"Your majesty, as a wise king, yesterday's approach to push for retirement and ask for compensation from the pope is a very appropriate step. He's already too old and cannot differentiate between right or wrong things. If it keeps happening, then our kingdom will be brought into chaos in the future because of a bunch of walking fish. The water system is flowing to all areas in our kingdom, even though we already killed many murlocs in yesterday's incident, it's still possible if there's more left of those walking fish."
"You foolish left minister, you don't understand the important things! I will definitely agree if you only want some compensation because of yesterday's incident, but forcing the pope to retire is the most ridiculous decision. When the pope's already becoming a prominent figure and pillar of humanity, you're still a young man who knows nothing about the war. How can you propose such a suggestion to our king to force the pope to retire? Are you dumb.. Are you going to defend the border and fight the demon king?"
With angry and fierce eyes on his face, the left minister pointed his index finger and shouted at the right minister.
"Are you saying that our young wise king is ridiculous? You're out of your mind, right minister! This is treason! How dare you?"
The right minister answered calmly to the left minister's sudden accusation like he was talking to an insignificant bug that doesn't deserve his attention.
"Your majesty, please don't care about this insignificant person in front of me, he's always saying so much nonsense. Our kingdom is located near the border. When you're still a child, the pope together with the president and other high level human fighting against the demon king and successfully injured the demon king, but now the pope has retired, and many strong people has fallen, the pope won't be active anymore on the front line, if the demon king suddenly attacked then many of our people that defending the border will fall before the help from federation come. Yesterday's decision was too reckless!"
"What are you worrying about, the pope is only retiring, not dead, he'll definitely come if a crisis arises that can threaten humanity."
The young fat king looked at the two ministers bickering in front of him with tired eyes. He's a young king with a lot of stories. His mother died when he's still young without leaving him any siblings as he's the only child. His father never accompanied him since young and left him forever a year ago. He who has a lot of stress loves to eat to reduce his stress level. From a young good looking man, many months later he became a fat king ridiculed by many people in the kingdom.
Sometimes he thinks that those accusations are too much and ridiculous.
'Try to become a king yourself, on the left you are facing people stronger than you and they are still your family line, on the right you have people stronger than you and they are still the most talented people in the kingdom. What are you going to do huh? haters!?'
'It's fine if I have a lot of merits or if I am stronger than them or if I have a lot of supporters like them. The problem is I have none of those happy fantasies that many people have in their mind. I'm just a normal 15 years old young man forced to continue my father's reign for the continuation of my own life. Should I say no? If my uncle succeeded to the throne where I'm going to live? With his ridiculous views of things, sooner or later I'll be kicked to embrace the holy one as the young kid nowadays says.'
"Please calm down, now what's important is to repair damaged buildings and treat patients who were victims of yesterday's incident. As for the news of the pope's retirement this morning, we didn't need to care, we only gave our suggestion and view to the federation, it's the pope who wanted to admit his mistake and decided to resign from his own position."
"You are right, your majesty, as your uncle I'm really proud of your wise decision that you made yesterday."
"The king is right, but you are definitely wrong, as the king already informed about what the pope said before the incident happen, we should have enough time to mobilize all of the kingdom's military might and our direct subordinate to help guarding the river area on time, but you're still arguing and babbling your nonsense with me about not trusting the pope words."
"Who would have thought that the murloc could live in the freshwater area? No one! Even the pope didn't immediately think of that possibility when he found the weird murloc footstep near the eastern watergate. We who only heard it at the last minute need to confirm the validity of the information. If we suddenly mobilize our kingdom's military might without proper knowledge of the validity of the information, then what would people think of the king? He's my own nephew! Obviously, I don't want him to get swayed easily by other people's words even if he's the pope."
The right minister looking sharply at the left minister's last words, he knows the implication of what he's saying.
The king also understands his uncle's concern, but what the right minister says is also not wrong, if they mobilize the troops faster, maybe the damage that the kingdom receives will not be as big as the current one.
"I understand what Right Minister Long says, but what's already happened happened for a reason, we cannot look back and move on from those arguments. I'm also very thankful of Left Minister Theodore concern for my well being. What we should focus on is the recovery in our kingdom, we should also inspect every water area that the river is connected to, we'll hunt the murloc in every water area in our kingdom. We don't want another similar tragedy to happen again in our Grapheon Kingdom territory."
"I understand your majesty, I'll always support your decision as your uncle." Left Minister Theodore holding his right hand to the left shoulder as he gave a military salute to accept the decree of the king.
"I will carry out what your majesty ordered and directly inspect the water areas in the kingdom." Right Minister Long held his right hand to the left shoulder as he gave a military salute to accept the decree of the king.
The king nodded his head while allowing everyone to return to their duties. The first to get out from the imperial palace are the captain and the knight who were on the lowest level area. The left minister walked down slowly from the left stairs followed by the right minister who walked down slowly from the right stairs. The king looked at them as they left the imperial palace to continue their duties.
The king had a sigh while sitting at the throne and looking at the empty huge meeting area in the imperial palace. The king laments his fate, he has no one to trust and protect him.
'I need a friend as well as a personal bodyguard. But how can I find him? I cannot leave the imperial palace as I like and it is definitely not safe to tour the kingdom by myself. I need to think of a method.'
As the king didn't seem to find an immediate way to solve his problem, the king left the meeting area to go back into his own room to rest as he decided to think about it slowly.
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The left minister goes back to his home, the area is not far from the imperial palace. Opening the gate to the huge mansion, on the front area can be seen a training hut where usually used to train by his childrens. Seeing his young son still training at this time the left minister felt proud and happy for his son's tenacity to increase his power.
The left minister didn't want to disturb his son and went into the mansion. Inside the house he can see his wife eating lunch with his daughter.
"Dad's home, how's your day my little princess?"
"It's hard, your little princess is really tired after each morning training. Do I really have to train everyday, dad?"
"It's inevitable darling, as the world works right now, power is the number one priority in our humanity, except if you are really smart like those scientists from the federation. It's easier to train hard everyday, maybe one day you can become the next pillar of humanity who can protect dad when I'm already too old and retired." jokes the left minister to his daughter.
The left minister leave them and go to his own work room.
Opening a hidden communication line, he calls a certain number from his communication list. Not long after, the communication is connected.
"I've already kept my promise to work together with you. Yesterday, I suggested to the king to force the pope to retire and you should have heard today morning's news from the federation news channel. Now, it's your turn to keep your word."
"Don't worry we will keep our promise to stay away from all your family especially that fat king. Moreover, we'll give some SC to you as promised if you always cooperate with us. You still want to see your childrens and families succeed in their life, don't you?"
The person ended the communication, after that the left minister continued his duties.