Chapter 67 - 62

East Village, Yu Household.

The silver haired young man with her students were unable to ride the carriage until the Yu mansion as permitted carriages only were allowed inside the East Village. The East Village was the name of the compound which the wealthy and noble families lived.

While walking towards the most inner parts of the compound in order to reach the location of the Yu Household, there were luxurious houses with extravagant designs that they passed by. There were simple, too but the way it was built, you could see its elegance. The most smallest building that they saw looked like a little hotel but it was still huge for someone who didn't experience any luxuries.

Though, the silver haired young man wasn't intimidated by these mansions as obviously, she came from a noble family in Sereign continent, while the seven students were either had an identity of a royal family member, a noble's son, a rich merchant's daughter or some kind of prestigious household as they weren't intimidated as well but they were amazed to see these kind of rich neighborhood because of the blinding lavishness of the place that wherever you turned, you would see the hint of prodigality.

Finally, after their sightseeing. They reached the second biggest manor in the compound, the mansion of the Yu household's main family where the curreny head patriarch lived. There were two manors in each side of the building as they were home of the two side-branch families.

A charismatic butler in uniform with a monocle on his hand greeted them, "Instructor Chun, right?"

"Yes, these are my students that will be solving the case," Chun replied with a smile.

"Instructor Chun, why didn't you inform us that you were coming? We would have fetch you by the entrance." The butler was anxious as the guest might be not pleased by their treatment.

The silver haired young man dismissed the worries of the butler as she inquired about the head patriarch.

"The Head Patriarch had a guest at this moment, instructor. You may wait for him at the living room and if you need anything just find me, you can call me Butler Samuel," the slanting of the butler's eyes made Chun wanted to stare at him more. He was not that handsome but he's charming.

The silver haired young man truly appreciated beautiful objects as it was pleasing to the eyes to ogle at things that would not strain her pretty eyes. Suddenly her view was blocked by a hand as she followed who it came from, it was the mischievous Kai Sun who shook his head in disagreement.

Chun frowned in confusion as the young man stated, "Teacher, you should be loyal. Pick only one."

Li Li laughed at the gossip king's act while she observed around the living room as Samuel led them to it. Lerrent who was usually silent, intentionally slowed down his pace as he walked together with Rye who's face was strangely darkened as he stopped playing with his tablet.

"Are you okay?" The sloth young man carelessly asked.

Rye ignored Lerrent which was typically him as he turned on his gadget and went back to playing his series of codes in the tablet.

The butler left them to their devices as Chun open up, "Team, I already informed you what we are going to do here. This is our first mission and we should be wary to our surroundings as everyone here can be a suspect."

The mechanical genius raised her gloved hands as she asked, "Teacher, then we can apply profiling here?"

"Yes. This would be the best case for profiling."

Samuel came in from another door as he gestured for them to follow him while saying, "The head patriarch invited you in."

The hallway that they were passing was different from the previous, it was full of antique luxurious vases that were said to be collected from the old era to the passing ones by the ancestors of the Yu household. In every corners of the room had those precious vases that were put into display.

One could differentiate the previous hallway to this as the previous one had paintings of the family members from their ancestors to the latest family members while in this hallway going to the head patriarch's office were decorated with vases.

With curiosity Terra suddenly asked Samuel, "Is this the original setting of the mansion or the head patriarch loves antique vases that they were put here?"

"Good observation, miss. When the former head patriarch Yu Chuyun was still alive, those vases were still in there in the living area but as young master Yu Luo was now appointed to be the head patriarch, he had an hobby of admiring certain artifacts that he wanted to always see it when he passes through this hallway going to his office."

The silver haired young man heard that the newly appointed head patriarch came back from overseas and he was from the younger generation as they had no other capable family member that could be suitable to run the businesses of the Yu household and put order inside the household. Yu Luo was still twenty-two years old this year and he was now the head patriarch of the clan.

Chun was interested to meet this genius as he was known to be good not only in cultivation but he's a prodigy when it came in the business world. At the age of seventeen, he already started his own company which was specialized in trade and shipment of goods, at the age of eighteen, he graduated at the Altise Academy with flying colors and built his own organization which was the IT Association at Zenzen continent that was into technology and gaming. A business opponent of Shuho household as they had also a hand in the technology industry.

Though, Chun was curious into something.

The charming butler opened the double door as he gestured for them to come in. As they went inside the room, it was strangely full of figurines. They were figures of people with wings or spear or other weapons like in chivalry were placed each corners of the office, and had its own shelf of display. Samuel didn't went in as he closed the door.

The man who was seated on the leather chair had handsome features, he had a chiseled jaw, raven black short hair that was tied in the back of his head, a straight nose and a passionate eyes that was occupied staring into a goddess figurine who had a scepter on her hands and spread wings on her back.

He was ogling at the figurine that made his ȧssistant on his side coughed in order to catch his attention. Momentarily, Yu Luo who was busy, frowned at the ȧssistant as he smiled when he spotted Chun and the others. He didn't oozed the usual dangerous aura or mȧturė aura of a businessman as he welcomed them in a friendly manner. Though, Chun thought that this kind of individual shouldn't be underestimated as they were usually a wolf in a sheep's clothing.

"Instructor Chun, can I call you Third young master? I am a 'friend' of your father and I heard incredible things about you," Yu Luo stated as his expression turned into somewhat strange as if he was staring at the previous figurine he wad occupied with.

The passionate gazes of the man was ignored by the silver haired youth as she replied, "Friend? I thought you were an opponent of my father---"

Yu Luo immediately responded, "No... we are just opponents in the business but during events we would always talk with each other so we are considered to be friends or acquaintances, or whatever you call it."

If you could consider throwing insulting remarks at each other's faces or deliberately flaunting infront of one another as talking like they were close. Then absolutely they knew each other and were friends.

"Third young master, you really look like a doll. You're more prettier than my collections," Yu Luo suddenly blurted out that made his ȧssistant facepalmed from his boss' outrageous remark. Complimenting a young man to be prettier than those deity figurines… wasn't it an insult?

The ȧssistant knew very well the boss' attitude when it came to things that would catch his attention and this third young master contained the perfect description of what Yu Luo stated, 'An artifact should have the appearance of a unique beauty that could want a possessor to never let go or turned his attention away from it.' Despite the intelligence of Yu Luo when it came to businesses, he had a strange hobby as an artifact collector.

"Third young master, I am ȧssistant Wei. Sorry about my boss' bluntness as he would usually like to compliment someone or something that fascinates him," Wei explained as he let them sit on the chairs inside.

As if waking up from his trance, Yu Luo cleared his throat as he diverted his eyes away from Chun, "Are you here for the case?"