It was only for a mont, but he had let his guard down. Not only that, he had moved so far away from his bodyguards' cars that now they didn't seem to arrive in ti, for the man attacking him could kill him in one move.
"M...Mr. Ashle...Why do you do it?" his barely touchy voice seed to contain great dissatisfaction and hatred.
Klaus smiled.
"Ashle, uh. I'm no Ashle; I'm just a guy looking to have a place in the world. Killing you will give that place."
"You... You're not an Ashle? Impossible, Miss wouldn't associate with anyone who wasn't!"
Klaus then turned to look the other way. "Jasmine? Hehe, she's not an Ashle either."
His statent startled Johew, who quickly set about denying it. "Impossible, she has the seal...!"
"Yes, because she is the Leader of that family. Now, do you understand? You are just a small piece on a huge chessboard. You are not indispensable, which is why your mission has been handed over to . I will treat your companies well, Mr. Johew." Klaus imdiately started to squeeze Johew's neck, making that guy fall into despair.
He tried to scream. "Miss...!" Trying to call Jasmine for help, but at that mont, he could see how the Miss he admired, respected, and feared decapitated his bodyguards in one move.
That made him shudder, and a strange pain was felt in his neck as it snapped, letting out a stream of blood that splattered the surroundings and Klaus' clothes.
'How easily a normal human being can die.' He looked down at his hands and noticed bits of bone embedded in his skin.
It was too fragile a human body.
The sa feeling he felt when he ca here arose at this mont. In his past life, he was weak, so weak that even the lowest of servants could kill him.
In this second opportunity presented to him, he could not be taken as a weak man.
Under no circumstances was he going to agree to die once again at the hands of a bastard.
While he did not fear death, a dishonorable death that would stain his na for eternity was still a death he did not deserve. Thus, his determination to beco strong increased.
While he was at it, Jasmine ca up behind.
"Congratulations, it looks like you got what you want." She smiled and handed him so papers.
"Here, here's what you needed. Just put your blood in there, that guy's blood, and do the sa on the rest of the docunts, and all that will be yours." Experience tales at My Virtual Library Empire
He nodded and did as she told him after flipping through the docunts.
When he finished, he put them away. Then he looked at Jasmine.
"It looks like I have a lot to thank you for this ti. If it wasn't for you, it wouldn't have gone so well. Thank you."
"No need to thank ." She shook her head, smiling. "I did it because I wanted to. Besides, it's not over yet. What do you intend to do with all those companies? Will you keep them or actually sell them?"
"I'll keep them, but I'll sell them."
A question mark was written on her face. "What do you an?" she asked helplessly.
Klaus smiled a little. "It's just a false sales gimmick. I'll sell them, and another one of my identities will buy them."
"Do you think that's enough to fool powerful people?"
"Yes, they'll be easily fooled because I'll make it look like it was a ruse planned by Johew before he died to keep his killers from getting everything. Ultimately, the money raised will end up in the little holess shelters this guy had been building lately to clear his na. Before everyone finds out, there'll be nothing left to get."
Jasmine frowned at his plan. It would have been a good plan if certain preparations had been made, like enough money.
"Where will you get that much money to buy all the companies?"
Klaus turned around, walked over to the corpse, and pulled out his bank cards and other valuables.
"Obviously, Johew will give them to . Also, those little street people shelters, while they will have so money coming to them in an 'automated' way to cheat the idiots, they won't get all that money. In the end, I'll buy the companies myself with Johew's approval and his blood."
As he did this, Klaus took Johew's cell phone and sent a few ssages. At the sa ti, he made a few calls from his cell phone to Carion and so of the scientists he t, later destroying both cell phones and asking Jasmine for hers.
Jasmine finally understood what he was doing.
"Now I understand. You falsify the information using Johew's identity since his death has not been revealed, and you send docunts previously signed by him by mail so that no one notices. In the end, you reveal that soone is following him and even call his bodyguards and colleagues from different numbers to leave evidence. The estimated ti will pass, and as there will be no answers since Johew is dead, they will proceed to sell the companies according to the order. Still, that requires so major preparations, doesn't it?"
Although Jasmine encountered a couple of problems, Klaus was calm. He showed her another docunt, which was inside Johew's storage ring.
"This guy was getting ready to leave his fortune to so people. Soone will take care of them, and we will get the money without being watched so easily. Still, this trick will only last for a while. Hopefully, I'll be discovered in a year, so I'll have to be cunning then."
Although Jasmine understood why he did that, she had to sigh and wait until Klaus stipulated. Unbeknownst to Klaus, she sent a couple of ssages to her brother. If anything went wrong, she would ask for his help to solve any problems Klaus might face on this daring mission.
Klaus was calm. He had prepared several things that he had not ntioned to Jasmine, which he was sure would go well. Only the one-year ti fra he had said was actually a lie.
If fortune was on his side, maybe six months tops, he could hide that since the people involved in the case are Fallen Leaf and Nithim Twice, the latter of which he is a mber. Also, knowing that Jasmine is looking for information from this organization, it is possible that at so point, she will find out that he is with them, and that could be quite a bit more problematic to solve.
Therefore, he needed to start moving.
Not wanting to waste ti, he put Johew's corpse away and started walking in a specific direction.
"Co, let's hurry back and get the car. I'll take you sowhere interesting."
Although Jasmine didn't know what place it was, she didn't care. She followed close behind him as they chatted about a few things. They took the opportunity to wash up a bit and wash off the blood but didn't give much thought to the rest of the corpses being discovered, as that was part of the plan.
They ran through the city and turned it around, moving from the industrial area to a little-traveled and hardly known area, though the place where both of them had been recently.
"Will we see those scientists again?" Jasmine asked.
This area was the place with the largest presence of independent research centers.
"No." Klaus shook his head. "I'll take you to my own research center."
Hearing that, Jasmine turned to look at him. "You ntioned earlier that you had one, but that's almost absurd. How did you get it? I originally thought you ant a small center, but now it looks like it's not. Did you get it just like you did with the Johew thing?"
"No, this one I got through my own efforts; it's also why I'm confident that the issue with Johew won't get out of hand." As they ran through the nearby buildings, they soon ca to one of the larger, but at the sa ti, emptier courtyards.
It had a rather large house that appeared to be a small research facility. Seeing it in the middle of so much land made it clear that it was a research center still under construction.
Klaus arrived at the grounds and opened the house door with certain keys that Sua Vinanne had given him. He walked through long corridors that were beautifully built and had so pictures of famous people and scientists from this world. Klaus didn't know any of them, but he didn't care.
He did not stop.
He did not buy this place; he simply exchanged it. That ti, Sua Vinanne approached him to give him a critical mission: to recover the keys to the city. Thanks to his good strategies, he could do so, but the condition of recovering them was that he was granted a research center exclusively for him, with certain machines that he specified.
Since then, the plan he would follow had taken shape in his mind, and it was only now that the whole plan had taken shape, so he decided to co and see what they had managed to get him.
He soon ca to a back door which was slightly slanted downward.
"Is this a subway research center?" Jasmine exclaid in surprise.
Klaus smiled.
"Welco to my research center. It belongs exclusively to , and from here, we can start sorting out everything in my life." He opened the door and stepped inside.
On the other side were long stairs leading up to a huge, yes, HUGE research center!
Even Jasmine had to admire its size. Plus, it had many good machines, computers, and devices. So were very familiar to her, others not so much.
Seeing so many expensive things in one place made her wonder, "How did he get it?"
And to be honest, Klaus was the sa way. Confused, asking himself questions and so on, as the cost of doing this was too much.
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