Culinary Chronicles of the Court Flower: Volume 1 [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

Where is Lady Saigu? Rimi felt around the darkness for her Saigu sister. She stretched out her arms as far as she could manage, but there was nothing except empty darkness in front of her. Her uneasiness turned to fear.

“Lady Saigu!” she screamed.

“Rimi!”

Someone grabbed Rimi’s outstretched hand, and she woke up.

“Are you all right, Rimi?”

“Master Shusei...” Looking down at her as she lay in her bed, holding her hand, was none other than Shusei. “I... Huh? What?”

As Rimi was unable to grasp the situation, Shusei carefully lowered her hand and placed it on top of the bedspread. He then removed the sword he was wearing and placed it on the floor against the wall.

“I’ll never get used to swords,” he said with a dejected smile before he sat down on the chair next to Rimi’s pillow. He was a civil official, but he wore a sword for protection when he went out. “I had a doctor come and look at you, and apparently, it was anemia. Come to think of it, you’ve spent the day being threatened with decapitation, moving to a palace you’ve never been to before, and just generally having a miserable time. It’s no surprise. For now, you should rest.”

“But the proof...”

“His Majesty gave us seven days. Today is still only the first. Not to mention, out of the two dishes, I have already confirmed the taste of the first. There’s only one dish to go, so surely it won’t hurt you to sleep for today.” Shusei paused for a moment, before continuing to speak. “I heard you mention a ‘Lady Saigu’ a moment ago. Who is that exactly?”

“That is what we call the shrine maiden who serves Kunimamori-no-Ōkami. She’s my older sister. My job was to offer food to the god and at the same time that food was also given to Lady Saigu. In practice, my duty was to make food for Lady Saigu. That duty is what granted me a place where I belonged, alongside Lady Saigu.” Despite usually being described as absentminded, it was not as if Rimi had no feelings of her own. As scatterbrained as she was, she still had her worries. She would always worry, absentmindedly, if she really belonged.

That was a result of her upbringing. As a child, she had always felt out of place. After becoming the Umashi-no-Miya at the age of seven and feeling that she could be of use to her Saigu sister, she had come to feel relieved as long as she was by her sister’s side—that it was all right for her to be there. However, the anxiety that had taken root in her as a child had slowly turned into a baseless worry that her Saigu sister would one day disappear, once again leaving her without a place to call home.

And then, that absentminded worry became a reality. However, it was not her sister, but herself who had to leave Lady Saigu’s side. As the new emperor of Konkoku ascended to the throne, the Wakokuan emperor found himself having to send one of his princesses to Konkoku as a tribute.

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