The young man appeared on the screen with a calm face. He looked at the reporters and said, "So you all want me to give up everything that I have built for the welfare of the people?"

The reporter was scared but he decided to put up a brave front and said, "Yes, is it wrong for you to give out some of your immense wealth to the welfare of the people?"

Leo nodded and replied, "I have been running charities for a few years now, and the people have benefitted a lot. Yes, the purpose of the Lunar base is to support high level research, but it is something that was built with the resources put in by my company and the rest of the shareholders in the project.

However, please let me take this moment to clarify, I am not a saint who would sacrifice myself towards those who are ungrateful. If the people start getting everything for free, it would make them nothing but dependent. Another thing is that the purpose of this Lunar Base is to support the second level of Space Travel.

With this more and more people would find out the marvels of space. Also, please let us not forget that the Lunar Base is located on Moon, where the surface is prone to getting hit by the flying meteors, although the possibility of the lunar base getting hit is low, the impact that the surrounding meteors create upon collision is a major factor as well.

So, before we send the researchers on board, we need to add high level defense weapon to protect the place as well as conduct some live test on the intensity of the earthquakes. So, before you try to find your big scoop, please take into account all the factors that can destroy the human life in a blink. The shareholders of such a big project and the people who have been working on it are not fools."

He shut down the reporter alright, the man could not even think that Leo would give him a politely brutal reply, as if a knife sliding through his ribs. It burned more than it hurt. The reporter was left speechless, and Leo said, "If you all don’t have any more questions, then I would like to call it a day, and get on with some important stuff."

At this moment, Lily’s voice echoed from behind him, "Baba, Elle is awake, she is about to poke Jules awake too."

Leo sighed and disconnected the call before he went to attend to his children. Percie smiled and replied, "President Snow resigned from all positions that she held in the company last month and she transferred the equity that she held to President Leo. So, we would like to inform you all, that if anyone tries to malign her, it would cause you guys a lot of trouble."

...

Snow also watched the presentation on the television, and she looked at her assistant, "Stephanie, get the quotation for the space travel tax ready and send it to the Cardinal Group."

The lady nodded and replied, "It will be delivered in the morning."

Snow nodded, and replied, "So, for the day the work is finished, I will go back to rest now, all this has been tiring."

Stephanie nodded with a smile, "The royal leave letter came in, His Majesty has approved your leave for the birthday party of the twins."

Snow nodded and replied, "That is kind of him, I will send him my thanks in the morning, also, would you like to bring your children along for the party?"

The lady was surprised and asked, "How can I go? The Lunar base is not that big plus, you would have your own people there, no?"

Snow shook her head and replied, "It is big enough to handle things, plus, apart from the children in Lily’s class, and a few close friends, the rest of the people would be the robots that have been stationed on the base to monitor that the human element does not cause any trouble there. After all, that place is very fragile and very much needed by the people of the science community. So, you can come along, it is safe."

Stephanie was reluctant but when Snow dragged in the matter of how the ministry of finance would gain traction, the assistant folded. After a few minutes, the people got in their cars and drove back to the temporary accomodation where they were staying and Snow found that all the members of the Cabinet were gathered together for a meal in the cafeteria. They had been forbidden from communicating the people of the other departments. When Snow arrived, they all greeted her and gradually began a conversation around the troubles they had piled up.

They had to solve a lot of problems, and they were going to work on the ground level, for that they would need to inject the funds directly in the roots and not just the flower hanging from the branch.

...

At home, Leo coaxed the twins to wake up peacefully, and then fed them with some fruit smoothies that he made, and Lily was treated to ice cream, before the young lady asked, "Baba, what have you thought about the party on their birthday?"

Leo smiled and replied, "I was thinking of having it all done with holographic special effects. That way, we would save a lot of time from producing garbage on the place, and also a lot of money that could be used in better places."

Lily nodded, and then the young man showed her the entire thing that he had placed, and Lily nodded repeatedly. After a few minutes of discussion, Lily said, "Baba, I want to have a dress that makes me look super cute."

Leo smiled amusedly and asked, "Baby, you are always super cute, what sort of dress do you want but? How can it determine if you would look super cute?"

Lily smiled and replied, "I want to be a pixie, with wings on my dress."

She went on and on and on, and Leo kept nodding as he noted down everything on the page down. After a few minutes when the young lady finished her demands, Leo replied, "Yes, I will arrange these things."

Lily nodded with a smile and replied, "I trust you, Baba." 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

Leo then clicked a picture of the page and then sent it to Grisha personally, before she said, "Your God daughter wants to get a dress, better make it minimalist and cute."

Marian Grisha sighed and said, "Are you and your daughter trying to work this freshly out of labor mother to the death?"

Leo replied, "You wanted to be the godmother of a goblin, now you pay the price, stop whining."

Marina fell silent for a second and then Leo received a voice note which he didn’t bother to play at all.

...

The whole next month went slowly, and the Cardinal Group sent a lot of stuff to the Lunar base. They had a kitchen up there, which worked on electricity but the whole place was heavily fire proofed and then they sent over some other things like an electric piano, and other few things for entertainment purposes of the humans living there, and the other things were sealed away carefully, they were all research equipments.

Finally, with one week left, Leo sent out invitations, he was quick, and he used a simple gold plate that was engraved with the date and the purpose of the invite. His actions drew some gazes, but when the source of the gold was disclosed the people realized that it was his personal money, people all calmed down.

This was a standard procedure for the big expenses done by the people related to the cabinet ministers, it was a new thing and Leo took the lead to show how it worked. The citizens were pleased but there were still some people who didn’t agree with Leo throwing a party on the Lunar Base, they said it was a national asset, well, the Cardinal Group, didn’t give a fuck. He wanted for his children to have a party and that was it.

The preparations were finished on the last week and then the people all gathered together at the floating island and then they all boarded the space elevator, it was a crowd of seventy people, and although the climb was slow, it was steady and Leo said, "In the future the whole thing would become even faster with the addition to the maglev technology. We have been using it now as well, but not at full capacity because the second phase of reinforcement of the elevator shaft is still going on."

The people nodded, old King himself was present, and he said, "I never thought that I would be the first royal to step on the moon."

Leo smiled and replied, "Your Majesty, I am sure nobody minds that you are the first royal to step on the moon, but if you tried to lay claim on it, then these fuckers would wage war."

The Old King chuckled and replied, "That is true."