii-chan, will find out if we try to follow him. You can imagine that, right? How is he when he's angry?”
I turned towards Aeneas who sighed beside me, “I just don't want to imagine it,” replied Eneas chimed in on my words.
My eyes, moving glanced at the shadow of someone who had just passed us. I quickly pulled out Aeneas' hand and accelerated to follow the figure of the young man I was referring to. “Nee-” Aeneas's words instantly stopped as my index finger lifted into my lips.
I threw my eyes back to the front, staring at the back of the man who kept walking through the crowd. My grip on Aeneas strengthened, my breathing went up and down after we made it through the crowd. I gulped back and continued to follow the young man who kept walking until he stopped at a hut very far from the city center.
I invited Eneas to walk over to the hut when the man we were following went inside, “Lux, he said,” I whispered quietly as we stood gluing ourselves against the wall of the house made of woven.
“I see,” Lux continued whispering followed by her expanding wings coming out from the head cover of my cloak.
I continued to stand without making a sound, and so did Eneas who also stood beside me. Vaguely, the voice of the woman cluttering from within, was becoming more and more clearly visible. I raised my palm pressing against my own chest, the longer I kept silent .. The more it was, I felt that there was something here.
Whatisthis? My heart refuses, if it's a coincidence. Everything was too obvious to say a coincidence.
I take a deep breath by exhaling it back, “Eneas, wait here! Don't go anywhere! Take care of me from here, do you understand?!” my whisper was greeted with a nod of the head from Eneas.
I rubbed my sweaty face before stepping and stopped at the door of the hut. I took a deep breath as I lifted my hand to knock on the door that was in front of me. My lips continued to clench, as the voice heard from within grew clearer.
The door opened, my body pegged as a weapon moved and then stopped beside my neck. I raised my face, as she several times shouted, what I wanted to do here .. I raised my right hand, pulled down the face-covering headgear, “Amanda, it's me, Sachi, you know,” I said, I still stared at his wide eyes, as if I could not believe what he saw.
He dropped the knife in his hand, “I got lost, then accidentally saw you walking past me in the market. If you're looking for my brother, they're not here,” I said as his head frowned in front of me.
“What are you doing here?”
“Then what are you doing here? Didn't my brother Haruki order you to help him look after the residents first?” I asked him back.
“Princess, did something happen?”
“Princess?”
He stopped his steps with his hand at me coming apart, “where exactly are you staying? I, will take you there, Sachi. But before that-”
“But before that, I have to keep your whereabouts a secret? Wh why? Why should I do it?”
He threw his gaze aside, “ini is none of your business.”
“Alright, I'll just change the question .. Why, did you cut your hair and disguise yourself as a man? What is this too, none of my business?”
He lowered his head with both hands raised rubbing his own hair. “What does this have to do with King's birthday?”
He could not hide the expression on his face that well. What's raging in my mind right now, right?
“Sister Luana, is sister reborn in this body?”
He again threw his gaze aside, staring blankly at the trees surrounding us, "as expected of a genius girl like you."
“How is your sister? And also, Dad with Mom? I wasn't reborn to be Luana, it meant Luana was dead, didn't I?”
“What does sister mean?”
He slightly stood sideways as he raised his head, “noah, all I remember most is .. The day, the Manticore whom you asked to look after us, died suddenly for no reason. The day in which, the ruined Palace was invaded by a large creature not a human .. And I died, after a while before managed to save our two children.”
He lowered his head with both hands raised shut his eyes. I bit my lips hard before I walked and hugged them tightly, “I left our two children there, even though I promised him to look after them. What kind of mother am I?” My embrace of her grew tighter as her crying grew more intense.
“Miyu, Hikaru .. I didn't even have a chance to meet them back, because I was born in another woman's body. I hate my own destiny, I really hate it,” the cry, I lift my palms patting his back gently as he also hugs me tightly.
I let go of my arms when he did. He walked backwards a little backwards, “secret what I said earlier from anyone, Sachi. Please, let's just say you never heard of it,” he said, he rubbed his eyes before stepping forward past me.
“Kak!” call me in pursuit and then pull his hand.
“At least, give me an explanation as to why I should do it? If I told this to my Brother, he would definitely understand!”
“What do you mean by understanding? You don't seem to remember what happened in the past, Sachi .. Although we were married, our relationship was not based on love. More precisely, she never fell in love with me,” she said smilingly looking at me.
“We got married, because he was a Crown Prince who should at least have a Wife from a large Kingdom. What can Amanda do? Our two destinies are now changing, it means .. He will meet a woman who is much better than me.”
“I hope, he can find someone he will love sincerely. I have always and always, prayed for happiness for her. Therefore, do not disturb him with his previous life .. Your brother, deserves to be happy.”
“Close with me! I'll cook you something before driving you back to the inn,” he continued, smiling before turning around and slowly walking away.