She’s That Knight Known As Zero - Chapter 283

“*sniffs* *sniffs*”

“Uhmmm, do you need a handkerchief?” Eureka asked as she handed a handkerchief to the man who was crying in front of her.

When he saw her, she was shocked to see him suddenly runaway while crying. She was completely flabbergasted and she could only follow, she felt like it was her fault.

“*sniffs* *sniffs*”

He accepted the handkerchief but didn’t say anything and he still kept crying.

“Kaoru!! You really… How can you cry in such broad day light… When will you grow up?” a woman came and pulled him by the ear.

Eureka was once again shocked to see this scene, she didn’t know whether she should laugh or cry.

“Hi there, I’ve heard the princess has a knew aide. They also said that she is a very beautiful lady with a white hair and gemstone eyes. I see that the rumors were true. I am Akira and this here is my husband Kaoru. Please excuse him,” the woman smiled as she pulled Kaoru up.

“*gasps* Oh my I must apologize your highness. I’ve heard that the brother of the former king and his wife, who are the current king and queen of Twilight Kingdom were about to visit. I didn’t know my place. I must apologize myself,” Eureka bowed after hearing their names.

“No, no, it’s fine. It is my husband’s fault for running like that,” Akira replied.

Kaoru, on the other hand, wailed louder. Eureka and Akira looked at each other helplessly. Before Akira bid her goodbye and pulled Kaoru away.

“The same eyes again…” Eureka muttered as she watch them walk away.

She looked up at the sky, “Why do most of them have the same eyes when facing me?”

*****

“You idiot!!” Akihiro smack Kaoru in the head as he reprimanded him.

“Well, it was a good thing Eureka didn’t ask what was the matter,” Akira replied.

They were suppposed to go to the inner hall the moment they arrive but Kaoru got a glimpse of Eureka before following her. Upon seeing her up close he suddenly run away while bawling.

“That is… That is… She is alive!! waaaahhhhhhh!!” Kaoru once again cried loudly.

This time around it was only Akihiro, Rino and Haruka who was facing the two of them. Their one year old child was in Karen’s care.

“Yes she is alive but you do understand the problem here right?” Akihiro stopped himself from smacking his brother one more time.

“In three days, the reply from Confederate and Archic will arrive. Then there will be votation,” Rino added as he massage his temple.

He really couldn’t comprehend at times that Kaoru was actually his uncle. No matter how much he age and he even became a father now, still he acts like a child.

“*sniffs* I know, it’s just seeing her again after so long. I couldn’t help myself.”

He then went and hugged Akira as his shoulders tremble, he was stopping himself from wailing but his tears just won’t stop.

“With the number of people being there, I just hope we wouldn’t have a tie. That would be a difficult thing to resolve, especially when we have made up our minds,” Akihiro commented as he looked outside the window.

The others in the room nodded in agreement to him, this would indeed be a difficult decision when a tie is concluded.

*****

Currently, Eureka was holding the young child for Karen have something else to do. So in the end she was watching over Hikari’s lessons and Akira and Kaoru’s child.

“Your father is a peculiar one isn’t he, Kai?” she said as she look at Kai who was just a one year old kid.

“Pa…pa?” Kai replied innocently.

Eureka smiled warmly at him.

“Yes… Papa, your papa.”

“Sister?!?” Hikari who have just finished her lesson looked at them and was shock.

“Eh?”

Eureka touched her face and found out that she was crying.

“Why am I crying?” obviously she asked.

She was just looking at Kai, then she remembered the other kids and she felt much more nostalgic to the point that she felt melancholic. If Hikari didn’t call her name she wouldn’t even realize she was crying.

“Why are you asking that, when we should be the one asking you?” Raven once again appeared and took Kai from her, he handed her a handkerchief.

“I actually don’t know,” was her reply before she looked up at Raven who was carrying Kai.

“Brother Raven. since you’re already here, why don’t you join us for tea? I just finished my lesson and am entitled to have tea and pastries,” Hikari who didn’t want to see Eureka crying initiated.

“Come on sister, this time you should join me.”

“Come on then,” Raven replied as he extended his hand to her.

Hikari reached it and the three walked to the table. Eureka was just standing there watching them.

Somehow for some odd reason, she could imagine a different woman with them and they look like a whole happy family.

She slowly walked towards them, “I’ve been thinking, why don’t you have a lover?”

Raven who just fastened, Kai into a high chair looked at her with a furrowed brow.

“Looking at you, you actually look like someone who could be a good father. A family… actually… suits you… eh?”

Somehow as she said that, more tears came out. She frantically wiped them as Raven and Hikari looks at her, even Kai was looking at her.

“What’s going on?”

She asked once again, her tears just won’t stop. This time she was actually in so much pain.

‘Why am I hurting? Because I asked him why he didn’t have a lover? Or the scene of him having his own family?’

“What’s going on with me?” she was breathing heavily as she tried her best to stomp down her emotions that was suddenly going haywire.

Raven grabbed her shoulders, “Stop thinking.”

“Huh?”

“Whatever you are thinking about me or whatever you might have imagined about me, stop it,” he replied agitated.

She was the one who initiated to ask and yet before he could reply she actually got herself hurting, what is he supposed to do then?

“I have no lover is because I chose not to have one. I still have no family because it is not yet time for that. Calm yourself and drink this,” he then explained as he took the glass of water that Hikari have already poured.

Eureka followed his instructions and did her best to calm down.

“Cham don… *giggles*” Kai coppied Raven and giggled.

This actually lifted the atmosphere.

“I’m sorry, I have been quite emotional lately. I really didn’t mean to,” Eureka said as she finally took a seat, heeding Hikari’s request.

“Relax and just drink tea and eat some pastries,” Hikari who was a smart girl diverted the discussion to her pastries.

She already heard of it, about the real relationship between Raven and Eureka. Being the curious child she had asked the reason why is it that it was only Raven who has no partner.

Karen replied that he was waiting for her elder sister to return.

She then asked, why was elder sister willing to be his partner?

The two of them are partners way before the others were, so once she return the two of them will be together, was Karen’s reply.

And seeing Eureka’s reaction now, Hikari already understood what Karen have said.

Eureka, on the other hand, was feeling shy, she actually cried in front of two kids? She just wanted to bury herself.

They didn’t notice but Akihiro, Haruka, Kaoru, Akira, Rino and Karen were already standing by the door. Watching them happily have their tea time.

“If those two would be together, it would actually be a beautiful scene once they have their own families already,” Karen commented.

“I think so to. Such beautiful genes, those two must end up together no matter what,” Haruka added.

Akira nodded in agreement to them. The men were only watching.

All of them have arrived by the time the group were already enjoying themselves, that is why they didn’t see the way she cried a while ago.

‘In the end, what was your reason for trying to forget all of us? You are obviously in conflict yourself so why choose that option?’ Raven asked in his mind as he watches her interact with Hikari and play with Kai during their tea time.

‘But, what if it was us who forgot about you? What if you chose the other option and we forget about you,’ he stirred his tea as he kept thinking.

Upon looking up he noticed that some crumbs were on her hair, probably from Kai who she was carrying.

He reached out and took it, Eureka noticing his movement looked at him as he looked at her. Both were staring at each others eyes.

It was Raven who looked away first as he removed the crumb and showed it to her to which she nodded in thanks and returned her attention to Kai and Hikari.

‘Why is it that no matter what you choose, you would actually be hurt?’