In Another World I Become a Healer With Purple Hair

181 Dear brother (Part 2)

When Anne was back from the bathroom, she look into the living room where lies a dead body of a bird with beautiful feathers that she ever saw. She rushed into the bird, but sadly, there was nothing she can do anymore.

“His name was Castor. He was my brother’s familiar.” Justice said to her while he take a seat in the dining chair, he closed his face with his two hands, can’t fathom what just happened, “Something is happening to my brother, Javier, but how am I going to know where he was, or he…”

“Don’t say that, Justice. Don’t you dare say those words.” Xavier pointed his finger at the crown prince, a display in a manner that it shouldn’t be done to the seeker of the heir to the throne. But as the best friend of the crown prince, Xavier do have some excuses, and even Justice himself doesn’t mind about it. Xavier approached him and squeeze his shoulder, “Castor died, but we don’t know about your brother’s fate for now, so, don’t you dare take this as a sign that he was already gone.”

“You… you’re right, thank you, Xavier.” He raised his hand and patted his friend’s hand.

Anne always admired their friendship. That’s one factor that she was really afraid of being broken because of her presence. She looked at three of them, one by one, and knew how much her heart was already being taken by all of them, including Vale. Although the witch’s voice will forever linger in her mind.

He stands up on his seat and put on his coat, Justice reached the front door and said, “I need to go back to the palace now, my parents and Jason need to know about this, I will call all of you as soon as possible.”

When the crown prince left the room, all of them sat in silence. Justice also brought Castor with him, he want to bury the bird on the palace ground.

“What else should we do for Justice?” Anne asked the other two men who seems to know what to do in this case.

Henry looks at her, his blue eyes staring tentatively at her. “Waiting. There’s something that we need to do for now.” He said to the concerned young woman.

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“Henry was right, I’m afraid. We need to be waiting until Justice was ready to ask for our help.” Xavier let out a sighed and gave Anne a bittered smile, “This is the royalty matter for now.”

Anne looks at them and finally nods her head, “I guess both of you were right. For now, I will be tending to my patient in the hospital and also to Vale.” She calls for his name when her head turns to the dark room, where the magi were asleep soundly.

“Then, you should do that, Anne,” Henry said to her with a very soft voice, his hand even caressing her face.

“Henry…” Xavier called his name in a threatening manner.

A smirk came on the knight captain’s face. He raised his two hands as a sign of surrender to Xavier, “I am sorry, Just trying to calm her nerves, that is all.”

“No, you’re not, you cheeky b*stard.” Said Xavier with his squinted eyes glaring at his friend.

After a deafening silence, to Anne’s surprise, both of them begin to laugh. They throw some bread crumbs at each other, and they even laughed more than before.

“Ugh… men…” That was the only word that Anne could muster. She let herself go by walking towards Vale’s room.

When Anne saw the magi still sleeping soundly, she was glad. At least now he got a good rest. After knowing about Henry’s nightmare, she was trying so hard to find a cure for him. If she addressed his insomnia through the sleeping drought, he will still have those nightmares. She doesn’t know how to treat Henry right now. That’s why she becomes wary after knowing what happened to Vale.

The man has sweat all over his body. She goes outside and ignores the other two. She took a towel and a bucket full of water, but when she tried to enter Vale’s room, two sets of hands prevented her from coming inside.

“Whoa… why are you bringing in a fresh towel and a bucket of water inside?” Asked Xavier to her.

Anne rolled her eyes and looked at the two of them. “He was drenched with sweat. I need to bathe him and change his clothes.”

“You’re going to do what?!” The scream of the synchronized shouting from the two men makes her ears almost go deaf.

Until a shadow comes from inside of the room, it was Vale, looking still a bit weary but annoyed.

“Would you all be quieter than this?! I need to sleep!” He screamed right in front of them.

“Oh, Vale, I just wanted to bathe you, but these two lunatics hold me from entering your bed.” Said Anne while gruntling at the two of them.

Vale’s eyes shifted. His green emerald eyes were getting darker, and a smirk came into his face. “Oh, you want to bathe me? I don’t see any harm in that.”

“Not a chance, virgin!” Said Xavier while he was also mocking him.

Henry was chuckling, and said whole different paragraphs, “Well, at last, I know you’re going to learn someday.”

“Ugh, the three of you just shut up!” Gruntled Anne, she then hang the towel into Vale’s shoulder and handed him the water bucket. “Go wash yourself and put on some new clothes. You reek.”

She stormed out of the room and said that she will be back in a few minutes.

“Where are you going?” Asked Xavier while a frown plastered on his face.

“On the hall, while waiting for Vale to finish washing and fully clothes.” She said to Xavier, but before she close the door once again, he hold the door handle and offer himself to accompany her, “Alright, I just want to go to the hall though.”

“No, let’s go to buy some supper. There’s a famous bakery near the barrack.” He then flashes her a bright smile, where his golden eyes glitter with happiness, “I am starving.”

Anne could never reject his offer, especially when he gave her those kinds of smiles. She agreed and both of them visited the bakery. She can smell the aromatic fresh bread and feast her eyes on the array of cakes and pastries. The bakery was indeed famous by the looks of how many people were getting into the line. Anne tried to enter the bakery, afraid that their famous moomilk bread will be gone from the shelves. She opened the door, but a body of a big man collided with her.

She falls to the floor, and Xavier goes to her immediately, “Are you alright, miss?” Said the man while offering her a hand. Anne doesn’t have time to see his face and just took his hand. When their eyes met, she was in for a surprise.

The handsome man with a tall build was smiling after he saw her face. “Wait, miss River Anne?”

She was gasping and couldn’t believe her eyes. “Oh God, Arthur, is that you?”