CHAPTER 312: CHAPTER 312: [THE DRAGON ON THE MAP]

Joseph just told Ethan about the news of the three reconstructions yesterday, and unexpectedly, someone is already looking for it today.

If Ethan hadn’t come to visit Hughes.

This old man might be about to experience an unwarranted disaster.

The Eldest Prince sure knows how to make use of people.

This Johnny and Ethan have a deep-seated grudge, like a mad dog.

Letting him out to bite people is the best.

"I really don’t understand what you’re talking about."

Ethan gently took a puff of his cigarette and shook his head.

"It’s okay, you can’t understand it here, but you’ll understand it when you come back with me."

With this, Johnny finished speaking, and this time, he no longer restrained his subordinates beside him.

His subordinate stood up and walked step by step towards Ethan.

Ethan still sat motionless, just watching him.

But the atmosphere in the room was already oppressive to the extreme, as if something was tightly wound, ready to burst at any moment.

"Ethan, you should be very clear, I have absolute law enforcement authority. I am now taking you back for investigation according to regulations. If you dare to resist, I have the right to violently arrest or even kill you."

Johnny spoke again at this moment.

Hughes couldn’t help but stand up. This old man still didn’t want to see his student get into trouble, he wanted to speak.

However, Ethan spoke first.

"Let me tell you a story."

"Oh?"

"The story goes like this."

Ethan flicked the ash and took another puff.

"There was an agent of the Kingdom Defense Bureau, maybe his name was Johnny, one day he brought his subordinates to the Kingdom Art Academy, he wanted to persecute the famous painter Hughes and his disciple Ethan. However, his subordinates had some conscience and didn’t want to do this, so they fought against him. In the end, his subordinates sacrificed their lives to protect two innocent citizens. What do you think, would the reporters like this story? Would your superiors like it?"

At the last sentence, Ethan exhaled a long puff of white smoke.

And Johnny just chuckled, about to give the final order, but then he found his two subordinates suddenly frozen, slowly turned their heads in the smoke, staring at him intently.

Johnny immediately reached for his waist.

However, the next moment, Ethan somehow appeared beside him, placing his hand on his shoulder, slowly whispering in his ear, "Do you know why in those adventure stories, maps always mark places as extremely dangerous with dragons abound, but not in the real world?"

Johnny was frozen there, unable to move.

Ethan continued, "Because the protagonists in the stories are destined, they won’t die even when encountering dragons. So what about you? Do you think you are the protagonist?"

Johnny’s hand left his waist.

And at this moment, the office door was opened again, and a stern-faced old man walked in from outside, loudly scolding, "You lackeys of the Bureau, what exactly do you want to do?! This is a sacred art hall! How dare you oppress my most important art mentor here?!"

Ethan recognized this man, it was Sir Shonari, the principal of the Kingdom Art Academy.

He had been knighted by the current King for his excellent management of the Academy.

However, this probably wasn’t the only reason he dared to speak so loudly.

Sure enough, after he finished speaking, someone else came out from behind him.

Ethan also recognized this person, it had been a long time since he had seen the Princess, Ainebez.

Ainebez appeared somewhat haggard, as if she hadn’t eaten or slept well these days, but she was still the Princess, and even if she was haggard, her noble aura was naturally radiating.

Johnny immediately stood up when he saw her, bowing to greet her.

"Get out."

Ainebez seemed to be in a bad mood, normally she would never say such things, but she did today, and she said it very coldly, very impatiently.

Johnny hastily fled with his two subordinates who just started to realize what was happening.

Principal Sir Shonari hurriedly went to inquire about Hughes’ situation.

Hughes shook his head, indicating he was fine.

Then the two tacitly walked out of the room together.

Just as the door was closing, Hughes still glanced at Ethan, probably meaning for him to be careful.

Ethan didn’t feel much pressure, holding his cigarette, he slowly walked to the window. Looking down, he saw Johnny, who had just fled embarrassedly, was struggling to separate his two brawling subordinates.

This was naturally Ethan’s handiwork as well.

As his ’True God Name’ grew stronger, he almost didn’t need to rely on clever words to incite violence in people’s hearts now.

"Thanks to you, otherwise my teacher and I would have been in danger, Your Highness. Thank you."

At this point, Ethan turned to look at Ainebez who had also walked over.

"Do you need me? Didn’t you handle it without me coming?"

Ainebez seemed ungrateful, and what she did next left Ethan momentarily unresponsive.

She snatched the cigarette from his hand and directly smoked it.

"Your Highness..."

"Didn’t you just thank me? It’s not too much for me to smoke one of your cigarettes, is it?"

Ainebez said and took a deep drag.

But it was obvious that she didn’t normally smoke, and she was immediately choked into a fit of coughing.

Ethan hesitated a little, but gently patted her back.

Ainebez stood there stiffly, and after a while, she coughed again, saying, "Why don’t you leave?"

"Do you think I can leave?"

Ethan seemed a bit helpless.

The cigarette was burning.

Ainebez didn’t smoke again, after a while she said, "Then why didn’t you come to find me?"

This sentence seemed very aggrieved, her eyes even seemed slightly moist, it wasn’t clear whether it was because of the smoke.

"Your Highness... I didn’t know where you were."

Ethan thought for a moment, and finally answered this way.

"Forget it."

Ainebez shook her head and handed the cigarette that was about to burn out back to Ethan.

"I’m hungry, accompany me to lunch."

Ethan was speechless.

The Princess who appeared dignified and approachable outside was completely different in front of him.

She was always so self-willed and rather domineering.

Ainebez left, she went back to freshen up and dress up, giving Ethan time to talk to Hughes alone.

"Ethan, thanks to you, otherwise today the teacher..."

Hughes couldn’t help but sigh.

He seemed to have aged quite a bit in this short month.

"Don’t say that, teacher, none of this is what you should bear."

Hughes indeed suffered an undeserved disaster.

He had spent his whole life focused on teaching and artistic pursuits, and yet his student...

"Ethan..."

He sighed for a while, but suddenly lowered his voice.

"Actually... I hid Marcel. I was afraid he would die at the hands of those people, so..."