The Bodyguard's
The Death Pool

As planned, Coco arrived at the Red Wolf Palace at noon. Charles and Adriano immediately welcomed Matteo's close friend.

"How are you, Mr. Ricci. Welcome to the Red Wolf Palace," greeted Carlo warmly. She greeted Coco who looked more and more gray hair.

"So this is your real residence, Carlo?" Coco circulated her gaze to the entire corner of the room where they were. The interior is much different from the Casa de Luca, the Palace de Luca, or Adriano's luxury mansion.

"Call him by the name of Karl Volkov while he's here" Adriano whispered, making Coco immediately turn her head while frowning. The words of the chairman Tigre Nero earlier, made Coco immediately turn to him with a look that looks strange. "Ah, that's it." Adriano clucked slowly. He had no interest in explaining more details to Coco, because by then the women had been present in the living room.

"Hi, Ricci. I thought you'd bring Francy here with you, "please welcome Mia warmly.

"Your sister is busy taking care of three children, Mia," Coco said as she politely greeted Fabiola.

"You yourself decided to have many children, Uncle," tweeted Miabella indifferently.

"I'd be so ashamed of the gray hair in my head if I had your babble" Coco replied. "Jeez, Mia. Your daughter this one always makes my brain hot" complained the man again making Mia laugh in response to the words of her brother-in-law.

"Hey, Uncle. You can't mess with me anymore, because I'm already Karl Volkov's wife. She is the head of the Red Wolf Clan" Miabella said proudly as she clasped her husband's waist. Carlo replies with a warm kiss on the young woman's forehead.

"Welcome to our residence, Mr. Ricci. I am Karl's mother. Incidentally, I am also from Italy," Fabiola greeted warmly and with a smile.

"Thank you, Madam. I like this kind of hospitality and welcome. If only my wife and my three children could come here," said Coco always with a relaxed manner. The conversation continues.

After chatting leisurely while unwinded for a while, Carlo immediately invited Coco and Adriano to go to the study. Grigori and Ivan were with them. The two senior men, former confidants of the late Nikolai Volkov, were curious about a secret they had not known for decades.

"We have absolutely no idea if there is a mass grave under the fountain statue in the greenhouse" Grigori said.

"I want you to also order the servants, to clean up the old library in the furnace," Charles said. "The condition there is very dirty and a lot of books that have been damaged inedible age."

"Sure, Master," replied Grigori with a half-bending body.

"Mr Nikolai is amazing. He has a lot of hidden space inside this magnificent palace" Adriano said as he tapped the tip of his pantofel shoes on the wooden floor he was laying on.

"What are you doing, Father-in-law?" ask Carlo astonished.

"Who knows that under this floor there is also a secret room" said Adriano without taking both hands out of his trouser pocket. While Coco was busy and fully concentrated, with a cassette player she was checking.

“Amico, which cassette do you want to play first?” coco asked, interrupting the conversation of the men next to her.

“Terlarah. Please just choose, Mr. Ricci,” said Carlo as he reached out to some tapes lying on the desk.

“Good. In that case, I choose randomly.” only Coco then selects one of several tapes, then inserts them into the player. Unfortunately, the tape cassette seemed to be damaged so it could not make any sound. Similarly with the second, third, and fourth tapes.

“Live one cassette. Hopefully this one can be heard in.” Carlo grabbed one last tape and gave it to Coco.

While Grigori, Ivan, and Adriano showed a curious look. The three of them approached and stood around the table.

One last cassette that has been inserted into the player, makes a noise like a squeaking object, then silence. Soon, there was a heavy voice of a very familiar man in the ears of Grigori and Ivan. The voice belonged to Nikolai Volkov, Carlo's father.

“19 June 1980. Roderyk Lenkov invited us, members of the clan and the Moscow businessman union to hold a meeting in the black room, southwest of the Red Wolf palace. I don't refuse because Roderyk is my dearest friend with Piotr Rylov. However, I did not expect that the meeting that originally took place with a warm atmosphere actually ended in disaster."

“Roderyk purposely gathered us to discuss one very dangerous thing, for the survival of the supreme leader of the honorable president of the Soviet Union. He did not approve of the new breakthrough that the president wants to launch to reform the government towards democracy and liberal economy.”

“Roderyk continues to support the communist system of government, while our president wants a complete shift towards federal democracy. Roderyk was so angry that he asked for our support to stage a coup and overthrow the rule of the legitimate president. Of course I refused firmly. I vehemently opposed his crazy idea, which turned out to make Roderyk even more angry. Unexpectedly, there was an incredible demonic power within my friend.”

Everyone in the room fell silent and looked at each other as the recording of the sound stopped. They all thought that Nikolai's explanation was complete. However, just as Coco was about to take out the cassette, the heavy voice of Carlo's father returned to speak.

“Roderyk is about to shoot me. However, Piotr gets in the way and becomes a living shield. Piotr has died at the hands of our own companions. I lost control and ordered my men to shoot him.”

“I don't think Roderyk's hand was much faster than my bodyguard's bullets. He hid some grenades from his pocket. He threatened to kill us with the grenade, so I had no choice but to let him out of the room.”

“However, it turns out Roderyk was a very vile man. It turned out that he had prepared his men. They stood guard outside the meeting room, then charged at us blindly. All dead, except me.

God sent his angel to protect me. That big pillar has blocked the bullet so it doesn't hit my body. I survived, and became a living witness to the terrible tragedy."

The atmosphere was silent for a moment, and then there was the sound of heavy breathing.

“I could not give a proper burial, so I was forced to bury their mortal bodies in the pool of death. I kept the bodies of all the victims there and tried to close the story of the bad event.”

“Whoever listens to this tape, I advise you not to let the important evidence you have obtained fall into the hands of the devil. Take care of your lives. Bog blagoslovil (God bless)."