Chapter 99: Easy to Kill
"All this paperwork is going to be the death of me...," Muttered Jules wearily, as she leaned back in her seat and rubbed the sides of her head with a strained sigh.
Thanks to all the drastic changes being made in the Kingdom of Persona, her workload had increased astronomically, reports and requests were constantly flooding in from the other Knight Squads, and going through all of them proved to be rather mind-numbing work.
She was just going through the motions at this point, and she didn’t even remember most of the documents she’d approved and responded to, including Aster’s request to update the Knights’ uniforms...that was one she likely wouldn’t have approved otherwise.
As she slumped in her seat and let out a yawn, she then stiffened and quickly sprang onto her feet as the window behind her shattered, a couple of spherical objects flying in and erupting into clouds of smoke.
She quickly opened one of the drawers in her desk and pulled something out, letting out a cough as she inhaled some of the smoke, before leaping out of the broken window as the smoke billowed out and spread throughout her office.
As she landed on the ground outside the Knights’ headquarters building, she grimaced as a trio of hooded figured swiftly surrounded her.
"Who the hell are you? Do you realize who you’re up against?" She inquired icily, as she eyed them warily.
"Watch your tone, you sorry excuse for a Royal...you and your siblings are nothing short of a disgrace to the great Royal bloodline," One of them responded disdainfully.
"You may be powerful, but thanks to the poison smoke you inhaled, we can kill you easily. It should take effect any second now."
"Indeed, we are duty bound to restore our great Kingdom to its former glory. And killing you will be a major step towards accomplishing that goal."
"Poison, huh? Yeah, that doesn’t sound good. But unfortunately for you, it won’t work...before I vacated my office, I was able to grab this," She informed them, as she held up an Antidote Spell and activated it, before adding as a dark look appeared in her eyes, "Now, remind me...who exactly is going to be easy to kill? Because it sure as hell isn’t me."