"Young master, no need to stand on ceremony with me. Since you'll be staying with us for a while, just speak your mind. If there is any help I can offer, I will certainly do my utmost to provide it."
"And as you know, there are relatively few men in our palace, so there will be many areas where we need your assistance. Please be understanding if there is anything we fail to attend to properly."
Queen Your Majesty spoke generously and appropriately. Seeing this, Uchiha Hikaru was deeply pleased, for he felt that he had finally encountered a truly sensible ruler.
However, Uchiha Hikaru still could not understand what strange things might be happening within this palace. He felt that such strange things could not possibly be all good; there had to be many bad things as well.
Otherwise, the people of the palace would not have invited him here to help, nor would every one of them wear such terrified expressions.
He also knew that everything and everyone in this country possessed considerable spiritual energy. Uchiha Hikaru could not understand why, if everyone had so much spiritual energy, they still could not protect themselves.
That was what puzzled Uchiha Hikaru even more. If they could protect themselves, why did they still feel so insecure? Why did their faces reveal such fear?
There had to be some reason that Uchiha Hikaru did not know about. He now wanted to quickly ask Queen Your Majesty what that reason was.
But he felt that Queen Your Majesty did not wish to tell him yet. He did not want to press her too hard, so he could only wait for the right moment, when she would tell him herself.
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