Umm...what about no?
What about not doing something so blatantly dubious that most of the mop’s hair was already rising in protest?!
Going to the Bridge to sell things?!
How crazy was that?!
Okay, maybe Ollie was simply being overly jumpy again.
But honestly, the blonde was already dangerously close to emotional collapse after everything that had happened recently, despite him genuinely trying his best this entire time.
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See, just moments before scrambling over after hearing the deeply important news that they had successfully harvested honey for the very first time today, only to then discover they apparently needed to sell part of it to the Trove—
Ollie and his fresh-from-the-oven husband had actually just experienced an entirely unrelated tragedy.
Specifically, they had been unceremoniously thrown out of the treatment room currently occupied by one bee-carrying Jax and the allegedly motherly Killian Nox.
"..."
The mop had genuinely looked like discarded trash left outside someone’s house afterward.
Hunched over by the doorway—Ollie, undoubtedly the light of someone’s life—simply stood there blinking blankly while trying to process what had just happened.
Outside...
He was thrown outside...
How could that be possible when he had been doing his job responsibly?!
He was so responsible that even while his heart was screaming at him to investigate and listen to the tea, the blonde still managed to blurt out the Elders’ exact instructions with remarkable clarity:
"Just do exactly what you did last time to supply spiritual energy!"
He said it with a dramatic huff, even after being stunned out of his socks.
He clearly put a great deal of mental effort into this and had even prepared responsibly beforehand. In fact, the Elders had specifically instructed him to remain there and record the findings.
Things like how long the process would take and the respective conditions of everyone involved after supplying spiritual energy.
He—the reformed individual who had publicly vowed to become more than someone who only ate and mated—had arrived equipped with a clipboard and an actual pen so he could properly fulfill his duties.
Instead?
He ended up getting physically ejected by his own brother-in-law before even receiving clarification regarding Jax’s final words, which had apparently been important enough for someone to immediately slap a hand over the redhead’s mouth.
"!!!"
In the eyes of the currently shortest Nox, what had happened was something extremely tragic.
An injustice!
Though Kyle would say otherwise, as it was more like his wife getting bested by his clearly more experienced handler of a brother.
Naturally, the ever-so-invested blonde desperately wanted to know what that meant. Kyle could even see all the obvious signs on his extremely bright face.
Unfortunately, before he could ask, Killian had instead requested confirmation regarding the Elders’ instructions.
Just like always, his older brother would use a question to suddenly fluster the opponent.
And because Ollie was tragically cooperative (?) by nature, he immediately blurted the answer out.
Then, moments later—
Gasp!
The blonde, without even realizing he had accidentally released his trump card, was being thanked and dropped outside.
Kyle thankfully didn’t need to be told twice because after his back tingled in momentary panic, he himself figured he wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible.
And just like that, the two of them had become displaced and homeless (not).
"K-Kyle..."
Ollie slowly turned toward his husband with visible betrayal.
"Did they really just throw us out?"
Kyle, meanwhile, had also initially looked somewhat stunned, but for a totally different reason that he was still trying to wrangle with.
However, unlike his emotional little star, the adjutant recovered significantly faster.



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