Chapter 25: The Count of Massilia

The Crowned Shogun is the most impressive cruise ship I ever laid my eyes on…

It is the first impression I get from this absolute monster of a boat.

With its three fucking hundred meters of length and twelve stacked decks, it can accommodate more than five thousand passengers with enough supplies to last months in the open sea.

A little less than thirty different attractions are available during one’s journey, such as pools, casinos and spas, but its most important one is definitely the Sea of Stars.

Normally closed to visitors, it exceptionally opens once a year for the most important marine jewelry auction in the world.

And as I set foot in the atrium, my sight gets blurry from all the lights.

“WHAT THE FUCK!” The girl next to me shouts with a gasp.

I click my tongue.

Acting like a big shot is no big deal for me, but this idiot, by her uncontrolled mannerisms will make everything fail.

I hit her on the sides with my elbow in order to make her understand she must not lose her composure.

“You’re supposed to have been in similar places multiple times, you dumbass!” I whisper, loud enough for her to hear me.

“Ouch, for fuck’s sake!” She whispers, holding her side.

But I understand why she’s making such a deal of it, for me too, this place is way past my imagination.

The walls radiate in silver and enormous pearls decorate the main stairs that lead to the first deck, which divides into two later on.

Enormous white chandeliers hang from the black ceiling, like clusters of stars and constellations in a night sky, and the dark blue marble floor makes me seem like we’re stepping into the deep sea.

All this would be easier to deal with if it wasn’t crowded with celebrities, I have heard of somewhere… I can’t remember most of these names, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some of their faces on TV.

“W-w-w-what should we do…”

I look at her and sigh.

That dress really doesn’t fit her.

But before I could open my mouth, I notice a young man with blonde hair waving at us.

“Do you know him?” I ask, expecting nothing.

“Yeah…”

…

“WHAT?!” I shout.

She hits my side back.

The guy walks towards us with a big smile on his face.

“Hey DIANA, weird to see you in a dress, so you became a big shot in the agency? What are you doing here, on a mission?”

I am speechless. Who the hell is this guy?!

He’s wearing a gray suit and has an ugly golden chain around his neck that lets us see one half of a tattoo.

I look at the idiot’s face who seems as speechless as I am.

“So, who’s that beauty next to you? Aren’t you presenting us? Your sister’s not here?” He continues with a tone that asks all my patience to not punch him.

“Hey you, come with me.” I say, grabbing his chain.

“Whoa what the-.” He begins, but I cut him straight, showing the Ruger Hawkeye I hid in my bra.

“If you scream, I blow the shit out of your brain.”

“How did this pass through the security portals??”

“You don’t wanna know. Come with me. DIANA, you’re coming too.”

She follows silently as I pull the douchebag to the elevator where we came from and press the button.

“Please, I didn’t want to get into trouble, but you’re risking a lot! I’m the son of an eminent politician, you don’t want to lose your job or anything like that, right?”

His blue-eyed playboy eyes don’t lie to me, this guy is nothing but show-off!

“Yeah, and my grandma is the queen of England, come with me and shut your mouth.”

I hear the ding meaning that the elevator reached our floor, and as the doors open, two dark-haired people come out of it.

One of them is shorter than DIANA, wears a gray cardigan above his shirt, and has mid-length hair that covers their eyes. The other is a tall woman, around my height, with very long jet-black straight hair, a beautiful red and blue flowered kimono and shining gray pearls inside her almond eyes.

“Oh my, you seem in a hurry!” She exclaims with a wide smile.

“Hello, Miss. We’re missing someone, are you by any chance on the list of VIP?” The other says without looking above his tablet.

They must be crew members.

“Oh no, we’re surely not. We’re only spectators!” I laugh.

“Spectators… Right, so don’t forget the auction begins tomorrow at 4 and ends on the third day at 6, with a break of 6 hours at midnight. The spectators can come in and out as they please but you are forbidden to film or record anything inside the auction room. You’re free to do so on the decks and on the bridges. Of course, any kind of disruption to the auction would cause grave consequences, but I’m sure you know that…”

Oh my god, that was the worst person we could fall on.

“Excuse me, but I know all that already, please my friends and I are in a hurry, we forgot something very important in our cabins!”

“Oh, you don’t have to worry, the cabins are very safe if you locked them properly. I’m sure your precipitation is justified, but please consider that you and your belongings’ safety are our first concern.”

“Oh, you’re crew members!” Exclaims the blondie.

No shit, Sherlock! This guy is as dumb as I imagined.

“This assessment is correct, I am the first secretary. It’s not very glorious but here they call me TADPOLE, so you may call me that as well, and this is the chief of security URCHIN.”

“We’re actually brother and sister.” She says, cheerfully.

“I see, that’s really nice, but did you know this woman got a gun in her bra?”

“What?”

“What?”

…

Fuck.

“This is a misunderstanding, I-”

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“Miss, aren’t you aware that gun services as any other kind of weapons are forbidden on this ship? How did this go through the security? This is really concerning.” He seems as little concerned as he possibly could, but the smile on the girl’s face disappeared in an instant.

Slowly, she advances towards me.

“You’re not going to search me now, are you? These accusations are unfounded!”

“Oh right, I am!”

Her arm extends to the neck of my shirt, and I notice an unusual pattern of tattoos all the way to her fingers.

“Stop this!”

The voice that screamed belongs to DIANA.

“I will not tolerate such comportment toward my employee!”

What the hell?!

“I-”

“Be quiet, Esmeralda! Ma’am, this lady doesn’t have any weapon on her and thus doesn’t deserve such bad treatment!”

Esmeralda?? Is this idiot improvising??

“Excuse me, who are you again?” Asks the boy.

“I go by the name of Francesca Cavalcanti, the daughter of the eminent ambassador of Italy Benedetto Cavalcanti in Omond, Count of Massilia and Duke of Corsica! Do not stain our great family by holding my dear instructor and friend in such manner! This man right here is a peon who disrespected me earlier, so we took him apart in order to bring his mind to reason, and he tried to save himself just now by lying outrageously in front of the both of you, in order to discredit us. Please stop being such fools and play his game right this instant!”

A few moments of silence take place.

“Miss Cavalcanti, it seems that we’ve had some issue with our software since your name doesn’t appear in the list of invited, but in the list of VIP. You’re actually the person we were looking for.”

The girl loses grip on my shirt and does some hand movement to tidy it well on my shoulders.

“I’m terribly sorry for this misunderstanding, Miss Cavalcanti.” Her smile came back into her face.

“Well, since this is our mistake, would you be interested in switching to VIP? You will get a better cabin and you’ll be allowed to participate in the auction, along with many other advantages that I can tell you about.”

DIANA looks at me, frowning, and I make a shy head movement, to indicate ‘yes.’

“Yes, we will allow this compensation.”

“That’s amazing news. A crew member will come very shortly in your cabin to give you the keys for the new one. We’ll contact you very shortly, have a great stay.” Finishes the boy while walking away.

What the fuck just happened?

We step all three in the elevator that is now empty in an awkward silence, and when the door closes, I notice the boy who didn’t dare look into any of our eyes during the whole conversation, look back.

Catching his stare, I notice he shares the same gray eyes as his sister, and he seems to look, not at me, but at DIANA with great intensity.

Finally, the doors close and the elevator starts moving, and I sigh heavily.

These crew members are no joke!

“Why did you call me Esmeralda?” I finally ask.

“I-I panicked.”

“You get really smart when you panic, you should panic more.”

“Why did you take my name?” The blondie asks.

“I panicked…”

What?

“Wait, what? What’s your name?!”

“I’m Francesco Cavalcanti. I told you my father was an eminent politician!”

“WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING, BACK THEN?!”

“I don’t know, it seemed fun.”

This guy… is way dumber than I imagined.

“How do you know each other?”

“We were in high school together.”

“We always had the worst grades so we were put in the same study groups.” DIANA adds.

“I couldn’t speak a word of Omen before the age of 16 since I came from Italy… It’s DIANA who taught me.”

“This girl has taught the whole island. I wonder how everybody doesn’t speak only with bad words.”

“I learned Omen at the age of 11, I think. But I could speak a bit of Italian, so I was the only one Francesco spoke with.”

“Wait, wait, how come there was such a rich pampered boy in your school.”

“I actually was the only poor girl, my sister paid me a very expensive private school instead of putting me in a public one for some reason.”

“I see…”

Knowing her, she may have used that argument to force her to study. The allowance was probably paid by the agency. I wonder how she became such a big shot in the agency…

The elevator finally reaches our deck and we walk toward our cabin.

“So, you guys are like… Best friends?” I ask unsure of myself.

“No way! We didn’t see each other in years! I wonder how you recognized me, it took me like 5 minutes to remember your face.”

“WOW, THAT’S SO RUDE!” He screams.

For some reason, learning that DIANA doesn’t have some mysterious rich playboy childhood friend reassures me…

At our cabin’s door, I use the keys to open it.

“Hey boys, everything’s alright?” I ask when coming in.

Inside the beautiful cabin, two Chinese men in sailor uniforms are lying on the sofa.

TIAN SHUI and TIAN HUO’s infiltration in the crew has been a success.

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