Transmigrating from a zombie world to become the mecha kings wife-Chapter 689: The fool and his mouth

The small conference took a turn with that question. Even in the midst of all the questions being thrown out, it managed to reach the ears of everyone around and many eyes turned to the reporter that raised it.

It was simply outrageous to ask such a question at such a time. In everything, wisdom and manners were important.

The reporter that asked the question was known to many of the journalists. He was named Ai Johnsom, and he was famous for being a notorious critic of those in power. If he was at a press conference then the odds of him causing a scene by asking something controversial was always a big possibility. Even then, it was important for one to pick and choose their moments. This was the wrong moment.

Standing beside Scarlet Adler whispered, "Who invited this clown?"

He even looked at Beord with accusation in his eyes. He was supposed to look into the credentials of all the reporters here and eliminate the troublesome ones. How had Ai Johnsom made the cut? All this time, they had been careful to keep away from Scarlet’s press conferences.

Beord shrugged and shook his head. He had a look of absolute confusion on his face. This screw up was not his fault but he would certainly look into it. This was not a mistake one made carelessly. A reporter that had been blacklisted could not have made it here without help.

Sometimes, it was really hard for Scarlet not to open her mouth and simply blurt out all that was on her mind. The perfect example was right now, in the situation she found herself.

"Are you hungry?" she responded.

She spoke up before Beord could stop her. His intention had been to end the press conference immediately, put her in a car and send her off to the London palace.

Her question was rather unusual that it stopped him in his tracks, sending the words back down his throat. It also threw confusion among the reporters. In what was was hunger relevant to the question.

"I don’t understand you." The reporter replied.

"What don’t you understand? Are you hungry, not for food but news? Or maybe I should make it thirsty because you seem to be so parched for something to report that you would ask such a trashy question on the day when my children are leaving the hospital for the first time ever. These videos that you are recording will someday be seen by them and this is what they will see, a trashy reporter asking a trashy question.

Since you want to know so desperately then I will give you what I consider to be the proper response. My husband went into...." She took a deep breath and smiled stiffly.

Mega reached over and rubbed Scarlet’s back so that she could calm down.

"My husband and the other mecha warriors bravely undertook a dangerous mission, putting their lives on the line so that you the trashy reporter could stand here on a cold day in the midst of winter, safe and sound to ask stupid baseless questions with a smug proud smile on your stupid face. That’s what he was doing during most of my pregnancy. It’s also why he is not here with me at this moment, because he is working hard to ensure that the mission of keeping you safe continues."

It was not a surprise to many that Scarlet had responded this way, responding to violence with violence. She did not even flinch once when she responded.

"Do you have a stupid follow up question to your former stupid question Mr. Johnsom? Perhaps you would like to know how much I cried and begged him not to go on the mission because we were expecting children and yet he insisted on going for the sake of everyone. It’s because he wants not just our children but all the children of the empire to grow up safe and sound. Is that such a great crime? Do you hate safety in the empire Mr. Johnsom?"

The emperor had already revealed some of the details of the mission to the public. It was not news anymore that Esong and a select group of mecha warriors and others had ventured out to face the mutated beasts and close the space crack. Many of them had already been honored and rewarded by the emperor. They were being hailed as the heroes of the empire.

The fact that they were outside right now in the midst of a heavy snow and nobody was panicking or hiding was proof that they had succeeded.

Scarlet stood up, indicating that the press conference was over. Before leaving, however she had one last reminder to give.

"Next time, be a responsible journalist and do some research before opening your mouth to expose your stupidity to the world? It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubts."

"Damn...." Fey whispered under her breath. She counted how many times and in how many ways Scarlet had just called the reporter stupid.

When her nieces watched this interview in the future, they would see their mother being a badass. This reporter Johnsom had surely learned the biggest lesson of his life.

"She just exploded something without the use of a weapon." Elroy said.

He didn’t know if her hands were more lethal than her mouth. Either way, both were dangerous and destructive.

The Su parents looked quite proud. Scarlet had handled herself far better than expected.

Etienne whispered to his wife, "What did she say..it is better to be a fool...Aah, I didn’t get it." frёeωebɳovel.com

Cecily smiled and she said, "It was being recorded, you can re-watch the interview later and listen. But, she is awesome. I think I am becoming a bigger fan of this steel willed grand daughter-in-law every day that passes."

Scarlets cold aura, the piercing gaze as she looked at the reporter and the way she exposed the great sacrifice and length Esong had gone to with other mecha warriors to keep everyone safe was all very memorable. Everything had been so on point that suddenly other reporters were looking at Johnsom as if he was a bad guy that didn’t want the empire to be safe from mutated beasts. Many articles would be written about him on this day and all would include the word stupid.

The reporters went out of control verbally, some berating Johnsom while others shouted questions at Scarlet as she turned her back on them.

Jelly was not on the team that was doing one of those two. She and her camera man had already turned in a different direction, and they were recording the arrival of Scarlet’s guards, in their regal uniform, led by the new duke Varakas.

"Share it now," she whispered furiously at her colleague. This would be the very first footage were people would get to see the duke at work as a personal guard.

Even though they didn’t get the names of the babies or clearer shots of their faces, they had seen handsome men carrying babies, watched Scarlet tearing a reporter apart with her mouth and the duke of house Varakas.