Throne For Princes In Novels

Ep. 33 Stories of Beautiful Spirits in the Old Palace

The next day Oscar invited Leonard to meet on a small hill behind the Prince's palace. The place where Leonard, Oscar and Louisse played as children. I don't know why Oscar wanted to take his brother to meet him in person without Louisse.

"Ah, it turns out you arrived first." Sapa Leonard when he found Oscar who had been there first.

"Sister..." Greet Oscar back.

"Why are you suddenly asking me to meet here? Is there anything important?" Ask Leonard.

"Don't you remember? The three of us used to play here with Isse's sister." Instead of answering Leonard's questions, Oscar reminded them of past memories.

"Where might I forget that, but..you invited me to meet here not just to remember the past right?" Leonard asked as if he knew that his sister had other intentions to discuss with him.

"Did you know about the forbidden palace that stood far apart from the Imperial palace?" Ask Oscar suddenly.

"You mean that worn out palace that looks small from here?" Leonard asked back while pointing to the building that looked like an old castle compared to the palace seen from where they stood. The old palace will be visible only if viewed from the top of the hill. The palace that stands in the middle of the palace forest.

"Right, and did you know that there lived a living female spirit?" Ask Oscar back.

"You ask but as if you've seen it firsthand." Leonard said a little.

"True, I've seen it in person." Hearing Oscar's reply, Leonard immediately laughed.

"Pff... I'm sure it was just your imagination when you were a kid." Said Leonard did not believe and instead laughed at his sister.

"I'm serious! I really saw it first!" Oscar exclaimed with a little annoyed that his brother did not believe him.

"I accidentally saw him when I was playing hide-and-seek with Isse's sister. And please keep it a secret if I ever get into that palace. Because there's a ban from the Empire for men to go there." Oscar's Reveal.

"Ah... So the palace was the place where the wives of the former Emperor's mediators were exiled." Said Leonard when he remembered about the story.

"While the palace seemed silent and silent, was there really such a thing as a spirit there?" Ask Leonard who doubts the truth of the Oscar story.

"There, once. She looks young and beautiful." Oscar answered, glaring far towards the old palace and began to tell stories...

"At that time I was looking for a place to hide when playing hide-and-seek with Isse's brother in the palace garden not far from the forest behind the palace. And I accidentally found a hole between tall bushes. I looked like there was a big gap there, and then I went in and thought that Isse's sister would find it hard to find me if I went in there. And sure enough, the hole the size of a child's body was connected to a very large courtyard. That's where I saw it. Then the beautiful spirit greeted me with a friendly smile. He asked me if I was lost? That's how the story is that he and I can sit together on a bench in the courtyard of the old palace. Then she started telling me stories that sounded like fairy tales. The woman was the son of a wandering Gibbsi chief. As a condition for his tribe to enter the territory of the Eliador Empire was to marry the Emperor. She was thirteen years old when she married. The former Emperor who had many concubines could not possibly remember the woman who came to him like a tribute. Until the former Emperor dies, no one will remember him. He was locked up in the old palace as a place of exile until he met his death there. No one in the palace thought it existed, so it was true that he was referred to as a living spirit." That's how Oscar's story fits with what he remembers.

"Thirteen years old? It was the same age when Louisse first entered the palace. If I said I wouldn't survive the war, Louisse would... Huhh! Nope, no! That's never gonna happen." Because of the Oscar story, Leonard so think of the things that he feared that would not have happened. But fortunately he immediately dismissed all the negative thoughts that were in his brain.

"I will try to speak to His Majesty the Emperor to bring the woman together with his family. Although it would be difficult to ask the Emperor to return the woman back to where she came from." Leonard told Oscar.

"Sister won't be able to do that because the woman is dead. Maybe suicide? Because to live there all those years won't be easy." Oscar said with a sad look, he lamented the woman's futile suffering.

Leonard who heard it was a little surprised and looked at Oscar. Leonard did not expect that Oscar would be a little emotional just to tell a story about the woman in the old palace.

"Sister... Say, what should I do?" Oscar asked with tears streaming down his cheeks.

"Account is actually the same. Suppose I could just let go of everything and get out of here. Such an opportunity is easy for me. But there's someone I have to protect here." Leonard.

"You mean big brother Isse?" Oscar and Leonard smiled in response.

"Oscars... There must be someone or something you have to protect as well right? Think carefully about it, and you'll find the answer for yourself." Said Leonard while patting his sister's shoulder.

"God... Do you know how hard I am? It's like living between a mother and a wife who are in a feud." Oscar complained that he was a little annoyed by his current state.

"Hey... Don't use such a horrible parable." Leonard then a second later they both laughed together.

"Oh yes, brother, maybe it's a little late for me to say it, but... Thank you for coming home safely." Oscar said with a sincere smile and Leonard replied with the same smile.

Without Leonard and Oscar knowing there's someone watching them from behind the tree. That person was a man who had lately always been by the side of Queen Media. Men with long, red eyes. The Queen's personal servant. I don't know what his goal is but he must have eavesdropped on the two Princes' conversation. It might just be the command of the Media as it was before. After feeling enough, the Media's personal servant left the place.

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Shortly afterwards at the Queen's palace, the servant actually went to Media to report what he had heard.

"How can my own son say that?!" The media exclaimed with great emotion.

"Do you also think I'm greedy?" Ask Media.

"Please the Mukia Queen do not put it in your heart. Someday the Second Prince will definitely understand as well with His Majesty's intentions." Said the waiter.

"I wish it was like that too." Sahut Media's.

"Doha Hyperion! I'm assigned to you to be my eyes and ears by the Second Prince's side!" Media orders later.

"According to Her Majesty the Queen's orders, I will carry out." Answer the man named Doha Hyperion.

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