CHAPTER 119 **Indifferent Curiosity**

Raising her eyebrows at the thirteen-year-old prince, Sahara rubbed her belly absently and pulled out a green star from her own ‘storage’ with her other hand. Putting it into the air, she put it in front of Prince Felix and waited for him to pay attention to it. Once Prince Felix looked at it, Sahara finally saw a slight change to his indifference. Quietly smirking to herself, she made the star move from side to side and then go around him. Prince Felix looked as though he didn’t want to care…But he did, his eyes would follow it when it was in front of him, but he didn’t turn around when it went out of sight.

Sahara made the star come apart, to show a long strip of a green, broken leave and she waited until she had his complete attention before she put it back as a star again.

“Sahara?” Matthew asked, trying not to be rude, by not paying his full attention to the Emperor and the Minister’s, but he was unable to hold back his curiosity to what she was doing.

He had seen that the Empress Dowager was still there, still waiting for Sahara to return, but Sahara had stayed beside him and stayed quiet…To just now getting a shock when he said her name…Actually, he found it very cute that he could scare her so easily now.

She was determined that it was a pregnancy symptom, yet Matthew wasn’t sure…

Suddenly, Sahara teleported Naruto from Purple Haven to her, and as soon as Naruto noticed it was her, he licked her a few times. She looked back at Prince Felix, to see him silently watching the beast and she walked slowly up to the Third Prince and put Naruto on his shoulder.

This little kid is really trying not to show anything! Come on! Freak out!

It was so funny to see the Prince standing there stock still and stiffened up, as he fully stared at the beast on his shoulder.

But…When Naruto licked him, the Third Prince finally did something!

Naruto was suddenly swiped harshly of the Prince’s shoulder and Sahara let out a chuckle.

Finally!

Prince Felix glared at her, and Sahara smiled…Making him glare at her longer!

Taking a breath in, Sahara tried to compose herself and wonder what else she could do to make the kid laugh.

It seemed really sad to have someone so young and be so cold, that Sahara was interested in his story…Of course, once again her curiosity was a problem!

His story was known throughout all of Green Haven, yet, Sahara had always seemed to confine herself into her own little world and really didn’t know much about him.

Knowing that this boy’s mother had tried to take the throne by force, Sahara wouldn’t have been surprised in the slightest. She read way too many times of people wanting the throne and power of the being the one in charge…

What she wouldn’t have liked, is that this boy had seemed to be neglected after his mother had been put into the cold palace. She wouldn’t have understood why this innocent child had to go through so much…

Sahara would want to question why they couldn’t look beyond that of what the mother did and try to keep the boy with them…Instead of potentially making the boy hate them and perhaps make him want revenge!?

It was this cycle that she wanted to somehow fix again!

…Someone is killed, then someone else wants revenge, a family is then used, then more people are connected and suddenly a bigger battle has broken out and then war!

Was the person who had killed the first person at fault for the cycle to start? Or was it the person who couldn’t accept and want revenge?

Sahara wasn’t sure yet, on how to distinguish the rage one can have, as she even had trouble dealing with it!

As it was, she was still wondering what she should do with the ‘killer’ of her precious three people that had suddenly left her…

Could it really be that person that had her pills from a week ago? Did she…What if it was?

Naruto growled at Prince Felix, as he came back to Sahara, and Prince Felix raised his eyebrows at the beast.

Sahara chuckled once again, and Matthew let out a chuckle as well.

Without knowing, the whole room had been watching the beast, Sahara and Prince Felix. The matters at hand were important indeed…But they all knew how little the Third Prince showed any kind of emotion and found it satisfying to see him do something.

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News of him becoming the Crowned Prince had already come out. At first, Prince Felix had declined his Imperial Father’s wishes, but Matthew had come with the emperor to talk with him, about two months ago, and helped change his mind.

They coaxed him over with the ‘Bands’, telling him that he will be the master of them when he becomes the emperor. They also had to tell him that they don’t put him at fault for his own mother’s doing of wanting to take the throne. But what they hadn’t thought, was that Prince Felix didn’t think he was of use to anyone. They had neglected him for too long and the Third Prince obviously felt like he hadn’t mattered.

Sadly, they weren’t able to knock him out of his indifferent attitude, and only got his approval because it seemed the Third Prince felt like he had no other option…

Sahara, on the other hand, had just made the Prince move and glare!

Since she was able to do things that others couldn’t…It wasn’t exactly surprising that she could get someone to act a little bit different…

Who else could make things float in mid-air or have things suddenly appear or disappear!?

Not only that, Matthew knew, that this adorable woman of his thought about things differently and probably had more chance to connect to this boy than anyone else. She had given him a strange, sad story that had given him the idea that she somewhat understood his loss of losing his friend Isabella. She had even wanted to have fun walking downstairs while drunk, when he hadn’t even thought of it! She seemed to be able to bring life back to a waste and get a beast to become loyal!

If there was anyone that could make this Third Prince show a different emotion…It would most likely be her!

Taking Naruto back into her arms, she smirked at the prince and suddenly, Naruto disappeared.

Prince Felix tried to discretely look around, as a few others did too, but Matthew and the Emperor found themselves looking towards Prince Felix and were entertained.

Suddenly, Sahara turned to the emperor and said, “Mind if I take him for a while?”

The emperor blinked, her words were simple but still rude!

“Sahara…”

“I’ll bring him back soon!” Then she touched the Third Prince and they disappeared before another word was spoken.

“Ah, that girl!” The emperor pouted. Why can’t she be more formal to him, even if she isn’t to anyone else! There were Ministers here! What if they think it’s alright to speak like that to him because of her!?

“Emperor Father, please don’t be angry…” Matthew started to say…

But the Emperor interrupted him, “This King is not angry!”

Matthew bowed his head solemnly, as he knew he was left behind! Again!

Sighing, Matthew looked back up and saw the emperor focus once again, “Let us continue to speak of the Sum payment, if we can get my uncle’s permission to trade for his livestock.”

The emperor still had family, and this family were still being paid, but this uncle of his was getting old and would probably prefer to trade with them, so that his family will be better provided for…He had a granddaughter growing up now, perhaps they could coax him over because of his granddaughter’s future marriage…

It could lead to an easy outcome of getting more livestock for Purple Haven…But Matthew had come to realize that the emperor was starting to want more in return for their help, which wasn’t unbelievable, because they had already helped Purple Haven out a lot!

To ask for a yearly tribute from Purple Haven didn’t seem like it was too much to ask for…It’s that…How would the tribute supposed to come from one Haven to another!?

In all this…The Empress Dowager’s presence was rudely forgotten…

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Appearing within the ‘Dispersion Meditation room’ at the Academy, Sahara let go of Prince Felix and turned to the empty pill packages. Prince Felix frowned but watched his brother’s Princess make two packets of empty pills appear into her hands, then they disappeared from sight…

He didn’t understand!

Seeing the green star hadn’t much fazed him and he was still able to keep his demeanour proper…But having a beast, that he’s never seen before, appear and forcefully make the beast touch him!

This woman didn’t seem to stop! After that, she had chuckled at him as though he had lost face!

The Third Prince decided he didn’t like his brother’s Princess at all!

But…He couldn’t deny his curiosity…He just tried not to speak of it or show it…Having disappeared from the palace and appearing elsewhere…It was so grand that Prince Felix felt like he could do well, with learning something like this!

“Sahara? It’s…Sahara!”

Felix turned towards two older children and saw them run up to the Princess.

“We…We have been trying to get a hold of you! Our beasts…”

He watched Sahara put a hand up and interrupted them, “…I already took them out of Green Haven.”

“Where have you been!?” The boy asked.

The girl looked over to Felix and then to Sahara, “Who…Who is that?”

Felix didn’t show any kind of response and saw Sahara turn to him and said, “This is Felix…They…Are the…Song Siblings.”

Shit…What are their names!?

“Sahara! Did you forget our names!?”

“Yeah…” Sahara scratched her head, “I’m no good with names.”

Felix suddenly felt like laughing. He was so used to people not showing how they genuinely feel. The palace was full of people that said what they didn’t really mean and did what they didn’t want to do…

Keeping his face from showing his amusement, Felix couldn’t help his eyes from slightly glowing instead.

“Your nasty!” The boy said, shaking his head in an unhappy way.

The girl sighed and looked at Sahara, like she was to be pitied. But…Then stopped, seeing the big belly…

“Isn’t…Aren’t you…” The girl put a hand over her face and dearly wanted to point her finger to the obvious pregnancy but knew it would be rude!

Sahara gently pat her belly and said, “Yeah, he’s my little man.”

Both the boy and girl went silent and then smiled, “So you got married! No wonder you weren’t here!”

Felix finally figured out…That these two didn’t know who Sahara was! And…She hadn’t even introduced him as the Prince!

Letting out a strange noise in approval, Felix found the three suddenly looking at him…

“What…What’s so funny?” The girl asked.

Sahara chuckled, “Water is wet, fire is hot.”

Silence occurred, as the boy, girl and Felix looked at Sahara…

Then the boy and girl started laughing and Sahara nodded.

Felix shook his head.

That was just stupid! Of course, water is wet, and fire is hot! She is being absurd!

Sahara then said, “I probably won’t come very often anymore, so you must learn well! I want to talk to Felix for a bit.”

They nodded, and Felix was taken away to a corner of the room by his brother’s Princess. As they got further away, he heard the boy quietly say, “Where did they come from?”