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50 Chapter 50: A Hardworking Advisor (11)
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With everyone’s eyes on her, Swan got nervous instantly. She wanted to bury her head deep in the sand.
She was just a stupid, uneducated prostitute’s daughter who lived with maids her whole life. What qualification did she have to advise the king?!
She was frozen with fear and nervousness for a while until Gale gently rubbed her hair, “Don’t be nervous. I just want advice from my mate.”
Swan turned her head and looked at Gale who smiled at her and her nervousness
slowly dissipated.
She looked at the snake and badger beastmen back and forth before muttering, “Uhm, if death doesn’t scare them, then why not punish them instead?”
“Beating them or torturing them also won’t change a thing,” Gale replied. “They already have the intention to die when they fight.”
“N–no, not by physically hurting them…” Swan said. She shuddered as she realized the culture in the beastmen world was so bloody and violent. No wonder Gale could become so strong in the process. However, she knew that physical punishment wouldn’t work by looking at the soldiers in the Holy Achate palace.
She often saw those soldiers getting beaten up as punishment by their commanders, and once they were done with it, they would just laugh it off and train again.
Thus, Swan asked Gale, “In the city… do they have a job that will earn them some gold?”
“No,” Gale replied. “Most beastmen hunt for their food and share it equally with everyone in their tribes. It has always been like that from the dawn of age”
“I see, then, why not take their food as a punishment?” Swan said innocently.
The snake and badger beastmen’s eyes widened immediately.
“Y–Your Majesty, surely you won’t starve my family, right?” the snake beastman asked.
“This is a problem between us, and we are ready to die for it!” the badger beastman added.
“SILENCE!” Gale roared, and the air around the throne room became tense immediately. However, Gale quickly suppressed his aura because he didn’t want to hurt Swan. He returned his gaze towards his mate and asked, “What do you mean by
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that, Swan?”
“I–I mean, since we can’t let them pay fine with gold. Then, we can punish them with their labor,” Swan explained. She looked at the snake and badger beastmen who finally showed a hint of distress, a sign that they were more scared of starving their family than death. “If I were you, I’d tell them to hunt or gather twice the amount of food they have every day and send half of it to the castle for the soldiers‘ consumption. Make them work like that for a week, and I’m sure they will realize it’s better to make peace rather than working twice as hard with the risk of starving their tribes.”
“You heard her,” Gale declared. “I will not punish you with death. Instead, you two must send food to the castle every day for a week, and the guards will be watching over the food supply. If any of you dare to attack the other, then he will have to do this for two
weeks.
The snake and badger beastmen were terrified of this punishment because there was no pride in this. They were basically enslaved for a week as a punishment.
“Understood?”
“Understood, Your Majesty…” the snake and badger beastmen answered weakly as they were escorted out of the throne room.
Swan was worried that she might overstep, but Gale was impressed by how decisively
ruthless she could be.
“Did the Holy Achate teach you to give punishment like that?” Gale asked.
“Ah, n–no, it was just spontaneous…” Swan replied though she was lying as well.
It wasn’t spontaneous, because she used her own experience as a sample.
She had no money since she was young, and whenever she was punished by Aria or Queen Mother, it was either getting beaten, starved or had to do a basic labor task that
exhausted her so much.
She didn’t mind getting beaten a lot, mostly because her body already gotten used to it, but she was scared to be starved. It made her feel like she was on the brink of death.
Doing basic labor as a punishment was also exhausting because she wouldn’t be allowed to eat until she did whatever Queen Mother or Aria told her to do, from mopping all corridors with her dress, or sweeping the palace yard, which was difficult for someone who used crutches like her.
“At this point, you are a much better candidate to be my advisor than Jade, Gale praised, and Swan quickly shook her head.
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“I–I don’t think I did much. I’m just giving you an option…”
“And that’s the job of an advisor,” Gale chuckled. He was in an even better mood now. He wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled deeper into his embrace. “Jade told me that you might not be the First Princess of Holy Achate, because you don’t have the confidence, but she’s dead wrong.”
Swan held her breath as she gave Gale a nervous smile.
She couldn’t afford to get discovered now. She was scared that Gale would get angry had he known that she was indeed not even a princess.
She was a prostitute’s daughter.
“W–what does Lady Jade say about me?”
Gale thought that Swan was being nervous because Jade insulted her before, so he floored all the things he heard from Jade, “She said that a cripple can’t be the First Royal Princess of Holy Achate, and said that you don’t have the quality to be one. But don’t worry, Swan. I don’t believe any of her words.”
“B–but, my leg…” Swan murmured.
“About your leg, your mother told me that you had an accident when you were young, and no healer or medicine can help you,” Gale said. “I’ve been thinking of finding a healer for you. Humans might not have a suitable medicine to heal you, but some wolf packs have a great healer. I’m sure they
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Thank you for reading! ^–^
