Salute To The General

Chapter 1993



After Zac had made some calls, a new group of tour buses arrived to finally bring them to their destination: Brimmotopia.

Brimmotopia was a famous resort with hotels, various entertainment facilities, and everything else one could ever dream of. Every year during summer break, countless schools from all over the country would come here to host their own summer camps.

Following Zac's instructions, the group made their way into the Crystal Hotel.

As everyone was settling into their respective hotel rooms, there was a knock on Nathan's hotel door.

Opening the door, Nathan was surprised to see Jaeden with an unnerving smile on his face.

"How may I help you?" "Mr. Cross, I'm really grateful that you helped me out on the bus earlier. I came here specifically to express my gratitude," Jaeden explained, rubbing his hands together.

"You were trying to stand up for everyone else, so I just helped serve justice. There's no need to thank me," Nathan responded lightly.

But Jaeden wasn't finished, going on to say, "To thank you, Mr. Cross, I've booked a room at the Nomo Restaurant near the hotel. I was hoping you could join me for dinner."

Nathan felt uneasy rejecting an offer made out of what seemed like pure kindness.

He had nothing else to do, and besides, Jaeden was still the parent of one of Queenie's classmates. And Nathan wished for Queenie to

get along with all of her fellow students.

So, he agreed apprehensively.

Turning to look back at his family, he asked if any of them wanted to join him.

Queenie shook her head. "You go, Papa. All of the kids from the summer camp are going to meet up for dinner and activities, so I can't go."

Penny and Kylie expressed that they wanted to

only Nathan and Jaeden left the

who ate at the restaurant had nothing but praise for the food, and it was

reservation.

room for us, Mr. Cross," Jaeden told

were guided to a private

surprise, there were already a few

who was slightly balding

"I thought this was just a reunion

furrowed his eyebrows and sighed

with his old classmates, but then decided to invite him

social events functioned or just didn't care. Inviting two

placatingly at

This is indeed a class reunion, just like we'd agreed over the phone. As for Mr. Cross here, he

that, Jaeden quickly explained to Nathan in a low voice, "Mr. Cross, this is the Deputy Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Education and our great leader, Freddy Loran. You can just caffhim Director

corners of Freddy's lips turned up into a satisfied smile

he found out that he was intruding

since he was already here,

out to Freddy for a handshake. "It's nice to

among Jaeden's group of classmates, his existence so high up on a pedestal that Jaeden and everyone else

had merely agreed to join this class reunion so that he could show off his

for if you couldn't flaunt it in front

and the rest of Jaeden's classmates had initially chosen to ignore

"deputy director" had

no one other than his superiors dared to call him that

Nathan unaware that in every organizational setting, you were supposed to politely omit the "deputy" or "vice" words from someone's title

sounded