Disclaimer: I do not own Noblesse, it's a brilliant webtoon made by Son Je Ho and Lee Gwang Su.
Plot: Is Maduke awaiting an opportunity to obliterate his enemies? But what the werewolves will do if an encounter happens with their future-self Lord?! Victor can't impede the changes that already started from the moment he came back?!
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Messenger from the Future
XIV
On Frankenstein's house, after the tense conversation, they were still trying to comprehend the entire predicament they were in and accept the astonishing truth Victor had told them.
"If the traitors are related, then Ragus Tradio must be involved, since he was the ringleader of the noble's treason!" Rael blurted out, in disbelief.
"They had the audacity of gathering to conspire against my master!" the dark-spear master grumbled.
"The last time they almost destroyed the nobles. We can't let it happen again!" M-21 stated angered.
Each one of them had hypotheses. The treachery was a matter that has bothered them since they've heard it has brought shame to Lukedonia and after the last attack, which three traitorous clan leaders and three werewolves took part in. They needed to be cautious now. In the middle of the heated debate, Seira suddenly stood up startling the others.
"Seira, what's the matter?" Regis asked worriedly.
"If the traitors are linked, then Lukedonia has to be informed of this trouble." She declared on her blunt and devoted tone.
"Y-you're right, Seira! But, what are you going to do?" Rael was also concerned.
"As a clan Leader, I shall return to Lukedonia and report the whole situation."
"Lady Seira, I understand your point here, but…" Tao interfered a bit nervous "Doesn't it implies Victor existence will be revealed?"
"Not necessarily, Tao. Moreover, I think that it's wiser to inform Lukedonia, maybe their help will prove to be necessary in a near future." Frankenstein explained "You can tell the truth, there's no need to omit details."
"…." She nodded firmly.
"W-wait, I'll go too!" Rael stayed in front of her.
"Rael, I understand you're worried, but if you go, we will get weakened, or…"The blonde scientist held his shoulder "Are planning on escaping from you training…"
"N-no… it's not- but-"
He stepped back, feeling pressured. Seira smiled briefly to the goldilocks noble and walked away.
"Had she just smiled?" The Kertia thought blushing as he watched her going out.
"Changing the subject, how will we localize the enemy? He can hide his presence, right?" the silver-haired leader frowned. "We need to do something…"
"Divide into groups and search for him." Victor responded shortly.
"What? Do you mean to go and search personally around the city?" M-21 raised a brown in discordance.
"Yes, the cameras won't do, he is very cunning and probably is moving around with twice the caution…"
"That's dangerous, Victor. The opponent is strong, if he catches any of you by surprise, be sure you won't get through it with small cuts only." Frankenstein crossed his arms.
"I know." He sighed "That's why, father I would like to start training with you before going after him. You've been training ajusshi, hyungs and Regis-nim for some time now, right? Take me to the training too." He was serious.
Confusion flashed on the blue eyes of the scientist when he listened to his son. He had been wondering for a while, but the boy was inexperienced in combat, until now, he thought it was due to his age, he was too young, but, being his son, surely he should have plenty of experience in battles, right? Then why was he talking like he had not trained with him before?
"Hm… I was only wondering, but… You don't seem to be experienced in combats against stronger opponents." He put a hand on his chin "Wasn't my future-self training you properly?"
"Ah, actually…" he scratched his face a bit abashed "I only started to train with you recently..."
"Hm? You could train with him but you didn't? It doesn't make sense, he is so strong!" Regis was surprised.
"Yes. Why didn't you ask Frankenstein in the future?" Takeo blinked twice in astonishment.
"Don't tell me you were afraid of boss?" Tao guessed chuckling worriedly, but Takeo whispered a reprehension.
"That's not it… I asked him, but…" a drop of sweat formed on his face as he looked to the ground.
"Ah! I understand." Tao hit his own hand as if he had found out the reason behind the boy's reluctance in telling them "Your mom mustn't have allowed you to train with boss…!"
His affirmation made sense, the Landrege closed his eyes, with a small smile on face, nodding satisfied, indeed any mother would worry over her son welfare, even more of the father was someone devilish as Frankenstein. It had to be it, right? After all, which kind of mother would like to see her son being beaten up by a sadist with personality disorders? None. Victor seemed even shyer to tell them, lowering his head with a faint blush on his cheeks:
"Hm… No, actually, my mother wanted to train me too." he looked at Tao, and more drops of sweat appeared on his face.
"The mother too…?" their eyes darkened.
For a moment, they paused, the silence reigned on the room. The only sound heard was Raizel sipping his tea calmly, unfazed by the discussion going on that room. Then, someone broke the odd silence:
"Ah, yeah, I almost forgot, isn't his mother from the werewolf race?" Takeo thought imagining how it could be possible.
"Just who is his mother?!" M-21 thought with darkened eyes, trying to portrait an image, unfortunately his imagination wasn't capable of formulating a steady mental image; it was beyond his creative capacities.
"You three didn't allow me to train with him or with my mother…" he told looking at the human trio.
"What? Them?" Rael switched glances between them and Victor in a state of bewilderment "Why?!"
"Yes. I'm curious too… Why?" the dark-spear master landed an inquisitive gaze on them.
"W-well…" the brown-haired coughed to dispel the tension "It occurred when I was a child. They've said I would not have last one minute against you, and that I'd be dead now if you or my mother trained me, so, they ran away with me to train."
"Sheesh." Frankenstein sighed heavily and frowned a bit offended "Is that the impression you portrayed about me? Of course I' wouldn't kill a child, even more if it's my son, you know. I'm Yeran's headmaster, remember? Hm? I'm not a psychopath." He sighed troubled again "Seriously, why do they have this horrible impression about me? What did I do wrong?"
"…." No one answered, but their eyes darkened as they sweated profusely, abstaining from saying a word, thinking in unison: "It seems Victor had a tough childhood."
"So were we training you?" the bob-cut asked in a serious manner.
"Yes, M-21 ajusshi even helped me to transform into a werewolf…"
"I-I?" he pointed his index finger to himself, a bit admired.
"I saw your transformation, but it wasn't complete. You don't seem to know how to draw your powers out yet… It's different from M-21's transformation…" Frankenstein commented. "Wasn't he being harsh enough to teach you?" M-21 sweated with the critic.
"Ah, that's true… It wasn't complete, but I can fully transform, it only wasn't necessary…" he replied in a calm tone "But… I do have problems in drawing out my other powers, dark-spear isn't the best partner in a fight, and it's hard to tame that thing…" he suspired tiredly as if remembered an unpleasant situation.
"We understand." Takeo touched the boy's shoulder and shook affirmatively with his head.
"Hm… The only advice I can give you is: the more you use it, the more you will get accustomed with its attempts to take over your body."
"Yeah… I know it, but you counselled me to master my werewolf powers first before trying to control dark-spear..."
"Did I?" the blonde scientist was amused "Well, it's time to starting using your other powers too…"
There was a slight hint of discomfort on the boy's face as he saw his father's puzzlement. He opened a bit his mouth to say something, but closed it lowering his gaze with some sort of pity on his expression.
"Anyways, do we really have time to train?" the Landrege questioned them in a grave tone.
"It would be much faster if we found this enemy and finished him for once and all!" Rael growled.
"I'm not sure if your powers would be enough to defeat him, Rael." The blonde servant addressed the hasty noble "Furthermore, if the werewolves found out about their future-self lord, it's likely they would intervene."
Victor glanced to his father, then looked at the ground and his eyes became distant. The treason would happen soon, and on that time, many important events that leaded to his timeline would happen too, that meant if he failed to protect the stability of those events... He would disappear, worse than that, his family would... He gulped with the thought, his mind wandered far enough for him to not listen when his father called twice. With a stun, he finally heard when Frankenstein called him for the third time:
"Victor."
"Hm? Yes?" he jolted on his seat.
"Sir Victor, you seem bothered by something…" Tao smiled in heed for Victor, with an unusual concern on his calm tone.
"Ah…" he gestured clumsily smiling "It's nothing, really."
Frankenstein stared at the boy for some seconds, trying to read the unsaid lines of his absent-minded son. After spending long seconds on this task, he looked at the others in the room and continued with his analysis of the situation:
"Lukedonia shall send an envoy when Seira contact them. We will search about our enemy and watch the movements of those werewolves. KSA must also have a hold of some information, we will talk to them later."
"Excuse me,"
Tao lively raised his hand, giggling nervously and talking politely. Everyone looked at him raising a brow, imagining what he would say this time.
"Sir Victor… Can I ask something?"
"Yes, please."
"Could it be your personality during your fights was influenced by dark-spear powers?" he gulped.
"Hm?" the boy was perplexed "No… Why?" he seemed completely oblivious of his exquisite traits of sadism.
"Are you sure? 100 percent sure? Seriously, have you only started training with boss recently? Haven't you learned his way of fighting?"
"No… I've trained with you all most of the time…" he got worried with Tao's insistence. "Why? Is it something troublesome?"
"Hahahah, no, no!" he laughed cheerfully "Genetics are incredibly powerful, boss!" he patted Frankenstein's shoulder, amused.
"T-Tao…" Takeo tried to rebuke his friend, but it was useless.
An awkward silence followed, and the only sound heard was the scandalous laughs of the maniac Tao, that felt delight in discovering something amazing, almost like a child.
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The three werewolves were reunited on the top of a high building. From that spot, they could see, far, far away, the place they destroyed last time. It was sealed by KSA, apparently they had leaked to the media it was an earthquake that damaged the whole structure of the skyscrapers that was old and rusted.
There was tension soaring in the air as they exchanged glares. Lunark had furrowed brows, Kentas had an irritated expression and Bertrand also displayed his annoyance on face.
"What do you mean?" the silver haired asked in a strong, collected tone.
"That was the command. Union must not know I was involved in this fight. You and Kentas shall tell them you were pursuing Muzaka and made contact with some nobles. A battle was unavoidable and everything went out of control. I can't take the responsibility for the mess you've done, if the union finds it out, we will have more troubles. Do you understand the situation we are in?"
"Why do we need to explain ourselves to those humans?! We were doing a mission related to our race, humans have nothing to do with it!" Kentas growled angered.
"Kentas you have no right to talk!" Lunark reprimanded "You interfered in the human world and you knew the union wouldn't be quiet about it, don't complain now. I told you."
"Hah." Bertrand opened a condescending smile on his brusque face. "You're right, Lunark, don't overreact, we understand we're at fault here. Notwithstanding, our Lord gave us the consent to look for those two uncanny creatures while we're at our mission."
"Yes. For the time being, I'll wait the union talk to you both, after that, you will contact me and we will regroup to finalize our job here." She answered calmly.
"I don't think it will work." The muscular silver-haired said in a bold tone.
"Huh?" Kentas was already boiling with rage "Bertrand, those were the orders. We have to respect it independently of our personal wishes."
"Calm down, I'm not saying I won't respect his orders, I'm only saying the three of us being together won't do. We can search better if we separate, when we find either Muzaka or those guys, we will call each other."
A drop of sweat formed on the face of the fifth elder. The conspicuous smirk Bertrand held on face had alerted her instincts she should be cautious. She knew he wasn't a trustful companion; he was there to observe her and Kentas, after all. Yet, he was saying hanging around with them wasn't a good option? Why? He had to have something on mind.
"Why are you putting such expression on your face?" the silver werewolf raised a brow using a mocking tone "I'm not disobeying our Lord. He said we should concentrate on both affairs, I'm only suggesting that splitting and pursuing is more efficient. Our Lord is eager to see the results of the mission he entrusted us to accomplish, right?"
His cunningness with words was so obvious, the female wolf felt irritated thinking he really believed he could deceive them with that.
"….. And you intend to go wild causing another tumult on this city when you are alone?" Lunark was sharp and crude.
"You don't need to worry about it, I'll be discreet." He responded still smiling with a glimpse of savagery on his eyes.
"Bertrand, you can-"
"You can go and give your excuses to the union, I'm not interested on those bureaucratic matters."
He turned round and jumped to leave the place, vanishing before they could voice any complaint. His fellows were flabbergasted. How could he just leave like that?
"Tch!" Kentas grumbled visibly altered, his forbearance was not sufficient for so many problems. "That idiot…!"
Lunark sighed to find some tolerance, it was the second time she was not controlling them and it was becoming tiring. Maybe, learning to dialogue like humans had extracted out of her much more patience than she should actually have, in a negative sense:
"If he's not interested in teamwork, there's nothing we can do, let's go."
Muttering some curses, the brown-haired male followed her as they left the top of the building.
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At Lukedonia,
In the main salon of the Lord's palace, a meeting between the reminiscing clan leaders was happening. Seira was kneeled in front of the Lord, giving a report about the entire situation.
The leaders reunited changed their faces into astonishment while listening to her. It was simply unthinkable the story about a possible allegiance between vampires and werewolves, at least, not with their current Lord. Muzaka and the former vampire Lord were in quite good terms, but Maduke was different, he was not a respectable individual and preferred to follow the vile humans from union, it was what they thought.
"Seira." Raskreia raised her head and said on an imposing voice "Are you telling the current Lord of werewolves had planned the treason along with the traitorous nobles ages ago?" her eyes narrowed slightly
"Yes, Lord." She answered with her usual serious expression "It was what the person who came from the future told."
"Seira, have you noticed just how ridiculous this plot of coming from the future seems?" Kaye frowned "I know you're young, but believing it is just…"
"Kaye, don't be so harsh with her, be gentle, okay?" Karias intervened and looked at the silver-haired woman "Seira, dear, don't you think this person is trying to deceive you? There must be something wrong."
"Seira, the werewolves never got along well with the nobles," Rozaria adjusted her glasses "Moreover, telling us that a werewolf that was not even their lord at that time planned treason against the noblesse too, is hard to accept."
"Are you sure the person whom you spoke to was really from the future? There's not an easy way to probe this…" Ludis raised his brow worried with the girl's gullibility.
"It's the theory that he did not come from the future is impossible." She asserted "There's no doubt he is, indeed from another time, because of the essence he hold and all the information he has. If he wasn't from the future, he couldn't know any of that."
"Is that your opinion?" the lord asked, still inflexible.
"Yes, Lord." She bowed.
"Seira J. Loyard, I can tell you're not lying, but I can't trust on this person you've met, thereby I decree someone must go back to the human world with you and investigate this issue."
"I understand, Lord." She bowed again.
"Lord, if someone must go, I firmly agree with-" Karias raised his hand with sparkling eyes
"Not now, Karias!" The other clan leaders denied his incoming request.
"…" Raskreia sighed heavily.
"My Lord, this time I'd like to know what's happening. It could be a good opportunity to give my guidance to Regis and Rael too and ask them about this situation." Gejutel bowed respectfully.
"I comprehend." She responded in a low tone. "Thus, Gejutel K. Landrege, I assign you to this mission, you shall come back with the answers for our queries. Delve this matter interrogating this person whom Seira talked to and fathom his intentions."
"Your wish is my command, Lord."
He bowed, then, both he and Seira walked away the room. The clan leaders were still arguing when they heard the click of the door closing, and got startled when they noticed Gejutel and Seira had left the place.
"H-Huh?" Karias smiled forcefully "Lord, where did they go?" he looked at her with sparkles on his eyes. "Lord…?"
The woman did not respond, her eerie silence was enough of an answer for them. She sighed again, no matter how many years passed, she could never get used to his nonchalant personality. Nevertheless, her expression changed subtly when she thought again on this new problem. If what Seira told her was really true, then, the werewolves were far more dangerous than they thought. And Raizel? How would he feel after listening this? She only expected that was a big misunderstanding, from the bottom of her heart.
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