Third person POV
And so, after a nice breakfast at the dining hall, Russell and the others are now working on the investigation. George and Nicholas had summoned Eloni and Denali of the Emerald Library, as well as the families of the Elai party members. Russell did his part by driving to their homes to pick them up with his bus. After that, the eyewitness accounts session began. Each of the summoned people, one at a time, gave their eyewitness testimony and account to the king and his two children. Russell, Azalea, Nathan, Rai, and James, meanwhile, stood on the sidelines next to the royal family's thrones, while the others sat on wooden, elevated seats in the sides of the throne room. Most of the courtiers, advisors, and officials were also sitting on the same, two sets of elevated seats as Russell's friends, making them equal at this point.
The session lasted for 2 hours. Leon and Sierra, who were also included by Russell in his picking up of witnesses, gave the eyewitness testimony on the Elai party's betrayal of Leon. The last people to bear witness is Caspian and his butler and messenger Sylas. Those two from the Taqua family had revealed that both of them had heard about the Elai party's misdeeds from other adventurers who sometime meet them.
And then, after that lengthy eyewitness account session, Nicholas and George worked on comparing the witness accounts with the ones Russell and his friends had given. Adrian, meanwhile, was outside in the palace gardens walking with Russell, Nathan, Azalea, and the dragon family, as well as James, Caspian, and Sylas. Adrian was grateful for their help and willingness to expose his former party's misdeeds.
"Yes, you're welcome," Russell said to Adrian with positivity. "I am doing the right thing."
"Man, that saying must be your life motto, right?" Adrian asked back.
"Yes."
"You must have been taught by that back in your previous life, right?"
"Yes, it was."
"Sir Russell," Sylas joined their conversation. "I had heard from this person named James that you had managed to unlock Metal Manipulation as your second Secondary ability. Is that true?"
"Oh, yes, it was." Russell looked at him and Caspian.
"Then you and I are now in the same boat!" Caspian responded back with enthusiasm.
"Yup, we are, Caspian-kun," Russell happily replied back to him.
Not long after, all of them lied down on the gardens' soft, green grass and looked at the partially cloudy sky. James revealed to Caspian, Nathan, Azalea, and Sylas about himself and his abilities, much to their surprise and chagrin. James, because of this summoning by the royal Passato family, had left the shop to his apprentice and journalist adventurers once again.