The Bungsu Princess Inferior

54. Prince Ken

"Sorry to have waited a long time, young lady." The waiter returned with two rice dishes filled with some processed vegetables on top, and two glasses of water. He put it all right in front of me and Balin.

"Why is there no meat?" ask you confused, a restaurant this big may not serve processed meat is not it?

"Sorry miss, meat is very expensive when it is not the time for hunting. So the meat menu is very rarely ordered."

I remember if I ordered the most ordered menu. "Oh well, thank you."

"If you need anything, young lady can call my name, servant Tang. Enjoy, excuse me."

Waiter Tang retreated and stepped away from our table. I saw Balin eating food in silence, he was seen enjoying processed vegetables directly served on rice, at first I had seen Balin hesitant but it seems to taste no less delicious with processed meat, looking at the clean plates and glasses of Balin was not left. Since the Aciel incident, Balin has always tried my food first, he will let me eat when the plates and glasses are empty and no reaction occurs to him. I suspect he felt guilty about the incident at the time, even without his knowledge, since then I have always examined my food with my keen sense of sight, I can tell which foods are poisonous and which are not. I still choose to keep it a secret, so that Balin can eat the food that should be, open the hunger pill.

"Safe, Your Majesty."

Balin confirmed the safety of the food confidently, I took a sip of water in my glass and looked at Balin. "Balin, please buy me a large land in this kingdom, it would be better if it was far from the residential area but close to the forest."

I took out a red sack bearing the gold sun from the storage ring and stretched it out to Balin. "Please tell me if you find him, I'll meet him there soon."

"But Your Majesty," Balin seemed reluctant to leave me alone, looking worried.

"I just want to eat quietly, it seems this place is safe. Anyway there's a holy lightning protecting me, go Balin."

"Hamba will finish it as soon as I can, I beg you to resign Your Majesty."

I nodded, and Balin rushed away in hasty steps, he looked eager to finish quickly. My gaze turned to the plate I still hadn't touched. "It seems that today will be a busy and tiring day" I said, scooping food into my mouth.

"Prince, you even have the blessing of the Emperor but why hasn't the prince sent a tribute proposal yet?"

I almost choked, hearing the conversation I suddenly heard. I coughed a few times, "Are you okay, miss?"

This familiar voice made me stare at the origin of the voice, oh my goodness! I coughed back so surprised! He grabbed my glass and stretched it out to me, and I gulped it down until I was left.

"Servant Tang," he said, and before long the servant Tang came with a pot of water, he grabbed it and poured it in my glass.

"Drink, miss."

I took a sip back, "thank you." My cough has subsided, but my shock has not.

"Prince Ken, is there anything else you need?"

I gawked to hear the servant Tang greet the young man before me. The Tang servant called him Prince Ken? He was the same person I met in the hot spring, the young man who was Kei's older brother, so he was Prince Ken? The prince who was talking about a while ago.

"I don't think Servant Tang, thank you."

Tang's servant saluted then quickly retreated. I saw a man dressed as a soldier standing behind Prince Ken, as he looked as old as I could call him Ken?

Ken's red lips formed a smile, "are you all right, miss?"

She looked at me and looked at my plate in turn, I followed her gaze and realized that Balin's glass and plate were gone, maybe that Waitress Tang had cleaned it when I choked.

"May I know what makes you choke?" Ken asked carefully. "I'm sorry if I sound disrespectful, but it's very rare that I hear someone choking in this diner."

I smiled, as if I needed help to get my job done. "I was a little surprised, I ordered food that was often ordered at this restaurant to Tang's waiter, but I never expected if he delivered a plate full of processed vegetables without meat at all."

"May I sit here?" Ken pointed in the direction that Balin had been in.

"Please Prince," I replied while nodding.

Ken was now sitting face to face, he gestured a nod to his personal bodyguard and I saw the guard moving away.

"It's like you're not from the Green kingdom." Ken looked at me with his black eyes, he looked down.

"Sir, this is my first time visiting here."

Ken seemed to nod his head, "our kingdom has a rule that only allows hunting to be held three times a year."

"Why only three times a year Prince?"

Ken seemed to smile and answer me, "because we want to protect the animals from extinction, and also protect the people from indiscriminate hunting."

"But children need meat to grow" I deny.

"Yes, that's why outside of hunting time we buy meat from other kingdoms. This situation makes the price of meat soar beyond hunting time, so the menu with processed meat is rarely ordered, because that's just the processed vegetables on your plate, miss."

I leaned my back against the back of the chair, "sorry, I don't think this rule is right." My eyes met with Ken's questioning eyes, "you did manage to lower the number of hunting in the green kingdom, but by buying meat from other kingdoms is not the same as supporting hunting in other kingdoms? Even if the numbers are small, you can't avoid this fact."

Ken seemed to be getting uncomfortable with the direction of the conversation I started. He kept quiet and gave me room to continue.

"Not to mention that if the people really want meat outside the hunting time, they have to buy at a high price, even to avoid a very high price, they chose to go to another kingdom just to buy meat at a price that fit in their pockets."

"I hope that when you start this conversation, you have a solution to say" Ken scolded me subtly.

I smiled, "of course the Prince, but the solution I have cannot be implemented without the permission of the Prince."

"What do you mean Miss?"

I smiled, "would the Prince come with me somewhere? I'll explain it right there."

"Sure," Ken replied without hesitation.

It seems that Ken had been thinking about this problem for a long time, until he easily followed an unknown person like me just because of the solution I offered.