The Vacation nearing its end?

"Ugggh..." Erisviel groaned plopping down on the single sofa.

Aside from Ana who went to take a shower, the others took their seat on the sofas.

"The day was so long and tiring! Argghhhh, I feel like I'm going to collapse any moment now... And the day hasn't ended for us..." Ian said massaging his stiff shoulders and neck.

"Yeah, I'm tired AF too!" Sabastian nodded replying to Ian, leaning back on the sofa.

All of them are tired from what they have gone through all day.

Sabastian turned toward Zulkernyn, who was sitting beside Ian on the opposite sofa in front of him.

"Yo, bro! Cheer up, it's okay. Don't worry about the Vassiliev's. I texted my brother and informed everything to him. He will be talking with the Vassilev's. Still, we should leave Russia as soon as possible after finding Aleksei." Sabastian said to Zulkernyn trying to reassure him that the Vassiliev's aren't going to cause any trouble to them anymore.

The whole way back, the misfits tried to cheer Zulkernyn up.

Although, he still feels guilty. Zulkernyn feels a bit better now.

"The Vassilev's might not openly do anything to me, but what's stopping them to hire some people after me?" Zulkernyn questioned Sabastian.

Sabastian fell silent.

A few moments later, he replied to Zulkernyn.

"Yeah, they can do that but I don't think they will. They won't dare! I also texted my sister, she will formally send a warning to the Vassiliev's. My sister might not compare to the whole Vassilev family, but she's not someone to take lightly off. Even my Heilige family are wary of her."

Hearing Sabastian, Zulkernyn heaved a sigh of relief.

"Thanks... Sabastian..."

"Yo, bro! What's that for? We are best buds, why thank me for something like this? You're my friend- wait no, you're like a brother to me! You're family."

Zulkernyn opened his mouth to say something but no words came out.

His lips pressed into a thin line.

He felt warm and fuzzy hearing Sabastian's words.

After his grandfather died, he was all alone.

It was until Aaron, Nyx and Aurora appeared in his life he finally had friends.

It's been a bit over 5 years that he became a part of this group of misfits. They went through a lot together all these years.

Deep down inside, Zulkernyn felt he didn't belong here.

Yes, he treated the misfits as his friends.

But never a family.

Family?

This word felt distant to him.

No matter how much he tried to accept it, he never truly acknowledged this misfits group as his family.

Until now.

Just now, he wanted to say some words to Sabastian.

But he felt that those words will be unnecessary.

Zulkernyn leaned back on the sofa and closed his eyes.

He smiled, muttering to himself.

'Family... Hmm...'

~~~

After Ana joined the misfits on living area.

Zulkernyn told the others about the Vassiliev's enmity towards the Hassans.

20 years ago, Zulkernyn's grandfather sought protection from the Ji family for his daughter, who was pregnant with Zulkrnyn at the time.

The Assassin organisation, the 'Union of Assassins' wanted to capture Zulkernyn's mother for the library of Wisdom and Death's location.

They also wanted to kill the last descendant of Hassan.

The Ji family agreed to help Zulkernyn's grandfather, with one condition.

And that condition was, the Hassan's will owe them a 'Blood Debt'!

A life for a life.

That was the condition.

To save his daughter, Zulkernyn's grandfather agreed.

After a couple of months, the Ji family called for the Blood Debt to be paid.

They tasked the old Hassan to assassinate the Ruler of Russia.

Anton Tepes.

That's why the Vassiliev family holds deep enmity towards the Hassan Clan.

After Zulkernyn finished, Ian spoke up.

"Alright, guys! We still have unfinished business."

The others scowled and cursed hearing Ian.

Erisviel grumbled before giving out a sigh.

"I took a look at the address Daniella gave us. Aleksei was held there for a brief period before they moved him. I couldn't find anything else that could have given us a clue about where they have moved Aleksei from there." She said to the misfits throwing her tab towards Ian.

Ian hurriedly catches the tab.

Hearing Erisviel, Sabastian clicked his tongue.

"If Daniella had not interfered with us, we probably could have gotten to where they have moved Aleksei... Because of her interference, we lost the only lead to Aleksei. They probably have moved him again!"

"I don't think ve lozt our only lead, Sabastian."

The misfits turned to Ana who spoke up.

Ana had a smirk on her face as she looked around everyone.

Taking out a piece of paper, Ana put that piece of paper on top of the table in front of her.

"What's this?" Zulkernyn asked taking the piece of paper. He was curious to see what Ana found out.

Something was written on it.

"20. AS to MC-AB36." He spoke out what was written on it to the others.

The rest of the misfit took turns to look at the piece of paper.

"It's a coded text." Erisviel said looking at the paper.

"Yeah, but what does that mean?" Sabastian asked lifting his face from the paper.

Erisviel took the paper from Sabastian.

She looked at the paper for a minute, before she had a sudden thought!

Quickly taking her tab from Ian, she tried to crack the code.

After 10 minutes, Erisviel turned towards the others who were watching her crack the code.

"Did you figured it out?" Ana asked Erisviel.

Erisviel nodded, smiling.

"20 is the letter T. T for Transfer. AS means Aleksei Sobolev. Transfer Aleksei Sobolev. The rest is an address. Moscow AB 36 is a warehouse owned by someone related to Igor Zhirkov. Aleksei was transferred to this location from the address Daniella gave us."

Sabastian frowned.

"But wouldn't they have moved him from there?"

"Yes, but now we have a clue! It will take me some time but I think I'll be able to find out where they transferred Aleksei from this location."

Hearing Erisviel, others nodded.

"We don't have much time. Ian and I will go take a look at the address and try to interrogate the people there to pry out some information from them. Erisviel, you can do your thing and try to find out your way. This way, even if we can't find anything from there, we still have you."

Erisviel nodded before getting up to walk towards her room to get to work.

Sabastian then turned to Zulkernyn and Ana.

"Twilight Throne now knows that there's a third party looking for Aleksei. Now that we are busted, you guys go tell everything we found to Aleksandr Sobolev! We need reinforcement for Aleksei's rescue." He said to the two before getting up from the sofa.

"Then let's get to work!"

~~~

An hour later,

"Ahhhhhhhh!" A man screamed in pain from being pierced by a pencil on his arm.

He was strapped down in a chair with duck tapes.

His face is brutally battered.

Blood trickled down his head to his body.

He was also missing a couple of teeth.

Right now, he was about to lose his consciousness when he was pierced again by another pencil on his other arm.

"Aaaaaarhhhhhhhhgggghhgghhgg! Stooooop, pleass-plasssszzee sthapp!!!" The man screamed once more feeling intense pain in his arms.

He looked up and stared at the two teens, who strapped him into the chair and was torturing him for information.

10 minutes ago, they suddenly barged in through the front door and killed all of his men.

"I-I- beg-bbeg you, please! I don't know where they took him, p-please no more!" He begged the two teens in front of him.

"Yep, looks like a bust! Tsk..." Ian clicked his tongue.

"Yeah, let's just finish him and go back. Hope Erisviel found something..." Sabastian said before turning away from the man to leave.

"Alright, let's do this quick!" Ian muttered looking down at the man.

He slowly approached the man.

The man who was strapped down on the chair saw death in front of him.

"P-PLEASE! P-PPLEASSSE LET ME LIVE! I BBBEG YOU PLEADE! NO-NO-NNNNO-NOOOOOOOOOOOOO---" The man begged and begged before his scream abruptly stopped.

"Good thing we don't have to clean this mess." Ian muttered before turning away.

He looked toward Sabastian and saw that he was on his phone.

Sabastian suddenly turned back and looked towards Ian.

"Let's go quick, Erisviel found something!" He said to Ian before running out of the warehouse.

Ian followed up behind, Sabastian.