I! Cleaner!-Chapter 1158 - 1062: Cleanup Bureau: We Can’t Even Protect Ourselves

This Anti-Traveling Thrush Alliance... why does it feel like it's about to collapse?

Watching the other kings quarrel incessantly around the round table, a middle-aged man wearing a purple crystal crown couldn't help but turn to the woman beside him, complaining:

"I thought there would be some good ideas coming out of this. So after receiving the message, I took the risk of a falling boat crossing a thunderstorm to arrive here a week early. But we haven't accomplished anything productive; we've just been watching people argue!"

"... "

"Honestly, it's almost been a week now, and all we've done every day is argue here. We haven't clearly discussed how to counter the Food God and the Kingdom of Lutung; we're collapsing internally. Yesterday, it became so heated that they even got physical. How can this accomplish anything? It'd be a miracle if it did!"

"... "

"Hm? Why aren't you saying anything?"

Not receiving a response after waiting for some time, the middle-aged man couldn't help but give the woman beside him a nudge. Suddenly, the young woman with a round face and black eyes beside him, who seemed shocked, let out a sudden scream and pushed him over.

"???"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

Realizing she had acted too impulsively, the other kings in the secret chamber stopped their quarrel and turned their puzzled gaze towards her. The woman hastily fixed the tilted glass crown on her head and awkwardly helped the fallen middle-aged man up.

"Apologies... the daylight hours here are much different from our Refraction Kingdom. I haven't slept well for the past few days and couldn't help but nap a little... where were we?"

"No... who are you trying to fool?"

After being helped up from the ground, the middle-aged man wearing a purple crystal crown finally snapped out of his daze. He threw off her hand in anger, exclaiming:

"I saw it just now! Your eyes were clearly open! You... "

"Sorry, sorry. That's just how I sleep." 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Looking at the visibly hurt middle-aged man, the Queen from the Refraction Kingdom apologized again:

"I'm partly of avian blood, so my sleep mannerisms are similar to that of owls; I sleep with one eye open during the day... I'm sorry, it wasn't intentional."

Owl...?

After hearing the Queen of Refraction's sincere explanation, the King of Thunderstorm Country lowered his anger a bit, clenched his teeth before saying words, and then summoned his assistant from outside the room, moving to sit a bit further away as he angrily slammed the table.

"Gentlemen! We've been here nearly a week; we should now have grasped a plan on how to deal with the threat of the Food God and the Kingdom of Lutung."

"Majesty Main says something quite reasonable!"

Upon hearing the King of Thunderstorm, the middle-aged noblewoman sitting diagonally across from him nodded repeatedly, agreeing with a gentle voice:

"Regarding those past matters, perhaps we should set them aside for now. The most pressing issue at hand is determining how to confront the threat posed by the Food God and the Kingdom of Lutung!"

"What's there to worry about?"

As soon as the noblewoman finished speaking, the white-haired elder sitting on the other side of the King of Thunderstorm sneered with a voice sounding like screeching glass, mocking:

"The medicine from your Medicine Country Perdi is so expensive, yet it can't cure your mind, can it?

Even if the Kingdom of Lutung is powerful and oppressive, it's still just one place. Considering that the Queen Sayo has yet to arrive, six kingdoms out of The Twelve Kingdoms are represented here already, giving us six votes. What can they possibly do against us?"

"Heh."

Just as the white-haired elder finished speaking, a man with dark eye circles and a sallow complexion, showing signs of overindulgence, couldn't help but retort:

"By your calculation, the population of our Kingdom of Orleson is three times that of your Sea Cliff Country, so our votes are three times yours. Does that mean you should obediently listen and change your ridiculous 60% tariff?"

"In your dreams!"

The white-haired elder laughed coldly, rebutting:

"Not only will your tariff not decrease, but it will continue to rise! Furthermore, your shipping enterprises and grain companies in my territory must surrender equity and become joint ventures! If you don't change soon, they'll all be nationalized."

"You dare?!"

"Why wouldn't I dare?"

The white-haired elder sneers:

"When we were hungry, didn't you raise your prices opportunistically? Didn't you hoard grain and wait for the price to rise? Didn't you claim that even if we didn't buy, there were plenty of others willing to? Well, stop selling then! I don't believe you're the only one in the world capable of growing crops!"

"Old geezer! Don't you understand my reasons for doing this?"

The King of Kidney Deficiency, showing signs of overindulgence, slammed the table, yelling angrily while grimacing from the pain:

"The final payments dragged on for three or four years straight; the grain I sell turns to garbage, and there's still no trace of your dues! And you promised subsidies for bulk grain provisions, but where's the subsidy fund? Fed to the dogs with the grain I sold?"

"You impudent fool!"

"No, you impudent fool!"

"Enough! Both of you, shut up! Argue privately if you must!"

As the quarrel between the two kings made his ears ring, the King of Thunderstorm rubbed his brow in irritation, angrily stating:

"Our purpose for gathering here is not to resolve your petty issues but to confront the Kingdom of Lutung and the Food God.

Everyone, having absorbed the essence of the Kingdom of Crolock, the current Kingdom of Lutung is different. With Crolock Kingdom's technology, their already sound industrial system, coupled with Kingdom of Morna's commercial channels and minerals, and the allegiance of the Northern Kingdom and Witch Kingdom...

Now, Kingdom of Lutung ranks as the strongest among The Twelve Kingdoms! Population, military, wealth, resources... they lack none of these! If the Cleansing Bureau ultimately remains passive, within eight or nine years, they could conquer the entire Western continent!

Moreover, the Prince of the Traveling Thrush Queen is a director of the Cleansing Bureau himself. If he truly convinces the bureau to abandon constraints, it won't be just about tariffs or companies that are at stake; every single person here would end up prisoners to her!"

"... "

After the furious remarks from the middle-aged man, the kings finally quietened down. Shortly, the Queen of Medicine Country Perdi couldn't help but speak:

"With the Kingdom of Lutung and the Food God acting this recklessly, the Cleansing Bureau... wouldn't just let it go, would they?"

"If the Cleansing Bureau intervened, tell me why Crolock Kingdom vanished?"

Frustrated over the past few days and having been hurt just moments ago, the King of Thunderstorm could no longer hold back and spat out heatedly:

"Hundreds of royal family members couldn't even be buried properly; reportedly there's only one young princess around, brought to the Traveling Thrush Royal City, supposedly protected... Is it protection or imprisonment? Isn't that clear to everyone?"

"... "

"Also, how did the prior king of the Northern Kingdom resign? Why did the new Northern Queen, upon the Food God's arrival, immediately enact a decree to align fully with Lutung?

Then the Food God arrived in the Witch Kingdom for only a week; why did the prior grand witch ruler suddenly vanish, and her daughter assumed the throne immediately aligning with Lutung?"

"... "

"And West Kalavin Kingdom, although they have yet to clearly align with Lutung, upon the Food God's landing, the old king resigned instantly. Then, it was the promising Prince who went silent, and the young and beautiful Princess ascended quickly. Do we even need to guess what happens next?

You tell me the Cleansing Bureau would intervene... these fatal examples are glaring; the Food God doesn't even bother pretending now. Has the Cleansing Bureau acted at all? Hmm?"