This morning as scheduled, Lion group representatives have come to attend the meeting.
This morning's meeting is already underway. The design that Ronald made has been happily accepted by the Lion Group for the Longest project.
Ronald was explaining the details of the architectural design which was headed by Ronald himself. All of Ronald's hard work finally paid off. The design was approved by Lion. Ronald can breathe a sigh of relief. Finally, he doesn't have to be sprayed by his boss anymore.
The meeting, which was running in an orderly manner, is now over. The representative from Lion Group expressed his gratitude before he said goodbye.
"Thank you for the Emperor Group's excellent service. We look forward to another collaboration in the future." Said the representative of the Coin Group, Sony.
"Thank you for entrusting our company to have the opportunity to cooperate with the Lion Group. It is an honor for us." Axel replied politely.
"You are too humble, young master Elard." Reply Sony.
"Then I say goodbye because there are other matters that must be resolved immediately." He added again.
"I understand. Then I look forward to the next collaboration."
"Of course."
***
"Anna, is there a scheduled meeting with a client this morning?" Axel asked with his hands still busy at work.
"This morning the schedule is empty until eleven o'clock later, sir." Anna reply.
"That's good. Anna, come with me out, I want to go to the construction site of our new field, which will be used for the production of traditional herbal medicine." Axel said.
"Okay, Sir. I'll get the car ready soon."
"Yes."
***
"Ed, why are you here?" Anna is surprised that Edward is in the car that Anna used to use, which she will now use.
"Can I not be here?" Edward said turning the question around.
"No, it's not like that. You surprised me because you're here without an invitation."
"I asked him to drive, Anna. The road to get there is quite complicated, let him drive instead of him just eating blind wages without working."
"Damn you, Ax. Unthankful."
"Anna comes in, we're leaving soon," Axel said then he got into the car and sat in the back seat.
Finally, Anna sat in the front, next to Edward. Not long after that Edward was driving his car fast.
***
"Are you guys always just like this on every trip? You guys are so boring." chirps Edward from behind the wheel.
"You can't, just focus on driving. It's not good to drive while babbling." Axel replied nonchalantly.
Edward rolled his eyes in laziness.
"Tonight I'm invited to a dinner banquet, do you want to accompany me, Anna?" Edward asked filling the silence in the car.
"I don't know if I'll be free tonight." Anna reply.
"You go with Edward, if you have work tonight I'll take care of it." Axel interrupted.
Anna frowned. Why does it feel so weird? How come this boss has a heart like this? Though usually Axel still colonizes the time even until midnight. Anna slightly felt that something was wrong.
"See? Your boss has allowed you to even take on all your work, just let it go. He rarely wants to be kind, don't miss this opportunity. If necessary, give him a lot of work, so he knows how it feels." Edward chirped then giggled.
Through the mirror in front of him, Edward could tell Axel was intimidating him through his eyes, but Edward didn't care at all.
Anna chuckled. "We'll see, I can't say 'yes' yet."
"Okay, I'll ask again later."
"Okay."
***
Axel, Edward, and Anna stepped into the place that will be used as a traditional herbal medicine production area. They walked inch by inch to ascertain this place in detail. In her hands, Anna carried the architectural design of this place to make sure this place was according to plan or not.
Thankfully, everything went smoothly and as expected. The workers were doing finishing, the three of them approached the workers.
"Good morning, young master Elard." Greet a worker while bowing politely.
"Yes, morning."
"Is there anything I can help you with, Sir?"
"No need, I came just to walk around," Elard replied still looking around.
"You guys did the job quickly, I'm quite satisfied with the way you guys work." Praise Axel.
"Thank you, Sir."
"When will it be finished?" Axel asked again.
"Tomorrow at the latest the day after tomorrow we will have finished working on the finishing." Said the worker was sure and steady. An unambiguous answer is what Axel likes.
"Alright then, I'm looking forward to the results. Please get back to work."
"Yes, Sir." After that Axel, Anna and Edward went back around. They kept going around making sure every corner was handled properly before finally, they decided to return to the Emperor.
***
"Has Mr. Harvey agreed to your request?" Ask Axel to the point. Axel and Edward were in Axel's room.
"Who can refuse my orders?" Edward said arrogantly.
"You're too big-headed. Just pray that you don't get cursed at by the people you've harmed."
"I can harm but not be harmed."
After that, there was a moment of silence. Until Axel spoke first.
"So it was Mr. Harvey who invited you to the banquet?"
"Yes. He's too happy he can't wait to thank me." Edward said he felt triumphant.
"Huh, I hope you don't invite them to do something reckless."
"I won't stay silent if they dare to cause trouble."
"But you shouldn't have dragged Anna into the trouble you created," Axel warned.
"You care about Anna?" Edward asked with a frown.
"But you forgot Anna is a tough girl," Edward added.
Knock knock.
Edward and Axel both stared at the door that had just been knocked. Then Edward got up and walked towards the door, he was about to go back to his room.
Check.
Edward opened the door from the inside.
"Hi, Anna." Edward greets.
Anna just nodded.
"Just come in, he's inside." Edward's words then flew by quickly, before Anna even replied.
Anna did not care about Edward's attitude, which was a little more indifferent than usual when dealing with Anna. Anna goes inside to meet Axel.
"This is a summary of the financial statements of all the departments that you asked for yesterday, Sir. I have compiled them." Anna handed the file in her hand to Axel.
Axel immediately accepted it. "Oh, thanks. Let me see." Axel immediately flipped through each page to check it.
"Is there anything you need, Sir?"
"Not currently available."
"Then excuse me to go back to my room.." Anna bowed and turned away from Axel who was checking the data he had just given.
"Erm...Anna," call Axel.
Anna stopped and turned around. "Yes, Sir?"
"If you are willing to go to the banquet with Edward, you must be careful and have thorough preparations."
Anna was stunned. She digested Axel's words. Oh, looks like it's not an ordinary dinner banquet.
Anna smiled and nodded. "Okay, thanks for your concern, Sir." After saying that Anna returned to continue her steps which had stopped. At least she had some urgent work to do if she had to go out with Edward tonight.
Axel continued to stare at Anna's back with a hard-to-read gaze until finally, Anna disappeared. Only then did Axel avert his gaze, he lifted his head for a moment then he took a deep breath.
"Hah." Axel took a deep breath and felt heavy.
"I tried so hard to keep things from Anna, but Ed dragged Anna into trouble."
"I can't understand what's going on in Edward's head."
***