Gourmet Emperor : Building A Nation

"Silvie! I want to check those areas, are you coming?"

"Coming!"

She runs to me and grabs my hand as if afraid I will leave her alone in here. We just walk along the beach holding each other hands while our horse following from behind. Somehow I'm feeling this world only belong to me and Silvie since we not seeing anyone else in this area.

Sometimes she releases her grip on my hand and takes some seashell that scattered on the beach.

"Ikki, what is this?"

"That's clamshell. It's an animal that lives in the sea"

"is that edible?"

"Um. The taste is great, but what's in your hand is only the empty shell. If you want to eat clam you must dive and take them from inside the sea"

"Ugh, I only know how to swim a little and don't know how to dive"

She looks a bit dejected. Do you want to eat the clam that badly huh?

"If the sea not too deep I can dive for you, but I also must sure there's no shark nearby"

"Shark? What is that?"

"It's a ferocious beast that lives in the sea and likes to eat meat"

"Huaaaa….Ikki you're so mean…why you don't tell me before I go the water!"

She looks scared and punching my chest with her little hand. I only chuckled with her attitude

"Hey, calm down. The shark will not get close to the beach if the beach is shallow or else they can't go back to the sea. Their size is big you know, at least like this horse belly"

I pointing the horse in our back to describe how big the shark is

"They not come to the beach? It is safe to play on the beach?"

Silvie asks the question timidly. She seems still want to play at the beach

"They will not come, you can play safely there"

"Yeeeeey…I love you Ikki...*smooch*"

She runs back to the beach and plays with seawater after left a peck on my lips. She looks enjoy playing with the wave when the big wave comes ashore, she runs backward when the wave recedes, she runs into the water. Happy laughter comes from her rosy lips when the seawater splashed in her face. Seeing she look so happy somehow my heart feel warm inside.

Our walk halted in front of a small cliff with height around ten meters. Since the cliff is not very steep and walkable without trouble, we decide to see what behind the cliff. After we arrive at the top of the cliff, we saw a stunning view there. A small gulf with reef barrier in the mouth of the gulf is preventing the waves from the sea entering the gulf. And small stream flows into the gulf. The water looks so blue like the clear sky, it's a LAGOON!

Silvie says that with the melancholy tone. Well, she right about that, this lagoon indeed like a small paradise on the earth. If I have a place like this in Japan, I already make a villa and live there, same as Silvie.

"Yes, it's beautiful…let's take a closer look there"

We walk down from the cliff heading to the lagoon. Silvie seems impatient which make her already running ahead to the lagoon. From the closer view, this lagoon looks like a small lake in the seaside with white sands around the lagoon. Stones from various size scattered around the lagoon, most of the covered by green moss. The water is so clear that we can see the bottom side of the lagoon. Silvie already plays with water in the lagoon when I arrive there. After tying our horse's rein in the nearby tree, I'm following Silvie to check the lagoon.

"Ikki…the water is so fresh here"

"Really?"