Chapter 265 Not A Guest, But A Hostage



Christmas songs were still being blasted loudly in the air, coming out of different apartments and buildings. Everywhere one passed, they would hear the occasional 'merry Christmas or happy new year' greetings from happy strangers. Despite it being day and the two suns shining brightly, Christmas lights outside and inside were shining brightly. They were wrapped around artificial trees of different colors.

Carolyn and her people were certainly making a killing this season because the celebrations were in full swing and orders for trees and lights were still coming in. She was walking around with quite the smile on her face.

Scarlet smiled because Mina called it the 'I am getting some smile'. The smile was attributed more to Markey's presence than the impressive number of sales.

Just as she thought of Markey, Scarlet bumped into him outside of the maple leaf center. She was there because the baking tournament would be ended today and a winner would be picked. She was not sure why he was there so she acknowledged him with the nod of her head. They were not very chummy because he had yet to apologize to her for sticking his nose where it did not belong.

After nodding at him, she stepped to the right and almost bumped into the giants hockey team mascot, a large green frog. It was not an actual frog but someone dressed in a frog costume. Mascots were very popular in every sport on the Blue star and the tradition had been picked up by the mecha fights but rather than soft animal mascots, they had robots. You can trace the roots of this content at n0v@lbin

"Sorry." She mumbled.

"No worries miss governor." The frog replied.

"Careful," Markey approached her and said with a smile, "You might kiss the frog and turn it into a prince."

She raised her eyebrow and smiled insincerely, "Ha-ha."

It seemed, he was attempting to make a reference to the fairy tale about the princess and the frog.

"When should I send her packing back to the capital?" Scarlet asked with a smile.

Markay shook his index finger back and forth, letting her know that she was wrong. "You are asking the wrong question sister-in-law, it should be, when will the Xenoans be landing here on the Blue star?"

"Why would they come here?" She asked. They came for their princess, she should be sent to them.

"That's because the emperor does not want them anywhere close to the center of our empire. If they can control minds somehow, then it will be easy for them to gain access to the core secrets of our empire by controlling one of the ministers or my brothers and sisters. He can't send them to the green star or the yellow star because they have energy stone, gem mines and other important strategic resources. The Red star is out of question because we might have Xenoan prisoners there and spark a new war unknowingly. The grey star is too poor and rough so naturally, only the Blue star remains."

"So we are not important." She took offense to his words, or the emperor's logic.

"No, on the contrary, the Blue star is now beautiful, organized, and important but most importantly Esong and I are here. My father trusts that we will handle the Xenoans if they try anything clever. If they are genuine, then he hopes that they will see the blue star as a sign of a progressing empire and future trade."

"Okay, got it. We will make the proper arrangements to host the unwanted guests." she said.

But as she moved, he followed her.

"What, is there more?" she asked him.

"No, I am going where you are because I am one of the judges, surprise." he smiled.

She sighed, looked forward and kept walking.