The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 406: Lara Vs Rex

“They left already? Didn’t I tell you to make them stay?” Titus asked as he entered the balcony his two masked rivals were in. He just stood at the door and gave the balcony an inspecting look.

“I couldn't just stop them… The auction house has its rules and…” Liam who stood behind him said.

“Enough with the bullshitting, don’t think I don’t know what you are plotting!” Titus, who didn’t even care to look at Liam, interrupted him.

He firmly believed that those guys worked for Liam, or they wouldn’t have only bidding on the girls he wanted!

He expected those ‘mysterious buyers’ to meet him after the auction and demand a bigger price. And was going to corner them here.

Who knew that they would escape beforehand. This indicated that they were going to hide the girls and then trade with him through an intermediary agent. This was a smart move… That was if they had the capacity to pull it off!

“I don’t understand what young master Titus means…” Liam played dump.

“ Enough… I want the recordings of what happened in this room…”

“Ah… Young master… Our VIP rooms have no recording devices…” Liam apologized again.

Titus knew he was lying, but he had no evidence. Still, if those guys were Liam’s agents the recordings would most likely be useless… “What transportation did they use… I want their Vehicle's description… Don’t tell me you don’t have that!” Titus said coldly.

“Ahh…Yes, I did, but they didn’t take it and left directly through the back door…” Liam answered. finding it strange that Titus did not seem angry.

“WHAT?” Titus turned to look at Liam. “Are you telling me they left on foot with a group of naked slave girls?”

“Yes, that masked girl made them wear some cloaks that she brought with her,” Liam said, hiding the fact that she had a storage ring. He didn’t want Titus to back away now. He wanted them to fight with each other!

“Oh… I see…” Titus said as he quickly sent a message to his agent to intercept them.

His plan to intercept the vehicle silently couldn’t be implemented, but this situation was way better, kidnapping people off the streets was his agent's usual line of business!

“Young Master Titus… Why are you here? Shouldn’t you be going after them?” Liam asked nervously.

“I already ordered the family team to grab them, although they might hide like rats, They would never be able to leave the city!“ he said casually, watching Liam’s panicked expression.

His phone rang…

Titus smiled as he answered, his agents must have already apprehended them. They couldn’t have gone that far on foot!

“Cloe! Was it done?” Titus asked the other party, smirking at Liam.

“Sorry young master… It was a little inconvenient to make a move… And it is already too late…” a girl sounded from the other side.

“What do you mean?” Titus asked. “Did they have the support of some…”

“Not anything like that! It is just that the family rules forbid us from making a scene in public!” the woman quickly replied. “I already sent you a video of what happened…” Cloe replied.

Titus quickly flipped his phone and opened the Video his subordinate sent. Liam, who was behind him, secretly extended his short neck to take a look.

“WOMEN TO RULE!”

“FREE WOMEN!”

“WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO STRIP!”

“DOWN WITH THE KING!”

“FUCK THE KING!”

“WE WANT DEMOCRACY!”

“MEN ARE ANIMALS!”

“MEN SHOULD BE KEPT IN CAGES!”

“LONG LIVE THE EMPRESS!”

In the video, Titus watched as the girls from the auction, along with some very disturbing-looking fat girls held large signs and were protesting in the middle of a large street a few blocks from here, they were demanding the end of the monarchy and equal rights for all women. Then they began cursing at men and hailing for some empress.

Exactly 2 Minutes into the video, the girls were surrounded by a myriad of police cars, from which burly men stepped down with wooden cudgels and began hitting the girls before arresting them, and then transporting them into a prison truck. The entire process took less than 3 minutes!

This kingdom tolerated everything except for that nasty thing called democracy and equal rights. It went against everything they stood for.

Naturally, Those girls were going to be executed tonight…

“Oh, I see… Those bastards want to use the prison system here to hide their tracks…” Titus said on the phone. Prisons in countries like this were more corrupt than a 3-year-old bottle of milk! “Go get them from prison… I will send a message to the king to facilitate your business…” he added, eyeing Liam who really had no idea what was going on.

“I know…” Cloe replied before Titus hung up then quickly sent a message to the king who naturally didn’t dare to neglect Titus’s ‘wishes’.

“So… Do you have any idea what their plan was?” Titus finally said, looking at Liam.

“How would I know…” Liam said stoically. He really had no idea. Could Vic be a real emperor? Impossible!

“We will see…” Titus said, taking three talismans and activating them one after another pointing them to different parts of the balcony.

Suddenly many strange shadows could be seen all over the ground. Liam who was watching quickly realized that those were the movements of the people who were on the balcony.

One of them stayed in place while the other seemed to have moved like a spider all over the room, crawling up toward the upper balcony where an unfortunate accident happened 30 minutes ago…

“Shit…” Liam said. He got the report that after the auction, a few people were found collapsed in their balconies after getting castrated by a mysterious master during the auction. He was yet to investigate that matter as he had to get rid of Titus first… The culprit was now obvious.

“You know something?” Titus turned and asked Liam very coldly. He noticed his reaction.

“... No…”

“Those guys were players? Right,” Titus asked. Those movements were not something humans were capable of.

“I have no idea….” Liam quickly played dumb again. “Young master Titus… What do those talismans do exactly?” Liam asked. Changing the subject.

“Not something you will understand…. But simply put, this thing would allow me to see the traces left during the last few hours…” Titus said.

“Will those traces last… You know… The auction house’s furniture is not cheap…”

“They will disappear in 30 minutes…” Titus scolded as he took tweezers and grabbed a few strands of black hair that were below the table. The talisman made them shine. “Even If your guys ran to the end of the earth I will find them…” he told Liam with a smirk as he put the strand into an envelope.

“Ahh… Young master, They are not…”

Titus raised one hand making Liam stop talking then slowly approached the cough. There was something under it.

He bent and grabbed the strange-looking ring. It looked cheap, like something someone would leave to fool another into bending down before fucking them!

Strange…

POOMPH!

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH………”

Titus, as if he was hit by some invisible force from behind, was flung head first into the couch, pushing then tumbling it in the process before making it flip, falling to the floor on his back while holding his crotch.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Three masked women in black appeared out of nowhere and immediately secured the room, two pushing Liam to the ground and pointing a dagger to his neck while the other quickly checked on her young master who had blood seeping from his pants.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH……….. BASTARD! HOW DARE YOU! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH….” Titus wailed, pointing at Liam. He thought the latter was the one who hit him from the back. “JUST YOU WAIT I WILL … …………AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH……” he began to scream again then passed out.

“Shit…” Liam, who had no idea what just happened, knew one thing… He was in deep shit! Damn it VIC!

…

“I can’t believe we pulled that off!” Yulian said as drove the police truck. Those stupid cups just shoved the girls into the truck without care. They had no idea that the truck was being driven by him! “I am more surprised that all the girls cooperated!” he added.

“They are not stupid!” Lily, who had just finished giving healing pills to the girls in the back, turned and said. “We are not safe yet… Just keep driving straight and follow my orders!” she added as she took a strange-looking artifact that looked like a gem.

“What is this?” Yulian asked.

“Just something I borrowed from Victor…” she said, making the gem in her hand shine before extending it with her slender hand out of the window.

Suddenly a flash of light shot to the sky from it and in the next moment, everything around began to appear foggy.

“Does it create fog?” he asked.

“Something like that… Now for a few miles around here, no one will see us, not even satellites!“ she said. “Follow my instructions, we will be heading to the safe house I prepared yesterday!”

“A few miles? How strong is this thing?” he asked, darting his eyes to look at the gem that Lily quickly stored back in her storage ring.

“Very powerful… Don’t look like that, you can’t use it! It is marked by Victor and only if you are his wife or slave would you be able to use it to this extent!” she scolded. “It is about…” she paused, a sweet smile spread on her face.

“What?” Yulian asked as he felt a shiver in his spine. H

“My Delayed strike had just activated successfully!” she said. “The world had just lost a man and gained a new eunuch!” she added.

…

“Are they going to fight?” Roy asked.

Just after dinner, the butler George announced that Young Master Rex was going to have a friendly match with Young Miss Lara. All the heirs were invited to watch.

So Roy with Roxy and the rest of his brothers and sisters hurried to the Arena where the fight was going to happen.

“Apparently…” Roxy said. “Hopefully she will kick his ass…” she added in a low voice. Earlier in the day she was forced by Rex to run through the forest behind the mansion while carrying some weights as a test…

If it was just that, she wouldn’t have blamed him, but the sick bastard demanded that all of his siblings, males and females do it in high heels to satisfy some fetish or something. Naturally, all failed miserably!

“Oh…” Roy nodded as he watched as the audience gathered. Suddenly, two pregnant women entered the hall and were quickly guided by a maid to an elevated platform to watch. “Who are those two?” he asked.

“Lady Elena and Lady Luna…” Roxy said. “Elena is our father’s second official wife, She is Lara’s mother!” she said.

“Just how many wives does Esteemed Father have?” one girl, who was listening, asked.

“Three as far as I know!” Roxy said.

“Is that other woman to Elena's side Rex’s mother?” Roy asked.

“No, she is Father's favorite concubine… If she gives birth to a legitimate heir, she will be announced as the fourth wife!” she said. Unlike many of the illegitimate heirs, she knew a few things, especially here in Weiren principality!

“Is Lady Elena Victor’s mother?” a girl suddenly asked from the back. It was Juju, their slutty step-sister.

“Victor?” Toy asked. He seemed to have heard that name somewhere. He couldn’t remember when and where though.

“Ah… He is one of our legitimate brothers! I met him a few months ago, and he is super hot and cool!” Juju said. “His wedding was just a few weeks ago, sadly, Father didn’t allow me to attend…” she sighed, pouting.

“OH! HOLY SHIT!” Roy finally remembered the mass wedding. Was that pervert his brother? He had no idea! Damn it! His little sisters spent that entire day in front of the little TV they had in their apartment. They were following the wedding’s coverage being done by some big-boobed anchor who was fired shortly after.

They were fantasizing about a rich prince like Victor marrying all of them in one go!

Roy quickly shook his head to remove some of the disturbing thoughts he was having.

“Yes! Lady Elena is Victor’s mother!” The one who answered was not Roxy, but Iris who appeared behind them. “She is also the mother of elder sister Alice and elder brother Mike, all of them are elite heirs!” she added.

“Elite heirs?” Roy asked as his eyes sparkled. He knew what this meant. Being an elite heir in the family meant that he could use all the family’s powers and privileges. “Is Max an elite heir too?” he asked looking at Max who found a seat next to Elena and was exchanging pleasantries with her.

“No… Of our father's wives, only Lady Elena’s offspring are! All of her adult offspring are elites, Lara will probably be one too!” Iris said casually, hinting at more than one thing. She discovered those things when only Elena and her offspring attended Victor’s wedding. The others weren’t even invited! Although Theodore made some stupid excuse back then, she was not a fool!

Roxy who immediately understood the purpose of Iris’s remark raised one eyebrow, looking at Max and then at Elena who had a somewhat forced smile on her face. Iris was subtly teaching them about the dynamics in their father’s harem.

It took Roy a moment to get it. “Does Max’s mother hate Elena? Is there some kind of internal struggle in this family?”

“Simply put, Max’s mother, Lady Marta, although is the first wife, has a much weaker influence than Elena!” Iris shrugged. She noticed the tension when she spent a few days on the island after she awakened. “It is better not to make any baseless assumptions though…” she quickly added.

“Oh… Is there anything between Rex and Lara?” Roxy was the one who asked. “Is this really just an innocent fight?” he added. He could now smell the powder in the air.

“Well, don’t tell anyone…” she said, making sure all of her brothers and sisters around her could hear her. “This is about a mistake that Rex made when he was teaching Lara the family’s secret art… If not for brother Victor discovering this at the right time and stopping it, the poor girl would have ended up dead!“ Iris said, sighing.

“What? Was it on purpose, Wasn’t Rex punished?” Roy quickly asked, looking at Lara and then at Rex.

“The family investigation cleared him… But who knows…” Iris said, not going into any of the details. “This fight was Max’s idea, it is to gauge how much Lara has grown since Victor started teaching her!” she added, successfully turning everyone against Rex and Max. She didn’t like to scheme, but she felt that she needed to do something as like her, Max and Rex had already secretly begun to recruit some of the candidates here to their team.

She feared that by the time Victor and the others arrived here, all the good ones would have already been lost to Max!

“Oh…” everyone nodded as both Rex and Lara climbed onto the stage.

Rex, who didn’t even care to change his suit, just stretched casually before taking off his watch and giving it to a maid to keep for him.

Lara on the other hand, seems to have changed into a pink fashionable tracksuit and was doing some warmups seriously with the help of her loli maids.

“Are you both ready?” George, who was acting as a referee, asked.

“Yes” both of them answered at the same time.

“Good… remember, this is just a friendly fight, no weapons are allowed, only use the family’s art to make a good demonstration for your brothers and sisters!” he said as he stepped back. “You may start!” he said.

Lara slowly took a fighting stance.

Rex on the other hand smirked as he slowly stepped forward while clenching his fist.

“Let me see how far you have progressed!” he said standing three feet away from her. “I will give you three strikes first… I don’t want to be scolded by my father later for not going easy on you…”

“Esteemed brother! You must take this seriously!” Lara said, not relaxing her stance. “I have grown much stronger!”

“So have I!” Rex said, pulling his cuffs to reveal his tanned muscular arms. “Come on now… Do it like you mean it, or you will never get a chance later!” he said, secretly nodding to Max who nodded back.

“But…”

“JUST DO IT LIKE A VON WEISE!” Rex scolded.

Lara bit her lip then pounced forward.

Rex saw nothing as Lara disappeared.

“Above you!” Max exclaimed, making Rex instinctively make a roll forward just in time when Lara dived down to the point where he was a moment ago, crushing the stage with her foot.

Rex could only catch a glimpse of her before she disappeared again!

He turned to look where she went, but he saw nothing…

“LEFT!” Max helped him again, making him use all of his strength to move to the left… This was a mistake as what Max meant was Lara from attacking from the left.

Rex, who moved abruptly, dived with his face into Lara’s delicate foot. Their was a flash of light, then like a ball in one of those old soccer cartoons, he was kicked out of the arena, right into a wall.

It took a mere a split second for the fight to be concluded!

Many of the watchers gasped as they watched him slide down. For the few of them who underwent Lara’s test, this was a very similar view.

“MISS LARA WINS!” George declared, raising the shocked Lara's little hand.

“Holy shit…” Elena and Luna both gasped.

“Fucking looser…” Max said, disregarding Rex as he began to inspect Lara.

Others began to gossip, many gloating, feeling that Rex deserved this.

“Will he be ok?” Lara, who was about to cry, suddenly asked George. “I didn’t mean to do it this strongly… He just moved into my foot…'' she added nervously. She remembered her esteemed brother being very strong. Was he taking some bad drugs or something? Ren had told her that drugs were bad for the body!

“It is ok, in the Arena you should never hold back!…” George said, giving Rex a glance. “And he is fine… Probably just a broken neck...” he added nervously before feeling a little relieved when the paramedics who ran to Rex’s side gave him a nod. He noticed it, just when Lara hit, Rex's life saving Talisman activated!

Hopefully, Master Theodore would not blame him later!