Tap—tap—
"Pop~"
Sara spat out the orange-yellow lollipop slick with saliva. The sweet-and-sour taste she had never tried before made the teenage girl break into the bright smile that belonged to her age.
"So sweet—wait, mister, who are you?"
Her watery eyes wide open, Sara curiously looked the unfamiliar curly-haired man squatting like a thug beside her up and down.
For some reason, her delicate little fists were faintly itching. Following her mother, she had seen all kinds of people, but this was the first time she had ever seen someone who looked this punchable.
"Me?"
Uchiha Gin held the finished lollipop stick in his mouth and slanted his eyes at Sara, who looked like a curious little baby.
Thanks to Chiyo's intervention, Sana had avoided her death ending and still sat firmly on Rōran's throne.
And this princess, who had grown up under her mother's protection, had never experienced the treachery of the court. Her mind now was nowhere near as deep as the Sara who had lost her mother early in the original course of events. She was still a silly, dazed, adorably dumb princess of peace. Otherwise, she would not have been completely fooled by Anrokuzan.
"My name's Uchiha Gin. I'm a Konoha ninja your mom and the others hired."
"So that's it! Uncle Curly, you're here to help us deal with that old... Old An, right?"
After hearing Uchiha Gin's concise self-introduction, Sara's eyes lit up, but they soon dimmed again, and her little mouth drooped. Even now, she still could not accept the fact that Anrokuzan had betrayed her.
They had clearly agreed that ruler and subject would work as one, overthrow the old hag, and return Rōran to a bright and honest world.
"That should be right, but I feel like I probably won't