Returning
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city Yuzu, the capital city of kingdom Replica, was bustling with happiness, everyone in the city had a smile on the face, it could be seen that they love their work because of the effort they were putting into it, the tiredness was almost non-existent, thanks to the passion following policy implemented by the previous king, the kingdom was giving the best output, which in turn increased the economy and living conditions of the citizens.
The Royal Palace was situated at one end of the city, it was not new but made up of rocks and clay with a rich history of over 1000 years, especially the walls that guard the inner part of the palace were quite huge.
The inner palace constitutes of a garden, royal prison, the king's chamber, the queen's chamber, the throne room, the prince and the princess chambers, concubine chambers and other than these, there were at least over 100 chambers.
currently, in the king's chamber, king Alfred stood beside the window gazing at the northeast direction where his son was fighting.
As a king, he had to send the prince to the battlefield, but as a father he was worried and it only increased when he received the news that the troops from the kingdom of Gala were also hiding in the darkness eying for a chance to launch a surprise attack.
As time passed, having received no further news, the king stopped consuming food, he started to sit beside the window in his room and while looking at the northeast direction, constantly thought about the outcome of the battle.
" Brother-in-law, Brother-in-law, good news, there is good news "
A man shouted as he entered into the King's chamber.
" ah"
The King took a deep breath as he released all the built-up stress inside him.
" Brother-in-law, my nephew sure is a dragon, he wiped out the entire army of the kingdom of Terra and kingdom of Gala "
The man shouted with unseen enthusiasm.
" Entire army? You say?"
King was surprised.
"Yeah, Brother-in-law, not only their entire army got wiped out but also our losses were a bare minimum of 200 people "
" That's a great achievement befitting the future king, Brother-in-law you are lucky to have my nephew as a capable heir to the throne "
while standing straight with a smug face the man said.
"Razor, yeah I am lucky that I have a good son but I feel sorry whenever I remember those good for nothing breeds of you "
The King smashed the smug face of Razor with the harsh reality.
When the topic about his sons came up Razor's face turned bitter, he had two sons both of them were in early twenty's but they knew nothing except sleeping and eating.
Whenever Razor asked them to become a soldier, they refused him with the reply
" Father, we are still young, what if we die in battle, father as long as you are alive how can you make us work in such a dangerous place? Father, don't you love us? How can you send your children to die?"
There were even times when Razor offered them good positions in the court, but they refused with the reply " Father, the court is for the old men like you, we young guys are not suitable for it"
In these days even 10-year-old boy works for livelihood while his grown-up sons do nothing but sleep all the time.
Due to his improper upbringing, Razor had a nickname in the kingdom as the over-pampering father.
It was pretty common to compare siblings, and cousins if one of them outshines with others.
Whenever someone talks about Xavier he would face with the topic of his sons, Razor could not lift his head in such situations.
"Forget about them, give me the letter"
The king reminded the original purpose of Razor to barge in his chamber.
Taking the letter from Razor's hand, the king read the contents,
"This kid surely knows the way to bring trouble "
King Alfred uttered.
" Brother-in-law what kind of trouble? What are you talking about?"
Razor questioned.
" Didn't you read the whole letter? He took a prisoner of war, a female prisoner "
The King spoke.
As if something clicked in his mind, Razor said: " Isn't it prohibited?"
" You..that's why I said that the kid returned with quite a mess"
King said as he went into deep thought.
" Razor, isn't this the perfect excuse to send your good for nothing sons to the Gurukul?"
The King said with an evil grin on his face.
At the same time just outside of the city, two kids around the age of 7 were playing.
" Neigh.."
When the kids heard the sound of a horse, they looked over.
" Neigh"
" Neigh"
Seeing a bunch of horses, One of kid smiled and ran towards the city while yelling
" Victory, Victory"
" Prince has returned"
The kid entered the city and ran to throw the streets of the city shouting his heart out.
When citizens heard that the war was won, they overjoyed, some paused their work, some came out of their homes to welcome the prince.
Xavier was the first person to enter into the city with his horse, the soldiers followed him.
When the people saw the young king, they felt joy and happiness but the woman, who was in the arms of the prince did not escape from their eyes.
As soon as they saw a woman being imprisoned and carried by the prince, their faces changed as they took the completely 180-degree colour change as they booed.
"Boooooooo"
" Booooooo"
"Booooooo"
" Nothing much expected from a playboy"
" Today he even broke the prohibition and took a female prisoner, let's visit the king, we can't tolerate his actions anymore"
" If such a guy becomes king in future, the goddess would curse us, let's visit king"
" We should ask for proper punishment"
The citizens chatted but their voices were intentionally loud to make sure that Xavier could hear them.
Of course, Xavier heard them but he did not stop, the soldiers parted with him as pre-planned.
Xavier and the beauty in his arms were only alone on their way.
Faiza's heartbeat was much higher during the entire journey, she felt shy whenever her skin touched the prince, she was having complicated emotions and was trying to cool them down.
She was touched especially when the people were booing the prince, but still, he did not release her.
But all of a sudden, her thoughts crashed when she saw the building where they were heading.
It was a brothel, all her ideal prince's thoughts scattered as she yelled: "You damn prince, how despicable? How could you do it? No, I won't sell my body, No"
" Shut up "
Prince shouted as he paused the horse and pushed her down from the horse in front of the brothel.
The sudden fall made her pain worse, she paused yelling for a while but when she was ready to open her mouth, she saw leaving prince with a shout " Lina, I leave her to you ".
" Neigh"
The prince soon disappeared.
Faiza did not know who Lina was, but she thought it must be the manager of the brothel, thinking about how she had to sell her body to old ugly fellows, she shouted out loudly " No".
" Sister, don't worry"
A woman came from inside the brothel as she consolidated Faiza.
" who is your sister? get away from me "
Thinking her as Lina, Faiza shouted.
" sister, sister what's wrong? "
The woman did not leave, she untied Faiza and helped her to stand up and said:" Sister, let's go inside".
" No"
With a yell, Faiza pushed the woman aside as she fell down herself.
" No I won't, I am not going to sell my body, I would rather die instead "
Faiza cried out.
" Tina, stop scaring her"
Another lady appeared following the voice from the brothel.
" Look miss, you don't have to sell your body, come inside "
Seeing the lady who was wearing a White coloured frock, Faiza asked: " Who are you? and why should I believe you?"
" I am Lina, you should believe me if you want to stay in a shelter or if you want to stay outside on the road, you are free to do so"
The while dressed lady replied.
Faiza was hesitating, but she realized that she could not stay outside, it was better to have a shelter then living on the streets.
After thinking for a while Faiza said:" I will, but remember that you said I don't have to sell myself".
Lina smiled as she said " Tina, help her to come in "
Tina helped her to stand up again and took her in.
At the same time in the nearby cathedral
"Outrageous "
The Bishop clenched the teacup in his hand when he heard that prince returned with a woman as a prisoner of war, the cup broke while injuring bishop's hand but the bishop did not bother about the injury as he called out
"Vintage".
A man wearing a white dress responded to the call, he looked similar to Xavier to some extent.
"Look at your brother, first he built a brothel next to the holy cathedral and now..."
The bishop disgusted to say it aloud.
"Now he openly defied the teachings of the goddess by capturing a woman as war prisoner"
" This should not be continued....., let's go and meet your father"
With red eyes, the bishop said as he walked out.
Vintage knew the news before the bishop heard it, he had his own thoughts but as a priest, he should respect the bishop.
" Yes, high priest "
Vintage replied and followed the bishop.
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