The Strongest Knight's

Ch. 73 - Fruit Stalls

The market becomes central in many places, due to market activity that makes the economy grow and develop. Even in the Nusantara kingdom, various markets located in the capital city look crowded between buyer and seller transactions.

There are several markets located in the capital of the Nusantara kingdom, ranging from markets that sell a variety of trivial foods fruits and vegetables and animal meat and fish.

There is also a market that specializes in selling clothing and household appliances. It can be said that the type of market is different, including from the goods it sells.

Not only that, the market in the central area of the royal capital is also different from the market in the slums on the outskirts of the capital.

Although the Nusantara kingdom upholds the value of equality but still the social level is still clearly visible if you see the buildings in the city center with buildings on the outskirts of the city.

There was still a distance created between the nobility and the common people, perhaps the only thing that distinguishes this kingdom from other kingdoms is not the arrogance of the nobles to the invisible common people.

You could say the nobles did not look down on ordinary people they could coexist without any discrimination even though their distance and status were different.

In one of the markets located in the slums, precisely in one of the fruit outlets. A young woman looked cheerful as she peddled her wares at every market visitor passing in front of the booth. With a beautiful he walked while carrying a bag containing fruit and tried to attract the visitors to the market.

The woman is Gayatri, a princess who until now has not been found by the royal soldiers.

Gayatri enjoyed her life a lot when she ran away from the royal palace, not only because she could enjoy her life more but also because she could avoid a marriage she did not want.

Although his desire to get out of the capital and go adventuring has not been realized by him, it has not been realized, but being close to the people is enough what else he can always be next to the hero of the man he loves.

Currently Wira is not with Gayatri because he is doing his duty as one of the knights. Already 2 days ago Wira went to carry out duties outside the royal capital even though he initially promised only to leave for a day at Gayatri.

Gayatri herself lived in an old shack owned by an old woman who was a former nurse who cared for Wira since childhood in one of the orphanages when Wira's mother died. Wira and sister Jiah, very close and already like a mother and child. Wira often gave gold coins to Jiah as he received his wages as a royal knight.

Jiah himself knew very well who Gayatri was but he kept Gayatri in his old hut and even hired Gayatri at the fruit stall he also managed since retiring as an orphan guard nurse. Jiah believes that what Wira does is right, he believes because he already considers Wira as his own child.

Gayatri identity is only known by the two of them, people who are in this place are also not very familiar with the face of the king's daughter, can be said Gayatri is quite safe in this place. Although Jiah initially forbade Gayatri to help him at the fruit booth but Gayatri insisted that he was bored if he had to be in the hut all day.

"Fruit.. Apples, oranges, wine.. Please." Gayatri is seen wiri wara in front of the fruit stall.

Jiah who was inside the booth smiled looking at the energetic Gayatri, it reminded her of her when she was young.

Quite crowded what else is still morning, the right day to sell fresh fruit to buyers.

It is still within the territory of the capital city, precisely in the center of the capital. The knights and soldiers were seen still busy searching and spreading posters of the face of the Gayatri princess until the residents now learned that the king's daughter had escaped from the palace.

It happened a few years ago, when it was the first king's daughter, the older brother of Gayatri escaped from the palace and went to various regions despite having returned and told all the stories of his journey to Gayatri but after that he ran away and no longer returned until one day when the one who returned before the king was a lifeless body.

Knowing that, of course, the residents of the royal capital no longer want to lose the figure of the king's daughter, now they also come looking for the princess and even the nobles also mobilize their personal knights just looking for the existence of Princess Gayatri at this time. The search intensified until now the soldiers and knights also began to explore and began to search in the slums on the outskirts of the royal capital where Gayatri was located.

Inside the royal palace of Nusantara.

The palace with ancient architecture that is roamed by small temples towering as a fortress.

The palace with the dominant color black to gray with a black flag bearing the face of a mystical bird called by the royal people is a garuda.

Inside the palace in the throne room, king Jolang Ingalaga remembered still dizzy with the current condition of his kingdom. The first condition was that the royal forces guarding the capital were severely lacking and the second was her undiscovered daughter.

"My husband, relax.. Gayatri will definitely be back." The empress continued to calm the king's worries about the bad things that could happen.

"That kid, I'll punish him if he meets." Jolang looks upset.

"Baginda.. Right now the nobles are helping with the search for daughter Gayatri, I'm sure soon the princess will meet." Said the king's advisor named Parmang.

"Hopefully." King Jolang could not hide his annoyance and worry.

Meanwhile..

The alliance troops that were formed to go to help the defense of the royal capital of the archipelago had arrived in the territory of the kingdom of Skandia. The army was led by a knight from the kingdom of Dongion named Gajef Svinof.

The alliance army consisted of a combined 5 kingdoms namely the Dongion kingdom, the Celestial kingdom, the Naugrim kingdom and the other two kingdoms. The total number of troops was 5000. Of course it is a small amount but it is only that much that can be collected considering the war is going on everywhere.

Go back to where Gayatri is..

He smiled happily enjoying his new profession as a fruit seller, at least until he saw some soldiers approaching while questioning market visitors.

When he saw that, he immediately covered his face with the scarf he was wearing on his shoulder. Despite not hearing what the soldiers said, the soldier was definitely looking for him.

At that very moment he turned around and wanted to enter the fruit stand not far from where he was currently standing. But as soon as he turned around, his hand was firmly held by someone.

He was surprised to drop the basket, the fruits in the basket fell and made the people near the place look at him.

"Where are you Miss.khekhekhe." Said the man holding her hand.

Gayatri turned around, panicking when she saw the muscular man who was not wearing the shirt holding her tightly.

"let go.. Let go of me." Gayatri tried to fight as much as possible.

"Cannot be.. Today you will accompany me. Khekhis.. We're gonna have fun."

Apparently the one holding Gayatri was a drunk man****, not a soldier whom Gayatri thought he was but still he was really in danger. No one helped him because the drunk man was a man known for his ferocity and strength.

"let go.. Release.." Gayatri is still in revolt.

Because it began to storm, the soldiers who had not noticed the direction where Gayatri was located now began to glance because of the noise and noise that occurred.

"Come on, don't be embarrassed." The drunk man held Gayatri by the waist and tried to lift her away.

Before long, the drunken man was startled by the apples that kept hitting his eyes until he growled in pain. The moment made Gayatri could escape and run away leaving the drunk man, apparently Jiah who threw the apple.

What a great thing, an old woman could throw an apple that strong enough to make a drunk man holding Gayatri feel sick.

But unfortunately, the soldier had seen Gayatri's face and recognized her as the princess who fled the palace.

"That's Gayatri's daughter.." One of the soldiers shouted, Suddenly the sound of screaming made the market in an uproar knowing that in the slum there was a princess of the king.

The dense market makes Gayatri difficult enough to escape until he was pulled by Jiah from the crowd.

"Aunt Jiah.. I-I'm not papa." Gayatri was clearly in pain, holding her wrists red from the drunk man's grasp.

"Let's get out of here!" Jiah and Gayatri then leave the market avoiding the pursuit of the soldiers who know his identity.

Not long enough news about the existence of Gayatri on the outskirts of the capital spread and made the concentration of his search centered on the outskirts of the city. The thing that makes Gayatri difficult to move, he was lucky because Jiah was well acquainted with the structure of this region so that he could avoid chasing after the soldiers who chased him.

The search continued into the night, none of them managed to find them. But as the saying goes, as clever as a squirrel jumping pepper the time will surely fall too. A fitting phrase saw Jiah and Gayatri in a rivet by some soldiers.

Although it took all day but the soldiers managed to find Jiah and Gayatri on the edge of the river, a landfill in the waterways in the city center.

Somehow, tonight it seems like Gayatri's adventure is coming to an end.

"Mr Princess, forgive us. We're just following the king's orders." One of the soldiers persuaded Gayatri to stop the vain virgin she was doing.

"You old lady.. You have committed a great crime for bringing the king's daughter away." One of the soldiers looked towards Jiah.

"No.. He didn't take me away. I ran away because of my own desires." Gayatri yells.

Finally one of the soldiers approached and tried to hold Gayatri but Jiah quickly broke up and pushed the soldier until there was a gap to escape.

"Master's gone!! Quickly go.." Jiah shouted holding the soldier with his body.

Gayatri saw Jiah, he cried and turned around but unfortunately the number of soldiers was 5 people.. Jiah may have managed to hold 3 people with his body but 2 others were quick to keep Gayatri from escaping.

"let go.. Let go of me." Gayatri tries to rebel but the 2 soldiers holding her make her unable to do much.

"Sir, the King is very worried about you. We'll get you home safely." Say one of the knights.

Jiah who will also be brought before the king looks revolted even though it was in vain.

Just as they were about to leave the place, suddenly one of the soldiers fell down from being hit by a blow to the neck.

"Who is that?" After saying that, the second soldier fell down due to a hard blow that was pointing in the face.

"Viraaa.." Shouted Gayatri.

It is quite easy for the Hero of course to subvert 5 soldiers at once because he is a knight, although only ordinary knights he is a pretty great knight because he can control the empire.

With only one, two moves he was able to free Jiah and Gayatri from the hands of the soldiers.

Seeing Wira spontaneously Gayatri hugged him, reciprocated by Wira by hugging back.

"I'm sorry I'm late." Said Wira.

"No. What matters is that you're here." Gayatri is still in the arms of Wira.

"You need to get out of here, this place isn't safe anymore." Jenny reminded them both.

"Auntie.. Thank you for helping Gayatri." Wira looked down at Jiah.

"Just calm.. I'm glad I could help you."

"Auntie what about you?" Ask Gayatri.

"Yes.. I'll go too, but I can't be with you. I'll just hinder your movement. Looks like we're going our separate ways here." Jiah smiles.

"Auntie.." Gayatri hugged Jiah tightly as a thank you for helping him during these few days.

"All right. Go now. If I live long, maybe we'll meet again." Jiah releases Gayatri's embrace.

They could not linger to say goodbye, because in the outskirts of the city today there were many soldiers and knights who were looking for the existence of Gayatri.

Finally with their weight separated, only a few steps apart Wira and Gayatri were surprised because in front of them currently stood a gallant figure wearing armor with some of his troops.

That person was Galang Lingga, Gayatri's future husband.

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