"Judge Leo, Grandpa Leo, You've arrived!"
"Grandpa Leo, if you were late by a second I would have died."
Leo, who had just entered the tower, didn't even have the time to think about anything before a sticky fella flew into him while crushing him. Well, it was that shameless fellow who had appeared in the hologram from before.
The man kept crying as if he had just reunited with his fine lost grandpa, and for a moment even our cold-hearted Leo almost thought he had a long-lost grandson or something.
Before his face darkened as he remembered that this fellow was Jack, his supposed assistant who practically took care of all the things concerning him.
And now was an interview or rather an audition from Leo's perspective, which, however, was to choose some kind of gifted geniuses to develop in the tower for his majesty's request.
"Leo, do you realize how much did you displease the other two judges? Why did you take that long? Did not you always come in time? Do you realize how much effort I had to do? And how many sacrifices I have done to make them take it easy and delay them?"
Leo stared at this man as if he was staring at a mental patient with an evil look filling his eyes. His eyes were so expressive that even Jack felt it and got hurt by it, as if countless arrows had shot him in the heart.
"Oh! We reached the floor!"
Jack rubbed his nose to conceal his hurt heart while pulling Leo across the ladder magic formation, he felt as if he suffered a thousand points of damage, and tried to ease the atmosphere, while arranging his messy clothes and adjusting his glasses, he went into the character of an assistant as if all of this hassle didn't happen, he already got used to it.
Leo, who had some time ago had removed the plug, ignored him while treating him like air. He just stared at the new floor he was in while again peering at the humans, Demi-Humans, orcs, dwarves, elves, and demons who were filling the whole floor while setting his sight on a large stage which had three European decorated chairs behind a huge desk.
Two Middle-aged men were occupying two of the three chairs. The one on the most left was a blind man With a closed third eye on his forehead while dressing in a brilliant golden magician dress with a silver badge with letter V adorned with two golden lions supporting the letter from the sides along with two dark green stars on the two left and right corners.
The badge placed on the right side of the dress which was the symbol of Diego Vancouver III one of the Master magicians from the Vancouver Magic Clan one of the Four Great Ancient Magic Clans which existed since the establishing of the Mesaka Kingdom.
While the one on the most right was fitting in a simple but explosive red armor along with the badge of an Azure Dragon twisting around a golden gigantic sword which is the symbol of the Azure Dragon Corps, the group responsible for maintaining the order in the Kingdom while taking orders from the King and reporting to him. He is one of the Azure Dragon Corps, Eric, the Mad Swordsman.
"Leo, I will arrange the scene, so go set there first."
Also, Jack felt that something was amiss with his superior Leo as had been acting weird since today, but he didn't care as Leo was always an odd man in Jack's brain long ago.
" Is he the reason we had to delay for all of this while? So rude, right?"
"Hey! What could we say? He is the Heartless Judge, his special status is so high that we have to do according to what he says..."
"Shh! Gasp!"
And as soon as Leo got there some whispers were being heard but with a single cold glance from Leo, it scared those gossipers to feel a chill pass through their bodies as he had already been used to those kinds of situations from his past life the First CEO and founder of the first entertainment company in his past world.
Leo, Walked towards the stage and sat at the middle chair which belongs to him while nodding at the other two who responded with a smile while thinking in their minds that 'This was strange!' as he was not this respectful in the past, as he was a fellow with few words and few actions.'.
Leo ignored all the rest while making a signal to Jack to start the audition, and still he had no expression on his face.
Inside he was however expectant and hopeful for the level of this Entertainment industry in this world and to what level had they reached considering their great ancient history.
He, however, did not know why that also he had combined all the memories of the previous Leo but he couldn't find any information about Entertainment from it except the magic spells which were filling his head now which he saw in the broken memories, well maybe some of his memories has a seal or some kind of error has happened.
Well, he is about to discover how wrong he is to think like that.
And with Leo's signal, the audition got started, As a youth about the age of fifteen came forward and got to the stage to start his performance.
"Greetings, My dear Judges, I am Danny and It is my honor to be here auditioning with you, I will now start with my created Song that I hope it will be to your likeness, which has gotten famous and spread through the Kingdom which even his majesty complemented it some other day..."
"So long? Is he reciting a poem?"
"Boo~~ Boo~~ Hurry and get down so we can have our turn."
However, he greeted the three Judges first before starting while promoting himself by using the King's compliment for about a half an hour, earning him the scorn of the rest of the examinees."Talented child, go ahead, we are all ears..."
"We are rooting for your performance, show us what made the King appreciate you..."
The two judges smiled while nodding and playing with their beards, as getting compliments from the King was difficult and it only means that this man is talented and the King Favors him and so they for once ignored the booing from down the stage.
" Hey! Enough of shameless bootlicking for each other, I am about to vomit because of your pig-like teammates, hurry, I am about to sleep! Is this an audition or schoolers gathering?"
Leo, however, expressed at this with a cold ❄️ gaze and said with terrible impatience, while embarrassing the two men as they both smiled while feeling as if someone was hitting them on their cheeks so hard that it made them feel the heat and pain as if a fire was being boiled inside of their chests.
While they cursed him in their heart, the rest of the examinees looked at Leo with reverence and admiration as they all sent him a wink.
However, to Leo when he peered at those ill people winking from time to time, he thought maybe this place had some Contagious Intelligence disease, all right he was kidding, it was just his personal quirk 'to mock anything and everything' Which was never to anyone likes, appearing to exasperate people again.