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16. A Reason for Kaori To Do So
"Hidari-hime!"
Hidari turned around to see the old maid, Chouko,
"Chouko-san! Why? What's the problem? Don't tell me..."
"Yes. And as promised, Hidari-hime, I will bring you out of here. Come on. All the guards are out."
Chouko said as Hidari nodded while Chouko used the keys to open the lock,
"Come on. We need to get out faster before someone would notice that you were able to escape, Hidari-hime."
"Chouko-san, why are you helping me?"
Hidari asked as the both of them started to run,
"It's because I have always treated you like my daughter, Hidari-hime and I am ready to sacrifice my life for you."
Hidari bit her lower lip as she looked at Chouko,
"Arigato Chouko-san."
"Look! The princess has escaped!"
The both of them turned around to see that there were already soldiers following them,
"Hidari-hime, you can go on! I'll stop them from here!"
Chouko said as Hidari hesitated for a while,
"But then, Chouko-san..."
"Just go! If the both of us get caught, we'll be both dead! All of these running of ours would get wasted! Go on now!"
Hidari continued as Chouko got left behind,
She ran and ran until she got trapped: She was on a cliff of a mountain, below were the shores of the sea,
"Hidari-hime, you have no where else to run."
She turned around to see Yamamoto Kentaro with some soldiers,
"I figured out that you were going to escape at this day, and it seems I wasn't wrong... Fufufufu..."
"You bastard! How dare you do this to a princess like me? How dare you charge wrong things against me and my Onee-sama!"
"It would have been a lot easier if your Onee-sama did not escape... I would have given you an easy kill."
He said with a sneer at the last part,
"You! I won't let you get away with this!"
Hidari said as she glared at the man,
"Too bad, you're at lost, Hidari-hime. Guards, catch her."
"No! I will never be caught! I'd rather be lost with the seas than to be caught for a crime I did not commit!"
Hidari said as she jumped off to the sea,
"That woman! How dare her!"
Somewhere at another place, Himeko was working at the Merchants' Guild, when the ribbon on her hair got loosened,
"Hidari-hime..."
She murmured as she look at her ribbon, the very ribbon that her youngest sister had given to her.
'Nonetheless, I must work hard so that I can claim back my throne or I could rescue Hidari-hime back, even if that's the last thing I would do.'
She thought as she tied the ribbon back to her hair,
"Shimo-san..."
"Ah hai!"
In the Imperial Palace,
Ran Shuuei turned around and was feeling a bit uneasy,
"Shuuei, what's the problem?"
Ryuuki asked as he raised an eyebrow towards his subordinate,
"Iiie.. Nandemonai, nandemonai, shujou."
"Are you sure?"
Ryuuki asked as the former nodded and gave a smile,
"Don't worry, Shuuei. We'll try our best to retrieve Hidari-hime back."
Ryuuk assured Shuuei, who just nodded and gave a faint smile,
In Shinyen...
"Chouko-san!!!"
Senshi Kaori went near to the old maid as the old maid looked at her,
"K-Kaori-hime... I mean, Kogo Kaori..."
"Iaa, the former is fine. I mean, I'm not really an Empress and I was just forced. I-I mean, I had, too! Or else, Yamamoto Kentaro would remove all his help towards Shinyen, and that would make a disaster to Shinyen. I didn't know that he would endanger the lives of Kogo Himeko-sama or Hidari-hime!"
Kaori said as she was almost crying,
"Out of all the three princesses in the past, you were the one who most cared and was most serious with being a princess and also, with Shinyen. If you were perhaps, the oldest princess and the daughter of the Empress, perhaps, you were the current Empress."
"Chouko-san, please don't say that. Shinyen might have not made such progress if it weren't for Kogo Himeko-sama. Please don't. I only hope for the better of Shinyen and nothing else. Excuse me."
Kaori said as she gave a faint smile to the older woman,
"Indeed, there is only one wish I wanted... And that was for all of the three princesses to gain their happy-ever-afters."
The older woman whispered to the wind as the red-haired princess left the room.
jychan: Well, that was it. I wonder what happened to Hidari... Oh well... Again there were no reviews... I'm getting less inspired here. Might I remind the people out there. I suppose I accept anonymous reviews... I would even accept flames! So, please do...