Chapter 402 - Making Plans (1/2)

”It looks like Mother was a great woman. Too bad I don't know what she looked like,” Nicolae said quietly. ”In the old days, it was not usual to take photographs, and even if there were photographs taken, I'm sure that nothing would have been left due to the war.”

Lauriel was sad to hear that. Not only because he hoped that Nicolae could know his mother's face, but also because after almost 100 years, slowly his memories of Luna's face began to fade.

He did not have a photo or a picture of his girlfriend, and after nearly 100 years, he had to accept the sad fact that he also did not really remember what her face looked like.

”Even I am slowly forgetting your mother's face,” Lauriel murmured, ”I only remember her beautiful purple eyes ... and her purple hair.”

”Purple is a characteristic of the Linden family,” Petra said, nodding. ”Maybe if Nicolae saw Princess Portia, he could imagine what Princess Luna looked like. Portia and Luna have some similarities. After all, they are cousins.”

Nicolae had heard about Ned and Portia before, but he just found out that Portia was his mother's cousin. Inwardly, he did not want to see Portia, because after all, Portia was not Luna. He did not want to long for his mother even more.

”It's okay. Maybe it's better if I don't meet Portia,” Nicolae said, smiling faintly. ”Mmm ... what if we continue developing a plan to find Rhionen Assassins? I can sketch the two members I saw and we could look for them. After interrogating the two, we can obtain information about the others.”

Nicolae had observed that Lauriel's expression had turned sad when Luna's name was mentioned, so Nicolae wanted them to stop talking about his mother. He glanced at his father and felt touched because his father really loved his mother, even after hundreds of years.

He wondered if he could have that much love for a woman. At the moment, he liked Aleksis because she was very cute and she had a great personality, but he did not know whether his feelings for Aleksis were as deep as Lauriel's feelings for Luna.

”All right, we can start with what you suggested,” Lauriel nodded in agreement. ”I've also met Takeshi and Mischa, so I can help you. The others can start finding ways to infiltrate Rhionen Industries, because now it's clear that the two are related. I want to know who Alaric Rhionen is.”

Nicolae had told Lauriel that Alaric Rhionen had contacted him to look for Aleksis, and it was highly  likely that he was indeed the man called Prince Siegfried by Aleksis. Now Lauriel was targeting Alaric because he held him accountable for all the problems that befell Aleksis as well as Kurt's death.

They agreed to target Takeshi and Mischa while infiltrating Rhionen Industries in search of information about the members of the Rhionen Assassins. Nicolae quickly sketched Takeshi and Mischa's face according to his memory and hacked all CCTV camera controllers around the world to find them both.

”All right, then we should gather at my family's house, so as not to interfere with Aleksis' healing here,” Lauriel said later after they had finished their discussion.

”Your house?” Petra looked surprised hearing that. ”Boss, you haven't gone home for a long time ...”

Nicolae turned to Lauriel. He also did not know which house Lauriel meant. As Lauriel was a nomad, being an adventurer who only recently settled, he only knew that Lauriel had a farm in Colorado and an animal conservation in Kenya.

Lauriel looked at Nicolae's surprised face and nodded. ”The Medici family castle. I am … was ... the last descendant and I haven't lived there for a long time - probably since my whole family died. I only stop there once every few years to make sure that everything is fine.”

Only then did Nicolae realize that Lauriel still had a family home - a home where the family had lived for generations, just like the Schneider family castle in Germany. He imagined that if Lauriel had taken Death, if he had not met Aleksis, the Medici family's home would have collapsed altogether because it's last successor would be no more.

”Where is our family home, Father?” Nicolae asked.