Transmigrating from a zombie world to become the mecha kings wife
Chapter 505: Adler the lunatic.

Chapter 505: Adler the lunatic.

Half of the Su siblings were thoroughly enjoying Etienne’s little disciplinary session. It had been a very long time since someone managed to get one over Scarlet.

Carolyn in particular was enjoying watching Scarlet be all tongue tied. She had finally met an opponent in the family she could not take down.

It was pretty funny to watch her squirming.

"Last on my list," Etienne continued, "is how you reacted once you identified the culprit behind your attack. You could have and you should have instructed your RGB officers to arrest him. If not them then your guards but instead, you used your mental strength to drag him out and question him in front of everyone."

Scarlet held back the response, "That was not a crime, how is it wrong?"

"Members of the royal family are not allowed to expose the full extent of their capabilities to the commoners." Markay chimed in.

He waved his phone in the air.

"My parents, err, the emperor and empress are also watching us right now. Video call, they were worried and sort of in the same boat as grandpa Etienne." he added.

Everyone lowered their heads and bowed in the direction of the phone.

The video call turned into a hologram one so that everyone could see them vividly.

"Ease up everyone, we are here as family members not emperor and empress." the empress told them.

They raised their heads and then silence. No one was saying anything anymore, not even Etienne.

"Continue Etienne, I will jump in if I have something to say. I like where you were heading." The emperor said.

All eyes turned back to Etienne Wu and Scarlet sighed slowly.

He opened his mouth and said, "Uhm, like I was saying, it is of utmost importance that commoners cannot guess our levels of mental strength.

You should always remember that those who seek to overthrow our family will never cease to exist. We cannot make everyone in the empire happy with all of our decisions all the time.

If the enemy knows how strong we are, they will send someone more powerful than we are to deal with us if they decide to rebel or kill us."

"Right now, people on star net are debating on whether your mental strength is C, B or A level. Your enemies are watching and doing the same." Markay jumped in and said. "If you have enemies that is." he added.

"If they are to send someone to deal with you, they will dispatch of a S level assasin." The emperor chimed in.

"I didn’t know this." Scarlet said.

"You would if Esong took his home duties as serious as he takes his mecha warrior duties." Emmett commented.

"So should I give up my mecha warrior duties then father?" Esong retorted.

"That is not what your father means." Emory rushed in to add.

"We are going off track, let’s come back to the main issues at hand." Etienne banged on the floor with the walking cane Scarlet had given him.

Not that he needed it but he used it anyway anyway and so did many of his noble friends now. It was like a trend among the seniors.

"We have all made that point clear and Scarlet understands it. I should talk about the last issue which is her use of mental strength on a commoner in public."

"Yeah, that’s bad." Beord said.

Everyone nodded or mumbled yes, agreeing with him.

Etienne pointed to Esong and Markay and said, "They can get away with it because they are a mecha warriors so when they are violent in public everyone assumes it’s for a good reason."

"It always is." Esong practically growled the words out.

"Totally." Markay added.

The Su brothers raised their eyes and shared a few looks remembering the dead Atlas.

Carolyn too was doubtful of Markay’s defense of himself given the stories about him which had baptized him the name the prince of death among the commoners.

Was it really always for a good reason?

"I am not accusing you of anything Esong. I am making a point." Etienne told him. "When you do it, nobody thinks much but when she does it, the commoners immediately jump to member of the royal family abusing her authority. That is closely followed now by governor abusing her power and careless mecha king’s wife not knowing her limits."

He touched his terminal and showed them three trending articles with those exact titles.

"Everything that you do in public is closely watched dear and while you have millions of people that love and adore you in the empire. You also have millions that don’t and they would love to see you being ruined." The empress said.

Etienne sighed and finally took a seat. He felt as if he had been speaking for a entire day.

Cecily quickly handed him a bottle of water, Scarlet’s crystal water which was reserved for the family.

After taking a sip, he looked at the couple which was the center of attention.

"Now you can defend yourselves." he told them.

Scarlet clenched her hands and said, "I am sorry for a lot of things but using my strength on that man.....I am not sorry."

Some of the Su’s groaned. Her stubbornness never failed to make an appearance and shine through even at the wrong time.

"I support my sister." Adler declared.

"Of course you do." Carolyn said sarcastically.

Fey and Elroy giggled while Beord slapped Adler lightly on the back.

He gave him a thumbs up. It was expected that he would stand beside her. She was his favorite person in the family, it was loud and clear.

Scarlet was honestly surprised. Was Adler blindly loyal to her that he would support her through thick and thin or was this a Su’s vs Wu’s situation.

"Let me explain myself." Adler added. "I have watched my sister invest her time and money into food research. She risked her life by going into that forest on her own to find edible foods.

She spends sleepless nights in her herb garden and lab searching for ways to make food grow faster so that everyone in the Sunstar will never have to starve again. What she has sacrificed for this purpose, none of us has.

The effrontery of that bastard to take something she worked hard on and use it like that.....it’s criminal." he grimaced as he explained this with a pained look on his face that surprised everyone.

He wondered if none of them recognized the sacrifices she had made for some ungrateful people to live good lives.

"I say we should change the rules now. If the people don’t appreciate food, let’s ration it. Five tomatoes per household for a week, one bag of rice for a year or a month. One loaf of bread per week for every family."

Someone gasped.

Cecily held her head as if she was going to faint and Etienne caught her. His wife ate one loaf of bread by herself for three days and this lunatic was saying one per week for an entire family.

"And when it comes to milk, one bottle a day for each family. Let them dilute it with gallons of water if they want everyone to drink."

"Shut him up, someone shut him up." The emperor yelled.