16. Abe no Koremitsu
Yorinaga
lets Yuiko down when they enter her quarter.
“Thanks for
carrying me to my quarter, and so respectable minister of left Yorinaga you may
LEAVE now…” said Yuiko cynically.
“Hold on here, don’t you think you can get rid
of me just like that. I won’t leave until I get an explanation of this matter!!”
“What
matter? What explanation?”
“Don’t try
to play fool Princess! But before that I must treat your wound first.”
Yorinaga
then let Yuiko sit down and try to mend her injured leg.
“Let me do it. I’m the physician you know!”
“Talk about
physician, see what you did to yourself? Your wound had manifested! So please
keep your mouth shut and let the PROFESSIONAL does his work!!”
Yuiko was
quite surprised to see that Yorinaga did very well on mending her wound.
“Never
thought an aristocrat like you, know how to handle such circumstances too!”
“Do you
think I’m completely oblivious during my days in the Oxen Street? I’m not that
stupid you know.”
“So you have
to thank me then for teaching you first aid!”
“Balderdash!
And now Princess Yuiko why you didn’t tell me you is Koremitsu the physician
all along?”
“Well… I don’t
think I have a need to do so. Firstly I don’t know you well. Next the tenacious
personality of yours, I don’t think you will leave me in peace when you know
the truth.”
“Of course I
won’t! No matter what you’re still a princess, how can a princess go out impersonates
as a man and hang around with the lowly? Not to mention some of them are
terribly sick! This is absolutely against the rule!!”
“Here we go
again…..” said Yuiko then shutting her ears to isolate herself from Yorinaga
seems to be never ending nags.
“But… The
most important thing is…You made me wonder about my gender preference!!”
“Gender
preference?”
“I….I keep
on…keep on asking myself…whether I am really….in love with man!! I even told my
servant Kimiharu to test me. But all came to negative results, other than one
person……”
Adrenaline was doing its job excellently when
Yorinaga speaks and his face was the reddest when he said the name:
“Abe no
Koremitsu…”
Yuiko was
wondering whether this can consider a confession from Yorinaga. His words keep
on swimming around her mind making her completely blank.
“Thank you….”
That was the only reply that manages to come out from Yuiko’s emptied mind.
“I see…”
said Yorinaga and leave the quarter quietly with a hint of disappointment…
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