There was a moment of silence as each of them dwelled on their own thoughts.
"Boss," Levi, having had enough, finally broke the silence.
Their Boss had experienced far too much in her young age, and he couldn’t even imagine all the trauma it must have caused her. Yes, she looked strong on the outside, but Levi was sure such a front was simply a facede to hide just how much turmoil their Boss had inside her.
"Yes, Levi?" Raine asked.
"If I must say... You are nothing like your father, King Marcus. You’re far from the man that he is," Levi spoke. He meant every single word.
At his assurance, Mia and Lyne nodded in agreement as they whispered in chorus, "Yeah, Boss. Levi’s right."
It was practically a given that their Boss was very different from her father. Yes, she could be bitchy in her own ways, but she was never a monster like her father had been. Their Boss had a good heart underneath her admittedly bitchy facade.
Raine smiled and wryly mumbled, "He’s still my father, Levi. And you all know what he’s capable of doing and just how obedient I am to him."
"Yes, but that doesn’t define who you are, Boss. So please..."
Levi trailed off, no longer being able to control himself. He wanted so badly to tell their Boss to just let her father die, but that would be a cruel thing to say, knowing how much their Boss loved her father. Even so, their Boss could easily take over the Moon Clan if she wanted to. Who cares if she didn’t have the Yue Royal blood in her veins? She was more than capable and deserving enough of the position simply in virtue of being a good ruler.
Raine loudly sighed, "That’s enough, Levi. Let’s keep our focus on this lollipop boy, seeing as that’s the important matter at hand. You said he wants to have Aire?"
"What should we do now, Boss? Who will you choose? Aire or the booklist?" Levi asked, causing and Mia to elbow him on his side. This guy can never just keep his mouth shut. "What?" Levi whispered.
Mia discreetly signaled him not to stop talking. At this point, it was better to let their Boss think. They would wait for her plans on what would be their next move.
What would be her decision? The booklist, or Aire?
’Why would they even call it a booklist when it was not a list of books?’ Raine annoyingly mused as she wracked her brains for the best course of action regarding their current situation involving Aire and that damn booklist.
She couldn’t just let that thing go. The booklist was not just an ordinary list, making it far too risky to ignore. It may look like a simple booklist on the outside, but there was more to it. A black witch sealed the booklist with a spell, making whoever possessed it unable to see its contents so easily. Well, except for her, since she was just built differently.
With her mystical powers, once her eyes turned red, she could see the contents written on the booklist. If only Nathan hadn’t stolen it from her, she would have long read through it in her own free time. And by virtue of having read the damn thing, she would’ve already identified all the kinds of powerful mutants on the list and their human forms, along with the names they have been using to disguise themselves for the past few years.
She sighed. Her father would often call those creatures ’exordiums,’ the first of their kind. Her father believed that if they eliminated these exordiums, all the mutants that shared even a drop of their blood would also die.
Raine lightly shook her head at the information buzzing through her head. Things were getting more and more complicated as the puzzle remained to be jumbled inside her head. However, with great effort, she would eventually make sense of it all, forcefully putting back the missing pieces of the puzzle if she had to.
"Move to our other hide-out this instant, and take Aire with you. Make sure you won’t get tailed, Levi," Raine finally ordered out. "Leave that masked man a note at the minimart that he can go to hell if he wants. He can keep the booklist he stole from me. I bet it was of no use for them anyway since they can’t even see what’s written inside it even if they wanted to," she said with a smirk.
"Noted, Boss," the three answered. They agreed with their Boss’s decision, already thinking that it would be for the best. They were sure that Aire was way more important than that booklist the lollipop boy was willing to trade for anyway.
Raine gave the three a few more instructions before she eventually decided to end the video call and get out of her secret room. Seeing that Tyrone still wasn’t inside the room, she sighed. Having nothing better to do, she went inside the bathroom to clean herself up and get changed into her comfortable, loose nightwear gown.
After all, was said and done, she walked straight to her bedroom and plopped herself onto the mattress. Raine lay unmoving, staring at the ceiling as she let her mind work. There were a lot of missing pieces in the puzzle inside her head.
First was the torn and missing pages from the Mirage Diaries. Who could be the culprit for such an act?
She only knew of two people who knew about the diaries’ existence that would be bold and desperate enough to steal those pages; her father and Uncle Yun. They would be desperate to hide the truth about how unqualified they were for the throne since they were not real sons from the clan, not even sharing the same blood as a Yue. Or... could it be him? Nathaniel Yue, who wanted to prove his right to lead the Yue Clan and the massacre her father did to his family and all his father’s followers?
It was plausible. But then, how did those pages end up with Aire’s grandfather? It seemed that the Secretary of Defense was no ordinary man, having those torn pages from the Mirage Diaries in his possession, not to mention the Voyager’s Watch.
Raine hummed. Aire was hiding something from them, but she didn’t want to push the little girl at this time.
According to Levi, Aire told them that the werewolves that attacked her grandfather stole those torn pages from him. But they were rogue werewolves, and she was sure that those rogues were not from the Convel Society.
So who could it be? Who was behind those rogue werewolves?
She was in deep thought when Tyrone entered the room. Another sigh came out of Raine’s mouth, thinking of yet another missing puzzle involving Tyrone. Could she be wrong? What if Tyrone and Nathaniel were indeed two different people? Nathaniel was making his moves at country V, while Tyrone was with her this entire time at country D.
She stared at Tyrone, who returned her gaze with confusion because of how intently she stared at him. "Come here," Raine instructed.
Tyrone gulped but ended up walking towards Raine.