Electus - Chapter 500

As he gazed at the lady in front, the King put in an effort to break in the conversation. “Crisa, I’ve had my eye on you for a while now…”

Dropping the wet cloth she just used to clean the table, Crisa turned around and indeed spotted King Zar, with a few roses on his hands. “Uhhh… what do you mean?”

Her beauty, truly dazzling. Hair shining greener than ever, the black coloured maid outfit she was wearing somehow only made her more beautiful, the white details on the outfit carving out detail.

Walking a couple of steps closer to hand her the flowers, Zar cited as a blush grew on the lady’s face. “I mean, will you go out on a date with me?”

And suddenly, the kind ill.u.s.tratian lady’s knees felt a bit weak, losing balance she leaned towards the King and fell on his arms. “Sorry.”

Smiling and enjoying the half hug from his lady longer than he expected, Zar expressed. “Don’t be, I appreciate the enthusiasm.”

“So, you really want to go on a date with me?” The young lady asked, wanting to reassure she wasn’t being delusional.

Fixing his gaze on her eyes, Zar spoke softly as he deciphered. “Yes, sorry I didn’t ask you out earlier, it just really isn’t something easy to say.”

“I understand…” Crisa answered, feeling the King’s arm around her waist.

Well this was really happening, now the lady feels sure at least. And therefore, her mind opened up for other questions. “Where will we go?”

“There really aren’t many fancy places to go here, so we can rely on the castle.” Pulling her in closer for a more relying hug, Zar questioned. “So if you’re comfortable with going to the second floor with me, we can have our date there.”

Still hesitant, the young lady answered. “Ummm… I don’t know, my mom should know about this first.”

Speaking her language, Zar deciphered. “Oh but she does, I asked permission from her first.”

Knowing that the King isn’t nearly known for lying, Crisa grabbed the flowers and sighed with satisfaction. “Okay then, I accept to go on a date with you.”

Enjoying the smile on Zar’s face, the young ill.u.s.tratain lady had to weigh in another demand. “But no ale! And I want to walk out before midnight.”

Expecting this most definitely, Zar pulled her in for a closer hug and afterwards bent down to slip his hand under the kind lady’s knee.

Lifting her up after, he started walking towards the edge of the throne room and guaranteed. “I promise you’ll get to your room safe.”

…

“So how was the date?” Seer asked as he walked into the throne room, this time however he didn’t carry any doc.u.ments.

“It was nice, she’s a very interesting lady.” Zar answered, his tone becoming softer by the mentioning of Crisa. “We loved talking about mental well being before, she’s been there for me no doubt but she sure has a lot of other stuff to talk about. After she stopped being shy that is.”

Carrying a wider smile, the personal assistant explained after a sigh. “Well that’s good, for a moment I thought that your only relation to her was mental health, didn’t know how to break that to you.”

Flinching his eyes, Seer tried keeping calm with a little topic shifting. “No no, plenty of other connections, she’s a smart lady. I meant to ask though, how’s your daughter?”

“She’s bursting with love and that love keeps exploding in her diaper, but apart from the smells, she’s a bundle of giggling joy.” Their little daughter has been the highlight of their lives but it was nice that his wife can get back to work, now Seer at least had time to breathe.

Missing the cute little girl already although seeing her a few times, the King recommended. “You should bring her to the castle sometimes, this place needs more life instead of guards in shining armour.”

Remembering the reason he came here for, Seer broke in. “Speaking of life, the Zamerians are happy to be here but we can’t understand a thing they’re saying.”

Having this problem reported a few times so far, Zar raised an eyebrow and asked in a perplexed tone. “But the ones that were here for a longer time understand us by now, right?”

“Yes, we can understand them easily but they’ve been here for a few months. The 500 new ones have no idea what we’re saying and guard commanders often have to tag along translators.” This has indeed become a growing problem, it needs an easier fix considering the over population in Zameria is far from fixing.

Taking a few seconds to analyse his wordplay, the King sensed a pattern here and therefore questioned. “We have to do something about that, I’m assuming you have an idea.”

Cutting right to the case, the personal assistant pitched. “I do actually, what if we open a school?”

“A school… to teach people our languages?” Zar asked, trying to understand this idea to the furthest extent.

“Not just for the newcomers, but for everyone. We have 4,200 citizens and most of them don’t know how to read and write, wouldn’t it be nice to have well educated people here?” A grand way to pitch the idea and to enhance the thought of it, Seer added. “It’s not like we can’t afford it, the monthly profit still remains 289,000 gold coins.”

“We have coins to spare… you have a good point.” The King complimented, trying to find the flaws which will inevitably lead to finding the solutions. “But we don’t have teachers.”

Instantly coming up with a solution, Seer pitched. “We can ask Tedradia for help, she has smart friends and is smart enough herself, she can find us teacher material people.”

“At this point we only need people who can read and write, Ignites and ill.u.s.tratios, both accents have to be understood.” Well now the King became tad more enthusiastic about it.

Not forgetting detail, the personal assistant cited. “And Zamerians who understand our language, we need those to translate.”