362 Diet Disaster (2/2)

”Calm down. First, we have to gain an audience with the King before we can plan out the next step. Don't forget that we're here as envoys. You cannot pull the same trick on the dwarves like what you did for Magnus Hilda. No more listening to the voice of wandering gods. These dwarves aren't pious and religious. They worship iron and alcohol more.”

Zero thought about it. ”It's really strange. Why would the Fae King be so hung up on beauty or mortals? Even if the princess did succeed in slimming down, would he even accept her love?”

Truen raised a brow. ”Are you a love consultant or something? Don't meddle in other people's business. Besides, love is a complicated thing that fails more often than it succeeds. If the Gods like Athena aren't able to settle their love problems successfully, what makes you think mortals can surpass them?”

Zero pouted. ”I wasn't thinking of playing the matchmaker again like for Poseidon and Medusa. I was just thinking of it from a different perspective. Imagine if she succeeds at the expense of so many lives but gets rejected. What do you think will happen to this country? The King obviously loves his daughter very much and will do just about anything for her. If we can win his daughter's favour, don't you think he will be more willing to lend us a hand with what we need to do?”

Truen thought about it. Zero made sense. However, he couldn't understand what Zero was scheming. Did he really want to involve himself as messy as an impossible love? The chances of failure were a lot higher than success. If Zero didn't succeed and the Fae King didn't like the Dwarven princess did that mean the doctor was going to force either party to give in or give up?

”What are you thinking about?” Zero asked when Truen became silent. The archer was so deep in thought that he didn't realise dinner had arrived. Zero took a whiff of the delicious food and moaned in delight, helping himself to the pottage.

As Truen stuffed his mouth with food without tasting them properly, he couldn't help but glance over to Zero.

”What are you planning to do? Surely you don't intend to involve yourself in the princess' troubles. I don't know the princess personally but the royal family here sounds like a pain to deal with. In my opinion, it would be better to look for Dorgon Flintstock secretly and kidnap him for a while. The King would be too busy to notice his absence with his daughter's dieting disaster.”

”Truen! How can you say that? Kidnapping is bad. We need to do this through the proper channels. I was thinking of making some slimming potions as a gesture of goodwill and offering my services as a mystic healer to the distressed princess and negotiate for a compromise with the dumb king. This way, you can find out more about Dorgon Flintstock while the citizens get to escape compulsory dieting.”

Truen listened to Zero's bad planning and smiled. Zero had great ideas as always but the doctor was a mess when it came to details. ”Understood. We will do it the way you want but you must leave the planning and preparations to me. You can't possibly be running to and fro between the princess and searching for Dorgon. It's not efficient. Instead, why don't we do this...”

Zero ate and listened to Truen's plan, asking questions when he had any until it was late at night.