THE LAND OF A MILLION VIRGINS
Challenges and Offers

"How were you from earlier nyolot mute? You must be an old woman that no man has ever touched?" tease Rahul. He was infuriated by the powerful adjutant's speech.

"You!" snapped the adjutant getting emotional.

"Already, already!" the Queen shouted to stop the adjutant's argument with the captives. "If you're not an eye, are you willing to accept a challenge from me?"

"Challenge?" jack asked with a frown.

"Yes, I'll give you a challenge. If you succeed then you will be free from all sorts of accusations, how?"

Jack turned to Nikki and Rahul for approval. The two new comrades he knew just shrugged both of his shoulders as a sign of resignation and left everything in Jack's hands. Jack looked back at the queen who was smiling disdainfully.

"Well, what's the challenge?" said Jack loudly. He didn't want to look scared because he was a man.

The Queen grinned, then she rose from her throne. "Find an antidote that can wipe out and exterminate the curse that is happening on this island, how?"

Jack was surprised. He looked at the queen's face with a serious look and barely blinked. Jack's heart and mind were struggling at this moment. How did he find the antidote? But Jack has already promised to accept the challenge.

"Is that all?" jack asked with a look of disdain. Though his heart was cackling.

"It's just that, but ..." The Queen paused her speech, making everyone there feel curious. "I give you time until the next full moon. If you fail, I will crush you with the others on the night of the offering of forgiveness."

Rahul and Nikki instantly widened their eyes, as did Insana. While the Adjutant who had looked on with a look of hate immediately smiled happily triumphantly.

"All right, I agree. But I also have two requests" Jack said calmly. Jack's decision of course invites a variety of reactions for everyone in the main room of the palace.

"Please! Who gives you the right to make an offer? Huh!" snapped the Adjutant.

The Queen's hand immediately signaled the aide to stop and shut up. Furious the adjutant stopped his movement that almost hit Jack.

"That's if the queen wants to. If we die, we have no problem. Aren't you the ones who get into trouble?" said Jack continued his words that had been cut off due to the arrogance of the aide.

"That's the matter?" ask the queen who is now sitting on her throne again.

The queen's forehead frowned at the young man's words before her. Soon the queen's smile grew. In the mind of the queen, just met a man who was very brave. His face was also handsome with pictorial hands.

It was only natural that the Queen admired the young man who was being challenged by her. As long as he grew up, he had never been close to a man in his life. What's more since he was a teenager, he's been exiled on this island because of his crown curse.

"All right, just tell me what the hell's the request?"

Jack grinned with a stare at the queen. "First, give us a decent and complete living facility. Or if necessary, let us stay in the palace so that the Queen and the others can keep an eye on our movements."

Everyone who was there was again made to be surprised by Jack's strange and unreasonable request. How could Jack have such courage. Nikki and Rahul, who come to the island first, are still afraid to meet the natives. But unlike Jack, he was completely unexpected.

"Please! Who are you?" again the adjutant showed a reaction not received.

"Ajudan! Can you please take care of your authority?" the Queen said slowly but with great emphasis.

"But the Queen, this is presumptuous! He has no right to make an offer. It's obvious they're eyes."

"We don't yet have evidence that shows them eyeballs. You should be more experienced. You must know better, how the motion of an eye caught? But look! Is there fear in that man? Nah! Instead he dared to make an offer by getting closer to us."

The adjutant was silenced. His eyes stared furiously at Jack who was smiling triumphantly as he was being defended by the queen.

"All right, I leave everything to the queen. If anything happens, don't blame me because I warned you."

The queen smiled and nodded. Then he looked back at Jack. "What is your second request?"

For the umpteenth time Jack grinned. "If I succeed in removing the curse. Let me sleep in the room with the Queen."

"Crazy!"

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