
Meanwhile in Hana's pavilion, a young man still wearing some of his incomplete armor attire was seen entering it and knocking on one of his rooms
Tok ... tok ...
"Come in .." a woman's voice was heard softly from inside the room.
DRC ...
The wooden door opened and the young man began to enter it with regular steps. He saw a woman in a dark green-colored layer robe standing behind him. Or rather he was staring out the window, looking at the dazzling snowflakes left on the branches on the tree.
"Empress Nouhime, I'm Yaoyao facing!" the man said as he paid his respects to the woman.
The pale face of ayu still looked gloomy before, but in Yaoyao's presence she immediately turned around expectantly and approached Yaoyao.
"Yaoyao, how? Did you manage to find princess Saika and prince Kenshin? Where're they? You came with them, didn't you?"
Said Noahime sparkling expectantly and began to daze looking for the whereabouts of the 2 babies. But Noahime did not discover their existence at all. Even Yaoyao had only come alone.
"Yaoyao, where is princess Saika and prince Kenshin? Where's them?" Nouhime asked again because Yaoyao had not yet answered her question.
Yaoyao's facial features look complicated. He also had difficulty delivering. His tongue was suddenly twisted and all of his words seemed to be swallowed back by him before he could pronounce them.
"Yaoyao .. tell me something!" said Noahime again looking up at Yoyao with a complicated look, but still full of hope.
"Empress Nouhime. I'm sorry .. but I can't find them both at all. And I can't take her for Empress Nouhime. Forgive me .." said Yaoyao softly and felt guilty.
"When I arrived at the Fumio empire and searched for them according to what Empress Nouhime had said before, yet I did not find them at all. At that time there were some soldiers who told me, if they saw commander Nakai who managed to escape, then he brought 2 babies and several soldiers with him. They left Fumio and no one else could find him. And according to those who saw her and based on her characteristics, the two babies were princess Saika and prince Keiji."
Imbuh Yaoyao explained, although it felt so heavy when saying it.
Listening to the statement from Yaoyao made Noahime's body instantly suffocate helplessly. The entire power within his body all vanished just like that, his breath was also choked.
He turned around and clung to a wooden table to hold his body in order to remain standing.
"It is impossible ... this is impossible .. why can both be like this? Why did Commander Nakai do all this? Why ..." he said shaking.
His heart became tight and painful. Not only was his son taken, but Saika's daughter was also taken with him. Of course this made Noahime even worse-minded and very worried.
He thought that Nakai had known his secret all along about him swapping his daughter for the son of a palace maid.
Saika ... Kenshin .. sorry ... Mother cannot protect you well. If your mother knows where you are right now, then I will not waste any more to pick you up. Sorry ...
Inner Noahime was helpless, and he was completely powerless to hold his body. He fainted and lost consciousness. Yet Yaoyao who was still standing not far from him immediately caught the slender body and laid it in the bed.
Yaoyao still continued to be outside of Noahime's room because her instantaneous feelings became uneasy so she felt guilty. He waited to find out the state of Noahime who was currently in the room accompanied by a palace maid.
Until finally after a while the servant came out of his room, that's when Yaoyao confronted him.
"How's empress Nouhime doing? Is it better?" that question sentence was what Yaoyao asked the palace maid.
The servant's forehead wrinkled, he became confused because of all this. Even the waiter had thought that Yaoyao liked Nouhime because she looked so worried about him.
"I'm talking and asking you. What are you thinking?" said Yaoyao disperse the female servant's wish.
"Ehh .. i-iya senior Yaoyao. Sorry... Empress Nouhime has gotten better this time. He had also just taken medicine and vitamins" said the waiter, stunned and frightened, as he was stared at by Yaoyao. But he immediately said goodbye and left her.
What am I supposed to do? Some of the Fumio envoy soldiers who were assigned to search for them even until now had not found them at all. They disappear like they are swallowed by the earth.
Yaoyao's mind was still unmoved in place standing in front of Noahime's room.
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While it was ...
Zhou searched for Lily in several places but he did not find her either. Until finally he got information from a palace soldier, if Lily was in the gazebo on the edge of the fish pond beside the palace garden.
Not much thinking anymore, Zhou finally decided to catch up with Lily at that place. And sure enough, he saw Lily sitting in the gazebo and carrying the son. But not far from him there was also a palace maid who was also accompanying him.
Zhou approached them and cleared his throat once until they finally realized his presence. The servant immediately lowered his head and paid his respects to Zhou.
Zhou gently rubbed the son's head and turned to look at Lily, "My wife wants to talk to you."
Lily who had looked at her husband for a few seconds finally lowered her head and nodded slowly. Then he began to give the son to the servant of the palace.
"Please take care of Helios for a while, I'll pick her up later" Lily said.
"Well .." he said in a low tone and then immediately carried Helios and took her away.
Zhou was still standing, while Lily was still sitting inside the gazebo. But their eyes were both looking straight ahead. They stared at the pond before him with its water so clear with the cool breeze of early spring.
Sometimes also seen some fish that swim and jump up. What a soothing atmosphere, but not for the two of them who are feeling depressed.
"Wife .. I ..." Zhou's words were cut off, because Lily suddenly interrupted him.
"You don't have to bother me, husband. You don't have to think too much about me. Just do your duty and responsibility to your empire and your people well. They are much more important than me .." said Lily so softly and still staring straight ahead.