This was a kingdom of steel and machinery.
A man of iron, dressed in a black-and-white uniform and wearing a sheriff's peaked cap, walked out of a towering building.
The iron man was extraordinarily handsome, except his skin had the color and texture of steel, reflecting a metallic sheen beneath the sunlight.
The moment he stepped outside, he raised his head. A red glint flashed through his eyes, and a series of beeps sounded by his ear. "Police order received. The third princess of the Ocaleg Royal Family has vanished from the secret chamber of the royal court. All sheriffs who receive this order are to begin searching immediately. Alert level: nationwide emergency."
"Sheriff No. 31 received the order."
"There is also a message from the royal family. If you encounter the third princess, do not reply to a single word she says, and do not make her angry."
"Understood."
The iron man, Sheriff No. 31, immediately entered the memory database stored within his mind and searched for information on the third princess.
In the end, the only information he found was a somewhat yellowed photograph. In it was a little girl in a pink dress, holding a puppy and smiling with innocent delight.
The words beneath the photograph read: "Third Princess of the Ocaleg Royal Family, Taisia. Danger level: Calamity-class."
Sheriff No. 31's brain short-circuited for a moment. The last Calamity-class disaster Heart Kingdom had encountered seemed to have been the super earthquake ten years ago that had nearly destroyed the royal capital.
And now, Princess Taisia, who looked utterly harmless, had actually been classified as Calamity-class?
Doubt flickered through Sheriff No. 31's eyes, but quickly vanished. As a steel puppet, he had been endowed with very few emotional templates.
Sheriff No. 31 glanced around and discovered that many