12 To gain a foothold (1/2)

(Ace gave his father his blood when his father started to spend more time with them. Just in case, I don't want towaste achapter just for that )

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Ace went downstairs in the morning, he was early today, he saw his father sitting alone on the table in the living room. Roger saw Ace and called for him to sit with him.

” what is it father ?? ” asked as as he sat on the table

” I needed to talk to you about something ” Roger put down his newspaper on the table, he looked at Ace with serious eyes and said ” I am sure you already know about our family secret, so there is no need to tell you about it ”

Ace immediately knew what his father is going to talk about ' this came earlier than I expected ' thought Ace, he nodded at his father meaning he understood

” Son, I want you to know that I will support you no matter what...me and your mother are very happy that you decided to let accompany you in your life...thank you...” Roger looked into Ace eyes, he was really happy, his ancestors all died after their children became independent, he sensed that his life force became stronger and longer like an endless stream. this meant that his son cares for him enough

” what're you talking about father, as son this is my responsibility. besides, I can't bear the fact that I will have to watch you dying in front of me ” Ace really hated that, the only drawback of his powers is that he will be seeing too many loved ones of him dying, so he decided to surround himself with people who he really loved and make the his friends and family

” This is not what I want to talk about...Me and your mother had talked before, we are planing on leaving to the inner wall ( Sina I think?) ”

” Eh?? why? ” Ace was surprised, he didn't expect this

” after my family got in the wall, they have been working constantly to gather wealth and power inside the walls but we couldn't go all out from fear of being killed by the kings and his followers, that is why we only been investing as merchants, but from the past generation we started going insidethe government and the military. we became so powerful that we controlled all trades inside the three walls. due to that we made our selves a target of attention from the king”

Ace was listening to his father story with serious eyes, he knew that what his family is doing is dangerous

” we kept a low profile, giving the king an illusion of that we are only after money, if we didn't do that we would have been assassinated a long time ago, we didn't have any chance to have influence inside the ranks of the government. but as soon as we stopped having twins, we knew that we need to make a move. but it was too late, the king was surrounding us from all sides, the moment we will try something funny they will kill us. ” Roger said everything with a grave face until he reached this point

” Thanks to you son, we don't need to fear death anymore, I became stronger physically to defend my self from any possible attack ”

” This is why, me and your mother, we will life to wall Sina, we will start to gather influence inside the ranks of the government, it won't be a lot but it will guarantee for us to have voice in the most important thing ” Roger looked at Ace and said ” it pains me to leave you but we need to ”

Ace was a little sad, he is going to be separated from his parents after he got used to their presence, but he knew that this important ” I understand father...but when will you leave??”

” Probably tomorrow ” said Roger