[Bonus chapter] Before the game begins*
When Orpheus returned to his villa, Nemesis was waiting in one of the rooms. He didn't immediately go to that room as he had another visitor to talk to.
When Orpheus walked into the room, Nia, the empress maid, her most trusted maid, kneeled before him.
''How is it, Nia?" He asked. This would be their second time meeting. Nia was a vampire disguised as a maid to infiltrate the palace. She was Lilith's sister, they looked like, but she had black hair.
Orpheus, who decided to play with Leon, decided to target his mother like he sent Daneel to target Amber. He would show the little boy, and her mother that he was not someone one should mess with. From what Nia told him, the empress had been ignored by the emperor for many years because of someone she had done. Originally it was not Leon who should have been the crown prince but someone else, his brother born from the second concubine.