chapter 2
Ranya has lived with King Byun for 500 years. They have tasted the joys and sorrows together. The sacred promise they bonded used to bind this husband and wife relationship.
During the 500 years of building a household, neither Byun nor Ranya have been hit by bad news about the household, and on the contrary, now their love is even stronger with the presence of Rio. The fruit of the heart created from their love and passion.
The conversation continued, "But I'm still worried about his condition. There's no news from him, he hasn't even sent me a message… I'm getting more and more nervous. Could something happen to him?"
"Don't say that, my lord. Maybe he forgot to tell your lord, maybe it's because of his busy life… Doesn't your lord know how busy Mayana is? Maybe there is something important that requires him not to attend this celebration?"
Ranya seems difficult to explain. He wasn't really good at tongues, so he said what he had to say.
"What you're saying is also true… Maybe I'm overreacting. I shouldn't think that of my best friend like that."
It seems that the brightness is starting to emerge from King Byun's face. The restlessness wouldn't go away that quickly, but at least what Ranya said made her think clearly.
"Thank you..." He looked at his wife's face in amazement.
"For what my lord thank you. I did nothing for my lord?" Ranya shows her respect for her husband.
King Byun rose from his throne, he stood staring at his wife's beautiful face. Taking her hand, then brought her body closer to Ranya… And kissed her forehead lovingly.
Without a doubt Byun shows his affection for Ranya in front of all his people.
Since earlier they were not the only ones there, but many people who witnessed the two.
Byun has never been shy about expressing his love for Ranya, "Thank you for being in my life… If it weren't for you, I probably wouldn't have reached this point."
The presence of Ranya in the life of a Byun, like a grace given by God, fell so hard like rain at night.
"Stop it! My lord embarrass me… Everyone is watching us."
Ranya held back her embarrassment, she actually really likes it when her husband teases her like that, but if it is seen by many people then it's not a good fall, right?
"You don't mind them… Just pretend they don't exist, and it's just the two of us in this room."
Byun's hands are getting naughty. He shamelessly wrapped his arms around his wife's hips, and this act made Ranya feel even more embarrassed in front of so many people.
"Let go of my lord… It's not good for people to see!"
Ranya tried to release her husband's wrapped arms, "Hm…," but she couldn't do it, on the contrary, her husband strengthened his embrace.
"If anyone saw, what would they think of us my lord?"
Ranya was quite rebellious, but slowly. She wanted her husband not to overdo it because he was embarrassed to be seen by the invited guests.
But, like lovers who are intoxicated with romance, her husband does not care about what is happening around him. King Byun himself did not want to pay attention to what the crowd said, the most important thing for him was that his love for Ranya was not limited to being shy.
So it was only natural that he would not take his eyes off of Ranya.
Ranya deserves this because of her devoted love for Byun all this time. A household built 500 years is not a short time. They must have gone through many trials together. So it's natural that Byun loves Ranya very much, especially now that Rio is there as a complement to their marriage.
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Both Ranya and King Byun both brought their foreheads closer together and made the two of them even closer together, beaming like a world that belonged to the two of them.
But this will not last long, "Master!"
One of them came closer and broke Ranya and Byun's romance. Despite everything when the voice that had just arrived greeted them.
"Hm… Hm." He muttered, while tidying his clothes, and Ranya joined in to help.
"What is it?"
King Byun had returned to his resolute self. Eyes glazed and voice fierce, while the one who had just arrived immediately sat down, and hid his face in the scope of his hands.
"Excuse me my lord, the Sun King has started to enter the Palace hall and he has also given this to me, so that I may pass it on to my lord."
He was on his stomach with both hands raised, and the brown paper roll that was between his hands he handed over to King Byun.
Byun himself came closer, watching the brown paper roll.
"Really? Did the Sun King send this for me? Isn't he already in the hall, why not come in and give me the letter directly?" surprised Byun
"I also don't understand my lord… However, it was the Sun King himself who gave this to me to present to your lord."
He didn't dare look at King Byun's face, let alone look him in the eyes because it would be considered rude.
King Byun is the leader himself, so this person should have good ethics with King Byun.
Without thinking anymore King Byun accepted the excuse happily, his right hand wanted to grab the brown colored scroll with himself almost reaching for it.
Her smile beamed. He had already imagined how beautiful the contents of this brown paper roll would be. One could imagine it was a gift the Sun King had sent for him.
Almost could, at that very moment... Bruk, one of his bodyguards entered the room by rolling around.
Aaaah!
The audience who came screaming in fear, all of a sudden ran scattered because the Guard came in full of wounds all over their bodies. His body was also black as charcoal.
"What is going on?"
The panic of the invited guests made him get carried away. He shouted for the other Guards, "Soldiers!"
His mind was even more confused when he saw his People running scattered. This noise made him unable to think properly.
"Calm down everyone, calm down! Don't run around like this or you'll all get hurt!" worried Byun.
He tries to make this chaotic situation conducive again, but it seems he can't because they don't want to listen to Byun's words. They are busy saving themselves.
This is called assault by name. A Soldier enters dead, this is a sign that the kingdom is under attack. The Lunar people believe that if someone is burned, it is a sign that disaster will come for them. So, everyone ran to save themselves.
"Guard!"
He had been calling his bodyguards all this time, but no one had come.
"How should I do this?"
He felt panicked, this noise made Byun unable to do anything.
"Master!" they saluted.
Finally the long-awaited came, "Where have you been? I've been calling all of you earlier?" he said very annoyed.
"Forgive us sir," everyone bowed.
When there was a commotion, the Soldiers should have come swiftly to break up this mess, not the other way around being slow like a crawling snail.
"What is going on here? Why is the body of the Guard burning like that? Who did it?!"
Obviously he asked that, because he also wanted to know what was happening on the pitch there.
Those who were asked were silent. They were Guard Soldiers, but that didn't mean they knew about their brother who was burned to death.
"Sorry sir, we don't know who made this mess?" sorry.
One of these 10 people stammered, "We're the guards at the west entrance… We don't know who purposely killed those Soldiers."
Among all of them no one answered, he was the only soldier who dared to give an answer to Byun.
"How can you not know, ah? What kind of work are you doing, that you don't even know who did it?!" snapped loudly.
Upset, angry. That's what is currently happening. Byun himself is annoyed, how come the Soldiers are not on duty properly