"Yeah," she muttered.‘I hope Pete gets the time that he deserves and doesn’t come back into our lives. The police must have taken him into custody by now’ Hudson thought.***Meanwhile, in the magical world,Athens and the guard that was with him were standing in front of Hudson’s shop. Athens eyes were starting to close slowly as he was feeling sleepy. He was getting tired of waiting for Hudson to show up."My lord, today is almost over and there is no sign of Hudson; do you think it is wise for us to keep waiting here?" The guard asked calmly.Athens turned to look at him with an aggressive look in his eyes. "It is the king’s order that we wait here and seal up the shop. The reason I haven’t sealed the shop is because I had a little faith that Hudson might show up, but since he clearly isn’t coming here today, we are going to seal up the shop and go to sleep," Athens stated boldly."Forgive my interference, my lord," the guard replied as he did a half bow. He could tell that what h

“Your Majesty I went on a vacation for those days that I was not at the shop and most of my workers knows that I usually go on those types of holidays once in a while,” Hudson answered softly hoping that the king would understand his excuse.The king started stroking his chin. He thought that since Hudson went on a holiday somewhere in Magnitoz city at least he would have heard that they were looking for him.“Are you sure you went on a vacation?” Alexander asked curiously. He wanted to believe Hudson but he had to be thorough.“Your majesty pardon me, there is something I need to add!” Athens raised his hand from next to Hudson.“Go ahead,” Alexander permitted.“Your Majesty, if Hudson went on a vacation just like he said, he would have at-least heard that we were looking for him or better still not have spent as much days away as he did. Even when he came back to the shop, we didn’t see where he came from, it was like he sprung out of nowhere. I think he is lying to us,” Athens stat

Hudson was sitting on the ground of the dungeon with his hands chained to the ground. He was feeling a rush of different emotions flowing through his body. ‘Of course everything I said about the resort was a lie, and I don’t know how the king knows it’s a lie, but from just gazing into his eyes, I could tell that he knew it was a lie, but he still wants to investigate it and then take over all my shops. If he does that, I am sure my workers will realize that he has me locked up inside the palace. I hope Ajax realizes it too. Because I don’t see an easy way out of this and he is giving me two weeks before he poisons me to death, the time I have on my mission now is not even up to those two weeks. I will have to find a way to escape from this dungeon before then. I can’t afford to fail this mission and then be demoted down two missions, and I also need to find a way to get rid of this grip that the king now has on me. I don’t see any crime that I have committed against him that he would

Ajax's face-changing potion didn’t just change his face into a random face; it was the face of one of the top-ranked guards in the palace. The potion was designed to give him the face of anyone within a particular field that the drinker was thinking about, which in Ajax's case was a palace guard. So Ajax knew he had that to his advantage.Ajax noticed a group of guards that were all heading into the fortress. He saw that they were all carrying different items that seemed to look like food items as they were all going through the main gate. Ajax quickly snuck over to the carriage that had the food that the guards were grabbing, stood up, and picked up a bag of food that he had no idea what was inside. After that, he joined the line of guards as he slowly went into the palace.‘What is inside this bag? My best guess is wheat or rice; I don’t know, but that doesn’t matter; this must mean that all the guards that are carrying these bags are heading towards the palace food storage or kitch

***Hudson and Ajax were sitting in front of each other behind a table in a fancy restaurant. They just finished eating when Ajax called the waiter to come and clear the dishes as he paid for their food."How do you feel now after eating?" Ajax asked, staring at Hudson."I feel good; it has been a while since I ate a full meal like this," Hudson responded with a bright smile."So, tell me, how did you end up getting arrested by the king, and since when have you been in his custody?" Ajax inquired. He looked around the restaurant to make sure that no one was eavesdropping on their conversation."It’s a long story; I will try to summarize everything as quickly as I can," Hudson responded. He started narrating to Ajax how he got arrested when he came back from the modern world and was taken to the king. He narrated how the king questioned him to know where he had been for the past couple of days as they had been spying on him. After lying to the king multiple times about his whereabouts,