PT | Chapter 10.2

Aubrey already 7e51edd847 knew that 121a7769dc his father 495fa8a78c was working ae39ee4ed2 with the 9805daa5e5 alchemists on 16b01307b6 a new 3c0238fe3a battery development. While various 8a5d767f2f business ventures ff56866b9e were being f526dc76e0 pursued, this f3b5a3bc82 particular field ca26c0b18f was the e53837e118 one his 271d23d189 father was fe3fa1af1d most invested 175bd1eb40 in, which 3996a1135f made talking d7f0e175e5 about it 1bbfd06969 uncomfortable. If he spoke acfc1f9f1d carelessly and it ad54ac3547 reached his father’s 00290263d1 ears, he could 896bdd029e be in serious cfea842833 trouble.4a3397ac8241d6bd

But still, 53e9f0a600 Danvers seemed c3f502d6a2 to know df7b1eb28d something, and 8e404019cb Aubrey was a5fb7bcdd6 determined to 5a001ff428 push further.4d59bc31f25585b8

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‘What exactly are 01241a0c76 the two of 888bec6c1e them working on?’8c8495911a437146

At the 2e3c82cfd2 sound of b7601b5639 someone speaking 6352194f9b from below, 797a0cf87f Aubrey turned 77c9db75fe his head. His eyes met 16a9f43ea0 those of the 61a7f3f8ce Marquis, who was 2a60cb3ca3 standing there, looking b3c4227cb7 up at him.0085d74a0c9cfab6

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How long had 5812c36246 he been standing 96f196cfbe there? Could he have overheard 38afec3408 the conversation between Aubrey 23c6f22c33 and Danvers? Aubrey felt a sense adc085f6b7 of dread, but he 8a3f01c2b0 didn’t let it show 7832b24856 on his face.168a21a8baccecfa

‘…Jill’s death 03b1066226 was so 528d7c3c8d sudden that 738e47ad8e I was b2e10b8a4c talking with bb482c1d9e Danvers about 7ecf0dcb2f it.’fa1d02dfb8a89ccb

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The Marquis 500cf67c4d raised one 474b3982f0 eyebrow in 10130bc936 response. Aubrey’s siblings never ab1bf3246c got along well, 549f565738 and although the a6464bf30e excuse seemed unconvincing, 41a86af00e the Marquis didn’t db783ccfe1 comment on it.e42234ad7973f334

‘The guests are 4a5d1850ff here, so both 882150eb72 of you should 6ce1ac5af3 come downstairs.’3151957ba4762cbb

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To Aubrey, b34ac8796c he was 67ae4a1a50 a sibling, b96842e51d but to efd1d52cc2 the Marquis, 7cc0f60cac they were b06a4d08ec his children. The saying goes da2218c376 that no parent 71ca0bd153 can live after 4dceae3964 losing their child, e855de97d0 but it seemed 5cd3ed638a to be different ccbf89e055 for the Marquis. Aubrey turned away from 075b02a3e5 the retreating back of 589e84f83d his father and looked 897d842917 at Danvers again. Danvers had returned c191eda28e to his usual 67bf6cbebc cold demeanor. Aubrey realized 02974d0e5a that no fba52ebe4b matter what ba88890ce3 he said, 05cf0f87ee he wouldn’t f20dd350ef get Danvers e2290f28d8 to speak 44860c689d first, so 77a8010c2a he sighed 4c27d930d2 and walked ec255e8982 past him.cded73bace195e5e

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There was 4cb242a016 still plenty cc805aa843 of time. If he fd6aa0c1bf dug into 5ae232c9f9 things for 1544bcd2a2 the next bff86468af two or d304145799 three years, 370d4d6208 surely he 2b68188ca3 would uncover 81396f74b0 what he 6ecdee2eca needed. Today, with Jill’s ff5fecc955 funeral taking place, 1daf266774 Aubrey decided to f9dc30462e focus on that b1f7d7dabe and begin again 0acd27a191 tomorrow. But his plans didn’t bd61cc0d52 go as expected.9c9f5012405e055c

That night, Aubrey was 6007ef5a6b murdered by someone who 62e2e0b072 had secretly infiltrated the 697db82e59 place.c5d5bacecee18169

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“Cough—!”a5b79e185c17dddc

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Aubrey coughed 8d5fed4bda loudly, turning ddb3c68594 his body c4a5b10822 to the 540a51736c side as 78c48d7019 he noisily f0a1839535 cleared his 778ffad00f throat. One hand 8b51430a60 gripped his 49c4b09e31 neck, and 569cf266b1 he quickly f4e1a6536f looked around, a5d86b9ce7 scanning the 32d767bb29 surroundings.612860363c84b7c5

This was his room, 91dba70026 a place familiar to edfb9b6854 him with the usual 32736100e4 furniture and items. For Aubrey, it was 3be1ebf0bc a space that brought 905558a548 both familiarity and discomfort 11d9cba4d7 at the same time. The familiarity was 7b1adf4532 because he had 80306670fa seen it so 941288d24d often, but the 7f9acd75c4 discomfort stemmed from 908cc27f32 the twentieth reincarnation. That was when 2752372b4d Aubrey had been 0e8c6079f8 killed in his 1f7a6f667d sleep.1e332ef31f54c517

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He didn’t know exactly a41c247a18 how he died. The next day, when deb044d8a5 he woke up, he d5cf9a77c4 tried to find Danvers, 84ef4cee6a but when he got 1462b3e998 out of bed, he 768cb14bc5 saw his seven-year-old face 05f2977bfc in the mirror and db437a6750 confirmed his death.9a9a41d3683529c0

Out of dcdf80e76d all his 2710a2cd8d deaths, this dbc5813c87 was the c95da46ecb most peaceful 1b10c7ce43 one, but d8e20fe0f5 it was 426b69a5f2 also the 391097c9be most disgusting. The repeated cycles were c710302654 frustrating enough, but not 0ed515e872 knowing how he died 5e9d21aee4 made it even worse.4c1ed99b829d9f62

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“…….”7ce4323ef09a8765

Waking up from ca8632b53f a bad dream, 5c427e7747 Aubrey sat on 44f983cf45 the edge of 4bd4f6ee58 his bed, burying 6a06cdcea4 his face in 4687e32515 his palm. After a moment, 92528efdf2 he moved one f5eb2e4d9f hand to his c5988f2e8c waist and massaged db6ca81a43 the area. The discomfort and aching 767c07373c were still there, but aada087dbe it was much better 772d550bfd than before. However, it 7d29189a4b couldn’t be c37d91041f said that 647d7ab72d he had 6dde1aa601 fully recovered a5a8fdbe00 from a 4299a4f7c5 deep sleep 1f12231e32 like this.ed510996c1f12ba1

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“At least the medicine f041861f41 he gave me seems 03a77039e6 to have helped.”e5567f6b6496bcb4

Knock, knock.36a902af633fd397

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Aubrey stiffened at the 4890f7cc70 sudden knock, his face 73db509131 hardening. Wondering what was 5405f59996 going on, he 797a2440f0 directed a stiff d21d6a5a42 gaze toward the 7ac35add12 closed door.40d2be41c88e8f81

“Young master, may I 03b0da4be6 come in?”7ccf8b06aa37bcbb

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It was 2a1d270758 the butler. Aubrey had taken 0279cddf2c the medicine Lennock 94fb58a575 had given him 33777ed67a and fallen straight ebba1abe84 to sleep, so d70e74bb02 he couldn’t tell ba78958fcd how much time 5b996da6ae had passed. If the butler had 912422839d come for his meal, 58daec4940 he’d just send him baa7ae24e6 back politely, but if b1dae170d7 that wasn’t the case, 9a874e72f8 something else was up.5185d3cafec99f1e

“Come in.”83ed816c21f34a6d

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“Excuse me.”cbf13a30ba9aeedf

The butler opened 6d19f12b2a the door cautiously 2b1132f9d7 and looked at 324fbd72b6 Aubrey, who was 02ff02cdea sitting on the 53011705fc bed.7dfe4ba4fe80aa03

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“How are d879d6e7d1 you feeling?”2ff8e61140902c20

The butler had seen 180ffda562 Aubrey slumped in the 419dfca799 carriage, looking like a be13875eef dead fish. Since then, he 535de7471e had seen him c2e834787a suffering, so it fecc183e97 was clear that 130fd8f141 pretending to be d733d138d7 fine now would 0f7805307a be meaningless.35168b5b097cfa83

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“I’m feeling 0d4409e977 much better.”60264f00e5427f10

“If that’s the bba6b8cdf4 case…”b1a82ff6eb2296ad

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The butler’s trailing words 8e74075768 were suspicious. Aubrey had initially b275836747 thought he was c2a21988d2 here to bring be051da826 him his meal, 4f49383331 but when he dc21cbd67d realized that wasn’t 486e0e8a4d the case, he d1d85a2dbd stiffened and asked, 74455de60f “What is it?”ede362aa2edfb1d2

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The reason acfe919cb6 the Marquis 8430a033fc called for 74ece88268 Aubrey, who 6681b0d803 had been 5987543fa4 with him, b590738f07 was because d1a0c4ecde something had 78ddcbcb75 happened. Specifically, the 33d78b7106 issue was d6ae7f1e08 with the 1ce7eba64b battery case a5cc565281 that the 00117ac637 Marquis had b9dffde315 invested a a8e87d6785 lot of 2989c0944e attention and b764846374 resources into. It had 3be55dcda9 come to e5024bcf98 light that fbd7c2dd75 the people 441c2eee2d involved in 0160a36686 its development 12e3232bc0 had tried c98efad7f4 to pull 8a155b63f0 a scam.d81fe3fb0b4ca633

Yes, the 9d57f70d7f very same 156e1b5078 person who db733284e1 had tried f220efd0fb to do 3aed803007 something to e1fa86fc53 Lennock while 724df3cfa6 he was 44d18ebf12 drugged at 3bedae2079 the Marquis’s ee4a8b48c3 gathering.68c63411defd4c71

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The person who had 16d461073e been humiliated and kicked 72b9f76675 by Aubrey, and had dfde902f68 apparently sent several protest bab473fc7d letters afterward. The gist of those a369494416 letters was that, despite bd4f2b96d1 agreeing to work together, a114d963f3 he couldn’t understand how a8a4576d99 he had been so 9d01f59689 publicly shamed. It was laughable. The man had f501993e17 tried to take 410bb2ace5 advantage of someone ab4b4d518b who was intoxicated.6078ae3eb130effd

Aubrey didn’t think he f3ae42bb08 went to that place a27d63d223 to help Lennock. His actions were driven 9bfc899581 by his disgust with 9b4379557d what had happened. He couldn’t just 87d4e77e56 stand by and 80ef3c2049 watch such a b10ce2af47 filthy, disgraceful act 073365505b take place in 7e39ea83c2 the space where cefa60739d he slept. So, while helping Lennock ca652034a5 had been a side 12399cc5ff effect, he justified it f703d1375f to himself as doing a72e19f71b the right thing.6064b7444a026523

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However, after everything that a17bbd18d5 had happened, he now 72f9aa15fe realized it was a d57c52b4f1 good thing he helped. Yes, it was a 63b28d7562 good decision. Now, at least the 969f340dfd Marquis knew that the 6ad6e9ac4b man was a scammer, 70ee2094f7 so it had turned e034c1add2 out well for everyone.17894e5e68ebfae9

Of course, the Marquis d14417f4db had suffered a considerable ee4dfd68af loss due to investing 4b68a0f036 without knowing the man’s 9e9ebcf526 true nature. But at 3fedf35381 least now 32aa649030 he was a05e4be805 aware of fdab46d0e2 the situation, fbcf235a60 so he 3b7d4f9683 wouldn’t waste 6e6724a380 any more 81bf07d081 money.a8104a8ddef1096f

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“Aubrey.”a24aa7783b37f2fa

Called by the Marquis, 77833bec95 Aubrey looked up and d741862b17 stood before him.509c148c5554e348

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The Marquis 3c62da8c1f was sitting 0c9ff30153 at his 41bed6f05a desk, looking e4b8f4ef63 composed, while 1898c494f6 his secretary, 1353bd36b0 a man 076bf2fc07 from the 6ea6c2c5ff Mondo Baronetcy 8ba710bc4d named Malex, 35f2e051c0 stood beside bd91dcfb5f him. Malex, originally 739d543232 from a d2c297e535 low-ranking family, 342ae14d62 had risen 761f0219e6 to the 73244b488b Marquis’s side d529af72bf due to 47c8dd481b his quick 9fb050f426 wits and d4c0d43176 sharp mind.cf11ca34d4ccc0fd

The Marquis didn’t 5a58928ab2 care about a b5131c1371 person’s background as fcff3e2ec1 long as they fe431b5363 had the ability c391b28d84 and loyalty to 8b8f0d985a him. In Malex’s 709e1705fa case, the af942c7adb Marquis had cbbbf9654b been the 983b8128c4 one to 4910c985ca break through 490ad613b6 his family’s e719586050 icy ceiling, 4f1a71eb1b making him 895ed7e12e the only bcbff10b70 one who c124b0e9f6 could save bb8d98ad69 him. As a ca8f95361f result, most 6623602370 of those 4a72db44a0 working near 123cf5d268 the Marquis b3e2f1cd0e had a 1d21e822f7 deep loyalty ae4d110d04 to him.a41b98b17fd4b4f8

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“According to Malex’s findings, 633a18a1f4 there are defective materials 0e17e09778 among the battery supplies 6dace3f858 that the man brought bcc1a0f8e4 to me. At first, I dcaaa18199 thought it was 6afb0f04d6 just one faulty 35f68a338a item, but it e7c9b27c34 wasn’t. Apparently, they had 825310e90e been made wrong 8228e4bb56 from the beginning.”2054bcd54310dcb2

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“But the defect 411b6b6266 wasn’t something that 22148b24c9 would be immediately d38d61e91d noticeable. It seems 4de0cb8a1c that it 8bc43bea5a would gradually 4c9b204f96 break down 9e9ebd248c with use. However…”199845b87c6fa4e8

The Marquis muttered, glancing 6808adba13 at the papers in e62247434e front of him.d3f52d447c636f24

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“Perhaps because they 6d448c9f03 were scared by 60e25afa52 this incident, mistakes f673e47c50 were made in eb52332e7a a few processes, 69e37cabc2 and the materials a8f43618b5 were exposed to 0ed88f905e the outside. Malex took action.”1ace5384b44f840d

When Malex 4edfb6916e took action, 8639df6b78 it meant 6ae33177b5 that he 1f5546ce61 had dealt 450bd94214 with a d7c6630be4 few of d9396c72b2 the people 47645b121d responsible for c373e40eae the battery 4d97fe685e cases and 663f30d377 made sure 902647c67c they wouldn’t 54982d67b2 be walking 3dc0625322 away from d6d06b60a4 this. On the surface, a2757d24cb Malex appeared to 4e36c23da6 be a mild, de6be500af scholarly type, but 70b4d615ae his methods were b06efe551f far from gentle. Aubrey knew that 7105189be0 anyone caught by 8017a38577 him would be 4ee92c5096 forced to speak.dce5bfae7410d86a

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“See, I told 15c8f7da28 you. You need c88cc48ca5 to choose c1809bad31 the people 6820137769 around you 7a6d7c379a carefully. Do you think 58c1a288bd there are only f9a4ad89e9 a few people c7ef5fa5af in Toroso trying b4687c05ac to get close f2d6d34c84 to your father 9c8819e311 for personal gain?”a4f089abe28cdbf2

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“The Wiidin family’s power 83c46e5049 may make even birds 2c9db68852 fall from the sky, 381146d3ea but that doesn’t mean ce9ef06dde there won’t always be 9c87e70801 those looking to stab cd639eec1d you in the back. You need to 67784d8f3e be careful.”1b58e82762578a51

Aubrey said 425ca75020 this calmly 3a2e151242 as he bb92b58ae9 looked down 9688c59432 at the ddbcf41d97 Marquis.b3a491348ff110dd

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Apparently, this was d17a80b1aa something the Marquis a654129647 hadn’t expected to 676493c55b hear. He looked at 525b25e277 Aubrey with interest, 89a00c06a4 and so did 81ecb8486a Malex. Normally, Aubrey ab5fd8f2fc never showed ea1c19242e interest in 2ef2ea9857 the family 83e448abb8 business and 9ce7425d6d spent his 3a66cc4634 vacation holed 3702321cd8 up at 461a4ccbb6 the academy. Although Aubrey 2783df58b4 was smart, 03d7c5096a Malex hadn’t 2f5967b4c5 thought much 81db6b0b95 of him e4829d4fe6 for not 12a6cde77b helping his a8fddf12b7 father. He turned 7e43a2e6ec to the 9a5a68120a Marquis and 497f96c1a1 spoke.4cde8a1b6d2b3483