Richie coldly watched Lucas, Celina and Leila chatting with each other. His hands clenched into fists, he suppressed the fury boiling inside him.
"Young Master Richie, it seems he is somehow related to Nelson Nervilla."
Richie turned his head towards Rein. Rein calmly faced Richie's chilling eyes and continued. "From the reactions of the companions of Nelson Nervilla, it is sure that have been acquainted with that young man earlier. I believe that may be, the prior behaviour he displayed at the entrance of the airboat may be due to his relationship with Nelson Nervilla."
"He must have deliberately provoked Young Master Richie."
Richie lowered his head and continued to drink alcohol. It was unknown what he was feeling at the moment.
Crack!
The glass Richie held suddenly shattered due to the immense strength and fury emerged from his hand. "F**ing B****rd!"
One of the older men dressed as a bodyguard standing beside the table quickly and silently came near Richie and gave him a napkin to wipe his hands.
Richie like in a practiced manner took the napkin from the man.
The other youngsters beside him were scared and lowered their heads and turned silent.
A young man among them somehow mustered his courage and asked Richie, "Should I go and mess him up? My father provided me with a bodyguard. He was a county level Boxing champion before coming into my service."
Richie gave a sidelong glance and didn't spoke.
Rein sneered and asked the young man, "Who are you going to mess up? Nelson or those ladies with him."
The young man blankly stared for sometime but soon came back to his senses, he stammered while replying, "No..no…I….I mean…I.."
Rein cut him off before he could finish anything.
"You aren't capable of messing with Nelson, and as for the ladies" pausing for a moment Rein looked towards Richie and saw him gazing at Celina with a unending burning passion, "it seems to me that one of the girl, that beastman race, is Miss Celina's friend."
"So we can't go after them. Annoying Miss Celina is not what Young Master Richie wish."
Richie nodded slightly to Rein in a sign of approval.
Rein inwardly thought to himself. 'A Toad lusting after a Swan's flesh.'
"Then let me take care of that guy. I was itching to give him a beatdown. Some pain will let him remember that there are people who he cannot afford to offend." The young man crackled his fist and gave a evil smile.
Other youngsters one by one started to promote themselves, for them it was an excellent chance to flatter a main heir from Rolnslin family, so everyone was enthusiastic.
Richie lowering his head slowly wiped off the alcohol stained in his hands, his eyes were cold and mind pondering.
After a while Richie raised his face as a cold light flashed in his eyes. He shook his head and sighed, "No can't do, I can't give him trouble."
Rein was startled, he cautiously asked, "What is it Young Master? Is he some bigshot? Or is he closely related to some bigshot?"
Richie showed a helpless smile and said, "Well I don't know much about him. You guys know I have an Uncle working at Sky Imperium Palace. Yesterday I saw my Uncle talking with him, my uncle said he was a son of one of his friends."
"If I troubled him, and the news somehow reached my father…."Richie once again shook his head, "Gain doesn't equal the loss…for something little as this…there is no need to face the wrath of my father."
Rein's heart pounded and his fist unknowingly clenched. 'Uncle at Sky Imperium Palace?'
'Sky Imperium Palace?'
Rein calmed down his excitement and slowly continued to talk with others without any change in facial expression. Richie will sometime covertly glance at Celina with eyes filled with lust and envy. If ignored other things the dinner concluded peacefully and without any further disturbance.
"Hey, Rein what are you thinking about?" A young man with dark brown hair tapped his shoulders and asked him.
Rein eye's cleared up and saw that everyone was preparing to leave to their own rooms.
"No, nothing." After faking a cough he stood up and his eyes wandered.
Celina had already left. Lucas and Nelson was talking with each other. Including Richie and Rein, their group had only five remaining in the dining hall.
Rein casually walked away with others but not before giving Lucas a cursory glance.
*************
"So Nervilla and Rolnslin family are rivals." Lucas asked,
Nelson nodded his head then shook his head, "Not rivals but more like enemies. We have been enemies for generations. Everything started as simple business rivals, but…."
Nelson didn't continue, but Lucas could guess what happened, a mountain cannot contain two tigers and when greed pass a limit, human becomes no worse than monsters.
"You should be careful, Richie Rolnslin is truly a despicable man, outward he may look like a foppish young lord but inside he is cunning, narrow-minded and disgusting man." Nelson gritted his teeth and spoke.
"If you got into any trouble, just come to me. I will take care of it.
Lucas lowered his head and nodded, with a calm and tranquil voice he said "If he bumped into me, I can only say it is his bad luck."
Nelson looked puzzled.
Lucas coolly stood up and said, "I am an Arsln."
Nelson widened his eyes and looked at Lucas, "You're an Inner member of Arsln family?"
Lucas tilted his head and considered for a moment before speaking, "You can say that."
Nelson jaw almost touched the floor, he stood up and walked to Lucas and heavily patted on his shoulder. "It seems my eye for talent is impeccable. Isn't it? Haha my friend, if I need some pills, you need to help me."
Lucas's corner of his lips twitched slightly, he slowly nodded his head. "You can count on me."
Nelson gave a big laugh and said, "Let's deepen our friendship through the night. I know that you are not much familiar with outside, let me help you deepen the knowledge."
Lucas dodged Nelson and with a indifferently voice he said, "No thank you, I am sleepy, I will see you tomorrow."
Without giving any chance for Nelson to speak, Lucas hurriedly walked away and exited the dining hall.
Nelson sheepishly smiled and rubbed his nose.
***********
Inside one of the bigger rooms in the flying airboat twelve men in different type of clothes some dressed in luxurious and formal suits, some in ordinary fashionable civilian clothes, some in mercenary attire. All of them sat together and was discussing something.
The air around them was filled with coldness and solemnity. The central figure among them seemed to be a bald man with a gruesome scar on his head. He wore a mercenary attire which consists of a ordinary looking leather armor crafted from some kind of hide of a beast. He was leaning on his chair and was going through his SmartWatch.
Knock….knock....knock
The other eleven looked at each other.
Knock….knock....knock
After giving out a long sigh the shorter middle-aged man walked towards the door.
Opening the door he was faced with Rein, who was before, with Richie and his gang. The middle-aged man motioned him to enter.
Rein took a deep breath and entered the room, the middle-aged man closed and locked the door. After that he followed Rein to inside.
Once Rein came close to the bald man with scar, he waved his hand and closed his terminal. Before Rein opened his mouth the bald man said.
"Good work, Everyone arrived. We got a lead."
"Boss, Did we confirmed the target?" A thin and short girl with a lollipop in her mouth asked.
"No, we haven't. We will continue the plan as usual, the only difference being one more target."
"You've all listened the words spoken by Young Master Richie, right." The bald man with scar, the Boss said.
"Do we know his background? It would be helpful to know who we are dealing with?"
"I have asked Ben to take care of the information regarding the relevant targets. Ben?" The Boss turned his face to the young man with a pale and sick expression who was playing with a laptop.
"Yes….Yes I have. I will transmit the details of the target to your terminals."
Ting! Ting! Ting!
Soon many notification sound ringed in others ears.
"Hmm, Lucas…" A golden bespectacled elegant man wearing a suit looked at his SmartWatch containing information regarding Lucas.
"Hey, it only have his name, age and his room number. Same for his roommate. What information is this?"
Ben blandly spoke while lowering his head, "There was only this much information in the server."
Boss furrowed his eyebrows and said, "We don't have much time to dig for information. We have to act fast, it would be best if we could find the box before the airboat arrive at Skyline City."
"Also if possible don't kill the targets, just make it look like a robbery. Now go, move fast."