"Teachers, students, and parents of Bridge Public School, as the Kingdom's fifty-third Pri Minister, I am truly honored to be invited by my alma mater to stand here and share so thoughts on education."
A middle-aged man, similar in stature to a class teacher, appearing sowhat portly, stood at the podium in the center of the grand hall and greeted the teachers and parents below,
"As soone who spent my entire adolescence at Bridge Public School and completed my education at Bridge University, it might be a bit offensive to my forr teachers, but I must admit that Bridge Public School is not the top school in the Capital City.
However, the significance of education to a person is not just about acquiring knowledge in school; what truly accompanies each person throughout their life often goes beyond knowledge, such as..."
At this point, the Pri Minister of the Kingdom smiled at the audience. Just as he was about to ntion his wife, whom he t at Bridge Public School, to show off his wit and humor, he saw her sitting next to their daughter Charlotte, chatting animatedly with a handso young man with black hair and his face darkened. He imdiately skipped this mood-lightening part and continued his speech,
"Such as understanding and awareness of our society.
The teaching quality of the Royal Academy and Central Public School may be slightly superior to Bridge's, but education is not just for individual success; it also aims for social progress and the common welfare of the people. In terms of cultivating such qualities in students, Bridge Public School, rooted in the Old Town, is undoubtedly the best..."
...
"What a splendid speech."
Feeling the slightly malicious gazes, Leon instinctively glanced at the middle-aged man speaking confidently on stage, then turned back and complinted the Pri Minister's wife next to him,
"Despite being usually busy with state affairs, to have such unique insights on education truly befits soone of the Pri Minister's stature."
"Your Grace, you flatter ."
Appearing around thirty-six or thirty-seven, although she had a few crow's feet, the Pri Minister's wife still exuded charm and laughed,
"Stephen's ability in state affairs is naturally excellent, but it does take away too much of his energy, so he doesn't get involved much with the children's matters. He speaks about the big picture because the details are not his forte."
"That is already sufficient."
Holding lanie, Leon shook his head and said,
"As the saying goes, 'The Pri Minister is the rudder, the King is the anchor.' As long as the Pri Minister controls the big direction and determines where this ship of the Kingdom sails, the rest, like setting sail and keeping watch, can naturally be done by those more skilled. The Pri Minister only needs to hold the rudder steadily... By the way."
After the customary polite exchange, Leon extended his hand to touch his shiny cufflink and pressed the reflection of Yang Jiao on the cufflink with his fingertip, casually asking,
"Lady Marsha, you ntioned before that you wanted to consult
about so matters related to my 'work'?"
"Yes."
The Pri Minister's wife hesitated, then glanced at lanie in Leon's arms.
Noticing the gaze from the Pri Minister's wife, Leon smiled, and then to lanie's horror, handed her over to Anna beside him.
"Wait! Wait a minute! Brother! I haven't..."
"lanie!"
Swiftly twisting lanie's ear, then lifting her by the collar while she futilely kicked her little legs, Anna, who had endured long enough, gritted her teeth and said,
"Brother has work to attend to, don't disturb him!"
"I... ump!"
Sorry, little sister, I'd like for you to get into less trouble, but things related to 'abnormal' are too dangerous, really not suitable for you to hear.
Giving lanie a helpless look, Leon leaned slightly towards the Pri Minister's wife and whispered,
"Lady Marsha, what matter do you wish to discuss now?"
"Alright, I mainly have two things I want to ask. The first thing is... I want to inquire about soone in your office..."
Biting her lower lip with so embarrassnt, the Pri Minister's wife leaned towards Leon's ear, blushing, and said,
"Your Grace, do you happen to know soone nad Pioni?"
Pioni?
Hearing this na, Leon pondered for a mont, then recalled that he seed to have seen this na on the office naplate diagonally across from Senior Jerry's office.
However, this Senior Pioni seed to be on so notoriously troubleso long-term mission, and up until now, Leon hadn't seen him at the office, and the office had always been empty, with dust on the doorknob.
"I suppose you could say so; Senior Pioni is a Level Two crisis handler in the office, not far from mine..."
Giving a sowhat vague answer, looking at the seemingly embarrassed Pri Minister's wife, Leon couldn't help but blink and asked softly in surprise,
"Lady Marsha, might you and Senior Pioni be..."
"We... are considered friends."
The Pri Minister's wife's face instantly turned redder, and she stamred,
"That kind of... um... very good, very close friends, much closer than ordinary friends, the kind to whom we tell everything."
"..."
Understood, the kind the Pri Minister can't know about, right?
Seeing a hint of understanding in Leon's eyes, the Pri Minister's wife really couldn't bear this topic anymore. She bent her head to rummage through her handbag and handed over a letter that seed to have been written for so ti.
"Your Grace, if possible, could you please deliver this letter to Pioni and... and pass a ssage for ?"
Seeing Leon's sowhat speechless expression, the graceful Pri Minister's wife turned her head, embarrassedly whispering,
"Just say... just say I'll be waiting for him at the usual place every Monday noon..."
"Alright..."
Taking the letter wordlessly and putting it away, Leon, a bit stiffly, said,
"And the second thing?"
"The second thing..."
The Pri Minister's wife hesitated slightly, then whispered,
"May I ask if there is sothing in this world that can make soone impersonate another's relative, yet the concerned person not notice at all, sothing very special like that?"
?!
Hearing the Pri Minister's wife's words, Leon's pupils couldn't help but contract sharply, imdiately recalling the photograph placed in the Mirror World.
Such an anomalous object indeed existed, and currently, the most well-known example of the highest hierarchy of this category was created by the Aquarius Director using the blood and flesh of the God of Enlightennt, with Anna's longing for family as the introduction, resulting in the anomalous object "What If," which just happened to be in his possession!
"Lady Marsha, why do you ask?"
Putting himself on high alert, Leon rubbed his cufflink polished like a mirror, signaling Young Ha inside to prepare, while maintaining a calm deanor to ask,
"Could it be... you suspect soone related to you has been 'replaced'?"
"Rather than 'replaced,' it seems more like there's suddenly an additional relative out of thin air..."
The Pri Minister's wife reached into her embrace, took out a silver kite-shaped bird pendant, and softly explained,
"This is sothing Pioni gave , saying it could release
from the effects of those 'things' in your 'work content' once. And when my niece visited a while back, it suddenly activated once."
Leon squinted slightly upon hearing.
"So you suspect this niece of yours isn't actually your real niece, but used so special 'thing' to affect the mory of you and possibly your entire family?"
"Yes."
The Pri Minister's wife nodded and then said worriedly,
"I've tried to probe verbally, but both my husband Stephen and the children's mories include this person nad Nicole, and even recollections of her visiting annually, yet I have no such mory at all..."
"Wait!"
Hearing this, Leon's eyebrows couldn't help but raise slightly.
"You just said... what is your niece's na?"
"Nicole, she said her na is Nicole."
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