Blessing Curse (Curse of Blessing)
11. The Familiar

After breakfast with the princesses held a meeting in a special room to discuss. I as a human who knows myself of course resign to just take a break in a room specially prepared for me.

Though before it felt so tiring, but when I was in a room that was quite lengthened I actually felt lonely and certainly could not rest in peace. I don't need to remind you of some of the factors that make me that way, which must be the high level of security in a kingdom that makes me feel that it is the least safe place for me.

As I was sitting on the edge of the bed, a voice from the open door called out to me.

"Hey Gi Sung!" it was Sazhawa, she approached me with a face full of cheerful smiles.

It was spontaneous to make me stand up to greet him and smile.

"What brings you here princess Sazha?" I asked to be surprised at him. It's not that I don't like it, I'm just happy to have some more time with him, but they're not having an important discussion, then why is Sazhawa here.

"Aren't you happy with my arrival?" Sazhawa asked with a sullen face. Now I feel bad about him.

"Uh, it's not so princess, I mean. Aren't you guys having a meeting?" I tried to sound more polite to him by asking him very carefully.

"Don't call me princess, call me like they call me, just Sazhawa, will you?" he raised both eyebrows with a thin smile accompanied by his sweet lips.

"I'm afraid if that sounds disrespectful" I scratched my nape awkwardly.

"You're coming back with my friends, the sign is that you're also one of them, and. hmmhh" he sighed sounding somewhat disappointed "I didn't get to talk more to you yesterday, and, so I slipped away from the meeting and intended to take you for a walk around the palace, because I just saw that your face was uncomfortable here."

Now I feel guilty for leaving him without saying goodbye to him, considering that he technically helped me before.

I saw, he was very attentive be it to family, friends, or even I was a stranger he had just known, moreover I lied to him that my name was Gi Sung. I don't know what will happen to me, I certainly hope that all these lies I can solve well.

"You're a sincere man put-I mean Sazha, I'm grateful to be able to meet you" unknowingly, I gave him a sincere smile from the bottom of my heart.

"Stop smiling like that, you make me beat fast.Oh god, I mustn't lose control, otherwise I can-" Sazha suddenly came to a halt from her sentence and widened her eyes looking at me like someone in shock.

He could easily say that, had he not thought about the effect he had given me.

"Can what Sazha??" many wonder. Obviously he was about to continue something but stopped, what happened to him.

"Oh no, I almost said a no-no heheh." she chuckled awkwardly.

"alright.." I nodded slowly with a suspicious look at him.

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"So this is a meeting hall used by the government to just relax with the important guests of the palace" Sazha pointed to a building before us cheerfully.

Unexpectedly, her smile could make me calmer. Even last night only his face was drawn in the sky between the stars.

He has explained one by one the places we have visited in the corners of the palace. Maybe not all, because this palace is quite big and I am quite aware that I am still a stranger.

"It looks so cool and comfortable" I said as I stared in amazement at the building in front of us.

"You want to try there?" take Sazhawa

"Uhmm but I am not an important guest of a kingdom" I said while grimacing awkwardly at him.

"Dam!" Sazhawa hissed and spontaneously pulled me towards the meeting hall.

Arriving at the meeting hall, I was really amazed. The building which consists only of large wooden pillars with red paint without walls covering and with views that go straight to the garden and the palace pond really looks awesome. Not only that, the gurgling sound of water flowing into the pond and the chirping of wild birds around the trees added to the peaceful atmosphere throughout my body. I could really feel the relaxation of nature, like when I was in a lake close to the forest in Sungujeon. But it's much warmer.

"Hey! you daydream again, are you thinking about something?"

Sazhawa woke me up from delusion. Of course I'm not surprised if I feel homesick right now. It's all like a dream to me, meeting the princesses of Daegun and standing here chatting freely with a beautiful and sincere princess, especially from the kingdom of the class of Hira.

"Oh, it's nothing Sazhawa, I just remembered something" I said calmly to dispel her worries.

"Hmm... let me guess" he thought for a moment, then the next thing he really lost his mind "you must be reminded of your lover, right?" he asked playfully.

"Uh-oh! no, not that!" connect me nervously "i-I don't have that.." How can he think about it, whereas I've never felt at all what it's like to have a lover.

I could really fall for him if he kept going like this.

"Oh you're here apparently"

Our conversation was cut short when we heard Na Yeong's voice from outside the building looking for someone.

Na Yeong then approached us with a little run.

"Sazhawa, you're being sought by Mozhawa, he said there's something important he has to tell you." Na Yeong directly conveyed his reason for looking for Sazha.

"What's wrong?" Sazhawa looked curious about that.

I also wondered what was going on. Could this be about Mizhawa's attitude, or maybe about me? or about me not having a good impression with Mizha?.

"I don't know, you can ask her yourself" Na Yeong continued with a decrease in her patience.

"Qc...! yes alright!" Sazha got carried away by the bad atmosphere that Na Yeong's face just displayed "Gi Sung, I go first, we connect next time huh" she returned the smile on her lips by directing her gaze at me.

"Sure, see you later" I replied with a faint smile on her.

"and remember! never leave again without my permission" Sazha cutely threatened me. I don't know should I be scared or should I pinch her cheeks, because right now she looks so adorable "more so you are Na Yeong! don't ever tell him to get out of this palace again!" he directed his gaze at Na Yeong in annoyance.

Uh, since when did I meet Na Yeong, this is my first time meeting her.

Sazha left the two of us not forgetting to look at Na Yeong by pointing the index and middle fingers into her eyes then into Na Yeong's eyes threateningly.

I smiled and shook my head at her behavior, while Na Yeong stared at the strange Sazhawa.

After Sazhawa left the atmosphere was completely silent. I did not dare to open the conversation to Na Yeong, this was the first time we were both in the same place and only with me and him.

"Do you like Sazha?" after a while he broke the silence and of course blew me away.

How could he possibly think that way, did he not see that I just looked like a homeless man who had just lost his home and just followed others around. How could I like Sazha.

"What?! Did you really say it?" maybe I sounded disrespectful in my surprised voice "ma-I mean-I couldn't possibly have the courage to like Sazhawa, I was even just a lowly folk who happened to have the luck to recognize her" I explained nervously.

"really? huh.. with the way you talk, like you admit it, ckckck..." Na Yeong shook her head with a concerned look at me.

I can only breathe deeply.

"You knew? there are no coincidences in this world. You were met with the three princesses of Hira and the princesses of the other kingdoms, wasn't that a strange coincidence?" added Na Yeong by raising one of her eyebrows.

She looked at me expecting an answer, but as usual, I was drowning in Na Yeong's gaze. A princess from the faraway kingdom of Jang, I can meet her here. With her perfect condition, I mean, she's perfect. Her eyes were so calm yet washed away, her lips forming a heart with teeth that looked like a sweet rabbit when smiling. His face was small and thin, his nose pointed with its own uniqueness. She's really charming.

"Oi! I am indeed beautiful, but can't you not be frank like that? your saliva almost dripped."

"Eh?" I rubbed my lower lip with my hand and immediately checked it, but there was no saliva there.

"Hahaha.. I prank you, you look so cute and adorable.. ahahaha!" he laughed out loud holding his stomach.

This one princess Haiss has a weird personality, eh, wouldn't it come to mind that they're all weird? I don't know. But one thing is troubling my mind.

"Oh, I want to ask you one thing princess Na Yeong.. As you said earlier, was Mizhawa exposed to black magic?"

"About that..."

He looked confused to find the answer I was waiting for.

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