Hollywood Zenith

He was taught noble etiquettes since he was two years old. Normal kids wouldn't be able to understand anything at that age but he was quite different with a brilliant mind and tendency to rule was engraved in his body since he was a child.

His family always had a unique existence in his world, he knew the actual history as he read the records so he knew how much influence his family had over the years. Someone born in such a family, he always had huge responsibilities on his shoulder.

In his whole life, he only cared about one person and even now he knew he wasn't strong enough to protect her. Now they were in a complicated situation with little hope of getting reunited. Most of it was because where he grew up but now he didn't really pay attention to anything other than seizing control of the throne.

He knew only after that he would be able to take a breather which was why there weren't any people around him who knew him deeply. Not to mention as a 'candidate' his security must be top notch. Even the head of states wouldn't have as strict measures as him.

There were always people monitoring the places he was in trying to phase out any type of picture that were taken by surveillance cameras even if he was just in the background. They had technology several years ahead of what currently available of the market so it was easy for them to do that.

From his food to type of drinks he consumed, everything needed to be tested regularly and people weren't allowed to even touch him in official business not even a handshake. But now that he was going incognito, these rules were relaxed a lot only because he said so.

As for Elise, they naturally knew her background and how she came to be in this situation. With so little danger, his guards didn't act against his will or else they wouldn't care about his direction and went straight for hiding the 'evidence' route.

'Bob' absentmindedly followed Elise, being led around by her pull going in a completely different direction than what they needed to do to find Eleanor. He stopped thinking about it and started paying attention to Elise's gibberish as she talked about everything.

She would turn around to look at him and even stop when something pretty caught her eye. It was fortunate that he was with her or else she could be in trouble if she broke such artifacts. Since it was a private section, no one really bothered to care about the security measures.

After all, who would want to vandalize cultural properties in this day and age? At least for now, there had been no account for it in the chapel. 'Bob' accidently learned a lot about his 'nemesis' young Rothschild through Elise's childish talks.

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He never personally met the other person but Samuel had unknowingly thwarted many of his plans recently. Nothing important but at least he did quite a number of his subordinate and vassal families who had been clamoring for him head ever since the Bosnia incident.

Through Elise he got to listen to her characterizing many of Samuel's weirds quirks like his tendency to indulge with different girls every once in a while or how he bought the castle for her as a present. He knew about his purchase as soon as Lucie, Samuel's contact in Paris, began inquiring about such a castle. For him, he thought the other party was trying to establish a base of operation in the country after all he knew about the Verdant foundation and how much his enemy relied on it for support.

But now he learned that it was just a impulsive purchase? Not to mention, the girls he was sleeping with seem to agree with his philosophy and acted completely different than what 'Bob' predicted. They didn't tear him out of went public but just accepted their circumstances without him doing anything? He knew Samuel wasn't someone who wouldn't think of a contingency plan but he expected him to force them which he could use when they eventually face off but it never happened.

There were many such cases in the olden age since it was mostly monarchs that ruled countries. He head personally read several successful 'missions' undertaken by his predecessor where they would sow the seed of doubt to quietly break such a royal family, it was quite easy to do so if the head of the state was paying attention to one of the consort, others would definitely get jealous and use tactics to deal with it. They would just provide a helping hand from the shadows and after some years it was easy to swallow the whole country making it work for the family.

But in Samuel's case, he never knew if it was his criteria to choose such people or he was just lucky, he had read countless reports about the whole group existing in harmony despite his outside rendezvous not to mention new 'members' would join in like it was some sort of cult. 'Bob' never understood why the common sense would fly out of window when it came to Samuel.

" Stop! Stop!" He pulled Elise back as she was about to enter the administrative building, they were already outside the Chapel roaming around in the surrounding buildings. It didn't even take them that long because he was paying attention to what she was talking about. Now that it had came to this, he decided to finally lead her back to Eleanor without delay or else he would definitely get into trouble if his shenanigans were reported back to his father.

" Let's go back, you are going in the wrong direction. Aren't you worried your grandmother is looking for you and is worried?" He said with some urgency, he never knew how the little girl would react. This was another mystery to him.

" Ah!" Elise cheerful face turned pale. She remember that she ran off yesterday and was reprimanded by everyone because of it. Now that she done it again, she didn't know if everyone would be angry with her again after all she promised not to do it again!

" Please help me." She cry in desperation to which 'bob' could only sigh. Taking out his phone he made the call and soon got the location where Eleanor was in, they also said that she was in distress probably because Elise disappeared on her watch again.

" Alright, I will help you but you have to follow my instructions alright?" Helping her wouldn't change anything and he had came to like the little girl so he decided to do it.