“Brother, I’ve been waiting for you. I was originally going to contact you when you’re back, but…”

Upon seeing the great hospitality that the exhausted Baris was showing him, Davey immediately flicked his brother’s forehead.

“Aaack?!” Baris shrieked. He fell to the ground, looking up at Davey in embarrassment at the sudden turn of events.

Then, noticing the change that had occurred in his body, he immediately jumped up and exhaled. He exclaimed in awe, “Ah…!”

“It’s a simple fatigue recovery. How many days have you been awake?”

“Haha. Who knows? Probably a couple of days…?”

A person would probably have gone crazy without getting any sleep for three days or more. However, Baris had held out pretty well. It seemed like the playful and mischievous boy was now gradually growing from being exposed to the actual workings of the kingdom.

“Is it hard?”

“Yes. It’s hard,” the rascal unhesitantly said with a smile. “But I think that’s because my passion has grown. As I learn how to manage the state and kingdom’s affairs, I began to realize how hard our father is working.”

“Is that so?”

“Of course, I have made some mistakes over the course of my learning.” Baris chuckled, pulling out a letter from the inner pockets of his uniform. “This is a report. I did some research with the help of the book that you, Brother, has lent me for a while. It seems like the reports about a fire breaking out of the Haoji Mines were true.”

“The culprit?”

“That… I don’t think it’s the work of a human. Please take a look at this.”

Unlike on modern Earth where science and technology were spread far and wide, the Haoji Mines, with its poor...