Chapter 56: The Royal Palace

After the soul of the man died, his physical body too disintegrated into nothingness. One small mistake and the man left the world with no way to even find his body.

“Who are you?” Johnny asked Aakesh this question for the umpteenth time, but as usual, Aakesh expressionlessly and silently followed him. Johnny gritted his teeth in anger after getting no response for the umpteenth time.

He would’ve already tried to beat him if there wasn’t a hint of fear in his heart for the store owner. He still couldn’t believe how he couldn’t find an invisible room in the store for hours.

“Hey, how could you make your room invisible?” He asked Aakesh after finding no response to the question in his mind. But as usual, he remained silent and expressionless.

Johnny even believed that the store owner was faking to move under pressure. He couldn’t get Aakesh to speak no matter how much pressure he applied. So it felt lie to him that he could force the store owner to follow him.

It was due to Lily that he was acting like this. She wanted to see a play, so she told him to fake moving under pressure. He couldn’t refuse her, so he played as she desired, but he wouldn’t answer like a prisoner to a weakling like Johnny no matter what. It would be beneath him.

They reached the palace with johnny asking numerous questions and Aakesh silently following him. Aakesh looked at the royal palace only once to feel disappointed by its appearance. Observing the lives of his customers in the previous store, he saw royal palaces too great to be compared with this one.

“Now, we’ll see if you would speak or not,” Johnny scoffed when they arrived at the palace. Aakesh ignored him and followed him expressionlessly.

“Army chief!” The guards standing at the door of the palace bowed when they saw their leader. Johnny only nodded and went forward.

Pinto and Barry were waiting for Aakesh in the throne room. Johnny directly brought Aakesh to the throne room with him.

“Your highness, I brought the criminal!” He announced at the door of the throne room.

“Enter!” Pinto emotionlessly responded as he stared at Aakesh.

“Thank you, Your highness!” Johnny thanked and turned around to grab Aakesh, but before he could touch him, his face lost all the colors and went pale. He stumbled two steps away, stunning both the king and the Prime minister sitting in their position.

Johnny looked at Aakesh with a horrified look, as just a moment, before he saw himself dying in several ways when he was trying to grab Aakesh’s hand. Aakesh ignored his reaction and instead entered the throne room.

He found the chair closest to him and sat down on it. Johnny wanted to speak, seeing Aakesh’s disrespect for the king, but right when he tried to talk, the previous illusions of dying emerged in his mind, and his words got stuck in his throat.

“So, you’re the head of the Schiller family,” Aakesh ignored the king and instead focused on the Prime minister.

“How dare you sit without asking permission from his highness?” Barry ignored his question and instead angrily asked him.

“Why would I ask for his permission? I do whatever I deem right,” He asked while pointing at the king sitting on his throne.

Pinto didn’t speak anything to the insult as his uncle had just informed him that Aakesh was even powerful than him. “We’ll talk about it later!” He then announced and brought the matter to an end as later would never come.

“Tell me, why did you kill so many of my citizens?” Pinto asked as he stared directly at the eyes of Aakesh.

“I wanted to,” Aakesh casually responded while he too looked directly into the eyes of the king.

“HOW DARE YOU?” Barry angrily shouted at Aakesh, hearing his reason.

“Calm down, Prime minister,” Pinto slightly turned around and gently told Barry to calm himself. Despite learning that Aakesh was more powerful than his uncle, he still wasn’t afraid because he still had the gift that his grandfather gave him in their first meeting.

“Who are you, and who gave you the guts to come here and do whatever you want to?” Pinto’s voice turned cold and emotionless as he asked Aakesh.

“Tell me, are you the head of the Schiller family,” Aakesh ignored Pinto and asked barry once again.

An emotion of rage emerged on Pinto’s face after Aakesh ignored his question. It was the first time someone ignored him after he became a king. It made him remember the situation when he was only a prince who was responsible for his mother’s death.

“I am the head, so what?” Barry responded in anger.

“Good, I had plans to visit your family, but since I have already met you here, I don’t think I would have to make any more plans,” Aakesh expressionlessly responded. With the death of their head, it would be easy to root the family out despite himself not involving in the situation.

An ominous feeling emerged in his heart after listening to Aakesh. He had already feeling something terrible happening since the death of Fred, but now after hearing the store owner had plans to visit his family, he finally knew where the feeling emerged from.

“Why did you decide to visit my family?” Barry asked with a slight tremble in his voice.

“Your family’s time has come!” Aakesh bluntly responded, making Pinto and Johnny’s faces gape in disbelief while Barry’s legs started shaking due to fear.

“How dare you talk like this in the presence of me?” Pinto angrily said as he stood up from his throne and glared at him.

“I hereby permit the army to arrest this man and put him in prison. I would decide matters related to his execution and announce it in upcoming days,” Pinto suddenly angrily announced in the spur of the moment.

“As you command, your highness!” Johnny bowed after receiving the announcement.

“GUARDS!” The next moment, he shouted with his full might. It almost shook the entire palace. In no time, guards arrived outside the throne room.. Aakesh only expressionlessly looked at the happenings.