The Bungsu Princess Inferior

34. With Balin

I told him everything, just like what Uncle Ezio had asked, until finally after finishing, I rested my back on the trunk of the golden banyan tree and closed my eyes. When I close my eyes, my senses feel more sensitive. I did not feel the slightest gust of wind, like being in a vacuum, but the natural energy I felt was abundant in infinity, I absorbed some of it.

"But uncle, it doesn't seem like I'm the one who time-travels because I don't know how! I always realized when I was in a different place, could it be that someone else was controlling me?" ask me while opening my eyes.

"Nothing," replied Uncle Ezio from my left side, he leaned back like me. "That's what time calls," Uncle Ezio looked straight at the thought of something. "It's time to ask for His Majesty's presence."

"Does that mean I'm not a time controller?" I ask with pleasure, if I am not a time controller, then I do not need to worry about the past and the future that I do not know, I just want to be an ordinary human being, my inner being.

"No," Uncle Ezio remained staring at the empty air in front of him. "Your Majesty is more than just a time controller," Uncle Ezio suddenly stood up and flicked his finger.

As the wind blew softly, the golden leaves that had been floating now fell to the ground. The time that had stopped was now back on. Uncle Ezio seemed to have deliberately not wanted to answer my question any further.

"My respect is General Supreme."

Balin's voice resuscitated me, I immediately stood up and cleaned my clothes. "Your Majesty," Balin ran over to me, while Uncle Ezio had walked away without looking back. Strange, it felt like Uncle deliberately stayed away and left me.

"Balin, are you okay?"

"Sure, Your Majesty. Thank you for taking the oath of allegiance of the servant," Balin replied with a radiant face. It seems that Balin did not remember at all that he did not move like the statue earlier.

"But I'm sorry, Your Majesty, why did the Great General suddenly appear? why did you just leave?"

I shrugged both of my shoulders, "that's Balin." I set foot slowly towards the palace, I want to wait for my father and mother in the dining room for breakfast this morning. Balin walked behind me in silence.

Aisle after aisle I passed, a lot of things on my mind. I really want to clear my mind of all the disturbing things, but I can't if I don't find the answer to all my curiosity.

"Balin, what do you know about Uncle Ezio?" as I continued to walk through the hallway, several servants and soldiers saluted as I passed by, I replied according to the rules.

"The Great General is a great fighter, no one has been able to defeat him, Your Majesty."

I nodded confirming Balin's words, all this time no one dared to declare war on the sun empire, one of the reasons was because we had Uncle Ezio. "There again?"

"The Great General closed his private life tightly, no one knew about his origins or his family. Even so we have great respect for him, no one dares to question him" Balin replied honestly.

I stopped my steps when I reached the dining room guarded by four bodyguards, the magnificent door was still tightly shut, perhaps the palace chef and the servants had not finished preparing it, of course because I came 60 minutes earlier than I should have.

"Although Your Majesty, the dining room is not ready yet." A soldier came forward and saluted me, "please forgive Your Majesty, will Your Majesty wait for a moment?"

"Sure," I said with a smile. "I'm sorry that I was wrong to come too early," I forgot the fact that time had stopped with Uncle Ezio's permission.

"Balin, have you ever gotten tired of living in this empire?" as I turned the hall, the two soldiers guarding the door saluted and let me in.

"Bored?" balin asked, repeating my words.

I entered my private reading room, as long as I was gone my mother changed the design of my favorite room. Design cheerful typical of small children with bright colors, now changed to become more mature with a blend of gold and silver, pink lily, pink lily, white and baby breath bewitched into room decoration that adds beauty, for a moment I admire the taste of mother.

I sat myself down on a dark brown sofa in the corner of the room, a new sofa that turned out to be very comfortable, maybe the mother chose it herself or asked the craftsman to make it? because it doesn't seem like a magic thing.

"Yes Balin, Bored." I pointed to the row of sofas in front of me that were also dark brown, these sofas were arranged in a semicircle, with 1 sofa that I sat in the center.

"Sit down, Balin."

Balin looked doubtful, but after a while he seemed to be sitting himself in the corner seat closest to me, maybe that's the most convenient for him because then I can still be within his reach if something happens.

"Can't one get tired of living in this empire? There is no war, there is rarely any conflict, and all things desired seem to be obtainable." My mind drifted comparing the sun empire and the silver empire. In contrast to the Sun empire that almost all of its inhabitants were adept at using magic, the silver empire was more dependent on physical abilities.

"Shouldn't happiness be higher, Your Majesty?" Balin seemed to think hard, "in the absence of war then we could live a quiet and peaceful life without fear of our lives being taken forcibly." Balin turned his head to look at me, "instead of being bored, we were even grateful to be able to live and become the people of His Majesty's solar empire. Many other imperial residents out there yearn to live like us."

I was immersed in my own thoughts, before looking at the silver empire, I thought that the Sun's imperial life was the standard life for all empires, but it was in fact different, is it possible in other empires there are even more suffering?

"Balin, have you ever gone to another empire other than the Sun, Moon and Star empires?" manya curious.

"Here Your Majesty, it was during the tests of the Great General that the servant was obliged to perform duties to some other imperial territory." There was a slight blaze burning in Balin's eyes, "many things in other empires that I am grateful to be able to become the people of His Majesty's Sun empire."

"Is that Balin?" manya curious.

"Many of Your Majesty, there are empires fighting over each other's territory, but the greedy imperial officials eat the rights of the people, also those who are stricken by prolonged drought until hit by a heartbreaking disease outbreak."

I shudder to hear Balin's story, is it that bad? Why is it like that? What the hell's going on?

"Tok..but.tok.."

Balin immediately stood up and opened the door that had been knocked on, from where I was sitting I saw the soldier who was standing in front of the dining room door talking to Balin, after saying a few words to Balin, he immediately stepped away, maybe back guarding the dining room?

Balin hurriedly closed the door and walked a little hastily towards me. "Your Majesty, Your Majesty's breakfast will be delivered here" he said firmly, apparently not accepting my rebuttal.