
...Special chapter in July, the birth month of Julius and Julia....
...The brief story of Julius and Marjorie's first meeting coincides in July, three years ago....
On the weekend, in the morning. Julius was sitting quietly on the balcony of his room. He enjoyed this sunny morning accompanied by a cup of tea and gingerbread. He grabbed a small black box lying beside his teacup. The box was a gift from his sister as their birthday present yesterday. He hasn't opened it yet. The contents of the box turned out to be a cross-shaped earring decorated with a diamond. Julius took off the earrings he was wearing today and put on the earrings his sister gave him.
"Well... What a beautiful day. There are no missions so I can relax all day. What good am I doing today, huh? Conduct experiments? I don't have a guinea pig. A walk? Lazy. Go to the training ground? Also lazy."
While relaxing while thinking about activities to spend his time off, suddenly Julius' room door was knocked from the outside. A waiter delivers a message from Daniel to ask Julius to meet him in the study. Julius lazily got up from his chair and stepped into the room. Julius' feelings start to feel bad that his relaxing time will be over already. He came out of his room and stepped into the study where his father was. Arriving at the door of the study, Julius knocked on the door. A voice from inside asked him to come in. Julius turned the door knob and opened it. There was no one in the workspace but his father sitting in his chair.
"What's up, pa?" julius asked as he approached.
"Sit down" Daniel asked his son to sit in the chair before him. "Papa apologized first. Papa knows it's your day off but papa has a job for you."
"I guessed it. Even this weekend. Come on, last week I just finished my mission. Is there no one else who can replace me?" with his lazy Julius resuscitated his body in the chair.
"Papa was forced to ask you to do this task because only you can. At first your mother took the initiative to carry out this mission but suddenly your mother got a task out of town for the next few days."
"What is the mission to not be able to tell others?"
"His mission is to regain the Flors family's hereditary inheritance."
"The Flors family legacy treasure?" Julius immediately became interested.
"Yes." Yeah."
Daniel pressed the button hidden on his desk. Once the button is pressed, all the blinds in the workspace automatically close and the lights are turned off. A three-dimensional hologram appears right in the middle of the workbench. The hologram shown is a black snake statue with a gaping mouth.
"This is the snake statue of the Black Mamba that is our family's legacy. The statue is currently housed in the Flors family's main residence. It's not worth much, for now."
"Why?"
"The color of the statue is not complete at all" Daniel zoomed in on the image of the statue right into the wide-open mouth of the snake. "There's a missing part in the mouth of this statue. The missing piece was an ancient gem that looked dark but actually had a blue tint when exposed to light."
"How can it be lost? That thing that's so precious in the Flors isn't guarded?"
"That jewel was stolen by your grandfather's confidant 9 years ago."
"It's been a long time" Julius was quite surprised to hear.
"Yes. The thief had actually been executed but the gem managed to sell at an auction. We've been looking for that gem everywhere all this time. But the jewel is lost in the earth. All the leads in can end in a dead end."
"So now you're asking me to find that long-lost gem?"
"For 9 years papa never gave up looking for the gem. Many have found similar gems but not the jewels sought. The gem in this snake statue is very idemewa. Its uniqueness is that it can emit 3 basic colors when exposed to sunlight."
"Indeed right. But the heritage gem of the Flors family is not only able to emit 3 colors. If exposed to ultraviolet light the gem can emit 7 different colors."
Daniel changed the hologram image in front of him. Now the hologram shows a small island with one building standing firmly in the middle of the island surrounded by forest.
"Your mission this time will be attending an auction on this island. On one of the auction items list there is one gem that is likely a gem that is sought. The jewel has now been turned into a golden turtle-shaped decoration with the jewel as its shell," Daniel displays the item in question. "You must win the jewel at the auction event that will be held tomorrow afternoon."
"alright. So it's just my job to buy that gem."
"Yes. But be careful Julius. This auction event was very different from the auction event held at the Red Chrysanthemum auction house. This auction is also known as the bloodiest auction event ever. Qazi will accompany you there and explain in more detail about the auction. You're going to take the ferry this afternoon. The journey from the port of the city to the island is quite far."
The hologram is turned off. All the curtains shifted again so that the morning light could enter and illuminate the workspace.
"Then I will get ready soon" Julius got up from his chair and was about to leave.
"Julius," called Daniel to stop his son. "That jewel is indeed very important to the Flors, but don't push yourself too much. Your life means more than that ancient stone. If you don't get it as much as you can investigate who got the gem."
"Papa need not worry. I will definitely get it" Julius said confidently.
"I'm sorry for having to ruin your vacation. On the day that the auction was held, papa was instead asked to return to the main residence."
"What about Julia, Adelia and Adelio?"
"Adelia and Adelio are coming with your mama out of town and Julia is going to come back to the house."
"At least he'll be safe with papa," Julius' inner self. "I'll excuse you."
Julius stepped back into his room. He prepared all the necessary things that must be brought to carry out his mission this time, such as a change of clothes, weapons and some poison powder that may be useful. As Julius was getting ready, he was slightly startled by Julia who barged into his room.
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