Third person POV
Later, at the grand dining table, all of them are now eating an early, pre-lunch meal. The food served on silver and iron plates and ceramic bowls is light, meaning that this one is like a big snack rather than a full meal. Rai and Ria were thrilled to eat roasted muttons, while Nathan munched on some cheeses of 4 varieties. John was eating some liver on a silver animal bowl while being on the carpeted floor.
Russell and the rest are eating their meals solemnly,
Cassius was there with them as well.
"Nice, isn't it?" George asked them.
"Yes, thank you, sir," Russell responded back at him while eating solemnly and soberly with manners.
After that pre-lunch meal, Nicholas and George led Russell and his group to George's office, but Rai, Ria, and Kelly didn't have to come with them. There George said to his head butler, Roman Tarwick, "Leave the office and close the doors, please."
"Yes, of course, my lord," Roman, an aged butler in his formal, butler's attire, replied back with respect, before leaving the office and closing the doors normally.
After that, Russell asked George and Nicholas, "Um, why are we here again, your Highness?"
"We are here to ask you and your friends about something," George responded back.
Nicholas then grabbed two pieces of paper and showed them to Russell and his party and group.
Those papers are Taryn's recent reports about the Elai party's misdeeds.
"Are those things about the Elai party true or not?" Nicholas asked them.
Russell and his party and group then looked at them and read them scarcely.
They then confirmed it, and Adrian confirmed it with his eyewitness account.
Adrian's adoptive family was furious at this, and Russell added more fuel to the fire with his experience of being shot in the back by one of them.
Furthermore, Russell cemented his proof that the Elai party did their dark, treason-level deed on Adrian by playing the audio recording A Heretic's Heresy in his bus's navigation system with loudspeakers on so anyone would hear it. So, Russell did so in the fields of the palace grounds, and this shocked George and Nicholas were even more shocked to hear all that. Russell eventually got some points for his true justice-driven deed.
Nicholas was angry at Elai and Aeri and sympathized with Russell and Adrian.
So, both he and his father thanked them for telling them that and making them aware of the Elai party's actions, before apologizing to them for their stupidity. "It's okay, Your Highness," Russell replied back while trying to maintain a good, positive smile.
"Thank you," Nicholas responded back.
Afterward, George grabbed some papers, which were recent reports from his royal officials stationed in various municipalities in his country, and asked Russell about his deeds in those places. He then told Russell about the recent happenings there and their details.
Those places ranged from Snowyfield Village and Kapeton, down to Fernlay City after Monroe Town, and up northeast to Wallisville with Kane.
Beforehand, George learned of Russell's heroic deed at Wallisville from Kane, who would be meeting with Geroge later in the afternoon.
Russell then confirmed that by saying, "Yes, I was the one who solved and thwarted those problems and happenings."
Cassius also confirmed all of Russell's recent activities with his oral reports about him.
Russell also shared the credit to his party and group for their cooperation, much to their delight and surprise.
Russell and his party eventually were also given a lot of points for their heroic deeds against the corruption of the Elai Party, much to their chagrin and happiness.
Russell also revealed to them that he is a Renad, and thus, he is a bus driver, before sharing the details of his previous life and death back there in a summarized form. Russell wasn't afraid of sharing the details at all but was afraid and hesitant and even resistant to sharing the details about the mechanics of his bus's engine out of fear of using it for evil purposes by bad people. Because of all that, Nicholas and George, who had heard stories and accounts of Renad people coming and leaving this world for centuries, were amazed at Russell's origin story. Both then rewarded Russell for his heroism with an offer of being adopted by them. Adrian was shocked, thinking of the possibility that Russell would become his adoptive brother in the family. Russell was stunned, wanting to live a normal, simple life, and began to think about it.