Chapter 156: The Seventh Queen × Eve Festival × Setting sail!
On August 1, Joey and the others arrived in Kakin in separate groups.
At a little past six that evening, Joey arrived at the Huihui Hotel. The agreed starting time was seven, but security personnel were already waiting at the entrance to receive them.
From his interactions with them, however, Joey felt that some of them were probably guards working for individual princes.
But they were all ordinary people, at least as far as Joey could tell.
He could not rule out the possibility that some were hiding their aura to pose as ordinary people, but concealing themselves should have been unnecessary for this commission.
Instead, openly showing that they were maintaining Ten would have made it easier to pick out strong candidates from the ordinary applicants.
But that was not quite right either, because another layer of complexity was involved.
Higher-ranking queens could place guards in the security details of junior Princes.
In other words, even if a prince's guards could use Nen, they might not actually serve that prince.
They could instead have been planted there by a senior Queen.
That made their objectives worth examining. Whether they were there to assassinate someone or had some other purpose deserved consideration.
The overall situation within the Kakin Royal Family could be described as a complete mess.
Lower-ranking princes, especially those born to lower-ranking queens, were nothing more than fish on a chopping block in the succession war.
Without outside intervention, those junior Princes might not even know how they had died when the time came.
The person receiving Joey led him into a luxurious suite. Three other people accompanied him, all of them no more than ordinary people.
All three were around thirty. Judging by the way they