Queen Without Crown
Chapter 70 Digging the Clue
That morning the maid who had been babysitting Princess Elok as a child was buried in the palace cemetery devoted to palace officials. Her gruesome death leaves many questions about who, why and how the middle-aged woman was murdered.
The father of Princess Elok, King Narend asked Prince Gaurav to stay for a few days in the Alsatian Palace. King Narend wanted Prince Gaurav to comfort the grieving Princess Elok. The woman no longer had a mother so the death of her nanny hit her heart hard.
"Please comfort him, my son." King Narend's face looked very hopeful.
"Good, Dad! " Prince Gaurav nodded and said goodbye to see Princess Elok.
Prince Gaurav found Princess Elok sitting with her knees on the bed. Her hair, which usually sparkles beautifully, is now tangled dangling covering her face.
Slowly the man approached, he did not want to surprise the grieving woman.
"Can I accompany you? "
Prince Gaurav's voice sounded softly in Princess Elok's ears. The woman raised her face, her eyes swollen from crying for too long. The look in his eyes contained despair as well as hope for help.
"I'll be by your side, don't be afraid! "
A glimmer of hope grew in the heart of the woman. Is it true that her future husband is willing to always be by her side?
"Don't cry anymore. I like you who always look happy. " Prince Gaurav sits next to him while bowing his head. His fingers played lace on the end of the Elok Princess dress.
Princess Elok felt a sigh in her chest from hearing her sweet words. He silently watched the man's face while wiping away his tears. Prince Gaurav's tanned face looks a bit red as it resists embarrassment.
Inevitably Princess Elok smiled, it felt a bit funny to see the man who always looked tough like a tiger was now acting shy cat. If not in mourning, of course now he has hugged her with anxiety.
"thank you. " His voice still leaves sobs.
"Come here." Prince Gaurav stretched out his hand and pulled Princess Elok's body into his arms.
They sat together without a conversation for almost an hour. It felt like there was energy being channeled by Prince Gaurav into the body of the Elok Princess. The woman now feels much better.
"I'm better now, thank you for coming with me."
"That's what friends are for. We can rely on each other." Prince Gaurav smiled.
"Friends? Oh, of course." Replied Princess Elok half in a daze.
There was a disappointment that suddenly hit his chest. Just being considered a friend by the person we expect to be a lover is an invisible blow that can throw someone to the bottom of the abyss.
"Are you hungry? I'll get someone to bring you some food. "
"Yes." Yeah."
Princess Elok nodded even though she now had no desire to eat at all. A drop of tears that escaped.
"Wait a minute. "
Prince Gaurav let go of his embrace slowly, then immediately descended while smiling witfully at Princess Elok. Then the man walked over and disappeared behind the door.
"Do I have to keep fighting or give up? "
There were only two possibilities he could think of as to the reason the man kept rejecting him. First he has not fallen in love with her or second, the man has fallen in love with another woman.
It was as if the heartbreak he felt multiplied. Losing someone from the world and losing someone from his heart.
After eating a little, Princess Elok asked Prince Gaurav to leave her.
"I want to sleep, can you come out? "
"Of course." Prince Gaurav was somewhat displaced, but he rebuked him because of the mourning condition of Princess Elok.
He enveloped the body of the Eloquent Princess who was lying down with a flat nose. It seemed that his presence had no effect on the psychological condition of Princess Elok.
After Prince Gaurav left, Princess Elok cried again. Along with that outside the rain started to fall. The wind blew a bit and the lightning began to roar out loud.
"Let me finish my tears today. I won't cry again tomorrow. " Murm the woman.
Not realizing that there was someone watching at the window. His figure was visible as the window curtains waved in the wind.
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The new King of Satria saw his wife's appearance like that. Suppose Queen Gita was not born in the palace, of course this is how she looks. Her body wrapped in simplicity further accentuated her beauty.
"How do I look? "
"You are so beautiful! I will probably fall in love with you many times. " King Satria admitted his feelings honestly.
"You are very good at seducing, my lord! " Queen Gita smiled seductively and showed another side that King Satria had never seen. A woman's natural attraction to conquer the opposite sex.
Although they had been husband and wife for quite a long time, the attitude Queen Gita had shown just now had managed to make the man's chest rustle and hold his breath.
"You're so naughty! " King Satria spurred his horse to chase after Queen Gita who had left him.
They rode towards the crowded area in the capital. First they visit Seno's antique shop, the last murder victim.
"Welcome Mr and Miss, please take a look at our shop. "
The warm welcome they get once set foot inside the store whose room decor is old lights and animal bones hanging from the ceiling.
A woman over half a century old who still looks beautiful, smiles while showing the collection stored in her shop.
"Does Miss like to hunt? " The woman asked after glancing at the bow hanging on Queen Gita's back.
"Yes. Can you show me the stuff to catch a big fish? " Queen Gita spoke while looking through the items on display in the shop.
"Didn't that require a spear and a mesh? " The woman began to be suspicious of her two guests.
"The big fish can't be conquered with just a spear and a net." King Satria.
"I don't understand what you mean. Better go to the fishing gear store, you can ask them. " The woman felt that the two of them had a certain intent.
"They have no tools to capture Rusalqa! " One King of Satria quickly.
The woman's face suddenly turned pale. His skin was bloodless, white as paper.
"I don't know what you're talking about, but you better go! "
"We won't leave until we get the answer! "
"If you don't go, I'll call the soldiers. "
"Oh yeah? Show them this! "
King Satria issued a medal engraved with the symbol of the Elfian Kingdom.Only high officials of the Kingdom had the medal. And as the owner of the antique shop, the woman clearly knew it.
"Although Master, I did not realize that Master was an official of the Kingdom. I'm willing to help whatever you need." The woman's attitude was friendly again.
"How did Seno die? What does this have to do with Rusalqa? " King Satria asked directly at the core.
"My late husband had nothing to do with that monstrous creature! My husband is just a victim of the creature's savagery! "
"Why did the creature kill him? What's your husband doing on that riverbank? "
"He followed the creature. The half-fish man looked so beautiful and harmless. My husband who had overpowered his desires was deceived by his innocent appearance. My husband fell in love with that half-fish creature! " The woman looks very angry.
"Can you imagine how humiliated it would be to see my husband turn to a creature equivalent to a dinner meal?" The woman began to sob.
Queen Gita nodded. She then hugged the woman's shoulder to show her empathy as a fellow woman.
"How did your husband meet the creature? " King Satria kept chasing with questions.
"A few weeks ago, a friend of mine came up and offered something. At the time, I thought it was an antique. But it turns out that what he brought was a beautiful parasitic beast. " Say the woman was fiery.
"How does the creature look? "
"She is beautiful, has long hair and has a wide tail. His scales were a beautiful reddish blue. My husband put her in a big bucket." The woman let out a long sigh, trying to suppress her emotions.
"A few days later, however, I saw the creature coming down from the bed and walking on both feet. She just made love to my husband! " At the end of her sentence, the woman screamed hysterically.
King Satria and Queen Gita looked at each other. They think the same thing. This creature could be among them!
