Fake Princess
DLIV Chapter
“Sachi, what is this really?” Zeki muttered softly as he pulled my arm closer to him.
“Did you see the man sitting there?” I whispered back as my face moved closer to her, “dia, my grandfather. Father, from my mother,” my connection again who was met with a look of disbelief from Zeki.
“Are you trying to trick me now? He's too young to be your Grandpa,” said Zeki, his eyes looking at me getting sharper.
“Zeki, our safety and also the safety of my people. Depends, from what we're going to do today .. So, you understand what we have to do or sell-”
My words came to a halt as I felt something wrapped around me and pulled my hand. I turned to the side, towards my wrist that had been wrapped around by the root creeping with small flowers on its surface. My eyes, turned towards the grandfather who was still staring at me.
I lowered my head with a gulp of my own saliva, my body moved to the side followed by my hand that was embracing Zeki's arm before I pulled back. Slowly, I walked forward toward the Elves as the root twists on my wrist slipped off, then crept towards the Elves.
My steps stopped, my body bowed towards him, “kakek, I have taken him according to your orders,” I said while still bowing.
I turned around, looked then waved at Zeki. My eyeballs grew to stare at him, as he still stood still, not moving the slightest bit of his body. Zeki lowered his gaze by scratching the back of his head, before both of his legs were walking and stopped near me. I, lifting my body back up, moved my hand to the back of her neck as I bent back down and pushed back Zeki's neck so she could come bowing with me.
“Sachi!”
“Yes, Grandpa,” I answered spontaneously while lifting back the body looking at him.
“Split with him,” said Grandpa who made both my eyes widen.
My head bowed as a root mound grew under my feet, then raised my body to a stop before grandfather. “Every Elf, have a Great Deer. You, must know that, don't you?”
“And behold, what is your Deer doing now!” continued grandfather, I turned back .. Staring at the little deer that stood up, with a long look towards Zeki.
“Great Deer, born with your soul. Although, your body is destroyed .. The Great Deer, will always live beside you as long as your soul will always be reborn. Now, try to close your eyes, and imagine that your body and the body of your Great Deer are united!” his command without blinking his eyes looked at me.
I took a deep breath by doing as he commanded. Both of my eyes opened again as I felt a very stifling feeling fill my chest. “Why am I, suddenly crying like this?” I whispered quietly as I raised my hand to rub my eyes that did not stop shedding tears.
“What happened?” I said back in a trembling voice, grandfather still silent as my blurry gaze pointed at him.
“At Ryu, tell him what happened to him. Deer belonging to grandfather, informing this..Tells, the real relationship between the Great Deer and its Master. Grandfather, just don't want you all to get hurt,” said grandfather while throwing his eyes off me.
“What is he, not a good man for me?”
“Dad, don't scare your own grandson!” I looked up at a woman who was approaching us.
“Not that, which was meant by your grandfather, Sachi! Even if, he is not a good man for you, your little deer may have gone away from him, not even getting closer to the man,” said the aunt again, I also turned back to the little deer who was rubbing his head beside Zeki's standing foot.
“Have you asked Ryu? How was the fate of your relationship in the past?”
I shook my head as aunty's words sounded, “ alright, watch auntie carefully and don't say a word!”
“I understand,” reply me when aunt walks past.
I threw away my gaze as Zeki turned her gaze to me. Both of his legs stepped closer and closer to the throne that grandfather built. “Go home! Sachi, will stay here. She, will stay forever with us, man .. Too dangerous for her.”
“What did you say?” Zeki asked back followed by her two enlarged eyes looking at aunt.
“Sachi, not human like you!”
“Then what if he's not human?!” snapping Zeki cut off the aunt's words.
"Don't act like you guys care so much about him! Know what you are with everything he's been through!" zeki continued back with a higher tone than before.
"Please Sachi, come back with me" said Zeki as he raised his palm towards me.
"Please," he continued in a voice that sounded vibrating.
"So like that," said aunt, my eyes turned to her who was bowed by taking a deep breath.
"Go back with him, Sachi," this time grandfather made a sound, his gaze bowed as both of my eyes glanced at him.
I stepped forward looking at him, "Zeki, answer my question!" I said, my feet again stepped when the roots that lifted me earlier were back to the ground.
"I will not answer. Just reopen the gate to bring us back!" pinta Zeki, she walked over while grabbing and tightly grasping my wrist.
"Are you, just like Ryu? Do you, given what happened in the old life?" I turned towards the aunt who suddenly made a sound.
Zeki threw away his gaze, his two legs again walking by pulling me behind him. There was no answer from him, he just kept walking without taking out a word.
"Zeeki!"
"I don't want to talk about it. Please, don't talk about it again" he said in a trembling voice cutting through my words.
"Don't bear it alone, you fool!"
He stopped his steps and turned to look at me who had stopped first, "stay with me, Sachi," he said, who stepped forward and hugged me tightly.
"So that's why, when we were trapped in the forbidden forest. Only you, who are not surprised at all."
"So that's why, you always warn me, to always be careful, especially when it comes to the green eyes I have."
"So that's why ... You should have told me everything. I told you not to bear everything yourself ... You, you're so stupid Zeki."
I took a strong bite of the lips, trying to hold back as hard as I could as I buried my face deeper into his chest. "I love you. I said it, didn't I? I love you, since the past ... Up until now," whispered raucously while I felt the kiss touch the neck.