Chapter 301
Kyon stared at the sun-shaped coat of arms carved in the medallion, overwhelmed with emotions: {The Torres family crest? They are the most powerful non-royal! Why is their coat of arms on my medallion?}
The Torres held the 1st rank in the capital of the Saturn empire(1). They were like the Stonespared to the Grands, only this imperial family was the most powerful in the human race. Their influence in the world was equivalent to the high-ranking sects. A single non-royal family in Saturn wasparable to the whole Rosarrio empire, that’s how grand they were.
{Am I Kyon Torres?} – He couldn’t believe his eyes.
Apparently, the soul of his body’s former owner was also eager to learn the truth about his origin, sending hot waves of impatient curiosity to Lovr. Kyon was pinning his hopes on him to find his real parents.
{Alright, alright! Calm down! I’ll honor your request in the future.} – Lovr waved him off and wondered how they could give away a member of a great family. Why did they send him to some nameless beggars in a low-ranking empire? Why didn’t they leave him with a royal family where he would have been raised without hardship? Why didn’t they provide his poor parents with all the necessary resources? All this seemed too weird, given the local traditions. Moreover, the nobility rarely gave up a child …
Lovr sighed grimly, creating a vacuum barrier around himself that served as an umbre. He wrote and sent a letter to the head deputy ordering him to free Amos. Then he headed to Boston.
There was no time to grieve about the parents he never knew. He had to focus on himself. His ns for the demons had been sessful. They had left for their homnd, he had be a prince and the future imperial investigator. It couldn’t have been better.
It waste at night when Kyon returned to the pce. He immediately went to the treasury, located in the deep basement behind numerous living and non-living guarding barriers. it was the only ce with no secret passages.
The guards recognized the new prince, the future king of the Iron, and let him inside. If he were Prince Charles, the bastard, he would not have been granted ess to the treasury.
The treasury wasposed of two sections. The first section contained disposables, money, keys, formations of different types, resources, medicine… The second section was the sacred ce for the Grand family where they kept their legacy: medicine descriptions, formations, and techniques…
Kyon’s forehead creased with veins popping as he examined the first section of the treasury: ?Bitch… She took it all!? – He sighed in frustration looking around the half-empty shelves. He was hoping that the queen was leaving Boston in a hurry and didn’t have time to take anything with her, but it turned out that she had always kept the treasures with her. What else could he expect from a demon who had been sessfully exploiting the entire kingdom for three years?
It wasn’t surprising that he hadn’t received his awards for capturing Sauron, Lanai, and the ck Queen, which were 5, 50, and 100 million spheres respectively. In fact, Kyon wasn’t counting on this money. The demons couldn’t care less who was terrorizing the Iron Throne beside them. The budget wouldn’t steal itself.
Kyon tried to be optimistic. He managed to find a bunch of attacking and defensive formations, spatial rings, concealing bracelets, and medicine that da had neglected. ording to rough estimates, the treasure he had found was worth over twenty million spheres! Quite a jackpot.
Kyon took everything that might be of the slightest value, filling up more than 10 spatial rings, and went downstairs, to the 2nd section of the treasury. As expected, da wasn’t interested in the Grands’ legacy. In the demon empire, all these descriptions and techniques were considered rubbish. Only aplete idiot would dig into them. She would never make money on the copies, and taking the originals could have serious implications. For Kyon, the value of the legacyy in its endless possibilities. He could use it to produce something really useful, powerful and impressive of at least the legendary “S” rank. Once, he found base ingredients in the ancient tomb under Juno’s mansion, thanks to which he now had the powerful body of the void.
For inquisitive Lovr, the night passed in the blink of an eye. He studied every nephrite without taking it in. Anyone else would have died from information overload. There was more than enough: numerous medicine instructions,bat techniques, protective formations, including the highest grades of all elements.
There was a “password” on each nephrite, without which the ess to the legacy would have been denied. It protected the treasury against thieves. However, it wasn’t difficult for Kyon to find out the “password” from the chief butler. He was the first prince, after all, not just anyone.
Kyon outlined an action n for the next two months: to find out all the secrets of his upgraded spatial attribute; toplete the upgrade of his head (in the unique body); to master all the highest grades (apart from the earth element that he already knew); to create a concealment technique, ideally simr to Valeera’s. A treatment technique woulde in handy. Also, he needed a technique that could deceive the opponent, creating an illusion or a mirage. Dinah used something like that at the mansion when she had lost the bet.
Kyon was really motivated to be stronger by his desire to take back his dear Dinah from the goddess-bitch, make Valeera his woman, even if she didn’t want to, and deal with consequences after his wedding with Kara, who hated her own husband.
When he made up his mind, Kyon left the pce and went to Cernos. If da ever returned to take the “son of the goddess” to the demon empire, she would fail. Kyon was going to forget about Dick’s personality for at least a few days. Although the queen was unlikely to risk her life staying in the kingdom, where the imperial authorities would be looking for her, it wouldn’t be superfluous to take measures for his safety.
On the way to Cernos, Kyon heard his sound transmitter ringing: ?How are you doing, dimir??
?I’m great! Ha ha ha!? – The head of the investigation department hooted withughter. – ?You have found irrefutable evidence! I’ve been after them for years and you did it in three fucking weeks! Geez! Who are you, Kyon Stone??
?Come on, boss. You’re ttering me.? – Kyon chuckled quietly.
?ttering? If you call my praise ttery, then I badmouth everyone all day long! Never mind. We are going to get the bitches, and it’s the only thing that matters! How did you do it? How did you set up your wedding? Why did you turn into a fat freak? And did you finally fuck that bitch? Damn! You muste to my office at once! There’s so much we need to talk about!?
Kyon was about to refuse when he remembered how hard it was to fill the light side of the nucleus and agreed. He turned around halfway to school and headed for the department.
His conversation with meticulous dimir dragged on the whole morning. The stingy boss filled the core by only five percent, which was rather disappointing. Bright emotions were tricky to earn. Until the demons were captured, dimir wasn’t going to get emotionally generous. Therefore, Kyon shouldn’t expect a tiny bit of bright emotions from his boss when he learned about da’s and Kara’s escape, or better yet stay away from him. It was fortunate that dimir didn’t realize that the missing ring could alert the demons and even provoke their escape if there wasn’t another one. Kyon could already see his boss pping his forehead in frustration.
Foreseeing dimir’s imminent anger, Kyon asked for the rmendation letter at once, without further dy. It should be written to Dick Baker. Kyon had no intention of wearing the ck demon mask in the Imperial Department. The zeroth general would sooner orter find out that Kyon Stone was, in fact, Dick Backer. He was destined to start cooperating. The only question was when.
When he received the long-awaited letter of rmendation that opened the doors to the whole new world, Kyon carefully put it in the ring and set off for Cernos. He entered the school territory under the guise of Dick Backer so that only the guards knew about his arrival. Then he put on a spacious hooded cloak to remain incognito and changed his appearance in the nearest restroom, turning into an ordinary-looking student in the mediocre ck uniform.
First of all, Kyon called Franz, but he didn’t answer. The cheeky boy must have left the wire at home. Kyon wondered who would ever keep such a disobedient servant.
Then he happened to overhear a conversation between two girls who were sitting on the bench in the park.
?Gods, she beat the shit out of him! I heard he is ck and blue all over!? – The pretty schoolgirl in the white uniform eximed pitifully.
?I heard he threw himself at her! I’d say he got off easy… At least she didn’t kill him!? – Her friend shook her head sadly.
?Pfft! It’s pure nonsense! If only he had thrown himself at me, I’d have returned his feelings! What’s wrong with her? I would understand if it was Dick Baker, the ugly freak. She could have killed him on the spot! But Franz is so handsome! How could she??
?Anastasia has fallen in love!? – Her friend knew it at once.
?So what? Let’s visit him in the hospital!? – Anastasia offered, red in the face.
?Do not even think about it! The nurses kick everyone out! There are crowds of visitors to him. Every slut at school considers it her duty to visit him! What’s the point anyway? He is half dead and can’t even say a word!?
Kyon went to the medical center. He was heading there anyway. When he was on the top floor, he bribed the nurse and entered ward number one.
Franz was lying in bed like a lifeless carcass, bandaged like a mummy. His pale face was covered with bruises. His eye was ck and swollen.
Mentally groaning at the sight of Franz, Kyon approached his bed and asked him in a quiet,forting voice: ?What happened??
Franz opened his eyes and stared nkly at the visitor.
?It’s me, Kyon. Why did she do it to you??
The maimed patient turned away apathetically, his breathing uneven. He looked like a spirit-broken man, anguished after a serious moral injury.
?I can’t help you if you don’t tell me anything.?
Franz slightly shook his head and wheezed: ?You can’t help me. It’s toote.?
?Toote for what? To get up from bed? To get over it? Are you going to be like this when Marinaes to visit you? Do you want to disappoint her?? – Kyon bombarded him with his questions.
?She won’te… She hates me.? – Franz whispered.
?That’s what you think. You are my servant, but you bring more problems than benefits. I promised to tackle your problems with the Grands as soon as I be a prince. The time hase! Come on, chin up. It’s time to win Marina’s heart. You can do it!? – Kyon assured him cheerfully.
?The principal has raped me.? – Franz said hoarsely. – ?Then Julia beat the shit out of me in front of everyone. Marina will never love a total loser like me. Leave me alone. I want to die.? – His voice was saturated with despair and heartache.
Kyon sighed and threw his head back. While he was enjoying the happiest day of his life, Franz had just the opposite experience. While Kyon was fucking beautiful Kara, principal Nn porked poor Franz. Their situations were so different, yet so simr.
Lovr put his finger on Franz’s forehead and released some Synergy.
The former formacist felt blissful lightness enveloping his body. Gentle chill took away the pain. Franz soared above the abyss of hopelessness he seemed to have been falling into. For a moment, he started to believe that life was not so bad after all.
?Franz, your fate is terrible, but that’s no reason to take your own life. You are a wise man, you must understand that life is like a zebra. There are white and ck stripes. Do you remember the first time you lost Marina? You nearly died of depression back then. But soon, everything changed, and you even remained good friends. Recently, you were dying of illness, being a decrepit feeble old man who had lost thest chance to restore his seed, and now you are fresh and frisky, full of enthusiasm and hopes for your dreams toe true! I wonder who got you out of this mess time after time. Exactly, it was me! But I didn’t sign up to be your fucking guardian angel! My patience is running out. I give you onest chance. Do you want to take revenge on Julia and Nn? Do you want to win Marina’s heart and make her a child? Make a decision or keep lying on this bed feeling sorry for yourself until you die!? – Kyon insisted.
Franz’s eyes sparkled. His heart fluttered with delighted hope. Why was this bastard so inspiring? To hell with it! How could he refuse if the goddess’s son himself wanted to help him?
When Franz looked at Kyon, his gaze was steady and firm: ?Please… Help me!?