Everybody in the conference room looked at Russell with stupefied expressions except Artorious, who remained as cold as he was and waited for the mentally mature young man's words.
With Russell's seemingly nonchalant bearing, the Queen of Nereia, Rosalin, glared at him as though she was piercing his soul.
'Don't look at me like that.'
Russell inwardly lampooned. Seconds later, to clear up the confused expressions of most of them, Russell continued to speak, but this time, instead of directly telling them the solution, he asked questions first.
"But first, I need to know about the reports regarding the cases."
"I don't know what you're trying to pull here, but that's classified information."
With an incredulous and suspicious look, Rosalin firmly interjected.
Ayleen glanced at Artorious, waiting for his response, upon hearing Russell's words. With a nod from him, Ayleen then responded to Rosalin's remarks.
