บท 161: King of Hearts

One night she received quite an unpleasant surprise.

The king of the Great East visited her in the form of Kinley in her dream.

"Because of you, I am now stuck in this body, since you people are unable to maintain any semblance of order," he said, or she said, and the question of who was doing the speaking depended entirely on the philosophy of the answerer.

"It seems to me like Your Grace has done that for himself," Serenica replied.

The king casted such an angry glance at her that she managed to control her tongue.

"What does Your Grace want?" she asked as cordially as she could manage.

"The thing with your eye was not my idea," the king said and shook Kinley's head. "I would never be satisfied with that. You aren't even blind. My wife, the queen, is too soft, she is too lenient when it comes to putting degenerates back in their place."