I Love You, Miss Genius

Harold and the rest of the Shepard family exchanged bewildered looks, not understanding the situation.

Gresham was the first to react, stepping forward to question the guard. "The Knight family is hosting a grand banquet today, and nearly everyone of note in Pyralis is here. Our Shepard family is no different. Why are you stopping us but letting everyone else in?

"Even if we were to be turned away, we deserve to know the reason for this treatment. Are we being singled out?"

The guard responded, "We have orders from above: no one from the Shepard family is allowed to enter."

Gresham immediately asked, "Why?"

The guard replied, "We only follow orders. We don't know anything beyond that."

know what to say next. He returned to Harold

eyes scanned the Shepard family members behind him. "Have any of you caused trouble recently to

Trina quickly stepped forward to

any trouble at all," Fernanda said, glancing at

momentarily turned

in Fernanda's words. She

at Harold with a

dedicating my time to

had any contact

was worried that Harold might connect this to Trina's previous incident, so she quickly stepped in to support her: "That's right, Dad. Trina has been working so hard recently and focusing solely on her research. She's aiming to join Ms. Bonita's institute and hasn't had any time to interact with anyone from

bit. "It's

in their family had offended the Knight family, why were they

out. He glanced at Briggs standing nearby, thinking he might know something. He approached