"?"
"Prince Manboshi, are you there?"
"Prince Manboshi?"
"Prince Manboshi..."
The Right Minister called several times before Fukaboshi poked his head out from the towering piles of documents.
"Right Minister? What did you just say?"
The Right Minister pressed a hand to his forehead. "Prince Manboshi, I was asking when my retirement application would be approved."
Fukaboshi scratched his head wearily. "Retirement? When did that happen? How come I didn't know?"
The Right Minister felt awful at those words. From the looks of things, the prince had completely forgotten his request and cast it out of his mind.
??!!
"Right Minister?"
"Right Minister, is that you?"
Only now did Fukaboshi seem to register his presence, and he ran over to the Right Minister in great excitement.
Along the way, he knocked some documents off a corner onto the floor.
Fukaboshi gripped the Right Minister's shoulders with both hands, his eyes bloodshot.
It was as though he had found his savior.
"You... you're just in time. Help me sort out these documents first. I'll be right back."
With that, he went straight out the door without giving the Right Minister any chance to react.
Only after Fukaboshi disappeared through the doorway did the minister come to his senses.
"Hey! Prince Manboshi!"
He shouted and chased after him, but Fukaboshi was nowhere to be seen.
There were only schools of fish playing in the curtain of water before him.
He knew he had been tricked by that menace of a prince.
Turning to look at the documents on the desk, he couldn't help his mouth drooping.
He knew Fukaboshi's promise to be right back probably meant he wasn't coming back at all.
Smack~
He slapped his forehead. Not only had he failed to settle his retirement, but now he was being forced