Culinary Chronicles of the Court Flower: Volume 8 [Complete] by Miri Mikawa

Author:Miri Mikawa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, princess, fantasy, drama, romance, j-novel heart, cooking, royalty, female protagonist, history, personal growth
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

III

Perhaps as a result of her breakfast, Renka decided to have lunch as well, much to the delight of the cooks who’d been working since dawn. They had apparently recognized Rimi as one of their own as well because they assigned her duties for lunch and dinner. She ended up spending the whole day working in the kitchen.

With the cleaning and prep for the following morning done, Rimi finally doused the stoves. She then returned to her room and flopped face down in bed. She was exhausted, but it was a satisfying type of exhaustion.

Tama had seemingly been waiting for the consort’s return as the little dragon hopped down from the rafters to nuzzle and sniff Rimi’s cheek.

“Sorry for making you wait here all alone, Tama. I brought you some food to make up for it. It’s on the table,” Rimi said, which made the dragon give an excited bounce and scamper over to the table.

The consort sighed into the pillow and closed her eyes. As she did, Mrs. Yo’s expression from that morning floated to the front of her mind.

She was crying when she said she wanted her son back...

Rimi understood how she felt. Painfully so. As if to accentuate her pain, the thick scent of four o’clock flowers filled the room.

If I want to eliminate the hollowness that Master Shusei feels, I need to make him see that there was meaning to the years Chancellor Shu spent raising him. If Mrs. Yo is right and he loved and cared for Shusei...then maybe getting him to believe that will be enough to bring him back.

The bowl on the table suddenly clinked as if it had been overturned. Rimi sat up to see Tama dart away from the table and up to the rafters. The only reason the dragon would run off like that would be because she sensed someone coming.

The scent of tobacco filled the air. Rimi had left the door open to let in the breeze, and Renka appeared in the doorway, pipe in hand.

“What’s this? Having a second dinner? You certainly have an appetite,” Renka said. She didn’t bother asking permission to enter the room, just barged in and sat down on Rimi’s bed without hesitation.

“Lady Renka! What brings you here at this hour? You shouldn’t be up so late. Please, get some sleep,” Rimi said.

“I will. But first, I thought you might like to see something,” Renka said.

The vice minister pulled a letter from her pocket and tossed it onto the bed. Rimi could see part of it in the light of her bedside candle. It appeared to be a request for a meeting, but it wasn’t the contents of the letter that caught her attention, but the familiar handwriting. She couldn’t stop herself from grabbing the letter. The beautiful writing was Shusei’s.

“Something familiar about the writing?” Renka asked, noticing her reaction.

Rimi jumped and placed the letter back on the bed.

“N-No, it’s just beautiful writing, so I wanted to look,” the consort said.

She wondered why Renka would have a letter from Shusei, but then again, the woman was the Vice Minister of Works.

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