Chapter 29: Let’s Go
Back in my office, I sat on the couch completely spaced out.
I was now completely certain that Luc - and Elune for that matter - were not normal in any sense of the word. What I experienced at the lobby after Bada got shot was not a mere illusion either. It was impossible to comprehend how things worked, but there was something definitely otherworldly about what was happening in the Roen Group.
Elune showed me the past. In that past, Luc was always present. Right from the very start of the Roen Group’s history. She was there by the Founder’s side, and she stood with the heir after him, and every single subsequent heir after that - all the way down the generations to me now.
How old is Luc? At least centuries old. And throughout these centuries, she hadn’t aged at all.
Luc was simply not human.
Once I accepted that - as hard as it was - everything started to fall into place. Her impossible perfection in everything she did. How she seemed to know anything and everything. How she seemed to match, or even surpass, the authority of the Senior Council.
Wait... does that mean - everyone in the Senior Council also knows what Luc is...?
The cryptic words that Councilor Lian Zhen said were also starting to make sense. It seemed quite clear that she knew of Luc’s nature. She knew that I was surrounded by ’something strange’.
But why wasn’t she open about it? Why did she specifically invite me to have a chat with her when Luc wasn’t around?
It was hard to believe that was a coincidence.
She wanted to talk to me without Luc.