2 The Young King and His Advisor

Inside Graycastle palace there is a large room with really long woods table and 20 chairs surrounding it. In one of the chair sat a teenager with light gray hair and eyes, a common feature in Graycastle's Royal family. His skin is slightly pale, but he has two sharp eyes solemnly reading bunch of papers full of numbers.

In his right sat a woman with mature facial features, her reddish-brown hair are almost waist length. She has a few wrinkles but still looks so pretty. Almost no one would guess her age is near 50. She is also busily reading the papers that the teenager has done reading.

Beside them stand tall two guards wearing steel armor silently observing the situation, especially focus on watching the two guests sitting down, a quite young lady with crimson hair and an old-looking man with face full of wrinkles. They are all waiting silently for the teenager and his advisor to finish reading the report. In their eyes could be seen a huge respect for the young king trying his best leading the entire kingdom. The huge doubt of how capable the new young king who abruptly ascends the throne is slowly disappeared, changing into hope and admiration.

After ten minutes of utter silence, the teenager put down the paper and open his mouth.

"Miss Janine, your report is very orderly and I have nothing to complain about. I am glad Graycastle Kingdom has plentiful amount of harvest reserve this year. With the new type of transgenic plants developed by aunt Leaf, I think we could even feed the entire world's population. What do you think about the report aunt Wendy?"

Advisor Wendy put down the paper and smile faintly

"The report is truly neat and I found nothing wrong in the calculation. I just hope you can deliver the report on time. His highness has a lot of things to do. Why was the report behind schedule this time?"

The young lady stands up with her head bowed down.

"Your highness, I am truly sorry. I and uncle Petrov have tried to finish the report as soon as possible. But, there are too many crops report we need to analyze. I ask your forgiveness for the delays."

The old man beside her get on his feet and then bowed down.

"It is actually not Miss Janine mistake. It was all my mistake to not warn the crops surveyor to inspects the farmers quicker."

Just as the old man finished talking, the young king also get up from his chair.

"Please Miss Jaine and uncle Barov could sit down. How dare the young me sitting down if the elder who have served the kingdom as agricultural minister for 15 years stood up. And I truly feel shame in the face of Miss Jaine's genius talent in calculation and orderliness."

After the two sitting down, the young king goes back to his seat and continues.

"No need to ask forgiveness for the delay. It's only one hour late and I am not so busy today. After this I will just beg pardon to grand uncle Iron Axe and teacher Lorgar for coming little bit late for fighting practice. If you don't have anything to say, let's just finished this annual report right now. Great thanks for your hard work keeping Graycastle's peace."

Several minutes after the two guests left. Young King Cielo suddenly whispers to advisor Wendy's ear.

"Is there any new development about Edith Kant's whereabout? Uncle Roland has said she suddenly disappeared since 2 years after I was born."

Advisor wendy answers faintly.

"I am sorry your highness. We have tried so many ways to locate her, we already interrogated her dads and younger brother, and even using sister Summer's ability to rewind past events looking for any clue. But still nothing comes up."

Cielo nodding his head.

"Okay, please keep searching for any info about her. I don't understand why uncle Roland always reminds me to seriously investigate her whereabout. But I have a feeling a huge disaster could happen if we disregard this matter."

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