The Honda pulled up right in front of the Kane family factory gates, and Luca and Ava stepped out to handle the day's business."Ah, there you are. I’ve been looking everywhere for you! Who would have thought you’d just vanish without telling a soul? And you’re just an ordinary scientist, after all," Genoven remarked the moment Luca walked into the factory building.Behind the old man, Luca spotted the Lagos family and Astrid, accompanied by Damon, all wearing hostile expressions."I’m sorry, Father; something urgent came up. It was an emergency, and I forgot to let Professor Salami know," Luca said apologetically. "But I’m here now. What would you like me to do?"he asked, and a smile spread across Genoven’s face."Well, you see, the Lagos family visited just yesterday with Astrid, your fiancée. They wanted to see what their future son in law and husband actually does here at the factory, so I’d like you to show them around.""As for this young lady with you, she can go with Damon. He

Luca performed a hasty mechatronic repair to revive Ava, but no matter what he did, she remained unresponsive. Her eyelids flickered once as light reflected off her eyes, but it wasn't long before her circuits went completely dead again."Damn it!" Luca shouted in frustration. He tried to use his daily superpower opportunity to command a repair for Ava, but the LOL system interface appeared instead.The system refused to authorize repairs on the damaged robot, citing safety risks to the player. Meanwhile, the surrounding scientists were useless as they could only stand there and watch, looking like toddlers learning to read."What is going on here? And why aren't you working on this month's assignments?" snapped Damon, who had suddenly appeared in the lab. "Luca! What are you doing with that piece of junk? Don't you have targets to meet? How dare you slack off after everything that happened with—""Not now, big brother. Unless you want to be repaired on this table too, just say the wo

“Luca, what are you talking about? It’s me, Frank! Remember? Your idiot best friend,” Frank chuckled. “Frost is dead, remember? And he…” *THUD!*The assassin flinched as the brown haired man suddenly slammed a heavy blow into Frank’s jaw, sending the blond man crashing to the floor.Luca stomped on Frank’s chest, pressing down until the sound of cracking bones echoed through the air.“ACKHH!!! Okay, okay! I’ll talk! Just let me go, alright? It hurts like hell! Ughhh, please!!!”“Fine, then talk. You’ve got five seconds before I stomp on you again,” Luca said, slowly pulling his foot back.His heart pounded as a sudden urge to kill surged within him, but Luca forced himself to hold back so he could get the information he needed.“So… look, I am dead, okay? I don’t know what form I’m in, but I just suddenly appeared here,” the blond man said, before coughing up a spray of blood. “I… I really am Frank, okay? And I’m your friend here, not your enemy.”“Then whose corpse was that at the Dr

“Phobia? Old age? What the hell are you talking about? I don’t get what you mean...” Damon fell silent as the sound of a final, heavy exhalation drifted from Boss Teslo’s coffin.The old man now appeared completely shriveled again, his mouth hanging open as he breathed the last of the air from his body.“Fi—Fine. Okay, I admit it! Maybe I am a bit uncomfortable with sights like this. I find it kind of disgusting to see people shrivel up and get old. It’s as if old people are surrounded by all sorts of strange ailments.”“But isn’t that natural? One day, we’ll all go through that phase. We’re all going to die, brother, and we’ll all grow old and frail, unless something stops us along the way,” Luca said.“In that case, let’s promise not to stab each other in the back, alright?” Damon said suddenly. “I know I’ve been your sworn enemy all this time, and now we might be fighting for Kane’s throne, but I never intended to kill you.”“Let’s keep things this way until the end. If one of us e

“What the hell is this...”Luca raised an eyebrow at the scene before him. The elderly maid who had earlier informed him about breakfast was now sprawled across Damon’s desk, while the white haired man was having his way with her.Luca hadn't expected his brother's choice of woman.He felt a nudge on his arm as the robot girl called out to him.“Hey, is that the entrance?”Luca turned to look and saw a strange pattern on the wall that appeared to have just opened up. He nodded as the map display confirmed his suspicion.“Yeah, looks like it,” he replied. “Let’s try opening the door to check it out,” he added and they both immediately tried pushing the door. Fortunately, it gave way.They walked straight down the tunnel, leaving Damon behind as he continued his intimate act with the maid.Upon emerging outside the villa, into the garden area, they were immediately met with an assassin standing guard.The assassin was about to scream, but Luca struck the back of his neck with a karate