Chapter 55 - National Security request your attention... (2/2)
Anne was frustrated sliding through the messages asking for her help without any mention of how should they pay. She is not running a charity, though. However, deep inside her eyes, she was feeling something fun about to happen. 'So entertaining.'
'Just how?' Mellie wondered. He was a demon, an evil demon at that. Maybe the evilest demon of them all with the most outstanding record of souls in his bag. However, even if he was that powerful, there was something that he had never thought could appear, a weakness.
Those puppy big eyes that were pleading for a cookie were too much. They hold control over his hands and his mind. Once he tried to ditch them, to ignore them, but his efforts were for naught. His sight was drowned in the beauty of those deep blue eyes of Gandalf.
'How can he do this to me?' he thought, but his hand was already lowering and giving the cookie to the beautiful dog.
It was a kind of magical and strange situation, every single time a cookie appeared in Mellie's hand, Gandalf would come running as if he can feel or smell the cookie. It should be considered a talent, right? He would just pop out like some rabbit from a hat.
Mellie tried different places. Different rooms in the academy, Gandalf showed. At the knights training camps, Gandalf came running with his tongue out. At the gardening club, Gandalf jumped like a rabbit on the grass. At the choir clubs, he just happened to be there already as he was pranking those girls. At the Principal office, they disturbed a romantic moment called the Secretary and the Director. Then after those times, Mellie just went to the forest to eat his cookies alone, on top of a tall tree, but then… ”Woof!” he heard from afar.
”He is calling for me,” Mellie sighed and went down. From then on, he couldn't hide it anymore. If one cookie appeared on his hand, three more had to follow, of for Gandalf, one for Anne, and one for Moira. That girl somehow was also doing the same as Gandalf with her big red eyes. Though, nowadays, she had stopped eating half of the cookie, just half to give the other part to the idiot James that was waiting for her in the window of his tall tower.
”What should we do, Princess Anne? Those messages…” Tia was distressed reading through the texts, there were even more messages, but she found that those ones were the most important for now.
The others didn't seem that urgent.
[National Security request your attention, some strange army had appeared in the North, we ask for your cooperation to look into those matters secretly.]
[National Security request your attention, a report had come from inside the Academy, there is a complot to lead some of the most outstanding students and faculty members to join a secret group. Their motifs seem to be dangerous. We beg for your help to investigate the matter.]
[National Security request your attention, there had been a kidnapping, we need your help urgently to find the boy in the image below. We suspect that it was from the Secret group forming in the Academy. We need your answer asap, the fees of your work can be negotiated, for now, we can send you 1 million golden coins in advance.] RECEIVED.
”Tia, sometimes I love you so much,” Anne was laughing out loud when she read the messages that were sent to the second priority list. However, her hands were now tapping on the desk thinking and scheming.
”Princess?”
”Let's have a meet with the school club's representatives,” Anne said and sent a message. ”Though, I don't think they all will come.”
”Who will not come?”
Tia thought that all of the clubs were on good terms with Princess Anne, well, except from one. But those in that club had never risked their reputation by not showing up, it would be a disadvantage not knowing what the Princess was planning.
”You will see, my darling, you will see…”
Anne smirked and went to prepare her dress, ”Now, I should change clothes, right?”
”Why?”
”They think I am a Goddess, I should look the part, right?”
”…” Tia knew that the Princess only wanted to use the white long dress her dear Father had gifted to her a few days ago. She hadn't had the opportunity to wear it, but now… well, she just created one.