Chapter 169 - Plans for the Future (1) (1/2)

Back at Nicole's side...

She slowly walked at the hallways towards the room in which she would meet with some important people.

On her way, everyone that she passed respectfully and dreadfully bowed their heads and waited until she was fairly away before straighting up and going on with their business as usual.

Nicole just give a casual glance to those people and didn't waste a split second, she just kept walking forward.

After reaching her destination, she opened the double door and walked in.

It was a relatively small room with only a round table at the center with 12 seats available.

Above each chair, there was some kind of electronic device that greatly resemble the projector that Jevil used back at the Ice Planet when he was attacked by Itsuki's forces to capture him.

As soon as she sat down, one of the devices in the room made some noise and a light came out from it.

Nicole looked up at the holographic figure at the opposite chair.

”Jason?” Nicole was surprised to see the blonde young man in front of her.

She was surprised as she expected Travis to be the one.

The holographic image of Jason smiled, ”Hello, president Nicole Gonçalves. I should congratulate you for taking the office.”

”Where's Travis?” Nicole frowned and directly asked with a cold tone as she didn't have time to play around with Travis's son.

”He's dead.” Jason said indifferently without a single change on his expression and kept a wide smile plastered on his face.

”It wasn't a natural dead, right?” Nicole's eyebrow lifted a little. She continued to stare at Jason as she was searching for something.

”That's right, I killed him and took over the Syndicate.” Jason happily said as he spread his arms and looked deeply into Nicole's eyes. In the face of Nicole's aura and glare, Jason remained indifferent and casual.

”Oh...” Nicole exclaimed before mockingly saying, ”I should have expect nothing less than a crime syndicate. A son killing his father for power...how barbaric and lawless.”

Jason's face remained the same but his eyes turned cold for a moment before returning to normal.

The change was so fast that almost no one would've been able to see it, unfortunately for Jason, Nicole wasn't a normal person, and she clearly saw that split second change.

Of course, she decided to pretend not to see, as she needed a favor from the Black Star Syndicate and didn't want to get on the bad side of the new boss.

If humanity wasn't in a perilous situation, she would've never try to make a deal with heinous criminals such as the people from the Black Star Syndicate. Unfortunately, she needed every single power available to bring peace and stabilization back to Beta Sector.

Not only the Syndicate, Nicole already made some deals with a lot of underworld powers, mainly those that control the lawless planets in the Frontier in her sector.

[I might need their help now, but...] Nicole lowered her head and her eyes gleamed with a cold and ruthless light, [As soon as humanity comeback to it's feet, I'll completely and utterly destroy all of them. These criminals deserve no mercy...]

She rose her head and smiled at Jason, ”It doesn't really matter who's in charge. Do you know what I was talking with Travis?”