“What the hell do you suppose you are doing?!”

Shortly after Rose left Sicilia’s secure home in a rush to return to Finaflor mansion, an irritated voice rang by way of the workplace as a lady with pitch-black hair and golden eyes pressured her manner although the doorways of Sicilia’s workplace. A glance of irritation and annoyance which matched her irritated voice was written throughout her face .

The golden-eyed lady did not appear to thoughts and even care in regards to the wraiths that flanked her sides, able to assault at a second’s discover and as an alternative she proceeded to face over Sicilia along with her arms crossed whereas Sicilia herself leisurely leaned again in opposition to her seat.

“I’ve completely no concept what you are speaking about.”

In response to the sudden intruder; the Breetish Royal Admiral; Michelle’s look, Sicilia would solely shrug as she gave her reply to Michelle’s authentic query.

“All that my subordinates and I has executed was to work to fulfil our a part of the settlement of this ‘joint operation.’ In actual fact, is not it I who must be mad at you for falsely accusing me of nothing when you might have a military to be main? I’ve performed my half now why do not you play yours.”

Sicilia noticed a type of unidentifiable ‘flash’ seem in Michelle’s eyes as her irritated face appeared to fade away whereas she was taking in a deep breath earlier than exhaling. Whereas the irritation wasn’t utterly eradicated, Michelle a minimum of seemed to be quite a bit much less threatening than earlier than.

It was virtually as if Michelle had the power to subdue that look all alongside however for some cause, selected to not.

Regardless of the cause truly was, Sicilia knew that she would most likely by no means discover out, nor did she truly care about what the precise cause was.

Different than simply to sate her morbid curiosity, Sicilia would don’t have anything to achieve from prying into Michelle’s private decisions.

Thus all she may and would do was take heed to Michelle’s response.

A response that to Sicilia’s slight shock got here at a tone that was eerily vaguely acquainted to her. It was simply that she could not precisely lay her finger on what it truly was.

“So I suppose unnecessarily comprising all the things can be a part of your duties inside this ‘joint operation’ is it?”

Totally shocked by Michelle’s reply, Siciclia opened up her mouth to reply solely to be instantly interrupted by Michelle. Her mouth curved upwards into a large smile as she shrugged casually in a mockingly related method to how Sicilia shrugged earlier.

“Oh please, for somebody who is meant to be accountable for lots of the Imperium’s covet operations, even Maxwell can lie higher than you.”

“…”

Sicilia was immediately rendered speechless upon the point out of her brother. She did not know what it was precisely that brought on her to lose her voice, all she knew was that it occurred.

“Nicely… do not you might have one thing that it’s a must to say for your self? Or are you so dangerous at making up an excuse that you just want me to do it for you?”

“W-what does it matter to you anyway?!”

Sicilia felt what she perceived to be an ‘unidentifiable flash’ just like that of which that appeared in Michelle’s eyes seem in her personal eyes as she made her response to the black-haired Breetish admiral.

“I can do what I need! I’m not one other one who simply bends the knee to Maxwell! I’m my very own particular person rattling it! Screw you!”

That was what Sicilia wished to say.

Nonetheless, she knew that she couldn’t probably permit herself to do such a factor.

Though these phrases clawed at her very being, making an attempt to pressure themselves out of her mouth, Sicilia remained unmoved.

Apart from one particular person, she has by no means disgraced herself in entrance of anybody earlier than in her life.

And he or she wasn’t going to start out now.

As a substitute she responded to Michelle with one thing utterly completely different.

“I apologise for my sudden impolite outburst, why do not we’ve got a extra civilised speak? I will even have one in every of my subordinates serve you a glass of wine. Freshly wine imported from the mountains of Benice.”

Though Sicilia ought to have little cause to carry a pleasant expression when dealing with Michelle, that was precisely what she did when she ‘apologised.’

Alternatively, when Michelle heard Sicilia’s response, her mockingly vast smile regressing into a form faint smile as she replied to Sicilia. Her expression virtually completely mimicking that of Sicilia’s.

“I’ll take you up on that supply. That and I too, apologise for my sudden impolite outburst after I actually busted into your workplace.”

Michelle sighed as she stopped standing and as an alternative sat down as she was talking with Sicilia.

“However you should perceive that I don’t respect the way you simply needlessly compromised the integrity of not solely this operation, however the Confederacy’s plans for this warfare. In spite of everything, you might be conscious of what function Rose performs for the ‘future’ for Portegol and also you simply needlessly antagonised her.”

Sicilia casually waved her hand as she waved away Michelle’s considerations. As she did so, one in every of her wraiths; Aldrin appeared earlier than continuing to put two glasses in entrance of the 2 and filling them each with wonderful wine.

It was solely after Aldrin completed pouring the wine did Sicilia select to talk up once more.

“It’s going to be wonderful, I used to be solely teasing her. It was her personal option to needlessly head for her mansion, I did not pressure it upon her. In addition to she must be secure. I’ve a number of of my subordinates holding tabs on her. I’ve… added a number of parameters in order that issues will not deviate to a lot from our authentic plans.”

As Sicilia spoke, Michelle’s faint smile continued to fade away. By the point that Sicilia completed talking, Michelle’s smiled pale away in its entirety that her face grew to become a clean state, her expression virtually mirroring that of the stone-faced commander-in-chief of the Imperial Military; Erika.

Nonetheless, Sicilia felt that it was not as a result of Michelle wished to take care of knowledgeable disposition like Erika usually does that she held that expression, as an alternative she felt that it was one thing a bit extra ‘private.’ Nonetheless, annoyingly, Sicilia simply couldn’t decipher the feelings held inside Michelle’s eyes.

Sicilia hated it.

She hated not with the ability to learn somebody’s intentions.

No, Sicilia may learn technically learn Michelle’s feelings proper now.

No, what she hated was one thing else.

What she truly hated was the shortcoming to learn no matter ideas was mendacity in somebody’s thoughts.

As a result of information is energy.

Uncooked bodily ‘energy’ is in of itself energy, that’s true.

However energy is available in many varieties.

The flexibility to govern individuals could be mentioned to be ‘energy.’

And the way may one manipulate an individual with out realizing their ideas?

On the very least, if one could not manipulate an individual irrespective of how a lot they knew what the particular person was truly pondering, one may a minimum of really feel secure with the power to learn an individual’s ideas.

Even realizing only a snippet of their ideas was sufficient to make Sicilia really feel confident.

There was simply an indescribable feeling that got here from realizing what the opposite particular person was pondering.

She may do it with Cromwell.

She may do it with Kiezwell.

She may even do it with the usually expressionless Erika.

There was just one different individual that Sicilia had a tough time studying their ideas…

Only one particular person.

And that was Maxwell.

Sicilia did not know the right way to describe it.

It simply felt as if no matter ideas Maxwell was pondering have been all ‘out of this world.’

Whereas his eyes informed her what he was at the moment feeling, it by no means informed Sicilia what he was at the moment pondering.

She tried her finest to guess what it was, however her guesses have been both confirmed incorrect completely or left unanswered.

And now, she was dealing with the identical issues with Michelle.

It was at that second that Sicilia remembered a dialog she had with Erika.

“Oh Michelle? She’s wonderful I suppose… It is simply that she’s… she’s simply such a GOD DAMN BITCH! I HATE HER! I LOATH HER! I DESPISE HER! I-…”

Sicilia believed that she has by no means earlier than seen Erika that mad. All Sicilia did was actually ask Erika about her ideas on Michelle and that explosive outburst was the response she obtained.

Sicilia herself not often interacted with the enigmatic Breetish admiral who normally solely interacted with Maxwell himself and in some instances with Kiezwell or Michelle. Sicilia both did not have the time to correctly work together with Michelle or simply did not have the time.

Now that Sicilia thought of it, Maxwell typically personally met with and had appointments with Michelle greater than every other particular person if Erika is excluded. What would he would have usually executed was have another person do it for him and for him to only obtain a report of the consequence.

May or not it’s?

May there be one thing that each Maxwell and Michelle inherently held that allowed them to do the issues they did?

They have been each not solely enigmatic individuals in their very own proper, however they have been fairly properly achieved as properly.

To checklist their complete checklist of accomplishments and feats was a monotonous and tedious process.

As a substitute Sicilia opted to only make a fast abstract of the end result of their achievements in her thoughts.

Maxwell revolutionised navy warfare on the bottom whereas Michelle revolutionised navy warfare on the ocean.

After all, Sicilia was already conscious of this slightly handy ‘coincidence’ however now that she thought of it, maybe there was extra to this than Sicilia initially thought.

It was when that revelation flashed by way of Sicilia’s thoughts that her eyes rapidly widened because of the pure shock.

At that second, she seen that weirdly sufficient, Michelle continued to stay utterly unperturbed by Sicilia’s actions.

As a substitute she continued to sit down down with that ever-present expressionless expression on her face as she continued to sip on her wine and silently nodded at Sicilia in acknowledgement of Sicilia’s reply.

It might appear that Michelle had no intentions to reply to Sicilia.

Nonetheless, Sicilia did not thoughts.

Sicilia didn’t know if Michelle was truly conscious of Sicilia’s ideas or how a lot time has handed. And fairly frankly she didn’t care.

There was one thing that Michelle and Maxwell have been hiding.

One thing that allowed them to perform their feats.

One thing that was accountable for their pondering course of and capabilities.

Mentally, Sicilia smiled to herself.

Who would have thought that there existed a purpose extra fascinating than gaining immortality?

As Sicilia sipped on her personal glass of wine as she sat reverse to Michelle, she mentally added one other goal to her rising checklist of end-game life objectives.

If it might take her one yr or a thousand.

If it might take her one lifetime or a thousand.

She is going to uncover their secret, irrespective of the fee.


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