"Is this how you take care of my sister?" The Shogun questioned with a bitter expression on his face.
"How do you mean?" Emperor Kammu inquired as his gaze narrowed down at him. But casting his gaze at the men behind him, and seeing the item hurled over their shoulder, he felt that something was wrong.
Almost immediately, he quickly swept his gaze past the maidservants that had their foreheads pinned to the tatami floor.
'What is happening?'
With that thought in his mind, his gaze moved up to the empty untidy bed behind them. Almost immediately, his eyes widened in their sockets.
"What happened to Himko?" He asked as soon as he returned his gaze to the Shogun.
Hearing his question even as he could guess his current understanding, Tokugawa Yoshimune remained tight-lipped.
