Chapter 302 (1): Everyone Has Good Traits, but not Those from Franc
Buckingham Palace.
Baron Kilmer, the newly appointed commander of the Royal Guards and the Knights of Honor, submitted a report to Queen Sophelia. After declaring war on Prussia, Windsor had been making grand declarations. While she hadn’t been doing nothing, she moved on immediately after snarling at injustices.
On the surface, Windsor was watching the fire burn from the sidelines as usual, sticking to the tradition of forgoing basic decency. In secret, however, Queen Sophelia had been concentrating the authority that had been delegated to the Tulip Families under the banner of the external war.
She moved decisively without pulling punches, her first swing hitting the framework of military and politics built around the royal family—the Royal Guards being one example. Members of the Tulip Families were marginalized and sent away from the Buckingham Palace under the guise of promotion, replaced with the elites that the royal family had been secretly training.
Such as the mysterious Baron Kilmer and the two Vice Ministers of Magic who had taken the posts with golden parachutes. Sophelia was sending a warning to the wildly spreading vegetation while trimming her home garden.
Plants couldn’t simply grow according to their natural tendencies alone. Although they craved sunlight, the scissors were in the hands of the homeowner, and a plant growing against the will of the homeowner would invite the scissors.
Slash!
Gone is your head!
However, those who were no strangers to revolutions would know that while the homeowner’s scissors were quick and fierce, the roots of the old trees were so complex and interconnected that the homeowner couldn’t just cut them the way they wanted. A skilled gardener needed to customize the pruning method according to the plants, their growing conditions, and the environment. Only then would a potted landscape be art, sellable at high prices to maximize the homeowner’s gains.
Careless pruning not only would leave the plants undesirable to the market but would likely also damage the scissors.
Clank!
Your scissors are broken!