Chapter 225 Santas Repor

--The Capital, The Empire of Carona--

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Santa stood at the hallway powerlessly, as he looked at his fire breathing wife.

All his feelings of excitement had been thoroughly washed away by her cold aura.

He couldn’t help but smile bitterly, as he continuously perspirated under her intense glare.

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"So why are you so late again?

Lie to me, and you’re dead!" Said the stunning beauty before him.

Santa looked at his future father-in-law, Carmelo...and grand father-in-law, Adrian.... who were currently standing besides Penelope, and hinted for them to help him out a little.

But to his dismay..... the shameless duo kept looking upwards as if deep in thought while pretending not to his his gestures.

’Brat!!... are you trying to get us into trouble?"

’Since she’s your future wife, isn’t it only right for you to deal with her?’

’__’

"Ermm, Wifey can we talk about it inside?" He said helplessly.

"Sure... but only if you can make it to my study in one piece." Penelope said, while drawing her sword from her sheath.

’Shing!’

"Wait! Wait! Wait!.... let’s talk about it alright?" Santa said, as he tried to calm his fire breathing fiancee who was now running towards him at full speed.

His subordinate immediately handed a sword to him as if this was a normal occurrence.... and quickly patted his back, as if saying: ’Good Luck Bro’.

He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at the welcome party he had received after aiding Carona.

This was not what he had in mind.

’Cling!’

"I wasn’t late intentionally you know!" He said, while pressing closer to her face.

’Cling!’

"I came late because of a mission!"Nnêw n0vel chapters are published at novelhall.com

’Cling!’

A mission?

Well, she sure as hell didn’t send him out on any mission.

And to make matters worse, all these city lords had sent letters to to Penelope... talking about their own made up stories about the occurrences around their cities.

Those city lords had claimed that several innocent women and children had died from those disasters.

And due to this, they had requested for a ton of money to pay off the families, and many more requests.

Fortunately, they hadn’t sent anyone to investigate the issues yet..... since they had just received these letters a few days ago.

If these city lords dared to lie to them, then meant that they could also threaten people to act like they had lost their family members as well.

Adrian was also pissed off as well.

In short, he had already made a mental note to deal with them in the nearest future.

How dare they disregard the royal family’s orders just to feel up their pockets?

It looked like he would have to pay these places a visit real soon.

"Are you sure that no one was hurt?" Grandpa Adrian asked.

"Yes grand father-in-law..... I even passed through one of those cities on my way here.

There wasn’t any damage to the city... as well as the main roads.

The phenomenon only occured around the forests.

No innocent citizens died.... just the guards who were guarding those underground camps."

"It’s obvious that they’re planning to use the money they requested, in getting more guards rather than aiding the people.

But..... should we oblige them?

On one hand if we give them money, then they’ll think that they had successfully deceived us.

And in doing so, we wouldn’t be able to alert Nopline.

But on the other hand, if we don’t give them money... then they might start fearing our counterattack and alert Nopline." Penelope said.

Even though they knew that giving the money was more beneficial, their hearts were still heavy at the thought that they would be giving criminals the citizens hard earned money.

Taxes collected, and most times... money could be sent out to aid those in need.

The thought of giving the money to greedy nobles, rather than hungry peasants... made their bloods boil slightly.

No one wanted to be treated like a fool.... so it was indeed painful to send money to someone who took them as such.

"Actually, you all don’t worry about this matter... I’ll handle it." Santa said.

In fact, he had made a huge steal from these missions with Landon..... So he was willing to use part of the money to solve this problem.

For him, this was money that he didn’t work for as a merchant.... and it wasn’t coming from Carona’s treasury, so it was okay for them to use it.

"Let’s go with what you said then."