Starting today, I was officially a wage slave.
Assath yawned, Isabelle yawned, Clili was full of energy, Medanzo yawned... and Miss Nan yawned too.
The task they had received from the grand wedding command center was to head to the central area and decorate the fountain. If they failed to finish within the allotted time, they would not get any food.
"Clili, keep it up! You're the best kid ever!"
"Don't worry, Mr. Assath. I'll work hard enough to cover your share too!"
That was why Mr. Assath could relax and laze around after reaching the destination... He was a vampire, after all. Working beneath the sun didn't suit him, so lying lazily in the shade beneath a tree was fine.
"You don't have to indulge him."
Isabelle shook her head at Clili as she spoke.
The little maid from the mansion merely smiled. Mr. Assath had always been useless like this. Whenever he helped around the mansion, he only made things worse; it was more convenient to work alone. Still, this was pretty good too. It was almost as though they had returned to those days.
"What happened over there?" Isabelle suddenly looked ahead.
At that moment, a crowd of onlookers had gathered on the nearby street, along with several soldiers from the Winter Kingdom... The crowd seemed to be growing larger and larger.
Nan Xiaonan and Medanzo had already blended into the crowd.
A man's corpse had been discovered in the alley.
"Make way, make way! There's nothing to see. A drunkard just froze to death, that's all!"
The soldiers were dispersing the crowd.
Even so, the murder had caused quite a stir in the peaceful Royal Capital... Ever since the little Princess had been born more than a decade ago, there had not been a single