Leo had no idea that in the morning, when he was getting back on his plane with Hank, a special package was flying over from the Stag Nation as well.
Leo leaned back in the chair and looked at the High Priest opposite him, and the old man said, "This meeting was very successful. With the people promising aid, the situation in this country will improve significantly."
Leo nodded before he replied, "I have no idea how you can trust the people so easily, Your Grace. Not all the people who spoke up last night wanted to help Ivory Hills, they wanted to gain some leverage for the development in the future."
Hank smiled and replied, "That is the nature of the world, human or beasts, they all move together only to gain more power, and when they have power, they try to control everyone they could to ensure that the seat of power doesn’t shake or change hands."
Leo shook his head as he looked outside the window and said, "The world is not going to survive if these people don’t give up the power orientated thoughts, or more like, the world might survive but they won’t. Kings and Emperors fall to their graves, but only the ideas of growth and progress continue to strive."
Hank agreed with him, and they gradually began talking a little more about various things.
...
Lily had declared that she was not going to school today, because she had to deal with something important and since Snow knew about the matter, she agreed, well she had no choice but to agree. After all, her mother was also taking a day off to deal with this family situation.
So leaving the rest of the people at home, Snow took her staff and security detail to the office of the finance minister. In the end she only said, "Lily, whatever you do, make sure that you don’t get the family implicated."
Lily nodded in agreement before she said, "I am aware of that, Ma."
That said, Snow left the house, Lily went up to attend to her siblings, although things were done by Beta and Alpha, Lily was there to play with them. And Anastasia was in the kitchen cooking something for her grandchildren.
Four people washed up and ate like it was a regular day, and just when Lily was wondering what they should do till the package arrives, Zeenat came over and said, "Young Miss, the package has arrived and your father has also taken off from Ivory Hill. He would be landing in the capital in three hours."
Lily nodded and then asked her Grandma, "What shall we do? Handle it ourselves or wait for Baba?"
Anastasia shook her head and replied, "Handle it ourselves, the longer he is missing the more chance we will have of getting exposed. I can handle it myself, you can stay home."
Lily shook her head and replied, "No, I am coming along with you, and I will also call Baba now, I am sure that it is only him and High Priest Hank. So I can chat with him to ask him for advice."
Anastasia nodded and then she watched Lily go upstairs in her room, bring out her tablet and then instructed the robots to bring the twins along.
The two robots moved with the twins in their hands. Meanwhile, Lily had texted Leo about the situation and the young man was almost on the verge of crying. He didn’t know how this whole bombing thing exploded into the remnants of the Morning Star Tower and how the head of the Marlins family got dragged through the muck.
Also, in the text it was mentioned that Anastasia was rather adamant about handling this swiftly and she was very angry as well. In all these years of knowing Anastasia Marlins as his mother-in-law, Leo knew one thing about her, she was a sheep but she was armed to the teeth and nail when someone tried to drag her down.
Her personality was something that could mislead people into thinking that she was a harmless person, but she had been ruthless, and people in the Stag Nation upper circle knew about it, many of them had eaten the bitter loss at her hands. There was a reason why she was allowed to walk away from the bonds of the Noble family and live peacefully in a foreign nation.
The crown had intervened on her behalf and calmed down the nobles. The plane was still cruising above the clouds and the young man was leaning back in his seat while thinking about the whole aftermath that would come up after this.
He thought for a bit and then commanded the AI to crawl the internet and find all and any mentions of the head of the Marlins family in the past six hours. At the same time, he texted Markus and asked, "What the fuck were you thinking when you acted so quickly?"
The man on the other side replied, "Sir, it was a command from Young Miss, and this man had proper connection with the remnants of the Morning Star Tower, and from what we have concluded, based on the evidence and the trail left behind by them, this guy was about to proclaim himself to be the successor of those guys. This was why I thought we should get this done ASAP."
Leo took a deep breath and replied, "What is the status now?"
Markus replied, "Surprisingly, it is all silent in the public, nobody has been alerted at the moment."
Leo nodded and answered, "Fine, deliver a package of all the evidence that you have on the man to the King’s mail directly and tell him to cover the truth because if this got out the royalty would be scrutinized as well, and since we know that they are innocent, we wish to maintain the status quo as is."
Markus agreed and then he went on to handle the situation while Leo sighed as he slumped into the chair. Hank asked, "Is anything troubling you, Mister Cardinal?"
Leo shook his head and replied, "Nothing is your grace, just family matters."
Hank smiled and looked out of the window as well, he could understand that Leo was wary of him, he knew that the young man was talking to someone but he could not figure out the content of the conversation but since the other person didn’t want to talk about it, he let it be. Just because they were friends, none of them were bound to disclose everything.
Also, Hank knew that Leo had some secrets, because this young man had done a lot of things that defied the logic of human understanding, be it the rapid growth of the various technologies, or the standard of human race, Leo has excelled in every field he stepped into. Such a man was not without his secrets, but as long as this man had no intention of destroying world management, all was fine.
...
In the villa where the guards lived, Anastasia and Lily went inside while the twins wanted to stay in the garden and look at the various flowers. Alpha and Beta showed them around while Axel and Kyle watched their security. Zeenat accompanied Lily and Anastasia to the basement, where they saw the once honorable head of the Marlin Family sitting on the chair with his hands tied in the strait jacket.
Anastasia clenched her fist and said, "Wake him up."
Zeenat pressed a button on the side, and a flash of current zapped the man, who woke up instantly. He was shocked to look at his surroundings and he tried to stand up, only to find himself bound with a strait jacket and duct tape that bound his legs to the base of the chair.
However, he was a veteran to the scheming world and calmed down. Lily looked at Zeenat and the latter nodded, before pressing another switch on the console and the one sided windows turned into transparent glass panels.
Anastasia looked at her half brother, and the other guy was also looking at her, his eyes didn’t show any panic, or any sense of alarm. This was all observed by Lily who said, "Sis Zee, knock him out, move him from here, and while he is on the way, check every inch of his body, if he has any tracker in his body, throw him in the ocean directly to be devoured by the waves. If he is clean, then beat him up till he confesses to everything, then heal him, and dump him in the ocean, alive."
The quick commands caught everyone off guard, even the man himself was shocked. He became restless, and Zeenat understood what Lily wanted to do. She sighed and said, "Young Miss, although his reaction is basically enough to tell that he does have a tracker embedded in his body, we don’t have to worry, the one thing that we do after nabbing a target is to place a jammer or a scrambler around them. He is invisible to the world."
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