The Extra of The Lunerra

Chapter 419 - 52: Futile Hope

"Wait, wait... hold on a second..."

The prince probably stopped whatever he was doing. I could imagine the blank, confused look on his face.

"Are you trying to tell me that your sister... is a seer? Did I misunderstand?"

"You didn’t."

"..."

A deep silence fell over the prince. For seconds, he didn’t say a word.

Or maybe couldn’t.

"I know you wouldn’t lie about something like this, Aiden. But... are you sure? You certainly know how big of a deal this is..."

"I indeed know. And I’m sure."

The silence continued. Which I... did nothing but wait, knowing that he had to digest what he heard in order to think properly.

"This... This..."

He paused suddenly, then took a deep breath and exhaled it back.

"O- okay... in a few days, when we’re both free, bring your sister to the palace. Secretly, of course. Let’s do the checks, we need to make it official that she has Clairvoyance. Then..."

"I’m going to request a few conditions for her training after it is revealed that she has Clairvoyance, any problems?"

"Huh? Uh, no... I guess? Was your sister a minor, though? She has to be under eighteen for you to make decisions on her behalf."

After his question, I was suddenly frozen in place, my eyes squinting and my mind working at full speed.

The silence slowly built up to seconds, then half a minute.

The prince, on the other hand...

"Hey, Aiden..."

For some reason, he gulped. His next words... came out with a meaning that was quite clear, even if it was hidden underneath.

"You... know your sister’s age... right?"

I neither answered nor listened to his next words, I simply put the call on hold and pushed it to the background.

Then...

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You: Clara, when was your birthday?

Clara: Huh...? What happened?

You: When is your birthday?

Clara: February 27th, did something happen?

You: Okay.

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I closed the messaging app, then took the call with the prince without waiting.

"She’s about four months away from eighteen."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"W- well... then you can take decisions on her behalf..."

"Good. See you at the palace, then."

"O- oka-"

I hung up the call and made the holographic screen disappear from my sight.

I leaned back in my chair, closed my eyes, and let myself fall into the comforting silence...

"Wow, not knowing your sister’s birthday... I had no idea you were like that, Aiden."

My eyebrows twitched, my eyes opened slightly and turned to look at the figure standing in the doorway of my room.

"It’s none of your business, Celine... really."

Celine shrugged, her lips curling upwards as she looked at me with a mocking expression.

"I was just commenting."

Then she turned around and left without a word.

Immediately after that, I heard a laugh that echoed in my mind and the twitch in my eyebrows traveled all over my face.

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’Shut up, Sith.’

’Nuh uh, I can’t even stop myself... It’s just... Pft-’

Haaaah...

How great...

*******

Two days after my talk with the prince, in the early hours of the morning... I received a call.

It was not an unknown number, but rather... someone I knew quite well.

Alexander Callidas.

"They’re finally on the move, I guess?"

"There’s a car in front of the south gate with no matching vehicle ID and driver. Alice started packing her clothes after the car arrived."

"Everything?"

"Everything."

I squinted slightly, then stood up, stretching slightly.

Leaving the academy completely, huh...

Not that I didn’t expect it, but it still felt a bit strange.

"I understand. Thank you for following my request."

Since the day I spoke to Alysia, he has been watching her, even hiding in her house and reporting all her communications with the Lautes.

I doubt he even slept, he’s been working really hard...

"Is there anything else I need to do?"

"No, you can go back to Ulka."

I paused for a brief moment, my eyebrows raised slightly at the sudden thought.

"Though... how are things going with the potions? Any progress? Where are we in the market?"

"The potions you gave the formula for... are too potent. Any product we can mass-produce is going to rock the market. We have contacted several companies."

"Good... what about our information gathering capabilities?"

"Thanks to the Bealys’ communication with the other barons, we’ve transferred a lot to the servers, we already have terabytes of data and it’s constantly increasing. We need to deal with the Virhens for the Counts’ secrets, they are the family that oversees them after all."

"Jonathan Virhen still doesn’t fully trust me... We need to strengthen our trust in each other first... but I get it."

Before I hung up the call, I paused as an another thought occurred to me.

"So... how’s Maeve doing?"

The Bistra Family... is not a family that has ever been involved in my plans in any way. But that’s not to say they don’t have an important place in the kingdom.

As one of the six pillar families of the kingdom, their main role is to run, oversee, and develop the kingdom’s economic activities.

In short, they are the richest family in the entire kingdom.

And Maeve, my ’ally’ who controls the academy with Cassandra, is the successor of this family.

"She and Cassandra Bealy are not on the best of terms, but they support each other well if they are dealing with something serious. They try to spot any problems between students and prevent them before they happen."

"Good... then go to Cassandra now, tell her to get a little closer to Maeve. Maybe even ask her to ask Maeve to help her with some of the plans, to leak information to her, little by little, in a planned way."

Alex paused for a moment.

"You want to make Maeve more of an insider?"

"No, she’s the successor of the Bistra Family. Her family wouldn’t allow her to be a ’subordinate’ to me. I just... want to make the ’alliance’ between us more stable, that’s all."

"I see..."

I asked him a few more small things, about the future and about the company. But this call was not supposed to be too long. After all, the purpose of today was different.

So we closed the call, then I stretched slightly and leaned back in my chair as far as I could.

Now, let’s begin...

I entered my contacts on my watch, then my eyes fixed on a specific number.

It wasn’t Leonard or Melany. It was not, in fact, any powerful connection I had.

Rather... it was someone who had no knowledge or idea about this plan, but who was definitely supposed to come with me.

*******

With an average-sized suitcase in my hand, my eyes scrutinizing any gaze that might be directed in my direction, I slowly made my way toward the south gate.

As I walked, I kept thinking.

I could keep my cool when I was killing people, I usually knew what to do in difficult situations. After everything I had been through and done, I was sure I could stay calm in any situation.

But lately, I had been in so many situations where I didn’t have the slightest idea what to do... that I began to feel something inside me that I hadn’t felt in a long time.

A tremendous nervousness.

A-18 and my grandfather sent me here two years ago because they had plans for me to leak information, for the academy.

And now I’m coming back as a failure.

But at the same time... I’m leaking information to someone else who wants to destroy them, whether I want to or not... without even realizing when and how it’s happening.

But that’s not the point.

Because either way, no matter what happens... nothing good will come of it for me.

Nothing.

I smiled involuntarily. After going through the identity checks at the south gate, I saw the white car standing in its usual spot.

As I approached the car, the trunk opened automatically for me to put my suitcase in, and then the door.

It was the same car, the interior was familiar.

So was the person in the driver’s seat.

Her short black hair was neatly combed and her ordinary brown eyes sparkled as if she was happy to see me.

As she looked at me through the rearview mirror, her eyes left me for a brief moment, looking out the back window toward the south gate. Then, she slowly moved the car.

It was obvious what she was looking at, yet I said my next words in a monotonous tone as I leaned back against the seat of the car.

"They will follow."

"That’s what I’m looking for."

In contrast to her face, her voice was much more emotionless, flat, and cold.

Normally, she would have been annoyed that I was talking, but this time... when I realized she wasn’t reacting negatively, I thought I could continue.

"What... are we going to do?"

"We’re going to mislead them."

I thought about what she said for a while, and then I realized a problem.

"What about... us? Won’t they catch us?"

"We’re luring them into a trap, not sacrificing ourselves."

Ah, a trap...

"If the whole kingdom comes at us, won’t we be the ones trapped?"

She looked back at me through the mirror with her brown eyes once again, but this time different. As if... trying to tell me not to continue.

"It would be better if the whole kingdom comes."

She didn’t say anything else, she just turned back in front of her and kept checking behind her in the rearview mirror every so often.

I, meanwhile... could only squint my eyes and keep quiet after the look she gave me.

It’s true.

Even if the whole kingdom came, they couldn’t do anything, of course.

No one knows how powerful the Laute Family actually is, what they’ve been up to in recent years.

Why am I hoping and asking questions in a silly way?

Nothing will change, everything will go on as it has been going on until now.

This hell... will not ever end.