Chapter 4: In the Prince’s honor

“Does anyone have a screwdriver?” I inquire.

This robot seems pretty well designed and I don’t think we can open it safely without the proper tools.

“You should be able to find the opening in its back.” Says Abhi.

I move it around while DARIUS and ESMERALDA are busy phone calling people on the balcony. ‘KC’ is written on its back under the nape, but I find the opening there as he said.

“There is one in that case.” Says the Prince by pointing a box on the table with his cane.

How convenient.

I open the case and find a bunch of useful tools, along a cross type screwdriver with the perfect size.

Is he a fan of construction? Isn’t he too old?

I open the robot effortlessly.

How practical it is that the perfect screwdriver to open this hotel’s cleaning robot is here.

Looking more closely, I notice the same ‘KC’ is engraved.

What is that old man hiding?

I take my smartphone out of my bra and type ‘KC robot’ on the search bar.

‘KC (company)

Kingdom’s Castle or KC is a technology company established in 1991. It designs and manufactures household appliances such as vacuum cleaners, air purifiers, hand dryers, bladeless fans, heaters, hair dryers, and robots. As of February 2018, KC had more than 12,000 employees worldwide.[7] In January 2019, it was announced that KC would move its headquarters to […]. As of today, KC’s CEO’s identity is still a mystery, but rumors […]’

It starts making sense.

“I’m going to use the bathroom.” I speak.

“You’ve barely started.”

The client who sat at the edge of his armchair, stares scarily in my eyes from the top of his cane. I can see my puzzled face’s reflection above his shoulder, in the large panorama window.

“Are you not going to let a woman use the bathroom?” I ask. “What if I mess up and further break it?”

He sighs and lays his back down in the armchair.

“Fine, but be quick.”

I head into the bathroom and start pouring the water to hide my voice from him.

“Schwa to Abhi.”

“5/5.”

“I need you to find who the client is by any means possible. I have a track: look up KC. The robot is a Kingdom’s Castle and the client’s code name is ‘His Highness the Prince.’” I speak in a single breath.

“I’m on it.”

My eagerness makes sense, this mysterious old man had all the tools necessary to open a very specific high-tech robot. Furthermore, he was facing us when it attacked our backs and thus should have seen it coming, but he didn’t say anything. What’s the meaning of this?

With all those questions in my head, I cut the water and put my hand on the door handle, while I hear the old man screaming from the living room.

“IT’S YOU!”

“SCHWA! VERY STRONG HEAT SIGNAL FROM THE ROBOT! GET OUT OF HERE ASAP!”

BOOM!

 

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EPISODE 2: EMERALD

 

This company is my whole life.

I have spent so much time building it that I’ve neglected everything I loved.

My wife and my friends, but most importantly, my son. My ‘Prince,’ that’s how I called him.

“Daddy, if I’m the Prince, doesn’t that make you the King?” He once asked me with his beautiful smile.

When he was a kid, he used to come see me once a week in my office, and sit on my lap while quietly drawing while I was working.

“No, I’m nothing like that.” I answered. “You see the Kingdom is the family and the Castle is the home. This is why I named this home furniture company the Kingdom’s Castle.”

That was probably the most developed interaction I had with him.

At that time, I naively thought he was such a mature kid that he could understand everything.

And so, the minute he left, I pinned his art on the wall.

It was a lively piece of a medieval castle surrounded by water, with the sun shining on the king, the queen, and the prince who were happily smiling to each other.

The next morning, the king and the queen divorced.

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But I kept calling him the Prince, the short times we met.

I think that’s when he started hating me.

He lived with me every other week, in my gigantic empty house, surrounded by three robots, who did my work better than I.

One night, to give me a message, he broke all the three of them while I was away, as most of the time.

The next morning, I replaced them with three others.

And when he reached 16, he left and never came back.

I barely had the free time to take some news, and I was afraid to do so, thus the years went by without hearing from each other.

Until one day when he reached 25, he came to my office.

“Hey, mh what’s up?” He asked awkwardly.

“Hi… Nothing as you can see.”

“Indeed, nothing has changed here in 10 years, except the facade’s paint…”

“Is there anything I can do for you?”

“NO- Uh, I mean, yes maybe. I’m going to get married, so I think you’d need to know that. That’s why I came.”

“Oh. That’s great news. What’s her name?”

“Mn, she’s an old friend from my art school. Her name is the Spanish for emerald.” He showed me a picture of them on his phone.

“She indeed has gemlike green eyes… I’m happy for you two.”

“Also, this is our new address. I’ll keep you up with the dates and everything.”

And thus, he left. I’m genuinely happy for them, and so the next morning, I sent to their home, our trendiest robot model.

But that robot had been hacked by malicious individuals, maybe our concurrency, and even though I did my best to stay anonymous and keep my family safe from these kinds of threats; today they found me.

The robot went on a rampage and killed the Prince before self-destructing.

And then starting a few months later, I received death threats almost every week for three years until one week ago, they offered me a rendezvous in this hotel.

Since I was curious to know who exactly could go that far, and with a slight desire of revenge, I contacted this underground bodyguard company.

In his honor, my code name is the Prince.

I’ve put a bomb in this hotel’s robot and the moment our aggressor reveals himself, I will be the one who presses the detonator.

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But it’s a contemptuous voice that wakes me up from my daydream.

“We’re finally alone, old man.”

The blonde woman and her giant friend have taken the opportunity that DIANA went downstairs and ARTEMIS is in the bathroom, to move from the balcony and sit down on the couch in front of me.

“What are you waiting for? The robot won’t open itself.” I say nonchalantly.

“Oh, I couldn’t care less about that robot. You still haven’t got any idea of who I am?” She removes her glasses revealing beautiful gemlike green eyes.

I should have seen this coming.

Instantly recognizing her, I stand up furiously and point at her face with my cane.

“IT’S YOU!”

“Yes, it’s me, ESMERALDA, the emerald!” she smiles. “I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to finally have you in front of me, and I’m going to make you pay for-.”

This witch approached my son in order to kill him! And now she plans to kill me too! I’m gonna take her to the grave!

Without hesitating a second, I press the detonator hiding at the top of my cane.

The robot which is lying a few meters in front of us is going to blow me as well, but it doesn’t matter.

Biiiiiiiip.

“-Crimes… What?” She stands up.

The exposed robot’s temperature exponentially rises in a second and with a terrifying abyssal detonation, outbursts in a scorching razor-sharp plastic rain.

“Hasta la vista!” I say proudly as I get propelled on the armchair. Hiding my head inside my arms, I realize maybe it was not the best moment to flex my Spanish.

“DUCK!”

It was ARTEMIS’s voice. Crap, this idiot is gonna make it fail.

“DARIUS!” ESMERALDA shouts in the same instant, but that monster throws her behind the sofa, where she would be protected, while he takes the deflagration full force.

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