Chapter 777: Chapter 259 - Hearing (part 1)

The meeting room of the royal castle was not empty despite no official meeting scheduled for the day.

There was a grim black-haired young man sitting on one of the chairs in a domineering manner and the regal aura surrounding him could easily compete with kings and emperors of the world. His wardrobe suggested him being an attendant but one look at him was enough to prove how disrespectful such an assumption was.

Atop of his lap sat a dark-skinned beauty with unevenly cut gray hair, her expression was more relaxed than the young man's but the wisdom in her eyes could not belong to someone looking to be barely eighteen as her appearance and demeanor would suggest. She was wearing a female school uniform of the Aspakeony Academy but didn't have a badge that would symbolize the year she was supposed to be attending and yet no one in the room was clueless enough to try to question her.