A week has passed since the conclusion of the deal with the empress.
Kyon has just cleared the last key to 99% and said with a bow: «Your majesty, I have fulfilled my obligations. Now it's your turn to keep the vow.»
Lanatelle checked the result with the device, put on a thin silver robe and gave the man a mysterious look: «Wait in the chambers. Soon you'll be taken to the living room.»
Soon Lovr was escorted to the living room, in the center of which a teleportation trigram was inscribed. Five people – Feng, Julius, Vladimir, Horace and Monty - prostrated themselves in front of the empress.
Kyon breathed a sigh of relief to himself: {I was worried for nothing…} – when suddenly he noticed something strange: Monty Valentine's hair shone greasy, and if one looked closely, the other witnesses also looked very unkempt, as if they had spent the last week not at home.