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Chapter 26 - Part 26

Mina gets in the castle and she finds the guards running everywhere in the yard. When she walks between them, they bump into her then they apologize to her and continue running and bumping into themselves. She gets in the building and asks one of the handmaids about her mother and so she answers that the queen is in the first floor, in the appointment room. Thus, the woman walks rapidly toward the room without thanking the handmaid and she opens the door to find her mother speaking nervously with ministers and consultants. They're speaking and chatting as the third world war will blow up. But we have to say that what'll happen is worse than a third world war. They are busy and stressed that they didn't notice the coming of the princess. The latter coughs to attract the attention to her but in vain. She repeats coughing twice but it's the same result. Until she gets angry and screams:

Mina: STOP IT!!!!

Everybody stops making noise and a weird silence spreads until the old woman asks her daughter:

The Queen: Mina? What are you doing here?!

Mina: You tell me what are you doing here? What are you speaking about? Are you looking for a solution for Cyrone?

The Queen: No, we're playing cards. What the hell do you think we are doing here and we're close to die?! Cause of you!

Mina: Don't you care about the fact that I met Cyrone and talked to him?!

The Queen: (studying some papers on the table) Luckily he didn't kill you like he did to your father.

Mina: Why didn't you come and speak with him at least and join me to get to a deal?

The Queen: I saw you talking to him so why should I come?

Black keeps quiet while her mother is looking at her. And suddenly the daughter "explodes":

Mina: Why don't you care about me?! Why don't you care about what I'm doing?! Don't you appreciate what have I done?! Aren't you proud of your daughter the princess of the heroes?! Why don't you take care of me and why you haven't since my childhood?! All what you care about is protecting me from Cyrone, that's all! You know that I met him and talked to him 5 minutes ago but you don't care! I can't understand you!

Abruptly she whoops as she'll cry so she turns her back, closes her mouth and starts crying like a child. She tries to stop but she couldn't. She tries to not whoop but the gentlemen hear her whoops and get pity toward her, and they feel how much the queen is cruel toward her daughter. But the latter doesn't seem guilty or pained. She orders them to get out by a move of her hand. When everybody does, Mina says without looking at her mother:

Mina: Well done. Now I become the weak woman here. Aren't you who get afraid for me of Cyrone? So why didn't you react?

The Queen: I wanted you to be responsible for your mistakes. I warned you and I tried to stop you. In fact, I ordered you to not avenge but you disobeyed me. I jailed you to protect you for the last time but you ran away. And after all what I did, you wrong me and tell me that I don't care about you?!

Mina: I didn't say that you don't protect me. I said that you didn't take care of me when I was young and you don't care about what I do like the real mother should do. I came here to tell you, though I know you won't do it, that Cyrone gave us a truce of 24 hours.

The Queen: What? A truce for what?

Mina: During this truce, we have to raise a one billion dollar to rebuild his Universal Jail. If we didn't bring the money to him, he'll destroy us. Anyway, I'm not worried about that because I was waiting for his try to kill us; it's a part of the plan.

The Queen: Why didn't you say that since the beginning?! This is the solution!

Mina: The solution?!

The Queen: Of course!!

Mina: But it's a full one billion dollars!

The Queen: Even it's a full trillion dollars! We'll collect them to survive.

Mina: Mum! Mum!! I was waiting for that and you tell me that you'll help him to rebuild the Universal Jail?!

The Queen: I don't care about what you were waiting for. You have to know that now, you're the cause of the lost of a one full billion dollars.

Mina: I don't believe... You are a big chicken!

The Queen: What?! Respect me girl or I'll imprison you again!

Mina: ... I advise you to order the public to get away from Trafalgar Square, where you should give him the money.

The princess gets out of the room muttering while Masha stays there without changing her mind...

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The fighters are in the meeting room in the abode, sad and silent. Their leader cuts the silence:

Mina: Fighters! Now we are in the most important and dangerous part of the plan. And we have to continue because we can't give up. Giving up means death. I know that some of you... actually most of you are afraid of Cyrone and of continuing the mission. I know that well. Now, because my mother hampered the mission again...

Clover: Hampered? How?

Mina: Unfortunately, my mother decided to collect the one billion dollars and give it to Cyrone.

Scarlett: What?!

Frank: Ce n'est pas possible!

Vector: After all what we did?! She'll damage everything!

Steve: I'll kill her.

Dina: Guys, be patient. The queen's reaction was expected. And we have to fight and face that like we have faced all the hampers we had.

Mina: Dina is right. As the money will be taken from the planet's budget, we have to find the aliens. And so here you are the plan.

Ralph: And now what?! Plan in a plan?!

Steve: It's complicated.

Frank: Comme toi!

Steve: What did he say?

Dina: I think you should never know.

Steve: He swore at me?!

Mina: Stop blabbing now! We have less than 24 hours and we have to fix right now the mistakes of my mother!

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