Thorned Rose // chae hyungwon (#31)

Forty-five

Hyungwon

"Do you know if there is a way to get into the palace and snatch Sana away on the day of the wedding?" Kihyun hit me on the shoulder and I looked at him, I just feel so offended when he is saying that to me.

"That wouldn't work, the palace is so huge to the point that you would need to take a bus just to reach the bathroom." He said and I shook my head. "Of course, it is called a palace for a reason. Why would the palace be that small if all the royals stay in there? It just has to be the most secretive place of all times and we will have no way of breaking in and we would be jailed if we did that and we will be labelled as a symbol of embarrassment for the rest of our lives?"

"But we have to do something to stop the wedding and we have to get close to the palace for that to happen, or Sana is going to be the crown princess without me doing anything to stop her from getting married?" I let out a huge sigh and I scratched my head in frustration, we have been here for almost a day and we have been roaming around for an hour with no idea how to stop the wedding.

We spent the past 2 weeks just working and I had plans to get her back but all of that is just unrealistic and I would have landed in jail and I might even get executed, it would have been easier if Sana is a normal civilian and I will just be snatching her away from the groom who is also a harmless civilian but this is the crown prince that I am talking about, I can't win against the crown prince and I would rather tell the police that I had the agenda of kidnapping the future crown princess and I would instantly be in jail without me even putting any effort into it.

Should I just give up on Minatozaki Sana? I slapped myself in the face, I am such an idiot for thinking of giving up and I can't give up when I have done everything just to get here. I had to apply for a passport because I never owned a passport in my entire life and I had to overcome the fear of flying and being in a foreign country just scares me because I can't speak the language,  I can't simply give up like that and go back home without accomplishing anything.

A huge car drove past the two of us and it stopped in his tracks, the car door slides open and a certain someone makes his way out and he is a very tall guy and he is wearing those sunglasses that exude the word expensive. He looks like he could be the crown prince or something and he is here to help me get Sana out of this arranged marriage that she didn't ask for but he looks like a mafia boss at the same time and he has a lot of people behind him, he is a mafia boss.

"You are Chae Hyungwon right?" He said with his thick Japanese accent, he doesn't sound like a mafia boss at all but a regular civilian instead.

I nodded my head. "May I know who you are?" Kihyun asked him on my behalf. "You looked a little shady and you have a lot of people with you, are you going to kidnap the both of us? I know that we are foreigners and it is wrong to kidnap anyone that roams around the streets."

"Mr Chae, is he your friend?" The mafia boss completely ignored Kihyun and he is only looking at me.

"He stays with me and we work together." I brought up the courage to answer him this time. "How do you even know me anyway?"

He let out a sigh and looked at the people. "We have to leave here and let's talk somewhere, Mr Chae. Would you follow us?"

"Why should we? We don't even know you and you are planning to bring us somewhere that we have no idea of." Kihyun said to him.

The mafia boss lowered his sunglasses and I got to see his face, he just reminds me of someone. I looked around and I remembered his face and he is wearing the attire that only royals wear. "Just come with us for now, I will explain everything to you when we are alone."

I was going to reply to him with a 'why should we?' but he looked really scary and we might die if we dare to question him again, so we decided to follow him and we got into his car which led us to a huge place that I can't imagine myself to be at.

I have only seen images on the internet and I refuse to believe that there is such a place like this and I thought that it would be demolished but it is still here after about 200 years of history, and I am actually in the Palace and it is huge like what Kihyun had said earlier that we would have to take a bus just to reach the bathrooms and we went past the bathrooms and the car continued to drive farther in the palace until it stops and his men blindfolded us before going out of the car.

He told us to continue walking and we heard almost nothing and my level of fear just increases without stopping, but why are we even here for? And I don't even know how he even know me when I didn't even introduce myself to him and there is no way that a freaking prince would know me when I have never met him before.

We were directed to a couch and I sat down, still feeling scared of what he is going to do to the two of us and he asked us to take our blindfolds off. "Let me introduce myself to you again, fellow gentlemen. I am Prince Haruto and I am the crown prince of the Japanese empire."