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

the end, only Nathan and Jaeden left the hotel

Customers who ate at the restaurant had nothing

reservation.

reserved a private room for

were guided to a private

surprise, there were already a few people

who was slightly balding on top and had an air

this was just a reunion between old classmates. Why did you arrive

his eyebrows and

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

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

placatingly at

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

voice, "Mr. Cross, this is the Deputy Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Education and our great leader, Freddy Loran. You can

Freddy's lips turned up into a satisfied

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

since he was already here,

Nathan reached his hand out to Freddy for a

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

had merely agreed to join this class reunion so that he could show off his comfortable lifestyle and make everyone

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

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

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

was just a deputy director, no one other than his superiors dared

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

director" sounded so