Chapter 27 The Harsh Reality 2 (1/2)
”That man was called Mouro. A famous assassin around the Gamma Sector. He's usually very expensive to hire. His primary mission wasn't to kill you, but to kill a man named Clark. Tepei wanted to erase all evidences of his corruption before we were able to get him. That is why he also ordered the lockdown of the Lunar Base 12 and tried to make all the miners there to die. A lot of smuggled Erchius Crystals came from that particular Lunar Base, and Tepei was the one controlling everything from behind the scenes.”
”Really?” John squinted his eyes and glared at the smiling Itsuki. He didn't know why, but he felt that she was lying. His senses were telling him that she was lying, and in his training to became a Protector one of the most important things he learned was to trust in his instincts and senses.
”Yes.” Itsuki nodded and then gave a bow toward John, ”I'm representing Letheia Corporation to say that we are sorry for the inconvenience that we caused for you and that we are willing to compensate you as a apology for our disgraceful mistake.”
John hid his suspicions behind a very polite smile, ”Oh, there is no need to bow. It isn't necessary to compensate, after all, gratefully, nothing bad happened.”
”No.” Itsuki shook her head, ”It's one of our policies, to compensate wronged parties.”
Esther interjected and said, ”You should just agree to it, dear. You know how much Hylotl value honor and rightfulness. When they do wrong they should compensate, it would be impolite of you don't accept the compensation, it's like you don't accept their apology.”
”Alright then...” John helplessly decided to accept it.
”I'm happy that had chosen so.” Itsuki opened a drawer of her table and took a Data Chip from it, ”This data chip contain an Interstellar Map of the Alpha, Beta and Gama Sectors. They are 100% complete. They have the location of all the Star Systems, Planets and their Biomes. The Map alsoshows the location of Scientific, Mining and Business Stationary Space Stations. And it also has information about dangerous locations with meteor showers, black holes, spatial disturbances and places where pirates and outlaws are more frequents.”
”This seems valuable and confidential...” John eyed the Data Chip at Itsuki's hand.
”Yes, it is valuable, but not that much. All of the confidential information had been extracted from it, so you can freely use it.” Itsuki circled around the table and stopped before John. She took John's hand and gently placed the Data Chip on top of it, ”I think you really need something like this, right?” Itsuki threw a side-glance toward Esther.
Esther bitterly chuckled a little.
John saw the silent exchange between them, ”She knows...?” John whispered to Esther.
”I know a lot more than you think, Protector.” Itsuki slowly returned to her seat, ”Nothing in the Ark Outpost happen that I don't know...” She gently smiled.