CHAPTER FORTY SEVEN

"Yes Your Highness." Miwa no Sakau replied as he bowed his head and he walked away after the Crown Prince.

"What happened?" Sina asked Kabane.

"I don't know." Kabane replied as the two turned around and walked into the Princess' Chambers.

They approached her table and there they found the box opened with a series of envelopes and papers all over some having fallen onto the ground.

"What's going on here?" Kabane said as Sina picked up one of the papers and then pulling it closer to her face she read the words that were on it.

"Goodness." She said as she picked up another and she studied it as well.

Kabane looking at the expression on her face picked up one of the papers to read what was written on them.

"Impossible." He said.

"How did these get in here?" Sina asked.

"I don't know." Kabane replied.

The Crown Prince marched out of the Palace and he was being escorted by a large group of Imperial guards as they went through the streets.

A number of people were already walking by and others closing their stalls as the clouds in the sky only appeared to turn much darker than they had been before and the thunder only became louder and louder.

Miwa no Sakau was following closely behind but he was still unable to comprehend what it was that had turned him so furious at that moment, he had been happy walking into the Imperial Princess Toyomike's Chambers a while ago but shortly something had only infuriated him.

Sina and Kabane were inside looking at all the letters.

"This is not Her Highness' handwriting." Kabane said.

"Why are the letters here addressed from Imperial Prince Anahobe?" Sina asked.

"Could it be?" Kabane said as he turned to look at Sina.

"No." Sina replied, "Her Highness really loves the Crown Prince so much, unless....." She added.

"Someone has framed her." Kabane replied.

"What?" Sina said when Princess Toyomike walked through the doors and arrived at the scene.

"Your Highness." Sina said when she noticed her presence.

"What are you both doing in here, where is the Crown Prince?" Princess Toyomike asked.

The two looked down while Princess Toyomike's eyes shifted to the table behind them which was flooded with a series of papers and envelopes.

"What's that?" Princess Toyomike asked as she walked closer to the both of them they only paved the way for her.

She held one of the papers and she decided to read it and see what it was that was written on it.

Her eyes widened with every paragraph that she perused through and she picked up another before she could believe what was written on it.

She folded the papers at once as she turned to Sina and Kabane.

"What is this?" Princess Toyomike asked.

"Forgive us Your Highness." The two replied in unison.

"Why are these letters addressed to the Imperial Prince Anahobe and why are they in my Chambers and are written in his own handwriting?" Princess Toyomike asked.

"We also don't know how they appeared here Your Highness." Sina said.

"A while ago the Crown Prince walked in cheerfully but he walked out shortly after with a look of frustration and anger on his face." Kabane added.

"We only came inside to see fit ourselves what it was that caused the Crown Prince to explode into such a fury and to our surprise we found these letters here." Sina said.

"His Highness must have read them." Kabane said.

Princess Toyomike leaned on the table.

"I took the Empress and the Crown Princess for granted, right now I lowered my guard I had never imagined that it would come to this." Princess Toyomike said.

"His Highness was so furious that he asked Miwa no Sakau to gather a Group of Imperial guards t follow hi out of the Palace." Sina said.

Princess Toyomike was surprised.

"What?" She said as her eyes widened.

"Yes Your Highness, He asked Miwa no Sakau to gather a Group of Imperial guards t follow hi out of the Palace." Kabane replied.

"Oh no." Princess Toyomike remarked.

"What is it Your Highness?" Kabane asked.

"The Crown Prince, he might have gone to The Imperial Prince Anahobe's residence." Princess Toyomike replied.

"Considering everything that has happened it's only possible at this moment that the Imperial Prince could have also been set up at his home.

If the Crown Prince could find evidence in the Imperial Prince's residence then to the world Your highness shall be an adulteress." Kabane said.

"I have to stop him." Princess Toyomike said as she ran out of the room.

"Your Highness." Sina and Kabane said as they ran after her.

Princess Toyomike darted through the courtyard quickly while Sina and Kabane accompanied by some Imperial guards ran after her.

The doors of the Crown Princess' Chambers were opened and Hotaru hurriedly walked in.

"Congratulations Your Highness." Hotaru said with a smile on her face.

"Tell me, how was it?" The Crown Princess asked.

"His Highness walked out of the Imperial Princess Toyomike's bedroom angrily and he gathered with himself a group of Imperial guards.

He must have seen the letters given that he headed to the Imperial Prince Anahobe's residence right away unwaveringly." Hotaru replied.

"Very good." The Crown Princess remarked with a smile on her face. "How graceful will she appear to be before the world again and moreso her husband?" She added.

"You are in deed wise Your Highness." Hotaru said.

"There is no amount of prayer that could save her and since she commands the will of Heaven at this time I wish to see for myself what it is that she is going to do." The Crown Princess said as she ghastly smiled.

The Imperial guards surrounded the Imperial Prince Anahobe's residence and the guards at his gates were about to resist when the Crown Prince showed up.

"Open the gates." He demanded.

"Your Highness." The guards replied as they moved to the side and they opened the gates wide that the Crown Prince walked into the Courtyard.

The Imperial Prince Anahobe was seated in his study when one of his servants rushed to him.

"Your Highness." He called out loudly that Prince Anahobe diverted his attention from the books that he was reading and he looked at him.

"What is it?" Prince Anahobe asked.

"His Highness the Crown Prince is here with a large battallion of Imperial guards." The servant replied.

"Is that so?" Prince Anahobe asked as he folded the books.

"Yes Your Highness." The servant replied while Prince Anahobe stood up from where he was seated.

"Let's go and see him." Prince Anahobe said as he walked out of his room into the inner courtyard.

The Crown Prince and his troops had already penetrated and they were entering it as well right at that moment.

Prince Anahobe didn't falter and he went ahead to walk up to them while the Imperial guards surrounded him as his stare met the Crown Prince's.

"Your Highness." He said as he bowed his head.

"Cease him and search the premises." The Crown Prince ordered and six of the Imperial guards ceased the Imperial Prince.

He didn't show any signs of resistance while a lot of them walked into his house and they started searching through all his things one by one.

"What is it Your Highness?" Prince Anahobe asked.

"Why don't you patiently wait and see for yourself what it is that has brought me here?" The Crown Prince replied.

A short while later, one of the Imperial guards walked out of the room with a small brown box in his hands.

"Your Highness." He said as he bowed his head and at that moment it started to drizzle mildly.

The Crown Prince walked over to the box and he opened it as he picked out one of the envelopes that was inside and opened it to reveal a small white paper.

He unfolded it and read what was written inside as he identified the Handwriting clearly as that of the Imperial Princess Toyomike.

He ceased all the others that were inside and he threw them up they descended onto the Imperial Prince.

Princess Toyomike had ran through the streets with everyone's attention and as she approached the residence of the Imperial Prince Anahobe, the Imperial guards there greeted her.

She walked through into the outer courtyard where the other Imperial guards wouldn't let her inside.

"Your Highness." Princess Toyomike called him but she was held back.

The Crown Prince was looking at Prince Anahobe furiously when Miwa no Sakau walked up to her.

"Your Highness." He said.

"What is it?" The Crown Prince asked.

"Her Imperial Highness the Princess Toyomike." Miwa no Sakau replied.

"What's wrong with her?" The Crown Prince asked.

"She is here." Miwa no Sakau replied.

"Don't let her in." The Crown Prince ordered.

"Yes Your Highness." Miwa no Sakau replied.

The Crown Prince turned to Prince Anahobe.

"Your Highness." Prince Anahobe said.

"Silence." The Crown Prince quietened him down.

He complied as he relaxed.

"Confess at once." The Crown Prince said.

"I Love her Highness as much as you do." He replied.

"Hahahaha." The Crown Prince laughed.

"I mean it." Prince Anahobe said.

"So you go behind my back?" The Crown Prince said.

"Believe what you want." Prince Anahobe said.

"You secretly met with her." The Crown Prince said.

"Yes." Prince Anahobe replied.

"Then she writes these letters to you?" The Crown Prince asked.

"Don't you think that you are a little bit too hasty with this Your Highness?" Prince Anahobe asked.

"What should I do?" The Crown Prince asked, "Should I look the other side and I pretend that there is nothing that has happened today?" The Crown Prince asked.

"There's no point in me trying to deny myself because you won't believe me either way." Prince Anahobe said.

"You are right." The Crown Prince said.

Princess Toyomike was still standing when Miwa no Sakau walked up to her.

"Miwa?" She called.

He nodded.

"Please, I wish to speak to His Highness." Princess Toyomike pleaded.

"His Highness has given us orders not to let you in." Miwa no Sakau replied.

Princess Toyomike raised her head up to the sky and closing her eyes while Sina and Kabane watched her, she went down onto her knees.

"Your Highness?" Miwa no Sakau said.

"I'm not leaving him hair, whether it rains heavily or it pours onto me." Princess Toyomike replied as she bowed her head and looked onto the ground.

"Your Highness." Sina and Kabane said in unison as they drew closer to her wanting to loft her up.

"Don't." Princess Toyomike ordered and the two withdrew as it started to rain down.

"I don't care what your feelings for the Princess are but she is my wife and a very strong man should learn to kneel to that.

I don't need to love her but she must love only me so at no point in her entire life should you be a part of concern to her." The Crown Prince said.

"Have you put her into your consideration?" Prince Anahobe asked.

"I have put you into mine." The Crown Prince replied, "What you are doing is a combined charge of treason and Imperial adultery." He added.

"And what is there Your Highness Between me and the Imperial Princess other than the fact that I love her deeply." Prince Anahobe said.

The Crown Prince infuriated walked up to him and he punched him in the face.

"Taste that." He said as he withdrew.

Prince Anahobe looked at him.

"No disrespect Your Highness." Prince Anahobe said.

"Save it." The Crown Prince said, "You are under arrest." He added as the guards that were holding him tied ropes around his hands and they slowly started dragging him out of the courtyard.

The Crown Prince turned around and he walked towards the Outer Courtyard with the rest of the Imperial guards and as Prince Anahobe was led through, the Crown Prince halted when his eyes rested onto his wife who was kneeling in the rain and looking up at him.

Her hair was all wet and so were her clothes.

He seemed to walk towards her and she didn't alter her position as he moved until they were both face to face with one another.

He seemed to remain there a little bit longer but surprisingly, he bypassed the Princess as he too started out after Prince Anahobe.

Princess Toyomike closed her eyes as she looked up at the sky.

She laughed a little.

"What did Your Highness promise me on the day that we got married?" Princess Toyomike asked.

The Crown Prince halted in his steps.

"Everyone wait outside." He ordered coldly and the Imperial guards seeing how bad his temper was they withdrew from his side while they closed the gates of the Manor and the two were left alone inside.

It rained on them for a while and gathering all the courage that he could find the Crown Prince walked back to the Imperial Princess and he helped her up onto her feet.

"What did I not give you, wasn't I good enough a husband for you?" The Crown Prince asked.

"Am I too weak? Since when did you start to unlove me and instead choose to be rendezvous with my half brother?" The Crown Prince asked as his wife looked him in the eye.

"Did you not promise to love me, did you not promise to become the Emperor for me, since when did you let your devotion in me wither and since when did your trust in me start to falter?" Princess Toyomike asked.

"You never loved me in the beginning." The Crown Prince said

"Yes but I thought that I could start to love you and I gave in to you the first time certain that it was the best night of my life and it was something that I would never regret for the rest of my life." Princess Toyomike replied.

"Is this what love should be?" The Crown Prince asked.

"This is marriage." Princess Toyomike replied.

"In marriage there is faithfulness and loyalty, he admitted it to my face that he deeply loves you wish more should I do?" The Crown Prince asked.

"You'd rather listen to his heart and not mine, so what if he loves me but you should have been the first person to know that I love only you in my heart.

You said that you would become Nippon for me I let go of all other men in the world and chose to embrace you because deep down in my heart none of them could understand me like you did.

You were the very first person that ever made me feel like a woman and I could give in to be a part of your Harem because I was confident that there was nothing in heaven above or on this Earth here that could separate me from you.

I would not tolerate if you had other wives but I trusted that even with all of them none of them would move your heart like I do and in it there would never be another like me Your Highness." Princess Toyomike said as she bitterly wept, "I trusted you Your Highness because that is what marriage us between people, not an agreement and not just a mistake but a decision to nurture trust with one another." She added.

The Crown Prince's temper seemed to calm down a little bit.

"Your Highness of all the times in this world that you could have seen the purity of my feelings for you why would you give in to this right now?" Princess Toyomike asked.

"Did you meet with the Imperial Prince Anahobe?" The Crown Prince asked.

"Yes Your Highness." Princess Toyomike replied, "Not once or twice but more than that." She added.

"Why do you rub it into my face right now?" The Crown Prince asked, "Why did you not tell me?" He added.

"What would that show Your Highness?" Princess Toyomike asked, "Was I am naive wife who trusted that my husband would misunderstand me or was I someone who thought that you were curios about all the people that I came into contact with.

That wouldn't have been loyalty because deep down I knew my husband trusted me when if I spent the night alone in a room with a man he'd still believe that my feelings for him would not change and I wouldn't be lustful." She added.

"Compared to me the Imperial Prince Anahobe is skilled and very talented when it comes to both the sword and the pen, compared to me he is young and able and very handsome.

He is strong and courageous and brave with such a brilliant intellect than mine." The Crown Prince as as he tightly held onto his wife.

"Did I say that I married you because you were the youngest or the most handsome man, was the Beauty of your heart not enough to render you the most perfect man for me.

I loved you so much and cherished you because it was unconditional from the first moment that I saw you and not because you were a Prince but I believed that to me You were more than that.

To think that I would love another because they appear to have a more appealing physique than yours is a sign that to you I am no different from all those prostitutes and seductresses that set their hearts according to the standards of a man's pocket." Princess Toyomike said.

"Don't blame me because any man in my position could have thought the same." The Crown Prince said.

"But you are not any other man you are my husband and the only man that I have ever loved all my life, you are the only father of my children and the only one that gives me comfort and warmth when it is cold.

You are the only man that puts me on top of the world and the only man that completes my life and the first that I can not live without you only made me wish that if there was a next life I'd want to be Your wife as well.

Your Highness after all our vows and marital commitments is this how deep your trust runs for me?" Princess Toyomike said as she shouted loudly on top of her voice.

Her temper had snapped and the rain pouring on her blended with her tears she suddenly became dizzy she fell backwards.

The Crown Prince noticed that she had fainted and he held her before she would reach the ground and supported her.

The downpour only seemed to worsen as the Crown Prince started shaking the Princess.

"Toyomike?" Toyomike?" He called out loudly while shaking her violently but she wasn't responding positively.

"No." The Crown Prince said, "No." He cried." once again but she didn't seem to respond as well as he tried hitting her cheek but he could see that she was pale.

"Guards, someone call the doctor." The Crown Prince shouted and at that moment the gates of the Outer Courtyard were opened and Miwa no Sakau, Sina, Kabane along with a few other Imperial guards rushed in while the Crown Prince lifted the Princess off the ground.

Empress Ishi Hime stood at the balcony outside as she looked at the day sky darkened by clouds and the heavy downpour that was all over the city.

Sakae walked up to her.

"Your Highness." Sakae said as she bowed her head.

"Such a cold and beautiful day." She remarked.

"Yes Your Highness." Sakae replied. "Congratulations." She added.

"Tell me the marvellous occasion." Empress Ishi Hime said.

"The Crown Prince marched out of the Palace furiously with a Group of Imperial guards to Imperial Prince Anahobe's residence and the rumours have long circulated throughout the entire Palace that he was being rendezvous with the Imperial Princess Toyomike as a large set of romantic letters were found in her Chambers addressed from him." Sakae replied with a smile on her face.

"I suppose my son's devotion towards his favourite doesn't run as deep as she could have thought it would." Empress Ishi Hime remarked.

"Aren't all men the same when it comes to faithfulness?" Sakae asked with a smile.

"He is very much like his Grandfather and at the same time like me, it is sad though that even after they tried to make him kind, it broke the sympathies that were already existing in his heart he has turned out to be as vicious as I am." Empress Ishi Hime said.

"Congratulations Your Highness." Sakae said.

"Princess Toyomike still has a lot to learn before she could contend with me and this shall be the best lesson.

For all that I know, the punishment for treason and Imperial adultery is death." Empress Ishi Hime said.

"In the end she made the Crown Princess an enemy for herself and because of that you have prevailed." Sakae said.

"We can't be too certain." Empress Ishi Hime said.

"Why Your Highness?" Sakae asked.

"A hunter doesn't celebrate with having shot an arrow, he only celebrates when his arrow has struck his target." Empress Ishi Hime replied.

"What?" Consort Katashishime said as she stood up from where she was seated.

"Apparently the news has spread about the whole Palace about the Imperial Princess Toyomike being rendezvous with the Imperial Prince Anahobe and the Crown Prince set off from the Palace with a group of Imperial guards to apprehend him furiously." Sara replied.

"No." Consort Katashishime said.

"Yes Your Highness." Sara said, "I am afraid that right now her Highness is in big trouble and surviving such an accusation if Her husband doesn't drop the charges then she can not be saved." She added.

"Why did that child have to be so big headed, I told her that going against the Empress was digging her own grave but she ignored me.

I regret why I did not stop her in the first place and why I only encouraged her." Consort Katashishime said.

"Let's be hopeful Your Highness, Her Highness has been through a couple of situations in the beginning and she has made it out alive, this time around it won't be any different." Sara said as Consort Katashishime fell down into her seat.

"What do you think about this?" Koteko asked her maid.

"Her Highness isn't someone that can fall down that easily and I fear that just as the Empress and the Crown Princess have invested so much of their energy in trying to topple her she'll only rise up much stronger." She replied.

"Don't worry." Koteko said, "Princess Toyomike is a very wise woman and much as her wisdom could have her killed it could also get her saved." She added.

"Sure Milady." She said.

"Yes." Koteko replied, "For some of us with not that much influence we can only make the tides of power in the Inner Court peaceful for us to form our own.

If the Imperial Princess can oust the Empress and the Crown Princess for us then our best days in the Inner Court shall have only began." she added as she smiled ghastly.

"Yes Your Highness." Her servant replied.

Princess Toyomike was laying in her bed and the Crown Prince was right there beside her as a doctor was tending to her.

He took her pulse and then then he touched her forehead.

"What's wrong with her Doctor?" The Crown Prince suddenly asked after it seemed that he had concluded his diagnosis.

"You need to be careful Your Highness, she has been out in the rain for a very long time and she has greatly suffered from this, we can only be grateful that her body is much resistant to the weather and she is still safe so it's nothing serious." The Doctor replied.

"Thank you doctor." The Crown Prince said.

"I also want to congratulate You Your Highness." The Doctor said.

"What about?" The Crown Prince asked.

"Her Highness passed out because she was energy deficient and she must have been stressed out but luckily the child within her womb is unharmed." The doctor replied.

"The Child within her womb?" The Crown Prince asked.

"Yes." The Doctor replied, "Perhaps your Highness is not aware but she is two months pregnant." He added and at once the Crown Prince stood up.

"What did you say?" The Crown Prince asked in disbelief.

"Your Highness, you'll be a father soon again." The Doctor replied and the Crown Prince turned around and looked at Miwa no Sakau as he smiled on his face.

"Did you hear that Miwa?" He asked, "I'm going to be a father again." He added as so much excitement filled him.

"I'll prescribe some Medicine to help her with her condition and she'll be relieved from the effects of a cold." The doctor said.

"Thank you Your Highness." The Doctor replied as he stood up and bowed his head.

"Her Highness isn't feeling well so we won't return to the Palace today as it is." The Crown Prince said.

"What are we going to do Your Highness?" Miwa no Sakau asked.

"Well organise for a carriage to return the both of us to the Palace tomorrow and we'll spend the night here so that she can rest adequately." The Crown Prince replied.

"What shall we do with the Imperial Prince Anahobe?" Miwa no Sakau asked.

The Crown Prince looked at him.

"Come with me." He said as he led the way towards the window of the room.

"I could trust that there is nothing going on between my wife and him given everything that has happened and perhaps there was a misunderstanding however you heard what that imbecile told me to my face." The Crown Prince said.

"He loves the Imperial Princess." Miwa no Sakau said.

"And someone could do so much more for the people that he loves." The Crown Prince said.

"But if you publicly acknowledge that the image of your wife is still graceful and respectable in the society it means that you can not charge him with adultery as well because he is innocent." Miwa no Sakau said.

"I am unwilling to take chances." The Crown Prince said.

"But we can not openly apprehend him and on top of that he is from a Soga bloodline so that means that with the Sogas supporting you you mustn't falter and do anything that could provoke them to divert their allegiance." Miwa no Sakau said.

"We are both in a survival for the fittest situation and we can not rely on one another, if they could support me because of Princess Toyomike then they shouldn't provoke me with Anahobe as well." The Crown Prince said.

"I understand Your Highness but to lose out on their support is something that we can not stake." Miwa no Sakau said.

"Prince Anahobe is young and handsome and he is the lion whose teeth and claws I must rip out." The Crown Prince said.

"What should I do Your Highness?" Miwa no Sakau asked.

"Just try and dig up whatever it is that you can find out about Prince Anahobe, he isn't someone who is perfect and I need you to find out all the people that he has been in contact with lately.

There must be something that we could use against him." The Crown Prince replied.

"Yes Your Highness." Miwa no Sakau said as he bowed his head.

"First inform the Imperial Palace that Her Highness the Imperial Princess Toyomike is with child and all preparations must be made for her arrival tomorrow." The Crown Prince said.

"Yes Your Highness." Miwa no Sakau replied.

Princess Toyomike suddenly coughed and the Crown Prince turned around and noticed her opening her eyes.

He looked at Miwa no Sakau and nodded his head as he rushed over to her side upon his departure.

"Toyomike." He called as he at by her right side.

"Your Highness." Princess Toyomike said as she sat herself up.

"Careful." The Crown Prince said as he helped her lean against her bed.

"Thank you." Princess Toyomike said.

"I'm sorry." The Crown Prince said.

"It's alright." Princess Toyomike replied.

"No it's not." The Crown Prince said.

"I understand." Princess Toyomike said.

"I should have trusted you." The Crown Prince said.

"It's in the past." Princess Toyomike said.

"You need to look after yourself very well." The Crown Prince said.

"Don't worry." Princess Toyomike said.

"The Doctor said that you are two months pregnant." The Crown Prince said.

Princess Toyomike looked down.

"So you knew?" The Crown Prince asked.

"You're a man your Highness and I didn't suspect it for the past couple of days, I also know much better than anyone given my previous experience that being pregnant isn't something that sounds so pleasant to everybody." Princess Toyomike replied, "Enough people wanted to force me into miscarriage the last time." She added.

"I understand." The Crown Prince said as he held her right hand and kissed it.

"Tell me Your Highness, why would you think I would be rendezvous with the Imperial Prince Anahobe?" Princess Toyomike asked.

"I had received a lot of anonymous letters and each and every one of them were pointing to that possibility.

Also there were rumours already circulating about the Palace after how you met up with him and I wasn't entirely angry because I doubted you but because I was afraid that I would lose you." The Crown Prince replied.

Princess Toyomike smiled at him.

"Don't worry Your Highness, as I already told you before there is not a single man left in this world that could ever take your place in my heart." Princess Toyomike said as she hugged him.

"I'm at ease my dear and I don't want us to ever quarrel like we did today ever again." The Crown Prince said.

"We won't." Princess Toyomike said.

"I know that." The Crown Prince added.

"Mother." The Crown Princess said as she sat down at a table with her.

"You are cheerful." Empress Ishi Hime said.

"You must have heard the news." The Crown Princess said.

"Yes I have." Empress Ishi Hime replied.

"Imperial Prince Anahobe is now at the STATE TRIBUNAL awaiting his charges and sentence." The Crown Princess said.

"That's good." Empress Ishi Hime said.

"Aren't you worried that he could turn us in?" The Crown Princess asked.

"Let him do so, we shall deny it." Empress Ishi Hime replied.

"But to deny it is not enough mother." The Crown Princess said.

"There is not much he can do and it's not like he can harm us, if he speaks ill of us without any proof he might as well lose his head soon enough along with his entire household.

When you also come to think of it as well, he is a Soga and we have the support of the other prominent Courtiers, his actions could only defame the Sogas in court even before the Emperor and the Crown Prince.

If he is concerned he can only beg for mercy but to bring harm upon us with merely his own tongue is of no use." Empress Ishi Hime replied.

"I understand it mother." The Crown Princess said.

Hardly had she spoken when the doors of the Chamber were flung open and Sakae rushed in.

"Your Highnesses." She said as she bowed her head and they'd tell that she was very worried.

"What's the problem this time?" Empress Ishi Hime asked.

"Her Highness the Imperial Princess Toyomike." Sakae replied.

"What's with her now?" The Crown Princess asked.

"We have received news and it has been confirmed by the Crown Prince that Her Highness is with child again." Sakae replied.

Empress Ishi Hime looked at the Crown Princess who surprised stared back at her both clenching their fists.

"What?" The Crown Princess said.

"Yes." Sakae replied.