The Next Prince, Chapter 43 pg5
The Next Prince, Chapter 43 pg5
It happened when everyone was running around in chaos. In a crisis situation where everyone is running for their lives, humans tend to run away to survive. However, Prince Waseen’s reaction was calm.
He did not show any fear about the situation, still walking towards the armed group in the area far from the sight of others with a calm face, and it seemed that the person Waseen went to find was the leader of all the chaos.
That’s clear enough then...
The situation was crystal clear. Tanattai quickly withdrew from the area and reported what he had seen to Prince Tarin. Linked what he saw with the information he had in hand. Along with the things Charan had previously recounted.
The man with a limp, that guy who went to hurt Khanin. When they put all the pieces together, the atmosphere inside the palace was both pleading and warning that they should not hesitate any longer.
When they received permission, Tanattai asked for troops from Prince Tarin’s guard unit, and he planned to clear the area comprehensively. Fortunately, the guard unit of the lord was flexible and they were able to take care of everything smoothly in a short time.
Tanattai was able to help almost all of the prisoners, but he could not predict where Khanin and Charan were in the palace at this time, he only knew that the search had to continue.
From experience, the first area Tanattai chose to go to was the central part of the palace... the office of the Sovereign King. He deduced from the whole story, and luckily, he calculated accurately...
At the upper level hallway, where Sovereign King and Prince Waseen’s offices were located, Tanattai followed and witnessed the other side giving orders for their men to handle the close associates and soldiers of Sovereign King, who simply stood there defenseless.
Many people, including Virun, were dragged out from the door of the Sovereign King’ office, leaving only the trembling man and Prince Waseen about to enter the room. It appeared that the other side had prepared well enough to overwhelm them.
Tanattai patiently waited until he was sure that both sides did not notice his presence, then he seized the opportunity to order his men to contact Prince Tarin to identify the enemy, before sneaking into the room quietly.
Inside the large room, it was divided into two zones. Tanattai knew exactly where to hide himself and kept vigilant to observe any person in the room, ready to prepare for possible actions. However, the familiar sound from the interior of the adjacent meeting room caused him to feel uneasy.
“And about what you, grandfather told me, that we still can’t find my father, but in reality you, grandfather deliberately hid him and wouldn’t let him meet me, is that something necessary to do?”
“Someone wants to divide our Atsawathewathin, I will explain it to you when we leave this place.”
“It’s alright to explain it here too... because I’m already tired of this fake concern.”
“...”
“It’s not like you, grandfather planned everything, hiding Dad from the beginning, forcing you to lie that you haven’t found me to Dad, just so I can survive and compete for Tarin to keep Atsawathewathin’s Sovereign King position. Is that true?”
“...”
“It’s not like that, right?”
What he heard shook Tanattai’s heart to an unbearable extent. He tightly held his gun in his hand until it trembled.
Before he could receive an answer from the superior person whom Tanattai admired all his life, someone intervened and interrupted the conversation with a clapping sound.
Followed by Prince Waseen’s speech, which gradually grew into something incomprehensible at the beginning. It took a while for him to regain his composure, and then he had to acknowledge the next sentence that was even more piercing than before.
“Why didn’t you answer your grandson Khanin, Your Majesty? You abandoned everyone who trusted you, everything that Khanin thought was true…”
“Even the death of Charan’s mother... You… the so-called Sovereign King ordered her to be killed by your own court order.”
“...”
“You commanded Tanattai to take Khanin away, then ordered
Phitakthewa’s men to kill the driver and the lady who is his companion. You ordered to kill the father and child who were residents in that area, ordered to burn until not even the face left of the person he loved to remember...”
“...”
“You ordered to set the scene, it was such a good plan, but why didn’t you dare to accept your own masterpiece, Your Majesty?”
Tanattai was stunned, every memory flowed back to the starting point, the picture that took the little child to flee from bullets with a woman. The innocent woman who was as pure as he was, one person was the driver he was familiar with, and the other person was the noble tall lady, the leader of the Phitakthewa family... Chita.
Charan’s own mother...
On that day, he received a message to escape in the middle of the journey, and Phitakthewa’s men received an order to bring him and the Young Prince to escape. Tanattai was given a ticket to immediately travel to England. Although he didn’t want to leave the two friends who shared both happiness and sorrows, he had to accept it in the end.
Because he trusted part of Phitakthewa’s people who said they would go to support Lady Chita and the two drivers, but in the end no one helped anyone.
In the past, Tanattai was suspicious of the ending of Miss Chita’s life, how much dignity she had left, as he had to bring the Young Prince to escape without dignity. Although both had to sacrifice their lives, it was to protect the heir of the royal family who had the right to contend for the throne. Their actions were more dignified than those who acted like mice, hiding and sneaking.
But what he heard was not like that...
If what Prince Waseen said was true, about what was done to him from being told to separate from Khanin, about being ordered to wait without purpose, about the lie that his son was in danger, as well as the driver and Chita, Charan’s mother who someone ordered to die... even though she was one of the few who had a chance to survive like him.
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