'They said that no profit is much sweeter than the one that comes from deception. I guess it's true, for his eyes said it all. The pleasure, glee, satisfaction, and fulfillment were all manifested in his eyes'
'The man I care about the most in this world, the reason I worked hard and achieved everything I have now, it hurts seeing them resort to scheme which im famillar and always accompany me but this time its used against me like I'm some tools to be discarded after doing what I'm asked to do. I always think that schemes are tools necessary to achieve for a reason. I put them above anything and loved them to the point of losing myself in the process where I don't dare to think about how it feels to be carefree like people of my age usually do. I sacrificed my youth for them, hahaha It's me whos a fool, they didn't ask me to at first, but it's me who initiated to work for them, but that's the damn reason why I'm here, waiting for them to asked me but seeing them asked for my life even though I already spend most of it for them is the most difficult business proposal I received, but I don't have a choice anyway, It's a losing transaction, but at least they're happy.'
"Da-dad" A woman wearing a black stretched blazer with nothing inside and pants that make her look appealing if she were confidently standing, but all of it was just simple clothing that couldn't block the now deeply bullet in her heart.
That woman is named Calypso, a highly influential businesswoman famous for being a prodigy at the age of 22 and undaunted in every way. She established her own company with her blood and sweat and managed to make it flourish through schemes that works in her brain that brings wonder to anyone and became one of the forces to be reckoned with globally.
In the end, a bird that flies young will eventually fall and so she fell, Calypso fell from being a prodigy and undaunted to a pitiful creature that no one in the whole world would dare to think.
She's bathing in her blood while staring at the two men in front of her, their expressions pierced her heart and hurt more than the actual bullet inside her heart. They are in delight while watching her bathed in her blood.
"Oh, Calypso, my ever so genius daughter, thanks for the hard work, Let me and your brother take it from here, rest well!" The middle-aged man said while holding a glass of champagne given by his son earlier
"Thanks for the gift, Elder sister." The young man said
After hearing those words, Calypso's eyes slowly closed, and her vision darkened. Seeing this happening, the two men instantly changed their expressions.
"Help!!" shouted the young man while hysterically running outside the office to inform all the employees of what happened.
After some time, an ambulance came and picked up Calypso's lifeless body on the stretchers and left with her brother in tow, and no more than a few minutes passed, police and investigator came.
"So you were saying that while you three were happily chatting, a bullet penetrated the glass which was supposed to be bulletproof and pierced directly to President Calypso's heart?" The investigator inquired about Calypso's father's claims to make sure that no information deviated from his investigation.
"Yes officer, I hope you could thoroughly investigate what happened, and who dares to do this to my daughter. Money is not an issue and contact and inform me if anything" Her father said while shedding tears in front of the investigator.
"Certainly, this might be shenanigans of a competing company, nothing's new it's a business thing, so I will go first" Seeing the father's grief, the inspector couldn't help much but give him time to grieve for losing a child in front of his eyes.
Seeing the investigator walk away, he wiped his crocodile tears, and his expression turned gruesome. His lips protrude upward while his fingers touch every part of Calypso's office, like checking a speck of dust on each corner until he arrives at the swivel chair and sits on it.
"Deceit is the easiest way to gain profit, and you, my daughter, has failed, HAHAHAHAHAHHAH." He laughed like a maniac sitting on the chair and looking at the glass walls where the city lights brightly illuminated, making him believe that even nature is triumphantly cheering for his victory against her daughter.
You could say that he made a planned A to Z against her daughter, who always thinks in an unrealistic manner where she could foretell every scheme behind the action made by the people around her. It's just that she always put her guard down in front of her family no matter how good she created schemes in her head theres a boundary to it, which she placed above all else, even to profit.
The information about the assassination wasn't concealed by Calypso's father, and the event made turmoil in the business industry. Many corporations partnered and in collaboration with her company couldn't stay back, fearing that they might lose profit, to the point that even most of them are nearing to void the contract with the company.
While it was happening, in another world, trillions of light-years away from Earth, existed a planet which is ten times bigger than Earth.
The planet is called Aeron. The world's system is vastly different from Earth because Aeron is a planet where fantasy things, where back on Earth could only exist inside the books, such as swords and magic, are present and the mainstream of the population.
Races are not only limited to humans, there are Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, etc. who exist and are also predominant, they build their empires and kingdoms to make their race prosper.
Creatures such as beasts exist in Aeron, not the beast that could only sigh and grieve when humans put them behind glass panes, but a beast that could easily level a city and massacre a thousand people.
Aeron has countless continents ruled by different races. One of the continents is simply called the human continent, and on that continent, two ruling empires are in a war for a thousand years now, while the other three were the Ataraxia continent a home for beastkin and elves, Macabre continent is home for demons, and people of such bloodline, the last is Vigil continent which was home for a pure beast, and lastly the vast unexplored continent with full of danger that surrounds a mist of mystery waiting to be explored.
In the human continent, one of the empires is called Alcazar Empire, it spans more than half of the continent. In the courtyard of duke Allaire, a boy is sitting on the corner part of the courtyard where a dense pine tree is situated, making the sun rays unable to penetrate.
He has silver-white hair, which was unique in a place like the capital because usually a white-haired is a trait of those who live in cold all year round.
He's around 4 to 5 years old, wearing clothes made of sack that compliment his white skin, and his feet are covered by straw shoes. There's a visible bruise mark on his body that made him pitiful.
He found this place one time when he ran away from his aunt's rage, who always beat him and released her anger by thrashing him even though he was not the cause of it.
His quite a frail kid and unnourished which made him more miserable, but despite all that, he has the wits and brain that helped him to fend for himself for a long time, his brain is of no ordinary brain like the one of his age.
The calming breeze and the smell of tree bark soothed the ache in his body, but on the contrary, his face was serene while his eyes stared at the incoming boy that wears elegant clothing such as tunic, and stockings with the carefully embroidered sun.
The boy got his haughty expression as he near the kid with white hair " Hey! white hair, what are you doing here?" he asked.
"Talking to the trees, why? are you interested?" he sarcastically asked.
"yo-you! how dare you! you're just an illegitimate kid of an almost dead woman!" He shouted with annoyance while his face turned red.
He knows that this white-haired kid is a bit abnormal even for him, whos 13 years old. He felt that this kid in front of him got a problem in his head because there's no 5-year-old kid who acts apathetic when they were called illegitimate.
Seeing the white-haired man being silent and his carefree expression is no longer present, he continued, " My mom said that your mom is nearing her death. I won't tell you where she is, mom also said that that's normal because she is living in a shabby room that is not appropriate for her to hasten her death, so you will no longer have a mom from now on, opps you never had any in the first place, so I guess that's a no problem for you, bye-bye!" He declared and ran back where he came from leaving the boy alone.
The white-haired boy clenched his fist tightly that inflicted a wound on his hands, his eyes were starting to get wet while watching the haughty kid ran away.
Calming himself down, he analyzes the haughty kid's words bit by bit and thinks if there's any clue ' yes! that's it! a shabby-looking room without appropriate equipment for a comatose person, there can only be two places in this whole mansion such description fit!'
He always wanted to see her mom, he tried to eavesdrop on the maid, and all he found out was her mother was comatose after he was born.
'The only shabby-looking place in this mansion is either the servant's quarter where I live, which was a no because if mom were there I would have found out since I already know the nook and cranny of servants' quarters' he thought inwardly.
He stood up and sneakily entered the main mansion. In the mansion, there is only two shabby-looking room, and with a reason. The servant quarters are shabby looking in that haughty kid's mind, but it's not in the least shabby, he just lives in a more luxurious place, so he thinks that everything was shabby if it's not comparable to or better than his place.
After traversing a lot of less used corridors and shortcuts, he arrived in front of indeed shabby looking wooden door, it only had a doorknob, and its wood certainly was old. This place is hidden, and the kid only managed to stumble upon it one time, but he didn't manage to check what was inside because a group of men he didn't know was coming, so he ran and forgot about it, but being here once helped him to arrived here quickly.
He walked towards the door, and every step he made, made his heart beat erratically, and the hands he was raising to tilt open the door were shaking. There was a sign of anticipation on his face, and longing is one of the most visible expressions he expressed. He didn't know if its a trap lay by the haughty kid, but he wanted to take this risk not because he thought he is right, but because he felt that there was something inside that was waiting for him.
Creak!!!
He slowly pushed the door open, and it made a creaking sound that slightly made a noise inside the room, the room was dimly light, and there were not many sources of light aside from the hole in the wall, no jewelry or any stuff that symbolize a proper lady.
He peered at his surroundings, and his eyes slowly arrived on the bed, he gazed at the person lying on the bed, and he didn't know that his feet were already pulling him near the unconscious woman.
She has jet black hair that reaches her back, and there are bangs on his forehead. Her skin is pale as a sheet of paper, and his face is devoid of any nurture to the point that there are only cheekbones, chapped lips, and dry skin.
She's malnourished, and her bones look sharp like a blade in her state. The kid became sad when he saw the woman in front of him, his heartache more than ever, and his eyes teared up that slowly slid down to his cheek, and fell to the woman's hand.
"Are you my m-mom?" he subconsciously asked while shedding tears.