Chapter 134: Return From The Dead (Part 1)
Rigen's perspective
Sigh...I worked the paperwork in the King's room with my subordinates, it would be more right to say that I called them there to discuss. I kept disguising myself to be the King until afternoon, that was the time the Prime Minister caught me.
Before detecting me, that old man even said "Ah, my son today is so working hard, I'm proud of you.". He said that when I was pressing my face very near to a book in my hands while Sarah and Hatano were hiding under the bed.
Reimi seemed very mad at me but she didn't say anything and did not even willing to hear me explain the reason why I was late for our date. Hoster said he would pay me money after doing for him the job but I had gone to school to visit Shera and then slept overnight there so I hadn't met him.
Sarah had stopped angry at me, what a simple mind girl, Hatano even said to me that Sarah seemed to have feelings for me. I could take care of my lovers from 1 to 2 or even 3 but now the 4 one has joined, how could I take care of all of my lovers when I have to become a good King to build a country?
But wait...I have a very strange feeling, my chest seemed to be very wet for some reason. Maybe Reimi had changed from targeting my dick to my chest, I didn't have a mood to have sex this time...sigh!
I slowly opened my eyes and saw the room I was staying in was a bit bright, another day woke up late again, the windows showed me it seemed to be early morning. I looked at the one who was touching my chest, that was Shera, I slept with her overnight so maybe my appearance had caused her sexual desire.
My wife was so cute and a bit lewd, she was licking my chest and then changed to licking my belly, she even rubbed my crotch. My dick had erected a bit hard to salute my Queen but...it didn't hard like the other days because I had spurted out too much this week.
But even Shera could make my dick get desired when it saw her, I would refuse to have oral sex with my wife right away, I must make a sign to her that I have woken up.
"Uhh...Shera."
"Good morning...John, do you want this Princess...to serve you right now?"
"No, no, no! Please spare me, Princess! I'm tired now...let my boy rest till a week later and you can do whatever you want with it." - Only if I don't have any date with Reimi in the inn, my wife!
"Why did...your cock always hard and aggressive...but now it got tired, John?" - Why did you squeeze my dick and looked at me jealously like that, Princess?
"Please don't misunderstand, Shera! I'm innocent...it gets tiring because I...was thinking if I should tell you this or not."
"What's it, John?"
"Your brother-in-law has approved me to love you and even let us be along together, Shera."
"It means we could get married and have a kid...but I was thinking if we should have kids early or not." - Must be wise to lie to my wife or she would stab me to death
"Really? I'm so glad to know...I think we should get married, John...can we do it fast?" - I knew it!
"Okay...but about having kids, you must wait for 2 years, okay, my wife?"
"John!" - Hey, hey, hey, Shera! The way you hugged me made my dick...ahem! I should be serious
"But anyway, John...I'm sorry because I was very jealous when my servant keeps sticking with you, what did you order Reimi to help you yesterday?"
Oh, shit! I didn't think about that...
"Um...to help me to learn about history."
Shera kept looking at me with her doubtful eyes as if she didn't believe my words but I looked straight at Shera to show her the things I said were the "truth".
"I think I should not doubt you too much, John! I'm sorry...kiss!" - Shera suddenly kissed me, my wife seemed very lusted for sex but she kept holding herself
"John...let's forget about Reimi, how is your illness now? Do you still see bad dreams?"
"Shera, as I said to you before, sometimes I will dream about those things, not regularly, don't worry."
"I will heal you until you can't see those dreams anymore, John." - Shera kept hugging me to heal me while I was hugging her to feel her warmth
Both of us kept hugging each other and Shera later kissed and lick my neck, she even rubbed my thighs and licked my ears.
Maybe Shera wanted to have sex for real, she kept imitating what I always did with her when both of us were having oral sex, I always touched her sensitive body parts to make her excited to make love.
"Uhh...Princess! Please hold yourself, I will let you make love a week later, please hold yourself back."
"Remember to serve me well...John! I will be very aggressive with your meat rod in the next week...no one can steal you away from me."
"Okay, my Queen! I will serve you whenever you like...my wife."
Both of us kept hugging for a minute and then we got out of the bed, Shera grabbed the blue dress that she took in her closet and was about to change her clothes. Shera would not have to go to school for 2 days, she would return to the Palace to order the maids to help the King to prepare for Warsaw's nation day - as known as Warsaw's day.
Warsaw's national day was simple, people would have the choice to have a day off to open big parties that day or just simply go to work with more reward for their dedication. All buildings would hang Warsaw's national flags and people would gather on the streets to wait for the King to march with the guards, they would have the chance to see the King's face.
After seeing the King, the people would go back home and party, drinking alcohol and playing overnight. Till the next dawn morning, the national day would end and the people would return to their normal lives.
Warsaw's national day would be held tomorrow, I would like to see how would the people in this fantasy world open the parties.
Shera was quite shy when she was changing her clothes in front of me, I would be shy if I change my clothes in front of her too. After changing the clothes, Shera stepped toward me and held my hand, both of us...I mean three of us would walk from school to return to the Palace.
"Rin! Rin! Rin! Commander, Sarah calls!" - Why did Advisor disturb our silent moment?
"Hmmph...why did Sarah call you, John?" - Please stop jealous, Shera! I haven't done anything to my subordinate yet
I used my brainwave to call Advisor to accept the call, Advisor's screen popped up on Sarah's face, she was...a bit nervous.
"Commander, can you hear me!"
"What's wrong, Sarah?"
"His Majesty has gone away!" - Wait, what did she mean by "gone away"?
"What?" - Shera, please stop shocking!
"What do you mean, Sarah?"
"His Majesty has escaped because the Prime Minister was about to arrange his marriage so he left."
"When?"
"Last night, Commander! Prime Minister is very mad now but he didn't want to let the other officials know about the King escaped."
"John!"
"Give me a second, Shera."
"We will return now, inform me immediately if you found more intel."
"Roger that, Commander." - Sarah made a military salute and shut the screen off
Shera and I held our hands and got out of the door but the door had been stuck, someone must have blocked it, maybe Reimi was still sleeping.
"Smash! Smash! Smash! Reimi, wake up!" - I smashed the door and then the door had been opened after a few seconds
Reimi opened the door with her appearance seemed to newly wake up, she was looking at us and didn't know what was happening.
"Reimi, follow us to the Palace immediately!"
"Understood, Sir Rigen, my Highness!" - Reimi panicked grabbed ran forward to lead the way
We walked outside of the room with the witnesses from everyone but we ignored them and kept running until we got into the Palace. The guards who were guarding outside of the Palace were surprised to see our rushes because they didn't know anything.
Wait...where should I meet my subordinates? I didn't ask Sarah about that but... forget it!
We ran into the Palace's front doors and Sarah and Hatano had already waited for us there. They didn't say to us anything but kept raising their hands to tell us to follow them, we ran with my subordinates into the King's room and then locked the door.
When we got inside, Minister Alt was slapping Sherry non-stop when she was kneeling on the floor as if to beg him to forgive her. The room now had only me, Shera, Reimi, Sarah, Hatano, Minister Alt and Sherry.
"This whore! She let my son go away, now he is nowhere to be found!" - Hoster has told me about the reason why he called the Prime Minister father, this old man was very cunning
"What do you mean by calling my brother your son, Minister Alt?" - Shera was shocked to see her brother gone away and now she was meeting this troublesome situation
"It's complicated, Shera! I will tell you later." - I told Shera to stop, Reimi was also curious about it but she shut her mouth
"Talk, where did my son go, huh! Tell me!" - The Prime Minister slapped Sherry very hard while questioning her
"Please spare me, I didn't know where he went!"
"Liar!" - The Prime Minister kept slapping Sherry and all of us could only stand to see
"Minister Alt, please stop!" - Sarah suddenly grabbed Minister Alt's hand to stop him from slapping Sherry
"Get out of my hand!" - Minister Alt yelled and then shoved Sarah away
"Ahhh!" - Sarah got shoved but all of us managed to grab her to not let her fall
"I told you the truth, I didn't know where did His Majesty go! I only knew that the last time I saw him, he was wearing a blue tunic and unarmed!" - Sherry seemed very tired now after being questioned for too long
The Prime Minister turned around to see us, he later pointed his hands to all of us and then pointed to the door.
"Get out! I have already prepared horses outside, now all of you go find my son! Do not fuss about his disappearance to anyone, you do and your heads will be chopped!"
"How did you dare to be rude to your ruler, Prime Minister!" - Reimi yelled toward the Prime Minister when she was mad
"When His Majesty is gone, I will be the most authority here, get out to find my son!"
All of us later silently walked outside to find Hoster
Hoster's perspective
"Thank you for buying bread, rich man." - The bread store owner thanked me when I paid too many coins to buy a 20 Gel coins bread
I had rented an inn to sleep overnight there and now I was walking around the streets to find the mood to return to the Palace. Sherry didn't follow me so I was idling and didn't know what to do, I was thinking about having a family life with her when both of us escaped from the Palace.
I didn't want to be a King anymore, I didn't want to be that old man's puppet, though I felt very guilty when I left my little sister but...I was so irresponsible. But I would return to the Palace soon though I didn't have a mood to do it right now, I was wondering what should I do with the large money I have in my hands.
Not because I didn't know how to spend it but because my Goddess didn't follow me so I didn't what should I use this money for. I would return to the Palace earlier than I expected, I was eating meat bread while walking on a sidewalk with people going past me.
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Suddenly, while on the streets, I found something interesting, I was always spending money for playing outside. But now when I was going on the streets alone and idle, I found the people and the working sounds around me were very lively as if I want to see how were the people's lives.
Sherry said: To rule a country, you must know the people, you must become the people.
I promised Sherry that I would buy her presents when I return but maybe I could not keep that promise anymore, sorry Sherry. I would like to join the people to see how they were living, I was in Keris, not so far from the Palace, this place was a Noble Zone and lives here were very wealthy for noble people.
In this place, buildings were built with good bricks and high buildings, the roads were very well made. The shops around the streets all have words on the top of the shops to introduce to the people which kind of shops were.
The people here were all educated, all dressed wealthy, if they were not walking on the sidewalks for training healthy bodies, they would ride their own horses on the storm road, which were the transports from the poor nobles.
The people who were the wealthier nobles would ride or order their servants to ride them on their own carriages which had guards guarding all around. I had done eating the bread and I was cleaning my hands at a nearby waterfall, I later walked inside a clothes shop.
"Welcome customer, please choose the clothes that you like." - An aged man who seemed to be the owner of the shop asked me to look around to choose my favorite clothes
I looked around to see how beautiful were the clothes inside the shop and then went outside. It was very disrespectful to get in a shop but didn't buy a thing but I went there only for watching people's lives.
I kept looking around to see the wealth of the Capital city and then...I got bored!
Maybe living in a wealthy when I was born made me familiar with the things that I saw, I was seeing the lives of the wealthy people, which kind of living I was always in contact with. I was wondering how were the commoners' lives because I heard from my father that the poor people were always wanted to live wealthy like us while our wealthy people were lazying and didn't precious what we have.
Maybe I would visit Veta - a border town of my homeland, it was the Commoner Zone, it was near here but maybe I would have to go there by hours on foot. I was wondering where was the place to buy horses in this Capital, maybe going to Veta on foot would be a better way for training my body from getting out of my laziness.
"Hoster, I found you, you son of a bitch!" - A voice called me, that was from Rigen, he was mounting a horse with my little sister
Rigen's perspective
"I found him, get here immediately, Hatano! Reimi!" - I yelled to my group through using the call
Advisor could do eavesdropping but the sounds on the streets were too much so the search was a bit struggle. It even could not mark Hoster on its screen because Advisor could scan the heartbeats but it could not the people that we wanted to find.
I and Shera had to open our eyes very wide to find Hoster, luckily that I found him in this situation. Our rescue team had been divided into three groups: Rigen's group, Hatano's group and Reimi's group.
I owned my Advisor, Hatano owned Sarah's Advisor while Reimi owned Hatano's Advisor. Reimi was a bit struggling to know how to use Advisor and now she could use it a bit well.
The three of us would have to contact each other through a shared call, the one who wore Advisor would have a blue dot on the screen to mark that person's location. Reimi and my subordinates were now coming toward me though I was very bit far from them.
I immediately dismounted the horse and Shera also walked down with me, I stepped toward Hoster and punched him to the ground, how could this guy give up easily? He even left his little sister!
"John, please stop!" - Shit, I have lost my control, Shera was staying behind me while holding my hands to not let me hit her older brother
The people on the streets were glancing at us because they were curious but I didn't care, how could I forgive this irresponsible brother!
"Instead of humbling before that old man until you can find the way to revenge but you didn't, you left your job and left your little sister alone!"
Hoster stood up while holding his right cheek and looked at me angrily!
"You didn't know anything! That old man forced Shera to marry another man but I chose you her husband!" - What!
"I sacrificed myself to marry a woman that I didn't know to save to save my little sister and this is how you pay my kindness, huh!" - Fuck, I should have heard my brother in law to speak instead of hitting him
"Die!" - Hoster suddenly shoved me and Shera to the ground and he ran away
"Ahhhh" - My body suddenly pressed on Shera's right hand heavily so she yelled in pain
"Shera!" - I slowly lifted Shera while holding her hand and then I noticed that our horse had lost, Hoster stole it!
Hoster's perspective
I immediately mounted on the horse and then ran to the south - which was the location of Veta town, I beat the horse very hard to force it to run as fast as possible. I very much hated Rigen's behavior when he hit me, maybe he didn't know anything so he behaved badly like that.
After running for half of the road to Veta, I left the horse and kept running to the south, I ran on a long trail in the forest to get into Veta town.
I would find a way to return, this time was still early, maybe near noon, I think. I would return to the Palace in the afternoon, I would try again, there would be a way to save myself and my little sister.
After a long time running, I had finally stepped my foot into Veta town, the guards in the brown cloth armors guarding the town's entrance were all commoners. Those guards didn't check my citizen cards but greeted me when I come in, maybe the people who came from the Capital be free to come in without checking.
The first impression when I stepped inside the town was...the poorness, roads were made of earth, the people were wearing simple tunics. Many glances toward me when I stepped a step on the road, I was wearing a cheap blue tunic, which was cheap for nobles but seemed to be very costly for commoners.
The commoners were all shorter than me, all of them must have a height under 1,60 to 1,55 meters or even shorter, my height was 1,77 meters, what a big difference between the wealthy people with the poor. The people seemed very pale and some skinny, no one of them was stout as me, the road mostly had no horses or carriages, all people went on foot, some had cheap shoes, some went barefoot.
The buildings around were all made of wood, some buildings were shabby, most of the shops were small and were being organized to sell goods outdoor. Poor the commoners, I would say it straight that I could not live this poor life for even an hour, these people had to live miserable, poor them.
I continued walking on the streets until I saw many crowds covering something on a corner of a wall, I slowly went there to see. The crowds were talking about something, I peeked and saw a bit of detail, a little girl with blonde hair was sitting beside a skinny woman who had a brown short-haired.
Both of them were crying while kneeling on the ground, the little girl kept raising a bowl as if to beg for money. The crowds kept talking with the expression as if they cared about those two but they didn't want to give them money because they needed money to care for their lives.
"Hey, please let me pass." - I tapped on some commoners who were blocking my way and I went in to see how could I help the two people
The crowds suddenly stared at me because I was the most special hare because of my attractive appearance and my clothes, the skinny girl raised her head to look at me.
"What's your problem, Miss?"
"Sir, cough! Cough! Cough! I'm sorry, my illness keeps chasing me." - Poor girl!
"We are the immigrants from Jager, we got here safety and I and my little sister have been recruited to work in the Adventurer's Guild in the Capital city."
"Our owner is very kind...he didn't let us starve, he let us and our mother stay in the guild with the conditions, both I and little sis must work hard."
"Cough! Cough! I'm sorry."
"But we felt so guilty to be depended on our owner so we kept doing the job but we went here to buy a cheap shabby house for the three of us when we got enough money."
"But when we got here...our mom died, we managed to have enough money to take care of her funeral but...we have no money left to buy a house or even rent an inn to stay in."
"This Kingdom...is now on starvation so the food taxes are very highly rated, I also have an illness but have to take care of my little sister."
"Cough! Cough! Cough! I haven't eaten anything for 2 days, I managed to buy some food for my little sister yesterday but now we ran out of money."
"I cannot go to the capital to work with my illness body...I cannot do anything with my starved belly and my illness body."
"Please...rich man! I will do anything, if you want me...to serve you or become your servant, I will do it but please save my little sister." - How poor they are, I cannot stand here to look!
"I've never seen the poor people's lives but now I have seen it...my homeland is told to be a place that cares for the people but I didn't expect to see this scene."
I slowly crouched down and pulled out my money bag, I poured the coins into the bowl that the little girl was holding. All the eyes looked at me when I was pouring a lot of money into the bowl, the money was so much, it even poured out of the bowl.
"Woahhh! So much money!" - The people who were crowding us were fussing because the money that I poured for these two girls was more than thousands of coins
"Miss, can you hear me?" - The skinny girl and her little sister seemed very shocked because they didn't believe what they saw
"Uh......yes, rich man!" - This girl was so shocked to have this much money
"What's your name, Miss?"
"My name...is Cily, rich man." - Cily, what a good name!
"And you little girl?" - I pointed my head to the blond little girl
"Sala...my name is...Sala..." - Sala, another cute name, the little girl herself was very cute!
"Can this money be enough to feed you two out of starving?"
"That money is even redundant to buy a fine house in this place!" - The people around yelled in surprise
"No...rich man! We cannot take this much money, please refund it...cough! Cough! Cough! I'm sorry for my illness."
"My money, my right, I let you two have my money, don't regret taking it."
"Thank you very much, rich man! Thank you very much!" - Cily kept thanking me non-stop
"Thank you very much..." - Sala thanked me, this little girl was so cute so I also patted her head for a few seconds and then stood up
"Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!" - Many claps from the people when they saw me save the other people, I slowly got away from the crowds
"What a good noble, this man is very kind to us...if our King can be generous like this man then we would not live to starve." - A person from the crowds talked made me feel guilty
I was so irresponsible to leave my Throne, many people need help but I didn't save them...I must be strong against the Prime Minister. I would go back to the Palace but I think the people who need help similar to the two sisters earlier must be very much in this town, I must save them all.
I slowly sneaked into a corner to see the two sisters, they were smiling after having the money, both of them walked weakly to the shop to buy some food. After eating the food, the two of them walked very far away, this place was a market so maybe they were thinking about renting an inn to stay a day and then thinking about doing something else.
I slowly walked outside of the corner and then walked to the alleys, which I think to have many miserable people staying in there. I slowly gave my money to the poor people that I found though I lost my money and could only have the praises and the thanks from the people but I never regretted saving them.
I had even thought about among the 12 people that I saved, some of them could be pretended to be miserable to steal my money but I didn't care, my Goddess's voice kept calling me to save people. My money was still very much, I would give some more to the people and then I would return to the Palace.
I walked into an alley that I found in the town again, this place was more shabby and darker than the other ones. This time was afternoon, I think! I went inside the long alley for a short time and notice there were no people for me to save so I headed back where I went.
When I headed back and was about to get out of the alley, 5 young men in brown tunics walked inside of the corner and faced me very close. Those men were a bit muscular, they opened their smiles to greet me so I even smiled back.
"Are you...the kind rich man that the people around here are talking about recently?" - A man in the group asked me
"Yes, I'm him."
"Arrggghhh!" - My belly suddenly got punched by a person in the group, his punch was so hurt and fell to the ground
These guys were robbers?
"Ahhhh! Ahhh! Ahhh!" - I yelled in pain when 5 men were kicking me, they stole my money bag and then stole my upper shirt, those robbers later ran away from the alley
I could not run to chase them because I was very hurt so I could only stand up in pain and then walked outside. When I got outside, I had lost the tracks of the robbers, the people that saw me outside suddenly ignored me as if they didn't care about me anymore.
What the hell! I saved you people and now all of you left me easily like that!
Suddenly my belly felt gulped as if it was hungry, I weakly walked around to find an outdoor shop that was selling food. I looked around and saw a bread shop, I ate there once when I was resting, I slowly walked there to look at the bread.
Though the bread here was not as tasty as Capital's bread but at least it could fill my gulping stomach. The shop owner was a young man, he saw me when I was in a battered appearance after being robbed.
"Ah, isn't this the rich man that I saw earlier? What wrong, Sir? Being robbed or something?"
"Can I...have some bread to eat?"
"Do you still have your money, rich man?"
"Shakes head!"
"It's hard for me now...basically, if you have no money then you cannot buy anything...sorry, rich man."
"But I paid you more than 100 redundant coins after eating here, at least you must give me bread to pay for my kindness."
The shop owner seemed very unpleasant but he later grabbed a small piece of bread in the selling stall and then gave me bread.
"Can I...have another bread?"
"No, Sir! This is all I can help you."
"Thank...you..." - I slowly took the bread and then walked out of the shop while eating
At least I could have something to eat, I was so hurt so I went into an alley and then sat on a wall to eat the bread, I would eat this bread to have more energy and then walk back to the Capital. It would be hard for me but I must try hard to return, I hope the people in this town would help me, I hope so.
I was eating the bread and then I saw feet standing in front of me, I looked up and saw a dense beard man. That man wore a black cheap cloak, I remembered he was one of 12 people that I saved before, I was wondering why did he get here.
"Ahhh! Ahhh!" - That man suddenly kicked my face and then hit me with his fits, I was so hurt so I could not do anything
I dropped the bread and the man grabbed it and then ran away, where were the guards in this town? Why they didn't do anything to stop the robbery?
The one who I saved even betrayed me, I was so hurt but I kept walking weakly on the streets, I continued heading to the bread shop. The people in this town ignored me as if I didn't exist in their eyes, I stepped into the bread shop to see the shop owner.
"You again?" - The shop owner seemed very mad when he saw me
"Please...one more bread...and I will go away...will never let you see me again..."
The shop owner grumbled his face a few times, he later grabbed a bread and then raised it toward me.
"Thank y-"
"Only half of the bread, now get out of my eyes!" - The shop owner tore out the bread in half and then threw half of the bread to my face
Half of the bread fell on the ground and was dirty but I grabbed it up and used my hands to wipe its dirt.
I slowly ate half of the bread and the shop owner kept glaring at me but he later stopped and then crouched down the stall as if to grab more bread to put on the top of the stall. My mind suddenly had a thought to steal the bread, I was treated very badly by the people here, maybe stealing some bread and then running away would not be a bad idea.
The previous robbers robbed me without being arrested, maybe I would be lucky like them.
I fastly grabbed the bread from the stall as much as possible and then ran away in nervousness and rushed to not get caught by the people.
"Thief! Thief! Grab him, grab him!" - The shop owner yelled at me
I saw that down people had already aware me so I ran faster, I collided with an old man when I was running but I didn't stop running. 9 people forward me ran out and blocked my way so I turned back and saw the others, all of them grabbed me, their faces seemed very angry.
"Teach this thief a lesson! Beat him!" - The angry people shoved me to the ground and then kicked my body
"Ahhh! Ahhhh! Ahhhh! Ahhhh! Ahhh!" - I was kicked non-stop, this was very painful
While being kicked, I looked around and saw some guards standing beside the guards, they were smiling while kicking me, what the hell was wrong with them?
"Ahhh! Ahhh! Ahhh!" - I endured my pain and raised my hand out to cast a fireball - a magic skill that I had already mastered
"Ahhhh! Save me! Ahhhh!" - I saw a man who was being burned by fire, he kept yelling in pain and then dropped death instantly when the fire was still burning his body
"This man can use magic! This man can use magic!" - Some people yelled in panic and they stopped kicking me
"This thief killed a person, kill him! Give me something!" - Some people ran away
I was still raising my hands to cover myself from being attacked, I later saw a young man who held...a wooden pickaxe! He later raised the pickaxe above and then swung it down.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" - My belly felt very hurt, it was burning as if blood was draining out!
I was so hurt so I could not move, I was breathing weakly and thought I was dead, I tried to move but I could not, my eyes were so blurred and they closed.
"We killed a noble man, what should we do now!" - I heard some yellings, maybe those come from the people that attacked me earlier
"Throw his corpse in the forest, we must hide out crime or the other nobles or our lord would find out and we will all die, now help me!" - I felt my body was lifted by someone, my consciousness suddenly...