The Lore

The Lore Chapter 15

They talked for a couple of minutes after Izumi's dismissal. Odom can feel eyes boring into him from a reasonably scary distance behind him scaring him to his wits. Even if he can't see Izumi's face.

(The atmosphere feels so tense.. What's with this guy!?!)

He tries to shake the feelings without looking distracted from the princess in front of him, to which he fails and she notices making her worry shes making him loose interest in this conversation so she asks "Are you okay" with a delicate smile "ah im fine sorry.." he finally dismmisses the thoughts. Silence was held till he asked her "Walk with me?" Odom asked holding his hand out, which she takes and their arms are linked together, they continue walking down. Izumi stops in his tracks and stares at them walking. Julieanne noticing he wasn't behind them call out his ane which snapped him from his trance. Izumi turning red, hurried back to them. "Appoligies my princess." Julieanne with a look of concern asked "Izumi, is everything alright?" Izumi took a breath, and calmly answered "Of course my princess, what would be wrong?" Julieanne nodded her head-still not completely believing him-and continued walking with Odom, everyone coming to regular positions walking ahead.

With a determined look on her face she mentally questions everything in the past hour. (Lets see.. I was walking with Izumi and ran into the crown prince... He presented a flower.. Izumi lost his temper... and. . . and... Odom profusely insisted that he wasn't trying to steal me from Izumi...)

While walking, the princess turned a funny shade of pink which worried Izumi who was observing the crown prince and the princess seemingly attached at the arm with him. It came to the point that he thought she could've been choking considering the odd expression her face slowly turned to. "Is everything alright Princess?" he asked looking at her which brought all the boy's heads to look at her as they continued to walk. Embarrassed she tried to look dignified again but epicly failed so she tried changing the subject "*Fake clearing throat noise* I am perfectly fine... How was you and Sir Kevin's conversation, Izumi?" she asked sufficiently to get the attention off her and to Izumi.

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(Yayy Kevin and Izumi formally meettt) Izumi + Kevin's POV:

Izumi, looking defeated, strode his way past the royals over to Kevin who was absently watching the whole ordeal. He went to his side and with the height difference it was a bit intimidating for the other to say anything. "Sooooo..." Kevin tried, and I mean when I say 'tried', to start a conversation with somebody next to him which he assumed to be a calm and hopefully rational-minded guy instead of waiting to find out all this guy's 'reflexes' in combat. "That. looked rough" he said rubbing the back of his neck, pronouncing the first word more heavily. "If insulting the only princess of the Ocheral family tree that I've known for years then just humiliating her and losing her to a chump like him." he said glaring, barely using strength to refer to Odom by slightly pointing in his direction as he stopped mid-sentence "Then yes. It was 'rough'" . The harshness in voice worried Kevin he had offended him "Hey I didn't mean it like that. Maybe you should take a break" "A break? A break from what??" "Um.. The princess?.." "... What game are you playing at? I'm not stupid, I left her unattended for 5 minutes and the next thing I know she's here in this heap away from home with an atrocious amount of problems at her castle!" he said letting it all out "What's wrong at her castle?" Kevin inquired "I heard rumors that Julianne was here, it wasn't fully confirmed so I tried making deals with castle servants to search for the princess and lead her out to leave with me." Izumi explained "Then what's wrong with her castle?" Kevin said, still confused, "Were you not listening to me earlier?? A princess? Kidnapped??? Her parents????" the gears in Kevin's mind clicked.

(ohhh!... OH) Kevin thought

"To make it worse she's the ONLY princess, no siblings, no cousins who could advocate themselves for the throne with the correct bloodline, and DEFINITELY NO HEIRS!!" Izumi said, laying out his grievances for the kingdom, his voice getting particularly angrier at the last reason. "Heirs?" Kevin asked again, "KIDS!" Izumi responded rather loudly (ah.. ok)

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