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."

expressed that they

only Nathan and Jaeden left

competition. Customers who ate at the restaurant had nothing but praise for the food, and it was near impossible to make

reservation.

private room for us, Mr.

them were guided to a

were already a

plump, middle-aged man who was slightly balding on top and had an air of self-importance

complaining to Jaeden, "I thought this was just a

eyebrows and

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

Inviting two people from entirely

smiled placatingly

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 I invited him

voice, "Mr. Cross, this is the Deputy Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Education and our

up into a satisfied smile as he overheard Jaeden's

regretted coming here as soon as he found out that he was intruding on

here, he might as well

politely, Nathan reached his hand out to Freddy for

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

this class reunion so that he could show

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

initially chosen to ignore Nathan's presence, figuring that he was just

"deputy director"

was just a deputy director, no one other than

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

sounded