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 accompany

end, only Nathan and Jaeden left

had won the prestigious Master Of Culinary competition. Customers who ate at the restaurant had nothing but praise for the food,

reservation.

room for

of them were guided

were

slightly balding on top and had an air of self-importance

sight of Nathan, complaining to Jaeden, "I thought this was just a reunion between old

furrowed his eyebrows

seemed that Jaeden had had plans to have dinner with his old classmates, but then decided to

events functioned or just didn't care. Inviting two people from entirely different circles to one

placatingly

we'd agreed over the phone. As for Mr. Cross here, he helped me on the trip

Cross, this is the Deputy Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Education and our great leader, Freddy Loran.

turned up into a satisfied smile

soon as he found out that he was intruding on

was already here, he might

to Freddy for a

among Jaeden's group of classmates, his existence so high up on

once considered Jaeden and his classmates as 'friends' and had merely agreed to join this class reunion so that he could show off

was being wealthy good for if you couldn't flaunt it in front of all your

and the rest of Jaeden's classmates had initially chosen to ignore Nathan's presence, figuring that

"deputy director" had pissed

director, no one other than his superiors dared to call him that

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

director" sounded so