As Augustine Reibert morosely looked at the note in front of him, he finally remembered that he seemed to have indeed forgotten about a debt he owed.
Truth be told, as the Prime Minister of Poplar Kingdom, he dominated the entire kingdom, standing second only to the King, so he had never considered that one day someone would actually come to collect a debt from him.
Augustine's rise to power had been so swift that it even gave Reibert a sense of an unreal illusion. He even thought that he had touched the threshold of becoming the Empire's Prime Minister, or even the Emperor himself.
Such illusions, such castles in the air, made him forget that everything he had seemed to come from a distant place, from an obscure human being.
Now, the other party seemed to be coming to collect the debt, and doing so by knocking on his door, which suddenly reminded him of many things, many, many things!
