News of Queen Diana's assassination attempt at the entrance to Tobesk Station spread quickly throughout the city that Wednesday, then outward across the entire kingdom and even the whole world.
Although the Queen herself, as the victim, had not been harmed, that afternoon Yodel Palace still issued a stern diplomatic statement from the Dellaireon Kingdom, condemning the despicable actions of the Kassenric United Kingdom.
Though both the Royal Family and Military Intelligence Section Six believed that this had not been the work of the "Gray Gloves."
The station's ribbon-cutting ceremony was naturally canceled at once. The police and the Royal Guard escorted the badly shaken Queen back to Yodel Palace.
The assassin had committed suicide, but everyone along the entire street had to be identified and cleared of being his accomplices before they could leave. As for the greatest contributor to the incident—Shade, who had sprinted across two streets only to inexplicably take a bullet—he woke up a little later under the watch of Military Intelligence Section Six, the police, Royal Guard escorts, and the personal servant left behind by the Queen, then was sent to Yodel Palace as well.
"What are you doing?"
Yodel Palace was not a single palace, but a palace complex. Although it was not especially large compared to the Royal Family's other estates and properties in Tobesk, aside from its superior location, it had been the residence of generations of royalty.
Sitting in the waiting room, Shade idly played with several coins in hand. He had won them from the lawyer during a game of Rhodes Cards several dozen hours ago.
The question had come from Miss Galina's personal maid, Tifa Servit. Shade was currently waiting to be summoned by His Majesty the King while "injured." To show due importance to Shade, the "life-saving benefactor,"