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 Queenie

Nathan and Jaeden left

who had won the prestigious Master Of Culinary competition. Customers who ate at the

reservation.

already reserved a private room for us, Mr. Cross," Jaeden told

two of them were guided to a private

Nathan's surprise, there were already a few people

who was slightly balding on top and had an air

of Nathan, complaining to Jaeden, "I thought this was just a reunion between old classmates. Why did you arrive so late and bring an outsider along with

his eyebrows and sighed

dinner with his old classmates, but then decided to invite

care. Inviting two people from entirely different circles

placatingly at

Director Loran, please hear me out. This is indeed a class reunion, just like we'd agreed over the phone. As for Mr. Cross here, he helped me on the trip here today, so

quickly explained to Nathan in a low voice, "Mr. Cross, this is the Deputy Director of the General Office of the

of Freddy's lips turned up into a

as soon as he found out

already here, he might

politely, Nathan reached his hand out to Freddy for a handshake.

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

his classmates as 'friends' and had merely agreed to join this class reunion so

wealthy good for if you couldn't flaunt it in front of

to ignore

simple greeting of "deputy director" had

than his superiors dared to

Nathan unaware that in every organizational setting, you were supposed to politely omit the

director" sounded so