Nora simply had the ability to end a conversation in one second flat.
Her reply made Abbott choke, it was only a while later that he finally spluttered, "Hmph, it's because you don't dare to offend them, isn't it? Are you still trying to get into their good books? Come on, they are completely looking down on you! No, wait, I just remembered something: you're a copycat! If the real Black Cat was here, she would never allow them to look down on all of us!"
After all, Black Cat was the crowned head of the assassin community!
Seeing that Nora was staying silent as though she couldn't care less, Abbott became all the more convinced.
Real assassins all took great pride in themselves.
He immediately lost interest in chatting with Nora, and he went to chat with Black Panther instead, to which Black Panther thought,... The two of us don't know each other that well, either, do we?
The Queen's visit did not have any influence on anything, so there wasn't really anyone who attempted to assassinate her, and they safely and smoothly reached the hotel where she would be staying.
The Swiss government had specially made arrangements at the hotel for the Queen's reception. For that purpose, they had cleared out everyone in the hotel, keeping only some of the hotel service staff.
Nora and her party were at the back of the entourage, so by the time they arrived at the hotel, the Queen had already checked in.
After they parked the cars in the parking lot, they went to the hotel lobby and waited for further instructions.
The Queen would be in Switzerland for three days, so the security assignment would also span three days.
In the hotel, the Queen's personal bodyguards were allocated rooms on the same floor as the Queen herself, while the Swiss authorities' internal personnel was allocated rooms on the two floors below them.
Needless to say, they were not allowed to stay in the hotel rooms all day. They were to change over guard duty every two hours and take turns to rest.
However, when it was Nora and her party's turn to be allocated rooms, the captain of the Queen's personal bodyguards suddenly said, "My apologies, but there aren't any rooms left. You will have to look for a place to rest by yourselves."
Abbott and Black Panther were outraged at once.
Abbott immediately retorted, "How can there be no rooms left when there are so many here?"
The entire hotel had been vacated and it wasn't like the guards on the mission had filled up all the rooms.
The captain of the bodyguards calmly replied, "Her Majesty is terribly averse to noise, so the two floors above and below the one she is staying on have been left empty. Everyone else occupies one room each. Of course, there are still three vacant rooms left, but there are thirty of you in total, so I'm afraid it won't be easy for you to make appropriate arrangements there, right?"
Even if they arranged for two people to share a room each and took turns resting inside, they would still need at least seven and a half rooms.
The captain's decision was logically sound. After all, it was guaranteed that the Queen's personal bodyguards and the Swiss personnel were trustworthy, but one couldn't say the same for them.
Therefore, it was normal that their welfare would be overlooked and their living arrangements prioritized at the lowest.
Abbott was about to say that they had only ten people among them and, therefore, could have the rooms allocated to them when the captain added, "To avoid causing infighting among you, let's just leave those three rooms empty, lest you go against the rules and get into a dispute over a few rooms."
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