MY BELOVED KNIGHT'S
VISIT OF TIRA'S PARENTS
“Wuih, so many gifts that you can get, is it better we just donate them to others?” Anna said as she stuffed the objects that were gifts from the unknown person into a medium-sized cardboard.
“I was thinking about it, the important thing to get rid of first from the guest room.” Tira said without looking towards Anna.
“Please separate the good and appropriate items given to others, and the items that should be discarded.” Tira said that, because to him there were some items that looked quite terrible, and it was not worth it to be given to others.
If Anna is busy putting the gifts into the cardboard, Tira is busy removing all the greeting cards that usually come along with the gift[the gift, Tira is busy, and all this time he kept it in a drawer in the nightstand drawer in the living room room as well.
“Seeing these things, it seems that the one who gave you the gift is not just anyone, he must have enough money to be able to buy all these cheap gifts.” Anna said as she looked back at the things she was working on now, although actually whenever Tira got the gifts, she would tell Anna and let Anna see them.
Even sometimes Tira deliberately waited for Anna to open it together with her best friend.
“We can start thinking, who are the people around you who have enough money. We start from..”.
“What do you mean Anna? What name do you want to call? The people I know are people in the college environment. And you know, both lecturers and students in this place, the average comes from a rich family.” Tira immediately responded to Anna's words which could only let out a long sigh.
“True too….. Then where can we start to investigate who the real perpetrators of terror are?" Anna said as if asking herself who until this second, had not imagined who the figure that might do terror to Tira was.
"For now I don't want to think about it, because we're not detectives..”.
“Eh, Tira, how about we hire a detective to investigate who the madman who has been terrorizing you is?” As if getting enlightenment, Anna immediately invites Tira to find a detective to solve her problem.
“No. I'd rather ask Alvero for help than a detective. Rather than later the problem will be even more complicated, especially if the detective knows I am a Gracetian princess, fearing that he took advantage of this problem as material to get money by reporting it in the media.” Tira immediately rejected Anna's idea.
“After all, this is in America, not in Gracetian, which can be completely in the control of the people in my family. You know the lives of the nobles in Gracetian, especially the palace family has always been the highlight of the world that is so curious about us. I don't want to take such an obscure risk.” Tira again explained the reason for not wanting to hire detectives in America.
It was not that she did not believe in the abilities of those detectives, but that she had to think about her status as a Gracetian princess that was prone to being attacked by gossip for people who wanted to get news.
“Indeed to date, arguably, the country with the largest, most successful, and wealthy system of absolute government is the Gracetian state. A country with a royal system that still adheres to all the standard rules of the ancient royal way of life, but still follows the progress of the era. No wonder people like us, who are outside Gracetian are so curious about your life.” Anna tried to give her thoughts on it.
“Because it is better that I solve this problem together with Brother Alvero. He definitely had the best solution without having to expose this problem.” Tira said while lifting the carton that had been neatly closed by Anna.
“I'll keep it in the warehouse. If there is free time, I will donate it to the orphanage.” Tira said as he walked towards one of the small rooms at the back of his apartment to store the cartons containing gifts from his successor.
“OK. I'll throw away the part that you don't want to save this.” Anna responds to Tira's words while taking a plastic bag containing some gifts that Tira is not worthy of giving others, and putting it in the trash can at the end of the hallway of the apartment building.
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“Anna! Time to go to the airport.” Tira who saw the figure of Anna just out of the campus toilet immediately called her friend.
“Oke... wait a minute.” Anna, who today promised to take Tira to pick up her parents, answered immediately.
“Janetta, please return this book to the library so you can borrow it on your behalf.” Anna said while handing over the book she had borrowed in the library and that Janetta needed the book to do her college work.
“Oke Anna, I'll take care of it today.” A soft pat on Anna's shoulder carried Janetta before she went away.
“Let's go now. I can't wait to meet your parents. Luckily I was able to be the one to meet two important people from Gracetian.” Anna whispered softly as she hammered Tira's arm towards the parking lot.
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“How are you doing, son?” As soon as he met Tira, Ava Adalvino, Vincent's younger sister who is the biological mother of Tira immediately stretched her arms and as Tira approached towards him, a close and warm embrace was immediately carried out by Ava, and shower Tira with a kiss with longing.