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."

Kylie expressed that they wanted to accompany Queenie

end, only Nathan and Jaeden left the hotel and headed for

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

reservation.

room for us, Mr. Cross," Jaeden

of them were

were already

of them was a fairly plump, middle-aged man who was slightly balding on top and had an air of

was just a reunion between old classmates. Why did you

furrowed his eyebrows

that Jaeden had had plans to have dinner with his old classmates, but then decided to invite him out of the

functioned or just didn't care. Inviting two people from

smiled placatingly

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

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

Freddy's lips turned up into a satisfied smile as he overheard Jaeden's

coming here as soon as he found

he was already here,

hand out to Freddy for a handshake. "It's nice to meet you,

up on a pedestal

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

if you couldn't flaunt

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

Nathan's simple greeting of "deputy director" had pissed Freddy

deputy director, no one other than his superiors dared

you were supposed to politely omit the "deputy" or "vice" words from someone's title

director" sounded so