Disclaimer : I don't own Kyou Kara Maoh! It belongs to Takabayashi Tomo who made the story and Matsumoto Temari as the artist. They made the royal couple exist, Shibuya Yuri and Wolfram von Bielefeld XD
Author Note : Hello everyone! It's been six months and I'm glad if you still patient and wait my new chapter for this story. The last time I posted new chapter was at February and the story wasn't long enough. The last words I told was I will post every month for new chapter but it turns out I'm not posting the new chapter every month. Deeply apologized with the reason behind it.
As you can see, last February was my bad month this year because I lost my job cause my contract ended, school project that getting harder and drained my mind, and the last one my thesis that made me looking for new title aka new research since the previous before I cancelled it… If I'm not play violin or write the story/novel for stress reliever and my escape from reality probably my head will exploded into pieces, hahaha! TwT
Last month, I'm participated novel competition about high school life with little romance, held by publisher but sadly I'm lost, huhuhu! I do have a dream to publish my own novel and seemed I prefer take a time to make the storyline, plot, character, etc then when I am ready, I will send to book publisher and hope they will accept it. Maybe I will write the novel when I have free time.
For this chapter, I can't believe that I wrote around more than 20 pages! First, I decided want to break into two chapters but I call it off and make it into one chapter. I prefer post this new chapter very long for the readers who wait patiently and favorite my story until now and made me as their favorite authors.
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Thank you very much, Happy read and enjoy! :D
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Chapter 22 : Dating at Town with My Beloved
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"Oh, the festival seemed getting ready." Arthy jumping around holding my hands with bangs flew by the wind. "I can't wait to taste the food!"
"Is your head only thinking about the food festival?" asking me giggling taking some free food and taste it with them. As we walking around the town, people placed their home made food to share. The one who owned restaurant, bakery, cake store, etc placed their food and everybody can taste it free without pay. What we are need just tell them how the taste is by placing a tiny paper inside the box with smile face and sad face. Smile means we love the taste while the sad one we dislike the taste.
Passing the food corner, we are now at middle town that already decorated with lampion above our head, light brown colored. The elders put the lampion every corner of middle town and swirl the lampion rail with little lamp. I ride Maximum, the horse, with Arthy front of me and Ezio behind me who hugging me, to prevent fall from the horse. Arthy keeps waving his hands to people that recognize him and sometimes he gets free food.
"They gave you the food, every time we pass stores." I take a bite of cookies from Arthy that offered and pass it back to Ezio who curious the taste of cookies.
"Well, they just want make sure if the food taste good before they will sell it at festival.
"Usually they give a free food to someone who passes their store, their relative, and the known person.
"By the way, shouldn't we walking instead than ride a horse? It seems more fun and I think Maximum need rest too." I'm stroke Maximum side who breathing hard and he looks at me with eyes saying 'please, let me get a rest or give me food.'
"I think Wolfram is right. Maximum need rest and eat too. We had walking around two hours without rest." Ezio nods his head and pokes Arthy who looking back to Ezio, agree because his stomach starting growls.
"Yeah, maybe you are right. I think we should let Maximum rest while we are eating at somewhere." I am looking left and right search the nearest restaurant or coffe shop. "Do you have any idea where we should eat?" I ask the kids who knows the city better than me since they are the citizen of kingdom.
"Well, what kind restaurant Wolfram want?" Ezio joins me looking left and right. "I know some restaurants that have best menu and delicious food with cheap price." Ezio counting how much the restaurant at city sells the home made food he remembered.
"Well, we should go there. Do you know the road?" I turn my head to Ezio but he's only shrugging his shoulder.
"Too bad, this week is the most crowded because the festival week. It's not a famous or big restaurant but its homemade food restaurant." Ezio imagine the last time he ate the food from that restaurant, the food taste and the most important is the cookies!
"What is the most famous homemade food at there? You guys thinking?"
"Well, the fresh bread, cream soup, and fruit cakes with Choco chips cookies." Ezio explains to us while I searching pasturage around here so Maximum can take a rest while we eat at restaurant near the pasturage.
"How about we eat there?" Arthy pointing the small restaurant with yellow dandelions growing front of the small gate made from wood. The restaurant side by side with house that separated by sewer and the vegetables field. It has outdoor and indoor with table covered pastel color table cloth and a couple of roses inside the small transparent vase. The restaurant filled only a few customers at indoor and some of them are the traveler, merchant or a couple who are dating and maybe on their honeymoon?
"I've never seen place before." I jump down with Arthy and Ezio joined me too, placed Maximum at tree with the rope tied around branch.
"Maybe you never been walking this far before, after all this place a restaurant for a traveler and merchants for take a rest after they arrived from long journey or will leave the city." Arthy takes my hands and hold it, pointing the kingdom gate that showed with my bare eyes. "The place, here, is the outermost since the location near the kingdom gate even you can see it with your bare eyes without walking to higher place or use telescope."
"Well, the place seemed getting popular by a couple or family who looking for the calmness or peace." Ezio looking another family finish the food and leave the restaurant right the public cart arrive. The father waves to coachman asking him for wait a minutes before it returns to city. A couple of sisters comes out from cart and pay to coachman with coins and leave the cart but they are not visit the restaurant, instead they are walking to footpath right at corner of restaurant with maps on their hands.
"How about we eat here?" I suggest to Arthy and Ezio waiting my suggestion.
"Well, I'd love to. After all, the scenery around restaurant looks beautiful with flower around." Arthy begin pushes the gate and walking inside followed by Ezio leaving me behind.
"Wait, you can't just leave me behind like that." Protest me to kids who open the door that makes the bell above the door ringing and enter the restaurant. I open the door that made of wooden maple, brown colored and the smell of fresh bread from oven with cream soup makes my stomach growling. Not only that, random cookies inside the jar looks delicious especially drink with a warm a cup of lavender tea.
"Would you like some drink?" said the owner of restaurant, a woman around fifty with shoulder length dark blonde hair. Her cheeks quite chubby with hazel eyes and normal body, well not slim not fat. She holds teapot with kitchen glove at her right arm. Another owner, the male one, pours the soup into bowl with flower pattern ready to deliver for customer who orders the soup.
"Well, I am…"
"He's with us, so make it three then." said Ezio to the male owner and he turns back to cupboard takes another bowl and pours the soup into it. He's greasing the toast bread with butter mixed chunks of onion and placed beside the soup. Finished, he put those on the tray to Arthy and Ezio who bites sandwich that ordered first before the soup.
"Here's the special menu from us, cream soup with toast butter onion." the owner put the bowl with fork and spoon. Ezio and Arthy can't wait to eat the soup because they are move closer to smell the soup. I am walking closer to them and the table has a great view. From left, we can see the sheep's eating the grass calmly.
The restaurant looks bigger than I thought. From window, I can see vegetable field and fruit tresses also animal farm such as sheep and cow. There's a dog sleeping inside it house with green roof beside the sheep house. It seems that the owner restaurant have their own food sources from their farm. Probably the distance from here to city market really long and need three-four hours, they decide to make their own farm and open the restaurant.
"Curious, Prince Wolfram?" said the owner puts our drinks and I almost jumps from chair when his mouth mention my name.
"Wait a second, how do you know my name?" I ask him back.
"Actually we already know since The King inform and invite us to his wedding before." He welcomes another guest who sits front of flower vase and order carrot cakes with a peppermint tea as drink. "Actually we are here work for him."
"What do you mean you work for him?" I don't understand what he said and Arthy poking my arms.
"It means, they are working here to take care the house, farm, restaurant, and hotel." Arthy takes some salt and pepper and stir it with spoon. "This entire are belongs to The King."
"You mean…" I am looking to them and they just smile back and nodding.
"It's belonging to His Majesty, King Yuri. Actually, it's belonging to late queen Jennifer but since she passed away, the property belongs to the King as her son. So do Prince Shouri."
"Ooh, I see…" I am amazed that Yuri is the owner all of this place. "How you guys know it?" I am looking to Arthy and Ezio who just keep eating and asked another bowl.
"Sometimes Gwendal and Conrart take us here after we finished our ride lessons and city structure, more to the road." Ezio bites the toast butter onion with the crumbs falling to his shirt.
"The King let us stay here as long we can keep and take care the places. Prince Shouri agrees with him and him also let us to expand the business for the guest since the tourists getting more come than before, especially from the city."
"What is exactly that people want to see?" I ask with bites the toast and swallow it in one gulp.
"The flower garden. All flowers from every kingdom grow and bring the peaceful and bring different sensation from morning to night. Not only will that, at night the flower release or show the light, a pastel color. The flower smears their own smell with the winds, making the wind have its color which we always thought the wind never has color but this time it does. The color actually from the petals of flower that blown away by wind and the colorful stamens."
"Seems so beautiful..." I'm amazed hearing the description. "Do you guys want to go there after we finish?" Seriously, I can't wait to see it with my own eyes!
"We already saw the flower garden with Gwendal before. Right when we learning about the road at every city." Said Ezio takes other cookies that fresh from the oven.
"Really? You saw it before?"
"It's so beautiful even you can't speak a moment when you arrive." He puts the cookies into the milk and bites it with the cookies crumbs falling.
"The flower I brought before for you actually from the flower garden that we are talking about." Arthy drinks the milk slowly and put it back on the table.
"And the bubble with air of the flower garden with the noises also from there too…" Ezio followed.
"I see then…" I am nodding and looking more and more visitor walking to Yuri's mother flower garden. I am kind of curious how beautiful it is since it's become the popular site for tourist. "It makes me want to see it now…"
"Do you want to go there Wolfram?" ask Arthy pours another milk into the glass.
"Well, actually I want to see it, but…" I put the spoon, keep looking to visitor that already finish visit the garden and ready to return to city. Some of them prefer take a rest by enter the restaurant and order a cold drink with cakes. "I can't leave you alone here."
"Better you see it, Prince Wolfram." said Mrs. Maki taking our bowl and spoon into tray. "Today actually the most beautiful and perfect day to see the garden because all the flower blooming and you can see the color of winds.
"Really? It must be interesting when the wind dancing around us with the flying petals and stamens…"
"That's why I suggest Your Highness visit the garden before afternoon." reply Mrs. Maki husband makes dough for croissant and cinnamon. "Leave the kids with us, we will take care of them and seems they still hungry for dessert."
"After you finish or satisfied, just come back here. If you still amaze with the flower garden and not return, we will return to city with Maximum." Suggest Arthy with his mouth full of cheese cookies with his right hand ready to take another. Ezio asks another drink, a milkshake with vanilla cream and sprinkle on it. "We have promise with our friends at city after a long time."
"Are you sure that you guys okay if I leave you here?" ask me worried to them but seemed I am too worried because the kids looks fine even they really enjoy at outside. It's been a long time isn't it? They haven't met their friends.
"It's okay Wolfram. Just make sure that you pay the food and the rest." Arthy warns me. Oh yeah, I must pay the food that we ate before and the chuckling sound heard from Mrs. Mika. She must be thinks it's hilarious seeing me as the nanny who takes care the kids and pay their food.
"Better you hurry to flower garden before its getting dark and more people comes." Mrs. Maki reminds me back.
"Okay, see you at afternoon and if I'm not return, just go back to city then." I'm waving back to them who nodding and continue eating cookies more from oven. The bell ringing when door opened and as I steps down to stairs, the hoodie man looking at me from door until I leave the restaurant, continue drinks his ice coffee.
"Be careful with the imposters, they always said they are a lost merchants." shouts Mrs. Maki.
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"I hope I'm not getting lost." I'm walking following the people walking towards the garden. While I am walking to the garden, I wear the cloak with hoodie that covered my head so do my blonde hair. While walking, I look left and right, just make sure that no one follows me behind. It seems that people don't recognize me although I am walking around them. When I arrived at city, even with hoodie or not, people still recognize my present and greets me.
While walking, I put my hands inside pocket since the winds breeze. I should buy the glove at restaurant before; they sell it since they made every knitted clothes from wool. I hold the scarf inside the pocket for Yuri after I knitted at city. Before we go to restaurant, we visited the knitted shop that sell wools and teach how to knit the clothes we want knit with the model.
The owner, the grandma knew I was visiting her store before bought the wool. She asked me did I finish the knit and my answer is I don't have a time to knit the scarf for Yuri. She offers herself to teach me knit the scarf until finish which I am exited while the kids take a nap after lunch. She helps me choose the wool color, the snow and frost color with Yuri's symbol pattern. I don't have difficult while knitting since I usually done it when I am still living with Uncle Stoffel but the difficult is when I made the patterns with two colors. Usually I knitted with one color without patterns. The grandma seemed surprise saw my fingers smoothly moved the needles without any fail but sometimes she helped me by which patterns I should knit and I made the criss-cross stitch.
I finished it for three hours and after I saw my handmade scarf, I'm quite satisfied and can't believe myself I can do it. The grandma asked me if I need to wrap it, making it as present for Yuri but I told her I will give to Yuri today so I don't need to wrap it. Besides, I want to surprise him and hope he likes my handmade knitting scarf. I smile to myself and can't wait to see Yuri face when he receive my present. While I am drowning to my thought, the sound of crowds getting quite until I realize the only voice around me actually my footsteps.
"Wait, where am I right now?" I am standing at middle of cross road and I don't know which way I should take because I don't know where I am. It will be better that every time I am walking alone, never drowned into my own minds, but keep looking the way. I think I should turn away and takes previous road, well just turn around and follow the way until you find the footpath or colorful brick. I turn around continue walking until a foreign merchants, two person, looking at me with carrying their goods.
"Excuse me?" said the merchants, with gray hair and brown eyes.
"Yes?" I stop my foot, stands near the road lamp.
"Do you know where this is?" he takes out the map from his pocket and opens it by showing the entire map of city from every corner. He steps closer to me and points the place he wants to go. It's the old house with flower field beside the house. Is he asking the restaurant that I visited before? But wait the old house design different from what I remember.
"I've never see that place before." I steps back and he just nodding, confuse that I've never see the place he pointed at map. Suddenly, another merchant walk to behind me with hands inside the pockets. I'm having bad feelings now. "Have you asked another people that passed this way before?"
"Sadly no, there are no people beside us until you show up."
"Okay…" their positions looks awkward by I am stand between them and they are lookalike ready to catch me. Should I ask who are they? I just want to make sure that they are not imposter. "By the way, who are you?"
"Ooh, we are merchants…" said the person front of me. That's it, I need to escape and run away from here right now.
"Actually, we are lost and need someone to guide me to the road before the sunset…" said another person behind me and my eyes scan looking the escape road and it seems the only way is I run as fast as I can. I can't use my magic because it will attract the people and harm the tourist spot. It said that before I enter the footpath, I must hold my magic to prevent the damage of tourist spot.
"Well, I think that I need to go…" and I sprint escape from them. Realize that they trick not succeed, they run after me until I feel something tied my feet and I am fall to ground. It's an invisible spell that can tied the target we after and once get caught, you can't escape from it except you have the spell that can make break the spell by having the colorful seeds that makes the spell weaker. The merchants caught me and they lift me up by grabs my arms.
"STOP IT YOU TWO!" I try letting go from the merchant grips but somehow they drags me to brick wall and take out the rope from their cloak pocket. "LET ME GO!" I scream aloud and kicking towards them until the mysterious hoodie man comes to rescue. Wait, at least let me give my knitting made scarf to Yuri before I kidnapped and taking to somewhere. I'm hugging myself protecting the scarf inside my cloak until I hear someone comes.
"Do you mind if you let that beautiful person go?" said the hoodie man behind me and without warning, he flicks his fingers and the merchants hands circled by the green magic and lifted through the air. The merchants' screams with shock, asking the hoodie man put them down but the hoodie man pretend not hearing them. Instead, he moves his right arm and the merchants flying on the air up and down until their heads banged and fall into haystack. They rolling around from haystack, fainted with pale face.
"Wolfram, are you okay?" the hoodie man running and helping me stands, patting my head that full of dust. Wait a second, how does he know my name?
"How do you know my name? We never meet before." I take handkerchief from inside pocket, cleaning my head and some of dirt at my elbows.
"Hell yeah, it's me okay." The hoodie man takes off his hoodie and the hoodie person face shocking me.
"Yuri?!" I'm shock seeing him right front of me with his palm close my mouth and eyes wider. "Since when…"
"Since you visited the restaurant with kids, leave the kids at restaurant and walking to the flower garden alone without company." said Yuri and the merchants groaning with eyes open a little, wake up from their faint. Before they wake up fully, Yuri kicks them again and hit their neck, quite hard.
"Wait, you don't need to kick them again!" I pull Yuri back from the merchants who continue fainted, probably longer than before.
"No, I just try to make them fainted more so they won't recognize my face." Yuri pulls the merchants to corner side by side, taking the old dirty rotten carpet with a couple of wood boxes. Yuri covered them with the old carpet and put the boxes beside them. He makes it lookalike a pilled of garbage or unused stuff that thrown away.
"You sure they won't after us?"
"Relax Wolfram, I made them fainted longer than before. Beside I already used the spell to erase their memories about the accident." I see a light blue thing flowing on the air, came out from the merchants head flying towards Yuri's palm, circling on it. A few second later, it popping out like a bubble pop out by needle. "There, now you don't need to worry anymore." Yuri claps his hands with me can't believe what he did before.
"Did you just erase or take their memories?"
"Both. Erase and take their memories about you also me. I don't want make any problem, especially linked to you." Yuri looks at me with pissed face.
"Yeah right…" I'm pouting and looking the merchants covered body quite long, stare to Yuri. "You sure they won't remember anything?"
"I'm pretty sure." Yuri is convinces me firmly. "Are you doubt my ability?"
"Fine then." I'm nodding and stare back to Yuri with a lot of question inside my head. "What makes you come to city alone? Even Conrart and Gwendal are not around you." Knowing that I will ask this kind question, Yuri just answers it smoothly although I can hear his groan.
"Shouri pushed me to follow you up after I finished the documents. He said that I should refresh and follow you to the city although I prefer sleep and waiting you return with kids." Yuri sighs hard when he mention Shouri, continue explain with wrinkle at his forehead. Lately, he's lookalike Gwendal when he explains something that bothers him. "I told him that I don't want to go, rather I sleep than go to city that can make a big problem at outside with my appearance as the King. Shouri said that to prevent that, he made me to become someone else so people won't recognize me while I am walking around."
"By change your hairstyle and color of your eyes?" I am pointing Yuri using his magic, turning his black eyes turned into yellow with contact lens while his hair became shoulder length with same color.
"Yes! All of this stuff was Shouri ideas. He seemed getting used to it since he always travels around country." Yuri takes off the contact lens so do the wig, put it inside his little bag. "Seriously, the contacts irritate my eyes while the wig makes my head scratchy." Yuri scratches his head from scalp to the upper, he' really not enjoy it.
"My plan was just take a rest at my family restaurant and return to castle until I saw you with kids visit the restaurant, you leave the kids alone and almost kidnapped by the merchants that known nothing who you are until I save you." Yuri points me with upset face that I almost kidnapped.
"Did Conrart and Gwendal know you went to your restaurant?"
"No, I just leave it to Shouri because he can handle anything." Yuri put the hoodie back so his hair at least covered. "Now, let's back to the city. It's getting dark and the light at outer city distance quite far even you need lanterns in order to see clearly." Yuri walks to untreated house surrounded weeds and little purple flower and white dandelions. I can see his black horse, Ao, as black as his hair, eating the weeds calmly until his head rise up hearing his master steps. "Let's head back to city."
"How?"
"You can ride the horse with me." Yuri points his horse. "You can't wait the public cart that will take you to city, it needs three to four hours to reach here from city. You can just ride the horse with me."
"Should I tell the kids that I am join with you right now?"
"No, better we let them alone without you." Yuri interrupts me who try walking out from hidden path. I confuse why Yuri let the kids leave us or let them walking and hanging around with kids same age.
"Why?"
"They are doing they private time right now." Yuri rested his back on the brick wall. "It's been a long time they haven't been outside after I made them as your personal guards, more correctly after I caught you at Enchanted Forest when you went outside with Arthy without my permission." Yuri reminds me how long they haven't been outside since that incident.
"Well, since the kids do their private time, how about you and me do the same thing like kids?" I'm looking to Yuri grinning and he looks irritated seeing me teasing him that I've never do before.
"What do you exactly want to do?" Yuri folding his arms with hair blown by wind mixes with colorful of leaves.
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"Are you sure this is okay?" asking Yuri who keep close to me, he even keeps looking down, avoid his people gaze who looking to him curiously.
"Just relax, trust me…" I hold his hand back, smile and wave to people around us who looking us like they just saw a famous person passed the road. The old people looking to Yuri with wide eyes, can't believe their King that once a cute crown prince before, turned into a handsome and charismatic Demon King. His physics same as the late King Shouma except he's taller, sharp eyes and has proportional body also his face feature same as the late Quen Jennifer.
I see the female teenager gasp in shock, looking while the male teenager can't believe that the Demon King they usually describe from the old people is totally opposite what people said. Before I met Yuri, the teenagers feel pity to me because they thought I'm married with an uncle who has bad temper, rude, and playboy type. Turns out, their eyes look at him with envious especially the male one since they want to become the cooler and charismatic like the King.
"Seriously, it's not dream isn't it?" said the young one whispering to his side.
"Can't believe the demon King goes outside…"
"I thought his brother, Prince Shouri that will join us tonight…"
"Are you kidding me? I see Prince Wolfram right with my own eyes."
"This is the first time I see him as person, so do the King…"
"I think that people will shock seeing the royal couple walking around city without guards around."
All of the words, whispers, and shouting my name makes me confuse and don't know how to respond it even with Yuri who keep close to me. Every time I visit the store, just seeing the souvenir, the products, or taste the food that offered by them always crowded by people who curious about us especially Yuri. People curious to Yuri since they think that when they can see their demon King with their own eyes right now that's why they are following Yuri although they keep distance from him since the rumor about him still ongoing, that he dislike crowds and if someone touches him, Yuri will furious and use his magic.
"I told you before this is not a good idea." whisper Yuri and his head turning left and right, make sure that we can walking around safely.
"I think its good idea, at least make your people who don't know about you, will see you with their own eyes. It also breaks the rumors about you that nonsense at all."
"Well, I'm just still not getting used to it. Some people still scare of me or show the hate…" Yuri eyes looking to some adult people looking to him and begin whispering something about him that makes him uncomfortable. I can hear they said is Yuri loyal to me, married me just for sex or his bed warmer, or did he always threatened me at castle if I am disobey him?
Why everything I hear about Yuri is a bad thing? Is there anything not good one? Like he saves me when I am in dangerous, treat the kids better and make them as my guardians, or protect the city from any harm? Before I complain to people who said bad things to Yuri, I hear a music sound from left and people begin running following the music.
"What is that?" I turn my head and people begin clapping aloud, welcome a line of people who bring and play their music instrument.
"Seemed the musicians city begin to gather around." said Yuri looking to a line of musicians walking to middle with clapping from people.
"Why the musicians gather around?" I asked Yuri with his head keeps looking back, still curious that someone follow us behind when we arrived at city pool. Realize that I am asking him, Yuri pulls me closer to answer the question because the situation more crowd than before. Everybody who stays inside at home, restaurant, or gardener stop their activity, walking towards middle.
"The dance will begin in a few minutes. It's a tradition from Kingdom that before we begin the festival, everybody from lower to highest class gather at middle with musician playing a cheerful and catchy music." Yuri eyes looking the musicians who play strings instrument such as violin, guitar, and cello checking their instrument by plucking the strings. The wind instrument such as flute, harmonic, and
"Are we just hearing what they play until done?" people clapping their hands and cheering the musicians who bowing before they play and smile widely.
"No, when the music begins we just stay quiet listen them until the middle part, the main part, we must dance." As Yuri explained, the musician begin plays the instrument with a soothing sound as wind blows around. First, the soothing sound then followed with cheerful and happy sound that can makes your feet moving around or arms waving above your head.
"Why they are moving their bodies?" I pointed to the couple and family with their children moving their head up and down, the couple jumping and waving their hands. "Shouldn't we keep quiet?"
"We allow moving our bodies, as long stay in one place." Yuri pointed the old man with his friends moving his fingers with shoulder going up and down but they stayed at same place. "Your body allows follow the music rhythm, as you can see some of people begin follow the music rhythm which means the main part come closer." Yuri's looking his people from every corner and he smile a little, enjoying it a bit.
"How do you know all of this? You said before the last time you went to festival was with your parents before they died." When I asked the question, Yuri suddenly silent with his eyes keep looking the people who moving their bodies at one place. He bites his lips, looking his feet puts his hands in his cloak pockets. He turns around looking at me with reluctant.
"To be honest…" Yuri calm himself, gather his courage to tell something to me. "I have a memory that linked to this dance, the best and worst memory of my childhood I've ever had."
"What kind of memory?" I asked him, curious because Yuri begin tell his past to me which he always avoid it every time I asked about his childhood memory or his past. Whatever I ask him, he's change the topic, pissed off, or told me to asking Prince Shouri. I haven't asked Prince Shouri but Conrart suggest to me it would be better if Yuri who tell me the first one because Prince Shouri perspective of explanation so different with Yuri. Prince Shouri just told me that every Kingdom event have the meaning memory for Yuri.
"The best part was when I went out for the first time with mom and dad, Shouri too as well." The music slowly turns into the folk song, making the people jumping taps their feet with their partners. "While we were checking the festival progress, my parents took me out from castle, introduced me to people who curious the second son royal family. Usually we rode the carriage for protection but father insisted to ride the horse so he could greet people openly."
I'm listening carefully with beautiful winds dancing on air. The winds makes a colors of bunches various leaves color, creating colors of the winds. I should spend a lot of time at outside of castle there are so many magnificent nature thing I haven't know yet.
"We were walking around from taste the variants food, watching the making of Kingdom souvenir, talking with old people and visiting the flower shop to buy a lot of rose and lily seed for garden palace. At the same time, mother gave me flower symbol, White Lily." Yuri's eyes catching the petal of white lily blew by the wind above his head. He catches it in one move, the petals show up on his palm. Yuri traces the petals with his fingers.
"What is the meaning of your flower symbol?" I ask him and the winds blows again with blown away the petals on Yuri's palm. Yuri just let it go blown away, gather with another flowers petal.
"Purity and Majesty. Mother wishes that I will always have pure heart when I grow up as the Prince. Somehow, I think she chooses wrong symbol because I'm turned into what she wasn't wishes before." Yuri smiles sadly remember the reason why his mother gave his flower symbol white lily, to become a Prince that has pure heart but at the end, his heart so do his attitude as the Demon King not pure as the flower symbol told.
"If you are while lily, then what is Prince Shouri flower symbol?"
"Shouri's flower symbol is Sunflower means 'Loyalty and Hope', given by father at Summer Festival. Father wishes that Shouri will loyal to Kingdom and never betray it and bring hope for the future of Kingdom. Father said it because he thinks Shouri who will become the future King, according to law but it turns out I am the one who become King, not him."
"Yeah…"
"After mother named me as white lily, we gather at middle city and dance with people until evening. While dancing, people celebrate the royal family and pray to God to protect us from any harm. The tailor uncle gave me his best clothes he ever made and spells some magic for me. When he was spelling the words, the fireflies from The Enchanted Forest came and they were flying around city. A various fireflies flying around me from head to toes, and a beautiful small bird with gradients color of pastel, kissing my mouth."
Every time Yuri explain his memory, I'm imagine it in my head and to be honest, everything he describe it so beautiful and touching. No wonder it becomes his sweetest memory all the time. Without realize, I want to cry because touched by his parents kindness, and the tailor uncle gave him, people rejoice and accept him as the royal family. They are celebrating the royal family, welcome him and the flower symbol meaning given by his late mother.
"For me, that was the most beautiful memory I've ever had." Yuri smiles watching the tailor uncle dancing with his grandchildren happily and hold their hands. He told them to prepare for the main part so better they are not getting exhausted until the end of song.
"By the way, did you know what the tailor uncle spells to you at that time?"
"Mother asked him what kind of spell he did to me. The tailor uncle kept it secret but he told mom that someday a great thing will come to me and I just need to wait for it." Yuri finishes his explanation and the music begins to main part. People
"So… what's the worst part?" I asked him back with concern because Yuri's face turns into gloomy. I think that, since he's already explained his best memory, he should tell me his worst memory.
"The worst part was…" Yuri hesitates to continue, but keeps continue to explain his past. The musicians' stops their playing a moment, then they begins plays the main part of music with people cheering on it. Although the atmosphere is pleased, Yuri's face looked sad, more into gloomy.
"If you don't want talk about it, then it's fine…"
"When I was about ten years old, Father went to war to lead his army troops because we had a conflict with Mushry Kingdom. They break the agreement by killed our ambassador after tortured them by sending back their death body. The reason was they were disappointed that father made peace treaty or live together between human and demon. Mushry Kingdom prefers Demon race should be the one who surpass the human race to live together as one race in peace."
"I see…" seemed it will become more serious than I thought.
"Because of that, Mushry Kingdom makes rebellion or warning to Father by killing the entire human and half human race that lives at Mushry Kingdom. Not only that, they also sent their best soldier, probably assassins to Kingdom at night, sneaking into city and killed the human and half human race. They even declare to kill my mother who is human and insult the crown prince Shouri."
"What kind of insult they did?" I asked Yuri who stretching his back and arms.
"Sending the head of skull with blood poured into its head. The skull of demon and human blood means war. Our mother and father is demon so both of us are half demon. Mushry King said that Shouri can't be called as crown Prince, so do I since we have human blood through our body. He asked father that Shouri must step down as crown prince and if not, his live will miserable. A year, three to five times Shouri faced death if he wasn't master the sword, archery and self-defense.
Is it another reason why Prince Shouri refuses to become the King because of the traumatic experience? No, I think that's not the reason because I hear that if he becomes King, he can't protect Yuri from any harm. Damn, their life as the crown prince when they were child quite miserable. Seemed I'm still lucky although Uncle Stoffel sold me to him to pay his debt.
"To protect the Kingdom, Father went to war lead by himself followed with Conrart and Gwendal as general army. While father went to war, I replace him with Shouri doing his task. The war was happened around three to six month but father keeps wrote a letter to us, asking what we were doing and how was the situation at palace."
"Is it everything fine back then?"
"Not really, Shouri and I replaced father as the King with Gunther helped us sometimes Gwendal return to castle to inform about the war situation.
"Then…"
"After the Firefly event over, we went back to palace and some of father's army troops arrived. I asked about the war result, they said that we won the war so we felt happy and congratulated them but none of their faces was smiling. We thought maybe they were tired, injured or exhausted so we told them to take some rest and enter the gate. The situation at gate totally weird, since we won the war we should grateful or celebrate it but they were not."
"Something happened?" my face turned into concern, holding Yuri's arm to comfort him.
"I asked one of the guards, what just happened but he kept remain silent. Shouri confused too, but when he mention father his face turned into sad and crying into knees followed by the others soldier. We just thought something must be happened to father and it wasn't good news. We hear mom was screaming aloud and we run towards medical room since her screams came from medical room. The door opened with soldier bathed in blood in tears, choking and sorrow. Conrart and Gwendal looked down with sorrow but mother hugging father lifeless unmoving body."
"Was your father…?" I grip his hand tightly.
"That night, I was told that my father was died at war. The reason he died because lost of a lot of blood from the injury he had even the medical can't help him. He got the injured while leading war and battle combat with Mushry Kingdom itself. The troops said that my father was the bravest man they ever met and they don't regret joined the war that leaded by himself." Yuri sighing deeply lifts his head into the sky with thought that his father now rest in peace.
"You must be proud of your father…"
"Yeah, at least he died as the respectful and bravest King." Yuri smiles bitterly.
"Your mother? What happened to her?" Yuri back to his gloomy face, looking to the mother dances with her children happily. His face shows envious to children because their mother still alive.
"A week later, mother became sick. Doctor said that the source was related to father death. Shouri and I kept stayed at mother side and did our job as prince also met the people who worried about mother healthy. They sent a lot of flower and mourning to father by gave us his favorite flower, Lavender. Shouri busied by preparing himself as the next King whiles me continue do father task that haven't done yet."
"It's okay if you don't want to continue Yuri… I know it must be hard for you to tell me about your past…" I tell Yuri because his face becomes gloomier and near to cry but he holds himself.
"No, better I told you about it. It's time for you to know me more…" Yuri replies and he continues telling his childhood. "Before mother eyes closed forever, she called us to come. First, she asked Shouri to take care of me and always beside me no matter what happened to him. Mother told me something that I always curious about, the spell magic tailor uncle gave to me when mother gave me my flower symbol."
"Didn't you tell me that your mother didn't know what spell that tailor uncle gave to you?"
"She lied to me, because she will tell me when the times right to come." Yuri laughing and pulls me closer like need some strength to tell his childhood deeper. "She said that the spell tailor uncle gave to me was happiness and loyalty. Those happiness and loyalty won't always surround me when I grow up. Everything will happen to me even I am change into bad person or personality changes. To prevent that happen, tailor uncle gave me the spell that someone will come to me who bring happiness and loyalty when I am surround sadness and loneliness, taking me from dark into light. After she told the spell meaning and asked Shouri to take care of me, her eyes closed forever with her hands still hold us."
Yuri finishes his story and I am hugging him tightly to comfort him even I cry. It's okay if he can't cry but at least let me replace him to cry. Knowing this will happen, Yuri stroke my head and rested his chin on my head. He continues telling his story.
"After the news about our parents died, people crying over and grieved around a week. A lot of lavender and roses, our parents flower symbol was putted front of the gate and the rose garden that mother always took care of it, the petals of roses blew away into the sky with smell of lavender when the funeral ceremony. Shouri and I couldn't cry at funeral because we need to be strong for the Kingdom future with faces keep straight. The funeral ended and when I return to my room, I couldn't help myself and cried all night."
Finishing his story about his parents' death, I can hear his heart beating faster than usual with his chest moving up and down. I'm thinking that he's try to control his emotion to not cry or explode because we are now in public area with happy atmosphere.
"It's also the reason I don't want attend the firefly event. It reminds me of my parents die, but so do Conrat and Gwendal as well."
"What just happened to Conrart and Gwendal?" I asked Yuri back with peole making the circle and dancing around and changing their partners when the music changes into folk.
"After the funeral ceremony ended, they prepare to meet their mother who will give a birth. Sadly, they got news that their mother died when giving birth to his son, their little brother. Conrart and Gwendal said after the war, they will visit their mom to welcome her new baby, their new brother. It turns out that the royal family have died, the king and queen, so they choose to meet their mother after the funeral ceremony ended."
Why everybody have their sad story? Are the lucky not surrounding them? Even Conrart and Gwendal have bad luck too. "How was their baby brother? Is he still alive?"
"It's still unknown until now. Conrart and Gwendal ask every orphan to looking for their young brother when they do patrol at outside Kingdom but the result was none. So, they decide that their young brother died at birth when mother gave birth to him."
"So, they just give up?"
"No, the latest new I heard that their brother still alive but he sold by someone to pay off his debt. If they know his physical feature it would be easy but unfortunately they don't know his feature. Is he lookalike his mother or his father? They don't know who the father is since she married secretly so they don't have the picture. Shouri said from someone that probably his feature same as his mother since that person who told Shouri is their mother acquaintance, which are blonde hair, emerald eyes, and…"
"Prince Wolfram, King Yuri, let's dance! It's time for the main part." said the tailor uncle dances with his grandchildren and moving to step inside circle of dance. We surprised seeing some of people invite us to join the dance, rather than stands watching it like a boring person.
"Yeah, it's been long times we haven't see His Majesty show up at city." Said the old couple and dancing front of us. "It will be great if His Majesty show Prince Wolfram how to dance and dancing together with us."
"Do you know the dance?" my eyes looking to the old couple dancing as they can even with weird moves they do, making people around them giggling and prevent their laugh because their funny dance. Even I'm giggling seeing their dance but also feel weird to seeing it.
"There's no rule, you just follow the music." Yuri let go his hug but taking my hands. He seems doubt himself to join the dance or just watching his people dancing. The sky turned into dark but the color is not black, it's midnight blue with a river of star around it and makes me attached to it. "Do you want to try?" asked Yuri wakes me up from the amazement of beautiful night sky.
"Well, if you don't mind…" I'm looking to him and Yuri pulled me into the middle crowd with applause and cheering from people. The music stops a moment to give us a position and people make the way so we come inside the circle. We face each other and Yuri takes me hands with music begin itself. Without warning, Yuri pulls me and we are walking side by side with his right hand around my waist.
"Better you just follow the rhythm until you getting used to it." Yuri whispers to me and let me go taken by a woman smiles to me while Yuri just stands in the middle. I am dragging to the left and right with fast movement, makes me almost trips my own feet. Without realize the person at my right and left let me go while us spinning and fall to the ground if Yuri not catches me.
"Now you do understand it right?" Yuri said it back and he help me to stands. Rather than we join people, we just stand in the middle with Yuri takes my body every way with his beautiful and unique dancing. "Step on my feet." Whisper Yuri pulls me closer.
"I'm quiet heavy you know…" I warn him by looking his feet that wearing dark brown shoes.
"It's okay, just do it…" said Yuri and I steps on his feet. He pulls me closer and our position right now like we usually do dance at ball. "Because the music will reach the end, the sounds will turn into ballad."
"Ooh, I see…"
"Did you enjoy your date with the kids? Watching some open theatre, eat the street food, and smelling the flower?" Ask Yuri buried his face on my neck.
"I'm really enjoyed it. I have fun." I'm smiling and we turned around, people around us absorb with the music that soothing like the wind, dancing with their beloved person. "I feel little empty even they accompanied me looking around city."
"Why?" Yuri lifts his face.
"You don't come with me… So I'm kind of lonely." Yuri eyes grow wider hearing I am lonely without him even the kids join me to take me every city that I haven't know. Yuri grabs both of my hands and rested his forehead on mine.
"Next time, you can take me to the city. Consider it as our date and I will make sure to have free time."
"You promise?" I asked with surprise and smile widely.
"Yes, but I can't guarantee one hundred percent.
"Then make sure you don't break the promise." I smile and jump hugging him around his neck with Yuri spinning me around with me giggling. While spin around, I see a glimpse of a man, with black coat from behind pillar, looking to Yuri with intense eyes. His eyes like a killer who waiting his target that unrealized his situation around. Slowly, he's walking towards Yuri with steady and straight ahead to him. I kinda afraid to this guy and my sense is true because from his sleeve the tip of knife showing.
My face turned into pale one and Yuri doesn't know since the cloak man walking behind him. He lifts his hand that holds the knife, pointing to his neck directly with killer eyes. Heard his past from his mouth, saw his face when he told his best and sad memory, and his fragile emotion makes me want to protect him from any harm that will haunt him. This time, I will make that cloak man failed to kill him by make myself as his shield.
I turn around with feet on the ground, pushing him hard into the ground that shocked and confuse until the sharp knife stabs my shoulder through my cloak into my body. The cold knife make my body freeze a moment also my breath taken away. Yuri face turned into scared and shock seeing me stabbed by knife by unknown person.
"WOLFRAM!" Yuri shouted to me who fall down with blood trickling down, wetting my cloak and my clothes. People around us scream seeing me bleeding stabbed with knife, kids that stands around me taken by their parents to protect them even closed their eyes by their parents palm, avoid them seeing me who bleeding terrifying. Some of people back off with palms closing their mouths, screaming in horror.
Yuri still holds me tightly, suddenly his eyes capture the mad man who stands in silently, seeing that he failed his mission to kill the King but instead he injured his consort. Before captured, the mad man running away from the middle crowd but in a few seconds, Yuri runs after him and before he passing the crowd, Yuri spells the magic, moving his fingers and suddenly a water from nearest pool and sewer come out, a dragon figure show off and flying towards the mad man with one jump and tied his body waist to toes.
"OUT OF MY WAY! OUT! ALL OF YOU!" Shouted Yuri pushes people around him and he walks towards the man who fall on the ground, cringed in pain because the water element tied his feet very tightly, the ankles of him left the red circle marks. Yuri squatting and grabs his collar with furious, like he's ready to kill him with his bare hands. People at middle town stands, watching their King lift the mad man until his toes flying on the ground. The mad man hands reach Yuri's wrist, pushes Yuri's hand from his clothes that almost tore it off but it's useless.
"Yuri…" I'm calling him with people gather around me, tore their clothes or anything that can prevent my blood trickling more. They shouted and asking people around to stay calm but some of them running away and the crowd shattered like an ants disturbed by human when they are gather around the sweets.
"Prince Wolfram, stay calm and don't move." An old uncle, the tailor that gave Arthy a new clothes when I first met him, tore of his sleeve and another male with brown hair and red eyes lift my arms that makes me screams in pain. The tailor uncle gives the torn sleeves to a mother with two children, standing beside her watching me suffering.
"Prince Wolfram, please hold on!" said the mother and she takes out the blue scarf around her neck, putting it inside my mouth. "We need to take out the knife from your shoulder." The mother said to people around her to hold me tightly. Their hands around my arms, shoulder, pushes my body forward a little to give a room.
"Make sure you can hold yourself as long as you can…" said the tailor uncle put his hand around my shoulder.
"What?!" asking me with muffling voice, looking him back with his hand holds the knife tightly, pulling it a little which makes me cringe in pain.
"Ready? One… Two…" at the count of three, the knife pulled fast by the tailor uncle without warning. The result, I am screaming aloud in pain with muffled voice. My eyes shut tightly and hands look for something to holds, no matter a sharp object or blunt object. My tears gather on my eyes making my sight blurring. What I see know the mother takes off my cloak with my made knitting scarf for Yuri inside it. The tailor uncle unbutton my shirt, exposed my injured shoulder by pulling down the sleeve part.
"There! Close his injury quickly to prevent the blood trickling more!" said the mother and she helps the tailor uncle who lift my arm, wrapping the injury with the torn clothes until the last one, make sure the blood won't trickling down anymore. The mother put back my cloak because the temperature at night getting colder, the scarf that used to muffle my voice, she takes it back from my mouth.
"At least we prevent the blood streams down a moment, we need someone who have medical experience." The mother lays me down whom still crying in pain, tears falling down, and my other hand hold my injured shoulder to reduce the pain as possible but it's useless. The mother children, the son, bring a bowl of water from sewer with the daughter brings the towel and they give those to their mother.
The mother lifts me up with the help of tailor uncle, let me rested on him. His wrinkle hands hold me while the mothers wipes the blood at my neck, shoulder and arms until clean. Still cleaning, my eyes catch the scene that made me lost words and I must stop it right now. Yuri takes out his sword from the covers, pointing it to the mad man chest without doubt. His black round eyes turned into slit, full of anger and revenge. People around Yuri back off with fear. The old people scared by hiding behind the young people while the kids behind their parents.
"Did you know who you just stabbed?!" Yuri drops the mad man into the ground, pointing back his sword to the mad man. The shocking scene where the King threatening the mad man with sword makes people scared to death, they're stand in fear with body and legs trembling. The priest prays with tremble lips, asking God to keep him and the others save, let the King have mercy who threats the mad man.
"I…" the mad man try to speak but his voice become husky because the tip of sword at his neck. "Yes, I know…."
"Are you trying to kill me?" said Yuri once more, this time without doubt pushes the sword tip right to the mad man with one drop blood trickling down from his neck. Yuri seemed don't mind to kill him right now, front of his people. I must stop him right now before he killed the mad man because if he kills him, people will sees him as the killer king or the cold blood demon king. Yuri will get more hateful from people, they will afraid to him more.
"Prince Wolfram! What are you doing?" said the tailor uncle seeing me stands with pain, breathe unsteady.
"I must… stop…" I said with one by one, holding the injured shoulder with my trembling hands. "Stop Yuri…"
"Your blood will run out…" warns the mother holding me back, pull me back to sit down. "Better you stay here and we will stop him."
"Nobody can stop him when he's in anger…" I'm shaking my head, push the mother hand from my shoulder and stands again. "Maybe I can stop him…" Whisper me to myself and running as I can towards Yuri who ready kills him with his sword. People around him begging the King to have mercy or let the criminal have the faired legally. As you can see, when Yuri made decision, nobody can to oppose him except his trusted people like Prince Shouri, Gwendal, Conrart, etc
"Well, since you did harm to Prince Wolfram, the Royal Consort…" Yuri steps back, pointing back his sword to the mad man neck, this time pushes it into the mad man body with face cringes in pain and screams in silent. "You know what the punishment isn't it?" Yuri lifts the sword into the air, folding his sleeve.
"I know… the punishment…" said the mad man with smirks, his head titled back and laughing even there's nothing funny about it. "I'll be killed by your own hands right?" he smirks looking to Yuri who surprised that he know the punishment.
"If you know the punishment, why you did it?" asked Yuri.
"I was trying to kill you when I waited you arrived at city pool. Your consort has disturbed my plan to kill by using his own body to protect his beloved King." Explain the mad man clearly with the gasp all over the crowd, their eyes looking to mw who running towards Yuri.
"It seems I won't regret to kill you right now, let this people become your witnesses of your punishment. If someone doubt you, they won't defend you because they were saw by their own eyes the Prince stabbed by you." Yuri steps ahead, lifting the mad man face with his sword so his eyes gazing each other. The mad man eyes not shows any fear, he just looking as usual, but there's some kind of satisfied after did something.
"Better you do it right now… I bet your people will see you as the cold King although you do this punishment to defend your lovely consort."
"It will be better you shut up your mouth!" the people screams seeing Yuri lifts his hands and swords ready to slays the mad man neck and hurriedly, I jumped to Yuri and hold his arms before the sword cut his neck off.
"YURI STOP!" I shouted aloud with pulling down his hand, holding the sword right before slay his neck. Seeing his hand stopped by someone, Yuri turns his head and he surprides seeing me who hold his hand.
"What are you doing?" asked Yuri angrily. Yuri's other hand pushes my hands that prevent him to kill the mad man but I refuse, hold his hands stronger. "He almost made you died…"
"I know that, but let him get the fair legally. Not here, in front of your people…" I warn him and just as I say words 'front of your people', Yuri lifts his head and looking to his people with wide eyes, full of shock. The people eyes looking to Yuri with pity ask him to have mercy and let the criminal put in jail or faired legally at castle. I hear Yuri's breathe become unsteady, looking down to his sword that rested on the mad man scalp, and he turns to right seeing me hold him with begging face.
"Yuri…" I hold his hand that hold the royal sword, put it down and asking him to put it back to its covers. "If you want this guy punished, at least don't do it front of your people. Don't you want them seeing you as the cold King again? Kill the criminal merciless front of people?" Hearing my words, Yuri slowly nods and his teeth grit. Yuri put his sword back into its cover and a few second later he shouted aloud in the middle.
"SEIZE HIM!" Yuri pointed the kneeled mad man, order his people to catch the mad man and they are obey it directly. They take the mad man together and gather around the mad man. He's begging mercy but people pretend don't hear his mercy, tied him with rope, so do his hands and his feet so he won't get away. They also close his mouth with bands, prevent him to speak any words. Yuri turns back towards me who standing with blood trickle down my arms, hold my shoulder that stabbed with knife because the pain spread through the body.
"Wolfram, are you okay?" Yuri stands front of me, worriedly with his eyes looking my injured shoulder.
"Yuri… don't… do…" I said, reminds him that he should never do it again, do any harm front of his people even punishing the criminal by sentence to death. I can't make his people scared to him more than before. I want said something to him but unfortunately I am fall to the ground if Yuri not catches me quickly and he sits on the ground with me coughing.
"Wolfram…" Yuri strokes my face, checking my condition by putting his index and middle finger, the pulse on my neck. Yuri also hears my breath is it stable or unstable. Quickly, Yuri uses his healing magic by places his palm on my chest. A minute later, my breath becomes stable but it just a moment. Seemed Yuri already uses all of his magic to save me from the foreign merchant that almost kidnapped me and a mad man by summon a water dragon so his healing magic not work properly as usual.
"Yuri, please…" I am looking at his worry eyes. "Don't make… any hatred…"
"Wolfram…" Yuri uses his healing magic more but no matter he uses it, his magic can't heal my injury quickly and makes my breath stable like a healthy person.
"Please…" I grab his lightning hand that uses healing magic, raking it and entwined it with mine. "I can't stand seeing you hated again…" When I said the words, Yuri's black eyes wider a little and turned into sad one with tremble lips.
"Wolfram…" his voice cracking as he wants to cry, so I pull him closer and wrapping my other hand with uninjured shoulder, tracing his scalp and his hair calm him down. I am soothing him, telling that I am fine also reminds him that he promised to not make any other harm front of his people when we got together.
"I'm sorry…" his voice cracking, near to cry. "I thought I lost you…" he hugged tighter don't care my blood wetting his cloak.
"You promise…" before I continue, I fall in his arms with head rested on his shoulder, my body temperature become colder than usual. Shocking, Yuri shakes my body who can't respond anymore.
"Wolfram!" Yuri seeing me with my face pale as ghost, the torn cloth turned into red blood which can't prevent it anymore. My breath become heavier, every time I inhale my lungs catch the air around twenty percent. My body shivers from head to toe, the scenery around me unclear.
"He needs treatment quickly! If not, he will lose a lot of blood." Said the tailor uncle, warning Yuri that my body getting weaker.
"Where's the nurse? Doctor?" Yuri stands and shouted aloud looking his people, wishes someone tell their self that they are nurse, doctors or knowing about medical thing even a little. "Is it anyone knew about medical thing?!"
"I know some of medical thing!" shouted a woman around forty years old from crowded and show the way. Yuri quickly lifts me up and run towards her house. "Last year, I worked as nurse to treat and nursing an injury soldier at war."
"GIVE US THE WAY!" shouted Yuri to people around him, pull me closer. "HE NEEDS HEAL QUICKLY!" Yuri shouts louder with panic voice mixed anger because his people just stand shockingly seeing me bleeding and Yuri's hands bathed in the blood with blood drops fall every time he walks on the ground. Can they just back to reality quickly, I know that seeing a person bleeding is kind of shocking to you but he needs recorver and treatment quickly before he's dying.
"Yuri…" I said with weak voice because my body getting weaker even I can't see properly. My hands feel from my body and what I see right now a black color around me, only voices ringing around my ears that slowly reject the voices come through mine.
"DAMN IT! DON'T YOU WANT TO SEE HIM DIED?!" Yuri frustrated and after he said the words, people getting to reality and quickly help us to treat my wounds, give the way for me and somebody ask the one of the guards who just arrived to report the incident quickly to Prince Shouri because the guards busy to take the mad man who tried stabbed me.
"Take him to my house, I will treat him and make sure he's healthy like before."
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"First of all, I just hear something bad happened at town. Your consort attacked by foreigner merchant until you came to the rescue. The second one, he attacked again by a mad man who was tried stabbed you but in the end, your consort who got hurt because he protected you. Is it because you made something bad which made that mad man had revenge on you or what?" Shouri asking Yuri who sits beside me, holding his anger because I've got injured from a mad man stabbing me instead Yuri.
My body just reflects seeing Yuri will get stabbed by him so I became his shield which right now laying on the bed at nursery room. The woman who knows about the medicine volunteers herself to treating me and order me to drink a capsule, the pain killer so I won't feel pain whenever she is treat me now. I still don't get it why he wants to stab Yuri in the middle crowd? Did he really have revenge to Yuri?
"This time, he had mission to kill me but the reason don't know why. The point is, a mad man stabbed Wolfram in the middle of town caused him bleeding." Yuri stands up, closing his eyes to control himself. People at town who witness of the accident, gather at outside. They are trying to peeking through windows even walking inside to the nursery room just to make sure I am fine and report to the people outside nursery.
"Why he want to kill Yuri? Even at public place?" Conrart asks Gwendal who rested his back on the brick wall, looking at me.
"He also said that he did this because of the mission. The given mission is to kill The King. What makes me curious is who is gave him the mission?" Gwendal looks outside, the mad man sitting on the chair guarded by four soldiers.
"Probably the kingdom who hate Yuri or take revenge because of failed negotiation?" Shouri wonders and take off his glasses put it into his pocket.
"But the most important is you still alive, Wolfram." said Arthy who hugging my left arm, sighed in relief. "We shouldn't leave you alone while you are walking around with The King."
"I agree…" Ezio followed and he almost wants to cry seeing me now. I pull him closer, stroke his head saying that Gizella will hea me quickly and return me into a usual Wolfram like Ezio usually see.
"Thank God you stop him before he really slays his neck right front of people." Said Prince Shouri, patting my head and stroke my hair. "Better we take him back to castle quickly, Gizella will heal Prince Wolfram quickly." Suggest Prince Shouri to Yuri. Yuri agrees and he stands with hands ready to lift me up.
"Come, let's go home." Yuri lifts me easily and get out from the grandma knitting house. Outside, people make a line to give us room towards Yuri's horse. Ezio and Arthy followed us behind with my coat and scarf brought by them. I see Shouri show up from the crowd who wears a grey coat and kingdom sword at his waist. People seemed surprised seeing Prince Shouri has return and showing himself at the crowd. What I hear from Prince Henry that, Shouri usually rarely show up front of people and he prefers walking around city at midnight or when people fall asleep.
"Seemed your beloved fine, except his shoulder that badly injured, I think…" Shouri pulls Yuri's black horse, Ao towards Yuri that still lifts me passing the crowds.
"I already healed his injury, but it needs more to heal by Gizela since she's the healer." Yuri put me down and he lifts himself up into Ao's body. "Can you help me by helping Wolfram, lift him up?" ask Yuri to his brother.
"What do you mean?" Shouri confused.
"Lift him up to the horse okay? Place him front of me which means he will ride the horse together with me." Yuri points the spot where I should sit down, patting the saddle to make Shouri understand where he should put me. Without words, Yuri let me go and passing me to Shouri that easily carries me as lightweight person. Yuri pulls Ao down before I get on the top, so I can easily get on it.
After I sit down, Yuri pats Ao's back which easily understand so he's up with Yuri quickly get on. I'm balance myself on Yuri's horse with Yuri's arms quickly catches the saddle and I am between Yuri's arm. Yuri takes off his cloak, put it around my shoulder even the wind feel getting colder.
"Yuri, I am fine…" I take off his cloak return it back to Yuri who keep refusing and put it back around my shoulder. "What about you? It's getting cold than afternoon…"
"I am fine and you are the one I am really worried about." Yuri insists that he's fine but I can see that his body shivering cause of the wind. "My body is stronger than you. Look at you right now, injured because protected me from the incident. I should be the one who got the injured, not you." Yuri's voice cracked and he's upset to himself because feel guilty. I turn around, calling Ezio who bring my cloak. I asked him to grab something inside my cloak and Arthy helps Ezio search the stuff that I am asked. Arthy takes my knitting made scarf from the cloak and give it to me by tiptoeing so I bend a little. Seeing me take the scarf from Arthy, Yuri want to ask but quickly I am wrapping it around his neck.
"If you want protect me, take care of me, the first thing you must to do is take care yourself." The wool scarf fits nicely around his neck and his black hair makes the scarf stylish than I thought. Yuri eyes looking the scarf, tracing the smooth and the pattern that I made for him. The pattern I knitted was the lily flower, the icon of his country and the luckiness. I hope and pray someday that Yuri always blessed by his people and luck will follow him everywhere.
"Wolfram…" Yuri's hands trace the scarf and the lily's pattern.
"Yes?" I turn my head, looking at him
"The scarf is really pretty, it gives me warm and I feel comfortable, thank you." Yuri smiles a bit and prepares himself to get ready, pulls me closer. He whispers into my ears softly and said the words that makes me tickle. "I will keep it as treasure." Yuri tells the others to prepare leave the town and asked the people to move, give a way since we will return to castle.
"See you Prince Wolfram…" said the kids below me and they are waving their hands. I wave them back but Yuri pulls me closer make sure that I am not fall since Yuri ride the horse with me front of him. His arms hugging me more around my waist to keep me warm. Shouri who looking the scene, whistle like a bachelor teasing his girlfriend which makes Yuri annoyed and dare throw a handkerchief made by his.
"See you too..." I wave back with little smile and before the horse moving, a cute brown hair little guy kindly gives me the blue rose and I take it gladly. I close my eyes to smell it and it is really good, offering to Yuri who just smell it a moment but he tells me that he also love the smell, reminds him of his childhood when the gardener always bring him a bucket of beautiful roses.
"See you Your Highness, and take care Prince Wolfram." said the people of the town to Yuri who just nodding, passing them and left them behind followed by Shouri. While we are leaving, people waving to us and light up the lamp, showing the way to castle. What I see today from my perspective, slowly people accepted Yuri as their King and their fear to him disappear. Even I am the one hurt or became the victim of accident, I feel grateful because Yuri slowly but sure, will get love from his people someday.
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TBC
Author Note : Finally, it's done! Wow, can't believe I wrote that much with my limited English skill. Sorry if you find that any weird words when you read the story. I'm still haven't found the beta yet, it will better if I have the beta.
What do you guys thinking about my English skill? Is it good or bad?
Also I think I decide that, seemed I will post the new chapter when I'm ready or finished the story if I'm not busy of have free time. It will be better that I'm post the new chapter maybe more than months with neat plot story because I'm afraid that it will make the plot messy if I push myself to post every month.
Someone asked me that when M-rated scene happened again? Don't worry; you will get what you want. I think it's time for M-rated chapter for new chapter! Hahaha, after all this chapter rating is M isn't it?
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