Brooke's Priority
Chapter 32's

Levin enters a drugstore owned by Freud and Laurie Landheer. He had known them since Carlo had ordered the two to take care of Levin. Levin, who cannot remember his identity, became the couple's second child in his fifties. He greeted them briefly then opened the secret door to his private basement.

Laurie Landheer used to be a servant in the palace. At the end of his term, Charles took and exiled Levin, who he had secretly released from the palace prison. Carlo's bold actions brought a calamity that was the reason for Levin's lifelong loyalty to Carlo. Carlo must lose his powers as payment for Levin's freedom. Little Levin sees Shaeviro poisoning Carlo.

“I so remember the past,” Levin complained softly and took off his cloak. “I hate the most having to scout the palace.”

Unfortunately, I have no evidence of that.

Levin recalls himself being very young, thin and fragile, confined in iron bars without sunlight. One day, he sees Carlo's hand outstretched at him. He doubted whether he should take that hand. He suspected Carlo's similar stature to the King who had visited him once after he had been in that place for months. The king looked at him with a cruel look. The next day, Carlo came again and came continuously for six days. Levin finally grabbed that hand without hesitation.

Charles was different from the rest of the Royal family.

Levin threw himself in the bed and fell asleep.

No one can be sure what time Levin woke up feeling hungry. He opened the wooden cabinet and checked the food supplies he had. He immediately ate a piece of bread and poured Carlo a glass of wine the last time they met.

He's waiting for Carlo.

Later, Levin selects a notebook from his shelf. In the darkness, Levin could see more clearly than Carlo. His smell was sharp and he could not stay in the sun for too long. Levin is also easy to feel hot and tired during a hot day. Therefore, Carlo and his adoptive parents told him not to interact with anyone. He's from the north. No one from the Kirkuz Kingdom roamed freely in the south after several years of war. If anything, Levin only knows one name. The Cohenherb family's personal bodyguard. Filley Strauss's.

Brooke gave him a new name.

Levin reread the reconnaissance he wrote in his personal notes. Levin smiled and wrote down what he got from today's surveillance.

Brooke keeps an eye on Lucas and Josephine. Unfortunately, he went and missed their kiss.

She smiled because it was funny to her. Levin also wrote down the name of a day in the next week. It was the day of the festival that he chose as the day that he would meet Brooke. Levin, who was staking out at a party at the palace, managed to slip a letter to Brooke's hand in the crowd. Brooke, who realizes there is a letter in his hand, searches for Levin but does not find it.

Levin heard the sound of the door opening from outside.

He kept the note and greeted Carlo who was smiling kindly at him.

“I bring wine you like,” Carlo said.

“Just wine? I think my pay will be more expensive.”

“You need money?” carlo's asking is not serious. “Ask your parents.”

For Levin, Landheer's husband and wife were his parents. Only the couple selflessly cared for and considered him their son and no longer considered it an order.

“How was your reconnaissance?”

“Shaeviro meets the Queen after the King returns to his residence.”

The queen Levin was referring to was Carlo's stepmother.

“Just as you thought,” Levin continued. “He is preparing another plan.”

Carlo's step-sister has a vices similar to their father and his mother who is also only selfish. Carlo still remembers the ill-treatment he received after his stepmother officially became Queen.

“That's good news,” chirps Levin. “You managed to fool them all.”

Carlo was devastated by his mother's death. By the time he woke up after being poisoned, his mother was dead. Levin who also felt it was unfair advised Carlo to act as if he was weak and useless in front of everyone in the Palace. Even so, Levin did not like Carlo fake smiles to everyone. He very much remembered the advice he gave was to pretend to be weak instead of pretending to be friendly.

“I remember the past,” said Levin. “The day you took me out.”

Carlo laughs. “I must have been great in your eyes.”

“I was just stunned to see your courage.”

Levin once asked Carlo the reason he was so determined. If remembered again, Carlo's age was even younger than Levin. Levin thus questioned himself whether he would do the same in that position.

Your eyes are screaming for help.

That's what Carlo said.

“I only managed to capture one person alive. The rest died because they did not want to open his mouth,” Levin's voice sounded serious. “Shaeviro tells them to cross the Forest of Sebenius and look for Gordon Fichser.”

“Gordon?” carlo's eyes widened hearing the name called. “It turns out she's alive.”

“No idea,” Levin shook his head slowly. “They were told to make sure. Shaeviro needs something from Gordon.”

“Sure something very valuable.”

“Yes. He could not infiltrate his spies across the border because the permit was held by the Duke's confidant. He must have run out of sense.”

“At a time like this I want to thank Duke Cohenherb.”

Levin watched Carlo's face. He did not hate Duke as much as he hated Shaeviro who poisoned him. Carlo has simply lost his confidence and hates everyone who makes him seem lowly. Carlo's change in attitude is noticed by Levin when Carlo tells him to kill an ordinary man who humiliates him while drunk. Increasingly, Levin feels Carlo wants to get rid of everyone who makes him inferior.

“He will definitely continue to send others regularly,” Levin said. “It is not impossible if one day war will occur because they managed to penetrate the forest.”

Carlo took a short breath. “I will put special forces to finish them off. I swear the man won't get anything he wants.”

Levin agreed.

“We will prevent war from happening. Anyhow.”

Levin and Carlo had the same goal. They do not want to see war, especially prisoners of war.

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