Volume 1 Chapter 14 (1/2)

Chapter 5 Suruga 5-2

Have they arrived?

Sakura rubbed her eyes She didn’t kno e has traveled, nor how she fell asleep against the bale of hale in the carriage There was a strearains have been used The horse drivers were mean; they only kneork the horses to death and didn’t even feed the anie has stopped outside a manor and there was no sound of anyone around She could use the chance to get out of the carriage With the glaring sunlight, it took her a while to see the naa” on the entrance of the classic manor

“Stop! Who do you think you are? You can’t just walk in!” A warrior guarding the entranceinside without a care in the world

“I work for Lord Takeda nobutora, who asked me to visit Madam Takeda No need to be so harsh” Sakura wanted to make her way inside the manor, so she made up a lie

The warrior seemed shocked, then he pushed her “So what if you’re fro, and they stayed at the inn too You look like a beggar, you think you can just come in?”

“Hey, did you push et my lord is your lord’s father-in-law, and ruentle and cultured awa Yoshi+uess I would just have to coawa Yoshi+moto, was portrayed as very chubby in history books The Duke-style clothes he wore probably made him look like Yae, that mean maid of Lady Sanjō’s If Sakura didn’t want to o away soon, she’d never want to see another white-powdered face like that again

“Do you want a beating?!”

Just as the warrior was ready to pull his sword, a lazy male voice came from behind Sakura “Did you want to color the sakura flowers in Suruga with your blood, or are you honoring the sakura Gods with your life?”

It was incredible these tough words can at the speaker She turned to see who it was and came face to face with the man, and Sakura was so shocked her mouth couldn’t close for a bit The man was a few years older than Harunobu; dressed in white hunting clothes with pale purple sleeves, he was slowly closing a sakurprinted fan His clothes fluttered slightly in the wind Even though he was dressed in the Duke style, he didn’t wear makeup nor draw his eyebrows He didn’t look like a real person, reseh Sakura wasn’t obsessed with good-looking eous face

“Lord, please forgiveto break in, that hy I had to”