THE STORYBOOK

H1: PART 6 (ENGLISH)

-" And..? What have you discovered?" - Bas asked as soon as he saw Kimmon entering the prince's private room.

The young man was sitting in front of Singto. Both of them having an early breakfast.

Bas, that was eating a fruit roll, left it at the plate and took his tea cup and started drinking it while waiting for the young guard to start talking.

Kimmon, seeing that Singto had also stopped eating and was looking at him with a worried expression on his face, proceeded to tell them everything that had happened the day before, from his conversation at the kitchen to his encounter with the Queen outside the palace...

- "Then it's obvious that your stepmother is thinking about getting rid of that Krist guy" - Bas finally said after listening to the whole story - "or at least she is going to make him not participate... she is indeed a bit obsessed".

- "But I do not understand what the hunter has to do with this whole thing" - Sing said while frowning.

- "From what I understand he is the suitor of one of her daughters" - Kim mused while taking one of the buns that were filled with chocolate - "although it seems that he was rejected by the mother when he went to propose to the young girl".

Singto nodded.

He felt that the pieces were finally beginning to fit together. Now they only needed to decide what they were going to do with the information and if it was a good idea to tell his father as, the last thing the young man wanted, was to upset the king when he was finally happy again.

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The days began to pass without anything unusual happening.

But, one morning, as he was collecting the fruits Krist started to feel that someone was watching him again.

Thinking that it was his new friend, the young man turned around with a smile on his lips. However, his smile disappeared as he saw that, instead of the woman who accompanied him home every day, there was an older man who he recognized in a second.

The hunter was in front of him and, in his hand, there was a large sharp knife full of dried blood.

Krist did not even think about it and ran away, letting the basket with the fruits fall on the ground spilling all its contents on the grass.

The man, who didn't even make a move during a whole minute, began to chase the youngster while he reminded himself that this was the only way to get what he wanted. And that all he had to do to achieve it was what he had always done, to hunt and kill a prey.

Only this time he would have to make it appear as an accident. As simple as that.

Krist ran through forest, passing the trees and the bushes while being very careful not to stumble. He didn't even dare to look back because he knew that stopping, even for a single minute, would cost him his life.

Finally, when he had been running for more than half an hour and his tired legs could not stand it anymore, he stopped in a area full of big trees.

He was near the heart of the forest and, as the trees in this area were much more robust and leafy than the others, he thought of hiding there.

The young man, without thinking twice, climbed to the lowest branch he could reach and began to ascend. Being careful of not making any noise.

He was already near the top of the tree when his feet slid off the branch.

When he could stop the fall the young man found himself hanging from one of the branches of the tree, several meters above the ground.

Under him there was no branch that he could use and he couldn't also shout for help as no one would hear him or worse, the hunter could find him there.

He was trapped...