"Shall we start the meeting?"
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"Child, how is King Rao?"
"You're still impatient as ever, Old Cristo. Let the King Princess address it first."
The two speakers were close to the king that had strong ties with the royal family since ancient times.
"*Who are these two? Are they close to your father?*"
"*You scared me! You can also communicate through blackie?!*" Surprised Leila when she suddenly heard Adam within her consciousness. She remembered what happened again last time in the underground chamber. She can't forget about those eyes that seemed like no secret can hide from it.
"*Of course! I can also see through it. Why are you calling that blackie?*"
"*See-through it?.. Don't tell me you've been watching me all the time?!! You pervert!!*"
"*What no!*"
"*Liar!! Pray that i won't find you, or else ill shred your soul just like your beard of yours later!!*"
"*...*"
Leila took a deep breath and smiled, then said.
"I will lead you both to him later, Uncle Cristo and Lord Zhuge."
"Why would the Old King need the two of them if we are all here? Does the King Princess know favoritism now?" Desmond with a smiling face, and he noticed the Patriarch of the Sun Clan, signaling him to stop talking. So he didn't follow up more same goes for the Lycan Clan.
Leila frowned at this and said.
"What do you mean by it, Lord Desmond?"
"Princess, what he means by it, is that we five are all gathered here. Why must you invite the only two clans? We are also worried about his majesty." Said Patriarch Amos.
"That didn't seem to be what I heard about before I came here." She said with a mocking smile.
"Alright, let's talk about the true goal on what we five clans came here. You're not suited to be a King, and we also know about the situation in the palace."
"*Situation? But they already know that father is sick.*" Confused Leila as she thought and said.
"What do you mean, Lord Amos? Didn't you guys already have intel about my father's health?"
Amos was about to speak, but Lyjiao preceded him.
"Heh! What a selfish King. He did a good job hiding this secret from all of us. Here I thought, except for his family member, no one knew about it. Heh! but i guess not." Said Derisivingly.
"*You good-for-nothing idiot Clan!*" Amos cursed, but it was all too late.
"You-"
Leila was about to explode in anger after hearing she heard the ridicule to her father when five crows at the size of blackie on Leila's shoulder suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and one, by, one landed on the shoulders of the five clan representative.
"Be mindful of your words, doggie. I don't want anger or stress bearing down on my wife."
The five looked at blackie whose still on the shoulder of Leila speaking.
"*Who are you calling wife?! I'm still not done with your first offense!*"
"*Okay, sweety. Let me handle this first.*"
"We apologize for the bold statement of ours, your excellency!" A bead of sweat started falling on Amos's forehead. Since it entered accompanying the Princess, he was frightened of this blackbird because of its chilling and ominous aura as it scanned them right before it perched on the Princesses shoulders. That's why he tried stopping his alliance from behaving their true selves.
Based on this perception alone, only one person can make him feel this way in the kingdom, but that person is bedridden now. And if somehow that person escaped the fate of the tree, he knows pretty well what sort of powers that person holds, unlike this dangerous crow he just encountered.
"I-is that so? Continue the conference then." Adam was a bit surprised, and then he went back to reading a book.
"*What was that?! I thought you would handle it?*"
"*I did.*"
"*What?*"
"*Didn't they apologize just now? I don't know what to say after that. The old man who protected the dog seemed to be good at debating, and fortunately for him, i hate talking the most.*"
"*...*"
Leila sighed and returned her focus on the meeting.
"Can i ask what do Lord Lyjiao means that my father has been hiding a secret from us?"
"Child, I'm sure you are brave enough to know this. We likewise unearthed out about this not long ago. Do you know where the rise of strength of your father came?" Cristo said with a serious tone, not caring about the crows on their shoulders anymore.
"Isn't father a genius practitioner when he was young?" Not following what the Patriarch had said.
"Ye-"
"You two, don't you care about this kingdom? Why circle the thought of the Princess for knowing the truth? Your caring drama in this crisis would get us all killed!" Amos, cutting off and reprimanding the two Patriarch.
The two Patriarch didn't rebuke because it was true. They want to tell the truth to the Princess without spilling its dark chapter to avoid hurting her.
"Indeed he was, at least that was the citizen or even his lone daughter believed to now. But before all his glories, he was a crippled prince who couldn't even walk or talk, then his brothers accompanied him to the forest, and there they encountered the first hell of his life. He was the 4th prince of the kingdom at that time, but after that event occurred. He became the only crowned prince."
Leila was speechless. That short story covered some of her doubts in her life that she kept asking her father, but he didn't talk about it at all.
The door of the conference was opened abruptly by a man. They all looked at the person who opened the door, and there they saw Neil gasping for breath.
"Your highness! We need you in the King's Chamber!"