The God of War
Meeting Back With My Father
"Suami, this is your medicine. Drink up ..." Lily gave a cup of medicine to Zhou.
Zhou immediately gulped it down with a single gulp. His face was still pushy, as if there was still something disturbing his mind at this moment.
"What's wrong? Is anyone bothering you right now, husband?" lily asked as if understanding her husband's current unrest.
"I must return immediately to the Fumio empire to straighten things out! Zeus can be defeated, but I will not let his minions take over Fumio! Everything really needs to be resolved!" said Zhou hurriedly and pulled his blanket ready to immediately go down the bed.
But Lily immediately grabbed Zhou's cold fingers to make Zhou restrained.
"Just calm. Everything was well resolved. All of Zeus' allies were gone" Lily smiled warmly at her husband's pale face. "All the soldiers of the Fumio empire will just wait and acknowledge you as their leader. They said they would also be willing to accept any punishment and consequences for having been on Zeus' side before. Actually they did all that because they had no other choice .." said Lily as if to feel how desperate and sad the Fumio soldiers were.
"Zeus used their family and threatened to eliminate him if they did not take his side. Even Zeus had also done a sneaky way to their families by giving fire poison. Every week, Zeus would give them a temporary antidote to ensure the soldiers would always be on his side. Several healers and people from Nobuhide kinin empire already had gone to Fumio's palace to help them remove the poison. And maybe they're in recovery now" Lily explained.
"Wife .. where do you know all this?" zhou asked with a pair of firm eyebrows furrowing close to each other.
Lily smiled sweetly, yet somehow her smile looked different than usual. A smile that seemed to hold a tightness in his heart. Because of all that he knew from Noahime.
"Water ..."
Lily had not yet answered him, suddenly someone knocked and entered the room.
"Lily, please deliver these fruits to the room of His Highness the previous Emperor Fumio. Because auntie still had to help some of the palace maids to prepare some things. Zhou's fine, isn't he?"
Said Lily's aunt who still did not know the truth if Zhou was the first prince of Fumio. Her aunt left the room soon after leaving a tray filled with berries.
Zhou immediately looked at Lily elaborately and questioningly, "Lily, is it true that my father is in Nobuhide's empire?" zhou asked hesitantly and carefully.
Lily smiled and nodded faintly in agreement to Zhou's words.
"Lily, please escort me to meet father .." pinta Zhou expectantly.
Lily nodded back faintly and helped Zhou to descend her bed. He drove Zhou to meet his father and also brought the berries for him.
A considerable longing filled Zhou's current self. All this time he could only watch and guard his father from a distance using Han warriors.
But now he will meet her directly. His steps accelerated even more because he was already very impatient. Zhou's footsteps stopped in front of a room inside a pavilion.
Zhou stared at the brownish-colored door with his heart pounding even more. His eyes were shaking at that door. He was eager to rush in and meet his father, yet he also felt nervous about facing his father.
Lily again grabbed Zhou's fingers carefully until their gaze met each other for a while. A faint nod with a warm smile from Lily made Zhou look back at the brownish door.
Now he tapped on it several times and began to enter it after the sound of an old man inviting himself to enter.
DDRC ...
Zhou shifted the wooden door and began to enter it carefully. There was a middle-aged man sitting on a bed reading some books. His face looks so cool and stifling.
Zhou's steps halted back when he was near the bed. His pair of brown pupils trembled. And his voice seemed to be stuck with pale lips that were flinching. There is a sense of sadness, longing, haru, and happiness raging into one.
For a while still like this, until in the end Lily immediately rubbed the arm slowly Zhou then gave a salute to Zhou father.
"Ayahanda .." said Zhou, sounding soft and trembling after a while while paying his respects.
The white bearded man immediately stopped his activities because he heard a voice that was so familiar to him. The voice he had always missed. Until finally slowly the middle-aged man raised his face that was filled with fine strokes to see the owner of the voice.
"Ha-Hadess ... Is that you? My son .." he said shaking and sounding so heartbreaking.
His lips were flinching with a pair of eyes that started to water when he saw Zhou figure. Zhou nodded faintly and was no longer able to hold back the warm tears until they soaked his cheeks.
"Hadess .. daddy was happy to see you were still okay. Come here ... come here, my Son ..." said softly hoping that Zhou would fulfill his request soon.
Zhou moved back closer to the bed and grabbed the hand that was filled with fine strokes and kissed with his forehead.
"How are you doing right now? I heard Zeus had administered the poison kori doku to make it damage to my father's nervous system. Sorry, Ayahanda .. because I was not fully able to help my father at that time. Sorry .." said Zhou full of regret and powerless to resist the melt of warm water.
"The poison kori doku has been successfully removed from my body. And it's not your fault, my son. It should be the father who apologized to you, because it did not hold you back then to go hunting with Zeus at that time. Father should not have allowed you to leave at that time .. Then you will not have all those difficult times. Sorry .." said the middle-aged man who was also no longer able to hold back his warm tears.
"No, Father. I'm not wrong." Zhou shook his head slowly and still stared fixedly at the old man before him. "This is all my life's destiny. And I have to get through it."
Their gazes still met for a while in silence. Greet each other warmly and longingly. This full reunion of father and son is not only felt by the two of them.
But Lily who is still in this room certainly also felt it. This gentle-hearted woman was also so moved that she shed tears involuntarily.
"We must return immediately to Fumio, my son. They all need you ..."
"Yes, Dad."
"You will be the next emperor of Fumio. Your coronation ceremony as emperor of Fumio must be done immediately. And you must marry Noahime's daughter. Because this old man had promised the emperor Itsuki to always take care of his daughter." said the middle-aged man expectantly looking at Zhou.
"Today you will truly live together .." he added with his calm, soothing look.
DEGRH ...