After having the Brotherhood and the Church send people to investigate those distributing food in the slums, Perfikot also returned to Windsor Castle.
In the office, Eldest Princess Annie, confined to her desk, was seriously dealing with docunts. The stack of papers, originally as high as a person, had been sorted through a third, showing that Eldest Princess Annie’s work efficiency during this period was indeed comndable.
However, next to the pile that was now two-thirds its original size, a new stack had been piled up, already half as high as the original.
This prompted Eldest Princess Annie, upon seeing Perfikot return, to complain: "Little Perfikot, are you intentionally having soone send docunts here? How can you possibly handle so many papers every day!"
"Not bad at all. I don’t have to approve everything myself." Perfikot waved this off casually, sat on the sofa beside, and laughed as Beifa made tea for her: "Moreover, many docunts don’t require a detailed reading. Just a quick browse and check the key points. If there are no issues, it’s fine."
Saying this, Perfikot teased Eldest Princess Annie, jibing at her: "Annie Aunt, you’re not seriously reading every docunt, are you? If you were, no matter how much energy you have, you couldn’t possibly finish all the work.
This is all part of gaining experience in handling administrative affairs, Annie Aunt. You have a lot to learn!"
Perfikot’s teasing left Eldest Princess Annie visibly embarrassed, yet she understood that Perfikot was speaking the truth.
Although she had been receiving royal education for a long ti, and the Queen had also been pushing her to handle many administrative affairs recently to enhance her proficiency, Eldest Princess Annie still lacked experience in efficiently managing official matters or being more effective in governance.
Further, it could be said she doesn’t particularly enjoy dealing with administrative affairs.
Regardless, Eldest Princess Annie lacks the experience of truly practicing the managent of a city or territory, wielding overarching leadership.
More often, she tries to handle certain aspects under the Queen’s supervision.
"Indeed, not as experienced as you." Eldest Princess Annie candidly admitted this point. She put down her pen and, after rubbing her shoulders, asked Perfikot: "Little Perfikot, did you visit the slums today? How was it? Did you co up with any solutions to help them?"
As she asked, Eldest Princess Annie’s eyes were full of expectation, believing that if Perfikot were willing to help, there would definitely be a solution.
However, Perfikot shook her head, adopting a serious expression, and said: "The situation in the slums is worse than I anticipated, and unexpected developnts have arisen. If the worst happens, I might have to evacuate all the civilians in the outer district, even if it requires using a thermobaric bomb."
In Perfikot’s view, if a heretic truly causes an irreparable situation, then indeed evacuating the entire slum is the only option, even if it ultimately requires using a thermobaric bomb.
Based on the information Perfikot gathered during her conversation with Shabelle on the way back, the heretical sect that was once eradicated by the Church had previously committed heinous acts like spreading plagues and polluting city water sources.
If these atrocities were to occur in Langton, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Especially under the current apocalyptic circumstances, with people’s hearts already unstable, if everything is not nipped in the bud, it will be a terrifying and uncontrollable disaster.
Thus, for Perfikot, deploying thermobaric bomb as a last resort is akin to issuing an extermination order.
It’s extrely brutal, yet a necessary sacrifice.
This realization shocked Eldest Princess Annie greatly. She couldn’t fathom what kind of situation would cause Perfikot to plan such drastic asures for the slum after just a brief trip.
Under her questioning, Perfikot then explained her findings.
"What did you say? Soone is collecting souls and resentnt in the slums?" Eldest Princess Annie’s face showed uncontrollable anger as she pressed Perfikot: "Who is so daring as to do such things in Langton!"
Regarding this question, Perfikot shook her head and replied: "I don’t know yet. I’ve already had people investigate, but the situation seems more complicated than I thought because it’s about the streetlights!"
Eldest Princess Annie’s face turned even grimr upon hearing this from Perfikot.
She may not enjoy handling administrative affairs, but it’s not that her mind doesn’t work well. Clearly, she understood Perfikot’s implication.
"To replace streetlights with alchemy creations at the very least indicates that the opposing party has pathways within municipal departnts, or perhaps they are even the ones who undertook municipal repair projects." Eldest Princess Annie’s thoughts were clear at this mont. The municipal engineering segnt was sothing she had dealt with before, so she was familiar with the processes and links involved: "But this is the best-case scenario. Little Perfikot, you also ntioned that many of the lamp posts you saw in the slums were replaced, indicating this is certainly not a small matter! Perhaps there’s an issue with the entire frawork of related processes!"
"That’s secondary; at worst it’s just a group of parasites that can be gradually weeded out and eliminated." Perfikot paid little attention to the issues within the municipal departnts.
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