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."

they wanted to accompany

and Jaeden left the hotel

who

reservation.

room for us, Mr. Cross," Jaeden told

them were guided

were already a few

a fairly plump, middle-aged man who was slightly

this was just a reunion between old classmates. Why did you arrive so late and bring

furrowed his eyebrows

have dinner with his old classmates, but then decided to invite him out of

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

smiled placatingly

man. Director Loran, please hear me out. This is indeed a class reunion, just like we'd agreed over the phone. As for Mr. Cross

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

turned up into

here as soon as he found out

already here, he

out to Freddy for a handshake. "It's

high up

considered Jaeden and his classmates as 'friends' and had merely agreed to join this class

wealthy good for if you couldn't flaunt it in

of Jaeden's classmates had initially chosen to ignore Nathan's presence, figuring that he was just there

simple greeting of "deputy director" had pissed

was just a deputy director, no one other than his superiors dared to call him that straight

to politely omit the "deputy" or "vice" words from someone's

director" sounded