In the far future
"Goddamnit. Hurry up. Hurry up. Marxivus could not hold him any longer. Is there a clue.
Is there any clue how on how to defeat Varsas Gungnir?"
A man and a woman was standing inside an abandoned laboratory. The place was worn down and dusty, it is not known who was the owner of that research place, but it is clear he has not been there for a long, long time.
The door was barricaded, though it is meaningless with just what is waiting for them outside. One of the two's comrade is on the outside, forestalling that inevitable end.
It's Varsas Gungnir's old research lab. It has been abandoned ever since he died.
The mission today was simple, find a clue that the living Varsas has left behind, and then get out.
"Impossible!" Suddenly the woman of the two mutters
"Oh Varsas why did you do it?" The woman wielding a whip utters.
"What? What! What happened? Why did you scream like that? Where is all the eldritch tome? Have it been ransacked by someone else? This was a hidden facility for godsake."
However, the moment the male opens the door, it was clear why.
It was like an explosion inside. Every alchemical potion was destroyed, it was old from the signs of destruction. An alchemical explosion due to unsustained maintenance. There are stable alchemical process, but this was not it. Someone set it up to blow without supervisor.
Panic, the man turns toward one of the book in the reading section.
"What about the eldritch tomes? The eldritch tomes!"
But what await him was disappointment.
All the page was blank. Destroyed by a fast acting component that was slather on the pages that was neutralized by another substance with a short lifespan. However, the other substance has a short lifespan and if it was not apply regularly, the books will be destroyed.
"Why Varsas why?"
The risk they took that day...
did not pay off.
...
Back to present time.
Imagine having a dead man switch because you cannot trust anyone with your research result. Well, Varsas Gungnir didn't have to imagine any of that because he lived that kind of life. Once upon a time that is.
However, that kind of skill is useful in many situation, having many skills is good. Like this situation for example, when he is ransacking the secret cipher the espionage force from Mahaima has created, profiling the member of the Gungnir household.
With a flick of his hand, the page fades into nothing, eaten by something else.
It was not magic.
But it was a good trick.
The Mahaiman is still using the same cipher as the future Mahaiman, so the process of deciphering is easy.
Of course right now, he can't actually run a full on inquisition on each and every single member currently in the household. However, the Mahaiman espionage force has been so kind to provide.
Varsas really doesn't want to do this.
However, sometime life doesn't hand you a choice.
The queen of time, his godmother refuses her assistance, there is only one choice left, handling the situation in a way he know how.
If a stranger has really snuck in, then it must be less than 3 months before. Quickly going over the cipher of the Mahaima's spies, he finds information on new servants excluding Lufa.
Reading a line from the cipher, suddenly he remembers the line his godmother has asked Lufa to deliver.
"Tell the boy to man up and deal with his problem on his own."
So that was what she meant.
Bolting out of the room, he finally confronts a servant he did not notice at all from before, a servant that his mother has hired recently.
"What are you doing in my house?"
...
It was Viola.