Episode 104
Episode 46. Farewell • Duran’s wagon carrying the fish and the princess passed through the gateway and entered Hale as it did when it came.
However, unlike before, the soldiers did not inspect the inside of the wagon.
The carriage was being driven by Yuma himself.
Yuma immediately pulled the carriage and headed for the ‘Morning Star’.
It was dangerous to take Zishka to the top of Puang. This is because there is a Cindy Mew on lease for the imperial family.
The moment Cindy recognized Zishka, there was a high possibility that her efforts so far would be in vain. And unlike the eunuch Pornon, Zishka was not meant to be locked up in an underground warehouse.
To prepare for any possible tailing, Yuma exchanged money with the staff who met her like selling fish to the ‘Morning Star’. The employee was, of course, a member of the Rose Society.
After safely entering the ‘Morning Star’, Yuma moved to the special room with a cloth sack containing Zishka.
Inside the special room, Natalie and Catherine Randell were waiting.
After coming out of the sack, Zishka’s body smelled strongly of fish.
However, no matter what she looked like, she was the princess of the empire. Everyone in the deluxe room got down on one knee and bowed their heads toward her.
“I have no choice but to commit rudeness.”
“It’s okay, isn’t that what I ordered you to do? Varys must have been beaten up, right?”
“yes.”
“The only revenge I can do myself is that. It is bitter.”
“Wait, sooner or later they will all die a miserable death.”
“If Hugo takes me as his wife, I’ll hear about that.”
After waking up from drugs, Zishka’s emotional ups and downs weren’t as severe as before.
He seemed to maintain his composure even though he was talking about an enemy who would not be happy even if he was torn limb from limb.
“Lowering.”
“Sir Duran.”
Duran stood up and slowly approached Zishka. There was a hint of hesitation in his steps.
His heart felt heavy as if a rock had been placed upon him as he tried to talk with Zashka face to face.
“Don’t say anything, Sir Duran.”
“Sorry low.”
“It’s because I’m stupid. I have nothing to say even if you cut my throat right now.”
“The ones I need to slit are the ones who ruined me.”
“I am leaving for Matan in a few days. It is an unknown road whether death awaits or a new life begins. Lord Duran. Please take good care of my brother.”
Duran hung his head and did not answer.
“Lord Duran seems to be weak at times. I didn’t know that Lord would not feel sorry for me.”
For the past three years, Zishka and Duran have been at odds politically.
“Heoha…
“There is a perfect health food for the poor, who suffered today. Although it won’t compare to a dinner in the imperial palace, wash your body first and have a meal.”
As the gloomy atmosphere was created, Yuma opened her mouth.
“Can you feed a high-ranking criminal like me with precious food like the dragon turtle?”
“What could not be? There is only one week left to spend in the Empire. I hope that the last time in the Empire will be a little bit of a pleasant memory for you.
By now, the empress would have been reported that Zishka had been kidnapped.
For a week, Zishka was to stay at the ‘Morning Star’ and prepare to leave for Matan.
The empress would never immediately declare a national emergency even after receiving the report of the kidnapping of the princess.
There was nothing good about this even if it spread to the entire empire, including the capital, or to other countries. Instead, the Empress would have prioritized the Imperial Family’s Special Entrusted Team to begin tracking.
However, it was impossible to track down unless Winslting and his crew told the truth or Hella remonstrated. It was because there was no reason for Yuma and Duran Zach to kidnap Zishka.
In the first place, they had no reason to enter the monitoring target of the Imperial Family Special Envoy.
Above all, there was Cindy at the top of Puang. If even the crew member who observes and reports Yuma closely doesn’t say anything, there is no possibility that Yuma will be investigated.
Given the circumstances alone, Barris Cannon will never escape torture and death.
Because Varys was on the side of Hela externally, he had to be pointed out as the prime suspect.
However, Yuma somehow had a feeling that Varys would survive this time too.
Varys was the Sioux of Winslting and Hayes. It was unlikely that the old snakes would give up their only limb so easily.
Also, he didn’t know what words would come out of Baris’ mouth the moment they were knocked out.
No human knew more about the treachery of Winslting and Hayes than he did.
Winslting and Hayes had to somehow save Bar Reese’s life.
Even the empress could not hide the fact that Zishka had been kidnapped forever.
No matter how strong Tekken Asuka Rose’s power was, it couldn’t stop human curiosity and the rumors that came from it.
If Jisuka Rose didn’t show up at the imperial castle for a few days, there was no choice but to declare a state of emergency before rumors spread in earnest.
Yuma predicted that date a month from now.
The moment a national emergency is declared, the empress will first designate the Eastern Kantra Empire, Haseo Kingdom, Helga Kingdom, Matan, etc. as dragon nations.
Then the Great War begins.
In it, it was necessary to make Zishka the bride of Hugo and create a situation in which Hugo directly negotiated with the empress.
In fact, it was not a gamble with the lives of Jishuka and Yuma.
It was an irrational choice that would never happen again in Yuma’s life. If this task was successfully completed, Yuma was going to get rid of all his feelings of debt towards Hella Rose.
“Please follow me. We have prepared hot water for you. The maids who will serve the bath…
“They have been served. Now I have to take a bath by myself.”
After Zishka left, the ‘Morning Star’ cooks under Natalie’s direction began to cook the dragon turtle.
As Yuma said, the table was being set up quickly, although not comparable to the imperial family’s special banquet.
Catherine was famous as a gourmet even among noble ladies. Even to her, the food prepared one by one by the ‘Morning Star’ chefs looked pretty good.
“The people who made this were not first-class cooks, but spies from the Rose Society?”
Catherine, admiring the scent of the steamed dragon turtle, said.
“Cooking is basic. Would you like to learn something, too?”
“Catherine can’t. The fish pie that Catherine made when she was 12, oh my God, even thinking about it again, it looks horrible. A fish head sticks out from the end of each round pie…
“Pie and… a fish head? Could it be that you put whole fish in the pie?”
“Because it was! Ancient Ingol Kingdom cuisine or something.”
“Randell, you need a hawk, right? Honestly, are you doing this because you like being beaten?”
“That bastard never stopped talking nonsense even after being beaten by me. Do you really like being fit? It’s all the same once you get into the stomach!”
While Zishka was bathing, the party waited, exchanging nonsense.
And a shabby carriage stopped in front of the ‘Morning Star’.
The veiled woman got off the carriage and was guided by the clerk to the special room where Yuma and others were.
The coachman, Roy Harrell, pretended to doze off and waited for Hella Rose to return.
Hella entered the special room with the clerk of the rose society serving the food.
The party waited for the clerk to leave, then lowered their heads as soon as the door closed.
“Meet the deterioration.”
I was standing to see my sister for the last time.
Hella, who had taken off her veil, had a flushed face. The hand holding the veil trembled slightly.
“You seem to be asking too much of you until the very end.”
As soon as the fact that Zishka had been kidnapped reached the ears of the Empress, such a secret operation was absolutely impossible for a while.
That’s why he dared to ask Yuma to see his sister one last time.
“No lower. Please wait a little bit. Lower Zishka will come soon.”
While taking a bath, Zishka looked back on her past days as an honorable imperial princess.
snap.
It was also the first time that I scooped up water and sprinkled it on my body.
Every time I scooped up water and spilled it on my body, I decided to forget all the glory and shame in my memory as a princess.
Everything slipped down through a small hole in the bathroom floor.
Zishka smiled faintly as he listened to the babbling sound of the water.
After finishing the bath, Zishka returned to the special room with a calm face.
A table was set for him as a treasonous sinner.
“You are a treacherous sinner, so you enjoy the honor of leaving after eating the dragon turtle that Sir Duran himself caught.”
“I caught it, not the lower master. And lower…
Hella stood up and looked at her sister. Zishka finally found his younger brother who had come to visit him.
“I came to say goodbye to my sister…”
At that moment, Zishka realized how futile human commitment was.
I thought I had just washed it all away by taking a bath, but when I saw my sister’s face, one side of my heart seemed to break.
The two princesses stayed still, looking into each other’s eyes for a while.
When Yuma cleared his throat and went out of the special room for a while, the entire party followed suit and moved away.
The party who came out of the special room heard sad crying while leaning against the wall in the hallway. Everyone except Duran and Yuma thought it was the cry of the weak-minded Hela Rose.
But it was Zishka’s cry. Zishka, held in Hella’s arms, couldn’t breathe properly and cried out.
Hella desperately held back her tears and hugged her sister.
Ever since she was born as a princess, Zishka had never cried as sadly as she did today. The first princess of the empire was not in a position to express such intense sadness.
Duran, who heard the sound from over the wall, also pressed his eyes with his fingers and lowered his head.
The two princesses knew there was no need to say anything else. Zishka soon stopped crying and patted his brother on the shoulder.
“…Now that’s it. Sir Duran, please come back.”
When the party returned to the special room, Zishka had a clear face.
On the other hand, Hella’s flushed face did not subside and she trembled.
“I’m sorry. The food is cold because of me. Listen now.”
Zishka cut the dragon turtle piece by piece and put it on the plate of the party.
“Thank you, everyone.”
It was an unfamiliar landscape.
Anyone who has ever seen Zishka in person will not believe it when she hears words like ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘Thank you’ coming out of her mouth.
“Hella, you haven’t eaten Dragon Turtle since you were little. I mean, it’s disgusting. But the would-be Empress of the Empire must not cover her food. Foreign kings sometimes serve something even more terrible at diplomatic dinners
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Hella put a piece of the belly of the dragon turtle that Zishka had cut into her mouth.
The texture was very soft and salty. The salty taste that does not go away even after drinking several glasses of water.
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