Fake Princess
Haruki Takaoka (Side Story') V
“What are you two doing here?” I asked Izumi who had been standing leaning against the wall with Sasithorn beside her.
“He needs water to compress Sachi, therefore I accompanied him here. And also, I should have asked you like that,” said Izumi, I glanced at Luana who was bowed by tightly hugging the bowl of water and also the towel on her chest.
I give one of my hands a soft pat on his back, “go with Sasithorn, Izumi and I will catch up with you,” said I replied with a nod of his head.
I stood in front of Izumi with my hands crossed on my chest, “do you see everything?” I asked her, Izumi turned her head around the room trying to avoid my question.
“Izumi,” I said back to her, “so you've decided your choice?” He said as he moved his legs to leave me. “When he said, everything he felt for all the treatment I did for him, it made me a little aware. I thought, what if my sister was treated like that by her partner,” I said along with her.
“Because of that, you decided to marry her?”
‘How about yourself? Isn't that the same thing you did to Sasithorn?”
“I, not touching it like what you did,” he said staring straight ahead.
“I touched her because she's my partner. What's wrong with touching your own partner,” I said chimed in his words.
“Then? What if Zeki has the same mindset as you?”
“Then I will kill him right then and there,” I said stopping my footsteps for a moment before returning to walk beside Izumi.
“I really can't guess the way your mind is Haruki,” he said, giving my right leg a powerful kick to his body as he said it. “Call me Brother! Call me big brother like before,” I said back crashing his body repeatedly.
“Do you want to start the enmity we did as a child first?” Ask is moving closer to me.
“I don't mind it if you want to do it,” said I replied with a sigh from him.
“Although our familiarity as a child is only limited to pretending in front of Sachi, but I .. Really feel very happy to have a brother like you, Haruki,” he said bowed, he said, I held up my hand to rub his head.
“Are you talking about the day that Dad begged us to have dinner with him on Sachi's third birthday?” I asked her again, Izumi nodded her head in return.
“I really did not expect if we would be like this after the incident,” said Izumi again to me, “forgive me, Izumi. Because I hate you for what you didn't do. Me, just a little envious of you,” I told him.
“If I were in your position, Brother. Then I will do the same, because until now I still feel guilty for being the cause of our mother's death,” he said again to me.
“Izumi, we will start a new life after this is over. So, lift your head! We, definitely can do it.” I clenched my hands and slapped them gently into Izumi's chest.
I walked in, my legs quickly approached Sachi who was fast asleep in his bed, “is he still unconscious?” I asked Lux who was giving honey to Uki.
“He needs a lot of rest. I slightly acknowledge the strength of his body, because he was unconscious after a while receiving the attack,” Lux said without looking at me.
“You go rest, let me take care of Sachi,” I said pulling one of the chairs and sitting it. “I'll accompany you. Sasithorn, take Uki and Lux with you to the room, let us take care of him,” Izumi said again heard.
“I will take care of him, so rest, Haruki,” Izumi's voice is heard again when the sound of the door that follows his words. “I'm not tired, if you're Tired .. Rest,” I said without looking back at her.
“What today have you been scolded all-out by Dad?” Asking in the ear, I nodded softly in reply to her words, “did you also experience it?” I asked him back.
“Daddy scolded me all out, he said if what we do can endanger our own lives especially Sachi.”
“What Dad said is true, but that does not mean we will be silent if anything happens to Sachi,’ I said again chimed in Izumi's words. “I, always think about the good and bad before inviting you to visit every place. I, always look for infotmation first before deciding to take you there. It hurts so much if Dad said that to me,” said I leaned back in the chair.
“Again, what is Dad doing here? I've said it and even Sachi has said it if there's someone who can't be trusted in the Kingdom,” I said again as I let my head look up.
“Dad left Kingdom affairs to Daisuke and several vice captains. Father was forced to do so, if the Empire wants to find the mastermind behind the attack on the Tao Kingdom, then the Empire will turn its eyes to Sora who has done so,” Izumi said again heard in my ear.
“So, in other words, I want to bear it all. Again, for our safety, right?” I made a sound by closing my eyes slowly.
“Like that,” he said sounded in my ear.
“There is one thing I want to ask you Izumi,” I said as I kept my eyes closed.
“What do you want to ask?” He turned around asking me.
“If you meet a tribe whose eyes are the same as yours, then they fully support the Empire. What are you gonna do?”
“Are you going to slaughter them if they don't submit to us? Or, will you let them live their lives?” I again let out my voice followed by my palm covering my slightly evaporated mouth.
“I, don't know what to do. But looking at Cia, I think they're a good tribe,” he said back, “good tribe?”
“Too is not made up of one person but a lot of people, just like humans in general, some just obey what the leader is fighting and some rebel,” connect me again to him, “so therefore Izumi, if only the tribe slows us down .. Then, I … Will not hesitate to destroy them all..”.
“So Izumi, please don't hate me when I do,” connect me back to him who is still silent without a sound heard.