Trapped in the Past
EPISODE 04'S.

...HAPPY READING'S...

Regaz was lying with his body stretched out on a large mattress, his mind still glare far about the behavior and face of Athera which he thought was different from the face of Athera before. He feels he is facing another Athera, clearly visible from the attitude of Athera at this time. Ah, rather than thinking about the changes of Athera it is better to think about the problem of the rebellion that occurred.

The uprising this time was a big deal for Regaz. It's been a long time since he faced the rebels and it's easy. But this time he was faced with something bigger. Regaz himself had no idea that they were rebels or perhaps a secret alliance led by someone to achieve another goal. This is still his opinion because so far the people who have been believed to be rebels continue to arrive then mess up the villages that have a distance not far from the kingdom of virtual esse. They were like heading for the virtual esse kingdom however, creating some chaos to make it easy for them to get to their target point and Regaz was sure his kingdom was their target, but why would they do this?

"Your Majesty, I have permission to enter."

Regaz rose from his sleep when his loyal bodyguard and right hand menahut from outside to ask permission to enter. Regaz opened the door and let the guard in after he locked the door.

"What information is there?" ask Regaz past Tier, his bodyguard.

Tier looked at Regaz who had been sitting on the sofa with legs crossed followed by arms crossed in the chest while he stood beside Regaz.

"The Empress Athera took over her sentence with 20 lashes and at this time she has been dealt with by the healer."

Regaz thinks there's a problem with the rebellion.

"Have the healer go back to where they are, he doesn't deserve treatment" Regaz said with a sharp, unsettled look.

Tier looked down deeply, Tier stared fixedly at Regaz who was staring straight ahead with the same gaze. Doesn't Regaz have a little bit of pity on Athera. The woman suffered enough.

"Okay, Your Majesty," replied Tier.

Regaz's eyebrows are linked, his arms are crossed down just like that then tiredly he rests his head on the back of the sofa.

"Tiered.. "

The tier that was still standing beside Regaz instantly puffed up when his name was called. "Yes, Your Majesty?"

"Am I being too cruel to the Gazianors?"

Tier was silent, he clenched his lips tightly without any intention of answering Regaz's question.

Regaz chuckled, if Tier does not answer then the answer is correct. He was too vindictive to leave his conscience in the dark.

"I'm-I'm sorry, Your Majesty. Servant does not berm- "

Regaz shook his head then turned to Tier. "You may return, wake up early because we will ambush some rebels who will attack a village."

Tier nodded guiltily, with a shuddering step he walked out of Regaz's room after his permission to resign.

Then in another place which is the residence or castle of Empress Athera.

Athera took a strong bite from her bedsheet as Retha applied an ointment to the whip wound that had injured her back. During this new life he felt tremendous pain and the healers who treated him suddenly withdrew until only Rethah treated him.

Retha just kept quiet while applying the ointment carefully on her brother's back. He bit his lower lip, it was so painful when he only saw his brother's wounds then what about his brother who did not even make a sound at all when the wound made his back look terrible.

"Retha, stop. You'd better just wrap it up" said Athera weakly.

"Well brother," answered Retha quickly then moved to take a bandage not far from her position.

Athera smiled looking at Retha who was paying so much attention to her. "When you're done, go back to your room, I want to be alone" Athera said to Retha, who had sat on the side of the bed with a bandage in her hand.

And Retha nodded back.

Retha bandaged her brother's back carefully and painstakingly. After Retha finished wearing a blanket on her brother's body, she let Athera only wear underwear, because Athera seemed to have fallen asleep and he did not dare to put clothes on and disturb the sleep of his brother who had forgotten the pain in his back.

...***...

Concubine Yuen moved quietly out of her room in the morning blind. Concubine Yuen seemed to look so wary if anyone noticed. He approached a man who had long since stood not far from the outer corner of his residence. He was behind the wall of the concubine's house.

"Quick go to the village of Antreloka," he said then immediately gave a wooden board quickly to the man. The man who was now using a cloth to cover part of his face nodded.

"Quick go, " hiss concubine Yuen.

The man immediately jumped through the large wall like a ninja, while concubine Yuen glanced right-left before finally walking leisurely to return to his room.

"As I expected, he would definitely trap my Athera," he said before finally darting so fast and disappearing, his steps so light that they did not create the slightest sound.

Then it was different from Regaz who was now moving with Tier to go to Antreloka village. Actually Regaz was a little suspicious because the rebels this time seemed to give him instructions to move to this village. They kind of gave themselves up when it couldn't have happened.

Then they arrived, Regaz only invited Tier and his 10 chosen people to come along. There was no sign of anything in sight since they arrived observing the still very quiet Antreloka Village with some residents who had appeared to be moving to carry out the routine.

"Did they deceive us? I think they're after another place, Your Majesty," whispered Tier from his hiding place.

Regaz nodded. "They're after our kingdom. I set a trap there. They tried to outwit us with two attacks. I guess the leader will move here for fear of attacking the kingdom, it turns out that my guess is wrong because it looks like he prefers to move to the palace. You guys do the surveillance here so I can go back to the palace" Regaz explained.

Tier clucked in admiration, he did not expect that Regaz had thought about it until there. Tier simply nodded as he stared at Regaz's rapid departure until Tier was sure no one would be able to see Regaz's shadow.

Tier became concerned that when he returned the rebels would die a full-blown death, Regaz would not be merciful if his kingdom was disturbed.

"They're coming," hissed one of the selected bodyguards who was seriously observing the area around Antreloka Village.

Tier flinched then immediately moved to attack, some of the guards immediately secured the panicked citizens.

Elsewhere where Athera is. Athera was still asleep, his face was getting pale when his wounds actually became sicker then Rethah was not at all beside him. Vaguely Athera heard a very tremendous commotion there. Athera immediately moved with difficulty wearing her clothes. The feeling is not good, he is afraid that something bad happened to Retha.

"Protect the Concubines!" the screams echoing the soldiers made Athera widen his eyes.

The beautiful Hazel saw a group of people in black clothes look blindly at the concubine's residence while here, her who had no escort from the soldiers just seemed safe.

"Room!" Athera starts shouting Retha's name out of fear of Retha. He had to hide before the rebels realized his presence. However, there was no word from Retha until Athera became more worried. Then inevitably Athera immediately ran to the residence of the concubines who were attacked. He fears Retha is there and no one is protecting her.

When he got there, Athera actually found Regaz who looked breathless. The man had just arrived then directly drew his sword then charged at the enemy blindly. The man beheaded the rebels without mercy. Athera ignored that at the moment, he was busy looking for the whereabouts of Retha.

Athera's head throbbed hard, his chest tight, moreover his injured back immediately fell. Really painful. The Concubines had nothing to help Regaz attack as well as the bodyguards who had a faint guts who were only able to remain silent.

Athera widened his eyes when another figure who had an almost regaz-like posture jumped off the roof and was ready to draw his sword.

Regaz was unable to quibble as his sword held off another rebel sword intent on attacking the concubines. Athera did not know why he stepped and hugged Regaz until his back which was still heavily injured had to be re-injured by a sword. Regaz widened his eyes when Athera suddenly hugged to protect him. Hazel's beautiful Athera dimmed slowly, she was only able to see Regaz's dark bead that looked so worried and surprised.

"Athera. "the owner of the sword who drew his sword at Athera muttered softly, his hands trembling. He condemned his actions. He did not think that Athera moved to protect Regaz, he thought that Athera would only be silent when he saw this fight.

"Reverse!" the man shouted at his flock.

Regaz was intent on chasing but Athera was already so weak and almost dead. Regaz immediately carried the body of Athera and ignored the concubines.

"Urus all the chaos and quickly call the healer to the Athera residence!" exciting Regaz.

The soldiers as well as the surviving maids instantly moved quickly while concubine Yuen clenched his hands tightly. "I wish he was dead!"

Then on the other side a golden-haired concubine named Consort Gresha smiled wryly. "This time I'm sure Concubine Yuen's trap will harm herself."

Regaz looked at Athera, who had closed his eyes in his car. He hates Athera, but at the moment he is very afraid of losing Athera.  Regaz was disturbed when he reached the room Athera then put the body slowly, Athera, he put Athera to sleep on her stomach and then tore off her clothes until Regaz could see a bandage that almost wrapped her entire back covered with blood.

Regaz's hand moved to touch Athera's back. However, his movements came to a halt when the healers entered in a hurry. Regaz shifted his gaze. There were three male healers who entered while the other three were women.

"The male physician must not enter, which women are quick to deal with."

The doctors obeyed him. Regaz was standing by Athera when the bandage was opened.

DEG!

Regaz gritted his teeth when he saw the injuries. Not to mention the wound that gaped wide due to the sword blow earlier.

"Let me join in sewing the wound." Regaz immediately stood up then took over the work of a female healer, he had once learned to be a healer to treat himself, he was quite good at this. His face started to get serious when he quickly cleaned his wounds first.

"I'll regret it if you die" Regaz said unknowingly, but all this time he always said that he wanted to kill Athera with his family.

...SERIATE......