On a rainy night, malevolent lighting streaked across the sky, illuminating the palace and making the people anxious.
I walked down the corridor in a hurry and headed towards the bridge on the lakes.
It has been a month king Shigeto has been impeached, now that he had been installed, I was extremely delighted.
Emperor Daisuke worried, king Shigeto happy.
Today was a big day for me and the nation at large!
Under the rain, my king and I embraced each other. Tears of joy fell from my eyes.
Before we embraced each other, we didn't look around to see who's watching. The Emperor was standing afar from us, when we remained in alerted.
He stepped forward, pulling my hands. "What the heck are you doing with the Minamto king?"
Shigeto cleared his throat and bowed, "hey you! I don't want to see you with my Tsmugi again".
He pulled me along side with him to his chambers.
It was still on that same night of God aidoru's ceremony. Despite the rain and heavy breeze, the candles lighted for the ceremony didn't pull off.
It is a good omen that indicated, the rituals and prayers has been answered, the whole southern vicinity of Yamato was decorated with different coloured-shaped balloons. The candle sticks on the golden stands brightened the temple.
The rain fall reduced, in which it started drizzling. The moon came out completely, it was full moon time. Empress Reina rushed out of her chambers, to see the full moon. She was wearing her nightrobe, a white bully gown with a long jacket decorated with golden stripes and a long belt tied to her hair.
Outside, she was expecting prince Ahaan. She was craving him that night, she wish they could join thier hands together looking at the moon making promise.
Reina was disappointed, she found king Shigeto worshipping god aidoru. She could not hide the hatred expression on her face.
"What the heck are you doing here Shigeto?"
"I was only.... Shigeto cleared his throat
Cracking sounds of a medal distracted Reina and Shigeto. "King Shigeto, Regent sir Aoi sent for you". General Kenji bowed.
King Shigeto adjusted his collar and smoothen his face, he didn't take a second to look at Reina before he left.
Reina clenched her fists and teeth, and banged her hand on the rod of the bridge. She gasped, releasing a cool breeze from her mouth.
The servants at the entrance bowed as a sign of respect when they saw king Shigeto.
"Now that you are in town I don't want to dining alone, so I invited you to accompany me, "if that's all right?" Regent Aoi inquired.
"Of course". King Shigeto smiled.
Once they sat down the maid served them dinner.
"I hope you are enjoying your stay here even though there is a lot going on in the kingdom." Regent Aoi asked.
"I am, thank you. I lied. I was hardly enjoying the kingdom, especially with Emperor Daisuke having interest in my Tsmugi. "I heard the king is throwing a party. What is the special occasion?" Shigeto asked to get more information.
"Nothing actually, queen Hazel is pregnant for late Emperor Eiken." Regent Aoi said after swallowing his last piece of grape making his freckles obvious.
King Shigeto was astonished about Regent Aoi's sudden change and generosity. He looked at general Kenji for a second, when they were still at the camp.
General Kenji admires Tsmugi back then and tried to rape her, the memories and pictures of the hard punch he gave to him is still displaying in his head. When Shigeto grabbed his collar and threw him unto the table.
"With all these facial expressions I am seeing, I hope there is no problem with the both of you?" General Akio asked staring into king Shigeto's eyes.
Shigeto cleared his throat and took a sip of wine, rubbing his stomach.
"You are not eating anything?" Regent Aoi questioned.
"My stomach chunned, and I lost my appetite".
Shigeto was sitting right in front of Regent Aoi, while his children were sitting opposite to each other on the rectangular dining table.
"My king does everything not look like a mystery to you, Emperor Eiken died. Not long after, Emperor Einosuke died". General Akio said.
"What killed late Emperor Eiken." King Shigeto asked.
"No source of his death found". Regent Aoi replied.
The Regent clan is intentionally acting nice to king Shigeto because his intelligency will be needed and he is gallant.
"What about the vow?" King Shigeto asked.
"Vow, it's nowhere to be found." Kenji said.
Without knowing anything, thoughts about queen Hazel dropped in Shigeto's mind. He is suspecting the half sane queen, Accord to what he has learnt from his father.
Half sane positioned people are capable of doing something beyond imagination. Aside that, consort queen Hazel is late Emperor Eiken's favourite. If not for the death of late queen zehyan, prince Daisuke and Einosuke's mother.
As a wise king he would not want to say anything further when he noticed Regent Aoi's anxiousness.
"Thank you for keeping me company. Have a good night." I said standing up from my seat as they were done eating.
As he headed back to his room, his thoughts drifted back to me. He was anxious and curious to know what I was doing with the Emperor, "or is she enjoying solitude?" He questioned myself.
King Shigeto wasn't able to fall asleep, so he decided to walk around the castle when he heard giggling sounds coming around from the corner.
Looking around the corner, he found a group of maids on stools peeping through a window. They were so occupied that they didn't even notice him approaching them. Curious to what made them so engrossed, he stood on an emperor stool beside them and peeped through a small window.
The first thing he noticed was women dancing around each other in circles wearing clothes that covered nothing but their private parts. The god aidoru's ceremony was an opportunity for many politicians and governors in the palace to introduce prostitutes.
They were swaying their hips and twisting their bodies to a music I can't hear.
"Oh their so beautiful". Himari said without taking her eyes off the dancing women for a second.
He eyes traveled back to the room where a group of men were sitting watching the dancers. He recognize the man sitting in the middle holding a glass of wine. He had a smirk on his face and was speaking to someone sitting close to him. Oh! governor Eren, Regent Aoi's first niece he claimed to be his child after the death of late Regent Yagamilite his father.
This man looked familiar, it's like I have seen this face before somewhere in Minamato.
A man with a garlic shaped eyes and pointed jaw, this is governor ziachi, the cousin to General wade.
"Oh what an handsome man!"